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Yashchuk (Ящук): where the surname was recorded in Ukraine

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

Recorded in 103 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: 19 placesVolyn oblastLuhansk oblastDnipropetrovsk oblastDonetsk oblast: 1 placeZhytomyr oblast: 20 placesZakarpattia oblastZaporizhzhia oblast: 1 placeIvano-Frankivsk oblast: 1 placeKyiv oblast: 5 placesKyiv oblast: 5 placesKirovohrad oblast: 1 placeCrimeaCrimeaLviv oblast: 3 placesMykolaiv oblastOdesa oblast: 1 placePoltava oblastRivne oblast: 6 placesSumy oblastTernopil oblast: 8 placesKharkiv oblastKherson oblastKhmelnytskyi oblast: 33 placesCherkasy oblast: 2 placesChernihiv oblast: 1 placeChernivtsi oblast: 1 place
  • Places per oblast:
  • none
  • 1
  • 2–6
  • 8–33

Selected oblast

Khmelnytskyi oblast

33 places with the surname Ящук

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Coverage: Khmelnytskyi oblast →

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The same oblasts as a list

OblastPlacesShare%
Khmelnytskyi oblast 3332%
Zhytomyr oblast 2019%
Vinnytsia oblast 1918%
Ternopil oblast 88%
Rivne oblast 66%
Kyiv oblast 55%
Lviv oblast 33%
Cherkasy oblast 22%
Donetsk oblast 11%
Zaporizhzhia oblast 11%
All 15 oblasts
OblastPlacesShare%
Ivano-Frankivsk oblast 11%
Kirovohrad oblast 11%
Odesa oblast 11%
Chernivtsi 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

24 of 103 places

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

Places in the indexed books

Khmelnytskyi oblast 3325 of 33

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

Zhytomyr oblast 2015 of 20

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

Vinnytsia oblast 1914 of 19

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

Ternopil oblast 86 of 8

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

Rivne oblast 64 of 6

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

Kyiv oblast 53 of 5

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

Lviv oblast 3All 3 places
Cherkasy oblast 2All 2 places
Donetsk oblast 1All 1 place
Zaporizhzhia oblast 1All 1 place
Ivano-Frankivsk oblast 1All 1 place
Kirovohrad oblast 1All 1 place
Odesa oblast 1All 1 place
Chernivtsi oblast 1All 1 place
Chernihiv oblast 1All 1 place

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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