Something Different
Most of you like historical fiction, but this book is a little different. This one is non-fiction with a little creative flair to make it enjoyable to read. This is another story where I reached my 2x great-grandparents Jerry and Rachel Roe and couldn't find records to grow my tree further back in time. I didn't even have any suspicions or ideas about where to find the information. So this one remained unsolved for more than fifteen years until my mother did a DNA test for me. It wasn't long before a lovely lady, Rhonda, contacted me to say she was a cousin. She asked me a strange question: "Did your mom speak Romani, and were your mom and dad both gypsy?" I really did not know how to answer that, other than, "No, why?" As it turns out, we were descended from a long line of Romani ancestors who came to America in the mid-1800s to escape persecution in England, only to suffer the same fate here. But this time the families began to systematically assimil...