John Skillman: Robin's Roots

1782 - 1861 (79 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.

Less detail

Generation: 1

1. John Skillman was born in 1782 (son of Thomas Skillman and Elizabeth Stryker); died in 1861.

Generation: 2

2.	Thomas Skillman was born on 10 Feb 1756 in Harlingen, Somerset County, New Jersey, USA (son of Thomas Skillman and Mary Beekman); died in 1796. Thomas married Elizabeth Stryker. Elizabeth was born in 1759. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Elizabeth Stryker was born in 1759.

Other Events and Attributes:

Baptism: 11 Feb 1759, Harlingen, Somerset County, New Jersey, USA

Children:

1. John Skillman was born in 1782; died in 1861.

Generation: 3

Thomas Skillman was born in 1727 in Newtown, Queens County, New York, USA (son of Isaac Skillman and Magdelena Beekman); died in Dec 1809 in Harlingen, Somerset County, New Jersey, USA; was buried in Beekman Cemetery, Montgomery Twp, Somerset County, New Jersey, USA.

Other Events and Attributes:

Residence: 1784, W Precinct, Somerset County, New Jersey, USA
Probate: 28 Jul 1809, Somerset County, New Jersey, USA

Notes:

As a young man, Thomas moved from his family home in Queens (where his great-grandfather Thomas Skillman established a farm in about 1665) to Somerset Co NJ, where he purchased 500 acres of farmland on the Millstone River, in what is now the community of Harlingen, within Montgomery Twp. His name lives on in the community of Skillman, NJ, which is still indentified on maps, and is just west of Harlingen (andl in Montgomery Twp). The community of Skillman was named for Thomas' great-grandson Joseph, who assisted in the construction of a railroad in the 1870', where where he lived is still identified on maps as Skillman, New Jersey. (It's officially an unicorporated Census Designated Place in Montgomery Twp, and is about 30 miles from Staten Island, and 7 miles from Princeton. (See its Wikipedia page☍). Thomas married Mary Beekman in Montgomery Twp in 1751. Mary's family had moved to Somerset Co from Brooklyn

Buried:
GRid=12625708

Thomas married Mary Beekman on 2 Oct 1751 in Griggstown, Somerset County, New Jersey, USA. Mary was born in 1733 in Kings County, New York, USA; died in Jun 1819 in Harlingen, Somerset County, New Jersey, USA; was buried in Beekman Cemetery, Montgomery Twp, Somerset County, New Jersey, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Mary Beekman was born in 1733 in Kings County, New York, USA; died in Jun 1819 in Harlingen, Somerset County, New Jersey, USA; was buried in Beekman Cemetery, Montgomery Twp, Somerset County, New Jersey, USA.

Notes:

Birth:
Parents: Gerardus Christopher Beekman(1707-1778) & Catherine Janse VanDyke(1708-11753)

Buried:
GRid=12625862; A new stone is flanked by the original very tall redstone markers for Mary & Thomas. See attached story for both

Notes:

Married:
Thomas and Mary were 1st cousins. Their grandfather was Gerardus Willemse Beekman, who migrated from Brooklyn to Somerset Co.

Children:

John Skillman was born on 10 Jan 1753 in Harlingen, Somerset County, New Jersey, USA; died on 2 Dec 1835 in Amwell, Hunterdon County, New Jersey, USA; was buried in Amwell Ridge Cemetery, Ringoes, Hunterdon County, New Jersey, USA.
Gerardus Skillman was born in 1754.
2. Thomas Skillman was born on 10 Feb 1756 in Harlingen, Somerset County, New Jersey, USA; died in 1796.
Ann Skillman was born on 20 Aug 1757 in Newtown, Queens County, New York, USA; died in UNKNOWN in Fairfax County, Virginia, USA.
Abraham B Skillman was born on 20 Jul 1759 in Harlingen, Somerset County, New Jersey, USA; died on 10 Nov 1838 in Somerset County, New Jersey, USA.
Isaac Skillman was born in 1761 in Harlingen, Somerset County, New Jersey, USA.
Jacob Skillman was born on 28 Aug 1764 in Harlingen, Somerset County, New Jersey, USA; died on 13 Apr 1854 in New Brunswick, Middlesex County, New Jersey, USA; was buried in Elm Ridge Cemetery, New Brunswick, Middlesex County, New Jersey, USA.
Catharine Skillman was born on 30 Jul 1766 in Harlingen, Somerset County, New Jersey, USA.
Joseph Skillman was born in 1768 in Harlingen, Somerset County, New Jersey, USA.
Cornelius Skillman was born on 1 Jan 1771 in Harlingen, Somerset County, New Jersey, USA; died on 12 Jan 1853 in Somerset County, New Jersey, USA; was buried in Beekman Cemetery, Montgomery Twp, Somerset County, New Jersey, USA.
Mary Skillman was born in 1772 in Harlingen, Somerset County, New Jersey, USA; died on 3 Mar 1851 in Harlingen, Somerset County, New Jersey, USA.

Generation: 4

Isaac Skillman was born in 1706 in Newtown, Queens County, New York, USA (son of Thomas Skillman, Jr and Annetje Aten); died in 1799 in Montgomery Twp, Somerset County, New Jersey, USA.

Isaac married Magdelena Beekman. Magdelena was born on 14 Nov 1711 in Albany, Albany County, New York, USA; died after 1742. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Magdelena Beekman was born on 14 Nov 1711 in Albany, Albany County, New York, USA; died after 1742.

Children:

4. Thomas Skillman was born in 1727 in Newtown, Queens County, New York, USA; died in Dec 1809 in Harlingen, Somerset County, New Jersey, USA; was buried in Beekman Cemetery, Montgomery Twp, Somerset County, New Jersey, USA.
Benjamin Skillman was born in 1729 in Newtown, Queens County, New York, USA; died in 1807 in Somerset County, New Jersey, USA; was buried in Beekman Cemetery, Montgomery Twp, Somerset County, New Jersey, USA.
Isaac Skillman was born about 1731 in Brooklyn, Kings County, New York, USA; died on 8 Jun 1799 in Salem County, New Jersey, USA.
Jacob Skillman was born about 1742 in Montgomery Twp, Somerset County, New Jersey, USA; died after 1817 in Ohio, USA.


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