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ENGLISH / Re: Nickname display in Dynamic tree

« on: April 03, 2026, 21:38:16 »

Thank you, I've changed the height to my liking.
I don't understand why the height was changed if I just copied Default to Nick by clicking New. Maybe any New box has those smaller dimensions? But then again, in a style called Default the dimensions should be, well, default. Anyway, since I now know how to change it through Tuning, that's a bit of a moot point now.

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ENGLISH / Re: Nickname display in Dynamic tree

« on: April 03, 2026, 21:02:29 »

Thank you for chiming in. I was using the Default style. From that I created a New style, and called it Nick. I inserted your line at the place that seemed right to me, and bingo! The nickname, if entered for an individual, appears in brackets right after the given names. Exactly how I want it.
However, all the boxes for individuals in the Dynamic tree have less height now, and hence they display fewer lines - which, to be clear, is not what I want. I wouldn't know how that changed behaviour is possible, because I didn't change anything other than inserting "your" line and it contains nothing about dimensions. In fact, I don't see anything about height in the code of Nick, only about width.

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ENGLISH / Nickname display in Dynamic tree

« on: April 03, 2026, 15:47:39 »

In my genealogy, many people have a nickname (Dutch: roepnaam) which is often an abbreviation or other derivative of one of the official given names, usually the first.
In my previous software, I had entered the nickname as part of the official name, in brackets, like Marinus Albert (Rien) VOGEL.
Now (after importing in Ancestris) I am deleting those parts in brackets since they are not part of the official name, and entering them instead as a NICK.
That works, but the NICK does not show up in the default view of the Dynamic tree. I have looked into changing that, but creating a new Blueprint seems challenging to me, with what looks like html coding.
Ideally I would (again) have the NICK shown in brackets in the box of that individual immediately after the given names. (But if this is too complicated, it might also be an additional line below the given names.)
How to accomplish this?

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ENGLISH / Re: Changing WIFE to HUSB

« on: April 02, 2026, 13:42:56 »

Well, that is clear.
At the same time, I find it disappointing that while same-sex marriage has been legal for over 25 years, GEDCOM forces one of the male partners to accept a WIFE role.
I don't blame Ancestris, as they don't control the GEDCOM structure. (And I applaud Ancestris's principle to adhere to the GEDCOM standard 100%.)

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ENGLISH / Changing WIFE to HUSB

« on: April 02, 2026, 12:29:22 »

Sorry for asking so many questions. I tried to find the answer in the Documentation and through an AI search.
My previous software (Personal Ancestry File) did not allow same-sex marriage. Therefore I entered one of the partners as female at the time.
In Ancestris I want to correct this deviation from reality. I changed his SEX to M without problem. However, his role in the family is still shown as WIFE. I cannot find how to set it to HUSB.

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ENGLISH / Re: Suppressing age difference warning

« on: April 02, 2026, 11:50:37 »

Thank you, that did the trick. Issue solved.
I wasn't aware of that setting, although I could have been if I had thoroughly read the whole documentation. But it's a bit much...

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ENGLISH / Re: Suppressing age difference warning

« on: April 01, 2026, 18:39:13 »

The closing and re-opening has worked. The incorrect tags are gone. That part is solved.
I proceeded to add _VALID to both HUSB and WIFE, and gave the value Y for each. In itself, that seemed to work OK as well.
However, if I re-run the GEDCOM compliance report, the warning about the age difference is still there. So the issue that I started with is not yet solved.
Are we sure that the _VALID Y tags that I added, refer to the age of both individuals, as opposed to the individuals being VALID in a general sense? And also, does Ancestris recognise _VALID in the first place? I' asking because it is apparently a non-standard tag, since I first had to add it before I could assign a value.
I closed and re-opened Ancestris just to be sure that it wasn't a cache issue again - quod non.

