Salt Lake City, Utah (November 16, 2013) – Incline Software, LC announced today that Ancestral Quest™, its Windows®-based family tree software, was recently certified by FamilySearch™ for Tree Share, Sources, Discussions, Change History and LDS Support.
Ancestral Quest meets the rigorous standards set by FamilySearch for allowing its users to work in FamilySearch Family Tree (hereinafter referred to as Family Tree) by sharing not only data, but documentation, discussions and reasons for making changes. This not only helps users of AQ participate as good neighbors in Family Tree, but allows them to benefit from the comments and findings of others as they record their own personal family history in their AQ or PAF file. No other personal family tree product has met more FamilySearch . . .
Ancestral Quest meets the rigorous standards set by FamilySearch for allowing its users to work in FamilySearch Family Tree (hereinafter referred to as Family Tree) by sharing not only data, but documentation, discussions and reasons for making changes. This not only helps users of AQ participate as good neighbors in Family Tree, but allows them to benefit from the comments and findings of others as they record their own personal family history in their AQ or PAF file. No other personal family tree product has met more FamilySearch . . .
certification requirements than Ancestral Quest. You can learn more about these specific certifications on this FamilySearch page.
Additional Features for Sharing with Family Tree
Ancestral Quest goes above and beyond the certification requirements of FamilySearch, providing additional features that will aid users in accomplishing quality work with their personal family file and with Family Tree.
Notes
Ancestral Quest allows users to view the notes of individual records in Family Tree, and exchange notes between Family Tree and the notes they have in their personal file. Many, many users have expressed a desire to be able to upload their notes from their PAF or AQ file to Family Tree, where those notes can be viewed by other relatives researching the same family lines. AQ now provides a simple interface for that exchange. AQ is the only FamilySearch Tree Share certified program to offer this feature.
Source Details
In addition to meeting the requirements for FamilySearch Sources certification, Ancestral Quest provides exacting genealogists with an extra bonus. In most desktop family tree programs, sources are recorded with such details as the source Title, Author, Publication Facts, Repository, Page Number, Source Quality, etc. In Family Tree, sources provide this information as a formatted 'citation', but do not contain the detailed breakdown of this data. AQ allows users to send the breakdown of these details to Family Tree to be stored in the Notes portion of the Family Tree source. This allows other users of a desktop program to later import the source in such a way that the Title, Author, Repository, etc., are properly brought back from Family Tree.
Continued Access to new.FamilySearch Data
Ancestral Quest allows users to read the other opinions of the Birth, Christening, Death and Burial facts stored in new.FamilySearch (nFS). nFS contains a wealth of information in these extra opinions that were not carried over to Family Tree, and users of AQ are benefiting every day from the ability to see these on the same screen with their own data, and with data from Family Tree. There are three situations where these extra opinions from nFS can be helpful:
Benefits to PAF Users
Ancestral Quest can directly update a PAF file, thus AQ provides PAF users with the ability to share data with Family Tree, including sources, notes and LDS ordinance information. Even though PAF has been discontinued as a supported product by FamilySearch, we understand that there are millions who still use PAF and can benefit from this capability. AQ is the only FamilySearch Tree Share certified product that provides this share capability for PAF users. And because the Windows versions of PAF were derived from AQ, PAF users will feel right at home as they use Ancestral Quest.
PRESS CONTACT Gaylon Findlay
President, Incline Software, LC
801.280.4434
gfindlay@ancquest.com
http://www.ancquest.com/pressreleases/pr131115aq.htm
Additional Features for Sharing with Family Tree
Ancestral Quest goes above and beyond the certification requirements of FamilySearch, providing additional features that will aid users in accomplishing quality work with their personal family file and with Family Tree.
Notes
Ancestral Quest allows users to view the notes of individual records in Family Tree, and exchange notes between Family Tree and the notes they have in their personal file. Many, many users have expressed a desire to be able to upload their notes from their PAF or AQ file to Family Tree, where those notes can be viewed by other relatives researching the same family lines. AQ now provides a simple interface for that exchange. AQ is the only FamilySearch Tree Share certified program to offer this feature.
Source Details
In addition to meeting the requirements for FamilySearch Sources certification, Ancestral Quest provides exacting genealogists with an extra bonus. In most desktop family tree programs, sources are recorded with such details as the source Title, Author, Publication Facts, Repository, Page Number, Source Quality, etc. In Family Tree, sources provide this information as a formatted 'citation', but do not contain the detailed breakdown of this data. AQ allows users to send the breakdown of these details to Family Tree to be stored in the Notes portion of the Family Tree source. This allows other users of a desktop program to later import the source in such a way that the Title, Author, Repository, etc., are properly brought back from Family Tree.
Continued Access to new.FamilySearch Data
Ancestral Quest allows users to read the other opinions of the Birth, Christening, Death and Burial facts stored in new.FamilySearch (nFS). nFS contains a wealth of information in these extra opinions that were not carried over to Family Tree, and users of AQ are benefiting every day from the ability to see these on the same screen with their own data, and with data from Family Tree. There are three situations where these extra opinions from nFS can be helpful:
- In some cases, the birth, christening, death or burial information that was moved to Family Tree from nFS is not the best data. AQ helps a user identify these situations and import the correct data from nFS to Family Tree.
- When records of different people were improperly combined in nFS, these extra opinions are often the best clue for recognizing the situation. They help users take corrective action.
- When Family Tree does not have the best data from nFS, attempts to match correct records between a person’s local record and its corresponding record on Family Tree often fail. By seeing these extra opinions during the matching process, records can be matched more accurately.
Benefits to PAF Users
Ancestral Quest can directly update a PAF file, thus AQ provides PAF users with the ability to share data with Family Tree, including sources, notes and LDS ordinance information. Even though PAF has been discontinued as a supported product by FamilySearch, we understand that there are millions who still use PAF and can benefit from this capability. AQ is the only FamilySearch Tree Share certified product that provides this share capability for PAF users. And because the Windows versions of PAF were derived from AQ, PAF users will feel right at home as they use Ancestral Quest.
PRESS CONTACT Gaylon Findlay
President, Incline Software, LC
801.280.4434
gfindlay@ancquest.com
http://www.ancquest.com/pressreleases/pr131115aq.htm
