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ENGLISH / Ancestris for Android?

« on: January 10, 2025, 10:20:13 »

Moin from East Frisia!
Years ago I had six visitors from the USA and two from France.
Not long after welcoming them and taking their seats, they all had their tablets in their hands and were eagerly comparing genealogical data.
I can't remember what kind of tablets or operating systems they were using. Perhaps they were all online...
Java or OpenJDK could be used with Android?
If so, it would be interesting to be able to use Ancestris on such systems.
Greetings, Dieter

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FRANÇAIS / Ancestris + versions Java/OpenJDK

« on: May 07, 2023, 10:16:07 »

Un nouvel ordinateur portable avec Windows 11 nécessite une réinstallation d'Ancestris (bientôt en version 13 ?), ainsi que des versions Java ou OpenJDK nécessaires.
Une nouvelle installation est également prévue pour mon ordinateur Haiku (OS).

Dans la documentation, j'ai lu entre autres :

- Ancestris fonctionne avec les versions 8, 11 et 17 de Java.
- est compilé en version 8 pour assurer une meilleure compatibilité avec la plupart des utilisateurs.
- a été testé et fonctionne sur Java 8, 11 et 17, qui sont des versions LTS (Long Term Support).
- ... mais certains utilisateurs ont confirmé qu'il fonctionne avec Java 18 (TOUTES les fonctionnalités ?).

Allemand > Français Traduit avec DeepL

Je suis un peu perplexe, car on dit aussi après :
- Java version 11 supporte la plupart ( ?) = PAS TOUTES ? Les fonctions d'Ancestris.

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ENGLISH / Document Reports

« on: May 08, 2022, 09:16:02 »

Moin!
The Ancestris Welcome page shows me Latest Updates.
5/6/22
Document Reports (as a link)
v11/v12 - Adapt Documents reports to match Java evolution
When I click this (and all previous) links, I end up in the Ancestris forums.
There the 'heading' (topic) is defined as a link to itself without further explanation.
It would make sense for me to learn more!
Greetings Pollux

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ENGLISH / Reading in my very large GEDCOM file...

« on: April 05, 2022, 15:11:39 »

Unfortunately I can't use Ancestris as it should be, but still a big compliment:
Reading in my very large GEDCOM file has now become extremely fast!

Grüße, Dieter

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ENGLISH / Help on Ancestris due to soon switch to it.

« on: February 02, 2022, 08:49:04 »

Please, I would very much like to meet an Ancestris user with sufficient background knowledge who can answer my questions about Ancestris functions (and beyond) directly and with examples on the computer!
Operating systems would be Windows so far and Haiku in the future.
I live in Ostfriesland (North-West Germany), I'm also in the Duisburg area and have distant relatives in Sémoy, France.

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ENGLISH / Third-party GEDCOM import + correction + export

« on: November 28, 2021, 06:14:59 »

A current problem that I've had several times!
I am receiving a GEDCOM from the US or another country.
When I look at the content, I almost always notice (many!) Serious errors that I want to correct 'comprehensively'.
However, this is only possible to some extent pleasantly if I import the GEDCOM to my data and then merge the duplicates person by person.
* +++

My problem afterwards is that I cannot only export and send back all (received and corrected) data as GEDCOM on CLICK.

Maybe it's just my 'problem'?
It would have to be described in more detail, however. *

Pollux

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ENGLISH / yEd + Ancestris

« on: August 18, 2021, 07:20:24 »

yEd seems like an interesting flowchart program.
I spotted the name on an Ancestris menu description and searched the Haiku forum and found a single entry about it.
Apparently it is available (also? For) JAVA, but obviously not programmed like Ancestris, which I can (almost) easily start under Haiku!
Ancestris starts without modification (for Haiku), without installation, simply from any directory ~ GENIAL!