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ENGLISH / Re: Suppressing age difference warning

« on: March 31, 2026, 21:23:08 »

Before I try that, I want to get rid of the incorrect tag that I added. I tried to do this by rightclicking the _VALID tag under HUSB in the GEDCOM editor and then click delete. Indeed the incorrect line under HUSB disappeared. Similar for WIFE. So far so good.
However, when I proceed to rightclick HUSB again and then click "Add property via the assistant", like before, the list below "Available predefined properties" is not empty like it was initially before I started tampering with this, but contains "_VALID (_VALID)" on the lefthand side, and "_VALID: Custom tag not defined in GEDCOM". That looks to me like the invalid tag is not really gone.
Should I ignore it? Or perhaps use it to add _VALID and then put the value Y as you described? It's all quite puzzling to this new user, sorry.

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ENGLISH / Re: Suppressing age difference warning

« on: March 31, 2026, 18:01:01 »

About that third step:
If I right-click the HUSB line, a context-sensitive menu appears. In it, the closest thing to "add a personalized tag" is Add property via the assistant. I clicked that, then clicked "User-defined property..." then typed "_VALID Y" in that line. Did the same for WIFE.
I then ran the verification tool again. The marriage age difference warning is still there, for both the male and the female individuals.
If I look in Add property via the assistant again (after right-click on HUSB), then Available predefined properties is not empty anymore like it was before, but it contains "_VALID (_VALID)" in the left-hand panel, and "_VALID: Custom tag not defined in GEDCOM" in the right-hand panel.

I must be doing something wrong. Maybe it is significant that the warning in the compliance report appears for the two individual entities (I37 and I75), but not for the family entity (F23)?

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ENGLISH / Re: Suppressing age difference warning

« on: March 31, 2026, 16:35:22 »

I had several tried things in this direction already, but with no luck. I don't understand the User Documentation nor your explanation.
The anomaly warning highlights only the two individuals (I37 and I75 in my case) but not a family identity.
If I click the I37 text in the compliance report, a new window opens on the bottom left, where I can select the relevant family identity (I think) which is F23 in my case.
If I click that, I see the two individuals in the top right window which I think is the GEDCOM editor.
But at that point I don't know how to proceed. I don't see a MARR tag.
I've also looked in the GEDCOM directly with a text editor. I'm happy to edit there directly (e.g. adding a _VALID tag) if Ancestris can't do it, but I don't know how either. (But of course Ancestris can do it, if I only know how :-) )

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ENGLISH / Suppressing age difference warning

« on: March 31, 2026, 14:11:47 »

In my genealogy, there is a married couple with an age difference of 23 years. This is above the maximum of 20 years, and hence flagged as a warning in the compliance report. I know that I can simply ignore the warning, but I'm striving to get no warnings or errors at all. Is there a way to suppress the warning for this specific couple, but leave it intact for any others? (There are none, but I might make a mistake in entering a birth date in the future.) Perhaps something like adding a VALID or VERIFIED entry?

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ENGLISH / Re: Where is the error list related to importing a GEDCOM file?

« on: March 30, 2026, 21:34:11 »

That worked, thank you! I wanted both the Full list and the Extract version in order to compare them, so I did the process twice.
Out of curiosity: what is that top left button of the window (to save) supposed to represent? It looks perhaps most like a warbled floppy disk to me :-)

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ENGLISH / Re: Exporting User Guide to pdf fails

« on: March 30, 2026, 20:52:36 »

I created a single pdf file from the full (html) user guide (English) and am willing to make it available, if anyone is interested.

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ENGLISH / Where is the error list related to importing a GEDCOM file?

« on: March 30, 2026, 20:49:04 »

I'm very new to Ancestris. I installed the software and imported a GEDCOM file exported from my previous software (PAF = Personal Ancestry File, in my case). It has 469 individuals.
Ancestris returned a list of errors, most of them due to non-standard use of GEDCOM by PAF. I quickly browsed through the "full list" and noticed a couple of things I needed to fix. But for the moment, I closed that "full list".
Now my question is: how can I find back that list? Or maybe just an "extract" of the changes, it might possibly be enough.
Is the list stored somewhere? (I checked the log file, it's not there.) Or can I re-create it, and then how?
Or even more in general: what is the best way to check and correct any anomalies resulting from imperfect GEDCOM import?

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ENGLISH / Re: Exporting User Guide to pdf fails

« on: March 27, 2026, 17:46:48 »

Thank you. I thought of that as a fallback option, will do so now.