Hello Kathryn Thanks for your advice. I did copy the web pages into Word a few years ago, have since tidied them up, and am extracting information of interest into my family history program. I have tremendous respect and gratitude to John Palmer, and his supporters such as you who have produced a hugely useful resource in www.wirksworth.org. However, I wanted access to a pdf copy of Ince's Pedigrees for three reasons: 1. As a matter of principal, I always treat transcriptions with a little circumspection until I have seen the original source document. I have found a lot of transcription errors in various documents over the years including, for example, in FreeBMD whose transcription checking process I had thought would have been foolproof 2. With old handwritten documents, there is often some interpretation required of problematical writing, and different transcribers may come to different conclusions. Whilst also prone to false conclusions, a transcriber who has prior knowledge of what he/she is looking for may come to the most likely one 3. Just today, I have come across two instances on www.wirksworth.org where a date given in the Ince transcription is different from that given in the PR transcription. There are a number of possible reasons for this, and it is only possible to narrow them down by reviewing the two source documents Kind regards Nick ------ Original Message ------ From: "Kathryn Morano" <[email protected]> To: "Nick Higton" <[email protected]>; "Derbyshire genealogy" <[email protected]> Sent: 10/02/2017 20:42:09 Subject: Re: [DBY] Ince's Pedigrees >Dear Nick, > >The simplest thing to do is go to the web page, copy the pages you are >interested in and save them to WORD. I did a lot of the transcriptions >for the website, and the original pages are hard to read and rather >large. You're better off using the transcriptions. > >Kathryn Morano > >-----Original Message----- From: Nick Higton via DERBYSGEN >Sent: Friday, February 10, 2017 2:02 PM >To: Derbyshire list >Cc: Nick Higton >Subject: [DBY] Ince's Pedigrees > >Does anyone have a pdf copy of Ince's Pedigrees, please? I was hoping >to obtain one from John Palmer (of www.wirksworth.org fame), but he >hasn't been responding to letters and email for the past six months, at >least. I fear this may not be good news. >In case anyone doesn't know, www.wirksworth.org explains: >"Thomas Norris INCE was a solicitor in Wirksworth born 1799 and died >1860. During his working life he compiled a 484 page handwritten book >entitled: "PEDIGREES & sketches of pedigrees of families in-about >WIRKSWORTH etc". The book is a potential goldmine for local genealogy >because of its circumstances and date. It contains some 1,000 Pedigrees >and mentions about 20,000 people with sometimes a lot of personal >detail. " >The book is available as a photocopy and on microfilm in Derby Local >Studies Library, but I can't get there easily, and I'd like to print >off >some pages from the original manuscript so I can annotate them as I >research my ancestors in Wirksworth. >Thanks >Nick Higton >Kenilworth >Warwickshire >email: [email protected] > > > > > > > > >------------------------------- >To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >[email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >quotes in the subject and the body of the message > >--- >This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. >https://www.avast.com/antivirus >