Mark special individuals

This feature marks or displays certain special individuals in your genealogy such as implex families, tree top individuals, Y-DNA related people, etc.

Description

At Ancestris, we have identified several types of populations in your genealogy that might be of great interest to you. They are listed in this window and described below.

• Tree top individuals: these are the individuals without parents at the top of the ascending tree of a given root individual taken as De Cujus.
• Tree bottom individuals: conversely, these are the individuals without children at the base of the tree descending from a root individual taken as a starting point. They can be single or married, and they do not have recorded descendant.
• Implex families: these are "couples of cousins", i.e. individuals forming a union and having at least one common ancestor. Their union generates the implex, that is to say a reduction in the number of ancestors of their descendants. They may or may not already have children identified in the genealogy.
• Multiple ancestors: these are the individuals who have implex families among their descendants. Each multiple ancestor can be a multiple ancestor of different couples.
• Advanced research: these are the individuals found and resulting from the Advanced search, or persons relating to them in a certain way. Hence we can choose to mark:
  • the found individuals themselves
  • the parents of the found individuals
  • the children of the found individuals
  • the spouses of the found individuals
  • the ancestors of the found individuals
  • the descendants of the found individuals
  • the carriers of the Y-DNA of the found individuals
  • the carriers of the mt-DNA of the found individuals

For each of these populations, Ancestris lets you define a user-defined tag to mark them and find them more easily later, for example in the Advanced search view itself. You can name the tag as you like. Ancestris will make sure it starts with the '_' character.

Ancestris also lets you define the value for that tag. The screen above suggests possible tags and values.

Finally, the check boxes at the bottom of the window let you choose whether to erase, mark, or display only the corresponding individuals.

Once the individuals are marked, you can see the tags in the Gedcom editor.

 

Usage

Marking individuals can be very useful to easily locate individuals and doing some analysis.

The tree top individuals and the tree bottom individuals represent the outer perimeter of your genealogical progress in terms of individuals. 
- Tree top individuals are the ones from where you search for ancestors.
- Tree bottom individuals are the ones from where you search for descendants.

Implex families and multiple ancestors provide a better understanding of filiations in your genealogy.

As you can see in the following example, Ancestris quickly enlightenshighlights you on all the implex couples in your genealogy and ontheir relationships via their relationships,common ancestors, thanks to this tool combined with the Common Ancestors tool.

You can also see 5 tabs in the Documents window. The first one, "Special individual marking" is a summary of what was found and marked. Each of the other tabs corresponds to a special individual population.

To get there, makefirst sure youwe have displayedselected the referencean individual in the Ancestrisgenealogy. viewsThen beforewe launchinghave opened this tool,"mark checkspecial individual" tool from the Edit menu, then we have checked the populations thatwe interestwere youinterested in, filled in the choice window described abovetags and clickvalues we wanted, and finally pressed OK.

The choice of a reference individual is only useful for tree top and tree bottom individuals. For implexes and multiple ancestors, Ancestris searches the entire genealogy.

For each of the special populations, Ancestris creates a tab in the Documents window.

What follows is a description of each population marking.

TreeTopTree top individuals

In the case of the Bourbon file used here, we asked for the marking and display of the top individuals byafter displayingfirst beforeselecting the character ofindividual Louis XIII.

Ancestris found 34 tree top individuals in itsthe ascendant tree.tree of Louis XIII. These individuals are displayedlisted in the list.tab. Just click on them to display them in the views of Ancestris.

Each individual name is preceded by a Sosa number generated for the occasion, but not stored in Gedcom.the genealogy. This number is constructed like the other Sosa numbers in Ancestris, that is to say with the generation number and the Sosa number itself.

The list is sorted in ascending order of genealogy and Sosa number.

By clicking on one of the individuals and viewing it in the Gedcom editor, we see that the _TREETOP label has been added.

TreeBottomTree Bottom Individuals

In the case of the Bourbon file used here, we requested the marking and display of tree bottom individuals at the base by displayingfirst the character ofseleccting Louis XIII before.XIII.

Ancestris found 4 individuals at the basebottom of itsLouis XII descending tree. These individuals are displayedlisted in the list.tab. Just click on them to display them in the views of Ancestris.

Each individual name is preceded by ana d'Aboville number generated for the occasion, but not kept in Gedcom. This number is constructed like the other Ancestris d'Aboville numbers, that is to say with the generation number and the actual d'Aboville number.

The list is sorted in ascending order of genealogy and Sosad'Aboville number.

By clicking on one of the individuals and viewing it in the Gedcom editor, we see that the _TREEBOTTOM tag has been added.

For basictree bottom individuals who formbelong atto least one familyfamilies without children, the namefamily of the familyID is indicatedadded into the value of the tag, andto onemake tagit is createdeasy for eachyou to identify the family withoutfrom children.the individual.

 

Implex families

In the case of the Bourbon file used here, we requested the marking and display of the implex families. This marking does not require specifying a reference individual. The result of the marking tool is the same regardless of which individual is selected.

Ancestris found 5 implex families in the entire Bourbon genealogy provided by Ancestris.provided. These families are displayedlisted in the list.tab. Just click on them to display them in the views of Ancestris.

Each lastfamily name is followed by a number inbetween parentheses. This is the number of common ancestors common to both members of the couple. Note that these individuals will findbe themselves in the Multiple Ancestors intab the next tab.!

The list is sorted in descending order of the number of common ancestors.

By clicking on one of the families, the Common Ancestors viewing window displaysappears and shows the visual path ofbetween one of the common ancestors betweenand the two members of the couple.

In the Gedcom editor, we see that the _IMPLEX tag has been added to the family.family, suffixed with the numbr of common ancestors.

 

Multiple ancestors

In the case of the Bourbon file used here, we requested the marking and display of multiple ancestors. This marking does not require specifyingto first select a reference individual.

Ancestris found 79 multiple ancestors throughout the Bourbon genealogy provided by Ancestris. These individuals are displayedlisted in the list.tab. Just click on them to display them in the views of Ancestris.

Each individual name is followed by a number in parentheses. ItThis is the number of couples among hisits descendants who are implex families. Note that these families will be found again Implex families in the previous Implex families tab.

The list is sorted in descending order of the number of these implex families.

Clicking on one of the individuals displays it in the views of Ancestris. In the Gedcom editor, we see that the _MULTANC tag has been added to the individual, followed by the label and the list of all the descending implex families of his descendants.families.

Multiple ancestors can beare displayed in black (if they are thenrelated holdersto the current De Cujus of the genealogy - that is to say, they hold a _SOSA or _SOSADABOVILLE label resulting from a previous numbering),tag, or they are displayed in purple (no link with the ascending or descending lines of the De Cujus.otherwise.

 

Advanced search

In the case of the Bourbon file used here, we asked for the marking of the parents of individuals who had an occupation of profession Abbess.

In the Advanced Search,search, we have already selected the Abbesses.Abbesses individuals. Then in the marking tool, we have checked Advanced Search,search thenand chose the relation "Parents of individuals found". in the dropdown list.

Ancestris found 6 abbesses,abbesses andin the Advanced search, who have together 11 relatives.parents as we can see in the marking tools.

The individuals are sorted in alphabetical order.

Clicking on one of the individuals displays it in the views of Ancestris. In the Gedcom editor, we see that the _MYSELECTION labeltag has been added to the individual, followed by the labelvalue defined in the choice of markings window.defined.

 

Special indivudalindividual marking tab

In order for you to know the marking request you did, the first tab generated is a summary of your request and the list of results.

Customization

There is no specific customization for this tool.