WikiTree BEE Update

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WikiTree BEE Update details

v.32.14.14

• Improved handling of forbidden characters in category names
• Improved: Also display links to categories/free space pages on Wikipedia
• Added WikiTree button to memorials and cemeteries at Find a Grave
• Added New Zealand BDM indexes citation maker
• Added ACT (AUS) death and marriage indexes citation maker
• Added Queensland Indexes citation maker
• Added Western Australia Indexes citation maker
• Added Sorting parameter if non-Latin characters are in category name
• Fixed Quebec cemeteries: Add RCM/TE to parent1
• Removed special table features from Surname and Watchlist pages (Surname moved to WBE)

v.32.14.13

• Added Wikipedia feature that will show link to WikiTree profile and tools to copy template or link code for WikitTree within Wikipedia's "Tools" section.
• Added BuildLocationTemplate usage for OpenStreetMap (OSM) in order to have it compatible with "Edit Templates" feature of WBE.
• Improved Wikipedia Polish Categories to derive powiat names directly from powiat pages (getting rid of terms like "Podlaska").
• Fixed missing recognition of some French Wikipedia locations
• Removed special table features from Surname and Watchlist pages (Surname moved to WBE)

v.32.14.12

• Replaced recognition of French historical category by information-only popup.
• Fixed submission of add relative form with empty fields

v.32.14.10

• Added custom template parameters to settings, so users can individually have often used parameters inserted in cemetery and location categories.
• Added display of wiki template code instead of suggesting a category name for countries that have not been configured for creation of cemetery categories, yet.
• Added review category for Polish cemeteries
• Improved cemetery names in Australia and England by replacing "St." and "Saint" by "St"
• Added search for Australia Cemetery Index when creating Australian cemetery categories

v.32.14.9

• Added link to country-specific help pages when creating categories
• Added support for French locations via Wikipedia
• Added support for French cemeteries via Find a Grave
• Added support for Australian cemeteries via Find a Grave
• Added support for Canadian cemeteries via Find a Grave
• Added citation support for DFG-Viewer civil records from Bremen and North Rhine Westphalia
• Added support for US cemeteries in District of Columbia
• Added automatic recognition of Commonwealth War Graves Commission cemeteries
• Fixed citations after Archion's website update
• Improved address formatting for German cemeteries
• Improved handling of US places in multiple counties
• Improved handling of Italian cemeteries in Aosta Valley
• Improved state recognition for German locations in Wikipedia

v.32.14.8
New Features

• OpenStreetMap Integration: Added OpenStreetMap links to Find a Grave cemetery pages. Now, you can easily navigate to the location of a cemetery.
• Fold3 Citation Maker: Introduced a new citation feature, currently in the beta stage, that assists in creating citations from Fold3 and Find a Grave records. This feature is accessible via a 'Get Citations' button on a memorial's 'Sources' page.
• Norwegian Archives Citation Maker: The citation maker for Norway's National Archives' Digital Archive (digitalarkivet.no) is now ready for testing.
• German sources DFW-Viewer and zeitpunkt.nrw added to citations
• German Cemeteries: Expanded the Cemetery category maker to include German cemeteries.

Improvements

• Project Parameters for Cemeteries: Enhanced the categorisation of cemeteries by adding project parameters for cemeteries located in Germany, Poland, England, Scotland, and the US.
• US Town Category Validation: Improved the Chrome extension to verify the existence of US town categories on live data.
• Category Existence Warning: The extension will now always show a warning if you're about to create a category that already exists.
• Polish Voiwodeship "Świętokrzyskie": The name automatically translates to "Holy Cross" in category creation.
• Polish Location Categories: Improved the creation of Polish location categories, which are now solely generated from English language Wikipedia.
• Scottish and Polish Cemetery Categories: Enhanced parent-category assignment for these cemetery categories.
• Field Order Respect: Location and cemetery categories now adhere to the order of fields defined in templatesExp.json. Empty parameters will only appear for fields marked as "preferred".
• English Cemeteries: Improved the handling and categorisation of cemeteries in England.
• In-place Category Renaming: Added the ability to rename suggested categories immediately without the need to save them first.

