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This page provides access to three databases and associated media (image) files related to the Sinnock family:

  1. Sinnocks and Kin.ftm
  2. Sinnock Royals Vikings Romans and Gods.ftm
  3. Sinnock Name Variants.ftm

These databases contain most information about the family I gathered over the past 25 years. This overall site is meant to augment these databases by providing public access to much source information used to construct the databases. I have a PhD, and this effort represents more love and hours than my thesis, nay even my whole graduate program, thesis, class rooms, and studying all combined (well, maybe not the studying -- whioh is ever ongoing). Access to the databases is by:

The first three options are discussed on this page -- click bold text to jump to sections; click blue headings to return -- or better yet just scroll through the page, it's not long.

On the table click any number in a green cell to either download a zipped file (left two columns) or link to the indicated internet site (right two columns). Numbers for downloads indicate size in megabytes (MB) of both the zipped and (unzipped) versions of the databases. Unzipped files for the first two FTM databases contain a folder (directory) with an FTM database file and a media subfolder; these should be kept together otherwise all downloaded files may be moved anywhere. The Sinnock Name Variants database has no associated images so no media folder. Numbers to the left of the green cells indicate the number of individuals in each database. Numbers of people are repeated as links to internet sites, the same number for Ancestry.com and a reduced number for FamilySearch.org.

Media folders contain JPG images of persons, homes, hometowns, artwork, descendant trees, ancestors diagrams, tombstone images, cemetery maps, letters, BMD certificates, migration maps and a few others (recognize the categories from the numbered menus?). These folders are included with the first two FTM databases (sinkin-ftm.zip and sinroy-ftm.zip) and available separately (sinkinmedia.zip and sinroymedia.zip) see below. Both internet sites use 'Sinnocks' and 'Sinnock01' as the name and code, respectively that give edit authority. Please feel free to use either of these sites to add family members or correct mistakes I may have made, but please be careful and try to add sources for all your facts. I will (intend to) check back occasionally to confirm changes in my FTM version then, as changes merit, re-load updated versions to Ancestry.com and FamilySearch.org. But here I must break the 4th wall and appeal to some computer-philic, genealogy-obsessed Sinnock, preferably a few years younger, to take on management of this site and maintainance of the databases (all terms negotiable, I am easy).

FTM Databases

FTM files are generated and can be viewed and edited only by Family Tree Maker software, the genealogical computer program I have used for over 25 years to record our family data. The program has a long history of owners and developers including at one time Banner Blue Software, Broaderbund Software, and many others. It is currently owned and maintained by Software MacKiev.

  • The Sinnocks and Kin database collects nearly 11,000 Sinnocks with families and their relatives. It includes more than 5200 known Sinnock descendants of John Senoke who lived in Eastbourne, Sussex, along the southern coast of England in the late 1500's. Most maternal families include at least the 'Sinnock's wife's grandparents, often deeper ancestors like my mother's that stretch back to the earliest colonial puritans. These maternal families account for most of the other 5500 or so individuals in the database. This leaves about 300 other Sinnock families not attached (yet?) to this main line, especially a family from Scotland with nearly 100 members. These other families are included in this 'main' database because I suspect most are related to the main 'Eastbourne' line but not yet by supportable conjectures even. 'Relatives' or 'Kin' are considered any of a person's descendants, ancestors, ancestors' descendants, spouses, spouse's other spouses, spouse's descendants by other spouses, spouses ancestors, and spouse's ancestors' descendants, and their spouses and families .... whew! .... I can't keep track of such complexity, the Family Tree Maker database program does -- as any genealogy program can -- I just added people.

  • The Sinnock, Royals, Vikings, Romans and Gods database extracts those Sinnocks who have medieval royal ancestors and extends that ancestry by history, legend and myth to the earliest of times including Adam and Eve as JW Sinnock's 100 great grandparents (shown in the Ancestry.com version). Perhaps after one hundred generations it's time to ask where civilizationwe has been and where itwe is headed?      All I can think is, 'Keep on truckin' ........'

  • The Sinnock Name Variants database contains individuals unconnected to families in the Sinnocks and Kin database. Most individuals have surname variants such as Sinnick, Senneck, Synnock, Synnuck and others, but also individuals who have been reported as potentially 'Sinnock' in online databases, mostly Ancestry.com, but are individuals and families whose last names are easily confused with Sinnock (Pinnock, Linnock, etc.) especially on hand-written census forms and parish records. Other Sinnocks are included that appear only in one unreliable source, often the IGI. This database contains low potential Sinnock relatives of the 'main' line represented in the Sinnocks and Kin database. I suspect most will remain 'unconnected', especially the name variants; but who knows? -- if connections can be made maybe this organization will help. Even I suspect a connection of the numerous Sinnick clan that appeared in the early 1800's in Hampshire and Dorset just down the coast to the west from Sussex. A few Sinnocks from Sussex migrated as far west as Hampshire during that same period. The database also contains much information about 'Sevenoaks' name variants I encountered looking for possible relatives given that many family legends include a story that our name descends from 'Sevenoaks'. I found no Sevenoak(s) in our common ancestry, but several descendants from Sinnock families are named Sevenoak(s).

