Cues & Clues for AQ

Friday, August 8, 2014

Merging Duplicates Using AQ Intelligent Matching..

Merging individuals can be challenging if one is not quite sure how to proceed using this feature in Ancestral Quest.

Clicking on the Icon that looks like the one above will take you to the Merging screen which looks like this:

Taking a good look at this match/merge screen, one can choose how to proceed. In order to allow the program to find the duplicates, one can simply click on the "Enable Intelligent Matching" which will put a check in that box.

You also can alter the way the program searches your database by clicking on "Options" which brings up the following menu or you can leave these settings as they are listed here:

The next step is to click "Next Match" which allows Ancestral Quest to search through your family files database and locate possible matches. Here is the first match it found from my own file:

Using the color coding at the top I see the entry that was on the left in Green and the entry that was on the right in Red, the Black shows what the resulting merge would look like in my family file database.

Looking close one can also see check marks and arrows. The "Legend" up in the right hand corner shows what those items mean:

If you want to change how the program is dealing with those items, one just clicks on the box and the mark that is in the box will disappear and that piece of information will just disappear.

When you click on "Merge" the merge takes place and is reflected on the screen showing anything added to the notes or any changes to dates. The merge is now complete.

Clicking the next match allows you to continue with removing duplicates from your family file database and will continue to bring up duplicates until it finds no more. When done you simply click on "Close" and are returned to your program to continue with either research or whatever you wish to work on.

Take advantage of this great feature in Ancestral Quest to help you remove your duplicates!

Remember Ancestral Quest is fully FamilySearch Certified!

Comments and questions are always welcome!

Happy Ancestraling...

Claire ;)

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Thursday, July 31, 2014

How to Remove Unwanted 'Unknown' Spouses

Sometimes when entering data one ends up with "unknown spouses", not sure why except that it happens. After doing research one realizes that there really is only one spouse not two or more so how does one fix this?

In the following example, there is no 'unknown' spouse married to Claes Cornelissen Van Schouwen:

One would think they could just delete the individual, however, when one right clicks on the individual to delete you end up with an UNKNOWN with no number so this is not the way to remove them.

The best way to remove them is to give them the same name as one that is correct and merge them, once you have merged them the 'Unknown' is no longer there. Where you do this it will ask you if you want to "Add this spouse to the current marriage?" The answer is yes so that you can merge the entry with the one that is listed there and correct. Note the RIN number which in this case is #5551.

With just the name in the 'unknown' entry, I now have RIN # 5300 for Margaret Van Der Goes and RIN # 5551 for Margaret Van Der Goes which just has her name there.

Now go to the "Merge" function by clicking on the "Yield Sign" Icon at the top:

You are now able to merge RIN # 5300 and RIN # 5551 together to remove that 'unknown' spouse. Clicking this Icon opens up the 'Merge' Screen. Clicking on the "Search" box for the left side enter in the RIN number 5300 and clicking on the "Search" box on the right side enter in RIN number 5551, the end result looks like this:

Note that the original RIN # 5300 is in green and states it is the Primary person while the duplicate, RIN # 5551 and states it is the Duplicate person, is red, once they are merged it shows you in black what the final results of the merge will be.

Now click on Merge and Close...the end result is no more 'Unknown'!

These steps can be repeated as needed to remove those unknown spouses...

Remember Ancestral Quest is fully FamilySearch Certified!

Comments and questions are always welcome!

Happy Ancestraling...

Claire ;)

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Thursday, July 24, 2014

AQ: Parent child Relationships

Sometimes there are 'other' relationships between parents and children and knowing where to show that in Ancestral Quest makes it easy to state just what that relationship is.

The trick is putting the child in the primary position like this:

Next is to click on "Other Parents/Rel" which is immediately to the right of the child. This is the screen you'll see:

Note that you can adjust the relationship of the child to the Father and the Mother separately as well as verify that relationship. The choices are as follows:

Biological
Adopted
Step
Foster
Guardian

It is that simple to put in the correct relationship between parents and children!

Remember Ancestral Quest is fully FamilySearch Certified!

Comments and questions are always welcome!

Happy Ancestraling...

Claire ;)

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Thursday, July 17, 2014

AQ: Updated Training Videos

New training videos have been added to the already long list of video tutorials available for users of Ancestral Quest!

Here is a breakdown of what's been added...

The Overview has been updated..

