Kipp research and original material

 Regretfully in 2011 I did make the decision to move away from helping Edward with his research so much in order to concentrate on my own. However, as I work through some of his the memory of what I had done with him from 2004 to 2011 is coming back to me. I was deeply involved with some of his research and it is that part that was some of the most difficult to construct that I will not likely give away until it is clear to me how it flows. I need all the pieces in order to think about it. My older daughter is also taking some interest in it and with her help we may be able to solve some of these mysteries that surround some parts of his research particularly into the Kipp family. I will surrender all the original pictures which he collected particularly of the homesteaders in British Columbia and Ontario to whichever archives chooses to have the material but they are all scanned and not of use to me plus they can do a much better job of preserving them and making them accessible to other Kipp researchers. 

Working on the Kipp family material

I thought I might get to one of the boxes of Edward's research for his Kipp families and others this past week but the leaves took all my time and energy. Plus I cleaned the basement and so the time passes by quickly. 

I need to write the couple of letters with regard to all the old images since they are all scanned and we are interested in the scanned images only. I gave all the originals for my families to my younger sister as they are then accessible to everyone there. Mostly my family does collect there and it was just practical and I really do not want to be the holder of family original material although I do still have some but will eventually give it all to my younger sister. Her family tree is about ten times the size of mine as that is more her interest - building the family tree. My interest lies more in a search through the records for our family line as it moves backwards. That also includes the maintenance of the large DNA database of matches. 

I may now take over Edward's DNA work until my older daughter retires. He managed his in a different way but will probably convert it over to my method as it involves fewer letters to people and less maintenance in the long run. He liked emailing back and forth with his relatives but I found it was eating into my research time and did not get involved with it to any large degree.