WikiTree Sourcer 3.1.5 - App Store

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About WikiTree Sourcer

The WikiTree Sourcer extension saves time and typing by assisting WikiTree users with three tasks: 1. From a WikiTree profile page it provides the ability to search other genealogy websites for relevant records. 2. From...

The WikiTree Sourcer extension saves time and typing by assisting WikiTree users with three tasks: 1. From a WikiTree profile page it provides the ability to search other genealogy websites for relevant records. 2. From one of these genealogy websites' records page it can extract data and build a citation. 3. Also from one of these genealogy websites records page it can search other genealogy websites for similar records. For example on an Ancestry page it can help find free versions of the same original source.

Version History * Ancestry ** Fix for extract of image link on new format record page * FamilySearch ** Fix an exception when a person has a Find A Grave source with no URL. * Open Archives ** Handle record page URLs with extra query part on the end 3.1.5 May 18 * Ancestry ** Update for a change to the Ancestry person facts page that prevented Sourcer getting the birth and death details * FamilySearch ** Improvement to WikiTree Icons: if a FamilySearch source references a Find A Grave memorial and that memorial is used on a WikiTree profile there will be an Icon indication. ** Add some error reporting if a fetch fails during Build All Citations ** Improve handling of some records where the person is not the primary person for the event * National Archives of Ireland ** On new site fix the selected member in the household not being highlighted * NZBDM ** Improve parsing age strings ** Improve checks on search dates * FreeBMD ** Handle source name in later marriage records on freebmd2 3.1.4 May 12 All minor bug fixes (but one is urgent): * FamilySearch ** Fix Sourcer menu not working on a person page due to a FamilySearch change * Ancestry ** Add some error checking when building sharing links in Build All Citations * FindAGrave ** Another small improvement in WikiID extraction from flower text 3.1.3 May 6 * iOS ** Fixes for iOS 16 and 17 to make registerContentScripts work * FindAGrave ** Add options for icons on cemeteries in lists of cemeteries ** Improve matching of flower text referencing a WikiTree profile * FamilySearch ** Improve matches for register content scripts and permissions * National Archives of Ireland ** Encode the PDF URL to avoid spaces in it 3.1.2 May 5 * FamilySearch ** Fix the Sourcer menu not working on person pages (due to a FamilySearch change) * Find A Grave ** Make the test for flower backlinks more flexible 3.1.1 Apr 29 * New feature ** Icons on FamilySearch and FindAGrave * iOS ** Add more error checking to debug the issue that some iPad users are having ** Improve the popup width on iPad * Search ** Allow search for WikiTree profiles using an image (did not used to show search menu items on images) ** Always show the "Show All Search Sites..." menu item * Narrative ** Recognize dates in the form 11 1793 and standardize them ** For a name like "Mrs Jacob Smith" do not shorten the name to "Jacob" in the narrative. * Google books ** Fix an issue with the permissions changes and the iframe script * Newspapers.com ** Attempt to improve citations for clippings/articles when the user is not logged into Newspapers.com * BillionGraves ** Update for site changes * Ancestry ** Handle records that use "Date of Birth" instead of "Birth Date" * FamilySearch ** Changed manifest match string so that https://familysearch.org and https://beta.familysearch.org work. * National Archive of Ireland ** Handle the image link on new 1926 census 3.1.0 Apr 27 * General ** The way the extension permissions work has been updated to use optional_host_permissions * FamilySearch ** When searching for WikiTree profiles that use a record it now uses the FamilySearch IDs feature in WikiTree Plus searches ** Fixed an issue with missing names in household table for 1950 census * Newspapers.com ** Fixed an extract issue for the page number * Ancestry ** Add support for accessing Ancestry and FindMyPast via Wikipedia Library 3.0.0 Mar 31 * Newspapers.com ** Fix extract for latest update of the article page layout 2.15.1 Mar 24 * New sites ** Added Szukaj w Archiwach (thanks to Lukas) * Ancestry ** Update for changes to the Ancestry Add Source dialog ** Minor improvements to Build Image Index Table for 1841 census * FamilySearch ** Add new separate option for Build All Citations to exclude sources that link to FS images *** Previously these were excluded by the option that excluded non-FS records ** If an image URL contains searchParameters like "groupId" or "fullText" then keep the URL in the citation and do not use a template * FreeBMD ** On the new freebmd2 search page it was putting the MMN in the surname at birth field * Archion ** Fix exception, also fixes a permissions error * Open Archives ** Fix cases where "Jaar" was included in age (case sensitivity issue) * OPC Cornwall ** Add