Ancestors of James B Billingsley: Robin's Roots

The paper length is not relevant since the chart flows from one page to the next.

Mobile	in.	mm
Portrait	2.75	70	For smart phones, not for printing
Landscape	5.5	140	For smart phones, not for printing
USA & Canada	in.	mm
Letter Portrait	8.5	216	Also Legal Portrait
Letter Landscape	11	279
Legal Landscape	14	356	Also Ledger Portrait
Ledger Landscape	17	432
International	in.	mm
A5 Portrait	5.82	148
A4 Portrait	8.25	210	Also A5 Landscape
A4 Landscape	11.71	297	Also A3 Landscape
A3 Landscape	16.54	420

The Text+ programs assume that the right and left margins are each about 25mm (1/2 inch) wide. On the Format for Printing page, differences in page margins can be accommodated by the "fudge factor":

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.

┌── John Billingsley

Locate Person in Chart, Link to Ancestor Chart & Descendant Chart

(1587 Astley, Shropshire, England - 1659)

┌── Francis Billingsley

(1620 Shropshire, England - 1684 Calvert Co, MD)

│ └── Agatha Cooper

(1593 Shropshire, England - 1666 Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands)

│

┌── John Billingsley

(1647 Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands - 1693 at sea)

│ └── Ann Frances Hale

(1622 Reusel-de Mierden, Noord-Brabant, Netherlands - ABT 1669 Calvert Co, MD)

│

┌── William Billingsley

(OCT 1670 Calvert Co, MD - JUL 1716 Calvert Co, MD)

│ │

│ │ ┌── John Billingsley

(1587 Astley, Shropshire, England - 1659)

│ │ ┌── William Billingsley

(1628 Shropshire, England - DEC 1657 Richmond, Wise, VA)

│ │ │ └── Agatha Cooper

(1593 Shropshire, England - 1666 Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands)

│ │ │

│ └── Sarah Ann Billingsley

(1652 Essex Co, VA - 1712 St Mary's Co, MD)

│ └── Sarah Bowman

(1635 Essex Co, VA - 1690 Richmond Co, VA)

│

┌── William Billingsley, Jr.

(1691 Calvert Co, MD - 16 DEC 1745 St Mary's Co, MD)

│ └── Clearanna Bowles

(1670 Calvert Co, MD - 4 AUG 1716 Calvert Co, MD)

│

James B Billingsley (APR 1726 St Mary's Co, MD - 25 JAN 1776 Guilford Co, NC)

└── Mary Emily Sumner

(NOV 1696 Calvert Co, MD - DEC 1740 St Mary's Co, MD)

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Ancestors of James B Billingsley

TNG Ancestor Charts

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