If you use Ancestris 13, the “development” version of Ancestris, the free open-source Java-based genealogy program, you’re probably aware that it has a fairly active development schedule that sees updates released fairly often (sometimes daily).
Most of the updates from the past few weeks were some UI updates, bug fixes, translation updates, and improved backups, along with PDF and report improvements.
It is a GEDCOM-based program, and there are three editors built into Ancestris which you will sometimes see referenced in the updates – Cygnus, for individual entries and events, the GEDCOM editor, and Aries, for information in general. Most will probably find themselves using the Aries editor, and there were some UI updates in the Aries and GEDCOM editors over the past few weeks.
Ancestris 13 is currently building upon Ancestris 12 (which is still receiving updates). You can download Ancestris 12 or Ancestris 13 here, along with installation instructions:
| Ancestris 13 – Highlights (Currently in development) November 9 – 20, 2024 |
| Translation Updates — Castellan translation (Jordi) — Danish translation (Bernth) — Dutch translation (Harry) — German translation (Klaus) — Portuguese translation (Pedro) |
| General Updates: — Delete tags : add possibility to delete specific values — Favorites Windows: Avoid to load all GEDCOM files displayed in a directory — PDF Renderer: Change PDF renderer for 300dpi media |
| GEDCOM Editor — Fix Copy/Paste Drag/Drop — Redesign of the property assistant |
| Aries Editor — Swap panels order for names, memorize prefixes and suffixes choices |
| Backups: — Backup file: allow to dismiss the backup folder missing alert — Improve backups when designated backup directory is not available |
| Contact Team: — Module improvements |
| Customized Report Actions: — Add possibility to have several actions with different launch options. |
| Summary Report: — Add family details on individual sheet |
| Register records: — Use full date value for deriving other dates; allow pdf files |