World Connect Databases

I would like to remind everyone that my databases, including sources and references where I have them, are all available on World Connect.

Families of Isaac Kipp & Mathes Link
In the "jump to a specific database" field type -   kipp_link
Use the index to find who you are interested in.

This file includes:
The Descendants of Isaac Kipp and Hannah Meed of New York and Oxford County, Ontario.
The Descendants of Mathes Linck and Maria Magdalena Krafft of Germany, New York and Upper Canada.
The file also includes many cousins from New Amsterdam (New York), New Jersey and New England.
My Loyalist connections are included.


The Kip/Kipp Family of New Amsterdam (New York)
In the "jump to a specific database" field type -   edwkipp8
Use the index to find who you are interested in.

The Hendricksen (Kip) family emigrated to New Amsterdam (now New York) between 1637 & 1643 from Holland where they had lived for several generations.

My website
www.kipp-blake-families.ca

My Blog
americancanadianancestors.blogspot.ca/

If you have any additions or corrections to anything I have posted please contact me at ekipp@rogers.com.

Regards
Edward

Database Maintenance

Hi:
I merged two of my Legacy database files recently, my father's line Kipp, and my mother's line Link. I know there were duplicates created and I am working away at correcting this.
I am also trying to make my data entry consistant for names and locations.
I currently have over 60,000 entries in this database, many of them are my New England and New Amsterdam families.

This is going to take a while so I may or may not be posting regularly on my Kipp and Link lines.

Posting items on my mother's side of the family - Link etc.

I am going to take some time away from research on the Kip/Kipp Family of New Amsterdam and spend some time on my mother's side of the family. This includes Link, Folkins, Parleee, Allen etc. and many New England and New Amsterdam surnames. I will continue to post Kip/Kipp items as I have a backlog of items that have been researched but not posted. I also plan to update my World Connect databases within the next week.
Edward

Books I have read so far in 2012

I am now using a Kobo touch and a Blackberry Playbook for reading e-books.

Salt: A World History, by Mark Kurlansky. [e-book]

Edison and The Electric Chair, by Mark Essig. Walker & Co., New York. 2003. [e-book]

Quantum Leaps: 100 Scientists Who Changed the World, by John Balchin. Indigo Books 2003.

Grave Secrets of Dinosaurs: Soft Tissues and Hard Science, by Phillip Manning. National Geographic Society, Washington, DC. 2008.

The Celts. A Brief History, by Peter Berresford Ellis. Robinson, London. 2003.

Dark History of the Popes. Vice, Murder and Corruption in the Vatican, by Brenda Ralph Lewis. Amber Books, London. 2011(12).

Ancient Rome from Republic to the Empire, by Duncan Hill. Parragon, Bath. 2007.

Across the Wide Missouri, by Bernard DeVoto. With an account of the discovery of the Miller Collection, by Mae Reed Porter. Houghton Mifflin Co., Boston. The Riverside Press, Cambridge. 1947.  I read the parts of this book dealing with James Kipp “Mountain Man and fur trader.” This book contains a 96 page section of contemporary watercolour paintings by Alfred Jacob Miller and others.

That New England. Compiled by the Editors of Yankee Magazine. 1968.

Travels in New England. Volume one. Photographs by Katharine Knowles. Text by Thea Wheelwright. Barre Publishers, Mass. 1972.

The Taming of the Canadian West, by Frank Rasky. McClelland and Stewart. Toronto. 1967.

Canadian Songbirds and their ways, by Trudy and Jim Rising. Tundra Books Inc. Montreal. 1982.

 

Distant Relations. How my Ancestors Colonized North America, by Victoria Freeman. McClelland & Stewart Ltd. Toronto. 2000.  I wasn’t sure about reading this book when I first came across it.  But I did start reading and it is a fascinating view of the New England Puritan and Native Indian worlds and how they interacted.  Man of the names mentioned I had read about previously including my ancestor Roger Williams.  If you have New England ancestors this book is worthwhile reading.