Matsumoto Family History
- Matsumoto Name Meaning
- Japanese (common in western Japan and the Ryukyu Islands): from a common place name; many bearers therefore may be unrelated. According to folklore, a habitation near a pine tree (matsu) from which a deity would issue to visit mortals would be named Matsumoto: ‘place of the (divine) pine tree’. See also Matsuda and Matsuoka.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 46,610 Historical Documents with Matsumoto on Ancestry
- 13,598 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 7,420 Census and Voter Lists
- 4,042 Military Records
- 19,506 Immigration Records
- 2,044 Member Trees
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from the 1851 Canada Census Data
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