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Beshilina
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| 20 Feb 2008 16:58 |
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Afternoon all,
I am new to this site and looking to find information about my heritage. I know very little about the family past my great grandmother, but know we have Romany roots from somewhere. My great grandpa was a bare knuckle fighter and my mum used to shout at me in Romany when we were in public, so that others would not understand! Some of the family were Isish a few generations back.
Can anyone help me learn some new words, or some of the old ways of cooking and other craft bits?
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connors boy
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| 29 Feb 2008 10:41 |
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| hello beshlie did you mean some of your family was irish a few generations back if you did i can help you with a few words but i do know some romany words as well but you would be better to ask a romany or english travler because they would know more than me. |
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valerierackly
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| 29 Feb 2008 15:19 |
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Beshlie;
If you know who your family is or where they where at a certain time may be that would be a better place to find your heritage, because knowing a language or culture is only benificial to you if it is part ofyour own life. What was your g-grandpa's name? What do you mean by romany roots? And hwat worrds do you use? as each family speaks a different dialect and they also have different cultures and values. |
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Victor
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| 01 Mar 2008 08:23 |
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| My dear Beshlie I am a pure Rom, and I might help you with a few words, now my advice to you is we have a Roma Gypsy dictionary,this will help a lot, but I can only tell you a few words that are importent when you speak to a Gypsy, well here goes, Sar san, which means how are you, me sim Romni, which means I am Gypsy, te avas sasto ai baxtalo which means may you be with health and luck, but you say this to a male, to a female you say sasti ai baxtali, I hope this will help you some what. Victor. |
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Beshilina
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| 03 Mar 2008 16:09 |
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Thanks for your replies, I will answer them in one message, so I don't confuse myself. The interest in my heritage was mostly borne from the fact that I spent many years as a child in a distant relatives static caravan, being frightened with stories of eating hedgehogs. I know it sounds like the page of a book, but the great aunt twice removed (Or whatever she was) used to sell heather to the pubs in the town, while at the same time apparently driving a volvo! I was young when she died and her knowledge went with her, spare a few bits that got passed across my close family. The man who said he would teach me what he knew also died before I had the interest to learn, but I wanted to learn what I can before it gets lost entirely!
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connors boy: My Irish family were called Macklin, but I have little idea where they came from
The English side called Simmonds, from the London area.
valerierackly: The words we use at home are, I think, what is known as Romanichal. Things like dinlo, koshde bok, diddikai, gry, chav( which seems funny nowdays!) mandi, and so on, only the very basic bits.
Victor: Thank you for your help withe the words. Can you reccomend a good dictionary for me to get hold of and do you know if there are any books on the old customs? I understand that musch of these would have been closely held from what I know as gorgies.
Thanks to all of you for your help.
B
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Victor
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| 03 Mar 2008 18:16 |
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| Dear Beshilina, the dictionary is just called as Gypsy/Roma dictionary, but i think you can only find it at London's bigest library, so good luck, I am proud of you, for trying to find your ancesters, and wanting to lear our Romany language.Victor |
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MightyLovelyMan
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| 28 Apr 2008 11:14 |
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Beshilina,
God bless you. The words you typed were certainly the Romaness (sp) of the English gypsies or "Romanichal". I am very familiar with them. I too am trying to find out about my ancestors. Good luck - Kushty Bokt |
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