Preferences (SL)

This is where you set most of your usage preferences.

As soon as Ancestris is installed, you can immediately start using it.

However, if you familiarize yourself with certain settings, you can adapt Ancestris to your way of working and give your genealogy the look you want.

Preferences are accessible from several places.

Description

Selection bar

The Preferences window has a selection bar above the category of preferences that you can modify.

Clicking on one of the buttons brings up the detailed content of the preferences which can be modified in the corresponding category.

The field on the right hand side is a filter which makes it easier to find a parameter. Hit the Esc key to exit the filter.

Below is a description of each category. In each category, tooltips are available to help yo with the meaning of each setting.

 

Buttons

In its lower part, the Preferences window has a series of buttons.

Export... Button

This button copies your preferences to a file. Very useful if you have installed Ancestris on several computers. This will allow you to apply your preferences without having to reconfigure each setting individualy.

Import... Button

This button retrieves preferences from a file. It is the reverse operation of the previous one.

OK Button

This button validates any modifications made in the Preferences window and closes it.

Apply Button

This button validates any modifications made in the Preferences window, without closing the window.

Cancel Button

This button closes the window without validating any modifications made in it.

 

Appearence

This pane allows you to change the general appearance of Ancestris.

Interface language

Selects the language used by Ancestris to display all windows.

Reports language

Select the language used by Ancestris to display messages and reports

Appearence

Selects the display style of the windows, also called the look and feel.

For each style selected (Standard, Nimbus, Metal, ...), a sample is displayed on the right.

A relaunch of Ancestris is necessary to activate a new style.

Some of these "look and feel" are extension modules (InfoNode, JTattoo, etc.) that need to be installed to make them appear and use them. See the Extensions for more details.

Font size

Sets the size of fonts throughout the application.

Window

When the box is checked, the windows' sizes and positions will be saved when you exit Ancestris, and restored when Ancestris is reopened.

Memory size in GB

Forces the memory size to allocate to Ancestris to operate.

If you have large family history files, it may be more convenient to allocate a larger number of gigabytes.

 

 

Data

This panel allows you to modify the formats and contents of data elements of your genealogy. It includes two tabs.

General data

Symbols

Displays the typographical characters used to symbolize certain events (Birth, Marriage, Profession, etc.).

Text

Defines the text width in number of characters when displaying notes, source texts, etc.

It is recommended to keep the default value of 246 characters wide.

Pictures

Sets the maximum size of images in kilobytes.

Individuals

Sets how to display names in terms of the ordeer of the name elements.

Dates

The first line sets how to display dates.

The checkbox "Use Baptism when no Birth" tells Ancestris to display an individual birthdate as his/her date of baptism. Otherwise, birth date is left blank.

• For example for displaying the root person in the title bar of the dynamic tree.
• Or for related persons (ex: husband) in the GEDCOM editor.

Here are two examples, the first with the display of the root in the tree, the other with the display of the husband in the Gedcom editor.

Case of "Use Baptism when no Birth" set to 'no'	Case of "Use Baptism when no Birth" set to 'yes'

 

 

Privacy

The Private tab helps you define your preferences when sharing your data with other genealogists, or for publication on the Internet.

You decide what confidential data you want to protect.

• Are considered private: any entity or property falling under the following 3 conditions
  
  • Properties containing TAG _PRIV : all entities or properties containing the tag you specify will be considered private.  '_PRIV' is the default proposition.
  • Living persons : all individuals born in the last number of years you specifiy will be considered private.
  • Events of last 'n' years: all these events, but not necessarily the entities they belong to, will be considered private.
    

• Hoever are never considered as private dead person information :  check this box if you are ok to display deceased person's information.

• Replace text by lets you specify what to display instead of the real information.'...' is the default proposition.

 

Files

Gedcom files and usual directories

Ancestris offers the possibility to define a main genealogical file that you use most often. This file can then be opened using the Open <Default File> action in the File menu. You define it in the first text field GEDCOM file to open.

Also, by default, when Ancestris starts up, it opens the last genealogical files that was open when Ancestris last closed.

The two checkboxes modify this behavior.

• The Always open this file regardless of open files when closing Ancestris check box forces Ancestris to open the default file at start up.
• The Do not open any files at startup check box tells Ancestris not to open any files on startup.

The following setting is the Reports output directory is the directory where Ancestris will save user reports or error reports.

Log file and backup copies

Maximum size of lof file limits the size of the log file. If the maximum size is reached, the log does starts removing the top lines.

Log Level tells Ancestris the level of detail of the information to be collected by the log file. The more it is towards "SEVERE", the less it is detailed, the more it is towards "ALL", the more it is detailed. Be careful, the more detailed it is, the more it slows down your use since everything that happens in the software will be noted.

Number of backup copies defines the number of saved copies to keep for security reasons, in addition to the latest version. The name of each backup file is the same as the name of the main file, completed with the date and time of the recording. For example, if the number of backup copies is 3, each recording (Save action on the File menu, or <Ctrl-S>) will delete the oldest backup copy and keep four copies of the current genealogy: the most recent, plus the previous three copies with their timestamp.

 

Editing

This panel define your preferences when editing genealogical information or when using the editors.

Names

These options relate to the names of individuals.

Forces all lastnames in uppercase converts a surname into uppercase when validating the entry.

Defaults the same lastname to the wife assigns the child's lastname to both parents when creating them.

Tag used to read given name defines the tag to use when reading the gedcom file, to get the common first name. The default tag is NICK.

 

Places

This option about places' criteria or jurisdictions. It includes two items.

Add and save spaces between jurisdictions: for better visibility, a space is added after each comma separating the various place jurisdictions.

Split jurisdictions to edit in Gedcom editor: separates the places jurisdictions when editing them in the Gedcom Editor.

• Example: Box unchecked.

 

• Box checked.

ID Numbers

This option defines settings for the ID number of all entities.

Reuse available (deleted) numbers: forces Ancestris to reuse earlier ID numbers that have been made available when their corresponding entities has been deleted..

Default Entity ID length: sets the number of digits for ID numbers.

 

Encoding

This option deals with the encoding of the file saved on disk. It is a technical parameter that defines the character table used to save the file.

File Encoding selects the character table. It is recommended to encode with the UTF-8 table.

 

Editing

These options deal with the behavior of the editors.

Default editor defines the editor to use by default, in particular through the contextual menu action named 'Edit/Modify'.

Automatically commit changes without asking for confirmation spares you from confirming with the OK button all changes you make. On the other hand, the Delete action confirmation will remain.

Maximum number of cancellations is the maximum number of changes that can be undone using the Ctrl + Z key or the Undo button on the Toolbar.

Automatically create both parents when adding a parent adds the placehorlders of both parents when creating an individual's parent.

Automatically detect duplicate individuals detects duplicate individuals each time you edit an individual. An individual can indeed become a duplicate when you change their date of birth, name, etc. even though this was not a duplicate initially.
When saving your changes to the person, Ancestris checks with the criteria defined in the Duplicate Merge tool if a duplicate exists.
If a duplicate is found but not merged, it will be detected each time one of the individuals is modified.

 

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