ORA the Online Repository Assistant (a subscription browser add-on/extension), was updated on the 7th to ORA 1.87. This update mainly covers a change for Ancestry.com, as well as some tweaks for users of Online Familieberichten (online-familieberichten.nl) and Statue of Liberty — Ellis Island (heritage.statueofliberty.org).
ORA makes genealogy research easier when using online genealogy data repositories, including some of the most popular, as well as many you might not have heard of – here’s a list of supported repositories: https://www.ora-extension.com/en/repositories.htm).
When you are using one of those repositories, it will help to extract information from pages you are looking at and point you to other potential records in other repositories.
More information:
https://www.ora-extension.com/en/contents.htm?v=1.87
| Changes in ORA 1.87 – November 7, 2024 |
| Ancestry: Updated the service in response to a URL change where some URLs are in a new format (example) |
| Generic Service: Modified the table shape analysis methods to recognize more Field per Row tables (ex: example) |
| Generic Service: If there is only one table on the page, and the table is a Field per Row or Up and Down table, ORA omits the radio button that selects the table: the radio button is not necessary wheren there is only one table (ex: example) |
| Generic Service: If a Multiple Data Rows table does not have column headers, but the cells in the first data row include aria-describedby” attributes, ORA will use the aria-describedby attributes to determine the column headings (ex: example) On the example page, the column headings in the list at the bottom of the page look like they are part of the table, but they are not. They are in a separate table. However, the data table include area-describedby attributes that point to cells in the table with the column headings. |
| Generic Service: Added or modified tweaks for: — Online Familieberichten (online-familieberichten.nl) —- New tweak (see example) — Statue of Liberty — Ellis Island (heritage.statueofliberty.org) —- New tweak (see example) |