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About Agelong Tree

Agelong Tree is a program for building family trees, for storing and displaying information about people and events in their lives, for storing texts, photos, audios and video records connected to them. A user enters information about relatives, and Agelong Tree builds family trees or lineage lists for any chosen person. Go to page About Agelong Tree to see a brief list of program features.

How Agelong Tree stores data

Agelong Tree stores data only on the user's computer, no data are sent to the Internet. Data are placed in a *.at5 file. Photos and other documents originals are placed in a documents folder, it has the same name as the data file plus “.files”. When it is necessary to move the data file, the documents folder must be moved too.

Data safety

Family tree data are precious. Agelong Tree automatically suggests creating an archived backup copy to prevent data loss. Once you have created an archived copy of data, Agelong Tree counts a certain number of data modifications and then suggests creating a new copy of data. The backup zip archive contains a data file and a documents folder with all documents, photos etc. We strongly recommend to save the archive on an external disc or in a cloud storage, it will help to restore data in case of computer breakdown.

Interface overview

Main window of the program

1. Tabs with main tables and tree. In the brackets there is a number of records in the table or a number of people in the tree.

2. Shortcut menu bar. It contains actions referring to the active main table and to its active object (or to the active person in the tree). Table options button provides access to data fields options of the table, sorting options and filter options. Under the button there are data filters of the table.

3. In the status bar you can see the number of persons in the current file, regardless of what filters are enabled, and the full path and name of the current file.

4. Buttons used to open and save a file, and All actions menu (button ) which contains actions referring to the program on the whole.

5. The active main table. The row (or record) contains information about one object. The active row has a blue background. Records that are marked as favourites are in bold. In the table the following actions are possible:

  • If you left-click the column heading, the data in this column is sorted ascending. If the data in the column has already been sorted, it’s sorted in the opposite direction. If you click the heading while holding down the Alt key, the sort order in other columns is preserved (if the data has been sorted there), otherwise the order is canceled.
  • If you double-click a table row (or press Enter) the editing window or the information window opens for the active person (or event,or place, etc), depending on the program options.
  • If you right-click a table row, appears a menu containing actions referring to the active row.
  • if you right-click a table heading, appears a menu containing fields options, sorting and filters.

6. Navigation panel.

7. Brief information box about the active object contains a photo (when you click the photo it’s displayed in a new window), some brief information and links to its linked objects highlighted in blue. If you click the link, the cursor is positioned on the row with this object when it is found in the active table, or there opens an information window when the object is not found in the active table.


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