I care!
Really appreciate all the pioneering work you're doing in the US census. Very few folk have done this before.
I feel the issue is that some researchers aren't aware of the massive exodus of British Gypsies to the USA and Canada in the mid to late-19th century and so tend to ignore the sources available to them in North America that could hold valuable family information - even if their own direct ancestors didn't venture abroad.
For example, on the Nixey Lovell you flagged up to me the other day in an American census: a subsequent search on Ancestry revealed the death certificates of both him and his wife (Florence Smith) in Kentucky, complete with the names of both parents - a massive bonus in fitting them into the Lovell and Smith families they left behind.
Also, you find that the American press had a special fascination with the English Gypsies. I have gathered 19th century and early 20th century newspaper reports on them from (free) online sources – even photos of them and their encampments in some cases.
This one's a good one:
www.brooklynpubliclibrary.org/eagle/
Keep up the great work!
Thanks.
Sharon
