Menu Bar

The Menu Bar of Ancestris gives you access to all available actions via 7 menus. 

 

 Logic of the menu organisation 

 To easily find the actions you are looking for, here is the organisation we chose for the menus. 

 File Menu 

 This menu regroups all the actions to handle genealogy files . 

 

 Create, open, close, save, import, merge, export, change its properties, add to favourites 

 Exit the application 

 

 Edit Menu 

 This menu regroups all the actions to make global changes to your genealogical data . 

 

 Undo / Redo 

 Cut / Copy / Paste 

 Find / Replace / Delete 

 Generate Sosa or D'Aboville numbering 

 Change ID numbers 

 Mark special individuals 

 See modifications history 

 

 View Menu 

 This menu regroups all the actions to access the genealogical views. 

 These views show specific aspects of your genealogy and some let you edit your genealogy as well (e.g. editors, dynamic tree). 

 Tools Menu 

 This menu regroups all the actions to explore, manipulate and analyse genealogical data . 

 

 Genealogical Search among Ancestris users, 

 Consult registers records and use them to enrich your genealogy 

 Miscellaneous utilities (date calculation, calculator) 

 Verify data (anomalies, duplicates) 

 Analyse data (common ancestors, lists and reports) 

 Publish locally on disk or on the Internet  

 Print the active view 

 

 Window Menu 

 This menu regroups all the actions to handle Ancestris windows . 

 

 Access to special windows 

 Handling windows : open, close, float, dock, clone, set to full screen 

 

 Options Menu 

 This menu regroups the main actions to customize Ancestris. 

 

 Preferences 

 Save display settings 

 Configure tools bar 

 Update Ancestris 

 Manage Plugins 

 

 Help Menu 

 This menu regroups all the actions to get help and to help Ancestris. 

 

 All the documentation 

 Contact Ancestris support team 

 Make a donation 

 Ancestris website 

 About Ancestris 

 

   

 Using the menus 

 Like the menu bar in many software programs, each menu in the Ancestris menu bar can be opened in two ways. 

 

 or by clicking on it 

 or by typing the key combination: <Alt> + the underlined letter in the name of the corresponding menu. For example, to open the Tools menu, type <Alt>+t. 

 

 Each action of the menu has: 

 

 an icon illustrating the action, when this icon exists 

 the name of the action 

 a keyboard shortcut to launch this action without going through the menu, when it exists 

 

 Here is an example with the File menu 

 

 

 Similarly, each action can be initiated in several ways: 

 

 either by clicking on it in the menu 

 or when the menu is opened by typing the key combination: <Alt> + the underlined letter in the action name 

 or when the menu is closed by typing the keyboard shortcut of the action (Ctrl-N or Ctrl-S in the example above)