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

Walter F Whelan was born about 1893 in Nebraska, USA.

Other Events and Attributes:

Residence: 1930, St Louis, St Louis County, Missouri, USA

Walter married Anna Geraldine Horton. Anna (daughter of James Barnett Horton and Ollie Alma Meskimen) was born on 9 Nov 1906 in Missouri, USA; died in Aug 1979 in Florissant, St Louis County, Missouri, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Anna Geraldine Horton was born on 9 Nov 1906 in Missouri, USA (daughter of James Barnett Horton and Ollie Alma Meskimen); died in Aug 1979 in Florissant, St Louis County, Missouri, USA.

Other Events and Attributes:

Residence: 1910, Purcell, Jasper County, Missouri, USA
Residence: 1920, Tiger, Creek County, Oklahoma, USA
Residence: 1930, St Louis, St Louis County, Missouri, USA

Children:

1. Living

Generation: 3

James Barnett Horton was born on 5 Jan 1870 in Pleasant Site, Franklin County, Alabama, USA (son of James Arthur (Archie) Horton and Mary Elizabeth McClung); died after 1930.

Other Events and Attributes:

Residence: 1870, Township 4 Range 15, Colbert County, Alabama, USA; 4 months old
Residence: 1880, Hill County, Texas, USA
Residence: 1900, Rush Springs, Chickasaw Nation, Indian Territory, USA
Residence: 1910, Purcell, Jasper County, Missouri, USA
Residence: 1920, Tiger, Creek County, Oklahoma, USA
Residence: 1930, St Louis, St Louis County, Missouri, USA; Living with daughter, Florence Whelan, and her husband

James married Ollie Alma Meskimen. Ollie was born on 20 Jul 1873 in Richland County, Illinois, USA; died on 30 May 1945 in Marlow, Stephens County, Oklahoma, USA; was buried in Marlow Cemetery, Marlow, Stephens County, Oklahoma, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Ollie Alma Meskimen was born on 20 Jul 1873 in Richland County, Illinois, USA; died on 30 May 1945 in Marlow, Stephens County, Oklahoma, USA; was buried in Marlow Cemetery, Marlow, Stephens County, Oklahoma, USA.

Other Events and Attributes:

Residence: 1900, Rush Springs, Chickasaw Nation, Indian Territory, USA
Residence: 1910, Purcell, Jasper County, Missouri, USA
Residence: 1920, Tiger, Creek County, Oklahoma, USA
Residence: 1930, St Louis, St Louis County, Missouri, USA
Residence: 1940, Lawton, Comanche County, Oklahoma, USA

Children:

Florence Opal Horton was born on 21 Sep 1899 in Rush Springs, Grady County, Oklahoma, USA; died on 2 Jul 1923 in Wichita, Sedgwick County, Kansas, USA; was buried in Highland Cemetery, Wichita, Sedgwick County, Kansas, USA.
3. Anna Geraldine Horton was born on 9 Nov 1906 in Missouri, USA; died in Aug 1979 in Florissant, St Louis County, Missouri, USA.

Generation: 4

12.

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.

Other Events and Attributes:

Residence: 1850, Southern Division, Tishomingo County, Mississippi, USA
Residence: 1860, Tishomingo County, Mississippi, USA
Residence: 1870, Township 4 Range 15, Colbert County, Alabama, USA
Residence: 1880, Hill County, Texas, USA

Notes:

Buried:
GRid=30427210; brief obit. grave stone is thick block, unreadable.

James married Mary Elizabeth McClung in 1867 in Pleasant Site, Franklin County, Alabama, USA. Mary was born on 16 Jan 1848 in Alabama, USA; died on 27 Feb 1885 in Hillsboro, Hill County, Texas, USA; was buried in Hillsboro City Cemetery, Hillsboro, Hill County, Texas, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

13.

Mary Elizabeth McClung was born on 16 Jan 1848 in Alabama, USA; died on 27 Feb 1885 in Hillsboro, Hill County, Texas, USA; was buried in Hillsboro City Cemetery, Hillsboro, Hill County, Texas, USA.

Other Events and Attributes:

Residence: 1870, Cherokee, Colbert County, Alabama, USA
Residence: 1880, Hill County, Texas, USA

Notes:

Birth:
Dau of William Stuart McClung & Sarah Maulden. Censuses say she was born in Alabama, but her grave record says Mississippi. I can find no record of her parents in 1840 or 1850.

Children:

6. James Barnett Horton was born on 5 Jan 1870 in Pleasant Site, Franklin County, Alabama, USA; died after 1930.
Catherine (Katy) Horton was born on 16 Oct 1872 in Pleasant Site, Franklin County, Alabama, USA; died in 1908 in Tecumseh, Pottawatomie County, Oklahoma, USA.
William Oscar Horton was born on 16 Apr 1875 in Pleasant Site, Franklin County, Alabama, USA; died in 1949 in California, USA.
Cora May Horton was born on 19 Jan 1882 in Hillsboro, Hill County, Texas, USA; died on 26 Jan 1949 in Lawton, Comanche County, Oklahoma, USA; was buried in Highland Cemetery, Lawton, Comanche County, Oklahoma, USA.
Belle Horton was born on 21 Jan 1884 in Missouri, USA; died on 15 Oct 1969 in Claremore, Rogers County, Oklahoma, USA.


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