Ahnenblatt
Encyclopedia
Ahnenblatt is a genealogy
software to create family trees
, pedigree chart
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Genealogic data is stored in a proprietary file format, that can be exported to other formats , e.g. GEDCOM
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Genealogy
Genealogy is the study of families and the tracing of their lineages and history. Genealogists use oral traditions, historical records, genetic analysis, and other records to obtain information about a family and to demonstrate kinship and pedigrees of its members...
software to create family trees
Family tree
A family tree, or pedigree chart, is a chart representing family relationships in a conventional tree structure. The more detailed family trees used in medicine, genealogy, and social work are known as genograms.-Family tree representations:...
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Pedigree chart
A pedigree chart is a diagram that shows the occurrence and appearance or phenotypes of a particular gene or organism and its ancestors from one generation to the next, most commonly humans, show dogs, and race horses....
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Ahnentafel
An ahnentafel or ahnenreihe is a genealogical numbering system for listing a person's direct ancestors in a fixed sequence of ascent...
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Genealogic data is stored in a proprietary file format, that can be exported to other formats , e.g. GEDCOM
GEDCOM
GEDCOM, an acronym for GEnealogical Data COMmunication, is a proprietary and open de facto specification for exchanging genealogical data between different genealogy software...
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Features
- Graphical trees - generate family treeFamily treeA family tree, or pedigree chart, is a chart representing family relationships in a conventional tree structure. The more detailed family trees used in medicine, genealogy, and social work are known as genograms.-Family tree representations:...
s (descendantLineal descendantA lineal descendant, in legal usage, refers to a blood relative in the direct line of descent. The children, grandchildren, great-grandchildren, etc...
trees) and ancestorAncestorAn ancestor is a parent or the parent of an ancestor ....
trees - Lists - Ancestor list, Descendant list, Family list, Birthday list, Person Sheet
- UnicodeUnicodeUnicode is a computing industry standard for the consistent encoding, representation and handling of text expressed in most of the world's writing systems...
capable - supports international characters - Auto-completion function for input fields
- Navigator - click through your ancestors
- GEDCOMGEDCOMGEDCOM, an acronym for GEnealogical Data COMmunication, is a proprietary and open de facto specification for exchanging genealogical data between different genealogy software...
support - import and export in GEDCOM format - Multiple export formats - htmlHTMLHyperText Markup Language is the predominant markup language for web pages. HTML elements are the basic building-blocks of webpages....
, xmlXMLExtensible Markup Language is a set of rules for encoding documents in machine-readable form. It is defined in the XML 1.0 Specification produced by the W3C, and several other related specifications, all gratis open standards....
, csvComma-separated valuesA comma-separated values file stores tabular data in plain-text form. As a result, such a file is easily human-readable ....
, tiny tafel; - save reports as WordWordIn language, a word is the smallest free form that may be uttered in isolation with semantic or pragmatic content . This contrasts with a morpheme, which is the smallest unit of meaning but will not necessarily stand on its own...
document, rtfRich Text FormatThe Rich Text Format is a proprietary document file format with published specification developed by Microsoft Corporation since 1987 for Microsoft products and for cross-platform document interchange....
file; save family trees and statistics as bitmapBitmapIn computer graphics, a bitmap or pixmap is a type of memory organization or image file format used to store digital images. The term bitmap comes from the computer programming terminology, meaning just a map of bits, a spatially mapped array of bits. Now, along with pixmap, it commonly refers to...
, jpegJPEGIn computing, JPEG . The degree of compression can be adjusted, allowing a selectable tradeoff between storage size and image quality. JPEG typically achieves 10:1 compression with little perceptible loss in image quality....
, png - Plausibility check - find mistakes in the data
- Portable application - runs from USB drive without installation (Portableapps and U3U3U3 was a joint venture between SanDisk and M-Systems , producing a proprietary method of launching Windows applications from special USB flash drives. Flash drives adhering to the U3 specification are termed "U3 smart drives"....
stick support) - Plug-In support - external genealogy applications that can be integrated into Ahnenblatt. Examples of Plug-ins:
- Google-Earth Plug-In: Locates ancestors in Google-Earth
- Calendar-Output Plug-In: Export of birthdays into .ics calendar format
- Place-Name-List Plug-In: Creates a list locations by different criteria like places of birth, places of marriage, places of dead, etc
- Add-Source-Information Plug-In: Adds a common source to all person entries
- Rename-Pictures Plug-In: Renames and sorts all pictures in the format: name_first-name_birth-date_count_extension
- Island-Finder Plug-In: Finds groups of people which have no relation to other groups (only in German)
- Lebenszeit Plug-In: Generates customizable Lifespan Graph of persons into an HTML table (only in German)