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
Robert
S. Warner, is a retired teacher and past-president of the Keep Family Society. He lives in upper
Paul E. Keep is the operations manager of a metrology (not meteorology) service company, with responsibility
for
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Consulting Genealogists:
Annette M. Morrow is an 8th generation Keep in
Rowan and Betty Keep live in Devonport on the NW coast of Tasmania. Rowan has been retired for
many years, and Betty still works in the disability sector - but not for much longer! Betty's avid interest in family
history research was kindled by her maternal grandfather who gave her much history on her side of the family. When she married
Rowan, she realised that she had a virtual goldmine of the Keep history at her fingers tips with so many of Rowan's elderly relatives
still living - most of whom were very interested in 'all things family'. They all seemed to be waiting for someone to come along
to do the research for them. Rowan's great grandfather was William Keep who was transported to Van Dieman's Land in 1830 on
the Clyde 1 in 1830 from Portsmouth. Family history research in Tasmania is considered quite simple compared to
other places, as Tasmania is a small island and many families inter-married and stayed in Tasmania until more recent times and travel
out of Tasmania became much easier. email: bkeep@y7mail.com
The administrators of this website have no financial interest in the DNA laboratory and are not involved in the collection of fees for the tests. They act only as unpaid family volunteers. Participants therefore must accept that these volunteers can have no responsibility for lost or misplaced samples, results that do not meet expectations, or any faults that can be found in the process. The lab of Family TreeDNA is at the research laboratory at the University of Arizona and it tests very limited materials in only one chromosome in the cell and guarantees complete privacy. hhtp://www.familytreedna.com/about.aspx
Work on this website is in progress. If you have any difficulties with the site, any suggestions or comments, please contact Bob Warner, webmaster. Any help or suggestions would be appreciated.
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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.