What problem does Add Keyboard Navigation to Search solve?
Paging through Ancestry search results means scrolling to the bottom of the page, finding the pagination bar, and clicking Next every time you want the next set of results. Add Keyboard Navigation to Search lets you page through results with a single key press.
How does Add Keyboard Navigation to Search work?
On any Ancestry search results page, pressing the Right arrow key loads the next page of results and pressing the Left arrow key loads the previous page. Ancestry’s own pagination buttons are clicked in the background so the results update the same way they would if you had scrolled down and clicked them yourself.
How do I use Add Keyboard Navigation to Search?
- Ensure Add Keyboard Navigation to Search is enabled in the Genealogy Assistant pop-up panel.
- Run a search on Ancestry to open the search results page.
- Press the
Rightarrow key to move to the next page of results, or theLeftarrow key to move to the previous page.
Keyboard Shortcuts
Rightloads the next page of search resultsLeftloads the previous page of search results
Add Keyboard Navigation to Search is a feature of the software Genealogy Assistant.
Genealogy Assistant is an extension for Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Microsoft Edge and Apple Safari which supercharges your family history research by adding over 100 custom features to popular genealogy websites like Ancestry, MyHeritage, FamilySearch, FamilyTreeDNA and more. You can watch a full video walkthrough on YouTube.
Install Genealogy Assistant for Google Chrome | Install for Mozilla Firefox | Install for Microsoft Edge | Install for Apple Safari