Ancestral Quest
List of Features

Report Options Screen

Report Common Options Screen

The Reports and Charts Options Screen

Select from dozens of predefined reports, or create your own report layouts using the Custom Report.

Print most reports directly to the printer or PDF file or a text file. The Books reports can be printed to RTF (readable by most word processors, including MS Word) or WordPerfect format.

Most reports have an impressive list of options to choose from, so you can get just the information you want in a desirable format. Use the Preview option to see whether the options you have selected will produce the end result you are after.

You can even print reports in any language in the world, once you create or obtain a language module for that language.

Background Images on many Charts - Premium Feature*

New: Background Images on Charts

For many charts, you can now include a background image. The background image can be placed on these reports:

• Pedigree
• Fan
• Ancestry (Standard and Wall chart)
• Descendant (Standard, Wall chart and Dropline chart)
• Line of Descent
• Calendar
• Timeline

 
The image can be displayed with various opacity levels. You can even move background images around on the chart. As an example, you can create a birthday calendar for a month, where you set the page margins to .5 inches for left, bottom and right, but to 5.8 inches for top margin (this will put the calendar on the bottom half of an 8.5 x 11 paper), then put a picture on the top half of the page.

View any of the following sample printouts:

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  Pedigree Chart
  Pedigree Chart -- The Pedigree Chart is easy to read and informative. Charts can be 'cascaded', so that you can print your entire ancestry on a series of charts.
  Exclusive! Print documentation pages - Premium Feature* to support the information on these charts. More samples, created as PDF files by AQ:
  • Basic Pedigree Chart (8 KB)
  • Documented Pedigree Chart (13 KB)
  • Documented Pedigree Chart w/ Source Images (1.4 MB - Note: This was printed from a .paf file, where citations cannot be merged.)
    
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  Quarter Fan Chart
  Fan Charts - Premium Feature* -- The fan chart is simply a circular format of a Pedigree Chart. You can print up to 13 generations, and on paper sizes as tall and wide as you can find a plotter (look to your local high-tech copy store).
  Some examples in PDF format:
  • Basic Quarter Circle Fan Chart 6 gens (10 KB)
  • Quarter Circle Fan Chart with Details 6 gens (16 KB)
  • Half Circle Fan Chart 6 gens (16 KB)
  • Full Circle Fan Chart 9 gens (38 KB)
  
  
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  Family Group Record
  Family Group Record -- The Family Group Record can be customized to show just basic information, or all your additional events, notes, sources, etc. You can cascade these to print sheets for all your ancestors' families, or all the descendant families of an ancestor.
  Another example, with documentation and source images - Premium Feature*, in PDF format (2.1 MB)
  
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  Standard Ancestry Chart
  Standard Ancestry Chart -- fits one page wide, for as many pages as it takes to display all of the ancestry of a person. Optionally, include siblings.
  More examples, in PDF format:
  • Standard Chart (9 KB)
  • Standard with Siblings (14 KB)
  
  
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  Ancestry Wall Chart
  Ancestry Wall Chart -- displays on as many pages as needed. You can send the output to a plotter to take advantage of pages up to 10' tall and wide.
  More examples, in PDF format:
  • Wall Chart (29 KB)
  • Wall Chart with Siblings (18 KB)
  
  
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  Standard Descendants Chart
  Standard Descendants Chart -- fits one page wide, for as many pages as it takes to display all of the descendants of a person.
• Descendants Wall Chart -- displays on as many pages as needed. You can send the output to a plotter to take advantage of pages up to 10' tall and wide. (See Ancestry Wall Chart for basic layout.)
• Descendants Drop Line Chart - Premium Feature* -- displays on as many pages as needed. You can send the output to a plotter to take advantage of pages up to 200" tall and wide. To focus on certain family lines, you can mark individuals for family lines to be excluded from the report, as we have done in these samples in PDF format:
  • Simple Dropline Chart (5 KB)
  • Simple Dropline with Photos (42 KB)
• Drop Line Chart -- Line of Descent - Premium Feature*. This chart shows the line of descent between an ancestor and a descendant, optionally with siblings. Here are some examples in PDF format:
  • Basic Chart (5 KB)
  • Chart with more Information (8 KB)
  • Large Chart (24 KB)
  
  
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  Sample Book Report
  Book Reports (Narrative Reports) -- Both ancestral (Ahnentafel) and descendant (Modified Register) book reports. These can be printed beautifully directly to the printer, or can be sent to text file, .rtf format (readable by most word processors, including MS Word), or WordPerfect format, so that you can make any personalized adjustments prior to publishing your book. Lots of formatting options allow some changes in basic layout from this sample.
  More examples, in PDF format:
  • Ahnentafel Chart (40 KB)
  • Ahnentafel with more options (1.6 MB)
  
  
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  Individual Summary
  Individual Summary -- Print out all the information on an individual. If you want, include address and phone number. This report can be generated for several individuals in your database at once.
  
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  Birthday and Anniversary Calendar
  Birthday and Anniversary Calendar - Premium Feature* -- Select a group of people, like descendants of your father and of your spouse's father, then print a calendar of events to remind you of important dates.
  
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  Sorted Place List
  Sorted Place List - Premium Feature* -- Choose your fonts, titles, and which individuals (or All) should appear on the report. See all the events that occurred in that location, and find misspelled place names to correct.
  

Other Reports and Lists

Scrapbook pages - Premium Feature* -- print all the attached multimedia scrapbook objects for an individual to scrapbook pages.

Custom Lists - Premium Feature* -- define any group of people, and select any data fields. Sort the list and print it or send it to a file for import into other software.

Other Lists include:

• Sorted Individuals
• Sorted Marriages
• Possible Problems
• End-of-line Individuals
• Duplicate Individuals
• Unlinked Individuals
• LDS Reports

There is also a special Family Reunion Contact list - Premium Feature*. Get a list of all addresses, email addresses, or phone numbers for living relatives. The address list is ready for printing to labels.

From the Source screens you can print lists of sources and citations.

From the Relationship Examiner you can print the full relationship between any two people.