v.32.14.7

• Improved handling of some Italian provinces and regions when creating categories
• Fixed special characters in cemetery names

v.32.14.6

• Added duplicate check when creating cemetery categories from Find a Grave
• Fixing check for town-existence (Chrome only)

v.32.14.5

• Added creation of Italian location categories from Italian language Wikipedia
• Added VaDeMecum by State Regional Archives Litomerice to sourcing feature
• Added basic location category support for node elements with coordinates (example) from Open Street Map
• Fixed category parameter for cemeteries without coordinates on Find A Grave

v.32.14.4

• Added creation of United States location categories from English language Wikipedia
• Added support for still Hungarian villages when creating Banat Location Categories from Wikipedia
• Added option US Black Heritage for cemetery category creating via Find A Grave

v.32.14.3

• Added additional "language" option kuk for creating Banat Location Categories from Wikipedia for the historical Kingdom of Hungary
• Added option Town/Country and Billion Graves search for cemetery category creating via Find A Grave
• Fixed "empty edit field" error for category creation in Chrome
• Fixed minor problem at Victoria citations

v.32.14.2

• Added category creation from cemetery pages in FindAGrave (only broadly tested within the US, if you need customization for "your" country, reach out to Flo)
• Added category creation from Wikipedia articles (Banat Location Categories and Germany Categories full, others only with Wikidata ID and coordinates; for customization of other countries, reach out to Flo)
• Fixed conflict with CC7 views table
• Fixed Porta Fontium source links lacking zoom information
• Added Victoria and Tasmania BDM to sourcing
• Added support for Greg Clarke's Canadian Census Citation Creator

v.32.12.2

• Removed Copy Wiki Link & Shareable Sources (moved to WBE)

v.32.12

• Added Badische Landesbibliothek to the sourcing feature
• Added Volksbund Kriegsgräberfürsorge to the sourcing feature
• Added Porta Fontium to the sourcing feature
• Added Archives of Vojvodina – Presentation of Church Registers to the sourcing feature
• Removed Get All Citations (Use Build All Citations in Sourcer)

v.32.11

• Removed 'Only Members' on Search Person page
• Removed 'Add Scratch Pad Button'

v.32.10

• Removed Connection Finder features

v.32.9

• Removed Unconnected Branch button

v.32.8

• Removed Auto Bio and Date Convertor (flipping European dates) as they are now in the WBE.

v.32.6

• Added Provincial Archives of New Brunswick to the sourcing feature (needs testing)

v.32.5

• Added an extra button above the scratchpad.

v.32.4

• FamilySearch: Get All Citations: On the Sources tab of a profile page on FamilySearch, I've added a 'Get All Citations' button. You should find it in the Sources heading. This expands all of the records listed, copies the citations, and puts them all in a textbox for you to copy.

v.32.3

• Unconnected branch tables on Politicos do Brasil
• Removed Scissors and My Connections features (moved to WBE)
• Fixed some bugs
• Improved WieWasWie citations

v.32.2.6 WieWasWie citations

v.32 Removed more features from the BEE as they've been added to the WikiTree Browser Extension. See here for more details.

Removed:

• Google Search Box
• What Links Here
• Change Family Lists
• Collapsible Sources
• Change Summary Options
• Dates and Locations on New Profile Page
• Format Source Reference Numbers
• G2G Options

v.31

Removed many features from the BEE as they've been added to the WikiTree Browser Extension. See here for more details.

Removed:

• Clipboard and Notes
• Draft List
• My Menu
• Random Profile
• Apps Menu
• AKA Name Links
• Collapsible Descendants Tree
• Distance and Relationship
• Family Group
• Family Timeline
• Category Finder Pins
• Gender Predictor
• Locations Helper
• Verify ID

The following will be removed soon:

• Google Search Box
• What Links Here
• Change Family Lists
• Collapsible Sources
• Change Summary Options
• Dates and Locations on New Profile Page

v.30.5

• New Collapsible Sources option. You can choose to have the inline citations hidden when the page first loads. Just click the toggle button in the Sources heading or one of the reference numbers to see the sources. You may use this with the source previews in the new WT extension.
• Busted some bugs

v.30.4.1

• Fixed the distance number (it was showing as one too many). If you see the wrong number, it may have been stored before. Just right click the number to refresh it.

v.30.4

• Added option to remove reference numbers from a bio
• Connected the relationship thing to the 'Ancestor/cousin text' option
• Moved the 'What Links Here' section to the right-hand column on the edit page
• Added an 'only active members' button/link to the search page
• Small changes to Auto Bio: Removed horizontal line; added option to omit the start and end comments

v.30.1.3

• I've edited and re-organised a lot of the code, trying to make the BEE faster and less prone to errors. If there are any unfortunate side effects in this update, I'm sorry. If anything seems to be broken, please let me know. Thanks.

