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Volynets (Волинець): where the surname was recorded in Ukraine

Also spelled: Volinets · Wolynec. These are Latin spellings of the same Ukrainian name.

Recorded in 119 towns and villages of 15 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: 14 placesVolyn oblast: 4 placesLuhansk oblastDnipropetrovsk oblastDonetsk oblast: 3 placesZhytomyr oblast: 37 placesZakarpattia oblastZaporizhzhia oblast: 2 placesIvano-Frankivsk oblastKyiv oblast: 14 placesKyiv oblast: 14 placesKirovohrad oblast: 1 placeCrimeaCrimeaLviv oblast: 8 placesMykolaiv oblastOdesa oblast: 1 placePoltava oblastRivne oblast: 7 placesSumy oblastTernopil oblast: 12 placesKharkiv oblast: 1 placeKherson oblast: 1 placeKhmelnytskyi oblast: 5 placesCherkasy oblast: 9 placesChernihiv oblastChernivtsi oblast
  • Places per oblast:
  • none
  • 1–4
  • 5–9
  • 12–37

Selected oblast

Zhytomyr oblast

37 places with the surname Волинець

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The same oblasts as a list

OblastPlacesShare%
Zhytomyr oblast 3731%
Vinnytsia oblast 1412%
Kyiv oblast 1412%
Ternopil oblast 1210%
Cherkasy oblast 98%
Lviv oblast 87%
Rivne oblast 76%
Khmelnytskyi oblast 54%
Volyn oblast 43%
Donetsk oblast 33%
All 15 oblasts
OblastPlacesShare%
Zaporizhzhia oblast 22%
Kirovohrad oblast 11%
Odesa 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

29 of 119 places · 24 shown

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

Places in the indexed books

Zhytomyr oblast 3724 of 37

and 13 places more in the oblast · all in the search →

Vinnytsia oblast 149 of 14

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

Kyiv oblast 149 of 14

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

Ternopil oblast 128 of 12

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

Cherkasy oblast 96 of 9

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

Lviv oblast 85 of 8

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

Rivne oblast 74 of 7

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

Khmelnytskyi oblast 53 of 5

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

Volyn oblast 43 of 4

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

Donetsk oblast 3All 3 places
Zaporizhzhia oblast 2All 2 places
Kirovohrad oblast 1All 1 place
Odesa oblast 1All 1 place
Kharkiv oblast 1All 1 place
Kherson oblast 1All 1 place
Older than the memory books

Register of the Zaporozhian Host, 1649

9 entries in 8 regiments

  • Канівський
  • Черкаський
  • Білоцерківський
  • Уманський
  • Кальницький
  • Київський
  • Ніжинський
  • Чернігівський

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

As printed in the editionRegimentPage
Грыцько Волинецьsotnia ДрагилеваЧеркаський regimentp. 35
Павелъ Волынецьsotnia ВолынцоваКанівський regimentp. 57
Охрѣмъ ВолинецьБілоцерківський regimentp. 121
Кирилъ Волынецьsotnia ЦибулевскаяУманський regimentp. 144
Іосько ВолинецьКальницький regimentp. 188

5 of 9 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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