Contact Information

Links to Keep Family Websites

 

Marcus F. Keep, MD, originator of this project, is a neurosurgeon specializing in radiosurgery.    A search of his name on the internet will give in great detail his work in developing a neuroprotectant drug for ALS as well as many papers and articles he has written about his work in his field.  His email address is mkeep@aloha.net and he lives in Pennsylvania.   He is a tenth generation descendant of John Keep of Longmeadow, #3241.

 

Robert S. Warner,  is a retired teacher and past-president of the Keep Family Society.  He lives in upper New York State and is also a tenth generation descendant of John Keep of Longmeadow, #3201.  His email address is bobwarnerweb@gmail.com  He is the contact person for Keeps living in North and South America.

 

John Keep was born in Finedon, Northamptonshire, England, but now lives in north-east London.  His lineage goes back though 23 generations to Walter Kep, born about 1230 in Astwood, BuckinghamshireEngland.  Many members of his line are now living in Australia following Richard Keep’s transportation in 1807 as a convict. John has been tracing his family line for many years and did much of his research with the late Dr. Philip Keep, who was responsible for tracing the line back to Walter.  His e-mail address is keepdna@yahoo.co.uk and he is the contact person for The East Midlands Keeps, Bedfordshire, Northamptonshire, and the rest of the United Kingdom together with other countries not allocated on this page.

 

Paul E. Keep is the operations manager of a metrology (not meteorology) service company, with responsibility for Northern California and Asia-Pacific operations.  He lives in California's San Joaquin Valley, outside of San Francisco, but he is often found in Hong Kong and China.  Paul is a twelfth generation descendant, #6992 (753) with his line tracing back through Matthew Keep, grandson of John Keep of Longmeadow.  He is the contact person for Australian Keeps, and his email address is p.keep@comcast.net.

 

David A. Keep was born and raised in California's San Joaquin Valley and currently lives in the Netherlands.  He is only 2nd generation American/English, his ancestry being rooted in Berkshire, England.  His younger brother is the current keeper of the family coat of arms granted by Queen Elizabeth I in 1565.  David's early career was that of a musician.  He later moved into the computer/IT field and has most recently been working for a small Dutch company as a systems engineer and inventory/purchasing manager.  In his spare time, David is a composer, writer, and painter. He is the contact person for the Berkshire, Hampshire and Oxfordshire Keep families and his email address is dave.keep@yahoo.com.

 

Joy Amick #4991 is a Baptist minister and lives in New York State.  She is a John Keep of Longmeadow descendant and acts as an appreciated consultant in the writing of this website.

 

 

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Links to Keep Family Websites

 

1.   Keep Homestead Museum    When Myra Keep Lovell Moulton died in 1988, the last of a long line of Keeps in Monson, Mass., she willed her property, its contents, and an endowment fund to the town with the stipulation that it would be open to the public and that its name would be Keep Homestead Museum.  It is situated on 75 acres of open meadow, wetlands, and woodland.  Among other family items, it contains a world famous button collection.

 

2. The Keep Family Society  An association of the descendants of John Keep of Longmeadow, Massachusetts, USA, who arrived at that location in 1660.  John Keep has been found by this DNA Project to be a descendant of Walter Kep, b. Astwood, England, ca 1230.

 

3.  Howard Ulph Smith    This vast genealogical website contains the families of Howard Smith, as well as interconnected families, including Keeps, in Cornwall and Surrey, England; New Zealand; Australia; and elsewhere.

 

4. The Longmeadow Chronicles   Very interesting stories of Longmeadow, Mass., with this page having to do with notable Keeps.

 

Please let us know if you have, or know of, a Keep family related website that you would like listed here.

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