Ancestris 13, the “development” version of the free open-source Java-based genealogy program continues to see a lot of improvements over the past few weeks, including some new features. It is GEDCOM-based (something they’ve been doing for over 20 years). Thanks to being Java-based it’s one of the few stand-alone/desktop genealogy programs/apps that should run on ChromeOS and Haiku OS (in fact, the Haiku OS database lists Ancestris v12 as being compatible).
The last two weeks of updates seem to be focused on adding or updating translations, improving the Aries editor, and improving the “Family descent lineage report”.
There are three editors built into Ancestris which are mentioned in the updates – Cygnus, which is focused on individual entries and events, the GEDCOM editor, and Aries, which is focused on information in general. Most will probably find themselves using the Aries editor. Here are the three editors (along with screenshots at the links):
- Aries editor | Ancestris – Documentation
- Cygnus editor | Ancestris – Documentation
- Gedcom editor | Ancestris – Documentation
Ancestris 13 is currently building upon Ancestris 12 (which is still receiving updates), but there are a few new things/improvements back ported to Ancestris 12. The Aries editor in Ancestris v12 did received a bug fix for the source edition (see below).
You can download Ancestris 12 or Ancestris 13 here, along with installation instructions:
Ancestris 13 – Highlights (Currently in development) October 1 – 15, 2024 |
Cygnus editor : dark mode improvements in entities chooser |
Aries editor: — Fix recorded event editor windows title. — Wrap line on Publications facts in source editor. — Fix source edition when try to empty a field. (Ancestris v12 & v13) |
Family descent lineage report : — Display symbol for all events. — Add space before dates. — Use normalized display for d’Aboville numbering |
Add a new date format (dd.mm.yyyy) based on the numeric format (dd/mm/yyyy). If your localization indicate month before day, you will have mm.dd.yyyy |
Common ancestor : display name prefix in report |
Add an option to display gender |
Translations: — Hungarian translation update (thanks Botond) — Danish translation update (thanks Bernth) — Castellan translation update (thanks Jordi) — German translation update (thanks Klaus) — Portuguese translation update (thanks Pedro) |