Showing posts with label ancestry.com. Show all posts
Showing posts with label ancestry.com. Show all posts

22 January 2011

Ancestry Utils

Ancestry Utils v. 1.0

Ancestry Utils is a Greasemonkey script that customizes the way Ancestry.com, particularly Member Trees, display and behave. This script requires Firefox with the Greasemonkey add-on. I understand that Chrome and Safari offer some support for scripts like this, but I believe I've made use of features only available in Firefox.

To install:
  • Install Firefox and/or Greasemonkey
  • Come back here, using Firefox, and click the download button in the menu on the left
  • Follow the Greasemonkey prompts


GED Utils

GED Utils v. 1.2
Last updated: 26 Feb 2011

GED Utils is a collection of macros for manipulating GEDCOM files.  The original intent was to clean-up GEDCOM exports from Legacy Family Tree before sharing publicly online at Ancestry.com, but there's really no reason they shouldn't work on GEDCOM exports form other software or for uploads to other repositories.

GED Utils is written as a clip library for use with NoteTab, a text editor by Fookes Software.  The library works fine with their free Light version.  NoteTab is similar to Windows Notepad, with support for macros (what they call clips) and multiple documents open at the same time.

To use these macros:

  • Install NoteTab
  • Download GED Utils from the menu on the left
  • Save GED Utils into NoteTab's 'library' folder (from Windows Explorer not from within NoteTab)
  • Open a GEDCOM in NoteTab, select GEDUtils library, and double click any of the clips to run them