Hands-On AQ 15 Guide

Many individuals prefer to have a PDF, E-File or some format to appear on which ever operating system they are using. Today, however, there are still many AQ 15 users of all different ages who want to have a physical manual to look up how something works in the program.

This guide has step by step directions with accompanying screen shots to help the user follow the instructions and complete the task they looked up.

It is broken up into three (3) sections: 

• Basics of Ancestral Quest
• Advanced Tools and Uses
• Appendices

Basics of Ancestral Quest makes up the first five chapters. For anyone new to the program it provides how to set up the program, how to work with different research strategies and features, printing reports and charts. 

The advanced tools and uses sections takes up 17 chapters of tips, hints, collaboration tools, tweaking preferences and all of the powerful tools and features of the program.

In the Appendices are several more helps like keyboard shortcuts to citing sources and others to help you make your research and data entry faster and easier.

The PDF is 12.95 and is text searchable, the physical copy is 28.95 plus S/H. Take advantage of a great help to learning how to use Ancestral Quest even more! Click here to order it now. Once you get to this page, scroll down and choose whether you want the download or the physical book.

Enjoy this user guide and learn how to use Ancestral Quest even better!

Remember Ancestral Quest is fully FamilySearch Certified!

Comments and questions are always welcome!

Happy Ancestraling...Claire ;)

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Common Options

Ever wonder how to Suppress RINs and MRINs in reports? There are other things that sometimes come into play when working on reports that may help you do a better report.

On nearly every report there is a button that says "Common Options". Often as we work on reports we concentrate so much on the report that it is easy to miss noticing that button. But if you click it, it will allow you to do those things and more. Here is a screen shot for the Pedigree charts:

As you can see it is at the bottom in the middle, however, other charts will have it in a different location.

The key is to look carefully as the button moves around on different charts depending on the room available.

Once you click it, you'll have the ability to suppress those items:

The object is to create the best looking report and while you may want the RINs, you may not want the MRINs so the choice is up to you. 

Take advantage of this feature next time you go to create that special report!