Oliver Alpha Broking: Robin's Roots

1908 - 1994 (85 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

Oliver Alpha Broking was born on 18 Mar 1908 in Hewitt, Carter County, Oklahoma, USA; died in Feb 1994 in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma County, Oklahoma, USA; was buried in Mountain View Cemetery, Mountain View, Kiowa County, Oklahoma, USA.

Other Events and Attributes:

Residence: 1910, Hickman, Scott County, Arkansas, USA; Parents: Harlo & Etta, born in KS & AR
Residence: 1930, Miller, Phelps County, Missouri, USA; "Oliver Broking" Odd Jobs; Born in 1908 in Oklahoma; Parents born in KS & AR. Age at first marriage: 18; Married to Vergie; Their two daughters grew up in Missouri. She married William King in 1935 in Phelps Co.
Residence: 1940, Coolidge, Pinal County, Arizona, USA; Draft registration: next of kin is father Abraham
Residence: 16 Apr 1940, Coolidge, Pinal County, Arizona, USA; Census: "Oliver Broking", with Irene, and two sons, C.W., and Alpha J; 1935 in Rural, Le Flore, OK; Carpenter Laboror; 5th grade education
Residence: 1952, Phoenix, Maricopa County, Arizona, USA; With Irene Broking

Notes:

Birth:
Parents: Abraham Harlow Bocking & Etta Hinds; Some records, including gravestone, say 18 Mar 1907. There may have been two men named Oliver A Broking, born in Oklahoma in 1908. Irene Richmond & Vernetta Harwell both married "Oliver A"

Buried:
GRid=34036660; Lists two marriages, to Vergie Alice Perego, and Minnie "Vernetta" Cantwell; not Irene Richmond

Family/Spouse: Unknown. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Children:

C W Broking was born on 17 Dec 1929 in Prescott, Yavapai County, Arizona, USA; died on 14 Nov 2015 in Killeen, Bell County, Texas, USA.
Alpha Joe Broking was born on 26 Nov 1932 in Oklahoma, USA; died on 14 Jun 1961 in Phoenix, Maricopa County, Arizona, USA; was buried in Greenwood Memory Lawn Cemetery, Phoenix, Maricopa County, Arizona, USA.

Oliver married Vergie Alice Perego about 1926. Vergie was born on 1 May 1909 in Carter County, Missouri, USA; died on 13 Feb 2003 in Rolla, Phelps County, Missouri, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Children:

Josephine Etta Broking was born on 22 Dec 1927 in Gillette, Campbell County, Wyoming, USA; died on 12 Jul 1997 in Los Angeles County, California, USA.
Living

Oliver married Easter Irene Richmond on 14 Sep 1931 in Sebastian County, Arkansas, USA. Easter (daughter of Joseph Sanford Richmond and Agatha Lavada (Gatha) Crank) was born on 10 Jun 1910 in Waldron, Scott County, Arkansas, USA; died on 14 Apr 2004 in Mesa, Maricopa County, Arizona, USA; was buried in Valley Memorial Park Cemetery, Coolidge, Pinal County, Arizona, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Married:
As Irene L Richmond and Oliver A Broking. Both live in Kauinea, OK (no such place). Gives their ages; consistent with Easter Irene Richmond and with Oliver A Broking's other records.

Oliver married MInnie Vernetta Cantwell on 2 Jul 1953 in Yavapai County, Arizona, USA. MInnie was born on 2 Jul 1899 in Oklahoma, USA; died on 15 Sep 1998 in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma County, Oklahoma, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Married:
Marriage License application; She is listed as Vernetta Hartwell (had been married to Charles Harwell)

Generation: 2


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