New. Google is incredible and gives its users free web space for pictures.

Here are many of Harry Long's plat maps of Rockingham County, Virginia (more to come), an index into those maps (rude and crude for now), and a blog or two. Most of my genealogy research notes are now in a Google document. Virginia and North Carolina are missing. Later I'll add "how to" pages for genealogy beginners; "hints & tips" for experts; and jpegs of original documents. If you know of any such pages already on the internet, please send me the URLs.

Beverly Nelson Rambo published the Rambo Family Tree in 1986 and died of cancer in 1990. She trusted her sister, as her executor, to conserve her Rambo information, but the trust was betrayed and Beverly's Rambo materials were destroyed.

THANKS for your help and your genealogical contributions. The manuscript will be sent to the publisher before the end of June. CDs of the book as Adobe Acrobat read-only files should be mailed "soon."
A read-only CD of the Rambo genealogy is available for $30. Adobe Acrobat allows comprehensive searches. While I don't want to charge too much for a read-only CD, I also don't want the publication badly delayed by mailing hundreds of CDs. A couple of cousins who know how much work I've done have suggested that I charge $30 for it, so that is the asking price. After the book goes to publication, the CD will be revised and improved, so you might want to wait to order it. Send your check to this address in Shawnee Mission.
Purchasing details will be posted on this web site as soon as the book is available and a form letter with ordering information will be sent to every one of my correspondants by e-mail or snail mail as soon as the book is available.

Cite Your Sources when you share information. If you have no sources, you might as well make up a fiction. I was guilty of neglecting source citations for some time. Believe me, it causes problems. If you don't confirm your information with primary sources, you can spend a lot of time and money tracking the wrong people, someone else's ancestors.
What is your response when a correspondant writes, "My information differs from yours. I show a different wife and different children. Where did you get your information?" (It happened to me.)
The sooner you learn to keep track of your sources, the less trouble you will have later.

If you have difficulty getting to this web page, try using one of these alternate URLs: http://members.aol.com/RamboBook, http://members.aol.com/RonsBeatty, and the old one at http://members.aol.com/rsbeatty/rambo.htm. AOL was experiencing problems with overloading and system maintenance which caused this web page to be unavailable for days at a time, so I duplicated it. The alternate URLs seem to be available more often.

More than 25,000 Rambo descendants and spouses are indexed in the following files: last names beginning A-B; C,D-E; F,G-H; I,J,K-L; M,N,O-P; Q-R; S-T; U,V,W,X,Y-Z.

If your internet connection is slow, you will probably prefer downloading the much smaller zipped files. The zipped files are executable and will NOT work on Macintosh computers.

The following Rambo book files were last updated in July of 2006 with new evidence about some Southern families.
The Rambo book files are ASCII text suitable for any editor (like Notepad, Wordpad, Word, WordPerfect, etc.).
Always be skeptical of published materials (even Beverly's and mine). Anything published contains errors.
Click here for an Introduction to the Rambo Book files (& FAQs).

Introduction, 24K, filename is INTRO.TXT
1st three generations, 346K, filename is RAMBO2.TXT Peter Gunnarson Rambo, his children and grandchildren

4th generation, 477K, filename is RAMBO5.TXT Cousins numbered 111 through 681 (and to XXG).
1/2 of 5th generation, 301K, filename is RAMBO6.TXT Cousins numbered 1121 through 2941 (and to 2XXC).
1/2 of 5th generation, 271K, filename is RAMBO7.TXT Cousins numbered 3161 through 6814 (and to XXXG).

1/5 of 6th generation, 38K, filename is RAMBO10.TXT --- Families numbered 11211 through 1175B.
1/5 of 7th generation, 71K, filename is RAMBO20.TXT --- Families numbered 112112 through 1175B4.
1/6 of 8th generation, 158K, filename is RAMB3O.TXT --- Families numbered 1121121 through 1175B43.
1/5 of 9th generation, 175K, filename is RAMBO40.TXT --- Families numbered 11211211 through 11757511.
1/5 of 10th generation, 171K, filename is RAMBO50.TXT --- Families numbered 112112111 through 117319691.
1/5 of 11th generation, 88K, filename is RAMBO60.TXT --- Families numbered 11211211A1 through 1121452714.

