Latest Release Information for AQ 12.1

You currently have Ancestral Quest 12.1 Build 22 installed on your computer. Build 34 is the most current version. It is recommended that you upgrade to the latest version as soon as possible. Changes made to AQ 12.1 since Build 22 are listed below.

There is a newer major release of Ancestral Quest. It is version 16. The current build is 12. For a specially priced upgrade fee, you can upgrade to this new version of the software.

Changes in Build 34 (03/23/2011)

General Enhancements

Dual Dates: When AQ displayed a dual date, it had been displaying these as two full years, ie, "1750/1751". This was changed to adhere to a standard that indicated that only the changed portion of the second year should show, "1750/1".
Check/Repair: An adjustment was made to catch and fix another minor issue.

General Bug Fixes

Advanced Filtering: If you searched for a place name using commas only (",") to separate place names, it worked, but if you used comma-space (", "), then it failed. Fixed.
Family Group Record: If a Husband's data filled up so much room on a first page that the wife's data was pushed to the second page, then notes that normally would have printed on the 2nd page went unprinted. Fixed.
Family Group Record: If you wanted to print notes/sources or empty child boxes, and there was not enough room to print a final child on the page, so the child had to be printed on a next page, yet there was enough room to print the start of notes/sources or an empty child box, then AQ improperly printed notes/sources and empty child boxes before the last child. Fixed.
Publish a Family Book: Some minor issues were fixed, including problems with properly mirroring margins.
GEDCOM with UTF-8: If you received a GEDCOM file from a source that did not provide the proper UTF-8 file header (typically from a Mac software product), but the GEDCOM header indicated that it was in UTF-8 format, AQ didn't import extended characters correctly. Fixed.
Individual Summary View: If the primary person in the Individual Summary view was linked to a photo, but the link was broken, the text explaining that the photo could not be found was shown in too large a font. Fixed.

Enhancements to nFS Features

95/110 Year Rule: FamilySearch recently changed the 95 year rule to 110 years. AQ was altered to support this change.
Importing: When importing ancestral lines, if you asked for more than about 25 generations, the progress bar and estimated counts were wildly inaccurate. Fixed.

Bug Fixes to nFS Features

FamilySearch Family Review Screen: If you didn't have parents in your file, but FamilySearch had parents in its version of the family, then the name and event information for your local person would show the information from FamilySearch, not from your file. Fixed.
FamilySearch Family Review Screen: If you selected items from the FamilySearch side, such as a marriage event or LDS sealing data, to be placed in your notes, the note wasn't added to your file. Fixed.
Ordinance Downloads: In build 32, a bug was introduced that kept AQ from properly converting "Reserved" to "Submitted" and "In Progress" to "In Process" when downloading these reservation status codes from nFS. Fixed. (Note, this fix put put into build 33 after 11/23/11.)

Changes in Build 33 (10/6/2011)

General Enhancements

Name Entry: In the Individual Add/Edit screen, you can now swap the order of entering names. By default, you still enter surname then given names, but you can reverse this.
Internet Search Parameters: Added "FO" (First name only) and "MN" (Married Name) as parameters that you can use when searching Internet databases. The "FO" option will only take the first given name, even if the person has multiple given names. The "MN" option will first try to use the name you may have entered for the person in the "Married Name" field of the Individual Edit's "More" tab. If that field is blank, then for a male, it takes the surname. For a female, it then takes the surname of the first husband if the woman was ever married, and if not, it takes her birth surname.
Searching FamilySearch.org: FamilySearch has made some changes recently to the method of searching the 1 billion records available on their site. AQ's searching was updated to continue to correctly search these records.

General Bug Fixes

Name List: If you searched for a person while on the Name List view, then immediately switched to a different view, the person you just searched for would not be the primary person in the new view. Fixed.
Advanced Filtering: AQ's field filter did not properly find individuals when you set up a filter with "Sources (All) Does Not Exist." Fixed.
Confidential Relationships: If you marked a man or woman as "Confidential" and also marked the relationship as confidential, the other partner should not have been treated as confidential. In some cases, this was not working properly. Fixed.
Published Family Book Index: In some cases, the index enties from one page of the index would repeat themselves on the next page. Fixed.
Translations: AQ was not properly changing some non-English characters from upper case to lower case, and visa versa. As a result entry of dates with umlauts were not working, and there were some other sorting issues. Fixed.
Translations: If a translator tried to translate the source type descriptors, they were unable to get a good translation. Fixed.