A couple of changes:

• My Menu, Edit/change summary options, and Extra Watchlist will no longer be synched. If you want to move these to another browser, please use the BEE back-up button. These can still be transferred to other browsers/computers via the back-up setting file, but they won't synch.
• Removed the 'Back-up BEE' button from every page but the Nav Home page.

Note:

• Many of the BEE's features are being added to the new WikiTree extension. If you see any conflict between the two, please let me know. In the future, I may remove these features from the BEE.

v.29.2

• Added a What Links Here section as an option

v.29.1

• Added a right-click action to the What Links Here link (Find > What Links Here) to copy the links as wikilinks.

v.28.15.2

• Added a 'black text' option (See wish #6 here)
• Added a thing to confirm the name of the ID entered in the box to add a family member by WikiTree ID (See wish #2 here)
• Added two columns to the Watchlist table
• Added archion.de to citations thing

v.28.12

• Added the distance (in degrees) between you and the profile person (on the BEE Connection Finder button)

v.28.11.1

• Added data.matricula-online.eu and ofb.genealogy.net to the source citations
• Fixed various little bugs

v.28.8

• BEE Places*: Replicating the current location boxes (which get their data from FamilySearch) but allowing editing and other things. (The new search box combines the 'My Places' locations and the 'BEE Places' locations (from the wikitreebee.com server).) This is still a work in progress, but it's usable now. You can see what we're doing (and contribute) here. The bonus for the moment is more place names for Wales and Scotland than (I think) FamilySearch has. We're working on getting the right dates in. As examples, the county changes in England and Wales came in on 1974-04-01 (not '1974'), and New York State joined the United States, on 1778-07-26 (not '1776'). Features of the new 'system':
  • My Places allows place names to be stored with dates e.g. New York, New York, United States (1788-07-26 - ).
  • The suggestions do not show place names with dates that are too early or too late for the related date (birth, marriage, or death).
  • Likely good matches are highlighted (based on the locations of family members).
  • The keyboard up and down arrows will move you (surprisingly) up and down the list of matches. Click on a location or hit 'Enter' to select it. Double hit 'Enter' to get the selection into the location box.

• Added a pin to category suggestions. See here.
• Added a link to Greg's Antenati Citation Builder. Click the BEE icon on an Antenati record to open the app.
• Added the option to disable the BEE on Space: and Help: pages
• Added an option to remember your language choice (on profile edit pages)
• More access keys (Please check the link for an explanation).
  • g → G2G Recent Activity
  • r → Random Profile
  • n → Nav Home Page
  • h → Help Search
  • Note: These are in addition to:
    • s → Save
    • e → Edit
    • k → Category
    • p → Preview
• Trimming input on the Special:Following (Tags) page (See here.)
• "Leave site?" confirmation message on space edit pages (optional). This may help prevent some people from losing their edits on space pages.

* I may change the name.

v.28.1

• Added a Drafts button to the Find menu to see your uncommitted saved drafts. This won't work for you immediately. The BEE will build and maintain a list of your drafts, but each one will only be added to the list when the BEE sees the draft has been saved on the edit page.

Please try it out and let me know if you see any problems with this.

v.27.2.1

• Fixed a problem with the Cousin text.
• Changed something to keep the FamilySearch template working.
• Added Clipboard and Notes to G2G.

v.27.1.2

• Added the Clipboard and Notes to every page.

More information:

• The clipboard buttons are now at the top of every page except for the edit pages, where you'll find them with the text editor.
• You can re-order the notes and clippings by dragging them up and down, but if you click the text of a clipping, the window will close, so you can drag the items by grabbing the number.
• You can close the Clipboard/Notes window by clicking the button again, clicking the 'x' in the top right of the heading, or double clicking the heading.
• Please let me know if you have/see any problems with this.

v.27.1.1

• Made the Clipboard and Notes optional. (See the Options page).

v.27.1 New:

• Clipboard and Notes:
  • Clipboard: You may have some phrases or citations that you often use when editing or creating profiles. Save them to the BEE Clipboard. To use them, just click the Clipboard button on the editor's toolbar and click the clipping. When the enhanced editor is not on, this will paste the clipping into the biography box in the place you last had your cursor. With the enhanced editor on (and on G2G), it will be copied to your clipboard for you to paste into the page (Ctrl + v). (If anyone knows how to do this with the enhanced editor, please let me know!)
  • Notes: Maybe you store some notes in the Scratchpad on the Nav Home Page. Put them in the BEE Notes instead, so it's easier to refer to them when you're editing a profile.

