Houghton Mershon: Robin's Roots

1717 - 1798 (80 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.

More detail

Generation: 1

1.	Houghton Mershon was born on 19 Jul 1717 in Coxs Corner, Mercer, NJ (son of Henry Mershon and Ann Houghton); died on 13 Jul 1798 in Princeton, Mercer, NJ; was buried in Lawrenceville Cemetery, Lawrenceville, Mercer, NJ.

Generation: 2

Henry Mershon was born in 1672 in Caen, Calvados, Basse-Normandie, France (son of Henri Marchand); died on 20 Sep 1738 in Lawrenceville, Mercer, NJ; was buried in Lawrenceville Cemetery, Lawrenceville, Mercer, NJ.

Henry married Ann Houghton
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in 1698. Ann was born on 1 Jan 1679 in Long Island City, Queens, NY; died on 20 Oct 1738 in Princeton, Mercer, NJ. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Ann Houghton was born on 1 Jan 1679 in Long Island City, Queens, NY; died on 20 Oct 1738 in Princeton, Mercer, NJ.

Children:

Henry Mershon, III was born in 1698 in Newtown, Queens, NY; died on 7 Mar 1777 in Hunterdon Co, NJ.
Mary Mershon was born about 1703 in Lawrenceville, Mercer, NJ.
Anna Mershon was born in 1706 in Lawrenceville, Mercer, NJ; died on 12 Jan 1785 in Mercer Co, NJ; was buried in Hunt Farm Burial Ground, Hopewell, Mercer, NJ.
Andrew Mershon was born on 6 Aug 1706 in Princeton, Mercer, NJ; died on 5 Jul 1793 in Hopewell, Mercer, NJ.
Peter Mershon was born in 1707 in Maidenhead, Hunterdon, NJ; died on 6 Jul 1744.
Rebekah Mershon was born on 10 Mar 1711 in Stony Brook, Mercer, NJ; died in 1786 in Princeton, Mercer, NJ; was buried in Princeton, Mercer, NJ.
Elizabeth Mershon was born on 22 Jun 1714 in New Jersey; died on 12 Mar 1784.
Sarah Mershon was born about 1717 in New Jersey.
1. Houghton Mershon was born on 19 Jul 1717 in Coxs Corner, Mercer, NJ; died on 13 Jul 1798 in Princeton, Mercer, NJ; was buried in Lawrenceville Cemetery, Lawrenceville, Mercer, NJ.

Generation: 3

Henri Marchand was born in 1649 in Caen, Calvados, Basse-Normandie, France (son of Living and Living); died about 1690 in Atlantic Ocean.

Children:

2. Henry Mershon was born in 1672 in Caen, Calvados, Basse-Normandie, France; died on 20 Sep 1738 in Lawrenceville, Mercer, NJ; was buried in Lawrenceville Cemetery, Lawrenceville, Mercer, NJ.

Generation: 4

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Living married Living. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
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Children:

4. Henri Marchand was born in 1649 in Caen, Calvados, Basse-Normandie, France; died about 1690 in Atlantic Ocean.


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