Enhancements to nFS Features

Family Sync Screen: Added a checkbox for "Expand all data". This new box is checked by default. You can remove the checkmark. Without the checkmark, this screen will act as it has in the past: each family will be shown initially by just the names of the parents, and you will need to click on "expander" buttons to see details of the family. With the checkmark, this screen will initially show all families fully expanded.
Diagnostics: Some users occasionally see errors dealing with the storage of nFS linking items when they run Check/Repair. We have added a preference item to help detect when such an error would first occur.

Bug Fixes to nFS Features

Seal to Parent: AQ was not properly sending Seal to Parent data to nFS, nor was it properly deleting Seal to Parent data that you had uploaded to nFS. Fixed.
Seal to Parent: For some children on the Family Sync screen, special codes such as "Ready", "In Progress", etc. were not being shown. Fixed.
Seal to Parent Dates/Translations: When displaying and importing SP dates using non-English language modules, these dates sometimes did not encode properly. Fixed.

Changes in Build 32 (7/21/2011)

General Enhancements

Skins/Color Themes: Four (4) new skins were added. One of these is called, "Classic" and approximates the default color scheme from earlier builds of AQ.
Color: A new preference was added to the Color selection screen that allows you to select high contrast tabs on the main views. In build 31, basic color schemes had high contrast tabs. The new default for this setting is to NOT have high contrast tabs. If you like the tabs to be more bold, turn on this setting.
Toolbar: Adjusted a couple of the toolbar icons that users indicated were not intuitive.
Toolbar: The toolbar icon to search the World Wide Web now has a shortcut key associated with it: <Ctrl+W>
Menus: Added menu items in the Help menu and the Internet menu to provide help on how to get the most out of researching Ancestry.com and FamilySearch.org from within AQ.
Researching on the Web: In earlier builds of AQ, the default web search has been to search Ancestry.com. This has been changed to the free search on FamilySearch.org. For users who prefer to search Ancestry.com, they can reset the default in the "Internet" menu using the "Favorite Sites" screen.
Searching FamilySearch.org: FamilySearch has made some changes recently to the method of searching the 1 billion records available on their site. AQ's searching was updated to continue to correctly search these records.

General Bug Fixes

Colors: A bug was introduced in build 31 that affected a few users. The wrong color was selected to display the relationship indicators, so the text blended into the background of the screen in such a way as to make these indicators hard to see. Fixed.
Toolbars: In build 31, the background of the new toolbar icons did not always blend in to the toolbar properly. Fixed.

Bug Fixes to nFS Features

Syncing: If you tried to update the gender of a person in your file by selecting the gender of the matching record in nFS, the update did not take place. Fixed.
Language Issues: If you uploaded a person from your local file to nFS while using a non-English language module, dates were properly updated. However if you updated a single event while syncing, the date would be sent to nFS in the language you were using rather than in English. Fixed.

Changes in Build 31 (7/12/2011)

General Enhancements

Skins/Color Themes: You will now have a choice of keeping your current color scheme for the Pedigree and Family View, or of choosing from several predefined color schemes called 'Skins'.
Gender Icons: On the Family view, you can choose to show gender icons for each person shown. If you don't show the gender icons, you will see 'M' or 'F' gender indicators next to each child.
Text on Pedigree/Family Views: Additional refinements were made. If you want to adjust the text size, go to Preferences in the 'Tools' menu. (You can use the "Default" button to set the font to the new default.)
On the Family View, if you make AQ's window narrower, the fonts will become proportionately smaller
In the 'Fonts' tab of the 'Preferences' screen, there is a checkbox for 'Keep Pedigree and Family View fonts proportional to screen.' Take the time to see how this option affects the text on these screens as you adjust the size of the AQ window, so you can set it according to your taste.
Multiple Monitors: When certain dialog boxes were shown, and you had more than one monitor, some of the screens often appeared on the other monitor. AQ is monitor aware for most screens now.
Scrapbook List Report: A new option allows you to list only scrapbook items with broken links.
Program Startup: When you start AQ either for the first time, or later when it can't find a file to automatically open, you get several options for how to begin. A new option is to start a file by importing from NFS.
Backup File Names:In build 30, we added the ability to add date and time to the backup file name. AQ now allows you to specify date format as either DD MMM YYYY or YYYY-MM-DD.
Ancestry/Descendant Charts: On some older reports (like Ancestry/Descendant), there was no space in place names between the comma and next place. Adjusted most cases to have a space.