Note: These things are saved in a database in your browser. They're not going anywhere. They won't be saved in the BEE Settings (to be synched to another device).

• My Places box. Here's a new option (see the Options page). Sometimes, the suggestions in the location dropdowns are not quite right. Now, you can save locations that you often use how you want them. Click the gears/settings button and save your locations in the textbox. Then select them at any time in the future. You can find the boxes under the birth, marriage and death location boxes after choosing this option in the settings. There is also a button to add the contents of a location field to your 'My Places' list.

Also:

• Added scissors (Copy ID/Link/URL) to Category pages.
• Sorted change summary options alphabetically.
• Improved Auto Bio a little.
• Added 'k' as an access key to activate the category box on the edit page.

v.26.16.3

• Citation makers for more European sites. Thanks, Florian, for the code. 🙂 (Adding these makes your browser ask you to accept the permissions, which is a pain.)
  • German: https://www.online-ofb.de/, https://grabsteine.genealogy.net/
  • Swedish: https://sok.riksarkivet.se/bildvisning/
• Added the option to not have a sticky toolbar on the edit page. Thanks, Peggy. 🙂
• Added surname lists to Connection Finder page. (See the 'Surname summaries' button.) Thanks, Tommy. 🙂
• Added some more names to the gender predictor. Thanks, Léa. 🙂
• Fixed a bug with the Find a Grave sourcing (due to Find a Grave changing its HTML). Thanks, Debi, for pointing it out. 🙂

v.26.13

• My Connections features
  • A table with a count of your connections on the page.
  • 'Missing Connections' buttons for each degree, looking for missing parents and possible missing spouses.
  • Table button: Sortable table of people in each degree
  • More than 1000 results. The My Connections page maxes out at 1000 results or a certain number of degrees, but the BEE will keep going. Once you max out, the BEE will find the rest of the people in that degree and enable the button to fetch the next degree.
  • CC7 wikitable text: When degree 7 completes, the BEE will give you some text to add your Connection Count at 7 degrees (CC7) to the table on Tommy Buch's CC7 page.

v.26.9

• Made the Ancestors/Cousins highlighting feature slightly more dynamic.

When new ancestors are added, the extension should recognise this and add them to the database.

If the extension has added (for example) your 23rd great-grandmother to the database, but not her parents, grandparents, etc.:

- as above, visiting the profile of one of her parents should add the next five generations to the database.

- visiting any of the ancestors in the next five generations of ancestors and clicking the 'Descendants' button on the profile, should add the same five generations of ancestors.

(I hope this is clear.)

v.26.8

• 'Surname search' links on other (aka) last names

v.26.7

• Numbers of siblings and children on the vanilla (horizontal) family lists on the profile page: The vertical family lists option gives numbered lists of siblings and children. For those who prefer the slightly-more-confusing horizontal lists, I've added a count at the end of each of these lists.
• 'Empty last name search box' option: Some people have told me that having the last name search box pre-filled can be irritating (you can click the profile person's surname to go to the surname search page). I've added an option to not pre-fill the last name search box.
• Timed black theme option. If you like the black theme, but only at night, you can set a time range in which to use black theme.
• 'Unconnected branch table' button on unconnected profiles. I've added a new BEE button on unconnected profiles (it looks a lot like the Connection Finder icon, but it's a button). Click this to load a table of all the people in the person's unconnected branch.

v.26.3.7

• Added a sortable 'Last Contribution' column on the My Cousins page to see your active cousins. This includes links to the Connection Finder and to the new Six Degrees app.

v.26.2.2

• Added age at marriage to profiles.

v.26.1.7

• Removed "Lived to age ~" as it's been added by the WikiTree tech team.

