I'm still on the trail of Samuel Tripp and his family although my research time has been a bit lacking lately. That's not the only thing that's holding me back from filling in the subsequent years for this family that I last found on the 1881 Ontario census. The last information I found was that of the last child in the family, James Wilbert Tripp who was born in Buffalo, New York later in 1881. With the amount that the family moved around, I thought they might have returned to Canada by the time of the 1891 census was taken. No such luck.
The logical conclusion is that they stayed in the US. But that presents a problems as very little of the 1890 US census survived. It looks like following up on this family will be trickier than I thought.
I've run into problems searching for family links in places where census information is sparse before as members of my family have ended up in different parts of the globe, usually those areas are English speaking but diverse for all that. When I followed up on Australian family links, I was dismayed to find that there were no census records to search. There were electoral records but nothing that showed a family with its members all together. Then there's Ireland. There are some Irish censuses available but I haven't been able to find one early enough to link my family in the East End of London with their Irish roots.
I'm hoping for more research time in the coming weeks so that I can find out what happened to the various members of my Tripp family. If I bring Samuel Tripp's descendants forward in time that should go a long way to figuring out some of my DNA matches. That's more incentive to continue my search.
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