General Bug Fixes

Language Modules: If you were using a non-English language, and you downloaded a new build for which no text changes were made, AQ would insist that you hadn't yet upgraded. Fixed.

Bug Fixes to nFS Features

Reading Notes/Sources from nFS: On or about 7/2/2011, FamilySearch changed the way they require AQ to read notes and sources. As a result, notes and sources from nFS can no longer be read using earlier builds of AQ. Build 31 implemented the new method of reading notes and sources from nFS.
Language Issues: If you had selected a language other than English, it would properly show the dates from nFS on your review screens, but if you uploaded a date to nFS from your local file, the date would be sent to nFS in the selected language rather than in English. nFS didn't expect this. The dates are now converted to English prior to being uploaded.

Changes in Build 30 (5/26/2011)

General Enhancements

Text on Pedigree/Family Views: Additional refinements were made. Things you should notice:
The text will be a bit smaller. If you want to adjust the text size, go to Preferences in the 'Tools' menu. (You can use the "Default" button to set the font to the new default.)
On the Family View, if you make AQ's window narrower, the fonts will become proportionately smaller
In the 'Fonts' tab of the 'Preferences' screen, there is a checkbox for 'Keep Pedigree and Family View fonts proportional to screen.' Take the time to see how this option affects the text on these screens as you adjust the size of the AQ window, so you can set it according to your taste.

General Bug Fixes

Web Pages/Scrapbook Links: If you linked scrapbook items stored on the Internet to your individuals and sources, you would get an error when trying to generate Web Pages from AQ, and the Web Page would not show the scrapbook items. Fixed.

Bug Fixes to nFS Features

95 Year Record: If you tried to work with a record in nFS for a person who was born in the last 95 years, and who had a mother but no father in the nFS system, AQ would crash when trying to process the nFS record. Fixed.
Ordinance Reservation/Tracking System: If you entered a record into AQ's ORTS and later deleted that record from your AQ or PAF database, the reference to that record was not deleted from the ORT System. Fixed.
Ordinance Reservation/Tracking System: If you started to load the records in the "Reserve Ordinances/Create Batches" screen, and then you paused the load, there was a problem in one instance: if any of the records not yet loaded was of a record on the nFS system without a matching record in your database (most users would not have this situation), then that record would be removed from the batch. Fixed.

Changes in Build 29 (5/12/2011)

General Enhancements

Backups: You can now have AQ add the date and time to the name of a backup file. By default, the date is turned on. In 'Preferences' you can turn this off if you want backup filenames as before, and you can also ask for the time of day to be added to the backup filename.
Backups: In the past, AQ would remind you every 10 times that you closed the file that you should backup. Now it will remind you every 3 times.
Database Check/Repair: Additional refinements were made to find and fix additional reported issues.
PDF Printing: The PDF-Exchange driver used by AQ requires 32-bit Windows. Users with 64-bit Windows were unable to print PDF files without the "Demo" watermark. AQ will now guide these users to download and use other free PDF creation drivers.
GEDCOM Export to Flash Drive: In the early days of AQ, most people stored their data on floppy disks of 360KB. To keep users from inadvertently filling up precious room on the data floppy, AQ would not allow creating a GEDCOM file to the same removable disk. This same check was interfering with users now creating GEDCOM files to Flash Drives with much larger capacities. The check has been removed.
Individual Edit Screen: Older computers would not allow as much information to fit on a screen as they do now. AQ had preferences for moving some data (either Other Events or LDS Data) to other screens. These preferences have been removed and Other Events will now always be on the main Individual Edit screen. If you have activated LDS data, it will now also always be on the main Individual Edit screen.

