Go to 'Buy/Sell' and then 'History' where you can download your account activity reports as csv files and have them send to your email.
Yup. I found it but forgot to update this note. I was sure it had to be there but sometime I can miss the simplest thing. They had this option in an obvious place but I just missed it.
So far Coinbase seems simple (which I prefer) and includes most of the necessary features. I'm pretty hopeful that it will prove to be a good solution for my needs and it is on track to be. Linking to my checking account is a dream come true in fact.
One missing feature which I would very much appreciate before I could use it as a wallet-type service would be to have the ability to sign things. It may just not be applicable under their structure of dealing with addresses. I am personally not adverse to using a different service as an on-line wallet to just keep the spending money I need in the immediate future though. Coinbase may in fact prefer that users do just this. I've not enough experience with their service to determine what, exactly, the utilization space they wish to target is.