Please submit your Lamont family genealogies to the database. As of Jan 1, 2007 we have over 4500 Lamont's. If you see any errors or omissions, we welcome your comments and any additions to our database. You can also submit old photos or historical articles that can be linked to you ancestor.

ANTHROGENEALOGY: an·thro·ge·ne·al·o·gy
1 : the science of genealogy by genetics; especially : utilizing molecular biology to trace a lineage beyond the limits of historical records.

Have you hit a brick wall tracing your family?
DNA testing could help you prove your family heritage.

This Lamont DNA study group at Family Tree DNA is open to anybody from the Lamont family and related Septs.   Our main goal will to connect our families back to Sir Laumon. Like all of you we want to find out more about our family, how we connect and the Lamont historical background. DNA provides us an exciting method to extend our genealogy pursuits. DNA will assist our search in the following ways.

• Eliminate or confirm the relationship of individuals or lines
• Focus research towards related families
• Direct research into a compact geographical area and timeframe
• Establish country or region of origin
• Confirm variant surnames & septs as part of the same Lamont family
• Strengthen weak paper trails
• Avoid pursuing false connections

Our study and other DNA surname studies are based on Y-chromosome DNA, which is possessed only by males. It is passed from fathers to sons virtually unchanged over hundreds of years. Therefore, direct participants in DNA surname studies necessarily must be males. Direct participants in our particular study, that is, people who are actually tested, must be males either:
(1) carrying the Lamont surname or
(2) descended directly in an unbroken male-to-male line from a Lamont-surnamed male.

So ladies, if you have a Lamont brother, father, cousin, nephew, or uncle who has at least a slight interest in genealogy, maybe you can help enlist them in our research. In fact, we already have a lady who has become associated with our project by enlisting a Lamont-surnamed male relative. As of Jan 1, 2007 we have 17 members tested.