Author Description

This genealogy is revised with extensive new material and over 1,100 photos. The book covers an approximate 264 year time frame, starting with the birth of Richard Pinkerton Sr. (circa 1740) in Northern Ireland or in Scotland. It includes all of the descendants through 9 generations that the authors have so far been able to locate, born to the six known children of Richard Pinkerton Sr. and Martha or Margaret Wright Pinkerton, who were married around 1766 in Pennsylvania and later settled in the Somerset County, Upper Turkeyfoot Township, Pennsylvania area. Besides 9 generations of descendant information, this volume also includes genealogy research terminology and definitions; old-time occupational terminology and definitions; old-time medical terminology and definitions; a relationship chart; a table of epidemics, which also includes a 592 year timeline of recorded epidemics; 145 pages of descendant photos and multiple Family Group Sheets to allow you to personally record your lineage throughout the book from Generation One to Generation Nine.