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Ancestris

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A powerful genealogy software.

Dynamic Tree

License model

  • FreeProprietary

Application type

Platforms

  • Mac
  • Windows  Ancestris 13 requires Java 17 or newer
  • Linux  OpenJDK avaible
  • BSD
  • Self-Hosted
  • Haiku
3.7 / 5 Avg rating (3)
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Features

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  1.  Portable
  2.  GEDCOM
  3.  Java based

 Tags

  • genograms
  • heritage
  • family-tree

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Ancestris information

  • Developed by

    Ancestris Association
  • Licensing

    Proprietary and Free product.
  • Rating

    Average rating of 3.7
  • Alternatives

    26 alternatives listed
  • Supported Languages

    • English
    • Breton
    • Spanish
    • Catalan; Valencian
    • Czech
    • Danish
    • German
    • Greek
    • Finnish
    • French
    • Hungarian
    • Italian
    • Latvian
    • Dutch
    • Norwegian
    • Polish
    • Portuguese
    • Russian
    • Swedish
    • Turkish

AlternativeTo Category

Home & Family

Our users have written 3 comments and reviews about Ancestris, and it has gotten 10 likes

Ancestris was added to AlternativeTo by yannig on Apr 9, 2015 and this page was last updated Mar 20, 2025.

Comments and Reviews

   
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Top Positive Comment
SaschaTrz
Oct 13, 2023
0

Checked out many other genealogy programs. Used Gramps for a long time. But this one is better than any other I tested. Why?

  • Smartest GEDCOM import. Corrects on the fly.
  • Navigation through the whole (!!) family tree, not only on parts of it. No need to jump fore and back.
  • Open two tree instances to compare parts of it. Big plus!
  • Very good wizzard to elminate person duplicates or to merge them.

Give it a try! While I still use Gramps because of its vast plug-ins community and the possibility to extend it with my own python routines I constantly switch to Ancestris. Just faster to work with.

Top Negative Comment
guardedbyhim
Jul 22, 2022
-1

TESTIMONIALS section is completely fake, reverse image search for the people providing the reviews are from an eye website; "ALICE" who is supposed to be a historian is actually a blogger named Deinah Storm; guillaume de morant does seem to be ligit, another woman on there is a stock image. Not sure why the fake testimonials unless there is a data miner or something else hidden in the software. Just be cautious.

SaschaTrz
Oct 13, 2023

What was the idea behind reverse searching those images? What had been suspicious?

  • If you want to be cautious just deactivate net access to ancestris using your firewall.
  • 'data miner', 'something hidden'? This is open source! Just inspect the source. It's open via SVN. I could not find any odd parts in the source. (BTW: I am not related to the team in any way. I am just an interested programmer.)

My opinion: It's not fair to tear down the reputation in such a way without referring to any of the real software features!

Guest
Dec 24, 2021
0

Free software (FSF) Free (money)

What is Ancestris?

Thanks to Ancestris, you keep your genealogy under control.

Ancestris allows all genealogists, from beginners to experts, to build their genealogy in complete freedom. With Ancestris, you can enrich and maintain your data without risk of loss, unlike what can happen with other non-free software on the market, when changing software or changing version.

Ancestris has more than 30 tools to manipulate your genealogy or make analysis: classic or sophisticated editors, dynamic tree, geographical view, chronological, list of places, management of sources and media, statistical reports, sosa-daboville numbering, merge, detection of duplicates, etc.

Ancestris is also a community of many users who help each other in their research and in the use of Ancestris.

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