Please feel free to pass on this link to others that may be researching... http://www.geocities.com/Paris/5121/language.htm The Patrin Web Journal - Choose your language & or choose your link to read all about the extinct gypsies of Wales & the ones in the U.K. There is also info about the Palatine gypsies of the Rhine River Valley of German. My mother's, father's Eveland line - Palatine German side came from that area of the Rhine. Ghengis Khan of Asia came to Bulgaria & some Bulgarians still appear to have a lot of Asiatic ancestry & Atila the Hun from Hungary wasn't a gypsy either but Atila did swoop down from Hungary - north of Bulgaria with the Huni and they swept across the Balkans in Bulgaria (the Near East-where I've been living)...to the Middle East to Turkey & Greece & then back through the area where the current capital of Sofia, Bulgaria is located and the back west again to the Rhine River Valley of Germany. This was way back around the year 450AD something?? A friend of mine in Bulgaria looks so much like my mother that my other relatives here in USA noticed immediately the similarity in my photos I just brought back with me. My mother has green eyes & so do my Hungarian/Bulgarian Slavic friends as well as a lot of other Bulgarians with Asiatic & Huni & who knows what else ancestry. These friends families are from North Bulgaria in Vidin on the Danube River. You can see the asiatic features and the different looking nationalities in all families as Bulgaria was the crossroads of the east to the silk roads. Many people don't know where Bulgaria is when I tell them. Greece borders Bulgaria to the South & Yugoslavia borders Bulgaria to the West (where a war is raging in the eastern part of Europe) It is bordered by Romania to the North & Turkey to the south east & by the Black Sea on the East which borders Russia. They are in the same time zone with Cairo, Egypt below Greece. Check out the map. Lots of detailed information about the gypsies and the other side of the world & how they live. I've been living in Bulgaria since June 2001 & they have the 2nd largest gypsy population in the world...yet gypsies are all over the world & you could have gypsy ancestry and never know it. It's good to know about the past so we don't repeat the same mistakes in the future. YeOldeFolk@aol.com