Ancestral Quest
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 Ancestral Quest Basics v14.00.8 in Windows 8 | |
| Original author(s) | Gaylon Findlay,[1] Ben Buckwalter |
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| Developer(s) | Incline Software, LC[1] |
| Initial release | 1994 |
| Stable release | v16 Build 8
/ 23 September 2020[2] |
| Operating system | Windows 2000 and later |
| Size | 19 MB |
| Available in | 16 languages |
List of languages Chinese, Danish, English, Finnish, French, German, Hungarian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish[3] | |
| Type | Genealogy software |
| License | Proprietary software |
| Website | www |
Ancestral Quest (AQ) is a genealogy software application for Microsoft Windows developed by Incline Software, LC. It features data entry with sourcing capabilities and scrapbook extensions; a print engine for standard or custom charts and reports; a web page creator; a collaboration engine; and an extension tool for other genealogy databases.[citation needed]
Ancestral Quest was the first desktop genealogy software program to be certified to access, update, and synchronize with newer versions of FamilySearch.[4]
Developed in English, Ancestral Quest allows for translation to other languages using language modules. These user-created files allow Ancestral Quest screens and reports to be translated or customized. A user can create his or her own language module, or leverage the module of someone else. The Danish, French, German, Norwegian, and Spanish language modules are completely translated. The Chinese, Finnish, and Swedish language modules currently have all basic screens and reports translated.[3]
Features
- Creates a family tree, documenting sources and adding scrapbook items
- Researches the Internet with search engine interfaces
- Prints standard and custom charts, reports or books
- Creates web pages
- Imports and exports GEDCOM files
- Extends the use of other databases, such as Personal Ancestral File or FamilySearch
- Can be used on a flash drive
- Collaborate with other researchers, using a single master database [5]
- Can convert Personal Ancestral File (PAF) files