Welcome to The Keep Family Website. If you are researching the Keep, Kep, Kepe, or Keepe families, this website is
dedicated to you and is intended to help you find information about your ancestry. By navigating through the site, useful and
interesting historical background will be found to assist genealogists as well as anyone interested in these surnames.
The site
is intended to be an aid for all Keeps around the world regardless of relationship and ancestral line. It is not an association
requiring membership, and it can be of use for all with the surname Keep and its variations.
Aims of the Project
~~A Meeting
Place for All Keeps. This website will serve as a meeting place for all Keep family members. Special pages offer the opportunity
to post inquiries and to share family histories as well as notable events in those histories. The participation of all Keeps around
the world is very much invited. Keep family members and others may browse freely among the many pages of family data
and family history.
~~An Aid to Keeps Who Are Searching. The Keep DNA Project has been successful in discovering
Keep family connections not previously known to exist. Those who wish to begin or further their knowledge of their ancestral
lines, or to discover related family members with similar aims, may find this Project helpful if not essential.
~~The Keep DNA Project. In order to fulfill the aims of this project, it was accepted that an alternative would be needed to the traditional paper-trail methods which have often failed genealogists. The Y-chromosome DNA of males with the surname Keep (and its variants) is being traced to establish genetic links of Keep family members. This is the first attempt to be made to discover the roots, relationships, and ancestry of all Keeps through DNA testing and research. Testing is carried out by Family Tree DNA, in partnership with Arizona Research labs at the University of Arizona. The Family Tree DNA laboratory is used by the National Geographic Society and IBM's Genographic Project. Testing is done only for genealogical purposes and results are kept completely private.
~~North American Keeps. Those Keeps who are seeking information about their ancestry, wherever situated, or who are interested in sharing their histories, are invited to read the information on this site, perhaps with an eye toward participation in the Project. Please direct any inquiries to the North American contact, Bob Warner, whose information is on the Contacts Page.
~~Australian Keep Families. An effort is being made to find ancestral connections
between Keeps in
Current Areas of Investigation and Interest:
~~The Continuing
Search for the Ancestral Lines of
For Keeps interested in ancestral lines leading back to the East Midlands (Bedfordshire and Northamptonshire) and Birmingham, contact John Keep, whose information is on the Contacts Page.
~~Recent Findings: The
How You Can Help
The participation and assistance of a considerable
number of people connected to the Keep family (and variants of that name) to take part in the project is essential for success. The organizers of this website project have no financial interest in testing, have no income on this websitge, and are Keep family
volunteers.
In addition, help is needed in the contribution of family history information in order to fill the voids that now
exist in our Keep family lines.
Please read the historical and technical information, mostly relatively simple, on the following
pages. Links to other family associations with excellent in-depth information on the subject of DNA are provided. Please
see the Contacts Page for correspondence addresses.
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Because there is a suggestion that the Keep Family may have
originated in
DNA-tests haben ergeben, dass die KEEP-Familie ihre Wurzeln in Sachsen hat. Sollten Sie annehmen, dass Sie in irgend einer Weise mit der KEEP-Familie verwandt sind, so können Sie mehr über unser Projekt mit Hilfe des Google Übersetzers erhalten http://translate.google.com/translate_t , um diese sowie auth andere Webseiten zu übersetzen. Kopieren Sie einfach die zu übersetzende Seite in die Webadresse, wählen Sie “übersetzen” und dann “vom Englischen ins Deutsche”. Wir freuen uns sehr von Ihnen zu hören.
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The Keep Family DNA Project:
Marcus F. Keep, MD
John Keep
Robert
S. Warner
Paul E. Keep
David Keep
See the Contacts page.
Email Bob Warner, webmaster, for comments and suggestions
about the website.