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Vashchenko (Ващенко): where the surname was recorded in Ukraine

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

Recorded in 140 towns and villages of 19 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: 4 placesDnipropetrovsk oblast: 5 placesDonetsk oblast: 3 placesZhytomyr oblast: 9 placesZakarpattia oblastZaporizhzhia oblast: 3 placesIvano-Frankivsk oblastKyiv oblast: 12 placesKyiv oblast: 12 placesKirovohrad oblast: 3 placesCrimeaCrimeaLviv oblastMykolaiv oblast: 1 placeOdesa oblast: 2 placesPoltava oblast: 11 placesRivne oblast: 1 placeSumy oblast: 20 placesTernopil oblast: 1 placeKharkiv oblast: 20 placesKherson oblast: 5 placesKhmelnytskyi oblast: 3 placesCherkasy oblast: 3 placesChernihiv oblast: 26 placesChernivtsi oblast
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Chernihiv oblast

26 places with the surname Ващенко

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The same oblasts as a list

OblastPlacesShare%
Chernihiv oblast 2619%
Sumy oblast 2014%
Kharkiv oblast 2014%
Kyiv oblast 129%
Poltava oblast 118%
Zhytomyr oblast 96%
Vinnytsia oblast 86%
Dnipropetrovsk oblast 54%
Kherson oblast 54%
Luhansk oblast 43%
All 19 oblasts
OblastPlacesShare%
Donetsk oblast 32%
Zaporizhzhia oblast 32%
Kirovohrad oblast 32%
Khmelnytskyi oblast 32%
Cherkasy oblast 32%
Odesa oblast 21%
Mykolaiv oblast 11%
Rivne oblast 11%
Ternopil 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

13 of 140 places

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

Places in the indexed books

Chernihiv oblast 2624 of 26

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

Sumy oblast 2011 of 20

and 9 places more in the oblast · all in the search →

Kharkiv oblast 2011 of 20

and 9 places more in the oblast · all in the search →

Kyiv oblast 126 of 12

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

Poltava oblast 116 of 11

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

Zhytomyr oblast 95 of 9

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

Vinnytsia oblast 84 of 8

and 4 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 →

Kherson oblast 53 of 5

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

Luhansk oblast 43 of 4

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

Donetsk oblast 3All 3 places
Zaporizhzhia oblast 3All 3 places
Kirovohrad oblast 3All 3 places
Khmelnytskyi oblast 3All 3 places
Cherkasy oblast 3All 3 places
Odesa oblast 2All 2 places
Mykolaiv oblast 1All 1 place
Rivne oblast 1All 1 place
Ternopil oblast 1All 1 place
Older than the memory books

Register of the Zaporozhian Host, 1649

130 entries in 16 regiments

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

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

As printed in the editionRegimentPage
Олешко Васченкоsotnia БужинскаяЧигиринський regimentp. 7
Есипъ ВасченкоЧеркаський regimentp. 27
Васько Васченкоsotnia СтародубоваКанівський regimentp. 54
Иванъ Ващенкоsotnia Маркова БажаненковаКорсунський regimentp. 88
Ярема ВащенкоБілоцерківський regimentp. 112

5 of 130 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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