Continuing thought on the Kipp Newsletter

 The Kipp Newsletter is mulling around in my brain as I think about sections that I could add on the yDNA. There are two distinct migrations into the now United States with the Kip family arriving in the 1630s from Amsterdam and coming to what was then New Amsterdam and now New York and the second group coming from Germany and their surname was mostly spelled Kipp. Over time the surname Kipp dominated for all including Edward's line. However, there is a distinct difference between the DNA of the two lines. 

I feel that I should add a yDNA section to the Newsletter and will do that. More people testing their yDNA would be handy just to see if we can pinpoint the correct family for Isaac Kipp. He is likely coming down in the Isaac Hendricksen Kip line (the second son of Hendrick Hendricksen Kip and Tryntie Lubberts) but finding that elusive link proven to be an impossibility although Edward certainly made a good try at that. The published book has many incomplete lines dating back into the 1720 to 1740s which could easily be the father of Isaac Kipp. Many records were destroyed in the Dutchess County area during the Revolution unfortunately. Going back to the Town Halls was interesting but not conclusive. 

I can go back to thinking about this full time as I have now completed my Blake Newsletter for publication on the 1st of January.

A beginning for The Kip-Kipp Newsletter

 Just a roughed-in draft but it is a beginning. I will spend the month of January working on it. Must get back to my Blake Newsletter though as it is due on the first of January!

The Kip-Kipp Family Newsletter

Table of Contents

1.      The Kip-Kipp Family Newsletter

2.      Edward Kipp, HBSc, PhD, MLS

3.      Kip Family in America

4.      Letters to the Editor

5.      Origins of the Kip Family

 

1.      The Kip-Kipp Family Newsletter

The idea of creating this Newsletter has emerged over the past couple of months. There is a lot of Kip-Kipp material to share in my husband’s research and the best means of doing so actually lay at my fingertips although I did not realize it for many months. I kept trying to think of who would carry on his research.

This Newsletter is born of that thought process. I will begin the Newsletter and in God’s own time another Editor will appear to take over the task. I am perhaps best suited to begin on his work as I shared thoughts with Edward through the years as he talked about his Kip-Kipp ancestors.

The watermark is Edward’s favourite picture of himself and will help me as I type and add material to this newsletter. Likely in the future another watermark will replace this one but for the moment my memory of him and his image will help me through this initial publication.

2.      Edward Kipp, HBSc, PhD, MLS

Edward Kipp was born on one of the Kipp family farms in Burford Township in southwestern Ontario. His father Lorne Kipp managed the farm for his mother Ida (Schultz) Kipp and had done so since the death of his father William Henry Kipp in 1921. Edward was the second child and son of Lorne Kipp (and his wife Phyllis (Link) Kipp). He was born in the midst of World War II in 1943. His father was 43 years of age when he was born. Unfortunately, Lorne suffered a farming accident in 1945 and passed away which resulted in the farm being sold and Edward moved to Princeton, Ontario with his mother and older brother where he lived until he went to the University of Western Ontario (now Western University) in the fall of 1962. He studied Chemistry as an undergraduate and then did his PhD in Inorganic Chemistry completing his dissertation and public lecture in the summer of 1970. He then did a Postdoc in Chemical Engineering at the University of Western Ontario and followed that up with a MLS in Library and Information Science in 1975. This change to information specialist gained him a job (hard to come by in those days) and a career that spanned thirty years at the National Research Council in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. I entered the picture when we first met in 1965 and we were married in 1966. Although he missed being a Scientist he grabbed hold of life’s offerings and quickly entered into his new field. Along with that his interest in genealogy, which had begun before I knew him, took on a new life in many ways. A cousin, Gordon Riddle, introduced him to the Ottawa Branch of the Ontario Genealogical Society (OGS) which they attended together in the early 1980s here in Ottawa. Edward continued this association with the Ottawa Branch the rest of his life. He served in many areas including Chair of Gene-O-Rama (a yearly conference), Treasurer (several times) and for more than fifteen years Editor of the Newsletter (Ottawa Genealogist as it is now known). Edward was also very active with his class reunions helping to organize them every five years for many years. Unfortunately, illness caught up to him and God took him home on the 10^th of April 2021. His task though remains a work in progress and over time I am sure other eager hands will pick up the traces and carry on the Kip-Kipp Family Research.

 

3.      Kip Family in America

Fortunately for the Kip Family in America another earlier researcher put together an extensive family genealogy book (Eugene Kip published

Edward did enter all of the information in this book into a genealogy program (Legacy) and it can be found on the World Connect website:

https://wc.rootsweb.com/trees/133965/I1/hendrickhendricksen-kip/individual

I will eventually download the gedcom and put it up on our website where it can be downloaded.

4.      Letters to the Editor

5.      Origins of the Kip family

Edward has written several blogs which I shall reproduce in this newsletter over the next issues.

 

Kipp Newsletter

I have been giving a lot of thought to the Kipp Newsletter and believe that I will begin on the 1st of February 2022. Not sure what the first issue will be but I am tempted to publish all of Edward's research on the early family in Holland. Will think about that for a bit. 

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.

 

Kipp Newsletter

I am seriously considering creating a Kipp Newsletter for distribution to the Kipp yDNA Study. I would start the Newsletter but will be looking for someone to take over this study in the near future. Although I have mostly maintained it through the years, I have quite a bit of material of my own family lines to work through. I do not intend to do any new research on the Kipp family but one of my daughters may consider that in the future. I will write to the Kipp member that my husband asked me to write to early in this year. I just found I could not sit down and organize my thoughts in the short periods of time when I was not busy with Edward in those last few months of his life. He was not going to offer any input so I put it on hold and it has remained there until now as I begin to think once again about how to handle the personal research that my husband has done through his 50+ years of genealogical research. He has accumulated a lot of material and I need to sort through all of that and find permanent homes for it that would be accessible to people. There remain about 35 to 40 boxes for me to work on (some large and some small). I have an inventory on some of them but mostly they are into family lines which will be helpful. All of the pictures are scanned to the best of my knowledge and I will ensure that that is the case before I give any of it away.

It is a massive task and I must get started at it in December. At least I now have a start date! As my own research is starting to flow once again I am better able to establish a working day that permits me to work on my studies and the publication of his material and then assignment of the original material to an Archive or family member. He actually preferred that I give it all to family members but in some cases he has accumulated a vast number of original images that are pertinent to early families in particular areas of Canada and I think that I should put these into an Archive - I will investigate that with Library and Archives Canada and take their opinion on whether to move to smaller archives in the area in which the material is especially pertinent. 

Allen Family material

 Edward's maternal grandmother was Margaret Evelyn Allen born 3 Nov 1880 in McLean Township, Muskoka, Ontario. Her parents were James C Allen and Hannah Catherine Parlee both of whom were born in New Brunswick. Margaret was their youngest child (the eleventh). The summer of 2019 we made a long trip up to near Timmins where many of his Allen cousins still live so that Edward could share information on the Allen family. There are three or four boxes of Allen material that I am contemplating asking these cousins if they would like this material. 

The last two years before COVID-19 when we could still travel we visited so many cousins but Edward never expressed any thoughts on what to do with the vast number of pictures and other items which he acquired for his family lines through the years. He did realize that the girls were not interested in genealogy beyond looking at what he had done. Perhaps he hoped that they would find an interest and they do have some but boxes and boxes of pictures (all scanned) need to have a permanent home where family members can view them. The Allen family that we visited has an extensive collection so I may ask if they would like what Edward collected.