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.