ORA 1.85 (Online Repository Assistant)

ORA the Online Repository Assistant, was recently updated to ORA 1.85. As I mentioned a few weeks ago, ORA is unique among genealogy software – it’s meant to make genealogy research much easier when using online repositories, including (but not limited to) Ancestry.com, FamilySearch, FindMyPast, BillionGraves, Find a Grave, JewishGen, Newspapers.com, American Ancestors, Fold3, and several others.

It extracts information from pages you are looking at as well as points you to other potential records, if you use one or more of the supported repositories (list: https://www.ora-extension.com/en/repositories.htm).

You can read more about it on the ORA website:

https://www.ora-extension.com/en/contents.htm?v=1.85

This update is a small update for Ancestry.com users who encounter a new variant of Ancestry record URLs.

Changes in ORA 1.85 – 16 September 2024
Ancestry: Changed the service to recognize a new variant of Ancestry record URLs where the record number and collection ID are separated by an encoded colon, “%A3” (example)
Transforms: Added the ageageDaysageMonths, and ageYears transforms