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The PDF-generating software that AQ 14 for Windows installs and uses will work on 32-bit Windows, only. If you have 64-bit Windows, please see the details on printing to PDF files on this page of our website. Ancestral Quest 14 for Mac requires Mac OS X 10.7(Lion) through 10.14.6 (Mojave). You can view the complete system requirements. I’ve added one more genealogy software program to my already full basket of Family Historian 6, Heredis 2015, Legacy 8 and RootsMagic 7. All are potential replacements to Family Tree Maker. DISCLAIMER: My Ancestral Quest 14 program was a complimentary gift from Gaylon Findlay, President of Incline Software with no strings attached and no. Bubble Quest is an interesting adventure game for free. Play bubble quest game and help the bouncing bubble aqua man jump from each platform swallowing the gazillion bubbles floating around. Bounce around the levels to get to the top.

Ancestral Quest has above-average data management tools, making it great for genealogists with large records, but the tested GEDCOM accuracy was just average, and the chart quality is poor.

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  • The data entry tools scored only a C+ for ease of use.
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Ancestral Quest genealogy software is built around data management rather than family tree charting. It connects to online databases to help with research and comes with above-average scrapbooking tools. But its overall ease of use doesn’t compare to that of better programs, its GEDCOM accuracy is just average and its charts are poorly designed.

After importing and checking four GEDCOM files, I gave Ancestral Quest a B grade for GEDCOM accuracy. The program certainly wasn’t the worst performer in this category, but neither did it finish among the elite. It was perfect with two of the large GEDCOM files and almost perfect with my own family GEDCOM file, but it struggled with the GEDCOM file I created based on fictional characters. As Branches did, it imported all the individual information accurately but made errors in the pedigree chart. If one name was not imported correctly into the chart, all subsequent names were also excluded.

The navigation tools received a B+ for ease of use, but the data entry tools earned only a C+. The interface presents a simple, logical menu, but the design lacks style. It’s a bit too granular and pixelated, like an ill-fitting suit. The biggest downside is the number of windows you must open to enter data. It seems like a small issue at first, but it’s not efficient. It took me nearly 16 minutes in total to enter the data for 10 individuals, compared with only about five minutes to enter the same information with Family Historian. If you spend hours a day on genealogy, efficient data entry is important.

My least favorite aspect of Ancestral Quest is the charts, which earned a D for quality. The program only lets you work within one pedigree chart, which has no customization tools. You can print out descendent and fan charts, but the settings menu for this is not easy to navigate or customize, as you can't make adjustments to the charts in real time. In addition, you can't make bowtie or hourglass charts without a third-party plug-in. That said, many genealogiest aren't concerned with the style and aesthetics of charting capabilities, so this may not be a big issue if you're priority is record keeping.

The scrapbooking tools earned a B+ grade. The media file tools are easy to find and easy to use. You can add photos, audio, video and text to document your ancestors’ life stories. But Ancestral Quest doesn’t come bundled with a mapping tool, which is a relatively new feature among genealogy software. It’s neat to see an ancestor’s life unfold on a map. You can achieve this on Ancestral Quest, but only by using a purchased third-party plug-in.

A useful feature in Ancestral Quest is the ditto tool. For siblings, multiple marriages or any kind of relationship linking many people to one person, the ditto tool connects individuals in bulk. This lets you add multiple children to the same couple quickly, for example. Also, if you find duplicates in your database, you can combine profiles with the merge tool on the toolbar.

Ancestral Quest provides warnings at the data entry point when an individual's information is obviously wrong, like when a birth precedes a death. However, in my tests, it did not provide any warnings for less obvious, yet equally problematic scenarios, like when an individual's birth is just two years after the mother's birth or a father who is younger than a son.

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Most of the ancestry software I tested provided warnings for these problematic scenarios at the point of data entry, allowing the user to double-check the error as it was made. But Ancestry Quest provided no such warnings until a 'Possible Problems Report' is made. However, this tool is not easy to find. I was only alerted to it after contacting the software's support team. And even then, the report failed to catch all of the problematic scenarios I entered.

