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

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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

o       Canada

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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

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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 21st Floor, 405 Lexington Avenue, New York, NY 10174; WalesInternational.NewYork@Wales.gsi.gov.uk.

Welsh-Americans

Learn what they’re doing:

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Dragon Tales – newsletter of the Welsh Society of Central Ohio

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The Madog Center for Welsh Studies at the University of Rio Grande in southeastern Ohio has an online calendar of events in the area (and a few further afield)

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Ninnau – the Welsh American newspaper -- their “Calendar of Events” is updated even after the print version has been published.  PDF format.

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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

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Attend the North American Festival of Wales sponsored by the Welsh National Gymanfa Ganu Association

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Investigate Welsh Heritage Week – an annual week-long course on everything Welsh, including language lessons, folk dancing, hymn singing, harp lessons, Welsh literature

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Cymdeithas Madog/Welsh Studies Institute of North America sponsors an annual Welsh language week

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The National Welsh American Foundation - lists groups who maintain web sites -- click on “Regional Welsh Societies”

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The Welsh-American Genealogical Society’s “Where are the Welsh? page has links to organizations that have web sites

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Madog Center for Welsh Studies - University of Rio Grande, Ohio

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North American Association for the Study of Welsh Culture & History

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Hiraeth Celtic Goods - a commercial web site but listing doesn't require a purchase

 
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