Welcome

It is with great pleasure that I welcome and thank those who spent their valuable time to visit this web site- The Dympep family. This web site, I hope will not only let people know a bit about our family. It will, I hope, give some information about our people and our native place. My name is Sandy Dympep. I will start relating my family, starting from my parents. I am the oldest son of this family of seven children. Five boys and two girls. This, being my first web site, I will describe only four of us. Later on, when I feel I can work on it, I shall include all of us.

Surname

To know the origin of our surname, namely the Dympep, there is a historical background about it. The story goes that long ago, a meeting among the family of three sisters was scheduled. But because of the heavy rainfall, the meeting was foiled. It had been raining cats and dogs for days that the two sisters and their family were unable to travel to their youngest sister’s place for the appointed meeting. The travelling sisters were stranded because it was not possible to cross the rising rivers and creeks.

The middle sister, much against her will, had to return home. Because of this incidence, from that time, the surname of the middle sister and her children became known as the Dympep. In our Khasi language, ‘pep’ means ‘stayed back’. The surname of the oldest sister, from that time, was called Sahnoh, because she was 'stranded'. The surname of the youngest sister and her children, was called Dohling for she was 'eagerly looking out' to spot her sisters coming to the meeting.

Though the family name is different, the three families are still related by blood through their common great mother of the three sisters known as Ngam Dkhar. Marriage among them is sacrilegious.