2) Correct the errors of ancestry found in Sinnett as revealed by others. Sinnett performed a monumental task to compile his Pinkham Genealogy, but his sources were not always reliable. As errors become known, these corrections will be noted by lining through the error and enclosing the correction in brackets, as in the following example: Mary Grimes [Groomes]. Sinnett sometimes provides discussions of generations without being careful with his use of pronouns. When this happens, clarifications are indicated in brackets. For example, on p 68, you will find, “this house afterwards being occupied by his [Nathaniel’s] son.” It was not immediately obvious who “his” was referring to since there were several antecedent possibilities. When the genealogy was worked out, it became obvious.

3) Identify and link all Pinkhams listed in Sinnett with Pinkhams in WikiTree. When the task was done, between those identified by others and those added from Sinnett, there were 2621 Pinkhams in WikiTree. This will likely prove to be a fraction of the number who lived and live in North America once all Pinkhams there have been added.

4) List and link all spouses of Pinkhams listed in Sinnett with their identifier in WikiTree.

The author practiced several conventions in this revision, most notable are the following:

1) Whenever the author needed to provide clarification, beyond the correction indicated in 2), above, said clarification was enclosed in brackets.

2) At the end of a line containing a Pinkham, the WikiTree identifier is indicated in the following manner: “   [P-116].” The three spaces before, separate this entry from the first part of the line so that it is easily noted. “P” indicates Pinkham and “-116” indicates the record for this Pinkham found in WikiTree. When you are in the WikiTree web site (a good place to begin is: https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Pinkham-116), you find this record by clicking on the “Find” tab in the upper right and entering “Pinkham-116” in the ID window found at “3, Search for Ancestor Matches” toward the end of the page. If you do so with Pinkham-116, you will find yourself on the page of Richard Pinkham, THE Richard Pinkham who started this North American dynasty. Use the same procedure to find any other P-identifier.

PLEASE NOTE: Wiki identifiers enable you to quickly find all references to a particular person. Even though there may be many Richard Pinkham’s, in Sinnett, there is only one who can be found with “P-116”.]

3) If a husband of a Pinkham is entered, his surname will be indicated as above, except the first letter will match the first later of his surname. In the event a surname begins with “P,” the next letter in the surname is also included.

4) If a last name was not given, obviously the Wiki identifier could not be determined, so the entry, “[U-xxx]” was used as a space holder. Occasionally, for various reasons, the WikiTree entry for a non-Pinkham was not entered; but the last name was present; as for example, “Bunker.” In that case often “[B-xxx] was entered as a space holder.

5) If more than one person is found in the same line, the WikiTree identifiers will be separated by three spaces unless there is not enough of the line left to do so. When that happens, fewer spaces will separate the identifiers as needed. If only one space between identifiers is not sufficient to include all that occur in that line, the line will end with “//” and a new line will be inserted below it with any remaining identifiers. That line will also end with “//.”  This procedure will maintain the line integrity of the original work. If a person is mentioned additional times in the same paragraph and no other people are mentioned, the identifier for that person is not given again.

6) In his work, Sinnett ingeniously indicated successive generations by numbers in parentheses and often indented each successive generation on the line: one indentation for the second generation, two, for the third, and so on. With our access to Word, the author decided to retain the generation numbers but remove the indentations (which were not always rigorously followed) and replace them with highlights using the following scheme:

Generation One (Richard)

Generation Two

Generation Three

Generation Four

Generation Five

Generation Six

Generation Seven

Generation Eight

Generation Nine

Generation Ten 

Generation eleven (Sinnett very rarely took the Pinkham line beyond ten generations.)

In the rare event that generations earlier than Richards were identified (in lines other than Pinkham), the following convention was used

Generation One, Minus Two

Generation One, Minus One

Text following the Generation number entered into WikiTree was highlighted as in the generation number.

On pp 57-63, the ancestor of the first entry could not be determined. Assigning generation number could not be confidently established. In this case, entries put into WikiTree were simply indicated by highlighting them with the gray of Generation Ten, as done here, but leaving Sinnett’s generation numbers as is.

7) information in Sinnett not entered in WikiTree is not highlighted so it can easily be found for future revisions.

8) The way Sinnett entered spaces between entries sometimes led to confusion. To avoid the possibility in this work, the author has entered spaces between generations only when the generation returns from a later generation to an earlier one. If new entries continue within the same generation or go from one generation to its next generation descendants, when one line ends, the next entry begins on the next line.

9) In cases where Richard incorrectly identified a generation, the correct generation is indicated by lining through the incorrect generation number and following it with the correct one, e.g.: (34).

10) Sometimes Sinnett used a single line of 5, spaced *’s to separate siblings, generations or new lines. His use was not consistent, so the author has mostly provided the following where Sinnet has a series of 5, spaced *’s:

*     *       *       *       *      *

11) Occasionally, Sinnett assigned a Pinkham to the wrong parent. When that happened, the

Correct lineage is indicated by preceding it as follows:

*     *       *       *       *      *

[Joseph’s father is Thomas, son of Richard   [P-605]   [P-172]]

*     *       *       *       *      *

12) Initially, all entries were placed in WikiTree, including the descendants of Pinkham daughters. It soon became obvious that this would add an order of magnitude to the task, so the author suspended that aspect of the effort and only Pinkhams and the spouses of Pinkham daughters were entered. As time allows he will return and add all entries in Sinnett.

13) Whenever noticed, the author corrected errors in the Optical Character Reader (OCR) function used by Internet Archive to convert the bound copy into the digital copy downloaded from that site (https://archive.org/details/richardpinkhamof00sinn/page/3/. Undoubtedly not all such errors were caught.

14) While on the subject, the author cannot overemphasize the importance of Internet Archive, (the Wayback Machine). If the reader has the means, the author suggests supporting its continuing effort to preserve and convert the venerable hard copies of important works of the past into digital format.

The author has tried to be careful and consistent with the above as he makes entries. However, it is certain errors have occurred. If the reader finds one, please email the author with the correction. Please provide enough of the entry that he can use “find” to locate it in this document.  He will replace the incorrect version on the website with the version containing your update and credit you for the correction.

If some readers have Pinkham daughters in their ancestry and want to add the entries in Sinnett pertaining to those daughters and their descendants, please feel free to make the additions and send them to me. I will make sure they are incorporated into the version on the website ASAP and will let you know when that is done.

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