Software:Ancestris

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Ancestris
File:Ancestris logo.png
Screenshot of Ancestris media editor.
Screenshot of Ancestris (v11).
Developer(s)The Ancestris Core Team
Initial release2010; 14 years ago (2010)
Stable release
Current: 10 (10 January 2020; 4 years ago (2020-01-10))
Preview release
3 July 2020; 4 years ago (2020-07-03)
Written inJava
Operating systemLinux, BSD, Solaris, Windows, OSX
Available inMultilingual (18)
TypeGenealogy software
LicenseGNU General Public License v3
Websitewww.ancestris.org

Ancestris is a free genealogy software [1] fully compliant with GEDCOM versions 5.5 and 5.5.1. It is licenced under the GNU GPL 3.0 licence and available for Linux[2], BSD, Solaris, MAC and Windows. It is written in Java langage and relies on the NetBeans platform from Oracle.

Features

Ancestris directly and only works on the GEDCOM file which ensures full data control for the user, makes it easy for users to exchange information when working on the same genealogy, and avoids data losses. Main features include:

   • Free and unlimited 
   • Possibility to work on several genealogy files at the same time 
   • Multi-windows graphical user interface
   • Numerous views of the genalogy: trees, geographic maps, graph, timeline, tables
   • Numerous editors : entities, individuals, Gedcom, places, media. 
   • Mass editing of official records 
   • Mass modification of genealogy data
   • Genalogy search among users
   • Numbering (Sosa, d'Aboville, Sosa-d'Aboville).
   • Files merge, duplicates merge
   • Numerous lists and reports
   • Internet publication 
   • GEDCOM imports from other genealogy software

Full data control

Ancestris offers maximim control of the user on its data. 100 % of data is visible to the user and modifiable and transferable by the user.

  • All data in stored and visible inside the gedcom file and nowhere else.
  • 100% compatibility with GEDCOM 5.5 et 5.5.1
  • Multiple search features
  • Gedcom complicance and inconsistent data alerting
  • Unicode support

User support and Ancestris community of users

Ancestris offers user support through an active and reactive community of users who help eachother. Ancestris is managed and developed by volunteers, professional developers and amateur genealogists.

Languages

Ancestris is available in catalan, dutch, english, finish, french, german, greek, hungarian, italian, norwegian, polish, portuguese, spanish and sweedish.

Ancestris has contributed to health research

From 2009 to 2010, the Ancestris core team has assisted Nadine Pellen in her research on cystic fibrosis. Thanks to algorithms developed specifically for her work, she was able to codify and analyse 250 family trees and 258,000 individuals[3]. On March 18, 2013, she publishes "Cystic fibrosis in inheritance".

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