K/NIBB/S  ONE NAME STUDY

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8. FAMILY TREES

Before describing what's available, let me first give you the option of viewing a demographic 'tree' which puts many families into their geographical and time context.

OK, there are four kinds of  'family tree'  display:  a traditional drop line tree, a listing, my own diagrammatic offering and last but not least dft by Michael HOREY.  For practical display reasons, more information is available on some rather than others but then you might not get the best overview.  The 'trees' do allow one to see more easily the relationships between individuals.  Hopefully you won't have any problems switching between them to get the best of both worlds.  The 'Back' button in your browser might be an alternative to the links I have provided.

At present, you can choose to see the 'immediate' families of the following:-

1. The Rev William KNIBB
2. The KNIBB Family of Clockmakers
3. A listing of the armigerous NIBBS
4. Muriel BOLTON/Drew STEPHENSON's ancestor tree
5. Bob KNIBBS' ancestor tree
6. Adam & Eve's Tree!

You think I'm kidding re the last numbered.  Well, of course I am!  But click on the link anyway to be amazed by Michael HOREY's dft program

Tell me if you would like to see your K/NIBB/S family appearing here.

Who knows, we might be able to connect them all up in fact rather than by fiction one fine day!

At this juncture, you might be interested to know how the listings/trees were prepared.

The first two were produced entirely on my Atari Falcon with CAB - the Crystal Atari Browser.  The third needed my notebook PC for checking out the Java scripting elements.

The William KNIBB Listing is based on an ASCII file download from 'Newgen5k' by Ted Richards and contains the offspring of female KNIBBs where known. It contains some extra supplementary information which I hope you will find helpful.  The William KNIBB Tree is based upon a custom tree from 'Family Tree' by Ian & Mark BAKER.  It was then converted to a GIF image using 'Screen Grabber' v1.4 by Joey SHERMAN (Copyright REALM).  Next it was imported into 'Vision' by Jean LUSETTI, worked upon and saved.  To obtain transparency (so you can see the background as on this screen), 'Imagecopy 4' by Jeremy HUGHES came to my aid.

The Clockmaker's Listing also comes from 'Family Tree'.  However, although I prepared a similar GIF image tree as described above, even with its compression routine, it was still too large to import into some browsers.  Accordingly, I decided to try my hand at producing a cut down HTML coded tree.  This proved to be far less daunting than I had first imagined, thanks in no small part to my text editor 'Edith' by ZFC with which I am typing this into a CAB page.  It's so easy to swap between the two programs with or without a multi-tasking system.  After experimenting with red lines to create a basic family grouping, I elected to use the | key to produce the verical lines within a 'table'.  (An HTML expert could probably have improved upon my 'coding' but bear in mind that I'm self taught within a month of launching the website).  Then it was simply a question of adding rows and columns as I progressed, 'cutting and pasting' the relevant 'text' directly from a copy of the 'Family Tree' listing I had imported into the construction page.  The resulting tree occupies a fraction of the space of the GIF image.

Similarly, Muriel's tree (and any thereafter) do not take up as large a file as they might.  The Java scripting adds a fair chunk but I haven't yet found a way of opening a small window or drop down to suit using plain HTML.  I could do so on my Atari back in the 1980s!   Also, the boy/girl GIFs are very small files - you'd be amazed how much smaller using just 16 colours as opposed to the PC standard 256.  This no doubt helps speedy loading as it's the same pictures that are invoked throughout the page but with differing alt/Java tags.  I purposely opted to use these over and over again rather than have several 'intial' box GIFs which would have considerably added to the size of the page.  Oh yes, and importantly the other picture used is a transparent one between the boxed GIFs over which the individual initials appear.  If you like what you see or can suggest improvements, I'd be glad to hear from you.

'dft' is by Michael HOREY.  Full details about the program appear in the Java screen available from the last numbered link above.

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