Kipp Newsletter

I am seriously considering creating a Kipp Newsletter for distribution to the Kipp yDNA Study. I would start the Newsletter but will be looking for someone to take over this study in the near future. Although I have mostly maintained it through the years, I have quite a bit of material of my own family lines to work through. I do not intend to do any new research on the Kipp family but one of my daughters may consider that in the future. I will write to the Kipp member that my husband asked me to write to early in this year. I just found I could not sit down and organize my thoughts in the short periods of time when I was not busy with Edward in those last few months of his life. He was not going to offer any input so I put it on hold and it has remained there until now as I begin to think once again about how to handle the personal research that my husband has done through his 50+ years of genealogical research. He has accumulated a lot of material and I need to sort through all of that and find permanent homes for it that would be accessible to people. There remain about 35 to 40 boxes for me to work on (some large and some small). I have an inventory on some of them but mostly they are into family lines which will be helpful. All of the pictures are scanned to the best of my knowledge and I will ensure that that is the case before I give any of it away.

It is a massive task and I must get started at it in December. At least I now have a start date! As my own research is starting to flow once again I am better able to establish a working day that permits me to work on my studies and the publication of his material and then assignment of the original material to an Archive or family member. He actually preferred that I give it all to family members but in some cases he has accumulated a vast number of original images that are pertinent to early families in particular areas of Canada and I think that I should put these into an Archive - I will investigate that with Library and Archives Canada and take their opinion on whether to move to smaller archives in the area in which the material is especially pertinent. 

Allen Family material

 Edward's maternal grandmother was Margaret Evelyn Allen born 3 Nov 1880 in McLean Township, Muskoka, Ontario. Her parents were James C Allen and Hannah Catherine Parlee both of whom were born in New Brunswick. Margaret was their youngest child (the eleventh). The summer of 2019 we made a long trip up to near Timmins where many of his Allen cousins still live so that Edward could share information on the Allen family. There are three or four boxes of Allen material that I am contemplating asking these cousins if they would like this material. 

The last two years before COVID-19 when we could still travel we visited so many cousins but Edward never expressed any thoughts on what to do with the vast number of pictures and other items which he acquired for his family lines through the years. He did realize that the girls were not interested in genealogy beyond looking at what he had done. Perhaps he hoped that they would find an interest and they do have some but boxes and boxes of pictures (all scanned) need to have a permanent home where family members can view them. The Allen family that we visited has an extensive collection so I may ask if they would like what Edward collected.