Saturday Night Genealogy Fun: Make an Ancestor's Timeline

I haven't participated in Saturday Night Genealogy Fun for the past few weeks, partly because I'm still unpacking mountains of moving boxes (will it never end?!) and partly because the themes weren't really up my alley.  This week, however, Randy Seaver chose a topic that looked a little more fun to me.

Your mission, should you decide to accept it (cue the Mission:  Impossible! music), is:

(1) Have you created a timeline for one of your ancestors using a genealogy software program (e.g., Family Tree Maker, RootsMagic, Legacy, Reunion, etc.), an online family tree (e.g., Ancestry Member Tree, FamilySearch Family Tree, Geni, MyHeritage, etc.), or a spreadsheet (e.g., Excel)?

(2) If not, try to create a timeline using the program/Web site of your choice.  If so, create another one for the ancestor of your choice!

(3) Show us your timeline creation and tell us how you did it:  which program/Web site, the process you used, and how you captured the images to display your timeline.

(4) Share your timeline creation on your own blog post, in a comment to this post, or on Facebook or Google+.

1 and 2.  I have created a timeline before.  In fact, Randy used this idea in 2016, and I posted a timeline then.  In addition, the program I use, Family Tree Maker, automatically creates a timeline with the facts that you enter about each individual.  I created the timeline I'm posting tonight specifically for this exercise.

3.  I use Family Tree Maker v. 16.  I created a Genealogy Report that included all the facts I had for my great-grandfather Thomas Kirkland Gauntt.  I exported the information in an RTF file, then added additional facts and edited the file in MS Word.  I copied and pasted the text from Word directly into this blog post.  I have found that makes it easier to read, as opposed to doing a screen capture.  As Randy commented, it's pretty plain, but the benefit of exporting the file and opening it in a word processor is that I can add as much information as I want to it.

THOMAS KIRKLAND GAUNTT

May 25, 1870, born in Fairview, Medford Township, Burlington County, New Jersey

June 28, 1870, enumerated in U.S. federal census in Medford Township, Burlington County, New Jersey

June 15, 1880, enumerated in U.S. federal census in Mt. Laurel, Burlington County, New Jersey

May 15, 1885, enumerated in New Jersey state census in Centre, Camden County, New Jersey; occupation farm laborer

September 2, 1891, married Jane Dunstan in Greenland, Burlington County, New Jersey

May 15, 1895, enumerated in New Jersey state census in Centre, Camden County, New Jersey

June 27, 1900, enumerated in U.S. federal census in Mt. Laurel, Burlington County, New Jersey; occupation farm laborer

June 1, 1905, enumerated in New Jersey state census in Burlington County, New Jersey

April 27, 1910, enumerated in U.S. federal census in Mt. Holly, Northampton Township, Burlington County, New Jersey; occupation insurance agent

June 1, 1915, enumerated in New Jersey state census in Mt. Holly, Northampton Township, Burlington County, New Jersey

February 1920, enumerated in U.S. federal census in Burlington, Burlington County, New Jersey; occupation farm laborer

April 23, 1930, enumerated in U.S. federal census in Mt. Holly, Northampton Township, Burlington County, New Jersey

1935, living in Burlington, Burlington County, New Jersey

April 15, 1940, enumerated in U.S. federal census in Mt. Holly, Burlington County, New Jersey

August 1, 1954, died in Mount Holly, Burlington County, New Jersey of a pulmonary embolism

About January 23, 1954, buried in Brotherhood Cemetery, Hainesport, Burlington County, New Jersey