ability to select bride or groom to build citation for * Internal ** Switch the saved options to use a compressed format to avoid exceeding quota 2.15.0 Mar 17 * FamilySearch ** In Build All Citations the citations could be out of order if the event date in the record could not be parsed (for example because month names were in Italian) * Nova Scotia Vital Records ** Add checks so it doesn't crash on a page like: https://archives.novascotia.ca/vital-statistics/ItemView/?ImageFile=88-431&Event=death&ID=168930 * Ancestry ** Fix extract of escape codes in name data (fixed O'Brien profile) ** Give the user a selector to select user corrections to fields ** Small improvements to Build Image Index Table * WikiTree ** Give the user a selector to select biological parents 2.14.1 Feb 25 * New sites ** Auschwitz Memorial ** Morbihan (France) Archives ** PANB Provincial Archives of New Brunswick, Canada * General ** Fix date formatting in data string for birth registrations * FreeBMD ** More improvements/fixes for the new freebmd2 site * DFG Viewer ** Remove the search menu item * Ancestry ** Improve classification of Ireland Civil Marriage Registrations * WikiTree ** Expose the "Save Person Data" and "Build Lists" menu items when in edit mode on a profile 2.14.0 Jan 29 * Build Lists ** Add some options for how to format the list * Ancestry ** Update for a new record page format that is being rolled out 2.13.2 Jan 13 * WikiTree ** Add code to get the spouse marriage date and place using the API if possible rather than relying on the page HTML (which can be modified by other extensions) * Google Books ** Add extra check to avoid an exception * GRO ** Tweaks to Smart Search 2.13.1 Jan 9 * New sites ** Add support for the "United States Holocaust Memorial Museum" website ** Add support for the Yad Vashem website ** Add support for the "Dokumentationsarchiv des österreichischen Widerstandes" ** Add support for Early California Population Project * Citations ** For sites that generate a sentence form data string do not use it if it has no useful info (e.g. "Unknown baptism") * FamilySearch ** Improve links in citations of books ** Update tests to use runDate so test cases do not have to be updated every year * New Zealand BDM ** Update search to base latest search date on current date (50 or 75 years before) * Ancestry ** Fix an issue where changing birth/death details did not affect Sourcer Save Person without a page reload. * Norway Digitalarkivet ** Fix duplication of fileTitle when the browser window is narrow ** Fix classification of some death records * OpenArch ** Fix classification for records with sourceType of "other:" * BillionGraves ** Fix rare error "dataTable is not defined" 2.13.0 Jan 7 * Newspapers.com ** Update for change to the layout of the clipped article page * WikiTree ** When setting fields in Add Person, handle the case where there is no last name 2.12.2 12/13/2025 * FamilySearch ** Bug fix for an issue introduced in the previous release that prevented the Sourcer menu working on FS 2.12.1 12/02/2025 * New sites ** Add support for Missouri Death Certificates, 1910 - 1974 * General ** Add options to use gender prediction if the gender is not know. This is optionally used for narrative, some searches, and adding WikiTree profiles. * Citations ** Add options for the date format used in accessed date and the standard data string ** Add date format option of UNIX format. E.g. 2024-07-21. ** Change to always add a period at the end of a citation - even it it ends in (accessed …) * WikiTree ** Fix the extraction of the status of the dates on the profile (about/before etc) * FindAGrave ** Add code to fill flower for Link Builders * Ancestry ** Add code to add a comment to a record for link builders ** Add code to fill fields when adding a web link to a profile ** Fix issue where creating a sharing template or URL from an image page could end up pointing to wrong page because of the pid in the URL ** Add some more classification tests ** Improve handling of Swedish Household Clerical Survey - now includes ages ** Add feature to create a table from the index on an image page * FamilySearch ** Improve citations for images found through free text search and for book citations ** Add feature to fill the Create Source dialog fro saved person data of saved citation ** Add book number to citations when available (e.g. 1841 census) ** Add record type for Land Assessment * eGGSA Graves ** Handle some more variations * Arolsen Archives ** Fix permissions on Firefox ** Change record selection, was not reliable inserting highlighting coding, changed to list of persons to select from ** Add code to build a comment to add to page for link builders * Archives d'Alsace ** Updated basrhin site code due to the Bas-Rhin web site redesign 2.12.0 12/02/2025 * General ** Set the appId correctly for WikiTree API calls ** Fix bug where the “Priority order for sites in menus” list could have the same sites multiple times * Citations ** Add option to put source title in italics * Ancestry ** Improve the extract of suffix from profiles * New