Portney Family History
- Portney Name Meaning
- Origin uncertain. Perhaps an altered form of Jewish Portnoy of North German Portner.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 4,489 Historical Documents with Portney on Ancestry
- 1,672 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 1,453 Census and Voter Lists
- 204 Military Records
- 494 Immigration Records
- 666 Member Trees
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Number of Portney families
 13 - 24  5 - 12 |
 1 - 4  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Portney families
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4 - 5 2 - 3 |
1 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
| Sorry, we couldn't find geographic distribution information for the Portney last name |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Portney census records
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from the New York Passenger Lists
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You can find out when most of the Portney families immigrated to the United States. You can focus your search to immigration records dating from that era.
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from the Social Security Death Index (SSDI)
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from 1880 Federal Census Data
Portney census records
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