America's Home of the Cornish!
Welcome to the Cornish American Heritage Society, whose mission is to promote and preserve the Heritage of Cornish settlers.
New! 2008 Curnow Competition Information
We have posted details on the 2008 Steven Curnow Competition, and they are available here.
Who We Are
Way down to the southwest tip of the Isle of Great Britain is a land of mystery, myth, and magic ... a land of a Celtic people, the Cornish.
The Cornish are fisherfolk, farmers, miners and merchants, scholars, saints, sometimes law-breakers -- above all, they are people of an extraordinary clan in an extraordinary land -- and they know it. They revere it and love it. They celebrate their present in light of their past, looking always to the future for the generations to come.
And so do we. We are descendants of Cornish people who emigrated to the Americas. Though we are no longer in the land of our heritage, we are linked to Cornwall by blood and by the tug of our hearts. Some of our members are Cornish people still living in Cornwall...joined to their cousins in the Americas for the good of all.
Wherever you are in the world, whatever your Cornish ties or interests, you are welcome here.
The people of CAHS celebrate Cornwall and the Cornish in many ways. Our members search, save, create and pass on to the rest of us Cornish songs, poetry, legend, history, photos and food. We do love our food. :-)
Many of us are involved in tracing our family trees, so genealogy and record-keeping are important to us. We each get to have some part in maintaining the ties between Cornish people around all the world, if only through this site.
However you want to take part in all this, is more than fine with us. Wander around the site, email your questions, become a member.
Let this site be your introduction to all things Cornwall -- and let our gatherings, whether in local society, the Gatherings of Cornish Cousins in the Americas, or the Grand Homecoming to Cornwall called Dehwelans -- let these be moments help you form a long and lasting relationship with all things Cornish.
View & Upload Photos
We welcome submissions of photos to share with others using our new Gallery service. The service allows you to both upload and edit photos.
If this is your first time in the Gallery, please register to use it.
Online Forums
Due to issues with spam and unscrupulous postings, our online forum has been suspended for a brief period of time as it is being re-designed to prevent such postings from being listed.
Heritage Question Area & Resource Links
We invite you to visit our new genealogy page where queries can be posted and online resources for research can be found.
