Ancestris 13, the “development” version of Ancestris, the free open-source Java-based genealogy program has received several more updates over the past 3 weeks or so. They prefer to release updates/additions to the dev version as they are ready with daily builds. It is a GEDCOM-based program and the built-in GEDCOM editor received an update that allows for keyboard copy and past (exercise caution when editing a GEDCOM file directly). It’s one of the few genealogy programs that can run on ChromeOS.
This round of updates focused on GEDCOM files/editing, translation updates, various fixes and improvements, along with a new Merge Module.
There are three editors built into Ancestris – Cygnus, for individual entries and events, the GEDCOM editor, and Aries, for information in general. Most will probably find themselves using the Aries editor.
Ancestris 13 is currently building upon Ancestris 12 (which is still receiving updates), and Ancestris v12 did receive an update to the Graphe program.
You can download Ancestris 12 or Ancestris 13 here, along with installation instructions:
| Ancestris 13 – Highlights (Currently in development) October 16 – Nov 7, 2024 |
| Translation Updates — Castellan — Catalan — Danish — Dutch — English — French — German — Hungarian — Portugese — Turk |
| Toolbar Reports — Add possibility to put shortcut for reports in toolbar |
| Narrative Report — Display all files when several FILE are in the same OBJE |
| GEDCOM Editor — Enable copy/paste with ctrl+c / ctrl+v |
| GEDCOM Consistency Tests — Add BURI in max life test if there is no DEAT and options says to use it. — Fix date tests |
| GEDCOM Validation — New tests to detect self association |
| Cygnus Editor — Improve behavior when adding a new source. — Fix property swap in order to “grab” all subproperties |
| Aries Editor — Add presence of text in Source Citation panel. |
| General Updates — Avoid error when loading a new file. |
| Merge Entities — Use a different triggering threshold for automatic detection. |
| Registers Records — Enhancements in sort records, allow to copy synthesis to clipboard |
| Merge Module — Redesign of the merge module — Tune resemblance score |
| Graphe (Also Ancestris v12) — Fix search selection management |
| Family Descent Lineage Report — Add an option to display gender |
| Sort Entities — Fix GEDCOM 7 sort error |