South Wales BDM ** Add district code 217 (Bulli) to lookup table * UK GRO ** Remove the option that hides smart search by default * New Zealand Ancestor Search Helper ** Add citation support for the Intentions to Marry project * NSW BDM ** Fix exception in search when gender prediction fails * Matricula ** improve page number extraction for a few german archives ** improve page number extraction for most austrian archives * New sites added ** Bas-rhin ** Eggsa graves ** Eggsa BDM ** Arolsen archives ** Dfg-viewer (archive.nrw plus arcinsys niedersachsen and hessen) 2.11.0 10/30/2025 * General ** Fix issue where keyboard shortcuts were still active when menu changed * FamilySearch ** Fix issue where a slash on the end of the URL caused the menu to hang for 10 seconds and get an error message ** Fix URI for a user submitted image in a user created source on a profile * Ancestry ** Improve classification of Ohio Divorce Abstracts * FindMyPast ** Add additional source reference field names “Book number” and “Folio Number” for 1841 census * MyHeritage ** Fix handling of the 1939 register * National Archive of Ireland Census records ** Update for change in page format * WikiTree ** Improve extract/generalize of marriage date and place 2.10.8 09/23/2025 * Narrative ** Change how marital status is handled in census narrative, by default “was the single son” will change to “was the unmarried son”. There is a new option. ** Better handling of an age like “20 years and 6 months” (from 1921 UK census). * Build All Citations ** Add more info to the results popup to say why sources were excluded. * FamilySearch ** Change extract to recognize marriage banns from the source record type ** Include TreeRef when searching FamilySearch from a FamilySearch profile (implemented by Gary Bartlett) ** Fix a case of a Canada 1926 census record being treated as a death record * Ancestry ** Add extra retries and warning messages if some sources cannot be fetched * IrishGenealogy ** Fix spaces in image URL * Libraries Tasmania ** Fix extra dash in image permalink * GRO ** Improve smart search table export to make it easier to understand and easy to select all 2.10.7 09/08/2025 * FamilySearch ** Add check to prevent menu hang when a profile has a spouse but no children 2.10.6 08/19/2025 * General ** Make the active Sourcer icon brighter in dark mode * Citation ** In the sentence form data string for a census, add a comma after marital status if no relationship * Narrative ** Fix “recorded as” appearing twice in census narrative when there is a marital status but no relationship ** Fix rare exception when building narrative for marriage record * Add/Merge ** Improve the change explanation to include the full external site and and the repo ID if known * Ancestry ** Fix issue Arkansas marriage record not being recognized ** When extracting places names from a person profile handle escape codes for unicode characters ** Correctly classify Illinois compiled marries and get the event date ** Add code to retry if getting the sharing data fails * Cornwall OPC ** Fix handling of emigrant death record * FindMyPast ** Update for a changed format of the FMP profile pages 2.10.5 08/17/2025 * WikiTree ** Improve census tables: handle different numbers of rows in table between this person and a relative * FindMyPast ** Update Sourcer to handle a slight change on the FMP census pages - the expand button was not being found * Ancestry ** Fix issue where birth and death data was not being extracted from a profile page due to an Ancestry change 2.10.4 07/31/2025 * WikiTree ** Make Improve Census Tables slightly better at matching census tables ** Build Build Lists sort the child and sibling lists by birth date ** Add checks for non-person WikiTree pages * FamilySearch ** Fix crash when extracting children and siblings on a person page if there are alternate parents 2.10.3 07/25/2025 * General ** Improve handling of census table households transcribed out of order ** Add new feature to build lists of children or siblings from a profile page (Ancestry, FamilySearch or WikiTree) * WikiTree ** Beta feature: Improve Census tables by copying changes from related profiles ** Update extract of parents for when WBE Change Family Lists is used * Ancestry ** classification of UK Naval Officers' Service Records * FamilySearch ** Fix rare crash in extract data for some records ** Fix crash in extract when there is no nameForms array for a name ** Fix case where census was classified as death ** Do not an event year range to the end of the event date ** Fix issue where some images with a person in the sidebar where not treated as record pages * Cornwall OPC ** classify institution inmates and get date and place for it 2.10.2 07/24/2025

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Previous Versions

Here you can find the changelog of WikiTree Sourcer since it was posted on our website on 2023-07-03 09:19:59. The latest version is 3.1.5 and it was updated on 2026-06-23 13:03:32. See below the changes in each version.

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