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Travelling People / Re: the gypsy family- the myth of taking children - Whitehouse/Bentley; Taylor/Smith
« on: Monday 08 July 13 23:29 BST (UK) »
Sandra, this website has one of the clearest and accurate descriptions of the path of the Romany gypsies from India that I've seen - http://danny.oz.au/anthropology/notes/gypsy-history.html - although bear in mind that there will always be some disagreement between experts of some of the finer points . ps. further to my previous comment, unlike in gorja communities illegitimate children were not looked down on but brought into the family group and raised by all the members and often stayed with the group when the mother eventually married so it wasn't uncommon for additional children to be informally adopted by aunts, uncles, grandparents, etc