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ENGLISH / Fact as Source for event

« on: July 08, 2026, 11:57:30 »

How should I be recording incidents where the evidence for an event is provided by a 'fact' rather than a gedcom defined event?
For Example, often the evidence for a RESI (residence) may be an electoral register, company record, legal paper, telephone directory etc. To date when creating the RESI entry using the Aries editor I have added a SOURCE and manually entered a non-standard value as the "event" e.g. "Directory".
I understand this is incorrect and using non-standard value wrong. It would seem that I should be using "FACT" in the source definition. That option doesn't seem to appear in the dropdown for "event" on the source criteria definition dialog.
Similar situations exist when adding yearbooks or school registers as evidence for education events.
How should I handle these situations?

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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 / 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 / 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?