Pollux

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ENGLISH / Title bar: Display of the Ancestris version

« on: July 12, 2021, 08:49:17 »

In the title bar of the Ancestris program window I read "Ancestris 11",
'About Ancestris' tells me: "Ancestris 12"
OS: Windows 10 + Haiku

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ENGLISH / Ancestris on a tablet?

« on: May 03, 2021, 10:23:58 »

I installed my (older) genealogy software, which I still use up to now, under Windows 10 on a tablet with 2GB RAM.
The software works with the data of 333,614 people at a very comfortable pace.
An external Rii i4 Mini Bluetooth 4.0 and 2.4GHz keyboard with touchpad works great with Haiku (32bit + 64bit) on the Mini PC Zotac ZBOX IQ 01.
Tested in 2.4 GHz mode, very high quality workmanship, pleasant keyboard, touchpad works perfectly without having to make any settings.
Otherwise I don't like touchpads!

Haiku has already been installed on tablets without being prepared for it.
In the future, I would like to use Ancestris with Haiku (OS) not only on the Zotac ZBOX IQ 01 mini PC and the DELL XPS15 L502x notebook, but also on an (inexpensive) tablet with 4 GB of RAM.
When I fly to the Philippines or the USA, I don't want to carry a notebook with me, just a 'genealogy tablet'!

But is that even possible with Ancestris? (OpenJDK 8 or 11) with 333,614 personal data on 4GB RAM (built-in memory) in a tablet?
Maybe with a minimum of installed extensions / plug-ins?

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ENGLISH / green and red rectangles

« on: April 22, 2021, 11:29:03 »

What are the green and red rectangles in the person box?

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ENGLISH / Translation incomplete

« on: March 22, 2021, 12:30:38 »

When I manually check for updates in Ancestris 11 (nightly) on Windows 10, the message "Your application is up to date. No updates are available." correctly displayed in German!
However, this message is displayed in English under Haiku with Ancestris 11 (nightly).
However, the text in the head of the window is completely in German on both systems!
Although completely irrelevant for the use of Ancestris 11 under Haiku, I am interested in what it is.

Pollux

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ENGLISH / Ancestris - very long duration for the linking in GEDCOM

« on: January 30, 2021, 08:06:20 »

If I set the protocol quality to OFF in the Ancestri's preferences (no indication of its influence on the time), my GEDCOM will be read in within an acceptable time!
This is followed by a very, very, very long duration for the linking.
Is there an explanation?

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ENGLISH / Assessments and descriptions of genealogy software are often very sparse...

« on: January 25, 2021, 07:32:31 »

Assessments and descriptions of genealogy software are often very sparse. Sometimes programs are not even included in the lists. That means, you simply won't find it if you don't look for it specifically!

The following info page is also out of date and rather incomplete as far as Ancestris is concerned:
http://wiki-de.genealogy.net/Ancestris

Zurga had already asked if someone could do something about it.
But I'm not ready yet to contribute!

Pollux

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ENGLISH / How is a person described correctly ?

« on: December 05, 2020, 07:21:03 »

How is a person described below correctly (= 100% GEDCOM compliant ?) recorded with Ancestris ?

born as: Egbert Egberts
adopted: Egbert Hoyer
ennobled: Egbert von Hoyer
honoured: Dr. Egbert von Hoyer

Thanks, Pollux

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ENGLISH / People Search in Ancestris ...

« on: November 19, 2020, 12:51:51 »

How can I only find people with the following family names:

Fre, Free, Frei, Frey, Vre, Vree, Vrei, Vrey, Vry, Vrye, output  and sorted by first name without the mentioned family names influencing the sorting order?

EDIT:
The aforementioned family names are different spellings of ONE family name! No different families!
It has happened that a person has several of these family names in different sources or documents.
The behavior of the first names (each belonging to it) was similar, which increased the number of differences for ONE person again!
In addition, family names were not mentioned in many church registers and other sources for several generations. In these cases, the patronymy 'served' as a family name!

Searching for (possible) duplicates takes on a whole new dimension!