This site hosts the known history of Laughter - Lawter (other variations) and related surnames. The information is presented as a Family Tree in HTML page format.

For the latest updates to the Family Tree, see UPDATES. The access button is in the top menu of the Home page.

To help researchers this site also contains maps and historical information about early North Carolina.

If you use a modem you will have some wait-time in downloading Family Tree and Photo pages because they are very large. Please be patient.

Search:
The SEARCH feature searches ONLY the files (pages) on this site. It will find all PAGES containing one or more instance of your search request [the words and numbers entered in the Search box]. Then, you must do a FIND for individual entries on each page. If you have not used SEARCH on this site before, please see the FIND HELP page to get started.

About Photos and other stuff:
Photos and other material have been supplied by cousins and are shown here with their permission. I am not the owner and cannot grant permission for other uses. See Copyright notice. I would like to add more content so if you have ANY photos, anecdotes or other materials you can share please send a copy to me by e-mail or by regular mail. It will be greatly appreciated. Keep in mind, anything you send remains YOUR property but also keep in mind that it may get destroyed. My request is for you to loan a NON-RETURNABLE COPY of the material to this site.

Contact:
This is me and my wife, Mary Grace "Sis" Almond of Stanly Co., NC. You can click on the photos to see our place in the Tree.

OR
Call me at area code seven-o-four -- 782-8434

E-mail sent to me at LaughterGenealogy.com will NOT be delivered. Web based email is so heavily spammed that it is unacceptable for normal use. Please use the email address above. If you want to send something via regular mail, let me know by e-mail or phone and I will provide my home address.

Note of caution:
I apologize for the long delays in answering e-mails and updating the Web site over the past two years. Chronic health problems put me down for long stretches (I'm semi-invalid) so now and then I have to take a few days, or a few months, off. My wife also has serious health issues that require a lot of attention... We appreciate your patience.

A solution to help speed things up: Help me find someone willing to code HTML pages or to help maintain the site in other ways. All help will be greatly appreciated.