Updated Apr. 25, 1999
Before my father, Clinton Kemp, past away, he and I worked together tracing our family tree. My father managed to locate an incredible amount of information. Currently, our oldest known ancestor is Nathaniel Kemp born in NC in 1774. Nathaniel migrated to Arkansas and was buried there near Bismarck in Old Antioch Cemetary. To learn more about my family tree you can download my gedcom file. You can also browse my family online. See Browse my Family Tree below. I also have photographs of some of my ancestors back to a son of Nathaniel, John Coffey Kemp.
Being a computer professional with hobbies in photography and genealogy means that being able to apply all three at once is triple fun. Often I have access to photos of ancesters which I cannot keep. This is the case with the photos below. What I like to do is scan the photos on my flatbed scanner (Microtek Scanmaker E3) then use the computer to touch up the photos. I then take the digital image to a local photo lab (Borge B.Anderson and Assoc. in Salt Lake City, UT) and they make a negative for me. I then take the negative to my darkroom and make a print that looks better than the original. If you don't have a scanner and darkroom they and most other digital labs can do everything for you. They will even touch up the photos for you. Prices are very reasonable.
Even you if you are not interested in touching up photos or making copies, digital storage of photos is the ultimate in archiving. They are simply perserved forever.
John Coffey Kemp and
James Taylor Kemp and Others
Kemps in 1888
James Taylor "Jim"
Kemp
Lorenza Kemp and Family
Marvel G. Kemp
Volley and
Louella Kemp
