By Dale Farris, Secretary
Golden Triangle PC Club
March 2005

"Ancestral Quest (AQ) family tree software is the easiest to use and most versatile genealogy program on the market. Its format is perfect for the beginner and yet powerful enough for the most advanced genealogist. Easy data entry, keyboard shortcuts, scrap-booking, and excellent sourcing capabilities are just some of this genealogy software program's wonderful award-winning features."

With Ancestral Quest, you can create professional looking Pedigree Charts, Family Group Sheets, Ancestry charts, Descendant charts, genealogy book reports, fan charts and more. AQ also has special links to on-line genealogy databases, including www.ancestry.com and www.familysearch.org, which can help you research your family history more easily than ever

What's New in v. 11?

Customize the Name List view to show any fields you want!

Sort the Name List view on up to three fields. For example, sort by name, then by birth date.

Speed Up entry of Source/ Citations

Memorize citations - Select from a list of recently memorized or recently used citations

Merge citations of a source. You can even have AQ automatically merge duplicate citations as they are created.

Detailed Change Log - AQ will keep a detailed log of most changes to the file. This is particularly useful if you are collaborating, as you can see who made the change!

Generate IDs! The ID is typically used to aid in auto merging, or in identifying how someone is related to a root person.

Set the ID to:
The RIN number
The Ahnentafel Number for direct ancestors
A relational code for those who are not direct ancestors

Edit and Delete Marriages from the Marriage search screen

LDS Support! - New! Online IGI Lookups! - Get current ordinance data with just a few clicks of the mouse!

Reports! - New! Print reports to a PDF file! Make them available on your web pages, or send them as e-mail attachments.

New! Drop Line Charts! - Print the line of descent from any ancestor to any descendant.

Sorted Place list now has a Summary mode -- just the list of places without the detail

Sort places by largest geographic location to smallest, or smallest to largest

Show sorted places by largest to smallest, or smallest to largest

Enhanced tool for maintaining the quick entry place names Improved selection of "All Ancestral Related" filter to eliminate the selection of all related in most cases

Web Page Generation! - Images to be shown on web pages are only copied once (previous versions made a copy for each time the picture was referenced

Keen Features

Ancestral Quest is an exciting Windows program that makes it possible for anyone to do genealogy! It is easy-to-learn, fun to use, and packed with powerful features.

Create your Family Tree!

Document your Sources with CitePro Technology

Create Stunning Multimedia Scrapbooks

Research your family on the Internet

Share your family on the Web

Create Beautiful, Functional Reports

Search, Filter and Focus your data using FilterPro Technology

Record unlimited events for each individual and marriage

Collaborate with others using AQ's exclusive NetFam capability

Organize your research with the Research Manager and Log

Examine Relationships

For LDS Users:

True Database compatibility with PAF 3, PAF 4, and 5

Pre-Qualify names for submissions to LDS TempleReady

Update Ordinance information from TempleReady

Personal Ancestral File (PAF)

"In 1999, Incline Software, with some strategic help from its partners, helped the Latter-day Saints (LDS) Church develop Personal Ancestral File (PAF) PAF 4 based on the newly released AQ 3.0. Both PAF 4 and the newer PAF 5 are therefore very similar to AQ. Since 1999, while the LDS Church has developed adjustments and new features into PAF, Incline Software has also developed dramatic new features into AQ."

"If a user of PAF were to decide to upgrade to AQ, he/she would be able to take advantage of these wonderful new features with virtually no learning curve, as the PAF he/she is used to is so similar to AQ."

"The earlier versions of AQ used the same data file structure as was then used by PAF. As a result, a user could use AQ by itself, or a PAF user could use AQ as a supplemental program to PAF. Since PAF was then a DOS program, and AQ was a Windows program, many PAF users took advantage of the graphical Windows reports and screens of AQ to work with their PAF data. So while there was not an official relationship between PAF and AQ, many users found a natural synergy."

"In about 1997, PAF 3 was introduced with a changed database structure. Shortly thereafter, Incline Software upgraded AQ 3.0 to work with this new database, so that the synergy between PAF and AQ could continue. As Incline was about to release AQ 3.0, they started helping the church develop PAF 4.0 from their AQ 3.0. So there were then 3 programs that could all use the same data files: PAF 3 (DOS), AQ 3 (Windows) and PAF 4 (Windows)."

"Incline Software felt that the data structures used by PAF 3, and enhanced by AQ 3 and PAF 4, had limitations, so Incline Software developed its own .aq data structure that overcame these limitations. AQ 3.0 gave users the choice of using the more powerful .aq database, or of using the limited .paf database that would allow them to continue to use PAF 3 or PAF 4 with that data."

"PAF 5 introduced yet another data structure. None of the older versions of PAF or of AQ could read this new format. With AQ 2002 (version 10) and now with version 11, AQ can still work with the older PAF database as well as with its own .aq database. However, these newer versions can also read the newer PAF 5 database, but AQ cannot update the PAF 5 data file -- it can only read the file and produce its improved reports and web pages from the data. A PAF 5 user would have to use PAF 5 rather than AQ to make changes to the data."

"Incline Software continues to develop and support Ancestral Quest. In early 2002, Incline Software developed PAFWiz to be a companion product to PAF 5. PAFWiz is another product of Incline Software. It is an enhancement utility for PAF 5, a program derived from Ancestral Quest 3.0. It provides users of PAF 5 with much of the additional reporting and web-generation capabilities developed for Ancestral Quest since version 3."

Price

$37.95 retail
$34.95 download

$30.95 upgrade on CD ROM from v. 3 or earlier
$22.95 upgrade on CD ROM from AQ 2002

$27.95 upgrade via download from v. 3 or earlier
$19.95 upgrade via download from AQ 2002

System Configuration Requirements

Windows 95, 98, ME, 2000, NT, XP
8MB RAM
10MB free hard disk space
EGA or higher resolution display (VGA Recommended)
Mouse or compatible pointing device
CD-ROM drive for installation

Optional, for enhanced multimedia capabilities:
Scanner
Sound card
Speakers
Microphone
Video capture board

Optional, for collaboration:
Internet connection and support drivers for ODBC, MDAC and SQL
(Available from the www.ancquest.com web site, if not pre-installed on your computer.)

About Incline Software,Inc.

"Incline Software, LC is a Utah company founded in 1994. Its mission is to create the best genealogy tools available. It currently sells one premier tool, Ancestral Quest, one of the first Windows genealogy programs available."

"Ancestral Quest has become the most widely used genealogy software program in the world. In 1993 and 1994, Incline Software developed the first version of Ancestral Quest (AQ), with a mission of becoming the first Windows genealogy program. Incline Software continues to develop and support Ancestral Quest."

"Some of Incline's partners include:

Infobases (from 1995 to 1997, when a new division of Infobases was named Ancestry)

Ancestry (this division of Infobases continued the earlier contract into 1997)

The Hope Foundation (from 1999 until early 2001)"

"Incline Software has offered to provide all Family History Centers with a free license to use AQ in the Centers. If your local FHC does not have AQ installed, you could make them aware of this offer. The director of the Center can contact Incline at ancquest@ancquest.com for information and assistance in placing AQ on the computers of the center."

Contact

Incline Software, LC
P.O Box 95543
South Jordan, Utah 84095-0543
801-280-4434
Sales 1-800-825-8864
Technical Support 801-280-4434
www.ancquest.com

Source of Quoted Material

Thanks are in order to Incline Software for the above quoted information found at www.ancquest.com.