Welsh America -- Being Welsh/Cymry: migration, place names and locations, Ohio Welsh Scenic Byway, Oak Hill, famous Welsh, Welsh organizations and societies

Welsh America -- Being Welsh/Cymry

Migration

	Learn about migration from Wales/Cymru to North America at the BBC/Wales web site.
	Welsh place names

o Ohio: Derwent, Edwardsville, Evanston, Milford, Mount Pisgah, Newport, Newtown, Radnor, Thomaston, Tynrhos, Venedocia, Wales, Welsh Hills

o Other place names in the United States:

listing; map

Below are list and map comments from AmeriCymru discussion group -- http://americymru.net/group/ustownswithwelshplacenames?commentId=2111712%3AComment%3A120355&xg_source=activity

"Symbols on the map are also now color-coded to match the town or place names in the spreadsheet; Deep blue symbols or names in the USA reflect towns that have counterparts in Wales (also with deep blue symbols or names; Light blue (turquoise) symbols or names in USA are those 'amended' from Welsh town or place names - such as 'North Pembroke' (derived from Pembroke); Red symbols or names in the USA are reserved for towns named 'Wales' or 'Cambria'; Yellow symbols (map) or shading (spreadsheet) are reserved for Welsh places - (as opposed to Welsh towns); Llareggub (red on spreadsheet) and yellow 'masks' on map is to honor Dylan Thomas and make reference to Under Milk Wood ('often cast as 'a play for voices'); Links in the spreadshet provide information on numerous towns, place and people. We need more of those people to submit their list of towns (see spreadsheet) in the USA and/or Wales that they have personally set foot in; On the map, zoom in and click on any symbol to learn more about that location."

o Canada

	Check out The Wales-Ohio Project, a bilingual website giving access to a digitized selection of Welsh Americana held at The National Library of Wales -- perspectives on Welsh migration and the experiences of the Welsh settlers in Ohio
	Ohio Welsh Scenic Byway – runs through Jackson and Gallia counties -- a brochure with descriptions and a map is available by contacting the Madog Center for Welsh Studies, welsh@rio.edu or 740-245-7186, or the Welsh-American Heritage Museum, 740-682-7057.

Famous Welsh

William Penn, Thomas Jefferson and James Monroe; many of the signers of the Declaration of Independence; the first First Lady, Martha Washington, and the more-recent First Lady, Hillary Rodham Clinton; Meriweather Lewis and Daniel Boone; Harriet Beecher Stowe; Ellis Island was named after Samuel Ellis who owned the land in the late 1700s; Andrew Carnegie, the man of steel and library buildings; Elihu Yale; John Pierpont Morgan; George L. Jones, co-founder of The New York Times; the architect Frank Lloyd Wright; 2003 Nobel Prize in Economics co-winners Professor Clive W.J. Granger, University of California, and Professor Robert Engle, New York University; world-famous astronomer Professor Richard Ellis, California Institute of Technology; Edie Adams, Petula Clark and Tom Jones; Ray Milland, Bob Hope, Tom Cruise, and Catherine Zeta-Jones; John Perry, founder of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir.

Selections from the brochure “Keeping up with the Joneses - the story of Wales and the Welsh in the USA” published by The Welsh Assembly Government, Wales International Center, Chrysler Building 21^st Floor, 405 Lexington Avenue, New York, NY 10174; WalesInternational.NewYork@Wales.gsi.gov.uk.

Welsh-Americans

Learn what they’re doing:

	Dragon Tales – newsletter of the Welsh Society of Central Ohio
	The Madog Center for Welsh Studies at the University of Rio Grande in southeastern Ohio lists events in the area
	Ninnau – the Welsh American newspaper -- their online “Calendar of Events” is updated even after the print version has been published
	The Welsh League of Arizona - sign up for the email newsletter by contacting the news editor and along with the ‘new issue’ alert you’ll receive information on events of Welsh interest around the USA
	Attend the North American Festival of Wales sponsored by the Welsh National Gymanfa Ganu Association
	Investigate Welsh Heritage Week – an annual week-long course on everything Welsh, including language lessons, folk dancing, hymn singing, harp lessons, Welsh literature
	Cymdeithas Madog/Welsh Studies Institute of North America sponsors an annual Welsh language week

Find them:

	The National Welsh American Foundation - lists mostly groups who maintain web sites -- on their home page, scroll down the right side to the People and Places heading and, under that, click on Welsh-American Organizations
	The Welsh-American Genealogical Society’s “Where are the Welsh?” page has links to organizations that have web sites
	North American Association for the Study of Welsh Culture & History

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