Joe Earl Sparks: Robin's Roots

1946 - 1978 (31 years)

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

Joe Earl Sparks was born on 5 Dec 1946 in Vernon, Wilbarger, TX (son of Joe Bob Sparks and Mary Lou Byars); died on 30 Sep 1978 in Fort Worth, Tarrant, TX; was buried in Eastview Memorial Park, Vernon, Wilbarger, TX.

Joe married Diane Marie Deblois on 22 Aug 1969, and was divorced on 31 May 1978 in Tarrant Co, TX. Diane was born about 1951; died in UNKNOWN. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Children:

Michelle Joanne Sparks was born on 23 May 1970 in Tarrant Co, TX; died in UNKNOWN.

Generation: 2

Joe Bob Sparks was born on 19 Aug 1918 in Port Neches, Jefferson, TX; died on 27 Feb 2003 in Fort Worth, Tarrant, TX.

Joe married Mary Lou Byars
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in UNKNOWN. Mary (daughter of Earl T Byars, Sr and Winnie Alice Smith) was born on 16 Feb 1923 in Wilbarger Co, TX; died on 13 Jan 1962 in Wichita Falls, Wichita, TX; was buried in Eastview Memorial Park, Vernon, Wilbarger, TX. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Mary Lou Byars was born on 16 Feb 1923 in Wilbarger Co, TX (daughter of Earl T Byars, Sr and Winnie Alice Smith); died on 13 Jan 1962 in Wichita Falls, Wichita, TX; was buried in Eastview Memorial Park, Vernon, Wilbarger, TX.

Children:

Sandra Sparks died in UNKNOWN.
Tommy Sparks died in UNKNOWN.
1. Joe Earl Sparks was born on 5 Dec 1946 in Vernon, Wilbarger, TX; died on 30 Sep 1978 in Fort Worth, Tarrant, TX; was buried in Eastview Memorial Park, Vernon, Wilbarger, TX.

Generation: 3

Earl T Byars, Sr was born on 8 Sep 1905 in Wilbarger Co, TX (son of Lon M Byars and Mary Ardenia Harvey); died on 20 Aug 1986 in Vernon, Wilbarger, TX; was buried in Eastview Memorial Park, Vernon, Wilbarger, TX.

Earl married Winnie Alice Smith on 9 Sep 1922 in Wilbarger Co, TX. Winnie was born on 16 Nov 1899 in Wilbarger Co, TX; died on 30 Mar 1992 in Wichita Falls, Wichita, TX; was buried in Eastview Memorial Park, Vernon, Wilbarger, TX. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Winnie Alice Smith was born on 16 Nov 1899 in Wilbarger Co, TX; died on 30 Mar 1992 in Wichita Falls, Wichita, TX; was buried in Eastview Memorial Park, Vernon, Wilbarger, TX.

Children:

3. Mary Lou Byars was born on 16 Feb 1923 in Wilbarger Co, TX; died on 13 Jan 1962 in Wichita Falls, Wichita, TX; was buried in Eastview Memorial Park, Vernon, Wilbarger, TX.
Earl T Byars, Jr was born on 29 Mar 1924 in Vernon, Wilbarger, TX; died on 16 Jun 2009 in Vernon, Wilbarger, TX.

Generation: 4

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Lon M Byars was born on 3 Nov 1868 in Lockney, Floyd, TX; died on 20 Mar 1941 in Vernon, Wilbarger, TX; was buried in Eastview Memorial Park, Vernon, Wilbarger, TX.

Lon married Mary Ardenia Harvey on 4 Jul 1889 in Wilbarger Co, TX. Mary (daughter of Madison (Matt) Harvey and Elizabeth Genora (Lizzie) Horton) was born on 27 Jul 1869 in Colbert Co, AL; died on 29 Jul 1937 in Vernon, Wilbarger, TX; was buried in Eastview Memorial Park, Vernon, Wilbarger, TX. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Mary Ardenia Harvey was born on 27 Jul 1869 in Colbert Co, AL (daughter of Madison (Matt) Harvey and Elizabeth Genora (Lizzie) Horton); died on 29 Jul 1937 in Vernon, Wilbarger, TX; was buried in Eastview Memorial Park, Vernon, Wilbarger, TX.

Children:

Mack Arthur Byars was born on 6 May 1890 in Wilbarger Co, TX; died on 18 Dec 1972 in Vernon, Wilbarger, TX; was buried in Eastview Memorial Park, Vernon, Wilbarger, TX.
Rufus Judson Byars was born on 9 Nov 1891 in Wilbarger Co, TX; died on 26 Jan 1972 in Wichita Falls, Wichita, TX; was buried in Eastview Memorial Park, Vernon, Wilbarger, TX.
Benjamin Franklin Byars was born on 16 Jan 1894 in Oklaunion, Wilbarger, TX; died on 14 Mar 1958 in Vernon, Wilbarger, TX; was buried in Eastview Memorial Park, Vernon, Wilbarger, TX.
Lonnie Lee Byars was born on 12 Apr 1896 in Vernon, Wilbarger, TX; died on 3 Aug 1927 in Vernon, Wilbarger, TX.
Dewey G Byars was born on 16 May 1898 in Wilbarger Co, TX; died on 6 Jan 1948 in Vernon, Wilbarger, TX; was buried in Eastview Memorial Park, Vernon, Wilbarger, TX.
Henry Rhodes Byars was born on 3 Mar 1900 in Wilbarger Co, TX; died on 7 Jul 1928 in Vernon, Wilbarger, TX.
Ira C Byars was born on 25 Jan 1902 in Wilbarger Co, TX; died on 22 Jul 1982 in Vernon, Wilbarger, TX; was buried in Eastview Memorial Park, Vernon, Wilbarger, TX.
6. Earl T Byars, Sr was born on 8 Sep 1905 in Wilbarger Co, TX; died on 20 Aug 1986 in Vernon, Wilbarger, TX; was buried in Eastview Memorial Park, Vernon, Wilbarger, TX.
Leslie E Byars was born on 27 Apr 1908 in Wilbarger Co, TX; died on 4 Feb 1968 in Wichita Falls, Wichita, TX; was buried in Eastview Memorial Park, Vernon, Wilbarger, TX.


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