Lists and reports (L)
This function launches the reports available in Ancestris.
There are reports directly accessible from the Ancestris Menu, Menu/Tools/Quick Reports. These are the Quick List, Family Group and Close Relatives reports.
Description
This window lists all available reports on the left, and the explanation of the selected report on the right.
The toolbar allows you to launch the selected report or change the layout of the list.
Toolbar
Start Button
This button starts the selected report. Make sure you have set your launch options beforehand.
Stop Button
This button is used to stop a report that would take too long to run. Indeed, depending on the size of your genealogy, some reports may take time to produce the result.
Sort List Button
This button toggles the list from a category sort to an alphabetical sort.
Reports List
The reports in the list are categorized by default.
- Diagrams where reports are grouped together with a graphic rendering
- Reports in development are those that have been developed last and are not fully completed.
- Texts or lists
- Utilities
When a report is selected, its description and launch options appear on the right in two tabs.
This list includes reports from several contributors and we thank them warmly. The reports were indeed the first way for each Ancestris user to cover his or her own needs. It is always possible to program your own reports in java if you feel like it. We will help you make your first attempts.
One of the consequences is that the reports are quite different from one another, and the output formats depend on each report.
Therefore, it is important to read the description of each one.
Description of a report
The description of the report specifies the author and the date of creation.
In general, you will find an illustration, a description and especially the explanation of the launch options.
Report Options
This tab allows you to modify the launch options so the explanations are given before.
Some reports have a lot of options.
If the options or their explanations are not explicit enough, try to run it on a small amount of data to test the output.
Usage
Reports allow you to visualize your genealogy from different angles, make analyses, or even extract data from it.
Did you know that? Ancestris has contributed to the advancement of science: in 2009 and 2010 the Ancestris team collaborated with Nadine Pellen, a cystic fibrosis researcher. Thanks to algorithms developed for the occasion, she was able to succeed in her research by manipulating 250 family trees and 258,000 individuals. On March 18, 2013, she published "Cystic fibrosis as an inheritance".
For her thesis, Nadine Pellen used a report that we produced quickly and specifically for her to codify the ancestry of patients carrying the cystic fibrosis gene and to produce a file from which she was then able to carry out all the analyses.
Launching a report
A report can be started in several ways.
- From this tool: List and report from the menu
- From the context menu "Launch a report".
A report can concern all the individuals in a genealogy (list of acts to be researched, age pyramid, etc.) or focus on a particular individual (ancestry report).
When you launch the report from the List and report menu, you choose the scope concerned by the report in the options.
When you launch the report from the contextual menu, the menus expand to offer you to launch the report for the whole genealogy or only for the entity you clicked on.
Since documentation on the use of each report is included in each report, we do not document it here.
Only complex reports that require further explanation will be detailed in this online documentation.
This is the case of the Person/Family Information Sheet report, also called the "Gedart report". It is detailed in a dedicated page.