WikiTree Sourcer 2.8.0

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WikiTree Sourcer 2.8. was released a few days ago and it’s a major update to the browser extension for Safari, Firefox, and Chrome. It helps you find, extract data, and cite sources from other websites while you are browsing a WikiTree profile page.

There’s a few small updates for Firefox, and for all users, alerting you if you are not logged in to WikiTree or if there are no permissions. FamilySearch data extraction was improved, some useful updates to Ancestry.com support, and mainly updates/fixes for working with the searches on various archive/records sites.

These are the supported genealogical sites:

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Space:WikiTree_Sourcer_supported_sites

It is free extension for Chrome and Firefox users (you can donate), but does cost a small fee ($4.99 USD) for Apple (macOS, iOS, iPadOS) users as Apple charges a yearly fee to publish through the App Store.

More information (official site): https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Space:WikiTree_Sourcer

Downloads:

WikiTree Sourcer 2.8.0 Changes (December 5, 2024)
WikiTree
— Alert the user of not logged in or if no permissions to use the API
Firefox:
— Fix keyboard shortcut that brings up Sourcer menu
FamilySearch
— Improve the extraction of the place name for a record when doing Build All Citations
Ancestry
— Add support for Ancestry institution and Ancestry classroom domains
— Improve classification of Canadian immigrant records
FreeBMD
— Add similar feature to the GRO smart search. Can search for births of children of the current person.
American Ancestors
— Improve search by adding extra parameters so that sort and refine work
Library and Archives Canada
— Improve parsing of some Metis scrip records
Archion
— Fix for crash when URL was not in the form expected
National Archives of Ireland.
— Change manifest to work with URLs starting with https://census.nationalarchives.ie/ rather than https://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/