v.26

• Synching settings on Chrome. In Chrome, on different PCs (or in different versions of Chrome on the same PC), your BEE settings should be synched.
• Sortable Branch tables on Largest Unconnected Branches page
• Small changes to the surname page (added 'TL' marker, 'unconnected' marker; changed style of missing parent images)

v.25.13.1

• Added an extra Auto Bio option related to a spouses's parents
• Removed French language option (This will hopefully be available in the new WT Apps Project extension.)
• Removed big tooltips (too many problems)
• Added the new Newspapers.com template to citations from that site
• Added Trove citations
• Added scissors on Help pages
• Added extra pagination links to the top of questions on G2G

v.25.10.1

• Citations for UK sites: Free BMD, The National Archives, The History of Parliament, General Register Office
• Added the new FamilySearch link template to the FamilySearch citations

v.25.8

• Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) citations

v.25.7.4

• Ancestors button: On each profile, there's a new BEE button to show up to 10 generations with a maximum of 126 profiles*. It may take a while, because it's fetching all of each person's family members, too. You can see these by clicking the house icon next to each person's name. The table also shows when the person's father (blue), mother (pink), or both parents (purple) are unknown.

*126 profiles is enough for seven whole generations, but many people won't have all of these on the tree, so others from later generations will be included, up to the 10th generation.

• Began work on translating the interface to German (baby steps).

v.25.5.1

• Backup: In the bottom right of the footer, you should find a BEE icon. Click it to download a backup of your BEE settings, including the change explanations on the edit page, the Extra Watchlist, and 'My Menu'. To upload a backup, right-click the BEE icon and choose the file. Your settings will be loaded into the browser and the page will refresh. I think this is working well, but please let me know if you see any problems. Thanks.

v.25.4.1

• Newspapers.com citations: Go to a Newspapers.com clipping page and click the BEE icon for a citation

v.25.3.1

• Table button on Category pages + age sorting on Centenarians and Supercentenarians category page tables
• Collapsible descendants tree feature on the Wiki-ID > Descendants page
• Removed the 'fix' for the locations table (to use it with arrow buttons). It needs more work.
• Fixed various bugs related to Find a Grave, Auto Bio, and FamilySearch searching

v.25.2

• Location Helper changes: I've decided to do this slightly differently. Now, if there's a location suggestion with dates that don't match the relevant date on the form, it will be sent to the bottom of the list and highlighted in pink. Locations which match family members' locations will still be highlighted in green and taken to the top of the list.

In this example, 'Fayette, Pennsylvania, United States' matched a family member's location (green):

Location Helper: Matched a family member's location

Many 'Fayette' suggestions have been sent to the bottom of the list as the dates don't match this birthdate of 1820.

Location Helper: It's none of these Fayettes.

• Branch tables on the Unconnected page: On the 'Special:Unconnected' page (Find > Unconnected) you can see people on your watchlist who are not connected to the big tree. Some of these may be part of a large unconnected branch. To see all of the people in that branch, click the button to the left of the person's name and wait a little.

v.25

• Location helper (Highlighting and rearranging suggested locations): Suggested locations are highlighted in light green if they match the time frame of the person. If the year in the birth/death date field does not match the time frame in the suggested location, it is not highlighted. If a location matches both the birth/death date and the location of one of the family members, it is highlighted in a darker green and raised to the top of the suggestion list.

In the image below, I'm adding a son who was born in Liverpool in 1720. Any Liverpool suggestion with dates that don't include 1720 are not highlighted. As this person's father was born in "Liverpool, Lancashire, England", the BEE highlights this suggestion (within the right time period) and brings it to the top of the list.

Location Helper

And here is the same situation without the Location Helper:

Without the Location Helper

• Fixed the location dropdowns (somewhat). With a normal dropdown select box, you can go up and down the options with your arrow keys, but these location boxes only go down to the first option. I've added some code to fix that. It's not perfect, but it's much better than the current situation.

Please take a look at this, try it out, and let me know what you think. Because I haven't fully tested this, this is an option to opt in to (on the settings/options page).

v.24.7

• Heading for Profile(s) of the week on profile pages

v.24.5.1

• Family Timeline in Connection Finder Table: Connection Finder > More Details > Click the timeline icon next to a name.

v.24.4 New:

• More Details on Find Ancestor Matches page (for 1 profile), Search Results page, and Suggested Matches on the profile creation page. Sometimes, there are too many results and it's difficult to go through them. Click the 'More Details' button for a sortable table with a couple of filters.

