Earlier today, Iris Voswinkel released a major update to Ancestor Tree Manager – version 11.1. It’s a free Java-based genealogy program which can generate a website for your family tree. It supports English, Dutch, and German (with reports additionally available in French and Norwegian) and runs on Windows, macOS, Linux, and probably a few other operating systems that support Java 21.
This is a major update as I said, and adds a new feature, with an “ancestor circle” (I’ve included a couple of screenshots I took at the bottom), along with new styling – color styles, new style sheets and report templates. There are also some fixes for working with GEDCOM 7.0 files.
Links:
- Sample Website (Dutch): https://genealogie.sivworks.nl/index.html
- Online Manual/Screenshots: https://ancestortreemanager.sivworks.nl/en/Manual/index.html
- List of Supported Genealogy Programs/GEDCOMs: https://ancestortreemanager.sivworks.nl/en/Manual/GedcomImport.html
- Download: https://ancestortreemanager.sivworks.nl/en/Miscellaneous/Download.html
| Ancestor Tree Manager 11.1 (December 14, 2024) |
| The ancestor tree has been expanded with an ancestor circle |
| New functions added: — Reporting Create user-specific color style — Reporting Modify user-specific color style |
| There are new style sheets and templates for the reporting, some template files have been renamed |
| The GEDCOM export has been given additional options to temporarily solve problems with GEDCOM 7.0 (on the receiving side), explanation in the manual |
| Function improved: Material Check links to web pages |
| Several bug fixes |
| Several improvements |
Note: These are the GEDCOM files tested with ATM:
Tested for GEDCOM 5.5 and 5.5.1 with files from:
- Ahnenforscher
- Aldfaer
- Ancestris
- Ancestry
- Family Historian
- Family Tree Maker (FTM)
- Geneaal
- GeneWeb (is used by Geneanet)
- Geni
- GensDataPro
- Gramps
- Haza-21
- Legacy
- MacFamilyTree (SyniumFamilyTree)
- My Family Tree
- MyHeritage (Family Tree Builder)
- Oedipus II
- Personal Ancestral File (PAF)
- ProGen
- Reunion (added in ATM version 9.4)
- The Master Genealogist (TMG)
Tested for GEDCOM 7.0 with files from:
- Aldfaer
Screenshots of the Circle Ancestor Report
Clicking on the circle chart above takes you to a circle chart that you can zoom in and out of as well as grab with the mouse (or your finger on a touchscreen) and move around so that you can see the various branches.
