ANCESTRIS(1)

NAME
Ancestris - a Java Genealogy program.

SYNOPSIS
ancestris [options] files...

    java -Duser.language=xx ancestris.app.App

    <xx> can be any locale you wanna use, but be sure you have the appropriate language file, eg. if you want to use french, the abbreviation you have to use is fr

A good example for a startup script could be as this one :

    #!/bin/bash
    cd /home/fm/ancestris
    LANG=fr
    CLASSPATH=$CLASSPATH:./lib/ancestris.jar:./lib/swing.jar:./lib/jhbasic.jar:./lib/ancestris_fr.zip
    export LANG CLASSPATH
    java -Duser.language=fr ancestris.app.App

DESCRIPTION
Ancestris for Java is the successor to Family Tree for OS/2. It enables the user to manage GEDCOM repositories in a graphical way regardless of the underlying platform.

FILES

~/ancestris/lib
    Your libraries location.

~/ancestris/gedcoms
    Default location for your gedcoms files. Tip: Create just under it an /images subdirectory where you can place your picture files related to your family tree.

~/ancestris/reports
    Default location for the reports scripts used by Ancestris.

~/ancestris/help
    Default location for the help files. This subdirectory is created when you unzip the file ancestris-help_en-x.x.zip.

~/ancestris/docs
    Location of the docs files. You have to create it and place the appropriate files in it.

~/ancestris/backup
    Location of your backup files.

ENVIRONMENT

JAVA
    Ancestris seems to work fine using Java 1.6.0. Others JVM should work fine, but it depends on the OS you run.

MAINTAINER

Maintainer of these man pages is :
    Francois Massonneau
    Arvernes System
    P.O. Box 317
    85330 Noirmoutier
    France

    Francois Massonneau <francois@ancestris.org>

AUTHOR
Ancestris is written by Daniel Andre and Frederic Lapeyre.

ancestris was compiled by Francois Massonneau <francois@ancestris.org>.

Those people are known to be The Team (in alphabetic order) :
    - Daniel Andre
    - Frederic Lapeyre
    - Francois Massonneau

REPORTING BUGS
Report bugs to Ancestris mailing list <ancestris@ml.arvernes.com>.

COPYRIGHT
COPYRIGHT (C) 2010 Ancestris development Team
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public Licence for more details.

OTHER INFO
The webpage for Ancestris is at http://www.ancestris.org. Here you can find info about Ancestris, download the latest version, and all necessary files.

SEE ALSO
AncestrisTracSystem is available at :
http://trac.arvernes.dyndns.org/ancestris

This manual page was written by Francois Massonneau <francois@ancestris.org>, for the Debian project (but may be used by others).