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Create your genealogy If you feel like starting your own genealogy, or convert your paper genealogy to a computer as it has become too difficult to manage by hand, a wizard will guide you to create a new genealogy file step by step, including your first indi...

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. ...

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. ...

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 see how simple it is to create a genealogy from scratch with Ancestris. You will create a first individual, the parents and close family, thus having your first genealogical tree with one or two generations. Creating a genealogy usually starts by dra...

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...

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 ...

An entity in the Gedcom standard is a main genealogical component such as an individual, a family, a source of information or a note. It can also be an multimedia object such as a video or a audio record. In a Gedcom file, an entity is a record identified by ...

The word Gedcom designates a genealogical data exchange format. It was originally developed by the Mormon Church for religious reasons, then retrieved by genealogists to exchange genealogical data between people running their genealogy applications on incompa...

Ancestris is a modular software where every major functionality resides in a module, also called an extension or a plugin. This is a great way to extend the possibilities of the software. Most extensions are installed by default. Those that are not install...

A blueprint is description used to customize the display of an entity in certain views of Ancestris. Views using blueprints Only the following views use blueprints. For each of them, an example shows what the blueprints could look like. Dynamic tree The Dy...

This is where you set most of your usage personalization. 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 geneal...

Migrating to Ancestris simply consists in opening a Gedcom file created by another software. The expressions « Migrate to Ancestris » and « Import a genealogy file to Ancestris » means exactly the same thing. There is a slight difference which is not relevan...

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. ...