Langton Lineage
Lost Langtons has been running for about ten years, and what started as a small website for one Langton family tree, has grown to encompass more than a dozen different Langton families and their descendants all across the globe. As the site has grown, so have the costs of running it. It still is not hugely expensive, but the bigger the site gets the more storage capacity and data bandwidth we have to rent from the domain host.
The site has always been advert free and we would prefer to keep it that way.
As the site has grown, it has taken up more space and we have had to upgrade our hosting package which has increased our annual running costs for the site to approximately £70. In the past we have been able to cover these costs because of kind donations recieved from users of the site. However, there have been no donations since 2017.
The website development, maintance, and family research we undertake is done in-house, the majority of which only costs time. However, we do incur some additional costs obtaining records, software, and hardware. These are not included in the above stated amounts, as they are not predictable recuring amounts, and to some degree are dictated by what funds are available at the time.
In the event that we recieve donations above the amount stated for the direct running costs of LostLangtons, then any additional funds would be spent on covering these other indirect costs. If you want to make a donation to be spent on something specific then you can.
In June 2012 we recieved a very generous donation from David Langton of Canada, a descendant of the ancient Langtons of South Lincolnshire, England. He provided the funds for us to aquire copies of all the grants of coat of arms, from the Royal College of Arms.
These records have signifiantly aided research into all Langton families. You can read and see the coats of arms in the Exhaustive Shields Article article which was put together by David. The pedigrees from these records have been added to the Family Tree section of the site. These include a number of corrections to old trees and some new ones, including an entire new Langton family that we had not known existed as well as a long forgotten Langton village. It's likely that some of the readers of this site descend from this family. You can find that family here:
William Langton of Thorpham, near Laughton-en-le-Morthen, Yorkshire, UK
You can donate via the paypal link below.
Donations recieved to date:
5 GBP - 03 May 2012.
100 GBP - 16 May 2012.
64 GBP - 27 May 2012.
270 GBP - 1 June 2012 - allowed us to order Langton records from the college of arms!
20 GBP - 16 July 2012
30 GBP - 26 July 2013
120 GBP - 17 July 2014
50 GBP - 02 May 2015
500 USD - 19 May 2015 - this generous donation allowed us to get several key Langton descendants Y-DNA tested for the benefit of all Langtons everywhere
20 GBP - 18 Sep 2017
Thank you to all the donators, we are very grateful for your support! All your donations go to the running of the site and to accessing new information about the Langtons, all of which is provided on this site for free to all and will be a lasting legacy to all our descendants.