Christian Reiff: Robin's Roots

1725 - 1809 (84 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

Christian Reiff was born in 1725 (son of Abraham Reiff and Barbara Moyer); died on 15 Feb 1809; was buried in East Coventry Mennonite Cemetery, East Coventry Twp, Chester County, Pennsylvania, USA.

Other Events and Attributes:

Residence: 1790, Northern Liberties, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, USA

Notes:

Buried:
GRid=30182185; Tall oval top headstone in good condition. Names on the Gravestone are Christian Reiff, Veronica Reiff, Joseph Reiff and Sarah Reiff.

Generation: 2

Abraham Reiff was born in 1696 in Franconia, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, USA (son of Living); died on 10 Dec 1763 in Upper Leacock, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, USA.

Other Events and Attributes:

Arrival: 1734, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, USA

Abraham married Barbara Moyer in 1723 in Pennsylvania, USA. Barbara (daughter of Christian Moyer and Anna Barbara Bergery) was born in 1701 in Germany; died in 1773 in Upper Leacock, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, USA; was buried in Harleysville, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Barbara Moyer was born in 1701 in Germany (daughter of Christian Moyer and Anna Barbara Bergery); died in 1773 in Upper Leacock, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, USA; was buried in Harleysville, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, USA.

Children:

Anna Reiff was born on 7 Nov 1722; died on 9 Jan 1798 in Skippack, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, USA; was buried in Lower Skippack Mennonite Cemetery, Skippack, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, USA.
1. Christian Reiff was born in 1725; died on 15 Feb 1809; was buried in East Coventry Mennonite Cemetery, East Coventry Twp, Chester County, Pennsylvania, USA.
Fronica Reiff was born in 1727; died in 1788.
Isaac Reiff was born in 1733; died on 6 Mar 1801.
Abraham Reiff was born in 1735 in Franconia, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, USA; died on 19 Aug 1788 in Groffdale, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, USA; was buried in Groffdale Mennonite Brick Church Cemetery, Groffdale, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, USA.
Jacob Reiff was born in 1737; died on 13 Mar 1814 in Mount Jackson, Shenandoah County, Virginia, USA; was buried in Roof Cemetery, Mount Jackson, Shenandoah County, Virginia, USA.
Elizabeth Reiff was born in 1740.
Barbara Ann Reiff was born in 1741 in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, USA; died in 1819 in Rockingham County, Virginia, USA; was buried in Zetty Cemetery, Tenth Legion, Rockingham County, Virginia, USA.

Generation: 3

4.
Living
Children:

2. Abraham Reiff was born in 1696 in Franconia, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, USA; died on 10 Dec 1763 in Upper Leacock, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, USA.

Christian Moyer was born in 1676 in Palatinate; died in 1751 in Franconia, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, USA; was buried in Delps Cemetery, Harleysville, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, USA.

Other Events and Attributes:

Arrival: 1710, New York, New York County, New York, USA; very speculative
Residence: 1737, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, USA
Residence: Abt 1740, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, USA

Notes:

Christian Moyer was born in 1678, reportedly in what is now Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany, and settled near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. (He may have come from nearby Wurttemberg). He is my 8x great grandfather, though my Richmond, Wattenbarger, Barger, and Reiff lines.

He is not (as far as I know) related to Christopher Moyers, who was also born in Rhineland-Palatinate, in 1708, and settled in Germantown, Orange County, Virginia. (His father, George, was born in nearby Wurttemberg.) Christopher is my 6xgreat-grandfather, through my Richmond, Hutcheson, and Myers/Moyers lines.

The two lines intersect with my grandparents, Clarence Richmond (descendant of Christian Moyer) and Edith Hutcheson (descendant of Christopher Moyers).

Their wives also came from Rhineland-Palatinate:

Christian Moyer: Anna Barbara Bergery from Rhineland-Palatinate, and

Christopher MoyersMary Catherine Vogt, from Rhineland-Palatinate

Birth:
He is also called Meyer, but he used the spelling Moyer. FindAGrave says born in Palatinate;Mennonite Records (not collected contemporaneously) say Switzerland

Buried:
GRid=13836483; brief obit. No gravestone photo.

Christian married Anna Barbara Bergery. Anna was born in 1677 in Palatinate; died in 1751 in Franconia, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, USA; was buried in Delps Cemetery, Harleysville, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Anna Barbara Bergery was born in 1677 in Palatinate; died in 1751 in Franconia, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, USA; was buried in Delps Cemetery, Harleysville, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, USA.

Other Events and Attributes:

Residence: 1735, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, USA

Children:

3. Barbara Moyer was born in 1701 in Germany; died in 1773 in Upper Leacock, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, USA; was buried in Harleysville, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, USA.
Christian Moyer, Jr was born in 1705 in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, USA; died on 17 May 1787 in Franconia, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, USA; was buried in Delps Cemetery, Harleysville, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, USA.
Jacob Moyer was born in 1707.
Samuel Moyer was born in 1709 in Lower Salford, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, USA; died on 20 Aug 1764 in Pennsylvania, USA; was buried in Delps Cemetery, Harleysville, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, USA.
Anna Moyer was born in 1713 in Franconia, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, USA; died on 8 Jul 1758 in Indian Creek, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, USA; was buried in Delps Cemetery, Harleysville, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, USA.


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