WikiTree Sourcer Wish List

It's a paid site, but it is widely used by many members on WikiTree. It is superior to the free riksarkivet.se in so many ways. We are many members who would like to help and I'm sure one of us can lend you an account.

I would like to add Slektogdata.no to the wish list, specifically their grave site https://slektogdata.no/gravminner/finn-en-grav

This is essentially findagrave for Norway and is much more complete than findagrave at its best. The only thing to note is that without an account (which requires a Norwegian ID), you are limited to searching one Municipality at a time. It also uses updated Norwegian locations from 2020.

Here's an example page to demonstrate the data it gives: https://slektogdata.no/gravminner/grav/eb4844e7-9d01-449d-8be2-97f71683e7aa

Thanks Rob!

https://arcinsys.hessen.de/arcinsys/showItemsList.action?nodeId=g31726

Search looks similar to the other sites with a Ref number.

one profile with a couple of links to it - Cheyne-534 has marriage and death daughter has locked profile but has a birth in it.

Would it be possible to add https://rip.ie/ to the wishlist for Ireland? RIP.ie is a free obituary listing website that is pretty much universally used to announce recent deaths here in Ireland

Thanks, Scott

May I suggest a small update that you make to the 'Search GRO (UK)...' option of Wikitree Sourcer...

It would appear that the 'GRO Online Indexes' on the UK 'General Register Office' website now include records for the year 2022. The current 'Search GRO (UK)...' option seems to be coded to only run up until the year 2021. Could this be amended to now also include the year 2022?

Thank you in advance,

Andrew

(P.S. Wikitree Sourcer is a fantastic tool whick I use all the time. Thanks very much...)

Here's an example page of a baptism record for Knute Rockne: https://www.digitalarkivet.no/en/view/255/pd00000017246548

All record pages are organized in a way that sourcer should easily pick up each piece of information on the page. Most pages link to the record with the "See scanned version" button, which could be included as a direct viewing link.

Thanks Rob!

Enjoy Genealogy, Warren Kuntz

I would like to add DanishFamilySearch to the Wish List for the Search function. https://www.danishfamilysearch.com/

Thank you!

Would it be possible to capture their names as a numbered list in the same format as the bio builder?

Thanks in advance. Loralee

For example, the book for this page, https://archive.org/details/New_York_State_Marriage_Index_1906/page/n424/mode/1up, has an Identifier-ark of ark:/13960/t7hr15z2x. That can be resolved as https://n2t.net/ark:/13960/t7hr15z2x. My suggestion is to use this hyperlink to resolve the book title. For

<ref> Reclaim The Records, New York State Marriage Index - 1906, Reclaim The Records; 1906; page: (425 of 1159), Internet Archive </ref>

wrap the title as New York State Marriage Index - 1906 (i.e. <left bracket>https://n2t.net/ark:/13960/t7hr15z2x New York State Marriage Index - 1906<right bracket>)

Just a thought. Thanks again for all the fantastic work.

It would be fantastic if you could add support for Australian Cemeteries Index. See: https://austcemindex.com/ I often find photos on this site (headstones etc) which are not on FindAGrave. Also, Australian BDM Registration numbers are usually listed plus it shows people buried nearby. Thank you!

P.S. Again, thank you for such a fantastic genealogy tool

Many thanks for this fantastic app. It has made such a huge difference in working with Wikitree profiles. The link(s) that I would find really helpful in Sourcer are Andy Keogh's Rathlin Island site: [1] and / or "The McQuilkin/Wilkinson Genealogical Directory" [2]. There are two other similar sites: The McCurdy Directory and The Keogh Directory.

Nga mihi nui kia koe Clare

It would be fantastic if you could add support for the newspapers section of FindMyPast. I realise this may not be able to provide specific citations based on specific content or people I'm referencing, but even to be able to produce a citation for the publication, date, page title, page number, URL, etc would be incredibly helpful. Thank you!

P.S. Again, as always, thank you for one of the most invaluable genealogy tools I've come across! I'd be lost without WikiTree Sourcer!

My latest request: Support for Griffiths Evaluation Details records at askaboutireland.ie. e.g. Assemble a source for a records page such as this one: https://griffiths.askaboutireland.ie/gv4/gv_details_show.php?ID=221989&mysession=2883821259736

The problem may be that, unless one intentionally opens it as a new tab or window, this page is normally only displayed as a pop-up window from this page: https://www.askaboutireland.ie/griffith-valuation/index.xml?action=doNameSearch&PlaceID=221987&county=Cavan&barony=Clanmahon&parish=Drumlumman&townland=%3Cb%3EDrumhawnagh%3C/b%3E

I have a few (mostly Australian, but some English/Irish) source coverage requests, if they're possible soon or sometime in the future:

- Libraries Tasmania Names Index (https://librariestas.ent.sirsidynix.net.au/client/en_AU/names/search)

- Public Record Office Victoria Assisted Passenger Lists (https://prov.vic.gov.au/explore-collection/explore-topic/passenger-records-and-immigration/assisted-passenger-lists)

- Births Deaths and Marriages Victoria (https://www.bdm.vic.gov.au/research-and-family-history/search-your-family-history)

- NSW Government (BDM/Family History Search): https://familyhistory.bdm.nsw.gov.au/lifelink/familyhistory/search?0

- Digital Panopticon (Centralised /connective database for convict records) (https://www.digitalpanopticon.org/)

- The Proceedings of the Old Bailey Online (https://www.oldbaileyonline.org/)

- National Library of Ireland (NLI) Catholic Parish Registers (https://registers.nli.ie/)

- Essex Archives Online (Essex Records Office) ($$)(https://www.essexarchives online.co.uk)

Thanks 😊

Have as an option, or just plain modify, the menu after clicking [1] - when the "Build Citations" triplet is added to the menu, to have it before the list of Sources

Thanks

Ryan Ross just posted a comment in G2G about dwindling information in FS provided citations an example being the 1920 U.S. census.

