• Skill Level: Intermediate and New User
• FH versions: V4, V5, V6, and V7
• In Topics: Reinstalling or Migrating to a different PC Using Ancestral Sources 

Introduction

It is becoming likely that someday you will update Windows or buy a new PC and need to re-install Ancestral SourcesAncestral Sources is a utility written by Nick Walker, designed to be used in conjunction with Family Historian to allow faster, more convenient creation of Census, Birth, Baptism, Marriage, Death and Burial/Cremation records.   (AS).

As well as installing AS, all Backups, Logs, Settings, Options, and Templates will need to be migrated.

Details

These few steps define how to migrate from an old PC to a new PC.

• On both PC ensure the latest version of AS is installed.
• On both PC use Tools > Options… in AS and note the location of the three AS Folders.
• Close AS on both PC.
• Copy the AS Folders from old PC to new PC using Windows/File Explorer via some intermediate storage such as a USB pen drive memory stick.

Use a similar technique, but with the steps in a different order, to migrate from an old Windows version to a new Windows version on the same PC.