1/5 of 6th generation, 181K, filename is RAMBO12.TXT --- Families numbered 12111 to 1683C.
1/5 of 7th generation, 280K, filename is RAMBO22.TXT --- Families numbered 121141 to 1683C2.
1/6 of 8th generation, 197K, filename is RAMB32.TXT --- Families numbered 1211411 to 1242875.
1/6 of 8th generation, 163K, filename is RAMB33.TXT --- Families numbered 1521121 to 1683653.
1/5 of 9th generation, 214K, filename is RAMBO42.TXT --- Families numbered 12114111 to 16556121.
1/5 of 10th generation, 104K, filename is RAMBO52.TXT --- Families numbered 121141121 to 165253253.
1/5 of 11th generation, 20K, filename is RAMBO62.TXT --- Families numbered 121411225A through 1242624162.

Rambo families and Bankston families are in these files numbered RAMBOx4.TXT.
1/5 of 6th generation, 228K, filename is RAMBO14.TXT --- Families numbered 17111 through 29136 (and to 2XXB1).
1/5 of 7th generation, 198K, filename is RAMBO24.TXT --- Families numbered 171113 through 291341 (and to 2XXXXL).
1/6 of 8th generation, 259K, filename is RAMB34.TXT --- Families numbered 1711141 through 2913416
1/5 of 9th generation, 297K, filename is RAMBO44.TXT --- Families numbered 17111821 through 29134131
1/5 of 10th generation, 181K, filename is RAMBO54.TXT --- Families numbered 171132141 through 261514231
1/5 of 11th generation, 61K, filename is RAMBO64.TXT --- Families numbered 1711412111 through 2263135342

1/5 of 6th generation, 55K, filename is RAMBO16.TXT --- Families numbered 31623 to 31C1A
1/5 of 7th generation, 84K, filename is RAMBO26.TXT --- Families numbered 316241 to 31C185
1/6 of 8th generation, 167K, filename is RAMB36.TXT --- Families numbered 3162433 to 31C1854
1/5 of 9th generation, 179K, filename is RAMBO46.TXT --- Families numbered 31624331 to 31C18524
1/5 of 10th generation, 103K, filename is RAMBO56.TXT --- Families numbered 316247111 to 31C176362
1/5 of 11th generation, 4K, filename is RAMBO66.TXT --- Family numbered 31C1628211

1/5 of 6th generation, 108K, filename is RAMBO18.TXT --- Families numbered 31C21 to 65354
1/5 of 7th generation, 129K, filename is RAMBO28.TXT --- Families numbered 31C211 to 653543
1/6 of 8th generation, 158K, filename is RAMB38.TXT --- Families numbered 31C2111 to 6525111
1/5 of 9th generation, 139K, filename is RAMBO48.TXT --- Families numbered 31C21122 to 65251111
1/5 of 10th generation, 43K, filename is RAMBO58.TXT --- Families numbered 31C212211 to 652511111
1/5 of 11th generation, 4K, filename is RAMBO68.TXT --- Families numbered 31C2122111 through 31C2122112

1/5 of 6th generation, 40K, filename is RAMBO19.TXT --- Families numbered XXA11 to XXXXS.
1/5 of 7th generation, 122K, filename is RAMBO29.TXT --- Families numbered XXA111 to XXXXXE.
1/6 of 8th generation, 130K, filename is RAMBO39.TXT --- Families numbered XXA1121 to XXXXXXA.
1/5 of 9th generation, 87K, filename is RAMBO49.TXT --- Families numbered XXA11421 to XXXXXE76.
1/5 of 10th generation, 49K, filename is RAMBO59.TXT --- Families numbered XXA114211 to XXXXXB333.
1/5 of 11th generation, 7K, filename is RAMBO69.TXT --- Families numbered XXXXG21282 through XXXXH18612

12th generation, 20K, filename is RAMBO70.TXT --- Families numbered 11211221281 through 121411225A1
13th generation, 4K, filename is RAMBO80.TXT --- Families numbered 112112612362 through 112112612373.

historical appendix, 19K, APPENDIX.TXT
Companion Volume of Reference, 142K, RAMBO200.TXT
Companion Volume of Biography, 70K, RAMBO210.TXT
endnote reference list, 100K, filename is ENDNOTES.TXT

Cite Your Sources. Source citations for this website appear in the file ENDNOTES.TXT.(574),, i.e. endnote #574)

Nothing whatsoever about living people will appear on this web site or in the book except for those people who specifically request that their names appear. The issues are privacy and identity theft.