General Bug Fixes

Fonts: The Pedigree and Family View text would seem extra large if you had defined the Large (120 dpi) rather than Normal (96 dpi) fonts in Windows. Fixed.
Fonts: Several screen that have lists (such as the Search for Individual, Order Spouses, Order Children, Other Events) would not put the correct spacing between columns if you had 'Large Fonts' defined in Windows. Fixed.
10 Children: If you had a family with 10 children in the Family view, and you clicked on the last child, sometimes AQ would improperly act as if you had clicked on 'Add Child'. Fixed.
File Closing: If you had opened two or more files, then closed them by using the 'File|Close' menu option, AQ would crash. Fixed. (This didn't happen if you closed the files using the 'X' in the upper right corner of the program.)
Modified Register: If you had set the # generations of the 'Traceback' to 0, you would expect that not only the list of names would be removed from the report, but that the parenthesis surrounding the list would be removed. This wasn't happening. Fixed.
Page of Testimony: The Page of Testimony (for Holocaust victims) was inadvertently deactivated in the last build. Fixed. (Only available for full version of AQ, not for AQ Basics.)
GEDCOM Import: If you were using a non-English language, and you imported a date with a 3-character month abbreviation that didn't match English, then the date wasn't imported correctly. Fixed.
Backup Folder: You can specify various folders in Preferences. If you had set one folder for your backup folder, and a different folder for your data folder, the restore process was suggesting that you restore to the backup folder rather than to the data folder. It now makes the proper recommendation.
Pedigree Charts: If you had the rare situation when there was no death information, but there was burial information, and you had sources for the burial, the sources would print OK, but the footnote number would not show on the chart. Fixed.
Publish a Family Book: If you included several "Individual Summary" reports as chapters in your published book, later chapters could get larger margins, and therefore less room to print the report, with the possibility that the report would hang. Fixed.
PAF Database: If you were using a PAF database (.paf) and you had sources for the LDS "Seal to Parent" event, you might see your list of sources properly in the "Notes/Sources" screen, but if you used the 'S' button next to the event to see the list of sources, you might see the wrong sources. Fixed.
PAF Database: If you had Seal to Parent sources and printed an Individual Summary page, you might see the wrong sources. Fixed.

Enhancements to nFS Features

Reserving LDS Ordinances: If you try to reserve an ordinance for someone who has died within the last 95 years, you will be required to state that you have proper permission from the family before making the reservation.
FHC Version Login: In a library setting, AQ should not remember the ID and password of the last person who used the computer. The FHC version will no longer allow this.
New LDS Events: The new LDS Ordinances (LDS Confirmation and Initiatory) which many LDS users now download into AQ are being stored as Other Events. Some checks were put into the program in earlier builds to keep these from showing when the option to not show LDS data was activated, but they still showed in many situations. These should now only show when the LDS Data option is turned on.

Bug Fixes to nFS Features

Conversion of ORTS Data: If you had information in AQ's Ordinance Reservation and Tracking System, and you converted the file, you would lose this ORTS data. (Note that the master copy of the data is always on the New FamilySearch site, so this data could mostly be recovered, but some of the special handling of this data by AQ would be lost.) Fixed.

Changes in Build 28 (1/14/2011)

General Enhancements

Internet Searches: In the past, you could set up customized Internet searches using the First names and Last name of any person in your file. With this build, AQ also lets you now use the birth date and place and death date and place with customized Internet searches. This should provide for more refined searching.
Access to Hundreds of Millions of Free Records: FamilySearch has just released hundreds of millions of indexed records, many of which have images. AQ now has built-in searches for these records to aid in your research.
Access to Holocaust Records: Yad Vashem in Jerusalem has indexed records on roughly half of the 6 million victims of the Holocaust available for public searching. AQ now has a built-in search to access these records.
Non-English Language Selection: A dropdown selection box of several non-English languages has been added to the main Pedigree and Family Views. If you don't have any language modules installed, you will have an option to download several translations of AQ, so that you can print reports in other languages, or work in the various screens of AQ in non-English languages.
Expanded Screens: Some of the more crowded screens, such as the Individual entry screen and the Individual Search screen were widened to provide more room and feel less crowded.

Bug Fixes to nFS Features

FamilySearch Bug: In the December 2010 release of New.FamilySearch, a bug was introduced by FamilySearch which in turn caused AQ to crash. AQ no longer crashes after it reports the FamilySearch bug. (You may occasionally see an error 500 if you encounter this bug.)
Search Through Batches: Build 27 introduced a new feature that allowed an LDS user to search through batches of submitted ordinances to find a record. A bug was discovered wherein if you searched for someone who was not on the list, AQ would hang. Fixed.

