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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.

Less detail

Generation: 1

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Family/Spouse: Living. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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

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Living

Generation: 2

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

Steven Michael Sims was born on 16 Jul 1962 in Baytown, Harris County, Texas, USA; died on 27 Apr 1992 in Austin, Travis County, Texas, USA.

1. Living

Generation: 3

Solomon Andrew Sims was born on 11 Jul 1905 in Texas, USA; died on 25 Dec 1980 in Cleburne, Johnson County, Texas, USA.

Other Events and Attributes:

Residence: 1935, Wichita Falls, Wichita County, Texas, USA
Residence: 1940, Fort Worth, Tarrant County, Texas, USA

Solomon married Juanita Elizabeth Richmond on 22 Apr 1926 in Wichita Falls, Wichita County, Texas, USA. Juanita (daughter of Benjamin Harrison Richmond and Mattie Calhoun) was born on 12 Apr 1912 in Wichita Falls, Wichita County, Texas, USA; died on 12 Jan 1998 in Waco, McLennan County, Texas, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Juanita Elizabeth Richmond was born on 12 Apr 1912 in Wichita Falls, Wichita County, Texas, USA (daughter of Benjamin Harrison Richmond and Mattie Calhoun); died on 12 Jan 1998 in Waco, McLennan County, Texas, USA.

Other Events and Attributes:

Residence: 1935, Wichita Falls, Wichita County, Texas, USA
Residence: 1940, Fort Worth, Tarrant County, Texas, USA

Children:

Mary Elizabeth Sims was born on 20 Aug 1927 in Wichita Falls, Wichita County, Texas, USA; died on 29 Jun 2014 in Waco, McLennan County, Texas, USA.
Thelma Ruth Sims was born on 22 Jan 1929 in Wichita Falls, Wichita County, Texas, USA; died on 18 Feb 1929 in Wichita Falls, Wichita County, Texas, USA.
Priscilla Ann Sims was born on 4 Jun 1931 in Wichita Falls, Wichita County, Texas, USA; died on 2 Dec 2007 in Cleburne, Johnson County, Texas, USA.
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Living
2. Living

Generation: 4

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Benjamin Harrison Richmond was born on 28 Dec 1888 in Hon, Scott County, Arkansas, USA (son of Christopher Columbus (Lum) Richmond and Queen Easter Elizabeth Stuart); died on 23 Mar 1961 in El Paso, El Paso County, Texas, USA; was buried in Evergreen Alameda Cemetery, El Paso, El Paso County, Texas, USA.

Other Events and Attributes:

Residence: 1900, Denton & Hon Townships, Scott County, Arkansas, USA
Residence: 1910, Wichita Falls, Wichita County, Texas, USA
Residence: 1920, Wichita Falls, Wichita County, Texas, USA
Residence: 1930, Wichita Falls, Wichita County, Texas, USA

Benjamin married Mattie Calhoun on 20 Sep 1909 in Wichita Falls, Wichita County, Texas, USA. Mattie was born on 12 Sep 1888 in Arkansas, USA; died on 6 Jan 1967 in Wichita Falls, Wichita County, Texas, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Mattie Calhoun was born on 12 Sep 1888 in Arkansas, USA; died on 6 Jan 1967 in Wichita Falls, Wichita County, Texas, USA.

Other Events and Attributes:

Residence: 1910, Wichita Falls, Wichita County, Texas, USA
Residence: 1920, Wichita Falls, Wichita County, Texas, USA
Residence: 1930, Wichita Falls, Wichita County, Texas, USA

Children:

Jack Richmond was born on 25 May 1910 in Wichita Falls, Wichita County, Texas, USA; died on 26 Nov 1960 in Wichita Falls, Wichita County, Texas, USA; was buried in Riverside Cemetery, Wichita Falls, Wichita County, Texas, USA.
5. Juanita Elizabeth Richmond was born on 12 Apr 1912 in Wichita Falls, Wichita County, Texas, USA; died on 12 Jan 1998 in Waco, McLennan County, Texas, USA.
Vera Richmond was born on 6 May 1916 in Wichita Falls, Wichita County, Texas, USA; died in 2007 in Long Beach, Los Angeles County, California, USA.
J D Richmond was born on 20 Aug 1919 in Wichita Falls, Wichita County, Texas, USA; died on 13 Sep 2007 in Garland, Dallas County, Texas, USA.
Neomia Louise Richmond was born on 16 Mar 1921 in Wichita Falls, Wichita County, Texas, USA; died on 19 May 2005 in Mission Viejo, Orange County, California, USA.
Paul Samuel Richmond was born on 9 Jul 1923 in Wichita Falls, Wichita County, Texas, USA; died on 6 Apr 2007 in Spring, Montgomery County, Texas, USA.
Ben Harrison (Sonny) Richmond was born on 17 May 1925 in Wichita Falls, Wichita County, Texas, USA; died on 23 Apr 2000 in Wichita Falls, Wichita County, Texas, USA.
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