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.

More detail

Generation: 1

1. Living

Generation: 2

Wendall Thurman Childs was born on 22 May 1912 in Oklahoma, USA; died on 3 Oct 1995 in Tulsa, Tulsa County, Oklahoma, USA.

Wendall married Arthena Belle (Teenie) Ingram on 18 Sep 1937. Arthena (daughter of Pleasant Dot (Pleas) Ingram and Mary Annas Horton) was born on 3 Oct 1910 in Roswell, Chaves County, New Mexico, USA; died on 21 Aug 1953 in Noel, McDonald County, Missouri, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Arthena Belle (Teenie) Ingram was born on 3 Oct 1910 in Roswell, Chaves County, New Mexico, USA (daughter of Pleasant Dot (Pleas) Ingram and Mary Annas Horton); died on 21 Aug 1953 in Noel, McDonald County, Missouri, USA.

Children:

Mary Carolyn (Katie) Childs was born on 9 Sep 1938 in Kansas, USA; died on 10 Jul 1998 in Shreveport, Bossier County, Louisiana, USA.
1. Living

Generation: 3

Pleasant Dot (Pleas) Ingram was born on 4 Aug 1885 in Washington County, Arkansas, USA; died on 3 Dec 1933 in Nash, Grant County, Oklahoma, USA; was buried in Norwood Cemetery, Washington County, Arkansas, USA.

Pleasant married Mary Annas Horton on 2 Jan 1908 in Fletcher, Comanche County, Oklahoma, USA. Mary (daughter of James Arthur (Archie) Horton and Annas Wyatt) was born on 19 Jan 1887 in Vernon, Wilbarger County, Texas, USA; died on 7 Apr 1961 in Claremore, Rogers County, Oklahoma, USA; was buried in Norwood Cemetery, Washington County, Arkansas, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Mary Annas Horton was born on 19 Jan 1887 in Vernon, Wilbarger County, Texas, USA (daughter of James Arthur (Archie) Horton and Annas Wyatt); died on 7 Apr 1961 in Claremore, Rogers County, Oklahoma, USA; was buried in Norwood Cemetery, Washington County, Arkansas, USA.

Children:

Elsie May Ingram was born on 23 Sep 1908 in Melrose, Curry County, New Mexico, USA; died on 11 Jun 1958 in Enid, Garfield County, Oklahoma, USA; was buried in Norwood Cemetery, Washington County, Arkansas, USA.
3. Arthena Belle (Teenie) Ingram was born on 3 Oct 1910 in Roswell, Chaves County, New Mexico, USA; died on 21 Aug 1953 in Noel, McDonald County, Missouri, USA.
Ruby 'Joyce' Ingram was born on 30 Jun 1914 in Nash, Grant County, Oklahoma, USA; died on 8 Jan 1986 in Wichita, Sedgwick County, Kansas, USA.
Mary 'Mildred' Ingram was born on 1 Nov 1916 in Nash, Grant County, Oklahoma, USA; died on 11 Aug 1997 in Birmingham, Jefferson County, Alabama, USA.
Raymond Dee Ingram was born on 29 Dec 1918 in Nash, Grant County, Oklahoma, USA; died on 15 Jan 1995 in Claremore, Rogers County, Oklahoma, USA; was buried in Claremore, Rogers County, Oklahoma, USA.
Grace Hellene Ingram was born on 22 Apr 1922 in Nash, Grant County, Oklahoma, USA; died on 6 Jul 1945 in Claremore, Rogers County, Oklahoma, USA.

Generation: 4

14.

James Arthur (Archie) Horton was born on 8 Aug 1848 in Tennessee, USA (son of Azre (Ezra) Horton and Sarah Hamby); died on 12 Aug 1909 in Fletcher, Comanche County, Oklahoma, USA; was buried in Cement Cemetery, Cement, Caddo County, Oklahoma, USA.

James married Annas Wyatt on 2 Jun 1886 in Hill County, Texas, USA. Annas was born in 1862 in Missouri, USA; died in UNKNOWN. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

15.

Annas Wyatt was born in 1862 in Missouri, USA; died in UNKNOWN.

Children:

7. Mary Annas Horton was born on 19 Jan 1887 in Vernon, Wilbarger County, Texas, USA; died on 7 Apr 1961 in Claremore, Rogers County, Oklahoma, USA; was buried in Norwood Cemetery, Washington County, Arkansas, USA.
McWilliam (Mack) Horton was born on 15 Sep 1888 in Quanah, Hardeman County, Texas, USA; died on 11 Jan 1958 in Fresno, Fresno County, California, USA.


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