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.
Generation: 1
Generation: 2
3. | Willard Gertrude Wood was born on 14 Aug 1907 in Tishomingo Co, MS; died on 9 Jun 1992 in Dennis, Tishomingo, MS; was buried in Itawamba Co, MS. Children:
- 1. Living
- Living
- Samuel Hutcheson was born on 19 Apr 1935 in Red Bay, Franklin, AL; died on 30 Oct 1935 in Red Bay, Franklin, AL; was buried in Itawamba Co, MS.
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Generation: 3
5. | Rebecca Lou Blanton was born on 18 Apr 1882 in Mississippi; died on 2 Apr 1944 in Red Bay, Franklin, AL. Children:
- 2. William Newton Hutcheson was born on 24 Sep 1901 in Hardin Co, TN; died on 16 Sep 1946 in Itawamba Co, MS; was buried in Itawamba Co, MS.
- Maudie Mae Hutcheson was born on 15 Jul 1904 in Mississippi; died on 5 May 1990 in Sibley, Webster, LA; was buried in Houston National Cemetery, Houston, Harris, TX.
- Edgar L Hutcheson was born on 21 Mar 1906 in Hardin Co, TN; died on 29 Apr 1970 in Baldwyn, Lee, MS.
- Lula Beatrice Hutcheson was born on 14 Jul 1909 in Hardin Co, TN; died in May 1982 in Rome, Floyd, GA.
- Effie L Hutcheson was born on 21 Dec 1911 in Hardin Co, TN; died on 29 May 1982; was buried in Red Bay, Franklin, AL.
- Fred Hutcheson was born about 1917 in Mississippi.
- Benjamin Franklin Hutcheson was born in 1919 in Tennessee; died in Apr 1936 in Red Bay, Franklin, AL.
- Living
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Generation: 4
9. | Nancy Elizabeth Newell was born on 23 Mar 1852 in Alabama; died on 14 Apr 1897; was buried in Old Bethel Cemetery, Belmont, Tishomingo, MS. Children:
- 4. Isaac Marion Hutcheson was born on 16 Nov 1873 in Tishomingo Co, MS; died on 5 Jun 1945 in Red Bay, Franklin, AL.
- William Rufus Hutcheson was born on 11 Jul 1876 in Mississippi; died in 1937; was buried in Allen Cemetery, Moores Mill, Tishomingo, MS.
- Nancy Jane Hutcheson was born on 7 Mar 1878 in Mississippi; died on 1 Mar 1929; was buried in Moore Cemetery, Tishomingo Co, MS.
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