+ Favors the best practice of exporting custom events to GEDCOM using the EVEN.TYPE tag structure rather than custom tags, although there are still a few custom tags, even in cases where standard tags exist (see Cons). I didn’t test any of them, so I don’t know how useful this feature actually is. + Possible to export different species of GEDCOM 5.5 (AQ, Heritage Family Tree, FTM, and PAF). + Over all does a fairly decent job of importing and exporting GEDCOM files, with the caveats noted in the Cons section. + Imported most but not all custom FTM fields (see Cons for those that weren’t). Also imported additional instances of the NAME tag for a particular individual as Additional Names. + Imported FTM’s illegal use of the ALIA tag as an AKA. If the import option “Include listing file data in notes” is selected, then all unrecognized data are imported into the note for the corresponding person. The log lists errors by line numbers, which is also good. + Saves a GEDCOM import error log and offers to open it for you. Note: portions of text in all capital letters are GEDCOM tags, with the rest of the plain text field name in lowercase. Version tested: Ancestral Quest 14.00.32 for Mac. “Import Scrapbook Items” tells AQ to import media files. “Include listing file data in notes” is important if you want to preserve any data AQ doesn’t recognize. There is a section in the video on Importing a GEDCOM file the video is a bit dated but the steps are the same. Importing a GEDCOM file from Family Tree Maker (FTM) or any other app or website into Ancestral Quest (AQ) is fairly straightforward if you stick with the default options, but if you need help, AQ has a “Quick Start Tutorial Video” on their website.
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