ORA the Online Repository Assistant, was updated a few days ago to ORA 1.86. This update mainly covers BillionGraves and Ancestry.com, including dealing with HTML changes (remember that link rot article I posted, about web pages degrading or changing over time?). BillionGraves users will want to install this update, as it handles more record types (see the changelog below).
ORA is meant to make genealogy research much easier when using online genealogy data repositories, including Ancestry.com, FamilySearch, FindMyPast, BillionGraves, Find a Grave, JewishGen, Newspapers.com, American Ancestors, Fold3, and several others.
It works within your browser to extract information from pages you are looking at as well as pointing you to other potential records, if you use one or more of the supported repositories.
List of repositories: https://www.ora-extension.com/en/repositories.htm).
More information:
https://www.ora-extension.com/en/contents.htm?v=1.86
| Changes in ORA 1.86 – October 14, 2024 |
| Ancestry: Updated the service in response to an AncestryTree change to the Gender property HTML (example) |
| Templates: Updated the “ca_census_year_to_date” table adding dates for 1931, 1941, and 1951 |
| BillionGraves: Updated the service in response to HTML changes (example) |
| BillionGraves: Updated the service to handle more record types, including: — burial records, which are different from the original grave records — headstone records, which are also different from the original grave records — historic records |