I note that a lot of beginning researchers think that if they can find when their immigrant came into the USA, they will find where he came from - the exact town and county. Prior to 1905, it doesn't work that way. The passenger lists will only say born in "Wales" or wherever.The lists will not give the name of the town or the parish only the country. If your ancestor came from Eastern Europe, the 1920 USA census will list under "birthplace" the exact place in Eastern Europe your ancestor came from. This was done because Eastern Europe had changed so much after the Great War (WWI). But only for Eastern Europe. If you are in Wales trying to find a relative who came to America, go into the local Record Office or the National Library of Wales and start looking for your ancestor there. They may be a letter, a family record that someone turned into the local Record Office or the NLW. It happened in my own family - someone had gone to America, place and date unknown. My cousin looked up a record in the NLW and found the exact place where this relative had gone and because of that information, both of us were able to find him in America. Always check locally first. For Americans looking for a Welsh immigrant, do the same thing in the area where the immigrant lived. Check the County Courthouse, your Family History Center, the local National Archives, the State Library and Archives, the local Historical Society - because you may your answer there where the family came from. Annie