Friday, August 9, 2024

Website updated

The website:  http://www.kipp-blake-families.ca/edwardmain.htm 

is now updated with links to the material that Edward had put up on World Connect (rather than gedcoms I have created documents in Legacy as pertinent). Go to the above link and select "The Kip/Kipp Family in North America" and the files are available as *.pdf documents. We have also added a new document: "The Ancestors of Edward Burnice Kipp." It is all the information that we have that Edward accumulated during his over 55 years of genealogical research across Ontario, Quebec, the Maritimes, the New England States, New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania as well as France and the British Isles. He was in communication with researchers in Holland and Germany as a trip was being planned to look at records in those two countries but COVID-19 meant the end of that trip. 

Although Edward was a scientist (Inorganic Chemist) and technical librarian during his working life, he derived great pleasure from seeking out information on his many family lines. The search for his 2x great grandfather Isaac Kipp's family was his initial path into genealogical research and he was not able to definitively name this couple but the y-DNA links this Kipp family back to the Kip family of New Amsterdam/New York and ultimately back to The Netherlands. 

The Kip-Kipp Family Newsletter for the 1st of August, 2024 is in process and hopefully will be published in the next couple of weeks. My recovery from cataract surgery has been very steady and I now have my new glasses to permit my close work on the computer. I have been working on just one section and needed to have more ability to look at various items on the y-DNA results accumulated when we did Y-700 on Edward's sample. 

This update from his family who cheerily visited graveyards in many many places copying down information from ancient tombstones to be with him. Rest in peace dear Edward you are still very missed by your family even though it is now more than three years since you passed away. 

Wednesday, April 10, 2024

Edward's Research

 

Although Edward put in a lot of time on genealogy it was never one of our go to items in the first fourteen years of our marriage. He worked with one of the people (Ed Phelps) in the library at Western gathering up old documents from our visits to farm auctions whilst we lived in that area (first nine years of our marriage) and it became a project for him to think about through the future. Our move here though was, I think, hardest on Edward in retrospect. He left behind everyone that he knew and he is far more of a people person than I am. I came from a large family and generally preferred my quiet lifestyle without people although loved visiting with my own family when we did that. 

In our first eight years of marriage before children Edward and I collected up a lot of different types of material. We were both keen on astronomy and a large section of our not working life went into that in those first eight years. Edward loved photography and we camped most every weekend in the summers before children visiting parks hither and yon whilst he photographed all of the flowers that he had never seen as a child. Sometimes he put on his researcher hat and prepared sets of data on various plants that we found. 

I have decided that in memory of my husband's strongest interests in my opinion I will begin the task of scanning his thesis first of all. It is still cited along with his articles (joint with his researcher under whom he studied) in journals around the world. I will also scan his papers and put them up on his website. I think he always meant to do that but just was too busy with the Ottawa Branch of the Ontario Genealogical Society. When he went off to the first meeting, for him, at the Ottawa Branch I was surprised actually. But Gordon Riddle had invited him in the early 1980s and he always felt a little sorry for him because of his uncle who was also a Family Physician and died younger than one might have anticipated as the hours were long for him and he was in a rural practice. So when Gordon approached him to go to the Genealogical Society he responded yes although I will admit he thought about it a lot at first. He knew I would never go (I am not really much of a people person) although eventually I did when my cousin wanted me to write a profile for my Pincombe Family in the history book he was editing for Westminster and Delaware Townships in 2004 which was a surprise to Edward. But he did enjoy the genealogical association along with his part in developing Orleans United Church where he sang in the Choir for about fifteen to twenty years and was treasurer for ten years (that was what his father had done and I think it brought Edward closer to the memory of his father as he was only two when he died). Although a lot of Edward's time went into genealogy (he was a great support person in the library) his greatest love was research in science.

Then there are his photographs and I think I will put them into an *.pdf along with his notes and publish that under a Creative Commons Licence for anyone to look at. Some of the pictures are really quite fabulous if you happen to be into wild flowers. 

He has some other collections that I will work at putting together and publish them as well. 

When I asked him about publishing his family material he said he already did and had put it up on World Connect. That entirely satisfied him so I have broken up his collection slowly giving it to the various cousins that he introduced me to in the last fifteen years of our marriage. That I think was what he was alluding to in the last year of his life. I was distracted by the amount of care that my daughter and I had to give to him through that last year as before that time he was still walking about and enjoying his life. He tended to recover quickly and return to his level of activity but I must admit that after the pacemaker he tired a lot easier than he ever had (that was in 2012). 

