Cygnus editor (TSL)

The Cygnus editor is one of the three main editors of Ancestris.

The philosophy of the Cygnus editor comes from the desire for simplicity of use.

The simplicity of being able to manipulate individuals and everything around at a glance,

Without worrying about how information is stored behind the scenes,

All other information, families, sources, notes, etc. are ultimately only complementary information relating to the life of the individual in question. Example: shouldn't the seizure of an individual's marriage be done in the same place and in the same way as the seizure of his birth or death? This is what Cygnus can do.

The advantage is to see almost everything at a glance, like a bird watching the earth from the sky.

Did you know that? Its name comes from the large and brilliant constellation of the Swan. With its stars mainly arranged according to a large cross, it is represented as a bird spreading its wings.

Cygnus efficiently does a lot of work for you behind the scenes. Creating a spouse, for example, takes just one click, whereas it requires a lot of action in the other two editors.

The compromise is that only the most important genealogical information can be edited with this editor, but still covers the needs of 80% of users.

There is something for everyone, and Ancestris users often choose to use two main editors: Cygnus + Gedcom, or Aries + Gedcom. Some prefer to use only the Gedcom editor. Here is a comparison of the 3 editors if you still had to make a choice.

	Cygnus	Gedcom	Aries
Focus	The individual and his close environment	The Gedcom standard	Completeness of information
Ease of use	++	+++	+
Ergonomics	+++	+	+++
Coverage of needs	80%	100%	100%
Data Transparency	+	+++	++
Efficiency	+++	+	+
Editable Gedcom entities	Many	All	All
Compliance with Gedcom standard	100%	100%	100%

 

 

Description and Usage

Cygnus presents the individual in the upper part of the window with the Title bar, his family nucleus just below, and the details of his life in the lower part, with the associated life events.

Title bar

The title bar displays the name of the selected individual and buttons.

Hovering over the buttons displays a tooltip.

Pin Button

Freezes the editor on this individual even if another entity is selected in Ancestris.

Cursor Button

Keeps the focus on the editor when changing entities.

A mouse selection of an individual in the entity table or in the tree, for example, normally causes the focus on the Cygnus Editor to be lost.

If you want to keep the focus on the editor, this button brings the focus back to the first name of the individual and positions the cursor there.

Create a new individual Button

Creates a new individual and places him/her in the editor.

Delete this individual Button

Deletes the individual displayed with a confirmation request.

Contextual menu

Right-clicking on this title bar displays the contextual menu.

 

Separation bar

The separation bar shown in yellow below can be moved with the mouse. It allows you to adjust the respective sizes allocated to the family nucleus and life events.

The position of the separation bar is kept from one time to another by genealogy / Gedcom file.

 

Family nucleus

Above the separation bar is the individual's family nucleus.

Photo frame

This frame displays all the photos and other media (video, soundtrack, etc.) of the individual and his or her life events.

The photos displayed at each moment are those of the event selected in the life events section.

• Photos not related to a particular event are attached to the General event.
• Birth photos are linked to the Birth event, etc.

Media included in the sources are not displayed here, but in the Life Events photo frame.

The photo media display the photo. Other media (sounds, videos, documents) display a representative media icon.

A horizontal scroll bar allows you to scroll through the photos of a given event.

You can specify a short description for each photo.

There are 3 buttons in the photo frame.

• The button allows you to set the preferred photo to be displayed by default for the individual in question, in all Ancestris views.
• The button allows you to add a photo, which will be placed in the selected life event.
• The button deletes the displayed photo

Several actions are possible regarding the displayed media.

• A single left click changes the media, whatever it is
• Right-clicking displays the media in your computer's media viewer.
  • If it's a photo, the photo will be displayed in large size in your image viewer.
  • If it is a video or soundtrack, it is played in your favorite media player.
• When the media is a photo
  • Drag and drop with the mouse to crop the photo
  • The thumbwheel allows you to zoom in and out.
  • Finally a Ctrl+Click allows to freeze and save the photo cropping

The choice of a photo is made via the media selection window.

The media are displayed on the right side.

The left side displays the selected media.

The media titles have three possible colors.

• In black the media whose title is filled in with the media
• In blue the media whose title is deduced from the entity that uses it
• In red unused media

The Choose this media button associates it with the individual and closes the window.

The button Go to another file allows to retrieve a file not yet used in genealogy.

Description of the individual

This section allows you to specify the name and gender of the individual.

Two drop-down menus allow you to define the first and last names.

• The First names drop-down menu allows you to select a first name among those already used in genealogy.
• The Surnames drop-down menu allows you to select a surname from those already used in genealogy.

The button allows you to specify the other elements of the individual's name in another window that is then displayed.

The radio buttons allow you to enter the gender of the individual.

The checkbox allows to mark this individual as private. For more details on this subject, see the Private data page of the Preferences)

Above the first and last names is indicated the identification number of the individual and his Sosa number when it was generated.

Around this description are arranged 6 buttons Relationships concerning the parents of the individual, his brothers and sisters, his spouse and his children.

These Relationship buttons are multi-function.

• A left click on the button will not have the same result depending on whether the individual in relation already exists or not yet.
  
  • If the individual already exists, it is selected and the editor will navigate to this individual and display it.
  • If the individual in relationship does not exist, he is created.
• Right-clicking displays a menu with the choices that seem most relevant to that individual and the relationship in question.
  • These choices are arranged in four categories
  • Navigation to the individuals concerned, if there are several brothers, sisters, spouse or children
  • Creating an individual in genealogy and connecting him/her with others
  • Add an individual relationship already existing in genealogy
  • Detach the individual relationship

Close Family Tree

This tree structure presents.

• in yellow, the selected individual,
• his parents at the upper level
• his siblings at his level in the order of births
• his or her spouse(s) are listed below
• and the corresponding children at the lower level

A double-click on one of the individuals selects it.

 

Life events

This part of the Cygnus editor details the events of an individual's life.

A vertical separation bar delimits on the left the list of events and the media of the associated sources, and on the right the details of these events. It can be moved and its position is memorized from one time to another.

Events

List of events

We distinguish the General event from the others.

• It is a particular event that allows you not to define a particular event precisely.
• It allows to associate notes and sources to the individual to characterize the whole of his life, without attaching them to a particular moment of life.

All other events are those that the Gedcom standard allows to define. They are very numerous (birth, marriage, profession, residence, death, burial, etc.).

All events are listed in a single lifeline, including unions. You can therefore create a baptism event and a wedding event in the same place and in the same way.

Indeed, unlike the other two editors, Cygnus being centered on the individual, there is no distinction of capture between the events of the individual entity and the events of the family entities concerning him/her as spouse.

The list displays the default events in chronological order, using date as the event logic (a death occurs after a birth).

The list can be sorted by clicking on the column header, in ascending order with one click, or descending order with a second click.

The width of the columns can be adjusted with the mouse.

Selecting an event displays its details on the right side, and its associated photos in the photo frame at the top of the editor, and source documents in the source media frame at the bottom left of the editor.

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Place

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Synchronisation avec les autres vues

Nous l'avons vu, dans Ancestris, à chaque instant une entité est sélectionnée pour être l'objet de la zone de travail.

Quand cette entité est un individu, celui-ci apparaît en personne principale dans l'éditeur Cygnus.

Quand cette entité n'est pas un individu (une famille, une note, etc.), l'éditeur Cygnus affiche l'individu relié à cette entité à partir duquel cette entité pourra être éditée.

L'événement sélectionné est celui auquel est rattaché l'entité sélectionnée dans Ancestris.