Sorting boxes and downsizing

We managed to get through about a dozen boxes finding items for the OGS Library if they want them and dividing up Ed's PhD Research notes and his Post Doctoral Study notes. They are mostly reprints so will likely make the decision to recycle all of that paper. I had thought initially of  asking his High School in Paris if they would like some of his research material but there really is not all that much left once I removed all the reprints so may just ask if they would like one copy of his thesis as there are two copies although it is available on the Library and Archives site as well. His initial research was new and through the years he has had a lot of citations of the papers which he published - always rewarding to see your work being used for sure. As countries that were not so much into research in the 60s came on line with their research projects in the 80s and 90s he had a resurgence of citations as his work was the original set of papers on his thesis topic. I think perhaps in that there was some gratification for him of his years spent in the laboratory working away on his PhD and his PostDoctoral years before going back and doing his MLS and getting a job at the National Research Council in the Library there (CISTI - Canadian Institute for Scientific and Technical Information. His thirty years there were very interesting to him and he very much enjoyed living in Ottawa close to Library and Archives Canada as he delved into his Kipp ancestors in our early years here. Then we started our travels down into the New England States and New York where they had lived until 1800 coming to Canada as settlers in October of 1800 and settling in the Oxford/Burford Counties area of southwestern Ontario. The loss of his father at the age of two was perhaps one of the driving forces in his hunt for information. We visited many of the farmers known to Edward in the area and a few that were mentioned to him by them before coming to Ottawa so he had a fair amount of information on his family. His success with his research was really a result of all those travels and the advent of yDNA studies. Although he became an ardent member of the Ottawa Branch of the Ontario Genealogical Society (now Ontario Ancestors), his research was not really augmented by doing so but rather he wanted to help other people solve their mysteries with the experiences he had had. Gordon Riddle and he went to the first meetings that Edward attended. Edward was reluctant to go but finally was persuaded to do so. He loved it and was a member for fourty years I think just the year before he passed away.

Today we are sorting boxes

Today we are sorting boxes and preparing an inventory of their contents. I have mostly been using Edward's notes on his blog and other electronic material to work on the Kipp Newsletter but today we are going to label and itemize all of the boxes so that I can start to publish some of his work on other family lines. He was in the process of scanning all the material that he had and recycling the paper copies and it is my aim to continue that process using his blog.