{"id":219,"date":"2010-01-28T15:42:36","date_gmt":"2010-01-28T23:42:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/janelucas.ca\/wordpress\/?page_id=219"},"modified":"2019-03-03T09:23:27","modified_gmt":"2019-03-03T17:23:27","slug":"lucas-book","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/janelucas.ca\/wordpress\/lucas-family-of-hitchin\/the-lucas-book\/lucas-book\/","title":{"rendered":"Pdf copy of the Lucas Book"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This <a href=\"https:\/\/janelucas.ca\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/LucasBook.pdf\" data-wplink-edit=\"true\">link<\/a>\u00a0takes you to a pdf file of\u00a0a scanned copy of a photocopy of the original Lucas Book.\u00a0 Over the years I annotated a photocopy version in pencil so now in some ways it is more useful than if I did a fresh nice scan of the book. This version has been kindly rescanned by Andrew Daviel, who is a relative descending from Phebe Lucas and Thomas Glaisyer, of Brighton.\u00a0 \u00a0See p. 15 of the Lucas Book.<\/p>\n<p>The layout of the book follows a traditional style for a presenting a genealogy, and it works very well once you get used to it.\u00a0 Unfortunately when there are large families it gets a little confusing (very confusing!) because there can be gaps of several pages between children in the same family.\u00a0 After a while even that gets easier to follow because of the system of indenting each subsequent generation.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our&#8221; Lucas family starts on page 16, the descendants of John Lucas and Judith Marsom.<\/p>\n<p>In general I&#8217;ve found the information to be surprisingly accurate except for the initial page and the first part of page two.\u00a0\u00a0 Those pages are more difficult to really verify and so far I haven&#8217;t spent much time on that part of the whole project.\u00a0\u00a0 I suspect that as more material becomes available online and indexed it will get easier to sort it all out.\u00a0 In the meantime it is very long ago and I&#8217;m not going to worry about it.<\/p>\n<p>In the end it would be nice to see if it would be possible to hook up some other Lucas families in different parts of England, and I can see that possibility with the increasing use of DNA for genealogical purposes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This link\u00a0takes you to a pdf file of\u00a0a scanned copy of a photocopy of the original Lucas Book.\u00a0 Over the years I annotated a photocopy version in pencil so now in some ways it is more useful than if I did a fresh nice scan of the book. This version has been kindly rescanned by Andrew Daviel, who is a&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/janelucas.ca\/wordpress\/lucas-family-of-hitchin\/the-lucas-book\/lucas-book\/\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":15,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-219","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/janelucas.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/219"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/janelucas.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/janelucas.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/janelucas.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/janelucas.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=219"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"https:\/\/janelucas.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/219\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1529,"href":"https:\/\/janelucas.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/219\/revisions\/1529"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/janelucas.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/15"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/janelucas.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}