GEDCOM Databases

All genealogical programs can read and save information as GEDCOM files (GEnealogical Data COMmunication). Many programs are available, e.g. Family Tree Maker, Legacy Family Tree, RootsMagic, Personal Ancestral File, The Master Genealogist, etc. Most are commercial, some are free. Each uses its own proprietary file format. All genealogical programs are able to export and import family information in GEDCOM format. This standard file format (*.ged) makes it easy to exchange information among programs as well as upload family files to the internet, as done for FamilySearh.org. Included here are GEDCOM versions of the three databases. The GEDCOM files were generated by Family Tree Maker. I have not imported them with any other program so don't know what information if any could be lost. However, my GEDCOM versions (perhaps all GEDCOMs) seem to only preserve a single image for people associated with multiple images in the FTM databases; it seems only the images assigned in Family Tree Maker as 'Profile Pictures' are perserved. To partially compensate, media folders associated with GED databases are available for separate download in case the links but not the images are preserved. If not, manual assignment of images in the downloaded media folders is all I can recommend. The files are named alphabetically by first names of associated people.

ANCESTRY.COM Link

I uploaded (submitted) complete versions of the Sinnock and Kin and Sinnocks Royals Vikings Romans & Gods databases to Ancestry.com, a proprietary for profit site. There are two options to view (and edit) the databases:

  • Sign-up for a free temporary account on Ancestry.com. This option gives limited access to search options at Ancestry.com as well as access to all their 10,000's of public family trees such as my two submittals. I don't know how on their 'new and improved site' to go directly to a given database, such as the two mentioned here, only how to seach by individuals. If you enter "Sinnock" in the site's search engine 'last name' box, many databases will show up. Good luck.

  • Let me know by email (ssinnock01@gmail.com) that you want to view the databases so I can 'Invite Family', as Ancestry.com calls it, giving your email address (and you) access to the databases.

So much work for so little reward. However, other than downloading the full version and viewing it with Family Tree Maker, this is the best access to all information in the databases. I understand the need for security, but..........?

I used my paid Ancestry.com account quite often to research the Sinnock family. If you choose sign up for a temporary account you can access abundant genealogical records, many obtained from LDS church archives as well as many other sources. I believe Ancestry.com searches are more intuitive than the LDS FamilySearch site (see below), a personal preference, perhaps due only to habit. Ancestry.com also allow paid subscribers to directly upload FTM files without conversion to GEDCOM format as required by FamilySearch.org, preserving all information in the original database including multiple images for individuals, a feature I took advantage of for the two databases.

FAMILYSEARCH.ORG Link

A limited version of Sinnocks and Kin database was uploaded as a GEDCOM file to FamilySearch.org (see ¶ below). The submitted database removed individuals of several maternal families from the Sinnocks and Kin database (accounting for the reduced number), families already well represented on other family trees available at FamilySearch.org. The link, activated by clicking the number of people, is to a search page on the FamilySearch.org site. Near the bottom of the page is a entry box labeled 'Submission ID' that identifies individual family trees. The Sinnock tree I submitted is accessible by entering MMDP-1HM in the entry box (note: capital letters only). Why doesn't Ancestry.com make it that easy?

FamilySearch.org is mostly a free site to aid genealogists and other interested people from thoughout the world. It is the official genealogical research site of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (LDS, also known as the Mormons). For many years Mormons have compiled genealogical information in order to 'tie' ancestors to the church. In the process they have what I and many others believe is the world's best set of genealogical records. This site is primarily recommended as a research tool rather than a display site, though it is that too. The site contains free access to many genealogical records. One site area, called 'Genealogies' contains a semi-combined World Family Tree made up of a hodge-podge of individually submitted family records. Since 2002 this database has been called the Pedigree Resource File (formerly it was known as the Ancestral File). In the future I have no idea what it will be called, but I'm confident that data submitted will be preserved in one form or another. At the link from the table one may enter a person's name (labeled as 'ancestor' but it does not need to be one) and the program will return a tree diagram of that person or, more commonly, a list of possible options for that person. Selecting an option dispaly the person's tree showing one generation of descendants and two of ancestors. The tree displayed is not linked to any particular submission or family tree and is just a portion of the ever evolving 'combined' tree. However if you enter the submission ID number MMDP-1HM (all capital letters) in the entry box labeled 'Submission ID' near the bottom of the pages, the site will return a list of the 4374 deceased people in my submission. Highlighting a person's name then clicking the 'tree' symbol will show, as above, the person' tree as part of the 'overall' tree. It is not possible at present to view only a submitter's data in linked trees, or, at least, I don't know how.

MEDIA FOLDERS

ZIP files containing JPG images of all 'media' in both the Sinnocks and Kin and Sinnocks Royal Vikings Romans & Gods databases are included for separate download. These folders are also downloaded with FTM versions of the same databases, but are included for separate download because:

  • they may be necessary to augment downloaded GED files of the databases as mentioned above
  • they provide a neat way to download most images in one fell-swoop available individually from the 12 Downloads


Files in the media folders are all JPG's named alphabetically by the associated person's first name. Note that HTML does not currently allow folders to be downloaded, only 'files'; and ZIP files count, even zipped folders with many level of subfolders. Thus you get ZIP files of the databases and their media folders. Most file navigators have an 'unzip' or 'extract' option. The files are extracted to folders named for the database (sinkin, sinroy, sinvar) and the database (e.g. sinkin-ftm). These folders contain the database files and media folders for FTM files and similarly named subfolders that contain the GED files and media folders. You get the picture, just explore the unzipped folders for the file extensions FTM or GED to open the database files or for a bunch of JPG files contained in the media folders. All downloaded files can be moved anywhere on your computer as long as the media folders stay in the same folder as the FTM database files (*.ftm). If not, nothing severe happens, just that your version of Family Tree Maker won't be able to access any pictures.