Newsletter Triptych
Thirty-three years ago I thought it would be a good idea to keep other Irvine family members informed as to what we were doing to organize the family's first reunion. After our fore-bearers arrived in Victoria some 142 years ago we thought it was time to find out how many souls their offspring had become.
So this series of newsletters was published quarterly by me over the span of the next eight years. After the last Irvine reunion in 1996 and the family 228 page, hardcover book was published the newsletter met its timely demise at Volume 8 No.3 in 1998.
All Canadian serial, print media can be published under International Standard Serial Numbers (ISSN) which uniquely identifies a serial publication. The best part for me is the Canadian Library and Archives requires those publications using ISSN numbers must deposit two copies of each print publication with them on an ongoing basis. This means, all my ISSN 1192-4497 registered publications will live on long after I'm gone. As will the Irvine family book with its number: ISBN 0-9695935-1-1.
This brings us to my current project to get as many issues of this newsletter into digital form as possible. What a lot of work! But, thank God, I have all the computer hardware and software to accomplish said task. Where there's a will there's away.
NB My one-year-old grandson (shown above) is now 27 yrs old and says he will take the family, genealogical mantle from me — poor lad, he has no idea.
Newsletter Triptych
Thirty-three years ago I thought it would be a good idea to keep other Irvine family members informed as to what we were doing to organize the family's first reunion. After our fore-bearers arrived in Victoria some 142 years ago we thought it was time to find out how many souls their offspring had become.
So this series of newsletters was published quarterly by me over the span of the next eight years. After the last Irvine reunion in 1996 and the family 228 page, hardcover book was published the newsletter met its timely demise at Volume 8 No.3 in 1998.
All Canadian serial, print media can be published under International Standard Serial Numbers (ISSN) which uniquely identifies a serial publication. The best part for me is the Canadian Library and Archives requires those publications using ISSN numbers must deposit two copies of each print publication with them on an ongoing basis. This means, all my ISSN 1192-4497 registered publications will live on long after I'm gone. As will the Irvine family book with its number: ISBN 0-9695935-1-1.
This brings us to my current project to get as many issues of this newsletter into digital form as possible. What a lot of work! But, thank God, I have all the computer hardware and software to accomplish said task. Where there's a will there's away.
NB My one-year-old grandson (shown above) is now 27 yrs old and says he will take the family, genealogical mantle from me — poor lad, he has no idea.