What problem does FindAGrave Search Genealogy Websites solve?
A memorial on FindAGrave gives you a name, a birth and death date, two places and often the person’s parents, spouse and children. The next step is almost always to look for that same person somewhere else, which means retyping all of it into one search form after another. FindAGrave Search Genealogy Websites turns the memorial you are already reading into a pre-filled search on the sites you use.
How does FindAGrave Search Genealogy Websites work?
A button titled Search Genealogy Websites is added beside Share on FindAGrave memorial pages. Hover over it for a drop-down that searches Ancestry, FamilySearch, FindMyPast, MyHeritage, WikiTree and Newspapers.com for the person on the memorial, using their name, dates, places and family members. Tick the sites you use and Search selected opens them all at once.
Everything the search needs is read from the memorial itself. That includes a maiden name where the memorial shows one, the birth and death years, the birth and death places, and the parents and spouse listed under Family Members. Each site then gets as much of it as that site can use, so a search on FamilySearch or MyHeritage carries the parents and spouse, while a name and year index like Newspapers.com gets the name and the years.
The drop-down includes:
- Search selected opens every ticked site at once, each in its own new tab.
- Ancestry
- FamilySearch Records
- FamilySearch Tree
- FindMyPast
- MyHeritage
- WikiTree
- Newspapers.com
The tick boxes beside each site are remembered, and they are the same list used by Add Advanced Search to Profiles on Ancestry and MyHeritage Search Genealogy Sites from Tree. Choose your sites once and the same set follows you between all three. The Ancestry search opens on whichever regional Ancestry site you have set in the Advanced Settings page.
How do I use FindAGrave Search Genealogy Websites?
- Ensure FindAGrave Search Genealogy Websites is enabled in the Genealogy Assistant pop-up panel.
- Open any memorial page on FindAGrave.
- Hover over the Search Genealogy Websites button, which sits at the end of the row of buttons beside Share.
- Click any site name to open a pre-filled search for that person in a new tab.
- Untick any site you do not use, then click Search selected to open the rest together. Your choice is saved and is used on Ancestry and MyHeritage as well.
- To change which regional Ancestry site the Ancestry search opens on, open the Genealogy Assistant pop-up panel and click Edit advanced settings, then open the Set Ancestry Domain section and pick your site under Domain. Settings save automatically.
FindAGrave Search Genealogy Websites 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