This page catalogs the six historical spellings of the village name found in genealogical records — Путятинці, Putyatyntsi, Putiatyntsi, Putiatyńce, Putiatynci, and Putyatintsi — explaining which source or era each comes from, so researchers don’t mistake a variant spelling for a different village.
If you’ve come across this village under a different spelling — in a passport, a ship manifest, a church record, or a family letter — you’re in the right place. Like many villages in this part of Ukraine, Putyatyntsi has been rendered into the Latin alphabet several different ways over the past century and a half, depending on who was transliterating it and when.
Spellings you may encounter
| Spelling | Where you’ll see it |
| Путятинці | The village’s actual name, in Ukrainian (Cyrillic script) |
| Putyatyntsi | The standard modern transliteration used throughout this site |
| Putiatyntsi | An alternate transliteration common in many historical accounts |
| Putiatyńce | The Polish-language spelling used in official records from the Austro-Hungarian era, when Galicia’s local administration operated largely in Polish |
| Putiatynci | Used in Wasyl Ewanciw’s 1966 chronicle, Village of Putiatynci |
| Putyatintsi | Used in Roman Korytko’s 2008 book, Putyatintsi |
Why so many spellings?
Putyatyntsi has never had a single, fixed way of being written in the Latin alphabet. The village and the wider Rohatyn region passed through Austrian, Polish, Soviet, and now independent Ukrainian administration over the last 150 years — and each era, and each writer transliterating from Ukrainian Cyrillic, made different choices about how to render the sounds in English or Polish letters. Even within the Ukrainian-American diaspora community that documented this village’s history, spelling was never fully standardized.
If you’re researching family history
Don’t assume a different spelling means a different place. If you found “Putiatyńce,” “Putiatynci,” or any close variant in an old document, it very likely refers to this same village. Explore the History of Putyatyntsi page and Resource Library for original documents and further reading.