Changes in Build 27 (12/14/2010)

General Notes on Build 27 - Build 27 of AQ 12.1 introduces a change to the trial capability of Ancestral Quest. For the last couple of years, AQ has had a fully functioning 60-day free trial. As of build 27, this is replaced with Ancestral Quest Basics, a completely free version of Ancestral Quest. AQ Basics does not have a time limit. Instead, all the basic features of the program are continuously free, but the more advanced features are disabled, until a registration key is purchased.

If you already have a registration key, this change will make no difference to you, as you already have all the features of AQ unlocked. This change only affects those who have not yet purchased a registration key.

Also, a few minor adjustments were made to other capabilities of AQ in this build. These are listed below.

General Enhancements

Translation to non-English Languages: Moved several text items to the translation tables.

Enhancements to nFS Features

Manage Batches: Added a 'Find' button that lets you search for an individual. If the individual is in one of the batches, the batch will be highlighted for you.

Bug Fixes to nFS Features

Review and Synchronize FamilySearch Person with Local Person screen: A bug was introduced in build 26, wherein if you stretched this screen extremely wide, the check boxes could cover up part of the dates. Fixed.
LDS Ordinance Reservation screen: A bug was introduced in build 26, wherein if you had checked the "Keep Together" box, but selected any ordinance other than Baptism, then the other ordinances would adjust to the selection, but Baptism would not. Fixed.
95 Year Rule: Starting with the December 2010 release of nFS (12/13/10), notifications about the 95 year rule were issued when AQ checked the status of ordinances. AQ improperly showed this notice each time you reviewed a person who had died within the last 95 years. Fixed.
Logout: With the December 2010 release of nFS (12/13/10), AQ was no longer able to logout from its connection with nFS. This didn't cause a problem, as this almost always happened as the user exited the program. But AQ presented a message indicating that there was a problem. AQ now properly logs out.

Changes in Build 26 (10/22/2010)

General Enhancements

Photos/Images: You can now view scrapbook photos and source images in an external viewer. This will let you zoom and edit the photo. Enable this feature either from the Scrapbook tab of Preferences, or from the Scrapbook screen of AQ by checking the box for 'Use External Viewer'.
AQ Newsline: Adjusted the new Newsline window so you could choose an option to view it daily or weekly.
Check/Repair: Check/Repair has been enhanced to find and fix more items in both AQ and PAF databases.
Translation to non-English Languages: Fixed some issues in the Translation editing, and moved several text items to the translation tables.
Family View, Children List: The '*' which indicates a Christening date rather than a birth date was too far separated from the date. Adjusted. Also, if you displayed LDS ordinances for children, the birth date was too crowded with these codes. Adjusted.

General Bug Fixes

Search for Marriage Screen: If you edited a marriage while on this screen, then looked at it again while on this screen, it would appear that the marriage updates hadn't taken place. The marriage data now refreshes properly.
Custom Report: If you had saved a report definition, sometimes it would not re-load properly, causing problems with the report. Fixed.
Move Scrapbook Items: If you used this tool to update not only the path of one folder, but the paths of all subfolders of that folder, the subfolders were not properly adjusted. Fixed.
Family Group Record: If you had set the event type of a custom event to "Private", any event of that type should not print unless the private flag was overridden for the event. This was not working. Fixed.
Custom Event Sentences: When printing a book report or generating web pages, and the sentence for the event used the ability to use a different verb depending on whether the person was living or deceased, AQ always used the deceased option. Fixed.
Bookmarks: If you had defined some bookmards, then closed the file, and after restarting AQ you used the shortcut to activate the bookmark prior to viewing the list of bookmarks, AQ would give a warning message and not activate the bookmark. Once you displayed the 'Search' menu, the bookmark shortcuts would then work. Now you don't need to show the 'Search' menu prior to using keystrokes to go to the bookmarked individual.
Startup: If you tried to open AQ, and a database was not initially opened, and you had disabled the ability to show nFS data (this is a very rare situation), AQ would crash. Fixed.

