Genealogical Office Lamping Family
How to help

Dear namesake, Since 1980 I am researching the Lamping family. My main goal is to link all the living Lampings together and keep record of their current addresses. In the past it was very difficult to register all the information. But nowadays there are splendid computer programs which can do the job. Now it comes to your willingness to help me. On the next page I explain how you can help me. What can I do in return? I promise you to send you a nicely printed list of descendants of your earliest ancestor as soon as I entered your information into the computer. Before that I shall try to link your tree to other information already in the database. If you have any other questions concerning the Lamping research, please write. There are about 1200 families or more using the name Lamping. A lot of information will become available through this research. To send it to all these members will cost a few trees. Family reports and so on will be send charging a little bit more than cost-price (paper & stamps), which is reasonable I think. This way it covers my research costs. Most of the information you can find on the internet. At: http://www.robertlampingnl/genea/ I would appreciate your help very much. And I am looking forward to your letter or E-mail message. If you have any questions, please let me know! Yours sincerely, Robert Franklin Lamping

How

Using the Internet I got hold on the names, adresses and telephone numbers of many families with the name LAMPING. There is a big chance that they are all family. The only ueation is: "thing is when and where do the separate familytrees connect?" If your are living outside Germany it might very well be in Germany where this family name originates. Lampings still live in places like Lotte (near Osnabruck, Germany) and Oldenburg. I visited the place where Lampings live already for centuries on the same location in Lotte. The oldest date I retrieved is 1650: Gerard Lamping who was a verger. And a farm owned by a family Lamping was mentioned in a documented of 1577! It requires more time to do more research and finding and reading old documents. I started this research in 1980 and first focused on the Netherlands. Main goal: What I like to do is to connect all the living Lampings to the Lampings which I already found. And the second goal is to go back in the past as far as possible. I hope you are willing to help me. You can help me by sending me: Your family tree: Children, father, mother, grandfather, grandmother. As far back in time as possible. Give complete names, date of birth and death, place of birth and death, date and place of marriage and sometimes divorce. Please indicate which Lampings of the USA list are mentioned in your familytree. Also indicate the family name of the spouses or partners. The names and addresses of all the Lampings which are related to your family. Address, telephone, E-mail To easy up the work I can mostly send you a list with all the Lampings in your country. Please add the missing Lampings! Please mark your relatives and mention their place in your familytree and send a copy to me. Photographs, newspaper pictures etc. of Lampings or places where they live are very welcome. I'll scan them into my computer. [I use the software program Family Gathering, which is a splendid tool to this kind of research.] Names of people you know, who have been doing genealogical research for the Lamping family. Any family background. Education, Hobbies, Sports, Profession. Family rumors, gossip. As a matter of fact all the things you like to mention if a book about your family was written. [And it is going to be! ] Tip: Give each Individual a number. And mention on a seperate page: Note : If you also have a database with Lamping data, please submit it in GEDCOM format. You may also send other relatives this letter and ask them to write me as soon as possible with this information. Please let me know who also received your letter. I hope one day I can let you know to which family in Germany you are related. In that case I shall send you a descendance list begin with the oldest member in your family. Thank you very much in advance. I hope we shall stay in contact. I am looking forward to your letter or E-mail message. Let me know as soon as possible that you are going to send something. By the way: How do you pronounce Lamping? Here we pronounce the letter "a" as in the word "fast".