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Vdovychenko (Вдовиченко): where the surname was recorded in Ukraine

Also spelled: Vdovichenko · Wdowyczenko. These are Latin spellings of the same Ukrainian name.

Recorded in 122 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: 32 placesVolyn oblast: 2 placesLuhansk oblast: 2 placesDnipropetrovsk oblastDonetsk oblast: 4 placesZhytomyr oblast: 13 placesZakarpattia oblastZaporizhzhia oblast: 1 placeIvano-Frankivsk oblastKyiv oblast: 13 placesKyiv oblast: 13 placesKirovohrad oblast: 9 placesCrimeaCrimeaLviv oblastMykolaiv oblast: 8 placesOdesa oblast: 5 placesPoltava oblastRivne oblast: 2 placesSumy oblastTernopil oblast: 2 placesKharkiv oblast: 1 placeKherson oblast: 3 placesKhmelnytskyi oblast: 7 placesCherkasy oblast: 17 placesChernihiv oblast: 1 placeChernivtsi oblast
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Vinnytsia oblast

32 places with the surname Вдовиченко

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The same oblasts as a list

OblastPlacesShare%
Vinnytsia oblast 3226%
Cherkasy oblast 1714%
Zhytomyr oblast 1311%
Kyiv oblast 1311%
Kirovohrad oblast 97%
Mykolaiv oblast 87%
Khmelnytskyi oblast 76%
Odesa oblast 54%
Donetsk oblast 43%
Kherson oblast 32%
All 17 oblasts
OblastPlacesShare%
Volyn oblast 22%
Luhansk oblast 22%
Rivne oblast 22%
Ternopil oblast 22%
Zaporizhzhia oblast 11%
Kharkiv oblast 11%
Chernihiv 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

28 of 122 places · 24 shown

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

Places in the indexed books

Vinnytsia oblast 3224 of 32

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

Cherkasy oblast 1711 of 17

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

Zhytomyr oblast 138 of 13

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

Kyiv oblast 138 of 13

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

Kirovohrad oblast 95 of 9

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

Mykolaiv oblast 85 of 8

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

Khmelnytskyi oblast 74 of 7

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

Odesa 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 →

Kherson oblast 3All 3 places
Volyn oblast 2All 2 places
Luhansk oblast 2All 2 places
Rivne oblast 2All 2 places
Ternopil oblast 2All 2 places
Zaporizhzhia oblast 1All 1 place
Kharkiv oblast 1All 1 place
Chernihiv oblast 1All 1 place
Older than the memory books

Register of the Zaporozhian Host, 1649

10 entries in 6 regiments

  • Полтавський
  • Миргородський
  • Черкаський
  • Кропивнянський
  • Прилуцький
  • Ніжинський

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

As printed in the editionRegimentPage
Яцько Вдовиченкоsotnia ЛазареваЧеркаський regimentp. 38
Павло Вдовиченкоsotnia АрклийскаяКропивнянський regimentp. 243
Грицько Вдовиченкоsotnia КраснопольскаяМиргородський regimentp. 263
Лукашъ Вдовиченкоsotnia БалаклыйскаяПолтавський regimentp. 293
Сенько Вдовиченкоsotnia ГорлюнскаяПрилуцький regimentp. 319

5 of 10 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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