Reply #106: That is a great site. [View All]

[Chovexani]

It helped me a lot when I was trying to do research into my own family background. There's an entire Roma branch of my family tree I had no idea existed until a few years ago when one of my cousins died. There is a lot of shame and denial in my family about it. Trying to get in touch with that aspect of my cultural roots has been hard and painful.

I try to bring attention to the situation nowadays whenever I can. I'm shocked by the people who don't even think Roma exist, let alone are an ethnic group that continue to be persecuted. One poll I saw a while back, that I can't find the link to, said more Americans believed in leprechauns than gypsies. I can't even wrap my brain around that.