I know nothing about either organization, but from my home down here in
Texas, I want to give a big THANKS to everyone who has preserved the
valuable records and made them available to researchers. Twenty years
ago a lady named Virginia Cornell did research for my Shaw family in
Tippecanoe County and charged a very small fee to send me an immense
amount of information that I still consult. I made a request at the
courthouse for a copy of my great grandparents' (Robert McFarland Barkley
and Margaret Elizabeth Shaw) marriage license, and my request was passed
on to her and she went more than the second mile. I spend a lot of time
on the internet on genealogy, and the Tippecanoe County web page is by
far the best I have found. I am very grateful to everyone who makes it
available.
Although I have not been able to visit the museum, a bedspread that was
owned by Margaret Shaw Barkley, woven by J. Ballantyne in 1847, is now in
the museum. My uncle decided in order to preserve it properly it should
go back to Tippecanoe County where it was made, and after his death it
was donated to the museum.
Frances Barkley Willess
On Thu, 24 Feb 2005 10:08:01 -0800 (PST) "Lena C." <gostraka(a)yahoo.com>
writes:
This is really irrelevant. What TIPCOA is doing is
highly unethical, regardless of who did what and when.
It's like paying your way into a museum and then
standing at the back door and charging your friends to
get in and then pocketing that money. I don't care if
you bought half of the paintings that are hanging in
the museum, you bought them for the benefit of the
museum, not for your own personal benefit. TIPCOA did
the work they did FOR TCHA, and that work is now
legally, ethically and morally the property of TCHA.
TIPCOA can't turn around now that they've been asked
to leave TCHA and say "hey wait- I want all that
back." Regardless of what happened 30 years ago, TCHA
is solely responsible for those records now, therefore
they should be the only ones to reap benefits from
those records now. Not to mention the question this
all raises in our minds - Why after 32 years with TCHA
was TIPCOA asked to leave???? TCHA wouldn't have
initiated that break without copious reason.
Interesting wording in this posting as well. In the
letter that was sent to me at my home by TIPCOA,
instead of saying "the TCHA Board decided that TIPCOA
should no longer partner with them" it said "when
TIPCOA was asked to leave". Semantics?
> Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2005 20:14:31 -0500
> From: "Sheila Hooker" <shooker06(a)verizon.net>
> To: INTIPPEC-L(a)rootsweb.com
> Subject: Setting the record straight-TIPCOA
>
> The Tippecanoe County Area Genealogy Society,
> TIPCOA, is a non-profit
> independent genealogy society with a strong
> membership. Our objectives are
> to do research, educate, make genealogical materials
> available to the
> public, and to locate, preserve, index and publish
> private and public
> records of Tippecanoe County. We support many
> libraries in our community.
> TIPCOA was formed in early 1970's as a non-profit
> organization dedicated to
> the preservation of records and building the
> genealogical collections housed
> at TCHA. Volunteers from DAR, TCHA, and TIPCOA
> saved court records,
> organized boxes of loose papers, established card
> and family files, and
> typed hundreds of thousands of index cards for
> marriages, wills, estates,
> cemetery, and court records. TIPCOA supported the
> library for 32 years with
> volunteers, by giving money for operating expenses,
> equipment and supplies,
> and by purchasing books for researchers to use. In
> 2002 the TCHA Board
> decided that TIPCOA should no longer partner with
> them. We left the
> collection with them hoping it would stay intact for
> all researchers.
>
> TIPCOA has a Certified Genealogist researching and
> over-seeing all research
> requests. Many of our researchers were the
> volunteers who helped build
> those indexes in the now TCHA library and are well
> versed on what is
> available and where to locate materials. There are
> other original sources
> of information besides those housed at the TCHA
> library.
>
> Researchers do have a choice and the purpose of this
> message is to educate
> everyone on this list that TIPCOA is working very
> hard at preserving the
> family histories of this county and providing
> research services to the public.
>
> We hope this sets the record straight.
>
> The TIPCOA board members
> For more information you may read the links on our
> webpage.
> Tippecanoe County Genealogy Society
>
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