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What is WikiTree Sourcer?
I don't have time for an introduction to all the features in this talk. A good starting place is this YouTube Intro Video. There is also written documentation on the Sourcer free space page.
Sourcer was first released in August 2021 after my earlier WikiTree AGC extension that I released in July 2020.
What's New?
Looking back over the last six months, these are the major new features.
New Sites Supported
You can see the full list of 28 supported sites here. 13 were added in the last 6 months.
- October
- Library and Archives Canada
- Google Books
- New Google Books only - not Classic Google Books
- Example book
- HathiTrust
- Internet Archive (archive.org)
- JSTOR
- Wikipedia
- August
- Cornwall Online Parish Clerk
- wiewaswie (Netherlands)
- openarch (Netherlands)
- July
- Probate Search/Find A Will (UK)
- May
- IrishGenealogy - Irish civil and church records
- National Archives of Ireland census records
- National Library of Ireland - Catholic Parish Registers
Other new features/improvements
- Menu title and busy indicator - also clear clipboard
- Add options import/export/reset and make options save automatically
- Build All Citations (FamilySearch) (July)
Tips and Tricks
- Managing the Search menu items (priority, max menu items)
- Search specific collection and same collection
- Auto generation of Household Tables and the WikiTable Wizard in WBE
- Merge/Edit
Q & A
- Please type questions in the comments when I get to this stage.
What am I working on now?
- Manifest Version 3 for Firefox and Safari
- A way to create citations for unsupported sites
- Improve search of WikiTree
Notes
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