Enhancements to nFS Features

Logging In: nFS now allows AQ to remember your ID and password. This has been implemented.
General Public: nFS is preparing to allow the general public to have access. AQ has implemented the general login, so AQ is ready when nFS allows public access.
nFS Notes/Sources: A new option allows you to visually see which nFS events have notes/sources after you request to see them.
Pedigree View: Ancestry.com links overlapped the nFS icons. Fixed.
nFS Marriage Notes: The nFS API has a bug when retrieving marriage notes. FamilySearch provided a work-around in the June release of nFS. AQ now takes advantage of the work-around to better retrieve marriage event notes from nFS.
Combine Messages: Improved the messages given to the user when a combine fails on nFS.
LDS Ordinance Sync Screen: This screen (found when using the 'LDS' button on the match screen, or the 'Ordinances' button on the ORTS screens) now lets you update the local LDS Confirmation and Initiatory ordinances.
GEDCOM Export: If you downloaded LDS Confirmation and Initiatory ordinances from nFS, then exported your data to a GEDCOM file, yet you unchecked the option to include LDS data, these ordinances were still exported. Fixed.
Reports: If you print book reports (Modified Register/Ahnentafel), FGRs or generate web pages, and you didn't want the LDS ordinances to show, the new LDS Confirmation and Initiatory ordinances still showed. These reports have been enhanced to treat these new events as LDS events, and will not show when the option to show other LDS ordinances is disabled.
Reserve List: If you added someone to the reserve list (either from your database, or an individual from nFS who was not in your database) who was not linked to the corresponding nFS person, and you later linked the person from some other screen, AQ will now acknowlege the link in this screen.
Reserve List: In the August 2010 release of nFS, FamilySearch introduced a bug in the API that AQ uses to get the complete reserve list. This made it so that AQ could no longer reload portions of the reserve list using either the 'Reconcile' button of the 'Manage Batches' screen, or the 'Add All Reserved Records' to AQ's reserve list. AQ has been enhanced to work around this bug in nFS.
Create Batches/Reserve Ordinances Screen: Added a progress bar when groups of records are being processed.
Possible Problems Report: If you added LDS Confirmation or Initiatory events to individuals, this report would most likely flag these as problems. These events are no longer checked for the problem report.

Bug Fixes to nFS Features

Marriage Event Notes: If you added a note to a marriage event on the nFS side of the spouse/children Sync screen, it didn't add to nFS. Fixed.
nFS Notes: If you loaded notes/sources for nFS parents, then closed the event screen and reopened it, you'd have to load the notes/sources again. Fixed.
nFS Dates: If a date came from nFS in the format of 'YYYYMMDD' (ie 18661101), and if you had your preferences set to European date entry, the date would be interpreted as 'YYYYDDMM' (ie Jan 11 1866 rather than Nov 1 1866). Fixed.
ORTS Review Batch Screen: If a card was associated with a person whose individual ordinances were not done, but the Seal to Spouse was completed, the card could not be reprinted. Fixed.
LDS Ordinance Sync Screen: This screen (found when using the 'LDS' button on the match screen, or the 'Ordinances' button on the ORTS screens) had a bug wherein if you had an nFS parent set with only one parent, then tried to select that set of parents, AQ would crash. Fixed.
Family Sync Screen: If you added parents from your local file who were already linked to nFS parents, after the child was linked in nFS to the existing parents, as AQ tried to also add the marriage event, AQ would crash. Fixed.

Changes in Build 25 (04/26/2010)

General Enhancements

AQ Newsline: Adjusted the new Newsline window to come up only 1 time each day.
Print Preview: AQ has had the ability to hide the pictures in print preview ever since scrapbooking features were introduced. That feature allowed reports to be viewed more quickly. Now that computers are much faster, the ability to hide pictures in a preview is no longer useful, and causes confusion. It has been removed.

Enhancements to nFS Features

User Friendly: A few of the screens dealing with syncing have been made simpler, and tips have been added to make the screens more intuitive.
Ordinance Reservation and Tracking: When loading a batch of reserved records for the first time, AQ checked to see if a local record was linked to the NFS record. If you later linked the records, the manage batches screen would not detect that the link had been made. AQ now checks for links each session.

Bug Fixes to nFS Features

Notes/Sources: A bug was introduced in build 23 that kept notes and sources from NFS always showing as expected. Fixed.
ORTS: In the "Review Batch" screen, if a local record showed that an ordinance was submitted on a particular day, it might not show the '*' by the completion date to alert the user when the ordinance was done. Fixed.
ORTS: If an ordinance showed both as "Reserved" and as "Ready" in NFS, AQ showed the ID of the reserving person rather than the normal selection for "Temple" or "Me". Fixed.
Individual/Family Sync Screens: If a sealing ordinance was "Reserved" or "In Progress", it didn't show properly for the main individual after build 23. Fixed.

