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ENGLISH / Re: Double entries in the window for Source citation

« on: March 26, 2026, 19:09:37 »

If what Majaz is referring to is the inclusion of entries like "Husband" and "HUSB" in the dropdown, this also exists in V14. In fact it has existing as long as I remember using Ancestris (v11 or 12 I think I started with). I'm still using GEDCOM 5.5.1.

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ENGLISH / Re: Change to Events?

« on: March 26, 2026, 19:03:56 »

Frederic
Thanks for explanation and quick update of Aries editor, much appreciated.
I think I have a little tidying to do (but not too much) just to make everything consistent and hopefully compatible with GEDCOM standard for the future.
Chris

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ENGLISH / Re: Change to Events?

« on: March 26, 2026, 17:50:22 »

Hi Frederic

Sorry only just seen your message; there seemed to be issue with forum earlier I kept getting "503 Service overloaded" messages.
Unfortunately I have already applied the latest update so can't create a screenshot of what I was seeing when I raised the initial post. Looking now every in the Aries editor every property seems to have an "Event Type" field as the first field; most of which have empty dropdowns, a few of which have values populated in th dropdown but I am not sure where they are getting their values from. [Edit: looking at my GEDCOM they appear to be TYPE entries for the event/property but I don't recall entering them (or being able to enter them as such). Guess I need to clean my GEDCOM.]
The EVEN property now has 2 fields "Event", which has an empty dropdown, and "Event Type", which has the list of education stages (High School, University etc) I previously had.
Should I be adding a value in the "Event" field say "Education Stage" which would link to the list of types? Would that allow me to add an event (say Military Record) with its own list of Event Type (e.g. Draft, Active Service, Medal Received etc) which would be seperate from the education records? Not doing military records yet, just thinking ahead.
Chris

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ENGLISH / Re: Change to Events?

« on: March 25, 2026, 13:23:32 »

yes using V14, updated with latest release / updates.

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ENGLISH / Change to Events?

« on: March 25, 2026, 10:44:12 »

I have been using Event items to record education records as you suggested in this post:
https://forum.ancestris.org/index.php?topic=5254.0

Using the Aries editor when adding a new event for a person previously the dropdown showed a list of events I had used (e.g. "High School", "University" etc) that I could select from. Now the dropdown list is empty.
Looking at the GEDCOM previous EVEN items had
1 EVEN
2 TYPE High School

If I create a new event in the aries editor now and manually put "High School" in the Event field the resulting GEDCOM has
1 EVEN High School
with no TYPE entry

Looking at cygnus editor (which I don't use) it has data entry field for both event and type.
For the old events it shows the event field empty and the type field has the value with the dropdown populated. For a new event (created via Aries) it has "High School" in the event field and type field is empty with no dropdown.

What has changed? Why are the editors different? How should I be using Events for consistancy? Do I need to go back and change all the events I had created following the previous advice?
MTIA
Chris

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ENGLISH / Re: Recording Education Records

« on: March 06, 2025, 15:27:09 »

Thanks for that. I'll give it a go. I'll create an event and use type "primary school", "high school" etc for the different stages.

Guess I need to go back and rework / clean-up those "EDUC" entries I had already created.

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ENGLISH / Recording Education Records

« on: March 06, 2025, 14:02:58 »

What is the best / correct way to record the education record for a person?

There are several people for whom I know multiple education institutions e.g. primary school, high school, university etc.

Ancestris only seems to allow you it create one EDUC record (event) (at least when using the Aries editor). How canI enter multiple education events especially when different schools possibly in different places have been attended? Sometimes there may be multiple schools at the same education stage e.g. 2 high schools if the child / parents moved during the period.

MTIA

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ENGLISH / Re: Media files - relative path

« on: June 23, 2024, 14:00:31 »

OK I have a possible idea ...

I think it might be because I have spaces in the home directory for the GEDCOM file ("C:/Family History")

I just created a new family tree / GEDCOM using C:/Temp as the base directory with sub-directories
C:/Temp/Media
C:/Temp/Media/NoSpace
C:/Temp/Media/With Space

When I add a media file into each of those sub-directories the paths are stored correctly as relative paths.

