Ancestral Quest - Feature List

		List of 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 Internet shortcut links to search WorldVitalRecords.com and FamilySearch.com Unlimited spouses per person Unlimited children per family Unlimited parents per child Record step parent situations, ie mother is biological, father is adoptive, step, or foster Record relationships as Married, Not Married, Common Law or de Facto Mark children, parents, spouses and relationships as "Confidential", so they won't print on reports Mark an Individual as having never married Mark a relationship as having never had any children 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 Share Your Information 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 Document Your Family History 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 data (Notes, dates, names, places) in any language Record DNA test results Store Scrapbook Items 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 Store scrapbook items on the Internet or locally Work with Others Unique NetFam™ Collaboration – work together with others anywhere in the world using a single master database shared privately over the Internet Synchronize your data with the Family Tree of new.FamilySearch.org, a public Internet-based database Export/Import using GEDCOM Compare and Merge Databases -- bring in ONLY the changed or new data Create Charts and Reports Publish a Family Book, by combining many charts and reports listed below with other documents, histories, etc., that you have from other sources. Build a master Table of Contents and master Index for this publication 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 Descendant Dropline charts with many options 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 Print reports in any language -- after obtaining a separate language module (or translating one yourself) Organize Your Research 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 Review Your Information 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 Individual Summary screen lets you review ALL information about an individual on one screen Conduct Research on the Internet 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) Compare your data to data on the Family Tree of new.FamilySearch.org Filtered searches on LDS internet sites Search the IGI for missing LDS Ordinances Direct search to WorldVitalRecords.com Ability to create your own link to any Internet search site Tools/Special Features Take the Ancestral Quest program with you on a flash or other removable drive, using *AQ2Go!* 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 Translate AQ into any language, or install a language module already translated by another 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. Dollarhide numbering is available Merge Individuals – Auto matching to help identify duplicates Auto Merge on ID, AFN or Global ID 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. Print the log to file. Global Find/Replace of Notes, Names, Dates and Places Convert UPPER case surnames to Mixed case Convert US/Canadian state/province codes to full names and back Back and Forward buttons to get back to an individual recently viewed Make copies of databases Split databases Backup and Restore Searching 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 LDS Options Record standard LDS ordinances Synchronize with new.FamilySearch.org 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 -- merge in findings Export GEDCOM files for TempleReady and Ancestral File Pre-qualification of names for TempleReady List Ordinance code on Children List in Family screen Jewish Options Predefined Jewish events Produce Page of Testimony to preserve memory of Holocaust victims PAF Compatibility Full database compatibility with PAF 5 Direct import of PAF 2.1 – 2.31, PAF 3 and PAF 4 databases Requirements Windows 2000 or later or a Windows emulator on a Mac 15 MB disk space available

List of Features