It is good to have thought this through with his daughters and they agree with me that that was really his intent to put all of this material where people could find it. I continue maintaining the yDNA of the Kipp family from which he descended and will continue the newsletter for this family. But actually getting into tracing lines I will not do. I have no experience with American research. At 78.5 my time is going to go to the books I want to write about my grandfather Blake's family and my mother's Pincombe family and after that work on my grandmother's Buller family and a few other lines that interested both of my parents. It always sounds like I am not doing anything for myself but really I never anticipated living on into my 70s at all and so I am just picking up the traces of conversations that I had as a child with the people around me. It does seem like a nice idea and I continue with it. 

Back to cleaning; amazing how much thinking you do when you are cleaning!

Friday, February 2, 2024

The Kip-Kipp Newsletter Volume 3 Issue 1 is published on the yDNA website

 The latest issue of the Kip-Kipp Newsletter is published on the yDNA website at FT DNA. Although I thought it would be 2 or 3 pages it has expanded to 6 pages due to discussion with another researcher. His comments are added in along with part of an earlier article just to clarify a point. 

Doing the Y-700 test on Edward's DNA has altered my thoughts on keeping up with the Newsletter. Unfortunately it only looks at this one particular line and there are several known lines of Kipp in the Study including one set directly from Germany in the mid 1700s. Anyone wishing to submit articles is most welcome to do so.

Wednesday, January 17, 2024

Sunday, November 5, 2023

Kip-Kipp Newsletter, Volume 2, Issue 4, 2023

  The Kip-Kipp Newsletter, Volume 2, Issue 4, 2023 is published on the Kip-Kipp yDNA website at FT DNA. It is three pages in length and deals primarily with yDNA results. 

Tuesday, August 1, 2023

Kip-Kipp Newsletter Volume 2, Issue 3, 2023

 The Kip-Kipp Newsletter, Volume 2, Issue 3, 2023 is published on the Kip-Kipp yDNA website at FT DNA. I have reached this point earlier than I initially thought in terms of publishing the Newsletter. I suspect it will now shrink to one or two pages as I am busy revising and editing a publication on another surname. 

Two years have passed now since the death of Edward and not having our daily breaks where we talked about his research primarily as I tend to be a listener rather than a talker I find that I can not at my own age of nearly 78 manage two large studies. My own study is with the Guild of one-name studies and concerns my parent's surnames. My younger sister maintains what I would label a genealogical study of our family whereas my interest lies in the surnames and the path back without really going sideways very often which is more of a genealogical study. 

We continue working our way through Edward's research boxes and the number is decreasing (estimated around 20 to 25 and these boxes are no longer full to the top). We have given away some of the records especially original images in particular lines and a set of records has gone to the Museum in his home town. We need to now put together the sets of data for two areas - one is Kipp and in particular the Kipp descendants of Benjamin Kipp and Elizabeth Force who went west and were amongst the earliest settlers in Chilliwack BC and the other set is for the Allen, Folkins, Parlee families of New Brunswick who were Loyalists coming out of the New England/New York area at the end of the American Revolution to settle in what became New Brunswick.. We need to contact the two archival repositories in BC and NB to see if they are interested in this collection of original images. In the case of the Kipp images they were all published in a book which Edward produced in the mid 1970s and a deposit copy is already in their institution so that the images could simply become a Fonds related to that publication so that the images are available to researchers. The Loyalist group is heavily studied and maintained in New Brunswick and we hope that they too would add this set of images to their collection. That is next summer's project. 

I will continue publishing the journal in hopes that at some point another member of the study will take it on along with the yDNA study itself. But I am not in a rush to remove myself although age will eventually catch up to me. Time does tend to be the hero in these types of studies as one does need space to take on such a commitment and there is plenty of that still. 

Tuesday, July 18, 2023

Kip-Kipp Newsletter Volume 2, Issue 3, 2023

 I did complete the next issue of the Kip-Kipp Newsletter, Volume 2, Issue 3, 2023 and will publish it on the 1st of August. It did end up writing itself which was handy as I have reached an end to useful information that I can write into the newsletter from my memory. I could go back through and read everything but it was taking me too long and I do not have Edward's thoughts with regard to each and every individual item. The mantle must be taken up by another eventually but for the moment it will likely become reduced in size and simply contain any information on the DNA study.