The Keep Family Project
Welcome to The Keep Family Website. If you are researching the Keep, Kep, Kepe, or Keepe
family, 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 about the Keep family will be found to assist genealogists as well
as any Keep interested in the family.
The site is intended to be a meeting place for all Keep family members around the world
regardless of relationship and family line. It is not an association requiring membership, and it can be of use for all
with the surname of Keep and its variations.
Aims of the Project
~~The Search for the Ancestry of John Keep of
~~The Search for the Descendants of Walter Kep of Astwood,
~~The Keep DNA Project. In order to fulfill the original aims of this project, it was accepted that an alternative would be needed to the traditional paper-trail methods which have failed genealogists for so long. The Y-chromosome DNA of males with the surname Keep (and its variants) is being traced to establish the genetic links of these two ancestors. The Project has been expanded to include all Keeps of all family lines for the purpose of establishing connections in this world-wide family.
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. Family Tree DNA, a reputable testing laboratory used by many family projects, has been chosen for this work. The FTDNA laboratory
is located at, and in association with, the Arizona Research Lab at the
In
addition, help is needed in the contribution of family history information in order to help fill the voids that
now exist in our Keep family lines.
For More Information
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. Until an interactive bulletin board is established, queries, information transmissions, suggestions, etc., must be done by email, information found on the Contacts page.
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Because there is a suggestion that the Keep Family originated in Saxony in the distant past, the following paragraph in German is to assist any potential family members from that region to translate the web-pages into German.
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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Administrators of this website:
Marcus F. Keep, MD,
John Keep,
Robert S. Warner,
See the Contacts page.
Email Robert, webmaster, for comments and suggestions about the website.