In a message dated 97-07-14 03:16:04 EDT, you write: << Hello Dawn, The Alsace/Lorraine is a region of France on the German border - very nice, and rather mountainous. Quite possible that your ancestors are of Kentish origin, but I will not have the Kemp(e) Kent database for another 3 weeks, as my friend in Alberta, Canada is inputting to it frantically before she flies over with it shortly. Would you like to contact me again in 3 weeks? Regards, Shelagh Mason, Stead/Steed ONS (Worldwide) - and Kemp(e) descendant of Kent, Canterbury, Kent, England. >> Thank you for the offer this was actually a forward from another list, I will pass it on to the person who sent it to the original list. Thank You. I am a 5th or so once removed cousin from one of the people, on it. I have Kemps intermarried with my Colberts in IT-MS,OK USA