Author Archive: Dale
State of Confusion
Updated 12 Nov 2023 – AQ Version 16.0.12 – 10/12/2023 In the Yahoo Group [AncestralQuest] an interesting question was asked this morning. This newsgroup is now accessed with the URL: https://groups.io/g/AncestralQuest Its LDS related URL is: https://groups/g/AQ-FS I’m attempting to identify all of my ancestors who have been born, lived, married or died in a …
Obituaries
In my post Find the Dead I showed a way to Google for an obituary. The way I showed works, but there is a “cleaner” way to do it, and there is a better way to search for married females. First: Cleaner. Originally I recommended that we enter a Google search such as: obituary Clyde …
Find Find_A_Grave
In the Find-A-Grave post we talked about a way to document and source Find-A-Grave within Ancestral Quest. We started by saying that we need to either find the Find-A-Grave entry for an individual or create one if it isn’t already there. That leads to an interesting question. How can I go about finding an individual …
Find-A-Grave
Recently in AncestralQuest@groups.io there was a question about automatically exrtracting the Find-A-Grave memorial number so that it could be added to an individual record in AQ. I’m guessing that would require a contractual arrangement between Incline Software and Find-A-Grave, and probably program changes for both programs, so I won’t comment on that here. I too …
Sharing Events Another Way
In RootsTech 2021 Gaylon Findlay teaches a method for sharing events and their sources. It is located HERE. (Click This Link) It’s only 8 minutes long. When I asked Gaylon some questions about this video, he said, “There are probably a thousand good ways to document this, and very few bad ways.” I have a …
Virtual Booth Tour 2021
This was a first. RootsTech was totally virtual. Over a million people registered to participate. Ancestral Quest was a Bronze Sponsor of the event. In RootsTech 2021 AQ had a Virtual Booth filled with information and ideas. If you have ever wanted to know how to use Ancestral Quest more effectively, this is a great …
What Will AQ Do?
If you are a Follower of AQWillDo then you probably agree with me that Ancestral Quest is a Great Genealogical (Family History) program. It’s great enough that other programs got their start by licensing the Ancestral Quest code as the base for their own program. PAF (Personal Ancestral File) switched from an MS-DOS program to …
FamilySearch has Duplicates?
There are approximately 8 billion records of individuals on the public FamilySearch Family Tree. (Hereinafter referred to as FS Tree) Some of them are duplicates. That is, records referring to the same person, but with slightly different information. Some duplicate records may even contain the same information. How do the duplicates get there? It’s easy. …
Roots Tech Connect 2021
It is finally here. Roots Tech Connect 2021. In the past there have been many reasons to not attend Roots Tech. Too far away, too expensive, too inconvenient, just to name a few. Who could take 1-3 days off work and travel to Salt Lake City, Utah? Now the excuses are gone! It isn’t too …
Use the User’s Guide
Incline Software produces a book called Ancestral Quest User’s Guide. It is available in the United States as a paperback, and around the world as a PDF file. It has 545 pages. I use it when I need to understand how to do some of the less common things that AQ Will Do. If you …
AQ Will Do 