Living: Robin's Roots

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.

Less detail

Generation: 1

1. Living

Generation: 2

James Ianne Dudley was born about 1938 in Detroit, Wayne County, Michigan, USA (son of Edgar Elwood (Dud) Dudley and Evalyn Jean Coffman, son of Jacob Charles (James) Ianne and Evalyn Jean Coffman); died about 2020.

Other Events and Attributes:

Residence: 1940, Detroit, Wayne County, Michigan, USA

Notes:

Birth:
Born as James Charles Ianne Jr, then adopted by Edgar (Dud) Dudley, his mother's second husband

James married Living [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

3.
Living
Children:

1. Living

Generation: 3

Jacob Charles (James) Ianne was born on 21 Jun 1903 in Buffalo, Erie County, New York, USA.

Other Events and Attributes:

Residence: 1910, Buffalo, Erie County, New York, USA
Residence: 1940, Detroit, Wayne County, Michigan, USA
Residence: 16 Feb 1942, Detroit, Wayne County, Michigan, USA

Jacob married Evalyn Jean Coffman on 23 Nov 1935 in Bowling Green, Wood County, Ohio, USA, and was divorced on 29 Jul 1940 in Oakland County, Michigan, USA. Evalyn (daughter of Hubert Oliver Coffman and Mary Lista Hutcheson) was born on 16 May 1914 in Livermore, McLean County, Kentucky, USA; died on 17 Oct 1997 in Wheat Ridge, Jefferson County, Colorado, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Evalyn Jean Coffman was born on 16 May 1914 in Livermore, McLean County, Kentucky, USA (daughter of Hubert Oliver Coffman and Mary Lista Hutcheson); died on 17 Oct 1997 in Wheat Ridge, Jefferson County, Colorado, USA.

Other Events and Attributes:

Residence: 1920, Livermore, McLean County, Kentucky, USA
Residence: 1930, Royal Oak, Oakland County, Michigan, USA
Residence: 1940, Detroit, Wayne County, Michigan, USA

Children:

Living
2. James Ianne Dudley was born about 1938 in Detroit, Wayne County, Michigan, USA; died about 2020.

Generation: 4

10.

Hubert Oliver Coffman was born on 6 May 1883 in Ohio County, Kentucky, USA (son of Francis Oliver (Franklin) Coffman and Laura May Everly); died in Oct 1961 in Denver, Denver County, Colorado, USA; was buried in Crown Hill Cemetery, Wheat Ridge, Jefferson County, Colorado, USA.

Other Events and Attributes:

Residence: 1900, Rosine, Ohio County, Kentucky, USA; With his widowed father in his paternal grandparents' home. His young brothers Arch and Charlie were living with their maternal grandmother, Nancy Everly, whose household is on the same census sheet.
Residence: 1910, Ohio County, Kentucky, USA; Magisterial District 4;
Residence: 1918, Centertown, Ohio County, Kentucky, USA
Residence: 1920, Livermore, McLean County, Kentucky, USA
Residence: 1930, Royal Oak, Oakland County, Michigan, USA
Residence: 1940, Royal Oak, Oakland County, Michigan, USA
Residence: 1942, Royal Oak, Oakland County, Michigan, USA

Hubert married Mary Lista Hutcheson on 5 Aug 1908 in Van Buren County, Tennessee, USA. Mary (daughter of Leander Travis (L.T.) Hutcheson, Sr and Olive Irene Kuykendall) was born on 6 Nov 1884 in Pikeville, Bledsoe County, Tennessee, USA; died on 19 Jun 1984 in Wheat Ridge, Jefferson County, Colorado, USA; was buried in Crown Hill Cemetery, Wheat Ridge, Jefferson County, Colorado, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

11.

Mary Lista Hutcheson was born on 6 Nov 1884 in Pikeville, Bledsoe County, Tennessee, USA (daughter of Leander Travis (L.T.) Hutcheson, Sr and Olive Irene Kuykendall); died on 19 Jun 1984 in Wheat Ridge, Jefferson County, Colorado, USA; was buried in Crown Hill Cemetery, Wheat Ridge, Jefferson County, Colorado, USA.

Other Events and Attributes:

Residence: 1900, Bledsoe County, Tennessee, USA
Residence: 1910, Ohio County, Kentucky, USA; Magisterial District 4;
Residence: 1920, Livermore, McLean County, Kentucky, USA
Residence: 1930, Royal Oak, Oakland County, Michigan, USA
Residence: 1940, Royal Oak, Oakland County, Michigan, USA

Notes:

Mary Lista married Hubert O. Coffman August 5, 1908. They had 2 children. Hubert was a banker and they lived most of their years at Fern Dale, Michigan. After retirement they moved to Denver, Colorado to be with Evalyn who had gone west for her health. Mary outlived Hubert by several years. She enjoyed trout fishing and bowled every week when she was in her nineties. She never weighed over 90 pounds.
- From notes by James Murphy

Children:

5. Evalyn Jean Coffman was born on 16 May 1914 in Livermore, McLean County, Kentucky, USA; died on 17 Oct 1997 in Wheat Ridge, Jefferson County, Colorado, USA.
Carlos Benson Coffman was born on 26 Jan 1917 in Livermore, McLean County, Kentucky, USA; died on 3 Oct 2003 in Garland, Dallas County, Texas, USA; was buried in Crown Hill Cemetery, Wheat Ridge, Jefferson County, Colorado, USA.


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