Researching Jonathan Trumbull
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The name Jonathan means "God gives" and is of Hebrew origin.
Records of Jonathan Trumbull on Ancestry
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DNA
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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for Jonathan Trumbull and the Trumbull Family Tree
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Trumbull Genealogy Databases
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Study the Ellis Island Database for information on Jonathan Trumbull. This database contains over 25 million immigration records detailing passengers arriving in the United States of America.
Some Famous People called Jonathan Trumbull
Jonathan Trumbull
Jonathan Trumbull Sr. (October 12, 1710 – August 17, 1785) was an American politician and statesman who served as Governor of Connecticut during the American Revolution. Trumbull and Nicholas Cooke of Rhode Island were the only men to serve as governor of both a British colony and an American state, and he was the only governor to take up the Patriot cause at the start of the Revolutionary War. Trumbull College at Yale University, the town of Trumbull, Connecticut, Trumbull County, Ohio (originally part of the Connecticut Western Reserve), and Jonathan the Husky are all named for him.
Source: Jonathan Trumbull, Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia
Other names that sound a bit like Trumbull
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