Ancestral Author helps you document yourgenealogical research by constructing fully hyperlinked AdobeAcrobat PDF files from GEDCOM files. Use text files and jpeg imagesto create illustrated books with chapters, descendant reports,ancestor reports, and name index. It is very simple to use, andcreates high quality documents that can be printed, emailed,published on the internet, or sent to a service bureau forconversion into a bound book.
Easily transform a downloaded GEDCOM into a PDF. Just drag theGEDCOM onto the Ancestral Author desktop icon, and in a few secondsyou’ll have a fully hyperlinked and indexed PDF document. Thismakes it easy to view GEDCOMs downloaded from FamilySearch,Ancestry.com, Rootsweb, Genealogy.com, etc.
Or use the Ancestral Author wizard to create more elaborate PDFdocuments with title pages, chapters, sections, indexes, sourcereferences, table of contents, etc. See a small sample PDF documentcreated by Ancestral Author here.
You can add pictures to your titles pages, such as a family crest,an old picture of the homestead, or a picture of yourgreat-grandparents. Click here for more info.
You can embed pictures within the text of your document. Forexample, if you’ve written a biography of your ancestor, you canimport a picture of him or her, give it a caption, and place it onthe page containing the biography. For a sample, click here. Youcan also use this capability to import scanned images of olddocuments. For a sample of this, click here. (It may take a whilefor the PDF file to download. You’ll need have Adobe Acrobatinstalled on your computer.)
You can automatically extract descendant reports from your GEDCOM,starting with any individual, including any number of generations.Any number of descendant reports can be extracted. For example, youcan extract your father’s ancestry in one descendant report, andyour mother’s ancestry in another. Each descendant report can beplaced in the PDF document with its own chapter, and its own title:”Ancestry of My Mom”, “Ancestry of My Dad”.
Names are hyperlinked to pages. This makes it easy to navigate thegenealogical relationships. Click on a hyperlinked name, and youare brought immediately to the page on which that personappears.
The index is fully hyperlinked too. Once you find someone in theindex, just click on the page number, and you are broughtimmediately to that page.
Installer Size: 2.8 MB
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