All Rambo descendants are encouraged to join the Swedish Colonial Society.
Their quarterly newsletter is a real treat and often discusses Rambo ancestors. If you decide to discard your copy, consider donating it to the genealogical collection of your choice.
The Swedish Colonial Society web site contains several previous issues of the newsletter and a biography of forefather Peter Gunnarson Rambo written by Dr. Peter Stebbins Craig, the most eminent New Sweden historian.

Similarly Peter Craig's book, The 1693 Census of Swedes on the Delaware, is very interesting for Rambo descendants and provides an excellent example of thorough documentation. Send a check for $40 payable to Peter Craig. His second book, The 1671 Census of the Delaware is also available for $25. Send your order directly to him at:
Dr. Peter Stebbins Craig
3406 Macomb Street, N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20016-3160

Cramer descendants please note that Ora Flaningam has published his book and CD. I am very pleased with my copy. The CD has tons of transcriptions of original information. E-mail OraFlan@aol.com

The ASCII Rambo book files on the web include verbatim transcriptions of all wills prior to 1825 of all Rambo descendants in Philadelphia Co., PA.; Gloucester Co., NJ; and Salem Co., NJ. Images of many of those wills will be available on CD sometime after the book is printed.

About ten cousins have asked to have an e-mail address posted on the cousins page or in the ENDNOTES.TXT file. There are also links to other Rambo web pages.
If you have a web page, please add a link from your page to this one, http://members.aol.com/RamboBook. THANKS. My favorite internet search engine, Google, orders the results from its searches according to the number of links it finds, so your page & mine will show up higher in Google's results. Please send me URLs of interest to Rambos.

E-mail me at rsbeatty@aol.com Please be patient as I often "reside" where there are no phone lines.

Attachments will most likely be deleted by AOL before I can retrieve them, so Please establish a dialogue with me before sending attachments.

Your help is appreciated. THANKS for your genealogical contributions to the Rambo Family Tree. I hope you are pleased with the results. A revised 3rd edition is "planned" for 2016 (more or less) so please continue to send new information. This web site will continue to contain the most current information.
Any photocopies of genealogical proofs of Rambo relationships that you can send will be very much appreciated.
NEEDED are COPIES of wills, deeds, bible records, marriage records, etc which prove family relationships.
NEEDED are copies and transcriptions of biographies in county histories and of obituaries and anniversaries from local newspapers. Thanks in advance.

I've done enough typing to last several lifetimes. If your genealogical information has been typed into a computer, please send the computer files or GEDCOMs on CD. Consider it an OFFSITE BACKUP & stuff all your genealogy files onto it. You need to learn to backup ALL your data to avoid catastrophic loss. Part of any proper backup is an off-site storage (in case of flood or fire). By sending me copies of all your genealogy, you are establishing a good habit. I am a private individual, financially secure, with no desire to exploit or profit from your data. Send your data on CD to my mailing address along with any or jpegs or paper copies of original source documents (especially Bible records) that prove Rambo relationships to:
Ron Beatty
Rambo Genealogy
P.O. Box 2142
Shawnee Mission, KS 66201
If your letter gets returned, take it back to your local post office and tell them that the Shawnee Mission Post Office hires incompetent help every so often and has a peculiar numbering scheme for P.O. Boxes. Assure them that the address is good and insist that they resend it to Shawnee Mission without charging you for the obvious incompetence of the Shawnee Mission Post Office. (If this web site is still up I am alive and paying the bills and paying for that P.O. Box.)

Every conscientious author, including every genealogist, should ALWAYS CITE SOURCES. When you send me your family group sheets, please tell me how to word the credit to you for your information. (Read my SUGGESTIONS about the content and form of footnotes, endnotes, and attributions.)

Before you send me your early Rambo genealogy information, please check that you have none of the names listed on the "Rumors that Refuse to Die" page. These were the published guesses of earlier genealogists, who, unfortunately did not label them as guesses. Generations of gullible genealogists since have continued to promulgate the rumors. Sorry, but when a cousin sends me a genealogy that includes any of these names, I know that they are sending me rumors and junk. If you have decided to believe in these rumors, we can be civil and "agree to disagree." You have your beliefs, I have mine. I don't believe that there was any Gunnar de Rambeau. You can believe that if you want to, but you won't see him or Anna Paulsdotter or Matts Hanson or Magdalena Bauerin as Rambo ancestors in this book, nor will you see any mention of French ancestry. If you can find one shred of original evidence to support any of these people as Rambo ancestors, my hat is off to you and I'll change the book accordingly.

