We found Edward's DVD collection of family history tools and items. One is a Heritage Book Archive CD for The Link Family. Using Linux we were able to extract the file so will send that on to Edward's cousin. Technology really has moved along in the last twenty years. These twenty years saw Edward's tree grown from a few thousand to over eighty thousand. I will see if I can extract the *.pdf file and publish it to this blog later today.
Unless I find more items, the Link Family artifacts have found a new researcher to expand and manage that Family line for Edward. His parent's surnames were Kipp and Link and then one generation back Kipp, Schultz and Link, Allen.
There is an active Allen family research group and I may ask if they would like the Allen material that Edward accumulated. They were a United Empire Loyalist family arriving in the Maritimes at the end of the American Revolution and settling in New Brunswick. They arrived in Ontario later in the 1800s.
I have a lot of Kipp material that pertains to the Kipp Family book that Edward published. I have asked Library and Archives Canada if they wish to have the picture collection and I need to prepare that submission. The Kipp family were settlers from Dutchess County arriving in Ontario in 1800 from there some members went west and were early settlers in Chilliwack BC.
A lot of work to do and there are still about 30 boxes of Ed's research for me to work on. I will not do any new research as it is over ten years since I helped him so I am not in touch with his last decade of work. I am a custodian and will pass it on to other researchers in his family lines via this blog.
The Schultz material I will pass to his Schultz cousins as time passes.
I will maintain his DNA work as I did that mostly for him. Eventually I will pass that on as well but for the moment I will keep analyzing new matches and adding them to his records.
Edward's great grandparents and this charcoal drawing is a good picture of them according to Edward's mother who remembered this couple from her childhood. When her family returned to Ontario when she was six weeks old they lived at their home for a short time. Again Edward had this picture restored. The scanner did a fair job only as the backing is very stiff and it is a large picture.
Better with the camera for sure.
Edward's maternal grandparents homesteaded in what became Saskatchewan early in the 1900s. His mother was born at Carievale where they homesteaded.
Edward had these pictures (there are four more) restored and the difference was quite remarkable actually.
The first was scanned and this second image is photographed.
The first project is to extract all the Link material (artifacts) and give them to Edward's half cousin. We begin that process today now that we have found the Rathbun Bible. I still need the inserts that I believe were in that Bible but I can always mail them later so will not worry about finding them. There are homesteading pictures which Edward had mended and a number of other items which can be put together into this trunk that we have to get to his cousin except the archival box is too large for the trunk. The trunk was too big for everything anyway and probably better not to have used it for the Link material.
That trunk is going to Salvation Army filled with CDs that I am eliminating from the collection. Along with a couple of bags of household items as I move forward with downsizing the trunk will be full and enjoyed by someone else eventually I suspect.
I completed the newest Research Blog and posted it to my husband's website:
http://www.kipp-blake-families.ca/edwardmain.htm
Working on his second Research Blog - Kip/Kipp Family in America - and it commenced in 2008 just after our Research Trip to Salt Lake City. What a fabulous week that was. We wandered all over the downtown area in our breaks. We mostly worked eight hours a day in the library but did take three good walking breaks every day.
I have now become an author on my husband's blog and will gradually put his research material up on this blog. I have about 15 or 20 banker boxes full of his research which may or may not have already been published by him. I will attempt to ascertain that and publish anything that he has not published thus far.
This is a much better way than I had originally thought to fulfill his desires to publish all his material or at least hand it to another researcher. Blogging it gives a much wider audience.
