Ancestris - Free Genealogy Software

Your genealogy in complete freedom

Thanks to Ancestris, you keep your genealogy under control.
Your data is only in a Gedcom file, so never lost or unreadable by other software, and therefore forever transmissible to your loved ones.

A powerful software

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.

A responsive community at your service

Need help ? Genealogists users of Ancestris answer you.
Requests for improvements? Make your suggestions and developers will modify Ancestris if it is relevant to the greatest number.

Why Ancestris

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

Free

You pay nothing, the software is free for life, and the updates are free and available directly from the software.

No strings attached

You are free to store, read, manipulate, and publish your genealogy without depending on any software nor operating system.

Unlimited

You can manage an unlimited number of individuals, families, and other documents for as many different genealogies as you want.

Community

You benefit from a free assistance of reactive volunteers and from the users community.

Powerful

You can count on a 20 years old software which satisfies thousands of users.

Comprehensive

You benefit from all the features and tools to edit and publish your genealogy.

Download version 10

Ancestris is available for the three systems below and works with versions 8 to 11 of java.
If needed, see the installation guide by clicking on the button below 'How to install...'.

MacOS

If you use a MacOS system, here is the file to download. Then just click on it to run.

Windows

If you use a Windows system, here is the file to unzip. The executable is in the 'bin' directory.

If you use a Linux system, just choose your distribution file.

Daily version 11

This is the latest version of Ancestris, updated almost daily. It runs on MacOS, Windows and Linux. It benefits from recent improvements.

Download How to install...

Facts

These facts demonstrate the strength of the software.

Years of experience

25,000

Uses per month

Countries

4,000,000

Managed ancestors

Testimonials

Alice

Historian

Ancestris is the ideal tool to start your genealogy or to migrate from another software.

Guillaume de Morant

Journalist of the French Review of Genealogy

Strict compliance with the Gedcom standard allows you to exchange genealogical data without error.

Didier

Passionate genealogist

Ancestris has all the great features of genealogy software and more!

Chantal

Blogger

Ancestris genealogical research is a major step forward for genealogists
who want to search the trees of other genealogists.

André

Converted to Ancestris

Thanks again to the developers of this excellent software.

Nadine Pellen

Author of "Cystic Fibrosis in Legacy" in 2015.

The quality of this software also lies in its development ability
to meet specific requests - page 83.

Screenshots

All
Views
Tools
Editors

Media

Show or add media

Cygnus Editor

Edit your genalogy

Dynamic Tree

Add from the tree

Fan Report

View your reports

Graph View

View the graph

Web Book

Publish your genealogy

Geographic View

See your events on a map

Duplicate Handling

Detect duplicates

Places Editor

Find and locate your places

Team

We founded Ancestris because we are all passionate amateur genealogists who promote Free Genealogy.
Numerous contributors are also helping us, for translations, user assistance, development of certain functionalities, and to communicate about Ancestris.