With reference to Reply #5 above, a big “thank you” to aa1webb for making my three letters available to enquirers although they are now obsolete because a decision has been reached. As the (whether you like it or not) leader in this subject, I am obliged to let those tracing gipsy ancestry know that they require a pool of information that is very much larger than that which is available on the internet.
Reply #5 appeared because I asked aa1webb to let others know that I wished to distribute my database free of charge.
In recent years I have brought my family history project to a tidy conclusion by compressing it into an 1,100 page searchable PDF file which can easily be circulated by e-mail. It contains about 50,000 baptisms, marriages, burials, etc., covering all gipsy & traveller families traditionally based in England & Wales. Almost all of the details have been checked at source so the product is of high quality. There has never before been anything like it and nobody is ever going to have enough time to repeat it.
I have since received no responses and I have therefore decided to withdraw the offer. No copies will be deposited at the British Library as would normally be the case under the terms of ‘legal deposit’. My project is too large to print, too heavy to carry in paper form, and too expensive to post. It is therefore not publishable. A tiny amount of interest shown in it over the last two months would probably have procured the applicant the gift of forty years of skilled research but the community now needs to become aware that it is slipping away from them.
TL
