I am not requesting assistance proving I personally have Romanichal ancestry. That's been proven entirely, including a mix of Pakistani, Armenian, and Indian dna, plus dna matches with current Scottish Romanichal who have people from my tree in theirs.

But that's not the controversy, nor where I need help. Admixtures generally suggest about an 11-19% mix of non-european romani ethnic indicators. This puts the last Romanichal person as having to have likely been my great-grandmother, who we called Nan/Nanny, or her daughter who we called Gran.

Im fully willing to accept this as the case. But outside of DNA, we have little proof of this, and as such, a couple family members outright refuse to acknowledge it.

So I need someone who is familiar enough with Romanichal culture to help prove my proof is proof, and to help me find more if possible. But as the family to be researched is a prominent pioneer family in Ontario who had every reason to keep this quiet and I'm very privacy-focused myself, I'm not including the surname in the post.

Any help at all is welcome!

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