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Bodnar (Боднар): where the surname was recorded in Ukraine

Recorded in 181 towns and villages of 13 oblasts in the state memory books of 1917–1960. This is a count of places, not people or ancestors.

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Vinnytsia oblast: 19 placesVolyn oblastLuhansk oblast: 1 placeDnipropetrovsk oblast: 1 placeDonetsk oblast: 1 placeZhytomyr oblast: 1 placeZakarpattia oblast: 10 placesZaporizhzhia oblastIvano-Frankivsk oblast: 20 placesKyiv oblast: 1 placeKyiv oblast: 1 placeKirovohrad oblastCrimeaCrimeaLviv oblast: 38 placesMykolaiv oblastOdesa oblast: 1 placePoltava oblastRivne oblastSumy oblastTernopil oblast: 33 placesKharkiv oblastKherson oblastKhmelnytskyi oblast: 49 placesCherkasy oblastChernihiv oblastChernivtsi oblast: 6 places
  • Places per oblast:
  • none
  • 1
  • 6–19
  • 20–49

Selected oblast

Khmelnytskyi oblast

49 places with the surname Боднар

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The same oblasts as a list

OblastPlacesShare%
Khmelnytskyi oblast 4927%
Lviv oblast 3821%
Ternopil oblast 3318%
Ivano-Frankivsk oblast 2011%
Vinnytsia oblast 1910%
Zakarpattia oblast 106%
Chernivtsi oblast 63%
Dnipropetrovsk oblast 11%
Donetsk oblast 11%
Zhytomyr oblast 11%
All 13 oblasts
OblastPlacesShare%
Kyiv oblast 11%
Luhansk oblast 11%
Odesa 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

77 places with a ready parish description · 24 shown

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

Places in the indexed books

Khmelnytskyi oblast 4924 of 49

and 25 places more in the oblast · all in the search →

Other oblasts12Show
Lviv oblast 3816 of 38

and 22 places more in the oblast · all in the search →

Ternopil oblast 3314 of 33

and 19 places more in the oblast · all in the search →

Ivano-Frankivsk oblast 208 of 20

and 12 places more in the oblast · all in the search →

Vinnytsia oblast 198 of 19

and 11 places more in the oblast · all in the search →

Zakarpattia oblast 104 of 10

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

Chernivtsi oblast 63 of 6

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

Dnipropetrovsk oblast 1All 1 place
Donetsk oblast 1All 1 place
Zhytomyr oblast 1All 1 place
Kyiv oblast 1All 1 place
Luhansk oblast 1All 1 place
Odesa 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.

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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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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