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Tverdokhlib (Твердохліб): where the surname was recorded in Ukraine

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

Recorded in 120 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: 8 placesVolyn oblastLuhansk oblast: 7 placesDnipropetrovsk oblast: 5 placesDonetsk oblast: 4 placesZhytomyr oblast: 4 placesZakarpattia oblastZaporizhzhia oblast: 7 placesIvano-Frankivsk oblast: 3 placesKyiv oblast: 8 placesKyiv oblast: 8 placesKirovohrad oblast: 3 placesCrimeaCrimeaLviv oblast: 10 placesMykolaiv oblast: 3 placesOdesa oblast: 4 placesPoltava oblast: 4 placesRivne oblast: 2 placesSumy oblast: 5 placesTernopil oblast: 7 placesKharkiv oblast: 13 placesKherson oblastKhmelnytskyi oblast: 18 placesCherkasy oblast: 3 placesChernihiv oblastChernivtsi oblast: 2 places
  • Places per oblast:
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  • 2
  • 3–4
  • 5–7
  • 8–18

Selected oblast

Khmelnytskyi oblast

18 places with the surname Твердохліб

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The same oblasts as a list

OblastPlacesShare%
Khmelnytskyi oblast 1815%
Kharkiv oblast 1311%
Lviv oblast 108%
Vinnytsia oblast 87%
Kyiv oblast 87%
Zaporizhzhia oblast 76%
Luhansk oblast 76%
Ternopil oblast 76%
Dnipropetrovsk oblast 54%
Sumy oblast 54%
All 20 oblasts
OblastPlacesShare%
Donetsk oblast 43%
Zhytomyr oblast 43%
Odesa oblast 43%
Poltava oblast 43%
Ivano-Frankivsk oblast 32%
Kirovohrad oblast 32%
Mykolaiv oblast 32%
Cherkasy oblast 32%
Rivne oblast 22%
Chernivtsi oblast 22%

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

22 of 120 places

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

Places in the indexed books

Khmelnytskyi oblast 18All 18 places
Kharkiv oblast 138 of 13

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

Lviv oblast 106 of 10

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

Vinnytsia oblast 85 of 8

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

Kyiv oblast 85 of 8

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

Zaporizhzhia oblast 74 of 7

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

Luhansk oblast 74 of 7

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

Ternopil oblast 74 of 7

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

Dnipropetrovsk oblast 53 of 5

and 2 places more in the oblast · all in the search →

Sumy oblast 53 of 5

and 2 places more in the oblast · all in the search →

Donetsk oblast 43 of 4

and 1 place more in the oblast · all in the search →

Zhytomyr oblast 43 of 4

and 1 place more in the oblast · all in the search →

Odesa oblast 43 of 4

and 1 place more in the oblast · all in the search →

Poltava oblast 43 of 4

and 1 place more in the oblast · all in the search →

Ivano-Frankivsk oblast 3All 3 places
Kirovohrad oblast 3All 3 places
Mykolaiv oblast 3All 3 places
Cherkasy oblast 3All 3 places
Rivne oblast 2All 2 places
Chernivtsi oblast 2All 2 places
Older than the memory books

Register of the Zaporozhian Host, 1649

7 entries in 4 regiments

  • Білоцерківський
  • Брацлавський
  • Уманський
  • Полтавський

The same surname in 1649 does not by itself mean this was your ancestor.

As printed in the editionRegimentPage
Юрко ТвердохлѣбъБілоцерківський regimentp. 117
Андрушко ТвердохлѣбъБілоцерківський regimentp. 117
Есифъ ТвердохлѣбъУманський regimentp. 143
Павло Твердохлѣбъsotnia ЧачалницкаяБрацлавський regimentp. 177
Василь Твердохлѣбъsotnia БалаклыйскаяПолтавський regimentp. 293

5 of 7 entries shown. Names and sotnias as spelled in the 1875 edition of the register (Moscow, edited by O. M. Bodianskyi); "p." is the page of that edition.

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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