Editing Wayne County, Ohio (section)

===Ancestry===
There were several large waves of migration into what it is today Wayne County, Ohio. The first wave was groups of families from [[New England]], migrating westward into what was then the [[Northwest Territory]] and then early statehood era Ohio between the 1790s and the 1820s. Most of the settlers who arrived in what would become Wayne County at that time were from [[New England]]. They were overwhelmingly Congregationalists, however, in the 1810s several arrived who had become Methodists, Baptists and Presbyterians during the [[Second Great Awakening]]. These groups were of [[English American|English ancestry]], being descended from the [[English people|English]] [[Puritans]] who arrived in colonial [[New England]] during the 1620s and 1630s. The English-descended "Yankee" New Englanders established the county in 1812. The second large migration was German immigrants, the Germans settled in Wayne County in large numbers between the 1820s and the 1880s, forming a steady stream of migration into the county during that time. These immigrants were almost exclusively [[Lutheran]]. Lastly in the early 1850s a large group of [[Irish people|Irish]] immigrants arrived in the county as part of a large wave of migration entering the United States at that time. This group was overwhelmingly Catholic. Many families currently in Wayne County go back to the early 19th century settlement of the county by New Englanders.<ref>Frontier Justice: Wayne County 1796-1836 - Elizabeth Gaspar Brown - The American Journal of Legal History -Vol. 16, No. 2 (Apr. 1972), pp. 126-153</ref> Today, many of these same people who cite that they are of "American" ancestry are actually of English descent, however, they have families that have been in the state so long, in many cases since the colonial period, that they choose to identify simply as having "American" ancestry or do not, in fact, know their own ancestry. Their ancestry primarily goes back to the original [[Thirteen Colonies]] and for this reason many of them today simply claim "American" ancestry, though they are of predominantly English ancestry.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=SVoAXh-dNuYC&dq=Sharing+the+dream:+white+males+in+multicultural+America++english+ancestry&pg=PA57 Sharing the Dream: White Males in a Multicultural America] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151016002633/https://books.google.com/books?id=SVoAXh-dNuYC&pg=PA57&dq=Sharing+the+dream:+white+males+in+multicultural+America++english+ancestry&cd=1 |date=October 16, 2015 }} By Dominic J. Pulera.</ref><ref>Reynolds Farley, 'The New Census Question about Ancestry: What Did It Tell Us?', ''Demography'', Vol. 28, No. 3 (August 1991), pp. 414, 421.</ref><ref>Stanley Lieberson and Lawrence Santi, 'The Use of Nativity Data to Estimate Ethnic Characteristics and Patterns', ''Social Science Research'', Vol. 14, No. 1 (1985), pp. 44–6.</ref><ref>Stanley Lieberson and Mary C. Waters, 'Ethnic Groups in Flux: The Changing Ethnic Responses of American Whites', ''Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science'', Vol. 487, No. 79 (September 1986), pp. 82–86.</ref>  There are also many [[Irish-Americans]] in the county.  [[German-Americans]] have formed the largest single group in Wayne County since the late 1800s.