Several people expressed interest in seeing more pictures in the book. I have ignored pictures until now as my interest is in names and biographies. Since the book is being published in several volumes and since each volume will be printed, bound, and mailed individually when each order is received, there is no reason that I cannot publish a volume of Rambo pictures. I will take a "vacation" from the Rambo genealogy for a couple of years, but will start asking for pictures as soon as I resume work for the 3rd edition.

Nothing whatsoever about living people will appear on this web site or in the book unless you inform me of those individuals who have specifically requested that their names appear in the book. The issues are privacy and identity theft.
It is now considered UNETHICAL to publish names of living individuals without their express permission. Privacy is such a sticky issue. My brother was a very private person who would have been incensed if his name had been printed in ANY book without his permission.
If you want me to print everything you send about everyone: yourself, your children, your siblings, nephews and nieces, grandchildren and great nieces; then I'll be publishing everything a crook needs to steal their identity; that is their names, children, birthdates, marriage dates, places of residence, and biographical information.
You know how much different the world is now than when we grew up. Have you considered how different it may be when your grandkids are our age? Identity theft is a new threat to our generation. Imagine what the crooks and con artists will be able to do in fifty years. I am not putting information into the book about my own cousins unless they specifically say to do so ... and most of them don't feel that it is appropriate to speak for their own children as regards spouses and children.

PLEASE SEND me a list of NAMES of LIVING INDIVIDUALS who wish to see their names included in the 3rd edition of the Rambo Family Tree. If a person was born after 1915 and no date of death is known for them and their spouse, they may be living and their names will NOT appear in the book or on the web.

If you care about the disposition of your genealogical materials, PROVIDE FOR THEM IN YOUR WILL. Otherwise you can kiss it goodbye. Between 1986 and 1990, Beverly had accumulated much more information about the Rambo families and was preparing to publish a revision. She asked me to continue her work, but I arrived in Los Angeles the day after she died. Her sister always said that she would send Beverly's Rambo materials to me, but in fact has been a "stone wall," promising anything over the phone but doing nothing. Once this paragraph appeared on this web site, she did send a small package of copies Beverly had made of published materials amounting to 3 inches of the 22 feet of materials Beverly possessed. I believe that the majority of Beverly's collection was destroyed when her brother moved, so am compiling this edition of The Rambo Family Tree without the aid of Beverly's work.

If you use MSN to do a search for "Rambo Family Tree", you will find a very good site by David A. Rambo on familytreemaker.com.
Always be skeptical of published materials including Beverly's and mine. Anything published contains errors and often contains speculation which is masqueraded as fact. Until you have seen proof in "original, handwritten documents" (such as wills, deeds, court records, family bibles, or the like), all you have is hearsay, one step removed from rumors and speculation.

This page has been "de-cluttered" by moving much verbage onto linked pages for rumors, scandals, cousins, "missing" Rambo connections, corrections, other Rambo websites, libraries, where to find Rambo books, genealogical proof, Rambo archives (CD backups, primary & secondary sources), and the Rambo Family Tree ordering information (not yet available). As always, my response to e-mail can be infuriatingly slow, and I'm planning to hike the Appalachian Trail "soon."

I'm often asked for my lineage, so can reply that I'm #112112212852:
Peter Gunnarson Rambo,
Gunnar,
John,
Mons,
Andrew,
Moses,
George,
Henry,
George Washington,
Cyrus Cleveland,
Rex Vale,
Lucille (Rambo) Beatty, and
me - Ron Beatty.
If you are descended from a different son or daughter of Peter Gunnarson Rambo, we are at least 11th cousins.
My ancestors migrated to Somerset Co., PA before 1770; to Muskingum Co., OH in 1804; and to Van Buren Co., IA in 1853. Here's a link to my personal web site.

My favorite genealogy web site is: Cyndi's List of Genealogy Sites on the Internet.

I haven't heard from the Rambo descendants who enjoyed the trip to Sweden.

Pages of personal interest: Ron Beatty's home page, the Rambo genealogy, the Argo Families Revisited by Wesley Argo, cousin Jean's Schenck and Hegeman genealogy, Eric's RPM coins, Janie's Santa Fe Guest Rentals in New Mexico, Partly Dave's Neighbourhood Garage in Vernon, BC., and now Eve's Garden Organic Bed and Breakfast, a wonderful, eclectic, artistic papercrete alternative living learning mecca in Marathon, Texas.