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Shults (Шульц): where the surname was recorded in Ukraine

Also spelled: Szulc. These are Latin spellings of the same Ukrainian name.

Recorded in 131 towns and villages of 20 oblasts in the state memory books of 1917–1960. This is a count of places, not people or ancestors.

The index covers only the source material processed so far. An absent place does not mean the surname was never used there; a shared surname does not establish family origin or kinship.

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Vinnytsia oblast: 9 placesVolyn oblast: 1 placeLuhansk oblast: 12 placesDnipropetrovsk oblast: 1 placeDonetsk oblast: 12 placesZhytomyr oblast: 31 placesZakarpattia oblastZaporizhzhia oblast: 17 placesIvano-Frankivsk oblast: 1 placeKyiv oblast: 6 placesKyiv oblast: 6 placesKirovohrad oblast: 1 placeCrimeaCrimeaLviv oblast: 1 placeMykolaiv oblast: 7 placesOdesa oblast: 2 placesPoltava oblastRivne oblast: 3 placesSumy oblast: 1 placeTernopil oblast: 3 placesKharkiv oblast: 1 placeKherson oblast: 1 placeKhmelnytskyi oblast: 19 placesCherkasy oblast: 2 placesChernihiv oblastChernivtsi oblast
  • Places per oblast:
  • none
  • 1–2
  • 3–9
  • 12–31

Selected oblast

Zhytomyr oblast

31 places with the surname Шульц

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Coverage: Zhytomyr oblast →

The same oblasts as a list

OblastPlacesShare%
Zhytomyr oblast 3124%
Khmelnytskyi oblast 1915%
Zaporizhzhia oblast 1713%
Donetsk oblast 129%
Luhansk oblast 129%
Vinnytsia oblast 97%
Mykolaiv oblast 75%
Kyiv oblast 65%
Rivne oblast 32%
Ternopil oblast 32%
All 20 oblasts
OblastPlacesShare%
Odesa oblast 22%
Cherkasy oblast 22%
Volyn oblast 11%
Dnipropetrovsk oblast 11%
Ivano-Frankivsk oblast 11%
Kirovohrad oblast 11%
Lviv oblast 11%
Sumy oblast 11%
Kharkiv oblast 11%
Kherson oblast 11%

Each oblast name opens its coverage page: parishes, books and what has been digitized.

Years of the sources

These books concern 1917–1960. Families in the 19th century were recorded in parish registers. Those are what we read, with a frame number beside every name.

Memory books 1917–1960

  • “Rehabilitated by History” («Реабілітовані історією»)1917–1960
  • National Book of Memory of Holodomor Victims1932–1933

Places with a ready parish description

15 of 131 places

Parish, books and what has been digitized: open a place.

Places in the indexed books

Zhytomyr oblast 3124 of 31

and 7 places more in the oblast · all in the search →

Khmelnytskyi oblast 1911 of 19

and 8 places more in the oblast · all in the search →

Zaporizhzhia oblast 1710 of 17

and 7 places more in the oblast · all in the search →

Donetsk oblast 127 of 12

and 5 places more in the oblast · all in the search →

Luhansk oblast 127 of 12

and 5 places more in the oblast · all in the search →

Vinnytsia oblast 95 of 9

and 4 places more in the oblast · all in the search →

Mykolaiv oblast 74 of 7

and 3 places more in the oblast · all in the search →

Kyiv oblast 63 of 6

and 3 places more in the oblast · all in the search →

Rivne oblast 3All 3 places
Ternopil oblast 3All 3 places
Odesa oblast 2All 2 places
Cherkasy oblast 2All 2 places
Volyn oblast 1All 1 place
Dnipropetrovsk oblast 1All 1 place
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Ivano-Frankivsk oblast 1All 1 place
Kirovohrad oblast 1All 1 place
Lviv oblast 1All 1 place
Sumy oblast 1All 1 place
Kharkiv oblast 1All 1 place
Kherson oblast 1All 1 place

What these books can and cannot tell you

They can

  • Show the towns and villages where the surname was recorded in 1917–1960.
  • Suggest which oblast to start the search in.

They cannot

  • This is a count of places, not people or ancestors.
  • An absent place does not mean the surname was never used there.
  • A shared surname does not establish family origin or kinship.

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Source: state memory books, «Реабілітовані історією» and the National Book of Memory of the Victims of the Holodomor. We publish surnames only: no first names, dates or fates.

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