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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...

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 / ...

This menu regroups all the actions to make global changes to your genealogical data: undo, redo, cut, copy, paste, find, replace, delete, numbering, mark. Each of these actions is described below. When the action has its own description page - it is bold ...

This menu regroups all the actions to handle genealogy files, to change file properties and to exit Ancestris. In Ancestris, a genealogy file is a Gedcom file. Each of these actions is described below. When the action has its own description page - it is...

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 ...

Current entity, current genealogy At any point in time within Ancestris, if one or more genealogies are open, a genealogical entity is selected. It can be an individual, a family, a source, etc. This entity is the centre of the action. This entity becomes t...

Ancestris workspace is organised in tab groups. Tab groups In the example below, we have four tab groups. They have been highlighted with 4 different colours. You can have as many groups as you want. Tab groups can be of various sizes. To change its size...

Ancestris's Main Window is the one you see when the software opens. In case no genealogy is opened, only the Welcome page appears. If a genealogy opens up, you will see several windows showing different elements of this genealogy. This window has a title,...

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...

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. ...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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. ...

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. ...

This menu regroups all the actions to access the genealogical views and editors for the selected genealogy. Each of these actions is described below. When the action has its own description page - it is bold - click on it to get all the details about it. ...