Ancestral Quest Product Details
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Features
Grow Your Family Tree with Ease
- Intuitive Family Building screens
- Intuitive screens for editing individuals and marriages
- Quick Entry features minimize repetitive typing
- Keyboard shortcuts let you do most tasks without the mouse and dramatically speed up entry of information
- Special link with Ancestry.com lets you quickly add research submitted by others
- Unlimited spouses per person
- Unlimited children per family
- Unlimited parents per child
- Record step parent situations, ie mother is biological, father is adoptive
- Record Name, Titles, Birth, Christening, Death, Burial for each person
- Record current address, contact information for each person
- Record custom ID, Cause of Death, Physical Description, AKA for each person
- Change the title of the “Birth-Rite” event (usually called Christening, but often something like “Baptism”, “Blessing”, “Circumcision”) for each person
- Unlimited “Other Events” for each person – things like Emigration, Census, Probate
- Mark “Other Events” as Confidential
- Scores of predefined “Other Event” types, and you can define your own
- Print Reports
- Create Web Pages
- Export Your Data to GEDCOM
- Include Scrapbook items right in GEDCOM
- During import, create a source record to be attached to each imported record
- Create reports to PDF files to send in e-mail or to make available on web pages
- Unlimited Notes for each individual and family
- Spell Check Notes
- Easy to Use, yet Professional quality Source Documentation system
- Categorize Sources
- View where any source has been cited
- Memorize and reuse up to 9 source citations
- Connect a source citation to multiple events
- Assign a source citation to just the date or place for specific documentation
- Store and print images of source documents (birth certificates, census pages, etc)
- Unique “Documentation Center” lets you manage all the documentation – both notes and sources – for an individual or family from a single screen
- Mark notes as Confidential
- Store Photos, Audio clips, Video clips, Other documents
- Combine Photos and Audio into choreographed slide shows with audio background (narration or music)
- Attach a sound to each picture, such as a narration
- Unique NetFam™ Collaboration – work together with others anywhere in the world using a single master database shared privately over the Internet
- Export/Import using GEDCOM
- Single and Cascading Pedigree Charts with or without photos, in 4, 5 or 6 generation layouts
- Documentation pages with the Pedigree Charts, including images of source documents
- Blank Pedigree Charts
- Fan Charts up to 13 generations – full circle, half circle, quarter circle – printed on paper as wide and tall as you can find – typically 3 to 4 feet wide
- Single and Cascading Family Group Sheets with or without photos
- Family Group Sheets can be documented with notes and sources, and even with source images
- Ancestry charts
- Ancestry Wall charts with or without photos
- Ancestry charts with siblings of each ancestor
- Descendant single line charts
- Descendant Wall charts with or without photos
- Narrative book reports, both for ancestors (Ahnentafel report) and descendants (Modified Register report) – printed to the Printer, to PDF File, text file, or to Word or WordPerfect files
- Option to print “fill-in-the-blanks” for missing information on Book reports
- Individual Summary pages
- Scrapbook pages
- Custom reports – these can be previewed, printed, or sent to a CSV file for import into database programs (like Access) and spreadsheets
- Line of Descent drop-line chart
- Birthday/Anniversary Calendar
- Research Log
- Several Lists
- Unlinked Individuals in file
- Possible Duplicate Individuals in file
- Lists of Individuals by name or record number
- Lists of Marriages by name of husband, wife, or record number
- Potential problems report (and mark individuals so they won’t appear on this report in the future)
- List of End-of-Line individuals
- List of addresses for Family Reunion mailings
- Lists of places, sorted, and with or without details of events taking place in each location
- List of scrapbook items
- LDS Ordinance reports
- Print lists of Sources
- Print lists of Citations for a Source
- Most reports can be printed to PDF file
- Most reports can be printed to a text file
- Print just Odd or Even pages to help with two-sided printing
- Sophisticated To Do item entry
- Management system for research To-Do items
- Research Log report lets you organize tasks by location, type, or almost anything
- Print reports to take with you in your research notebook
- Review lists of Citations for a Source
- Sort lists of information any way you want (both on the custom report and on the Name List view)
- View and edit multiple files side-by-side
- Direct links to Ancestry.com, developed jointly between Ancestry.com and Incline Software (best use of this if you have subscription to Ancestry.com, though you can gain some value without a subscription)
- Filtered searches on LDS internet sites
- Ability to create your own link to any Internet search site
- Relationship Examiner – calculate up to 100 relationships between any two people, and view line of descent from common ancestor
- Date Calculator – enter birth date and age to get death date, or vice versa
- Soundex Calculator
- Always see relationships of each person to the root person of the file
- Auto Generate ID numbers – Ahnentafel and Henry numbering – the unique combination of these provides the relationship for anyone in the file, even those not related by blood
- Merge Individuals – Auto matching to help identify duplicates
- Auto Merge on ID or AFN
- Merge Sources
- Merge Repositories
- Merge Citations
- Change Log – Keep a log of all changes made in detail – if you are collaborating, it records the User ID of the person making the change
- Global Find/Replace of Notes, Names, Dates and Places
- Make copies of databases
- Split databases
- Backup and Restore
- Bookmark key individuals for quick lookup
- Simple finds on basic sorted information
- Advanced filtering/focusing to find individuals or groups
- Lookup by marriage
- Find individuals based on how they are related to others
- Record standard LDS ordinances
- Specific search filters for locating missing ordinances
- Reports for missing individual and family ordinances
- Update ordinance information from TempleReady
- Filtered lookups of online IGI ordinance information
- Export GEDCOM files for TempleReady and Ancestral File
- Pre-qualification of names for TempleReady
- Predefined Jewish events
- Produce Page of Testimony to preserve memory of Holocaust victims
- Full database compatibility with PAF 3 and PAF 4
- Direct viewing and reporting from PAF 5 database
- Direct import of PAF 5 database
- Direct import of PAF 2.1 – 2.31 databases
System Requirements
- Windows 95 or later or a Windows emulator on a Mac
- 15 MB disk space available
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A complete list of features and side-by-side comparisons are available on the Genealogy Software Review HomePage.
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