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Zhurba (Журба): where the surname was recorded in Ukraine

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

Recorded in 100 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: 3 placesVolyn oblastLuhansk oblast: 11 placesDnipropetrovsk oblast: 5 placesDonetsk oblast: 11 placesZhytomyr oblast: 7 placesZakarpattia oblastZaporizhzhia oblast: 3 placesIvano-Frankivsk oblastKyiv oblast: 11 placesKyiv oblast: 11 placesKirovohrad oblast: 6 placesCrimeaCrimeaLviv oblast: 1 placeMykolaiv oblast: 1 placeOdesa oblast: 1 placePoltava oblast: 3 placesRivne oblastSumy oblast: 8 placesTernopil oblast: 1 placeKharkiv oblast: 3 placesKherson oblast: 3 placesKhmelnytskyi oblast: 8 placesCherkasy oblast: 8 placesChernihiv oblast: 6 placesChernivtsi oblast
  • Places per oblast:
  • none
  • 1
  • 3
  • 5–7
  • 8–11

Selected oblast

Donetsk oblast

11 places with the surname Журба

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Coverage: Donetsk oblast →

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The same oblasts as a list

OblastPlacesShare%
Donetsk oblast 1111%
Kyiv oblast 1111%
Luhansk oblast 1111%
Sumy oblast 88%
Khmelnytskyi oblast 88%
Cherkasy oblast 88%
Zhytomyr oblast 77%
Kirovohrad oblast 66%
Chernihiv oblast 66%
Dnipropetrovsk oblast 55%
All 19 oblasts
OblastPlacesShare%
Vinnytsia oblast 33%
Zaporizhzhia oblast 33%
Poltava oblast 33%
Kharkiv oblast 33%
Kherson oblast 33%
Lviv oblast 11%
Mykolaiv oblast 11%
Odesa 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

5 of 100 places

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

Places in the indexed books

Donetsk oblast 11All 11 places
Kyiv oblast 118 of 11

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

Luhansk oblast 118 of 11

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

Sumy oblast 86 of 8

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

Khmelnytskyi oblast 86 of 8

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

Cherkasy oblast 86 of 8

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

Zhytomyr oblast 75 of 7

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

Kirovohrad oblast 64 of 6

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

Chernihiv oblast 64 of 6

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

Dnipropetrovsk oblast 54 of 5

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

Vinnytsia oblast 3All 3 places
Zaporizhzhia oblast 3All 3 places
Poltava oblast 3All 3 places
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  • ГорбиЛубенський р-н
Kharkiv oblast 3All 3 places
Kherson oblast 3All 3 places
Lviv oblast 1All 1 place
Mykolaiv oblast 1All 1 place
Odesa oblast 1All 1 place
Ternopil oblast 1All 1 place
Older than the memory books

Register of the Zaporozhian Host, 1649

2 entries in 2 regiments

  • Кальницький
  • Переяславський

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

As printed in the editionRegimentPage
Таврило Журбаsotnia ВѣницкаяКальницький regimentp. 194
Иванъ Журбаsotnia БыковскаяПереяславський regimentp. 229

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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