Don Stone's (partial) family tree

I have prepared an animated family tree chart as a JavaScript and Dynamic HTML programming exercise. I had hoped to produce something which could be viewed with either Netscape Navigator or Internet Explorer, but I gave up on compatibility with Netscape Navigator. In general, I prefer Netscape Navigator, using it for email and newsgroups as well as web browsing, but Internet Explorer currently has a much better implementation of Dynamic HTML than Netscape Navigator.

This family tree chart shows three generations at a time.  A vertical line extends from a point between a pair of parents down to their child; when this line is faint, it represents a tentative connection.  You can click on the box in the upper left corner to go back by one generation in the paternal direction (if possible), i.e., to bring this box from the top row to the middle (focal) row of the display. Click on the box in the upper right corner to go back by one generation in the maternal direction. The two middle boxes in the top row go back by one generation in either the paternal or maternal direction; the left middle box has a preference for the paternal direction, while the right middle box has a preference for the maternal direction. Click on the box at the bottom of the display to go forward in time by one generation and bring this box to the middle row.  By changing the selection in the small pulldown menu at the lower left, you can go to a person by number or to the base (root) of the family tree; the (somewhat arbitrary) person number of the person in the bottom row box is displayed to the right of the box.  This is a preliminary implementation; refinements may be added as time goes on.

The data on the Stone family comes from my own research plus the Gregory Stone Genealogy by J. G. Bartlett (1918).  The line back to ancient Greece is extracted from information incorporated in my loose-leaf notebook publication Some Ancient and Medieval Descents of Edward I of England (see details here or email me for information on this); the principal resource for the early part of this line is Christian Settipani's Nos ancetres de l'Antiquite (1991). You can follow the line back to ancient Greece by repeatedly clicking on the right middle box in the top row.

Having royal ancestry is by no means a rare phenomenon.  In The Royal Descents of 500 Immigrants Gary Boyd Roberts lists almost 350 colonial American immigrants with royal ancestry. These immigrants (pp. xiv, ff.)

Click here if your browser is Internet Explorer or Opera and you want to see my (partial) family tree. It may take a while to download, but once you have it, you can wander around in it without further Internet/network access -- the browser running on your local computer has all the data and is doing all the work at that point.

Enjoy!

  -- Don Stone