Gypsy, Traveller, Circus, Fairground etc. website links

[rebekahm28]

Thanks Cathay I'll take a look after dinner.   

[Arranroots]

Found while Googling!


Rural Media's Travellers' Times website has some interesting looking resources:
http://www.ruralmedia.co.uk/Travellers-Times-.aspx new link

Includes a regular online magazine and educational materials.

http://www.travellerstimes.org.uk/home.aspx?c=10c06632-20d5-481a-a5e7-125c683e7319

Enjoy!

 

[rebekahm28]

Yes, you can subscribe to it for free, its government funded I think, we get it through the post!

[cathayb]

please note the old gmb board is now closed but we have revamped and reopened.i have corrected the above links but incase you have missed it here is the new link

http//z10.invisionfree.com/ GypsyMessageBoard1 /index.php link not working

[rebekahm28]

Leeboy, I tired to save it to my favourites but when you right click the mouse it says 'function disabled'. I'll have a good look anyway thanks. Are you on facebook? I speak to many gypsies on there but it seems to be mostly Irish now.

[CitizenSmith]

If you're researching the real-life Gypsy families that the author George Borrow (1803-1881) knew and wrote about in his novels, you might find something of interest here:

http://borrowsgypsies.wordpress.com

I've created the site so I can share my info on these so-called 'Borrow’s Gypsies' of East Anglia, including things like newspaper reports and photos that have never been published online or in print before.

The family names include Smith, Draper, Robinson, Lee, Cooper, Chilcott, Whatnell, Boswell, Hope, Young, Heron, Lovell, Mace, Gray, Shaw, Buckley, Taylor, Pinfold, Gaskin, Brown and Franklin.

Happy hunting! And I look forward to your contributions too.

Best wishes
Sharon

[Syntill]

There are some classic nineteenth-century works on gypsies freely accessible on the Internet Archive [http://www.archive.org/]. These include _In Gipsy Tents_, by Francis Hindes Groome [ http://www.archive.org/details/cu31924028693632], and some early volumes of the _Journal of the Gipsy Lore Society_, for example, vol 1 [http://www.archive.org/details/journalofgypsylo01gypsuoft], vol 2 [http://www.archive.org/details/journalgypsylor01socigoog] and vol 3 [http://www.archive.org/details/journalofgypsyl03gypsuoft].

[An65]

pls find/read Gypsys Model by Bill MacFarlane. Its come out just not and is based on story of Keomi Gray n Frederick Sandys whilst recognising it it FACTION: IE a fictional work based on the possible LIVES of real people and anyone instrested in the very real link between Keomi GRAY and her dad Oseri GRAY, and his links to the Heron Family please read this fictional work

[schiehallion]

Ann65, sorry to go off topic, Im a newby to Rootschat. Wife is related to Gray on fathers side (William and Tabitha) and Mobbs on Mothers side (James and Bethany). Do you still have a website up with the Gray family trees? (off topic again, Lincolnshire Archives have just installed a new computer system for their parish records, good on some searches but still a lot of teething troubles)