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  • User Guide

  • Install Ancestris

    • Install and start Ancestris

    • Reinstall or upgrade Ancestris

    • Update Ancestris

    • Step-by-step installation on MacOS

    • Step-by-step installation of version 10 on Windows

    • Step-by-step installation of version 11 on Windows

    • Java installation

    • Launch settings

    • Software files and User settings files

  • Discover Ancestris

    • Guided Tour

    • Getting started: create or migrate

    • Create your genealogy

    • Migrate your genealogy to Ancestris

  • Master Menus and Windows

    • Main Window

    • Workspace and windows

    • Relationships between windows

    • Menu Bar

    • File Menu

    • Edit Menu

    • View Menu

    • Tools Menu

    • Window Menu

    • Options Menu

    • Help Menu

    • Context Menu

    • Drag-and-Drop Menu

    • Toolbar

    • Navigation Bar

    • Search Bar

    • Generate Sosa numbers

    • Create a new genealogy

    • Open a genealogy

    • Import

    • Merge genealogies

    • File Properties

    • Save as

    • Export

    • Geneanet export

    • Find / Replace

    • Delete

    • Generate ID numbers

    • Mark special individuals

    • Age calculation

    • See modifications history

    • Entity card

    • Entities table

    • Dynamic tree

    • Timeline

    • Geographic map

    • Graph

    • Cygnus editor

    • Gedcom editor

    • Aries editor

    • List of places

    • Table of places

    • Places editor

    • Simple navigator

    • Extended navigator

    • Advanced search

    • Genealogy compare

    • Registers records

    • Registers records - Appendix

    • Datulator

    • Calculator

    • Validate Gedcom compliance and data consistency

    • Merge duplicates

    • Common ancestors

    • Lists and reports

    • Information Sheets of Individuals/Families

    • WebBook

    • Web Site

    • Print of current view

    • Welcome page

    • GEDCOM Explorer

    • Preferences

    • Update Ancestris

    • Manage extensions

    • Contact Ancestris Support Team

    • Make a donation to Ancestris

    • Genealogy search (improved and replaced by Genealogy Compare early 2021)

  • Customize Ancestris

    • Preferences

    • Windows

    • Blueprints

    • Extensions

  • Control the quality of your genealogy data

    • Gedcom

    • Entities

    • Properties

    • Tags

    • Events

    • Dates

    • Places

    • Shared Information

    • Quality control

  • Develop your genealogy

    • Setting a goal

    • Building a progress indicator

    • Prepare your genealogical research

    • Document your sources

    • Enter a deed

    • Documenting a register

    • Enter specific events

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User Guide
Develop your genealogy

Develop your genealogy

How to use Ancestris in various genealogy situations : know your genealogy status, search for official documents, enter them in Ancestris. Analyse your genealogy, organize it, share it.

Setting a goal

You will soon realize that the genealogist's work is exponential and can go in all directions. S...

Building a progress indicator

You will need to measure the progress of your research. What gets measured gets done! You c...

Prepare your genealogical research

You will then have to prepare your genealogical research and build some sort of action plan. Anc...

Document your sources

You will collect many official documents (acts, deeds) that you will need to enter in Ancestris. ...

Enter a deed

To enter a birth, marriage, death or other certificate, several solutions are offered to you to e...

Documenting a register

Entering a register is possible with Ancestris using the Registers records module. This module i...

Enter specific events

As an Ancestris user, you often give us special cases of events to capture. One of the questions...

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