Examples that demonstrate the problem. The first is from several years ago, then today, and what the Sourcer generated today:

1. "United States Census, 1920," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M8C7-WMJ : accessed 17 July 2017), Josie Turner in household of Thomas N Turner, White, Macon, Missouri, United States; citing ED 95, sheet 8B, line 86, family 93, NARA microfilm publication T625 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1992), roll 934; FHL microfilm 1,820,934.

2. "United States Census, 1920", database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M8C7-WM8 : Mon Jul 24 01:50:41 UTC 2023), Entry for Thomas N Turner and Susan R Turner, 1920.

3. "United States Census, 1920", citing Affiliate Publication Number: T625; Line: 86, FamilySearch Record: M8C7-WMJ FamilySearch Image: 33SQ-GRFS-LTH, Josie Turner (20), single grandchild, in household of Thomas N Turner (71) in White Township, Macon, Missouri, United States. Born in Missouri.

The elimination of the microfilm number is the most glaring. The microfilm #, DGS #, and Image # are available on the record page under Document Information. Would you consider enhancing the Sourcer citations with some of the information that is now being left out? If it's not practical, I completely understand.

Thanks, Kerry.

I would like to see a way to cull the "sources" grabbed from FamilySearch to a short list of the "best," e.g., census, birth cert., marriage cert., death, like that. When I see a sources list of 35 or 50, I think probably a large part is surplusage. Maybe there is a way to do this already, and I haven't learned how.

Also, could the newspaper name be italicized to conform to normal citation formatting?

Thanks very much.

Request: Please add Czech Sources

I absolutely love this extension. No idea how I got by without it! Thanks for all your hard work putting it together and enhancing it over time.

I came across a record type for which I hope you might be able to integrate citation support? It's for Hospital Admission Registers and Discharges (example here)

Thanks so much!

Request: Add Irish sources - irishgenealogy.ie, registers.nli.ie, and census.nationalarchives.ie (Integrate Greg Clarke's Irish Sites Citation Creator)

When I use the Build Narrative with Citation on Scotlandspeople Marriages, I get this:

Robert's marriage to Louise Jennifer Elder was registered in 1997 in the St Andrews (Fife) district.<ref> Marriage Registration: "Statutory Register of Marriages"

National Records of Scotland, Ref: 413/96

https://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk/ (accessed 19 April 2023)

Surname: BREMNER; Forename: ROBERT; Spouse Surname: ELDER; Spouse Forename: LOUISE JENNIFER; Year: 1997; RD Name: St Andrews (Fife). </ref>

... which I then change to: Robert Bremner and Louise Jennifer Elder's marriage was registered in 1997 in the St Andrews (Fife) district.

I prefer this wording, and I can also paste the same citation into both partners' pages.

Canada has a new better census search and resource page I would love to see added - https://recherche-collection-search.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/Home/Search?DataSource=Genealogy%7CCensus

And Nova Scotia Vital Statistic records have a very searchable database and standardized info for notes https://archives.novascotia.ca/vital-statistics

But what would be really nice if there was a way to customize so I could add a specific source and the info I want - I'm assuming it is doing some type of "screen" scrape and just organizing the data it gets into specific parts of the citation

I would like sourcerer to work with 1830 and prior census records. It would be great if it could build tables like the one I did for this profile

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Bennett-37505

Also... is there a reason you are not here? https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Category:WikiTree_Tools_and_Apps

Thanks for the work you do. Nicola

Wow, what a great thing to have on Wikitree!!!!

Can you add a citation builder for a record that is not online? Such as a Marriage Record or Divorce Record that is Recorded in the Court House, to include an one for the Index Book and/or 2) and actual copy of the record from the courthouse. This record I retrieve by the old fashion legwork.

Mary

Another source for India is FIBIS (fibis.org). Free database is at https://fibis.ourarchives.online/bin/index.php

Thanks, Rob

• If groom and/or bride fathers names (or similar) are available in a marriage record, please include them in the narrative (typically in British India records)
• If groom and/or bride ages are available in a marriage record, please include them in the narrative
• If the search country is India and Search engine is FindMyPast then set "Where" to "Britain Overseas/Unknown" (not World) and Location to India - this eliminates search results which include Indiana etc.

Hope this helps, and keep up the good work! Rob (another one)

all related to FindMyPast.com.au

500 Internal Server Error https://search.findmypast.com.au Quite a few errors like this from FindMyPast or Error 962: Domain name in link not resolved or Error 966: Link error various

Some of it could be me editing the source, either way: Could there be an Option to just list the base URL instead of the full transcript URL, I feel this would negate the issue?

Love the app.

Also for adding sites please consider "Lives of the First World War". Here is an example page for a soldier who was a relative of mine who was killed in WW1. https://livesofthefirstworldwar.iwm.org.uk/lifestory/1132386

Your app is great!! Thanks.

FamilySearch does not have images available for most of the Canadian censuses and they do not offer the latest 1921 census, so Library and Archives is the preferred site for Canadian Census records.

It would be wonderful to have it as part of Sourcer app thank you!

This extension is a real lifeline, I use it all the time.

I'd like to add a site to the Wish List: https://newspaperarchive.com/. What you have is great, though!! :)

Hayman-886