The Camp and Ottmer Family

We set up this page to help others find their roots. I hope it helps you. We have had many emails regarding some of the persons and families contained here in the trees. I am grateful to Family Tree Maker for the opportunity to post this information.

I will entertain questions and am willing to help where I can to pay back for the help generously given to me by others. If you find an error or addition, I welcome the chance to update my tree.

My mother's family, the CAMPs, was an interesting challenge because there are so many Camps. Through help of others who were looking for their roots, I was able to find our lineage back to England in 1500's. The lineage is Edward CAMP from Nazeing, England to New Haven, CT; Job CAMP in Pennsylvania; C.D. CAMP in Geneva, Nebraska; Otis CAMP in Colorado and finally to my mother, Florence CAMP.

My father's family, the OTTMERs, lived for the most part in Texas. I have traced the line back to Germany but not much beyond that. I look forward to going to Germany in the coming years to do more research there. I have posted the report below to help others and possibly to find new relatives. We did publish a book on the OTTMER family.

We have published a book on the CAMP family but a newer, better and more detailed one is in the works.

Family Photos

• Jim Ottmer and Tammy Ottmer (563 KB)
  This is my favorite photo of the two of us. In the background is my home town of Salida, CO. Photo taken from a nearby mountain.
• C. D. Camp Frontier Photographer (52 KB)
  C. D. Camp was my great grandfather; he is on the far right of the photo. He owned photographic studios in three towns before the turn of the century. My grandfather, Otis, is on the left side of the photo. This photo shows the children of C. D. and was taken in his studio in Geneva, Nebraska.
• Otis H. Camp (36 KB)
  This is a photo of Otis upon his graduation from High School in Geneva, NE
• Florence Camp, my mother (138 KB)
  This photo was taken aabout the time she was in college in California.
• Camp Photography (124 KB)
  This is C.D. Camp operating the Camp Photography Studio in Geneva, NE
• Jim Ottmer and Tammy Ottmer in Colorado (349 KB)
  We were on a picnic in the mountains of Colorado.
• Friederick Ottmer, Our Ancestor from Germany (375 KB)
  This is the Grave of Johann Frederick Ottmer in Welcome, TX

Family Tree Maker Reports and Trees

• Genealogy Report: Descendants of Friedrich (Johann Heinrich) Ottmer (View PDF)


• Genealogy Report: Descendants of Thomas Campe (View PDF)

Related Links

• Camp Genealogy Forum
• Bradford County Genealogy