I think this one may be very useful, especially on the profile creation page.

• Family Timeline: There's a new BEE button on profile pages to show a timeline of events in the life of the family. It's mostly births, marriages, and deaths, but it does include some information from stickers in profiles. This is a work in progress, but it might be interesting anyway.

• What Links Here button. On profile pages and space pages, you'll find a 'What Links Here' button/link on the Find menu.
• 'Search WikiTree' from Ancestry/FamilySearch/FindaGrave record (click the BEE icon and click 'Search WikiTree')

v.23.7.1 New (a few things, but nothing major):

• Text for heritage and lineage organizations such as DAR on the Connection Finder page (below the Connections 'More' Table). (This is only available for direct descendants/ancestors.)
• 'Add categories?' alert option (on the edit page): Do you want the page to bother you with a floating alert asking you to add categories? Then this is for you. You can enable this on the options page.
• Made the collapsible descendants tree into an option (so if you like this, you'll need to enable it in the options)
• Removed the re-arrangement of fields on the search page as it was causing a problem
• Added a thing to switch off the icon on unrelated sites

v.23.2

• Ref tags option added to the sourcing feature
• Citation makers for Landesarchiv Baden-Württemberg and Archives Départementales du Bas-Rhin
• My Favorites button on G2G menu. (It's a plus sign.)

v.23

• A Table option in the sourcing feature. Some (many?) people don't want tables, so I've added a 'Table' option for those people to uncheck.
• Improved the sourcing feature in the Firefox version. Now, it's closer to the Chrome version (but still not perfect).

v.22.2.2

• Text relationship explanation (e.g. "Great-grandaunt's husband's niece's husband's 3rd cousin once removed") in the Connection Finder 'More' table

• FamilySearch search links under 'Research' on Profile page.

• 'MFMF' on Anniversaries page: This shows the path from you to your ancestor (e.g. "Mother's father's mother's father"

• BEE option: Hide buttons: Someone told me that she didn't want to see the buttons. Now, you can remove the ones you don't want to see.

• Auto Bio options:

1. Not include children
2. Not include people's dates
3. Spouse locations and parents

• Access key: 's' for save

If anyone else has suggestions for changes or additions to the BEE, the best way to contact me is on Discord.

v.21.5

• My Menu: The top menus have many links, but you may only use a few of them regularly. Now, you can put those links together under one small menu. You'll find 'My Menu' near the other menus. Click the words ('My Menu') to start building your custom menu. You can also add any other link you want.

And:

• Sort Watchlist table by LNAB button
• Auto Bio option: Include siblings (or not)
• Access keys: 'e' for edit; 'p' for preview
• Descendant count on the Descendants view
• Options: 1) Automatically check 'No Middle Name' 2) Redirect to Private view or Edit page after saving

Thanks to Florian Straub for the code for the access keys, descendant count, and the two options.

v.20

• Collapsible descendant trees: This is from the WikiTree Turbo extension. I just lifted the code from there. (Thanks, Julian!)

v.19.2

• Highlighting cousins and ancestors on the Anniversaries page: This will show the ancestors and cousins recorded in your browser's database. This is not necessarily all of your ancestors and cousins on the list. A cousin is added to the database when you visit their profile, so if you haven't visited their profile, they won't be in the database and won't be highlighted on the Anniversaries page.
• Date convertor: I added a little thing to convert European dates (DD/MM/YYYY) to the ISO standard (YYYY-MM-DD) on profile creation/edit pages. There's a setting on the options page to use this.
• Apps submenu under Find > Apps

v.18.8 Extra Watchlist updates

• You can now export and import Extra Watchlists. This is good as it saves you losing your list if you happen to clear your cache. It also makes it a little easier to build an Extra Watchlist. You can simply write a list of WikiTree IDs, separated by commas and import it to the Extra Watchlist.
• The Extra Watchlist is now sortable by column: WikiTree ID, Name, or Most recent change date
• I've added a button on the Watchlist page to get a CSV file of your Watchlist. I'm told that this may be useful. You can find it among all the other white link 'buttons' under the heading.

I've also added a 'Wide table' button for the new-ish Connection Finder 'More' table.

Please let me know if you see any problems.

v.18.3.1 You can now...