Ancestral Quest imported GEDCOM files with average accuracy in testing, and its interface scored above average on navigational ease of use. But data entry is laborious, and the chart quality is poor.

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Ancestral Quest partners with FamilySearch and provides one way to export a copy of your free FamilySearch Family Tree.

If you have a family tree at FamilySearch you can’t download a GEDCOM file of your tree directly from FamilySearch but you have three options for creating a GEDCOM file so you’ll have full control of your tree and which ancestors & descendants you want to have included.

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This blog gives instructions for your first option,

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How to Import Your Free FamilySearch Family Tree at Ancestral Quest and How to Create a GEDCOM file at Ancestral Quest.

I wanted a GEDCOM file with ancestors through my 5th great-grandparents and all their descendants. My GEDCOM file has roughly 34,000 names and took me 12 hours to import & create. I did my imports in batches because I was afraid thousands of names all in one fell swoop would crash the program. Adjust these instructions as needed for your tree and personal circumstances.

How to Import a Free FamilySearch Family Tree at Ancestral Quest

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  1. Select Ancestral Quest Basics (version 15) – Windows or Mac – this is always FREE
  2. Download either AQ 15 Basics for Windows Setup or AQ 15 Basics for Mac Setup
  3. You will be downloading this file, C:Program Files (x86)Incline SoftwareAncestral Quest 15same installer
  4. Run the .exe file
  5. You’ll see a pop-up window, “Ancestral Quest 15 Setup” Select the default language of your choice & hit Next
  6. You’ll see a pop-up window, “Internet Research Options” Select your preferences & hit Next
  7. You’ll see a pop-up window for more “Internet Research Options” Select your preferences & hit Next
  8. You’ll see a pop-up window for more “Internet Research Options” Select your preferences & hit Next
  9. Ancestral Quest now launches* and you’ll have multiple options (listed below), Select Import from FamilySearch ORselect FamilySearch from the top menu and Import Family Lines
    • New – Create a new .aq database, etc
    • Open – Open an existing file
    • Import GEDCOM
    • Import from FamilySearch
    • Search
    • Restore
    • Collaborate
  10. You’ll be prompted to create a destination path for this FamilySearch Import, Type in a file name/folder on your computer where you would like Ancestral Quest to save the imported tree, Select OK
  11. You’ll be prompted to sign in to FamilySearch and have AQ remember this id and password and automatically sign you in when needed, Enter your FamilySearch login & password and select your preferences (there is also an advanced option-you won’t need this)
  12. You’ll now be prompted to Import Ancestors/Descendants from FamilySearch with some default options. I’ll share my default options but choose your own and then hit Import
    • I opted to import Download my (Alyson Tayler) ancestors, selected 8 generations, & included families
    • Later, with the family tree (pedigree chart) open, I highlighted each 3rd great-grandparent and selected FamilySearch from the top menu bar, and Import Family Lines…
    • This brought me back to the prompt Import Ancestors/Descendants from FamilySearch and the new default option was to Add Descendants to person and it named the 3rd great-grandparent I had highlighted. I then told it import 5 generations of descendants, as Standardized by FamilySearch (it didn’t import duplicates already in my tree)
    • Later, with with the family tree (pedigree chart) open, I highlighted each 5th great grandparent and selected FamilySearch from the top menu bar, and Import Family Lines…
    • This brought me back to the prompt Import Ancestors/Descendants from FamilySearch and the new default option was to Add Descendants to person and it named the 5th great grandparent I had highlighted. I then told it import 4 generations of descendants, as Standardized by FamilySearch (I did this for both husbands and wives in case they had had children with another spouse-it didn’t import duplicates already in my tree

NOTE 1: Each time you import more names into a family tree, Ancestral Quest will ask if you want to backup the information currently in your tree. It’s a good idea to say yes. It will ask you if you want to replace the existing AQ file with an updated one and you should say yes. The more names you import, the larger your tree grows, and you should always allow AQ to quickly backup your work. The backup takes 1-2 seconds and doesn’t slow down your project.

