1897 census surname
Portnoy
According to Rootera’s index, 59 people recorded as Portnoy or related archive spellings were found across 18 census sheets. The surname appears most frequently in Dvinsk, Preili, and Kreslavka.
Spelling forms
This page groups spelling variants associated with the same surname. Archive forms come directly from the indexed census records; Western spellings are included to support family-history research.
Where the surname appears
About these spelling forms
Rootera’s index records this surname in Cyrillic as “Портной”, with “portnoi” and “portnoj” in the Latin transcription. Researchers using Western-language sources may also encounter “Portnoy”. These spelling alternatives help with discovery, but each match should be checked against the original census sheet.
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