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Darllen yn GymraegFollow Ceredigion's North American migration links
Families leaving Ceredigion helped create communities across North America, while correspondence and records kept connections with Wales alive. The Cilcennin area's links with Ohio are one route into this wider history. Research a named person or settlement through records, recognising that journeys often involved larger ports as well as the local coast.
Influence beyond the first journey
The family of architect Frank Lloyd Wright's mother came from the Llandysul area. Tregaron-born Evan Rowland Jones built a varied career spanning military service, politics and writing about emigration.
Look for the family stories
Chapels, village records and harbour histories can help place individual migrations in context. These journeys were shaped by economic pressure as well as ambition, and the links with home often endured across generations.
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Image credits: Tregaron Market Place.jpg — Gordon Hatton / CC BY-SA 2.0 (Wikimedia Commons). Images may be resized or cropped for the layout.
