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Setting a goal
You will soon realize that the genealogist's work is exponential and can go in all directions. So you will have to set yourself limits if you want to do a quality work. The following points are only examples of choices to be made to delimit a research perime...
Building a progress indicator
You will need to measure the progress of your research. What gets measured gets done! You can measure your progress as a percentage coverage of the number of individuals identified over the number of individuals to be found. If you add the fact that for...
Prepare your genealogical research
You will then have to prepare your genealogical research and build some sort of action plan. Ancestris allows you to prepare a list of searches to be carried out, sorted by categories and by storage locations. Search for event dates The way to conduct genea...
Organize your media
The organization of your media on your PC - folders and file names - is decided as early as possible in your genealogy work, because you will quickly end up with many documents and it is advisable to start from the beginning with a convention of classification...
Document your sources
You will collect many official documents (acts, deeds) that you will need to enter in Ancestris. Each record you find will enrich your genealogy with individuals, events, sources or notes. This page will help you know how to enter a deed using sources and ...
Enter a deed
To enter a birth, marriage, death or other certificate, several solutions are offered to you to enter it. Either it is one of several certificates that you have retrieved, or it is an extract of a statement containing all the certificates of a municipality. ...
Documenting a register
Entering a register is possible with Ancestris using the Registers records module. This module is described in detail in the Registers records page. We invite you to read the corresponding section. This module must be installed from Menu / Personalization / ...
Enter specific events
As an Ancestris user, you often give us special cases of events to capture. One of the questions from a user today was for example: One person was buried, then exhumed before being buried in another village.How to deal with this, knowing that one cannot us...
Media artikelen over Ancestris
In dit hoofdstuk worden de media artikelen beschreven, waarin Ancestris alleen wordt genoemd, of die volledig gaan over Ancestris zelf. De publicaties staan gesorteerd per jaar, met onderaan een hoofdstuk met algemene verwijzingen. 2025 - February, 2025 - N...