Romani Family History
- Romani Name Meaning
- Italian: patronymic or plural form of Romano. Catalan (Romaní): nickname from romaní, which is either from Arabic romani ‘Christian’ or Catalan romaní ‘rosemary’. Catalan (Romaní): in some cases, possibly a habitational name from a place called Romaní in El Penedès, Barcelona province.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 32,122 Historical Documents with Romani on Ancestry
- 20,391 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 3,894 Census and Voter Lists
- 946 Military Records
- 3,262 Immigration Records
- 3,629 Member Trees
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from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Romani census records
You can use census records and voter lists to see where families with the Romani surname lived over the years.
While the questions in census records vary from place to place, and year to year, you can generally find information like name of household members, ages, birthplaces, residences, occupations, etc.
from the New York Passengers List
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The information for this chart came from the U.S. Immigration Collection at Ancestry. You can find out where the majority of the Romani families were living before they immigrated to the U.S and learn where to focus your search for foreign records.
Immigration records can tell you an ancestor's name, ship name, port of departure, port of arrival, and destination.
from the New York Passenger Lists
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You can find out when most of the Romani 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.
Census records can tell you a lot of little known facts about your Romani
ancestors, such as occupation. Occupation can tell you about your ancestors social
and economic status.
Did the Romanis fight in a war? Military records can tell you a lot
about your ancestors including birthplace, occupation and even physical descriptions.
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