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Tymchenko (Тимченко): where the surname was recorded in Ukraine

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

Recorded in 215 towns and villages of 17 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: 5 placesVolyn oblastLuhansk oblast: 6 placesDnipropetrovsk oblast: 11 placesDonetsk oblast: 17 placesZhytomyr oblast: 9 placesZakarpattia oblastZaporizhzhia oblast: 10 placesIvano-Frankivsk oblastKyiv oblast: 35 placesKyiv oblast: 35 placesKirovohrad oblast: 9 placesCrimeaCrimeaLviv oblastMykolaiv oblast: 4 placesOdesa oblast: 1 placePoltava oblast: 8 placesRivne oblastSumy oblast: 17 placesTernopil oblastKharkiv oblast: 43 placesKherson oblast: 4 placesKhmelnytskyi oblast: 4 placesCherkasy oblast: 8 placesChernihiv oblast: 24 placesChernivtsi oblast
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Selected oblast

Kharkiv oblast

43 places with the surname Тимченко

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Coverage: Kharkiv oblast →

The same oblasts as a list

OblastPlacesShare%
Kharkiv oblast 4320%
Kyiv oblast 3516%
Chernihiv oblast 2411%
Donetsk oblast 178%
Sumy oblast 178%
Dnipropetrovsk oblast 115%
Zaporizhzhia oblast 105%
Zhytomyr oblast 94%
Kirovohrad oblast 94%
Poltava oblast 84%
All 17 oblasts
OblastPlacesShare%
Cherkasy oblast 84%
Luhansk oblast 63%
Vinnytsia oblast 52%
Mykolaiv oblast 42%
Kherson oblast 42%
Khmelnytskyi oblast 42%
Odesa 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

5 of 215 places

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

Places in the indexed books

Kharkiv oblast 4324 of 43

and 19 places more in the oblast · all in the search →

Kyiv oblast 3513 of 35

and 22 places more in the oblast · all in the search →

Chernihiv oblast 248 of 24

and 16 places more in the oblast · all in the search →

Donetsk oblast 176 of 17

and 11 places more in the oblast · all in the search →

Sumy oblast 176 of 17

and 11 places more in the oblast · all in the search →

Dnipropetrovsk oblast 114 of 11

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

Zaporizhzhia oblast 103 of 10

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

Zhytomyr oblast 93 of 9
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and 6 places more in the oblast · all in the search →

Kirovohrad oblast 93 of 9

and 6 places more in the oblast · all in the search →

Poltava oblast 83 of 8

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

Cherkasy oblast 83 of 8

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

Luhansk oblast 63 of 6

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

Vinnytsia oblast 53 of 5

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

Mykolaiv oblast 43 of 4

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

Kherson oblast 43 of 4

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

Khmelnytskyi oblast 43 of 4

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

Odesa oblast 1All 1 place
Older than the memory books

Register of the Zaporozhian Host, 1649

52 entries in 16 regiments

  • Миргородський
  • Переяславський
  • Чигиринський
  • Черкаський
  • Канівський
  • Кропивнянський
  • Київський
  • Корсунський
  • Кальницький
  • Прилуцький
  • Білоцерківський
  • Уманський
  • Брацлавський
  • Полтавський
  • Ніжинський
  • Чернігівський

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

As printed in the editionRegimentPage
Нестеръ ТимченкоЧигиринський regimentp. 1
Данило ТимченкоЧеркаський regimentp. 29
Данпло Тимченкоsotnia СтародубоваКанівський regimentp. 57
Ярема ТимченкоКорсунський regimentp. 80
Павелъ ТимченкоБілоцерківський regimentp. 123

5 of 52 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.

Similar surnames in the index

Similar in spelling. That does not make the families related.

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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