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 26 years old software which satisfies thousands of users.

Comprehensive

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

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, versions 11 and 12 are installed the same way by simply clicking on the downloaded package.

Windows

For Windows, version 11 includes an automated installer, and version 12 is a compressed archive file to unzip.

Linux

For Linux, versions 11 and 12 are installed the same way, as a clickable AppImage or as a ZIP file to unzip.

Facts

These facts demonstrate the strength of the software.

26

Years of experience

65,000

Uses per month

170

Countries

Testimonials

Where users did not wish to attach their real photo to their comment, an anonymous photo was used instead.

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

Graphic multi-generations tree

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

President

Jean Mordac

Trainer

Yannick Voyaud

Treasurer

Pascal Forhan

Professional

Daniel André

Engineer

Paolo Odone

Italian translator

Peter Hochreiter

German translator

Mārtiņš Anšmits

Latvian translator

Dag Issjö

Swedish translator

Pedro Albuquerque

Portuguese translator

Dimitris Bletsas

Greek translator

Jordi Juncosa Garza

Spanish and Catalan translator

Bernth Eriksen

Danish translator

Bogumił Cieniek

Polish translator

Martin Slavík

Czech translator

Harry Mensch

Dutch translator

Biró Tamás

Hungarian translator

Søren Bay Kastrup

Danish translator

Dominique Baron

Author of Trancestris

Information

Documentation

docs.ancestris.org

Forum

forum.ancestris.org

Support

support@ancestris.org