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Modify genealogy properties

User Guide Master Menus and Windows

This window allows you to modify the description, the main language and the author of any genealogy file in Gedcom format. The description and the main language properties are saved in the header of the Gedcom file. The author information is stored in a Submi...

Geographic map

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The Geographic map displays all the genealogy events at their location on a map. You can visualize where the events you are interested in took place. In particular, you can apply filters to see only certain events and thus make geographical analyses of your...

Places editor

User Guide Master Menus and Windows

The Places editor is an editor dedicated to adding or modifying places, by standardizing their name thanks to a database of places available on the Internet. The Place editor is only accessible from a place. It is not accessible from the menu bar. Descript...

Table of places

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The Table of Places is a global place editor used as a spreadsheet, to help you edit and clean all the places of your genealogy. Description The Table of Places lists all the locations of your genealogy. Each line represents a place, and each column repres...

List of places

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The List of Places is a list of all places and corresponding events of the genealogy. All places found in the genealogy are listed, with their geographical coordinates. For each of them, it is possible to see the events that occurred there. The sorting o...

Aries editor

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The Aries editor is one of the three main editors of Ancestris. The philosophy of the Aries editor comes from the need for ergonomy and exhaustiveness. The possibility of being able to provide all the information allowed by the Gedcom standard. In a user-...

Gedcom editor

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The Gedcom editor is one of the three main editors of Ancestris. The philosophy of the Gedcom editor comes from the will to be transparent and to be based on the way the Gedcom standard structures genealogical information. Information transparency where th...

Cygnus editor

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The Cygnus editor is one of the three main editors of Ancestris. The philosophy of the Cygnus editor comes from the need for simplicity of use. The simplicity of being able to manipulate individuals and everything that relates to them, at a glance Without...

Graph

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The Graph shows a view of your genealogy in the form of a graph, where all individuals are displayed only once, and are related to each other according to their genealogical relationships. You can create your genealogy graphs as you wish. The shape of the gra...

Timeline

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The Timeline shows all the individual of the genealogy along a timeline of events that occurred in different countries. Individuals can be displayed as a genealogical tree. Description This view displays a menu bar, a timeline frieze and the individuals...

Save as

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The Save as action either makes an identical copy of your genealogy under another Gedcom file name, or makes a partial copy of your genealogy as another Gedcom file, using several very useful filters. The Save as function can also be used to export branches o...

Dynamic tree

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The Dynamic tree shows a genealogy in the form of a tree. You can quickly select any individual in the tree, and you can also use this view to build the tree. The view is the closest to that of a traditional family tree, and it best captures the simple rel...

Entities table

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The Entities table lists all the entities of the genealogy and provides detailed information for each of them in columns. This view is the one that best allows you to list and navigate through the entire genealogy. You can also create, modify, and delete e...

Entity card

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The Entity card gives an overview of the current entity. The content of the card shows the key elements of information regarding this entity. It depends on the entity. Essentially dedicated to consultation, this view does not allow navigation, but has a nu...

See modifications history

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This function gives the history of modifications made to a genealogy within Ancestris. Description If you want to trace precisely what happened in your Gedcom file, modification by modification, this table gives it to you. In 7 columns, this table gives y...

Generate Sosa numbers

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This function generates or erases genealogical numberings of individuals in a genealogy. The possible numberings are the Sosa-Stradonitz, d'Aboville, and Sosa-d'Aboville numberings. In genealogy, these numberings make it possible to easily identify, for a ...

Delete

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This function deletes data elements from a genealogy. Description Your genealogy information is stored in a Gedcom file. In this file, each piece of information is stored in a data element called a Property. Example: Name, date of birth, place of marriage...

Find / Replace

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This tool can find or replace any text of the genealogy content. Description In the first two drop-down menus of this Find/Replace window, you indicate the text to search for, and the text by which to replace it. Previous searches are stored in these drop...

Export

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This function exports all or part of a genealogy to other software or genealogy sites. This software or this site must be able to read a file in Gedcom format. Description Why export a Gedcom file to another Gedcom file? You are probably wondering why an...

Simple navigator

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The Simple navigator allows you to navigate efficiently through the family nucleus of the selected individual.   Description This simple browser displays the last selected individual in the middle of his/her close relatives. It only displays individuals a...