Trumbull County, Ohio Genealogy

Guide to Trumbull County Ohio genealogy. Birth records, marriage records, death records, census records, family history, and military records.

United States Ohio  Trumbull County

Historical Facts

 * Parent Counties: Formed from Jefferson and Wayne of Northwest Territory in 1800.
 * County Seat: Warren
 * Neighboring Counties: residents may also have records in Ashtabula (north)·Mahoning (south)·Geauga (northwest)· Portage (southwest)·Mercer County, Pennsylvania (east)

Boundary Changes
See an interactive map of Trumbull County boundary changes.

Cemeteries
See the book, Trumbull County Ohio Cemetery Inscriptions 1800-1930 compiled and published by the Trumbull County Chapter of the Ohio Genealogical Society (1983), for a record of tombstone inscriptions found in all of the known cemeteries in the county. Several transcriptions were compiled into this one volume.

ONLINE:

Interment.com - Trumbull County Cemeteries - http://www.interment.net/us/oh/trumbull.htm FindAGrave.com - Trumbull County Cemeteries

Cemetery records often reveal birth, marriage, death, relationship, military, and religious information.

See Ohio Cemeteries for more information.

LDS Ward and Branch Records

 * Brookfield

Local Histories

 * Upton, Harriet Taylor. A Twentieth Century History of Trumbull County, Ohio: A Narrative Account of Its Historical Progress, Its People, and Its Principal Interests. Evansville, IN: Whipporwill Publications, 1983. (full-text available at www.books.google.com)
 * H.Z. Williams &amp; Bro. History of Trumbull and Mahoning Counties. Cleveland: H.Z. Williams, 1882. (full-text available at www.books.google.com)
 * Howe, Henry. Historical Collections of Ohio In Two Volumes. An Encyclopedia of the State. Cincinnati: Published by the State of Ohio, 1907. (full-text available at www.books.google.com)
 * Case, Leonard. Early Settlement of Warren, Trumbull Co., Ohio. Cleveland: Fairbanks, Benedict &amp; Co., printers, 1876. (full-text available at www.archive.org)
 * Emily L. Varner, compiler, The People of Trumbull County 1800-2000, Cortland, OH: Howland Printing, 2000.

Military

 * Civil War Civil War service men from Trumbull County served in various regiments. Men often joined a company (within a regiment) that originated in their county. Listed below are companies that were specifically formed in Trumbull County.


 * - 41st Regiment, Ohio Infantry, Companies A and K
 * - 105th Regiment, Ohio Infantry, Companies B, C, and I

Obituaries
Courtesy of The Warren-Trumball County Public Library:

Warren Tribune Chronicle:


 * Obituraries: 1900-1938
 * Obituaries: 1970, part of 1980, 1981, 1987, 2009

Probate

 * 1790–1967 - at FamilySearch Historical Records – free. This collection consists of probate records and estate files from county courthouses in Ohio. The content and time period varies by county, with more records being added as they become available. This Collection will include records from 1789 to 1996. Currently, (September 2012) the collection is only searchable by browsing the images. A list of Fires that have destroyed records in the courthouses of several counties are listed on the Record Description page.

Repositories
Trumbull County Archives

Emily Varner, Archivist. Stone Building, 118 High Street NW, Warren, OH 44481. website

The archives includes and maintains the following records:


 * Auditors Tax Duplicates 1811, 1839-1946
 * Auditors Transfer Lists 1960-1992
 * Births 1867-1908
 * Commissioners Journals 1828-1929
 * Deaths 1867-1908
 * Estates 1803-1989
 * Marriages 1800-1995
 * Mortgage Records &amp; Indices 1850-1947
 * Probate Records 1803-1953
 * Probate/Administration Docket 1837 on
 * Probate Journals 1854-1966
 * Wills 1841-1966

Courthouse
Trumbull County Courthouse 160 High St NW Warren, OH 44481 Phone: 330.675.2557 Clerk Court has divorce, court and naturalization records from 1800;  Probate Judge has marriage and probate records; County Recorder has land records

Family History Centers

 * Introduction to LDS Family History Centers
 * Youngstown Ohio Family History Center (Girard)

Libraries

 * Warren-Trumbull County Public Library

Local History and Genealogy Room 444 Mahoning Avenue NW Warren, Ohio 44483 (330) 399-8807 ext 120

Unique collections include, among others:

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 &amp; Dumb (Columbus), the Boys Industrial School (Lancaster) and the Girls Industrial School (Delaware) are on microfilm for the early years.)

