What problem does Advanced Paging for Image Viewer solve?
When you’re flipping through a long image collection on Ancestry (a census, a ship’s manifest, a parish register), the built-in pager only moves one image at a time. Jumping 40 pages ahead to reach the next township or year means clicking the next button over and over. Advanced Paging for Image Viewer adds a row of skip buttons that move the image viewer forward or back by larger increments in a single click.
How does Advanced Paging for Image Viewer work?
A new toolbar is added to the bottom of the Ancestry image viewer with eight skip buttons: -50, -25, -10, -2, +2, +10, +25, and +50. Clicking any button jumps the viewer forward or back by that number of images using Ancestry’s own page input, so the image, toolbar, and page counter all stay in sync. A minimize button on the right collapses the toolbar down to a small icon so it stays out of your way, and clicking the icon expands the toolbar again. Your preference for minimized or expanded is remembered between pages.
How do I use Advanced Paging for Image Viewer?
- Ensure Advanced Paging for Image Viewer is enabled in the Genealogy Assistant pop-up panel.
- Open any Ancestry image collection in the image viewer.
- Click any skip button in the new toolbar at the bottom of the viewer to jump forward or back by that many images.
- Click the minimize button on the right of the toolbar to collapse it, and click the icon to expand it again.
Advanced Paging for Image Viewer 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.
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