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.
Download Ancestris
Ancestris is available for the three systems below, with either version 11, stable since 06/2021,
or with version 12, updated daily and including all latest functionalities.
MacOS
For MacOS, both versions can be installed in the same way. Choose the one to download and launch.
Windows
For Windows, version 11 includes an automated installer, and version 12 is a compressed archive file to unzip.
Linux
For Linux, and for version 11, choose the file corresponding to your distribution. Version 12 is distribution independant.
Facts
These facts demonstrate the strength of the software.
Years of experience
Uses per month
Countries
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!
Martin Slavík
Digital Humanities Teacher
Ancestris is a piece of excellent genealogical software with advanced features. From beginners to professionals and for free. Amazing.
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.
Worldwide Ancestris Users Map
Screenshots
- All
- Views
- Tools
- Editors
Media
Show or add media
Cygnus Editor
Edit your genealogy
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.
Frederic Lapeyre
The president
Jean Mordac
The trainer
Yannick Voyaud
The treasurer
Pascal Forhan
The professional
Daniel André
The engineer
Paolo Odone
The Italian translator
Peter Hochreiter
The German translator
Mārtiņš Anšmits
The Latvian translator
Dag Issjö
The Swedish translator
Pedro Albuquerque
The Portuguese translator
Dimitris Bletsas
The Greek translator
Jordi Juncosa Garza
The Spanish and Catalan translator
Bogumił Cieniek
The Polish translator
Martin Slavík
The Czech translator
Harry Mensch
The Dutch translator
Biró Tamás
The Hungarian translator
Mette Fløjborg
Danish translator
Søren Bay Kastrup
Danish translator