Roma Family History
- Roma Name Meaning
- Italian: habitational name from the city of Rome (Italian Roma). Catalan (Romà): from the personal name Romà (from Latin Romanus (‘from Rome’), borne by several saints). Catalan and Galician: habitational name from any of several places in Valencia and Galicia named Roma, of uncertain derivation.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 92,667 Historical Documents with Roma on Ancestry
- 27,922 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 8,916 Census and Voter Lists
- 2,646 Military Records
- 3,829 Immigration Records
- 49,354 Member Trees
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Number of Roma families
 9 - 16  4 - 8 |
 1 - 3  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Roma families
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5 - 7 2 - 4 |
1 |
from the 1851 Canada Census Data
Roma census records
You can see how Roma families moved over time by selecting different Census years.
Census records can tell you little-known facts about your ancestors such as birthplace, occupation and value of personal estate.
from the New York Passengers List
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The information for this chart came from the U.S. Immigration Collection at Ancestry. You can find out where the majority of the Roma families were living before they immigrated to the U.S and learn where to focus your search for foreign records.
Immigration records can tell you an ancestor's name, ship name, port of departure, port of arrival, and destination.
from the Canadian Passenger Lists
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You can find out when most of the Roma families immigrated to Canada. You can focus your search to immigration records dating from that era.
Immigration records can tell you an ancestor's name, ship name, port of departure, port of arrival and destination.
from 1881 CA Census Data
Roma census records
Census records can offer a lot of little known facts about your Roma ancestors, such as occupation.
Occupation can tell you about your ancestors' social status and economic status.
Did the Romas fight in a war? Military records can tell you a lot
about your ancestors including birthplace, occupation and even physical descriptions.
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