TRUMBULL COUNTY OHIO
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COUNTY INFORMATION
1895 Map of Ohio
(Click on Thumbnail for Large Map)
Map modified with permission of Ray Sterner from http://fermi.jhuapl.edu/states
DATE CREATED
1800
PARENT COUNTY
Jefferson, Wayne County Michigan
COUNTY SEAT
Warren
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MAGGIE'S SKELETON CLOSET AKA PLACES TO SEEK YOUR ANCESTORS |
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Trumbull County Probate Court
Courthouse Square
160 High St. NW
Warren, OH 44481
330-675-2557
Warren City Health Dept
418 Main Ave Sw Warren, OH 44481
330-841-2612
Trumbull Board Of Health
176 Chestnut Ave Ne Warren, OH 44483
330-675-2489
Trumbull County Health Dept
176 Chestnut Ave Ne Warren, OH 44483
330-675-2590
Warren-Trumbull County Public Library
Local History & Genealogy Department
444 Mahoning Ave Nw Warren, OH 44483
(330) 399-8807 extension 120
Hours: Monday, Thursday, Friday, & Saturday 9:00am to 5:00pm. Tuesday & Wednesday 9:00am to 8:45pm.
The library staff will attempt to find brief answers in indexed materials. Send a SASE (self-addressed stamped envelope). Prepayment of copies is required.
Partial listin of available records:
FEDERAL CENSUS RECORDS (Census records on microfilm, 1820-1880, 1900-1920 are available for TRUMBULL County.)
NEWSPAPERS (Many early newspapers are available on microfilm, with a large collection of 19th Century titles for Warren.)
MILITARY ROSTERS (OHIO military rosters cover the Revolution, War of 1812, Mexican War, Civil War, War with Spain, and World War I. Records of the Ohio Soldiers' & Sailors' Home at Sandusky are available on microfilm.)
TRUMBULL COUNTY PROBATE COURT RECORDS (Marriages, wills, probate records and journals for the earliest years are available on microfilm.)
CITY DIRECTORIES (City directories for Warren & vicinity start in 1889 and continue to the present.)
SURNAME CARD FILE (A card file contains references to others searching a surname, and data on Trumbull County pioneers.)
OHIO COUNTY HISTORIES (An extensive collection of histories, atlases, marriages and other genealogical data, is shelved ALPHABETICALLY, BY COUNTY.)
SPECIAL COLLECTIONS
WINNAGLE COLLECTION contains research materials gathered on local families by genealogist Grace Marvin Winnagle (1882-1965). A wide variety of collected data and correspondence is included.
UNUSUAL SOURCES (Records from the Ohio Penitentiary, Ohio Reformatory (Mansfield), the Ohio School for the Deaf & Dumb (Columbus), the Boys Industrial School (Lancaster) and the Girls Industrial School (Delaware) are on microfilm for the early years.)
Nola Regional Library System
4445 Mahoning Ave Nw Warren, OH 44483
330-847-7744
The University of Akron-Archival Services
225 S Main St
(Old Polsky Bldg)
Akron OH 44325-1702
330-972-7670
Trumbull County Chapter, OGS
P. O. BOX 309
WARREN, OHIO 44482-0309
Monthly newsletter "Ancestry Trails".
OTHER INFORMATION
Trumbull County borders the state of Pennsylvania about 40 miles southeast of Cleveland.
Johnathon Trumbull was an early Ohio Governor. He was nicknamed "Brother Jonathon" by
George Washington and became an early symbol of America.
Warren, the county seat, was founded in 1799 and named for surveyor Moses Warren. The
Packard brothers who later manufactured the Packard automobile in Detroit, established
a company in Warren that made incandescent lamps and electrical products. Stephen Foster
wrote the song "Jeannie With The Light Brown Hair" in the city.
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