Societies

 * Trumbull County Genealogical Society

PO Box 309 Warren, Ohio 44482


 * Ohio Historical Society

Archives/Library 1982 Velma Avenue Columbus, OH 43211-2497 (614) 297-2510

Taxation

 * 1800–1850 at FamilySearch Historical Records – free. Name index of tax records as recorded with the County Auditor of each county. Entries are recorded in voucher books, one person per page. The majority of the tax records in this collection are for the years 1816 through 1838. Currently (September 2012) this collection is 17% complete. Additional records will be added as they are completed.

Births

 * 1867-1908. Births were not required to be recorded until 1867, and are generally not available prior to that date. The Trumbull County Archives has birth records from 1867-1908 indexed alphabetically on cards.
 * 1908-present. The Ohio Department of Health maintains the birth records from 29 Dec 1908 to present.

Marriages

 * 1800-Sept 1995. The Trumbull County Archives has both an alphabetical card index, and actual certificates available. Marriage licenses are available from 1816, when they were kept separately, but in 1891 they were combined with the marriage certificates.

Divorces

 * 1808-1975, Records. The Trumbull County Archives has transcripts of each case from civil, criminal and divorce courts, in Common Pleas Court Journals and Common Pleas Court Record Books.
 * 1949-present, Abstracts. Abstracts of original divorce decrees from 7 Sep 1949 to present are maintained at the Ohio Department of Health. Records prior to this date are generally maintained in the probate court of the county in which the original marriage license was filed.

Deaths

 * 1867-1908. The Trumbull County Archives also has the death records for this time period indexed alphabetically on cards. Deaths were not required to be recorded until 1867.
 * 1908-1944. The Ohio Historical Society maintains death certificates for the state from 20 Dec 1908 - 31 Dec 1944.
 * 1945-present. The Ohio Department of Health maintains the death certificates for this time period.
 * Death certificates online:1908-1953 Free name indexes and certificate images at FamilySearch. Records include such information as birth date of deceased, city, county, and state of death, name of spouse if married, names of parents, maiden name of mother, name of informant, if deceased was single, married, windowed or divorced, occupation of deceased.

Web Sites

 * USGenWeb project, Trumbull Countypage. May have maps, name indexes, history or other information for this county. Select the state, then the county.
 * Trumbull County Genealogical Society
 * Trumbull County History &amp; Genealogy - Genealogy Trails
 * Trumbull County Ohio History - American Local History Network
 * Trumbull County Ohio History - American Local History Network

Places

 * Townships are 5 miles by 5 miles square
 * Trumbull originally had 25 townships
 * Presently there are 24 towships, 6 cities and 5 villages

Townships
Bazetta | Bloomfield | Braceville | Bristol | Brookfield | Champion | Farmington | Fowler | Greene | Gustavus | Hartford | Howland | Hubbard | Johnston | Kinsman | Liberty | Mecca | Mesopotamia | Newton | Southington | Vernon | Vienna | Warren | Weathersfield

Cities
Cortland | Girard | Hubbard | Newton Falls | Niles | Warren

Villages
Lordstown | McDonald | Orangeville | W. Farmington | Yankee Lake

Neighboring Counties

 * Ashtabula
 * Crawford County, Pennsylvania
 * Geauga
 * Lawrence County, Pennsylvania
 * Mahoning
 * Mercer County, Pennsylvania
 * Portage