Classroom Topics presented on 12 April 2014 from the Utah Valley Technology and Genealogy Group (UVTAGG)

Finding People and Defining Groups

Getting Help with AQ

Printing Descendant Charts/Viewing Descendants

Analyzing Relationships

Setting Home Person and Using Bookmarks

Printing Large Charts

Source Images

Udating AQ

Using AQ's Unique Ability to Use nFS in Tandem with Family Tree

Importing Family Lines from Family Tree

Handling Changing of OIDs of FamilySearch

Automatically Link All Records with FamilySearch Family Tree

Tips on Using ORTS - Ordinance Reservation and Tracking System

Handling LDS Ordinances

In future blogs we'll delve into each of these topics with some screen shots.

Remember to check these out one at a time when it is convenient.

Remember Ancestral Quest is fully FamilySearch Certified!

Comments and questions are always welcome!

Happy Ancestraling...

Claire ;)

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Thursday, July 10, 2014

AQ: Getting Online Help

When it comes to learning how to use new software, the learning curve can be more than one expected and how to go from one step to another gets so confusing one might be tempted to just give up.

Ancestral Quest provides a number of tutorials to help all its users in a multiplicity of ways.

When you actually go into the program there are two locations to open up the link to those helpful videos and step by step processes.

Once one opens up their Ancestral Quest family file, go to Help at the top above the icons and click on Video Tutorial:

When you click this link it will take you to our website where these tutorials are located.

The following tutorials and screen shots that are available are:

Overview:Video Tutorial

Quick Start Video Tutorial

Overview: Filmed in 2012

Ancestral Quest 14: Video Tutorial

Update Ancestral Quest 14: Screenshots

The next section where help is provided is under FamilySearch:

This section will help with learning how to work with FamilySearch Family Tree.

This section has the following online tutorials:

Supercharge Ancestral Quest and Family Tree with nFS: Video
Overview: Video
Overview: Screen Shots
Full Training Tutorial: Video
Full Training Tutorial for PAF Users: Video
Lynk and Sync Individuals: Video
Upload Data to Family Tree: Video
Finding Names for Temple Submission: Video
Training on LDS Temple Ordinance Reservation and Tracking System (ORTS)
-Full Training-Video
-ORTS Overview - PDF File
-ORTS Overview - Video

Take advantage of these tools to increase your ability of working in Ancestral Quest.

Remember Ancestral Quest is fully FamilySearch Certified!

Comments and questions are always welcome!

Happy Ancestraling...

Claire ;)

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Thursday, July 3, 2014

AQ: Add-on Products: GenSmarts

Are you trying to figure out the next place to search for your ancestors? Well GenSmarts can help you with that problem in a big way.

GenSmarts ia a genealogy software program that can analyze your family files and tell you person by person which record to search and why you should search that particular record. To help you even further, it will provide you with the location of the record, a film number if it is a film and the repository where that record is located, it really is an amazing add-on for anyone struggling with where to search next for their family lines.

GenSmarts will find the holes in your data and will do automatic lookups for you on free Internet websites. It works well with most versions of Ancestral Quest, Versions 3.0 through 14.

Their trial version never expires, however, the registered version has more features, more research sites and makes more recommendations and is available for only 24.95 (a one time purchase which includes free support and upgrades).

It is worth checking out their software and adding it to your arsenal of genealogical and family history tools!

For additional information, check their website out here. To order their product, click here.

Remember Ancestral Quest is fully FamilySearch Certified!

Comments and questions are always welcome!

Happy Ancestraling...

Claire ;)

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Thursday, June 26, 2014

AQ: Add-On Products: AniMap 3.0.2

Map Coutesy of 50states.com

The second in our series of programs that work well with Ancesral Quest is AniMap 3.0.2 which is by The Goldbug.

Maps are critical tools for anyone researching their ancestors. AniMap shows an animated map of each of the 48 contiguous states. Each state map contains county boundary changes from colonial times to the present.

One can use their SiteFinder to locate hundreds of thousands of cities, cemeteries or historical sites, then plot them on the appropriate state maps of AniMap.

One can also choose a year to see which county that site was located at that time. Once you know this you'll know the correct location for those county records or a repository to find information on your ancestor.

Their website, http://www.goldbug.com provides additional information along with two wonder videos to show how valuable this software is to your research. The first one is from GenealogyWise and the second one is a video showing how to export and locate images.

This product is completely compatible with Ancestral Quest.

To learn more about this product click here. To order this product click here.

Remember Ancestral Quest is fully FamilySearch Certified!

Comments and questions are always welcome!

Happy Ancestraling...

Claire ;)

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