Roma Family History
Roma Name Meaning
Italian: habitational name from the city of Rome (Italian
Roma).Catalan (Romà): from the personal name
Romà (from Latin Romanus (‘from Rome’), borne by
several saints).Catalan and Galician: habitational name from any
of several places in Valencia and Galicia named Roma, of uncertain
derivation.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Roma
Name Distribution of Roma Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Roma families
 9 - 16  4 - 8 |
 1 - 3  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Roma census records
You can see how Roma families moved over time by selecting different Census years.
Census records can tell you little-known facts about your ancestors such as birthplace, occupation and value of personal estate.
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Roma Family Origin
Roma Emigration Information (US)
Click on a circle in the chart to view Roma emigration records
You can find out when most of the Roma families immigrated
to the United States.
You can focus your search to emigration records dating from that era.
Emigration records can tell you an ancestor's name, ship name, port of departure,
port of arrival and destination.
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Roma Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Roma census records
Census records can offer a lot of little known facts about your Roma ancestors, such as occupation.
Occupation can tell you about your ancestors' social status and economic status.
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Military Service by Roma
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