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...
When you open an Ancestry record, the details on the page are often the perfect starting point for finding the same person on another site, but it means opening each site and retyping their name, dates, and places one by one. Advanced Search for Records Page adds a single Search button to every Ancestry record with a dropdown that can fire pre-filled searches at seven major genealogy sites.
Ancestry does not let you export a plain list of every person in your tree. To get one you either have to download a full GEDCOM and process it elsewhere, or copy names off the All People page one screen at a time. Save All People in Tree to CSV File adds a one-click download button to the All People page that walks every page of your...
Ancestry’s Member Search finds other researchers who list the same surname, place, and time period as you, but it shows them ten or twenty at a time with no way to save the list. Working through a common surname means paging through dozens of screens and copying names by hand. Save Member Search Results to CSV adds a download button above the results that collects every matching member into...
Ancestry’s Public Member Trees search shows each person once, with a count of how many members’ trees they appear in, and the View all window lists those trees ten at a time with no way to save them. Comparing what different members have recorded for the same ancestor means clicking through every page and copying dates, places and parents by hand. Save Public Member Trees to CSV adds a...
Moving around an Ancestry family tree is a mouse-heavy job. Every action, whether that is opening the edit panel, hiding siblings, jumping to family view, or checking hints, means hovering, clicking a menu, and clicking an option. Add Keyboard Shortcuts to Family Tree lets you do all of those things with a single keystroke while your cursor is over a person on the tree.
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.
On any Ancestry search results page, pressing the Right arrow key loads the next page of results and...
Ancestry’s Create and Manage Trees page lists every one of your trees, but once you have more than a handful, finding the right one means scrolling and reading. Search Ancestry Family Trees by Name adds a search box to the top of the page that jumps to a tree as you type its name, and the same list of trees is available from Quick Search on any page.
