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. If you care about the disposition of your genealogical materials, PROVIDE FOR THEM IN YOUR WILL.

THANKS for your help and your genealogical contributions. The manuscript will be sent to the publisher. 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.

The Rambo book text files were last updated in July of 2006 with new evidence about some Southern families.   Click here to download those old text files.

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

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://sites.google.com/site/rambofamilytree/. 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.

Your help is appreciated. THANKS.  Please continue to send new information.  Click here for an address and guidelines.  Photocopies of genealogical proofs will be very much appreciated.  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.

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.

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.

I'm often asked for my lineage; Click here to see how I relate.

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.