NOTE 2: A nice feature at Ancestral Quest is they give you a prompt explaining what’s happening when the import gets bogged down. It says, “Family Search is Busy…retrying.” It took about 1 hour to import 10 generations of descendants from a 9th great grandfather.

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How to Import a FamilySearch Family Tree for a Different Individual

  1. Open the AncestralQuest program, now downloaded onto your computer
  2. You’ll be prompted to select a version, select the free version Use Ancestral Quest Basics
  3. You may get a popup box with Tip of the Day lessons, you can read through these, selecting Next Tip to progress through each window, or select Close to be done
  4. It will pull up the family tree/pedigree already associated you’ve most recently imported; you don’t want to use this tree. From the top menu bar select File, then New
  5. It will give you a popup box and you will need to create a file name and storage place for the new tree you are going to import. Type in the file name of your choosing then select Create
  6. You’ll see a blank pedigree chart. On the top menu bar, select Family Search, then Import Family Lines
  7. You’ll see a pop up box requesting you sign in to FamilySearch.org; Type in your FamilySearch User Name and Password, and check any boxes you want, then select Sign In
  8. You’ll see a pop up box Import Ancestors/Descendants from FamilySearch, select the import actions you want to perform (if you don’t want this family tree to start with the person whose FamilySearch Login and Password you used, you’ll need to go to a FamilySearch tree, find the name of the person you want the tree to start with, write down their FamilySearch Person ID number (FS PID) and then find the go back to Ancestral Quest and on this Import Ancestors/Descendants from FamilySearch, find the FS PID box and type in the number of the person who will be the home person on your new tree
  9. When you’ve made all your selections on the Import Ancestors/Descendants from FamilySearch, select Import
  10. If you want to import more information for this tree, such as Descendants of ancestors (distant cousins, etc., who fall outside of your imported line of direct ancestors), you’ll have a few more steps to take.
    • On a PC or Mac, you can highlight an ancestor in your newly imported pedigree chart, then select FamilySearch from the top menu bar, and Import Family Lines… this will make the ancestor you highlighted the new default person used as a basis for you next import
  11. This brings you back to the prompt Import Ancestors/Descendants from FamilySearch
    • On a PC or Mac, select Add Descendants to person and it names the ancestor you highlighted. In the Additional Options part of this pop up box, type in the number of descendant generations you wish to import (I’ve discovered Ancestral Quest is able to handle large amounts of data so I typed in 10 generations of descendants – depending on how many generations back your ancestor is, you may request greater or fewer generations of descendants for this person
  12. Follow this process for each ancestor for whom you wish to import extra descendancy lines

NOTE 1: Each time you import more names into a family tree, Ancestral Quest will ask if you want to backup the information currently in your tree. It’s a good idea to say yes. It will ask you if you want to replace the existing AQ file with an updated one and you should say yes. The more names you import, the larger your tree grows, and you should always allow AQ to quickly backup your work. The backup takes 1-2 seconds and doesn’t slow down your project.

NOTE 2: A nice feature at Ancestral Quest is they give you a prompt explaining what’s happening when the import gets bogged down. It says, “Family Search is Busy…retrying.” It took about 1 hour to import 10 generations of descendants from a 9th great grandfather.

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How to Create a GEDCOM of your FamilySearch Family Tree at Ancestral Quest

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  1. On the top menu bar Select File, then Export
  2. A window will open entitled Export GEDCOM File
    • Select Export for import info “Ancestral Quest 12 or later” or another option and then select everything you want to be included in the export and hit the Export button
  3. A window will open entitled Export GEDCOM File As and you’ll need to do these three things:
    • Save In (select a place on your computer where you want the GEDCOM file stored)
    • File Name (type in the name you want for this GEDCOM file)
    • Files of Type (select GEDCOM Files (*.ged))
  4. Ancestral Quest will create a GEDCOM file and save it to your computer. Now you can upload this FamilySearch Family Tree GEDCOM file to any other family tree site that accepts GEDCOM files.

*Every time you open/launch Ancestral Quest you will be asked which version you want to use. Select Ancestral Quest Basics.
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