Create your genealogy

CreateCreating your genealogy,genealogy usually startingstarts by drawing a tree with yourself at the center, adding the information of your birth, and adding your parents from a family album,record, followedthen by adding your grandparents.grandparents, and so on.

We will show you how simple it is to do itthis with Ancestris, how to create the first individual, histhe immediate ancestors and his close family, thus having your first genealogical tree with one or two generations.

Create the first individual

You have seen, during the guided tour, the Bourbon genealogy, bourbon.gedBourbon file. It is an example supplied with Ancestris.

Let's close it and create a new one. This is just to save space, we could as well leave it open. To close bourbon.gedBourbon, click on the red cross on the tools bar.toolbar.

And now, let's create your own genealogy.

From the Welcome page, click the big button "Create a genealogy" or click on the menu bar.

The creation wizard will start. Follow the steps until a dynamic tree appears with yourself right inat the center of it !

EnterOn the first screen, enter your name and yourgender, gender.then click Next.

EnterThen enter the information regarding the author of the new genealogy, probably you. Click Next.

Define the places format to use across theyour entire genealogy. Below is the standard format. If you don't know,know now what it should be, click Next.Next. It can be changed latter.later.

Else, use the available buttons to add, change or delete jurisdictions. Then click Next.

Enter a description for your new genealogy and click Finish.

Ancestris will then ask you wherefor the location to save theyour genalogy file and the file name ofto thestore Gedcomall fileyour thatgenealogy will be created.information.

And that'That's it. Ancestris will show you the beginning of the genealogy with the dynamic tree with you as root.root individual.

ToOn the right,right hand side, the Cygnus editor is also openedopened. withIt youshows inthe it.individual currently selected.

OnIn the Cygnus editor, complete the missing information, e.g. your birth date and place.

Add a photophotograph of yourself by clicking in the respective area.

Add other names if necessary and surnames, if you haven't doneindicated sothem before.

When finished, in order to save the changes made, click on the OK button that will appear at the bottom right whenas soon as you change your data,data to savein the changes.editor.

DevelopAdopt goodbest habitspractices

You will soon generatinggenerate hundreds of cards:records: individuals, families, etc.

ItWe isrecommend advisableyou that,to fromimmediately the beginning,adopt a uniform and harmonised methodway ofto writingwrite bethe adoptedfrequently forused recurring words,information, such as :as:

Also, if you are adding already ayour birth certificate,certificate at hand, document it as fullynow as possible:

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Create theyour immediate ancestorsparents

CreateCreating people related to you can be done either from the dynamic tree or from the Cygnus editor.

From the tree, right click the desired individual. This is a more visual method. Here is an example:

 

From Cygnus, we use the buttons for new parents. This is a more faster method. The "Father" button is at the top left on the Cygnus editor.

In either casecase, you get two more boxes on the tree, above your own,own: your parents. Your father is created, but only a placeholder is visible for your mother, her entity is not yet created.

Ancestris default settings create only one parent at a time. It could be interesting to try and create both. To do so, go to preferences, menu Options / Preferences / Editing, or click on    at the top right of the main window.

Check the option Automatically create both spouses during the creation of a link Parent - Child.

On the father's box, the surname is already entered.

On the Cygnus editor, enter your father's information (name, date and place of birth, etc.). Click the OK button once done, to save the data.

To create the mother, whether you right click on the individual and choose 'Add a spouse' or click the corresponding button on the Cygnus editor, or you right click your own box and justchoose add youra mother.

Create theyour close relatives

AndNext next,you can create your brothers,brothers and sisters, your wife and children, etc. in the same manner.

If you make a mistake, it is always possible to correct the information directly or simply deleteundo the creation of the new individual by clicking on 'Delete this individual'Undo button on the tools bartoolbar and start over.

Once you have createcreated all the individuals of your newclose family, just click on your box to return to yourself.

Add information about your family

Let's suppose you want to enter your parents marriagewedding date.

Click on the family box, the one between yours and your parents's. It is box number F00001 on the image below.

Cygnus positionswill itself ondisplay your father,father as the current individual, and Cygnus will select the newnuclear family onhe makes with your mother.

From there, click on the "Marriage" button on the Cygnus editor. The marriage event is created. Indicate the type of marriage (for example : Religious), enter the date and place, if known.

Click OK and that's it. Here is the result:

Let's proceed andnow generate the Sosa numbering for this 3 people family.

This is the current tree:

Right click on yourthe box representing yoursdelf and choose "Manage Sosa / d'Aboville numbering",. aA window will open. Just click OK and the Sosa numbering will be created forlike you:the following: number 1 for you,yourself, 2 for your father and 3 for your mother. G1 and G2 codes are the generation number.numbers.

You should now have something similar to the tree below, where the Sosa numbering is visible on every box at the top right corner, above the identification numbers.

This first tree is now finished. Save it on disk by clicking    on the tools bar.toolbar.

You can now close your genealogy file by clicking the red cross on the tools bar.toolbar.

If you haven'hadn't saved your data before, a window willwould popuphave  andpoped-up, askasking you to dosave sothe now.file.

We will then see the Welcome page again, since it is now the only one opened.

From there, your genealogy will show on the "My Ancestris" tab,tab of the Welcome panel, and at the top left on the section "Last opened genealogies".

ItFrom isthen here thaton, you will probably gainadopt the habit of opening your genealogy.genealogy from the Welcome panel.

 

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You are now ready to take advantage of all the other features of Ancestris. The other chapters of this book will help you do so.

We wish you all the best.