Living: Robin's Roots

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

Generation: 2

Charles Franklin Blackburn was born on 30 Apr 1925 in Cleveland, Bradley County, Tennessee, USA (son of George Cline Blackburn and Ann Rosson Templeton); died on 15 Oct 2013 in North Carolina, USA.

Other Events and Attributes:

Residence: 1930, Brooklyn, Kings County, New York, USA
Residence: 1940, Henderson, Vance County, North Carolina, USA; As Charlie F Church. This is the only source I have where his stepfather's family name is used.
Residence: 1955, Henderson, Vance County, North Carolina, USA
Residence: 1987, Henderson, Vance County, North Carolina, USA

Charles married Living [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

3.
Living
Children:

1. Living

Generation: 3

George Cline Blackburn was born on 9 Sep 1894 in Jefferson County, Tennessee, USA (son of Joseph H M Blackburn and Annie Eliza Eckel); died on 27 May 1937 in Dodge County, Georgia, USA; was buried in Cedar Hill Cemetery, Scottsboro, Jackson County, Alabama, USA.

Other Events and Attributes:

Residence: 1900, Morristown, Hamblen County, Tennessee, USA
Residence: 1910, Johnson City, Washington County, Tennessee, USA
Residence: 1917, Johnson City, Washington County, Tennessee, USA
Residence: 1930, Brooklyn, Kings County, New York, USA

Notes:

Buried:
GRid=99533604; upright stone

George married Ann Rosson Templeton on 28 Jan 1921 in Bristol, Bristol County, Virginia, USA. Ann was born on 21 Dec 1898 in Scotsboro, Jackson County, Alabama, USA; died on 20 Jul 1957 in Henderson, Vance County, North Carolina, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Ann Rosson Templeton was born on 21 Dec 1898 in Scotsboro, Jackson County, Alabama, USA; died on 20 Jul 1957 in Henderson, Vance County, North Carolina, USA.

Other Events and Attributes:

Residence: 1900, Cleveland, Bradley County, Tennessee, USA
Residence: 1930, Brooklyn, Kings County, New York, USA
Residence: 1940, Henderson, Vance County, North Carolina, USA; With her two sons by the late George Cline Blackburn. The sons are referred to as George & Charles Church

Notes:

Birth:
Dau of Charles Franklin Templeton & Ann Rosson

Children:

George Templeton Blackburn was born on 25 Nov 1921 in Johnson City, Washington County, Tennessee, USA; died on 23 Oct 2003 in Henderson, Vance County, North Carolina, USA; was buried in Elmwood Cemetery, Henderson, Vance County, North Carolina, USA.
2. Charles Franklin Blackburn was born on 30 Apr 1925 in Cleveland, Bradley County, Tennessee, USA; died on 15 Oct 2013 in North Carolina, USA.

Generation: 4

Joseph H M Blackburn was born in Jan 1849 in Jefferson County, Tennessee, USA (son of Benjamin Andrew Blackburn and Isabel M Caldwell); died on 2 Dec 1904 in Knoxville, Knox County, Tennessee, USA; was buried in Eckel Cemetery, Baneberry, Jefferson County, Tennessee, USA.

Other Events and Attributes:

Residence: 1870, Kansas, Jefferson County, Tennessee, USA
Residence: 1880, Jefferson County, Tennessee, USA
Residence: 1900, Morristown, Hamblen County, Tennessee, USA

Joseph married Annie Eliza Eckel in 1871 in Jefferson County, Tennessee, USA. Annie was born in Jun 1851 in Tennessee, USA; died on 31 Jul 1919 in Johnson City, Washington County, Tennessee, USA; was buried in Eckel Cemetery, Baneberry, Jefferson County, Tennessee, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Annie Eliza Eckel was born in Jun 1851 in Tennessee, USA; died on 31 Jul 1919 in Johnson City, Washington County, Tennessee, USA; was buried in Eckel Cemetery, Baneberry, Jefferson County, Tennessee, USA.

Other Events and Attributes:

Residence: 1880, Jefferson County, Tennessee, USA
Residence: 1900, Morristown, Hamblen County, Tennessee, USA
Residence: 1910, Johnson City, Washington County, Tennessee, USA; Widowed

Notes:

Birth:
Dau of Peter Eckel & Mary A.H. Sharp

Children:

Frank Eckel Blackburn was born on 18 Sep 1876 in Jefferson County, Tennessee, USA; died on 7 Apr 1915 in Morristown, Hamblen County, Tennessee, USA; was buried in St Paul Presbyterian Church Cemetery, Morristown, Hamblen County, Tennessee, USA.
Raymond Clinton Blackburn, Sr was born on 28 Mar 1879 in Tennessee, USA; died on 7 Jun 1969 in Johnson City, Washington County, Tennessee, USA; was buried in Oak Hill Cemetery, Johnson City, Washington County, Tennessee, USA.
Infant son Blackburn was born on 4 Oct 1881 in Jefferson County, Tennessee, USA; died on 4 Oct 1881 in Jefferson County, Tennessee, USA; was buried in Eckel Cemetery, Baneberry, Jefferson County, Tennessee, USA.
Infant Son Blackburn was born on 6 Nov 1883 in Jefferson County, Tennessee, USA; died on 6 Nov 1883 in Jefferson County, Tennessee, USA; was buried in Eckel Cemetery, Baneberry, Jefferson County, Tennessee, USA.
Mary K Blackburn was born in Jun 1886 in Tennessee, USA.
Joseph Ardra Blackburn, Sr was born on 8 Oct 1892 in Tennessee, USA; died in Aug 1962.
4. George Cline Blackburn was born on 9 Sep 1894 in Jefferson County, Tennessee, USA; died on 27 May 1937 in Dodge County, Georgia, USA; was buried in Cedar Hill Cemetery, Scottsboro, Jackson County, Alabama, USA.


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