Bill Clinton / Ian Hancock

For reference, Hancock's claim is that Clinton descends from Andrew Blythe, the brother of Charles Blythe -- the King of the Scottish Gypsies crowned in 1847. But Clinton's Blythes have been in America since Colonial Virginia, and his actual Andrew Blythe ancestor was born in South Carolina in 1801.

In "We Are the Romani People," 2002, p. 127, Hancock acknowledged that he had no evidence for his claims regarding Yul Brynner, Ava Gardner, Elvis Presley, Mother Teresa, John Bunyan, Pablo Picasso, Richard Burton, and Clark Gable. We have some (all?) of those names on the project index, so I assume they must be included and should be reevaluated as well.

I appreciate this being brought to our attention, Ashley. Seeing Clinton, Richard Burton, and Elvis, etc., on the Project list had me wondering about it.

Private User Thank you for alerting us to this issue. Please feel free to edit, add/remove any profile in the project without sufficient hard evidence. However it is a shame to find that Roma roots still have a negative connotation given the huge contribution they have made to society music and the arts.

Malka Mysels No one here said anything negative about Roma roots.

Sorry, please forgive me, I absolutely didn't mean to imply at all that anyone said anything negative about the Roma in this discussion, I was just making a general statement. In fact, the following article is very optimistic that attitudes are beginning to change.

'A place to call our own': Europe's first Roma cultural centre opens in Berlin
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/jun/08/roma-artists-launch-a...