Romany ancestry?

Question

My grandfather, sadly now dead was Romany, and I would like to trace my ancestry. Could someone please tell me how I can do this.

Thankyou

Answer 1

Have you tried this?
http://www.rtfhs.org.uk/

Answer 2

Hey Richard,

Romany brings up Gypsy Families when you search for it on the internet. You might get lucky there, certainly, get your Grandfathers Death Certificate. You really need to have that. Also, if you can find his obituary, that will be useful, especially if he gave information to use in it. If you can go through his old papers, you should. Don't worry, you can do that with respect to his life. Look at his pictures, read the backs. Did he have a bible? Check the inscriptions.

So, be sure you do the Family Tree ties to your grandfather, through your parent. Get your birth record, and theirs. If this is your Father's Father - your Surname - then you can do a direct DNA test also. There are many places on the internet, some are actually FREE, but they want you to take a more expensive test. You should get into a DNA Project designed for your needs - you will need to read a lot about that. The first site is a Modal Romany Project. That will peg the surname branch of your Family tree. However it will neglect the other branches of your tree. Oh, if your Grandfather is your Mothers father, get an Uncle to take the DNA Test.

Answer 3

First, learn all you can from your living ancestors of their parents, grandparents, and on back, to build your own family tree. Better yet, ask if there isn't already a family historian. You will need places and dates of births, marriages and deaths, begin filling in what you can and documenting what you can as you go.

If your heritage is Romany it won't be far back because the cultural inhibition of not marrying outside was strong. With what you learned from family you can begin documenting generations historically from census and other resources.

Answer 4

start with yourself and work backwards. once you do that then try familysearch.org and rootsweb.com. also cyndislist.com. Use these as TOOLS not gospel. document with birth, death and marriage certificates. obits have loads of clues along with cemetery records.

happy hunting

Answer 5

type your surname in the ancesry.com, geneology.com or just type the surname in the search bar............