When I created a second new tree/GEDCOM using C:/Temp 2 as the base directory with sub-directories
C:/Temp 2/Media
C:/Temp 2/Media/NoSpace
C:/Temp 2/Media/With Space
and media files in the sub-directories the paths are stored as absolute paths.

The only difference between the two trees/GEDCOM locations is the space in the directory name / path of the home directory of the GEDCOM file ... "C:/Temp" vs "C:/Temp 2". Spaces in the sub-directory name seem to be OK but not in the root/home directory.

Chris

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ENGLISH / Re: Media files - relative path

« on: June 22, 2024, 20:31:18 »

Sorry Zurga

Either I am not understanding how relative file paths are supposed to work or I am doing something.

As mentioned in the initial post I have "force media paths to be relative" selected  but when I add a new file it always stores the file name in the GEDCOM as an absolute file path. My media files are in direct sub-directories of the home directory containing the GEDCOM file.

1 FILE C:/Family History/Documents/Cemetary Records/Dodd, Reginald Walter - Cremation_Burial.png <-- when first added

When I look in Media Manager the files are shown as absolute references. Media Manager shows "Relative path files are located from the GEDCOM file directory which is C:/Family History"

I can select a file and change it to be a relative reference. This then updates the GEDCOM and stores the file name as a relative path (i.e removing the drive:/{home directory} part of the absolute path).

1 FILE Documents/Cemetary Records/Dodd, Reginald Walter - Cremation_Burial.png  <-- after Media Manager change to relative

How do I get it to store the relative path when I first add the media file? Is that possible or do I have go into Media Manager and change use that to change absolute to relative paths after I first add the file?

Chris

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ENGLISH / Re: Media files - relative path

« on: June 22, 2024, 09:43:54 »

Sorry slightly confused by this.

I currently have:

C:/FamilyHistory   <-- my gedcom file here
C:/FamilyHistory/Documents <-- no files
C:/FamilyHistory/Documents/Census <-- census documents
C:/FamilyHistory/Documents/ParishRecords <-- church documents for baptism, marriage, burial
C:/FamilyHistory/Documents/...  <-- subdirectory for each media type

Are you saying if I get rid of the "Documents" level so I have ...

C:/FamilyHistory   <-- my gedcom file here
C:/FamilyHistory/Census <-- census documents
... other subdirectories for document type

relative file paths will be stored when I add media files?

With approx 1200 media files already it will be quite a bit of work to move them all (yes I know the media manager tool can help) so I don't want to get it wrong and totally mess things up.

Chris

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ENGLISH / Re: v13 - high CPU usage?

« on: June 22, 2024, 09:33:39 »

Thanks

I picked jre21 because it was the recommended version as the current LTS version.

I'll try 'downgrading' to jre17 and see if  that helps reduce resource/cpu usage.

UPDATE: Just uninstalled 21 and installed 17. On initial run it seems much better. CPU load back down to less 2% and no heating issues / fan constantly running. Looks like jre17 is the way to go if anybody as similar issues with jre21.

Chris

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ENGLISH / Media files - relative path

« on: June 21, 2024, 20:46:20 »

How do you add a media file to source and have it store a relative path, as you recommend in the documentation so you can move / share files on usb drive etc?

I have set the "preferences>editing>medias>Force media paths to be relative rather than absolute" option. I have closed and re-open Ancestris but still when I add a new media files using the Gallery tab on a source in the Aries editor it always stores the absolute file path / file name. This happened in v12 and still happens in v13

Is there some other setting / option I should be enabling as well?

Chris

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ENGLISH / v13 - high CPU usage?

« on: June 21, 2024, 20:09:24 »

I have just updated to the latest release of v13 and updated my java from jre8 to jre21 (as required for v13).

Now when I run v13 I have v. high CPU usage with the fan running constantly.

Windows 10 task manager show Ancestris using 65-70% CPU and over 600Mb of memory with "very high" power usage. All other processes are showing less 2% usage. As soon as I close Ancestris everything drops back to normal and the fan stops.

Is anyone else noticing increase resource utilisation with the new version?