Friday, September 4, 2020

Using AQ15 or AQ16?

 


Many times individuals are not aware of having both AQ15 and 
AQ 16 programs on their computer, some have ever earlier versions. In the above image, you will see both AQ 15 and AQ 16 Icons are exactly the same except for the version number and if you quickly glance you can accidentally open the wrong version. You may or may not see your file and instead see an error message.

At a glance, there is a quick way to know if you are in the correct updated Ancestral Quest 16. A "Descendants" tab was added in AQ16, if you do not see it, you will be in the wrong version. Here are the different tabs in each version.

Ancestral Quest 15 Tabs

Ancestral Quest 16 Tabs


If you find yourself in the wrong version of Ancestral Quest, simply close it and look for the correct version and open it. 

To prevent it from happening again, you can remove the AQ15 Icon by right clicking and click delete or remove or you can uninstall AQ15.


Remember Ancestral Quest is FamilySearch Compatible!

Happy Ancestraling...Claire 





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Friday, June 12, 2020

Using AQ 16?




Ancestral Quest 16 was released in October, 2019. There are many new Premium features to enhance your experience when working on your Family History!

Descendants View



This is a much-requested new feature, it joins the Pedigree, Family, Name List, Individual, and Timeline view tabs along the top of the program! The different view provides an additional way to handle and view your families. You can click on the various buttons to the right or left of individuals to navigate, including the special left arrow next to the main person, which will let you change the focus to a parent. You can select 1, 2 or 3 generations of descendants, then expand selected lines up to 6 generations deep.


Background Images on many 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.

Share Custom Events

When you are adding or editing other/custom events within the Edit Individual screen, you can now share (copy) an event with other individuals in your database. 

For example, after finding a family of 10 on a census record, you can go to one member of the family, add a “Residence” other event to indicate that the person lived in that location on the date of the census, and attach a census source to the Residence event. You can then Share that event and source quickly with the other 9 members of the family, without having to individually add the Residence event to each record. Talk about a time saver!

To learn more about these new premium features and many others, check out our video that explains each one! Ancestral Quest 16 New Features!  If you haven't purchased AQ or updated, here is the link to our store.

Remember Ancestral Quest is fully FamilySearch Certified!


Comments and questions are always welcome!



Happy Ancestraling...Claire ;)


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