Changes in Build 24 (04/09/2010)

General Enhancements

AQ Newsline: Each time you start AQ, it will show you news about the software, updates, training, or other items pertinent to family history.

General Bug Fixes

Family View: The display of Age at marriage and death, introduced in build 23, sometimes did not fit in the display box. Fixed.

Enhancements to nFS Features

Login to NFS: The new "LDS Account" is now accepted by Ancestral Quest. NOTE: This was not a change made to AQ, but by FamilySearch about the same time as this build was released. (Even if you still keep build 23, you should be able to login to NFS with the LDS Account.)
Group Link: If you link groups of individuals through the Group Link feature, and choose the "Link Only" option, this will now process much more quickly.

Bug Fixes to nFS Features
NOTE: All the following bugs were introduced in build 23 as a result of changes both to NFS and to AQ. These bugs were not present in earlier versions. They have all been fixed in build 24.

Login by non-LDS Users: The login failed for users with an NFS account who were not members of the LDS faith -- there is a difference in how the login is completed in new.familysearch.org. Fixed.
Loading of Some Individuals from FamilySearch: For some individuals in the FamilySearch database -- most common with IOUSs -- AQ might crash during the load. Fixed.
Adding Parents: In the Family Sync screen, if you added two new parents from NFS to a child in your file, and also added parent to child facts, AQ would successfully add the parents, then crash when trying to record the parent to child facts. Fixed.
Adding Person to NFS: If you added a person from your local file to NFS, and this person had a gender of Unknown, the gender was not written to the FamilySearch record. Fixed.
Auto Syncing Family Members: If, in builds of AQ 12.1 previous to 23, you had selected the option to automatically sync data, then you had hidden the option screen for this selection, AQ would crash when trying to sync a local record with the NFS record. Fixed.
Delete of NFS Person: Some relationships to the person might not have been deleted at the time the person itself was removed. Fixed.
Connecting of Spouses in NFS: If you had parents in your local file for an individual, and FamilySearch had records of the same parents, but did not have them linked as parents in NFS, AQ attempts to link the NFS records together as child and parents. This was failing in build 23. Fixed.
Legacy Contributions: If you had claimed legacy submissions as your own, AQ would not allow you to modify or remove data from the submissions under a prior different ID. Fixed.
Relationship Facts: While you could add relationshp facts to NFS using AQ's Family Sync screen, you could not modify or delete them. Fixed.
Linking Spouses: If you had previously linked two NFS spouses together, then deleted the relationship using NFS, AQ was unable to link them back together. Fixed.
Gender: If you were the contributor of the gender of a person, AQ should have allowed you to change the gender. It didn't in build 23. Fixed.

Changes in Build 23 (03/27/2010)

General Enhancements

Family View: The Infobox in the upper left corner of the screen now shows the Age of the person at the time of marriage and of death.

General Bug Fixes

Database Conversion: If you converted a ".aq" file to a ".paf" file, and you had "To-Do" items with Categories, the categories didn't transfer to the ".paf" file. Fixed.

Enhancements to nFS Features

General Access to NFS: Updated from the older Version 1 of the FamilyTree API to the newer Version 2. As AQ was converted to the newer API, several other minor enhancements and fixes, not all listed here, were put in place.
NOTE: FamilySearch retired Version 1 of the FamilyTree API on 3/29/10, and installed Version 2. For users who access New FamilySearch through AQ, this is a required update from earlier builds, as the earlier builds of AQ 12.1 will no longer work with NFS after 3/29/10.

Bug Fixes to nFS Features

Import Family Lines: If your own record was already in the database, but not yet linked to the corresponding FS record, and you chose the option to download your own ancestors, AQ would crash. Fixed.
Check/Repair: If you were using AQ's "Collaboration" feature, and you also used NFS, the Check/Repair did not properly check or repair the NFS portion of the file. Fixed.
Importing Parents and Spouses: If you imported parents and spouses using AQ's Family Sync screen, the LDS ordinances were not automatically imported. Fixed.