Extended navigator (SL)

The Extended Navigator is an Ancestris view that allows you to navigate efficiently and quickly in a genealogical file from the family nucleus through family ties, and also to create individuals step by step.

Thus, from an individual taken as the center of a family nucleus, it is possible to move to one of his relatives (his father or mother, one of his brothers or the one of his sisters, one of his spouses, one of his children ...) at the click of a mouse. This person then becomes in turn the center of the new family nucleus of the browser.

The contextual menu obtained by right-clicking on one of the individuals makes it possible to create the other individuals, and to add the sources and associated notes.

Description

The Navigator is composed in the middle of the couple of the selected individual and his spouse, above the parents of the selected individual, and below 3 tabs for the lists of his children, his brothers and sisters, and the events of his life.

Central part: the couple

The currently selected individual is displayed on the left.

The spouse of the selected individual is displayed on the right.

If there is more than one union, the list of Other unions of the selected individual appears above this spouse.

A simple click on one of the other spouses displayed in this list, moves this one to the Spouse box.

These two boxes therefore form the couple currently displayed.

Partie supérieure : les parents

The two parents of the selected individual are displayed above the couple:

• On the left is displayed the father of the selected individual,
• On the right is displayed the mother of the selected individual.

To the right of the mother is therefore displayed the list of Other unions of the selected individual as seen previously.

Lower part: the list tabs

The lower part displays 3 tabs giving access to the following lists:

• The Children tab displays the list of children of the displayed couple. Above this list is the date and place of the couple's union.
• The Siblings tab displays the list of children from parents displayed at the top. They are therefore the brothers and sisters of the selected individual. Above this list is the date and place of union of the parents of the selected individual.
• The Events tab displays the list of the main life events of the selected individual.

Usage

The purpose of the extended browser is twofold:

1. navigate between relatives of the selected entity to consult the essential information of individuals of the selected family nucleus,
2. modify, create, or delete individuals gradually around the family nucleus.

Navigate the family nucleus

The Extended Browser only displays individuals and families with their photo if they have one. It does not display any notes, sources, or other media.

To make a desired individual appear in the place of the selected individual, it must therefore be selected in Ancestris. This can be done either by this browser if it is close to the one already there, or by selecting it in another view, or even using the search bar.

From there, a simple click on the individuals in the various boxes or list of the browser makes this new individual the one who will be active.

It is possible to go back in this navigation by clicking on the back arrow in the navigation bar.

Modify, create or delete individuals

Double-clicking on any of the individuals displayed in the extended browser activates or opens the default editor. This is the one indicated in the Editing pane of Preferences. From there, you can start entering changes.

Right-clicking on one of the individuals displayed in the extended browser activates the Contextual Menu. From here you can create a parent, spouse, sibling or sister for the clicked individual. The created individual then becomes the selected individual that you can edit in the visible editor, or obtained by double-clicking as previously.

This same context menu allows you to add or link sources, notes, media, etc.

This same menu also allows you to delete the clicked entity.

If you make a mistake, press the Cancel button in the toolbar to go back on a modification. This will cancel both a modification and a creation or deletion of an individual.

Customization

If you want to change the layer used to display the information of individuals from the extended browser, you just need to choose Change view of individuals from the context menu.

It also works to change the layers of families, provided you click on a family.

In this case, the layer manager is displayed. After modification, the new layer is immediately the one that will be used in the browser.