• Sort names by location on a surname page (table view): This will allow you to sort the names on the page (so, not all the search results - just those on the page) by birth location. They can be sorted from 'big to small' - so Australian results will often be listed first, and within those results, New South Wales will come before South Australia, and so on - or 'small to big', with the results listed in order based on the smallest part (town, village, etc.) of the location. The results from one town are then sorted by birth date. If the birth date is unavailable, the death date is used instead (if available). The best results may come by clicking the link to see 5,000 results and then sorting them by location. There is also an option to make the table wide, so that the locations don't wrap. It may be easier to scan them this way.

Also new:

• AutoBio improvements. To the AutoBio, I've added an 'undo' button, a few settings (click the settings icon next to the AutoBio button), and one more thing:
  • Inline Citations: If you choose this option, the AutoBio will try to take citations from the Sources section and add them to the AutoBio text. This will probably work best if you actually use the BEE to add citations to your Sources section before using the AutoBio. It also requires the citations in the Sources section to be start with a '*'. This is how it should be done anyway, but it seems that some people don't do this. This feature still needs more testing, but the new 'undo' button is there in case anything strange happens. See what you think.
  • Date Format: There was a choice of two date formatting options before in the main extension settings. I've added two more with full month names.
  • Start with birth name: Instead of "Jane (Jones) Smith was born...", you can have "Jane Jones was born..."
  • Bullet lists for siblings and children (rather than numbered lists)
  • The AutoBio is now using the data from the edit page form fields - not just the database data - so if you change any of the information in the form and click the AutoBio button without saving first, your changes will be in the generated bio (unlike before).
• G2G additions
  • A '+' to show favorited questions
  • Scissors on G2G threads (Some people will find them useful.)
• The option to start a profile for an 'unrelated' person from Ancestry, etc. (with the sourcing/tables feature)

v.16 You can now...

• Change the field order on a profile creation page. You can choose between the standard order or an alternative order which may be more logical. The browser should remember your choice.

Change the field order

v.15.4.2 You can...

• 'Show parents and spouses' of people on the search results page: The new button will get the parents and spouses of each person - including their dates and locations, including the marriage details in the case of a spouse; then, you can see them by clicking the '+' to the left of the person or see all of them by clicking the button at the top.

Search Page - Show parents and spouses

• I've also rearranged the boxes on the search page a little to save space (some people said they were scrolling too much to get to the search options).

v.15.3.2

• Added death location to the 'Brick Walls +' button.

v.15.3 You can now...

• Sort the surname table by profile manager: This is the 'table view' on the surname page. ( example )
• See the G2G pages you've visted: Actually, you can already see this, but the black (visited) links are quite similar to the green links. I've added check marks to the left of questions you've visited on the main G2G pages.

And...

• Your Search page 'name variants' and 'date range' selections will be remembered/stored.

I've also fixed a few other little things. Please let me know if you see any problems. Thanks.

v.14.6

• Connection Finder Table

On the Connection Finder page, you'll find a 'More' button to the right of the main heading ('Connection Finder'). Click this for a little more information about all of the people listed in the Connection Finder results.

Connection Finder Table

The example shows part of the connection between George Harrison and Charles Darwin. Like the Connection Finder results, the colours change whenever a connection is by marriage, but rather than alternating between green and yellow, we have a different colour each time. The colours in the fourth column represent 50-year periods. The mostly-empty columns on the right are for marriage details when a connection is by marriage.

After the table is loaded, there should also be a download button to the right of the 'Connection Finder' heading in case you want to download the table as an Excel file.

• Family Lists

This is not a new feature, but it's changed a lot. The layout is a little different, and colours have been added to show which children belong to which parents (in the cases of half-siblings and multiple marriages). There are also optional new headings to replace the standard ones (see the image below). You can change these by clicking any of the headings. The browser should remember your choice.

Family lists

The underlines have been removed to make the list look a little cleaner.

• Moveable death details

The WikiTree style is to have the death details below the family lists. Some people would prefer to have the death details with the birth details. You can now click the word 'Died' to move the death details up to be just below the birth details. (If you've already used the BEE to move the family lists to the right, this won't make much difference to you.)

v.13

• 'Auto WikiTree Tables +' becomes 'WikiTree BEE' (Browser Extension Extras). I hope you like the name and logo.
• Coming soon... Compatibility with Firefox.

v.12.3

• See the whole biography of a profile person's family member

This is an addition to the new feature below. A new button lets you see the whole biography of the person whose sources you may want to copy. This window is draggable (grab the name at the top to move it).

