Gomer history recorded for joint web site

By Mary Grothause, The Delphos Herald
Published:  Friday, June 6, 2008 (5 months, 2 weeks ago)
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GOMER — The Welsh history of the village of Gomer is being recorded and will be available on a joint Wales-Ohio web site.
Menna Morgan from Wales was in Gomer Wednesday morning digitizing copies of photographs, land transfer deeds and even the family history recorded in a Bible. The material will be added to the ohio.llgc.org.uk web site which contains over 5,000 digital images of material already gathered.
The first immigrants from Wales to Ohio arrived in 1795 and settled at Paddy’s Run near Cincinnati. Later settlers founded Gomer and Venedocia in 1853.
Morgan has gathering information on Welsh history in Ohio for the past three weeks. Morgan had previously uncovered a Civil War diary kept by a Welsh boy and the undertaker’s notebook in the Gomer museum.
“The pages were so fragile on both I had to take them to the Ohio Historical Society so they could be scanned without damage. The undertaker’s notebook was sad because so many had died of cholera in those early years,” Morgan said.
The Wales-Ohio project is funded by Evan and Elizabeth Davis, who have also provided The National Library with further financial assistance.

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