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Properties
A property if a piece of information describing a characteristic of an entity. A property consists essentially of two elements: its name, identified by a TAG, and its VALUE. Description Let's consider the following three properties. City : London City ...
Tags
A tag is a property type identifyer. The Gedcom standard defines a number of tags on three or four capital letters, taken from the English name of the property type. For example, knowing that the SURN label means surname, the SURN Martin property line can be...
Events
An event is a notable fact in the life of an individual or a family, usually dated and localized. While some events are necessarily unique (e.g. birth, death, burial), others may occur several times during a lifetime (e.g. marriage, occupation, residence, div...
Dates
The date makes it possible to locate in time any genealogical event: birth, death, marriage, diploma, residence, etc. In Ancestris, the date can be entered and displayed in different ways because it is set in a given calendar and can be more or less precise. ...
Places
A place is a property indicating a physical location associated with an event, and generally provided with a postal address and capable of receiving geographic coordinates (latitude and longitude). In the Gedcom standard, a place is defined by the PLAC tag. ...
Shared Information
Some pieces of information collated in a genealogy can either be specific to an individual, or shared by several individuals or several families of that genealogy. A genealogy contains a lot of information, you will necessarily want to be able to reuse most o...
Quality control
In order to be able to navigate your genealogy or in order to transmit this lifelong effort amount of information, it is necessary to remain consistent in the way you write similar types of information. The Gedcom standard is a strong reference for this and s...
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...
5.6. Onderzoeks Kladblok
Dit onderzoeks kladblok is bedoeld om alle losse papiertjes en aantekeningen te vervangen, die in de loop van het onderzoek van een stamboom worden gemaakt. Het kladblok is heel eenvoudig uitgevoerd. Het kan worden geopend via het menu "Gereedschap", of via e...
2025
Ancestris sera aux Journées du Logiciel Libre (JDLL) les 24 et 25 mai prochain à Lyon Venez voir Yannick au stand Ancestris. Le dimanche Yannick fera une présentation d'Ancestris de 17:00 à 17:55 en Conf3 Salle D2-004. Ancestris était au ...
Instalacja i uruchamianie Ancestris
Przeczytaj licencję i prawa użytkownika Ancestris to oprogramowanie typu open source, licencjonowane na podstawie GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE Wersja 3. Ancestris to darmowy program do tworzenia drzew genealogicznych, przeznaczony do nieograniczonego czasu uży...
Ponowna instalacja lub aktualizacja Ancestris
Istnieje kilka sytuacji, w których może być konieczna ponowna instalacja Ancestris, ale wszystkie one prowadzą do wykonania tych samych kroków opisanych poniżej. Sytuacje uzasadniające ponowną instalację Ponowna instalacja Ancestris na tym samym komputerze ...