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

John William Arbuckle was born on 21 Jul 1912 in Charleston, Kanawha County, West Virginia, USA (son of John Tate Arbuckle and Virginia D Murrill); died on 18 Sep 1952 in Charleston, Kanawha County, West Virginia, USA.

Other Events and Attributes:

Residence: 1920, Union, Kanawha County, West Virginia, USA
Residence: 1940, South Charleston, Kanawha County, West Virginia, USA

John married Janet Nelson. Janet was born on 27 Dec 1916 in Cuyahoga County, Ohio, USA; died on 12 Aug 1958 in Charleston, Kanawha County, West Virginia, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Janet Nelson was born on 27 Dec 1916 in Cuyahoga County, Ohio, USA; died on 12 Aug 1958 in Charleston, Kanawha County, West Virginia, USA.

Other Events and Attributes:

Residence: 1920, Lakewood, Cuyahoga County, Ohio, USA
Residence: 1940, South Charleston, Kanawha County, West Virginia, USA

Children:

1. Living

Generation: 3

John Tate Arbuckle was born on 10 May 1884 in Lewisburg, Greenbrier County, West Virginia, USA (son of John William Arbuckle and Mary Tate Finley); died on 18 Oct 1950 in Raleigh County, West Virginia, USA.

Other Events and Attributes:

Residence: 1900, Lewisburg, Greenbrier County, West Virginia, USA
Residence: 1920, Union, Kanawha County, West Virginia, USA
Residence: 1942, Charleston, Kanawha County, West Virginia, USA

John married Virginia D Murrill in 1908 in Kanawha County, West Virginia, USA. Virginia was born on 3 Dec 1886 in Greenbrier County, West Virginia, USA; died on 30 Jan 1955 in Charleston, Kanawha County, West Virginia, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Virginia D Murrill was born on 3 Dec 1886 in Greenbrier County, West Virginia, USA; died on 30 Jan 1955 in Charleston, Kanawha County, West Virginia, USA.

Other Events and Attributes:

Residence: 1920, Union, Kanawha County, West Virginia, USA

Children:

2. John William Arbuckle was born on 21 Jul 1912 in Charleston, Kanawha County, West Virginia, USA; died on 18 Sep 1952 in Charleston, Kanawha County, West Virginia, USA.

Generation: 4

John William Arbuckle was born on 26 Apr 1850 in Greenbrier County, West Virginia, USA (son of James Harvey Arbuckle, Jr and Mahala Frances McPherson); died on 30 Jan 1925 in Greenbrier County, West Virginia, USA; was buried in Old Stone Presbyterian Church Cemetery, Lewisburg, Greenbrier County, West Virginia, USA.

Other Events and Attributes:

Residence: 1850, Greenbrier County, West Virginia, USA
Residence: 1880, Lewisburg, Greenbrier County, West Virginia, USA
Residence: 1900, Lewisburg, Greenbrier County, West Virginia, USA
Residence: 1910, Lewisburg, Greenbrier County, West Virginia, USA
Residence: 1920, Lewisburg, Greenbrier County, West Virginia, USA

John married Mary Tate Finley on 23 Oct 1878 in Fort Defiance, Augusta County, Virginia, USA. Mary was born on 1 Sep 1855 in Augusta County, Virginia, USA; died on 13 May 1884 in Lewisburg, Greenbrier County, West Virginia, USA; was buried in Old Stone Presbyterian Church Cemetery, Lewisburg, Greenbrier County, West Virginia, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Mary Tate Finley was born on 1 Sep 1855 in Augusta County, Virginia, USA; died on 13 May 1884 in Lewisburg, Greenbrier County, West Virginia, USA; was buried in Old Stone Presbyterian Church Cemetery, Lewisburg, Greenbrier County, West Virginia, USA.

Other Events and Attributes:

Residence: 1880, Lewisburg, Greenbrier County, West Virginia, USA

Notes:

Buried:
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Children:

Finley McCue Arbuckle was born on 14 Aug 1879 in Lewisburg, Greenbrier County, West Virginia, USA; died on 14 Aug 1950 in Greenbrier County, West Virginia, USA.
James Edward Arbuckle was born on 5 Oct 1880 in Lewisburg, Greenbrier County, West Virginia, USA; died on 26 Jun 1920; was buried in Old Stone Presbyterian Church Cemetery, Lewisburg, Greenbrier County, West Virginia, USA.
Mary Hale Arbuckle was born on 29 Dec 1882 in Lewisburg, Greenbrier County, West Virginia, USA; died on 18 Apr 1953 in Kanawha County, West Virginia, USA.
4. John Tate Arbuckle was born on 10 May 1884 in Lewisburg, Greenbrier County, West Virginia, USA; died on 18 Oct 1950 in Raleigh County, West Virginia, USA.


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