Whole Biography

v.12.2

New feature

• Easily copy sources from other profiles:

When you create a new profile, you may want to easily copy in citations from the family member that you're attaching the new profile person to. So I've put the source citations of the first person on the new profile page of the second person for you to easily click to add to the Notes or Sources box. (I've also made the Notes and Sources boxes bigger. Why are they so small?)

Sources on Add [Person] page.

On an edit page, you can do the same thing. Use the dropdown box to choose a family member, and their source citations will appear on the right. (This box is now doing two jobs: copying a Wiki Link and fetching the sources).

Copy Wiki Link & Show Sources

Copy Wiki Link & Show Sources (List)

This feature works best without the enhanced editor on.

Sources.

With the enhanced editor on, there's one more step for an inline citation. Click the 'Copy Inline Citation' button and then paste it in the right place.

Sources with Enhanced Editor

Note:

• Right now, clicking the header (in the example, Emma's name) will hide the sources. At first, I set it to show the sources on click, but I thought this is useful and that that click could be irritating. On the other hand, some may find that the sources get in the way... So... What's better?
• This will work well (I hope) with inline citations and sources starting with '*' in the Sources section.

v.11.0.7

• Extra Watchlist: You can keep an eye on some profiles that are not on your Watchlist by adding them to the extension's Extra Watchlist.

To add a profile to your Extra Watchlist, click this button:

Extra Watchlist Button

You can see your Extra Watchlist in two ways, First, by right-clicking on the '+' button (above) on any profile page. It may look like this (below). Profiles with changes in the previous two weeks are listed in order of edit date, with the most recent first. The other names are listed in WikiTree ID order (so, almost alphabetically).

Extra Watchlist Window

Notes:

• To close this window, click the 'X' or double-click the window.
• The window is draggable.
• The 'x' next to a name will remove that person from your Extra Watchlist.
• The date is when the profile was last changed in some way.

You can also see the changed profiles on your Extra Watchlist on your Nav Home Page.

• Bigger, faster, greener tooltips (hover text):

Tooltips

Tooltip on G2G

v.10.5.3 A small fix:

• Enabled the change summary save button with the new buttons: See below ('Make your own choices for the change summary box').

v.10.5.2:

• Added a change summary preview window: The textbox may be a little too narrow for the change summary, so I've added a preview window above it.
• Make your own choices for the change summary box: I've added a little settings button to the top-right of the Save Buttons box. Click this to easily add or remove your own buttons. e.g. Type 'Research Notes' in the box and click 'Add' - this will be saved as one of the choices. You can remove the choice by clicking on it in the pop-up window.

v.10.3.6

• Copy Wiki Link feature: I've added a dropdown box with the profile person's family members to the toolbar on the editor. Click the scissors on the editor's toolbar to reveal the dropdown box. Choose a name to copy their Wiki Link. You can paste it into the biography in the normal way (Ctrl + v / Right-click + Paste / however you do that on a Mac).

Choose a name to copy their Wiki Link.

v. 10.3.x:

• Moving 'Save' buttons: On the profile Edit page, I'm moving the save buttons and explanation box to the middle of the page (in the right-hand column) to save you having to scroll down to the bottom all the time. It appears to be two sets of the buttons and textbox, but it's the same ones, moving up and down the page as you scroll.
• Big 'comment' and 'reply' buttons on G2G: Some people asked for this recently, so here it is.
• Change summary checkboxes: Below the change summary textbox (on the Edit page), I've changed the radio buttons to check boxes. If you check a box it will add the text to the textbox (just as it does now with the radio buttons), but then if you uncheck the box, it will remove the added text. It's better.
• Black theme: When your eyes are tired, switch to white text on a black background. You can choose this by clicking the dress icon a few times. Take a look and see what you think.

These features (moving save buttons and big comment buttons) can both be disabled on the Options page, which you can find in two ways:

1. Click the icon. You should see a picture of a table and in the bottom right, there's a gears icon.
2. Right-click the icon and choose 'Options'.

Hopefully, no-one will go to G2G asking about changes on the site that actually come through this extension.