WikiTree Sourcer3.4.6 - App Store

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 * New sites
** Add support for the Swedish Riksarkivet site
* General
** Changed the Sourcer item on the context menu to "Sourcer: Open Link or Selected Text"
* FamilySearch
** Add new icon variation to mean "this image source is referenced but not by this person’s profile"
** Change the "IP blocked" icon to a red circle with a diagonal line.
** Fix an issuee with the collection title used in table captions for the Canada Census of the Prairie Provinces
* Ancestry
** Improve classification and role assignment for church records
** Improve classification of Utah Death Register records
* Newspapers.com
** Update for latest page format - avoids truncated title.
* FindAGrave
** A newly created memorial was not showing the memorial ID on the page - updated code to get it from the URL in this case.
* Matricula
** Small improvements
* Dfg-Viewer
** Bug fixes
* Archives d'Alsace Site de Strasbourg
** Fixed a bug when meta name=description tag doesn't exist in census record page html 3.4.6 6d ago * New sites
** Add support for the Memorial Book of the Bundesarchiv
* Norway DigitalArkivet
** In search, pad day and month to 2 characters
* Ancestry
** Update for a small change to Ancestry record pages that prevented the Source Citation from the page being extracted
** Add classification for "Voters Lists"
* GEDBAS
** Fix potential crash in GEDBAS extraction
* Arolsen Archives, Matricula, Archion, DDG-Viewer
** Add ability to select record type 3.4.5 Sep 15 * New site support
** https://www.findbuch.net/
* Ancestry
** Fix exception in generalize of an obituary record where the record person is the spouse of the deceased person
* FindAGrave
** Change URL match to support domains like /de.findagrave.com/
* Archion
** Update for site changes
* South Africa
** Update eggsagrvs to cater for URL changes at eGGSA
* ECPP
** Add context support to open old links 3.4.4 Sep 1 * General
** Add checks to avoid exception when place name is blank or country only
* Ancestry
** Fix exception on some Ancestry record pages due to the recent Ancestry page layout change
* FreeBMD
** Fix some bugs in searching the freebmd2 site
* GRO
** Smart search: Fix display issue where it said it was searching for a weird age at death for years where age at death is not supported. 3.4.3 Aug 20 * Ancestry
** Update for a change to Ancestry record pages that broke all citations
** Add support for "Spouse of Partner" as a field name
* FamilySearch
** Build All Citations: always exclude sources that are links to WikiTree 3.4.2 Aug 9 * WikiTree usage icons
** Change icon to use filmstrip if linked sources are only images
* Country Data
** Add more countries to database, add US and Canada colonies
* Options page
** Fix display in dark mode
** Fix drag and drop to reorder search sites in options
* Genealogy South Australia
** Handle registrations with no registration number
** Handle parents with separate given names and surname
* Scotlands People
** Fix context menu
* Ancestry
** Improve extract of image data for build all citations
** Add support for filling Add comment on a record in new Ancestry page
* FindMyPast
** fix build citation for a shared newspaper clipping
* Queensland BDM
** Fix handling of pages with more than one key/value pair per line
* Internal
** Change how the extension icon and popup are set from the background script 3.4.1 Jul 23 * New sites added
** Western Australia BDM
* Build All Citations
** Improve sorting of events to try to avoid death coming after burial
* Citations
** For census data strings, when there is a birth date rather than just an age, include the birth date in the data string.
* Provincial Archives of New Brunswick
** Update for site changes and handle more archives 3.4.0 Jul 11 * WikiTree icons on FamilySearch and Find A Grave
** Add a little more help in the message about being blocked from WT+
* Genealogy SA
** Fix for website format change
* Queensland BDM
** Context menu: fix for opening 3 tabs instead of 1
* FamilySearch
** Fix an obscure exception when removing processing icons
* Ancestry
** Fix generation of sharing links in Build All Citations and Save Person Data with latest Ancestry page design. This also fixes the case when building a citation from a record preview on a person page.
** Fix debug feature for saving unit test data 3.3.2 Jul 1 * New sites
** Queensland BDM (Australia)
* WikiTree Icons on FamilySearch and Find A Grave
** Fix issue with blocked icon not showing up on FamilySearch pages
** Prevent empty requests being sent to the WT+ API
** FamilySearch: improve some edge cases where there were multiple different types of connection
** Add a referrer URL to WT+ API calls for logging
* Find-A-Grave
** Fix the context menu to be able to open a template in edit mode
* Archives Départementales du Finistère (France)
** Minor fix to citation labels 3.3.0 Jun 29 * New sites
** Caduti Della Grande Guerra (Italian Fallen of the Great War)
** Genealogy SA (South Australia)
** Archives Départementales du Finistère (France)
* General
** Change page mods to be enabled by default and force existing setting to true
** Move the option for the Edit Citation button on Ancestry image pages to be under UI & Page Mods and change it to obey the master control
** Improve Build All Citations and Save Person Data to do more error reporting and to try to avoid Error 429 (Too Many Requests)
* Ancestry
** Improve classification of Korean War Draft Cards
** Add alternate database IDs for US Federal censuses
* FamilySearch
** Fix "undefined undefined" in tooltip on a source row for an external source
** Improve the extract of the filmTitle from some images
* National Archives of Ireland
** Add support for 1926 census
** Fix some issues with identifying the wife of the head of household
* OpenArchives
** Handle divorce records 3.2.1 Jun 19 * 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