The Düsing family of Staven, Sponholz, Mecklenburg-Strelitz

A cousin of my husband whose family has lived in Sweden for several generations spotted Johanne Sophia Düsing in his tree on ancestry. They are sharing 3x great grandparents Johann Adolf  Düsing and Regina Germer who lived at Staven at the time of the birth of most of their children with Johanna thought to be the eldest by the researcher who helped Edward with these records but she was actually the second daughter. She descends from Johanna's only brother Heinrich Friedrich Ludwig Düsing who was six years younger. Heinrich went to Sweden with his wife and two young children. 

Genealogy does show how small the world really is. Edward's great grandparents came from Mecklenburg-Strelitz, his great grandmother in 1849 with her mother and sister to join her brothers in the Niagara area (Canadian side of border) and his great grandfather arrived in 1866 in Brant County. I will let Edward's Schultz cousins know as several of them are interested in their family roots in Mecklenburg-Strelitz.

Getting organized

 My first organization point it to remember to publish these blogs from my account. We are down to 15 Research boxes which do not fit into the closet so will do a little work on them to see if I can put the contents of some of them in the remaining bookcase in the research room. Then the rest will have to sit under the computer table and remain in the closet where they now are. But gradually we are getting items organized so that we can begin to work.

Edward's Research Room

Edward's Research Room is now set up although we continue to add the boxed material but it is a slow process to catalogue each box and find a spot for it. I hope to begin looking at material this month probably towards the end of the month. One area of the room includes his mother's Hope Chest going to her oldest grandchild and other material going to the Schultz family (Edward's paternal grandmother was a Schultz). That will free up quite a bit of space for research boxes this fall perhaps. 

There are fourty plus binders of family photographs and other items. We will downsize those family albums so that they only contain family pictures. A couple of the albums are from trips that were planned and prepared by Edward and George Anderson and I will see if I can pass them on to the United Empire Loyalists via George Anderson. Our pictures from 1965 to 2001 were all printed but from 2001 to the present all family pictures are digital. 

We have started to log the boxes and in general there is a lot of work ahead going through those boxes and putting relevant material online through this blog. 

The month of August

 The month of August will see time spent organizing all of Edward\s research boxes so that I can work on them in a more organized fashion. They will be centralized in one room which will be very helpful. 

Edward's Genealogy Library

Edward's Genealogy Library is now passed to the Ontario Genealogical Society Ottawa Branch. It will take a while to incorporate these books into their library at the City of Ottawa Archives. Initially I had thought I would first offer them to Library and Archives Canada but they do tend to prefer Canadian material in their collection which is understandable being the National Library. Although some of his books fitted into that category I did not want to break up the collection so I did not pass the list to them to look at after all. However, I will put together all of the Kipp family material that he has collected of Canadian origin so that I can offer that to them and give it a permanent home. He has a lot of pictures of the Kipp families who went west and were amongst the first settlers in many regions of western Canada. He also published a genealogy of this family which is already in Library and Archives Canada. I would make it free and open access with no limitations so that another keen Kipp researcher can also make full use of all of his material. That will take me a bit of time to put that all together but I may put it at the front of my agenda once I am into doing that work. First we need to organize the house so that I can get back into research eight hours per day. We were both doing about six to eight hours of our own research each day broken up into various working periods through the day along with all of our exercise before COVID-19 struck.

 

Gradually moving forward

Edward's library has been donated to the Ontario Genealogical Society Ottawa Branch and they will take possession next week. It will take a while but his books will soon be on the bookshelves in the City of Ottawa Archives where he can continue being that person who helps others to achieve their genealogical dreams as he did.  

Kipp DNA project

Edward managed his Kipp DNA project and it was very rewarding for him in that it proved his line back to the emigrant Kip line of New York that arrived in the 1630s in what was then New Amsterdam in New Holland from Amsterdam, Holland (The Netherlands). I really did not have a lot to do with his project and now I need to figure out what to do with that project. Last December perhaps it was he mentioned that he had had an email from a Kipp who lived in Paris, Ontario interested in the DNA so perhaps I shall contact him to see whether he would like to take over the project.  I did do the organizing of the data into groups and have helped him with the Family Finder results which is rather lucky probably. But passing it on to another Kipp enthusiast is perhaps the best way to handle that project. Our daughters will not pass on the yDNA so it ends with him in terms of his father's line. His cousins have sons so they will continue the line and have done so although I do not actually know any of them that well. We moved to Ottawa 46 years ago and our trips back although frequent were strictly to close family most of the time and that was mostly grandparents although we did see our siblings most of the time as well. 

However, I will mention it on this blog in case there is someone who is really keen to get involved as having more than one person on a project is a really good idea. 

The exciting part of the yDNA project for Edward was proving his line back to the New York Kip family and then he managed to take it back to The Netherlands and the area where this family lived before living in Amsterdam. There are other Kipp families in North America and they descend from the German Kipp line that emigrated to the United States in the 1740s.