genealogical mystery

[ritaxis]

Frank came in and asked me was he related to Johann Trollmann, the German boxer. I said "Heck if I know. There's a lot of Johann Trollmanns around." So we went looking and well I don't know about being related to the guy, but his story was a punch in the gut. In the pictures he has that Trollman mouth, but that could just be a coincidence,

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[green_knight]

Moving story.

'Sinti' as a group noun is pretty common usage in German, usually in the form of 'Sinti and Roma' which I'd always taken to be two different groups.

[ritaxis]

Yes, I discovered that after I wrote: Sinti appears to be a different migration from Roma, but probably from the same place, roughly.