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Ancestral Quest
Review
Ancestral
Quest 12.1 is offered for donwload at $29.95 or $34.95
for CDROM.
- Arguably the easiest to use and most versatile
genealogy program for windows on the market.
- Ancestral Quest is perfect for beginners and yet
powerful enough for the most advanced genealogist.
- Create professional looking charts, family group
sheets, ancestry charts, descendant charts, genealogy
book reports, fan charts and more.
- Ancestral Quest has special links with online
genealogy databases, such as Ancestry.com, to help with
your research.
- Synchronize data with the family tree of New Family
Search.
- Run Ancestral Quest from a flash drive using
AQ2GO.
- Compare and merge databases from an existing GEDCOM
file.
- Edit both Ancestral Quest and Personal Ancestral
File databases.
- Translate Ancestral Quest into any language.
- Improved all new merge interface to make merging
individuals even easier.
- Record a DNA test alongside each individual.
- Store names and places n any language.
- Individual summary screen for anyone in your
tree.
- Scrapbook - save data you aren't sure of until a
later date.
- FAQs and Technical support.
Ancestral Quest is a great piece of software that is
ideal for both the beginner, and the experienced
genealogist. With a host of useful features, tools and
publication options we were pretty excited by everything
Ancestral Quest offered its users. We were a little
disappointed by the lack of free trial available to users
of Ancestral Quest, especially as so many similar
software packages do offer free trials as standard. That
said, we were still excited to give it a go!
Ancestral Quest has an excellent, intuitive layout that
is ideal for new users of family history software. We
were particularly impressed with the collaboration
wizard, which allowed users to import family history data
from other websites and software programs using an
integrated importing wizard. This clever tool compares
existing data with that on the imported files and allows
users to select which data sets should prevail where
there are potential overlaps. While this may sound a
little complex, Ancestral Quest executes this tool with
great ease, and we were generally really impressed with
how well it functioned. We were also impressed by the
level of help and support offered to users of Ancestral
Quest. FAQs are available online for all users to read in
the hope that they can be useful in solving common
problems, whilst users can also use online, phone or
email support in order to ask a more specific question.
We also liked the AQ2GO function, which allows users to
run Ancestral Quest from a flash drive that can be
carried around, on any machine running windows. We're not
sure how useful this feature is for most users, but for
those users who do a lot of their research in public
libraries, being able to run a version of Ancestral Quest
without installation will no doubt be useful.
Although we thought that the publishing options are a
little difficult to find within the Ancestral Quest
program (they are hidden away in the 'file' menu within
the program), they are simple to use and provide users
with a range of different publishing options. Users can
generate reports, sheets, charts (of ancestors and
descendants), books and more using the data featured in
your Ancestral Quest family tree. While a lot of options
are available, they certainly aren't the prettiest
documents we've seen produced using genealogy software,
and we do think they are intended more as technical
documents as opposed to publications to share with your
family and friends.
Ancestral Quest certainly has a collection of great
features that are perfect for both the novice genealogist
and the advanced user. As good as these features are, we
can't help but feel that this software lacks the polish
of some of the other sites that we have reviewed. By all
means give this software a go (although it doesn't have a
free trial period), or try out one of the other sites in
our top ten, such as Family History Maker. Hit the link
below to give it a try!
>> Click here to download Ancestral
Quest
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