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TNG Ancestor Charts

Graphical formats

"Standard" charts have a lovely graphical format that shows the name and birth/death years in a box for each person's box. Additional data for each person can be pulled down from that box. They are in the shape of a standard pedigree chart, with empty boxes for ancestors that are not present in the tree.. Unfortunately, they generate so much whitespace that they require a lot of scrolling to read, and are virtually impossible to print. (But see the "PDF" chart below.)
"Vertical" charts are also lovely graphical charts. These flow down up instead of across the page. Since vertical charts do not use blank boxes for ancestors who are missing from the database, they are more compact than the "Standard" charts. But you cannot pull down additional data from each box. And depending on the number of ancestors in the tree, they can be too wide to print.
"Compact" charts are like "Standard" chart in their shape, but their boxes are much smaller because they contain only names.
"Box" charts are like "Standard" chart in their shape, but their boxes are bigger because they contain some of the data that is pulled-down from the "Standard" chart boxes. As a result, they are even more unweildy than the "Standard" charts.
"Fan" charts are remarkable. All I can say is "try one".
"PDF" chart are variants of "Standard" chart. They create a one-page PDF file that can hold up to six generations of data.
Most PC's these days can generate PDF printouts of any web page, but PDFs are distinctive because they control the page margins and page breaks,
The "Map" is not a chart. Rather, it is, well, a map. The places of ancestors' birth, marriage, and death are shown as pins on the map. It's pretty remarkable - you should give it a try, though the map would be easier to interpret if the pins were colored or numbered to represent generations.

(The graphical charts' connecting lines sometimes disappear at certain zoom level. When they are missing, you can use you mouse scroll wheel or hit control-plus or control-minus to change the zoom level.)

Text formats

"Text" charts are shaped just like the "Standard" charts, with lines drawn from person-to-person. They just don't put each person's data into graphical boxes.
"Text+" charts are quite distinctive, and unique to TNG. They are kind of a cross between the graphical and text formats. They are much more compact than the text charts, partly because they do not leave blank space where ancestors are missing. The ancestor tree extends to the right like typical charts, stretch vertically rather than horizontally, and can includes upwards of 15 generations in the width of one printed page (albeit sometimes with legal-length paper in landscape mode). They are also much more flexible than the other formats, with several (perhaps too many) run-time options.
"Ahnetafel" charts follow a standard genealogical text format that is descriptive - more like prose than a 'chart'. They contain almost all of the data that I have for each person, including free-form notes. But they don't give the kind of visual overview of the family tree that the other charts give.
"Media" charts are not focused on media, and they don't actually show pictures; they just indicate whether each ancestor's record has media item attached to it. (They don't distinguish between photos, scans of documents, and other types of media.) Their presentation of ancestors is very simple, and easy to read and print.

More detail

Generation: 1

1. Living

Generation: 2

2. Living
Living married Living [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
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Living
Children:

1. Living

Mark Gregory Ratledge was born on 2 Mar 1976 in Placerville, Eldorado, CA; died on 29 Feb 2012 in Cottonwood, Merced, CA.

Generation: 3

Jack Alexander Ratledge, Jr was born on 2 Mar 1921 in Lenoir City, Loudon, TN (son of Jack Alexander Ratledge and Minnie Richmond); died on 19 Dec 1995 in Oak Ridge, Anderson, TN; was buried in Lenoir City Cemetery, Lenoir City, Loudon, TN.

Jack married Vivian Pauline (Polly) Robinson
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on 23 Aug 1940 in Lenoir City, Loudon, TN. Vivian was born on 12 Sep 1921 in Lenoir City, Loudon, TN; died on 27 Dec 2004 in Greeneville, Greene, TN; was buried in Loudon County Memorial Gardens, Loudon, Loudon, TN. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Vivian Pauline (Polly) Robinson was born on 12 Sep 1921 in Lenoir City, Loudon, TN; died on 27 Dec 2004 in Greeneville, Greene, TN; was buried in Loudon County Memorial Gardens, Loudon, Loudon, TN.

Children:

Generation: 4

Jack Alexander Ratledge was born on 25 Dec 1880 in Lenoir City, Loudon, TN; died on 10 Nov 1942 in Lenoir City, Loudon, TN; was buried in Lenoir City Cemetery, Lenoir City, Loudon, TN.

Jack married Minnie Richmond on 29 Oct 1905 in Lenoir City, Loudon, TN. Minnie (daughter of John Henry Richmond and Harriett Elizabeth (Lizzy) McCroskey) was born on 3 Mar 1884 in Bradley Co, TN; died on 2 Oct 1956 in Lenoir City, Loudon, TN; was buried in Lenoir City Cemetery, Lenoir City, Loudon, TN. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Minnie Richmond was born on 3 Mar 1884 in Bradley Co, TN (daughter of John Henry Richmond and Harriett Elizabeth (Lizzy) McCroskey); died on 2 Oct 1956 in Lenoir City, Loudon, TN; was buried in Lenoir City Cemetery, Lenoir City, Loudon, TN.

Children:

Bessie May Ratledge was born on 10 Apr 1907 in Lenoir City, Loudon, TN; died on 11 Jan 1978 in Knoxville, Knox, TN; was buried in Lenoir City Cemetery, Lenoir City, Loudon, TN.
Douglas Ratledge was born in Jun 1909 in Lenoir City, Loudon, TN; died on 20 May 1910 in Lenoir City, Loudon, TN.
John Beecher Ratledge was born on 10 Oct 1910 in Lenoir City, Loudon, TN; died on 9 Aug 1968 in Lenoir City, Loudon, TN.
Hazel Louise Ratledge was born on 18 Sep 1912 in Lenoir City, Loudon, TN; died on 21 Dec 1941 in Lenoir City, Loudon, TN.
Raymond Ratledge was born on 13 Apr 1914 in Lenoir City, Loudon, TN; died on 16 Feb 1994 in Knoxville, Knox, TN; was buried in Pleasant Hill Baptist Church Cemetery, Lenoir City, Loudon, TN.
Ralph Robert Ratledge was born on 27 Jan 1916 in Lenoir City, Loudon, TN; died on 17 Feb 2003 in Asheboro, Randolph, NC; was buried in Randolph Memorial Park, Asheboro, Randolph, NC.
Frances L Ratledge was born on 19 May 1920 in Lenoir City, Loudon, TN; died on 13 Apr 2002 in Lenoir City, Loudon, TN; was buried in Marietta Cemetery, Concord, Knox, TN.
4. Jack Alexander Ratledge, Jr was born on 2 Mar 1921 in Lenoir City, Loudon, TN; died on 19 Dec 1995 in Oak Ridge, Anderson, TN; was buried in Lenoir City Cemetery, Lenoir City, Loudon, TN.


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