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.
ScotlandsPeople search results are paginated with small links at the bottom of the page, so working through a long set of results means a lot of mouse travel. ScotlandsPeople Keyboard Navigation lets you flip through pages of results using just the left and right arrow keys.
On any ScotlandsPeople search results page, pressing the left or right arrow key clicks the previous or next page link...
To check the likely relationships for a GEDmatch one-to-many result you have to copy each shared centimorgan value, open DNA Painter’s Shared cM Tool in another tab, and paste the number in. GEDmatch DNA Painter Shared cM Tool turns every cM value in the results table into a clickable link that opens DNA Painter with that value already filled in.
LivingDNA gives you no way to export your DNA relatives, so the only way to work with your matches is to read them 50 at a time in the browser. LivingDNA: Download Match List as CSV adds a download button above the list that saves every match to a single spreadsheet, so you can sort, filter, and compare your results in whatever tool you already use.
Shared matches are how you work out which side of your family a relative belongs to, but LivingDNA shows them ten at a time with no way to save the list. LivingDNA: Download Shared Matches as CSV adds a download button beside the shared matches heading that saves everyone you have in common with a match to a single spreadsheet.
The microfilm reels on Canadiana Héritage often run to more than a thousand images, and the viewer moves one image at a time and saves one image at a time. Working through a census reel or a set of land petitions means a long run of clicks, and taking a section of it offline means saving every page by hand. Canadiana: Image Viewer Tools adds skip buttons, arrow key paging, and...
Genealogy Assistant is a Safari extension that adds research tools to Ancestry, MyHeritage, FamilySearch, FamilyTreeDNA, 23andMe, and other genealogy websites. Unlike the Chrome, Firefox, and Edge versions, it comes as a small Mac app that you download and install yourself. The app adds the extension to Safari and keeps it up to date. You need:
Genealogy Assistant is customizable to your own unique preferences, and things like downloads can be optimized to work with your system and setup. Click the “Edit advanced settings” button at the bottom of the Genealogy Assistant popup panel to configure the extension.
Set the minimum cM threshold for highlighting your DNA matches. Matches above this value are highlighted in red so you can quickly spot significant connections. Settings are available for:
