WikiTree Sourcer ruma Rob Pavey

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WikiTree Sourcer version history - 25 versions

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Latest version
Ruwäch 2.8.9
Elesan pa 24. apr. 2025 - 1.68 MB
Works with firefox 115.0 and later
- General
  ** Change to report an error in a popup rather than as an exception when the extract module fails to load
- Narrative
  ** Improve narrative for military records where the record is not for the primary role.
- Ancestry
  ** For GRO smart search added code to extract spouse birth and death years from Ancestry profile
  ** Try to improve place name for narrative for England 1921 census
  ** Fix case where the will date was used as the probate date
  ** Fix citation built on a sharing page where the thing shared is an image
  ** Fix classification for Merchant Navy Apprenticeship
- Find My Past
  ** Do not include gender in search as it causes some missing results
  ** Do not include death year in search for collections that do not want it
- FreeBMD
  ** For deaths after 1984 Sourcer was setting the quarter to Jan-Feb-Mar when in fact it was unspecified
  ** Fix issue where it was using CLN rather than LNAB for birth and marriage searches
- FindAGrave
  ** Fix handling of nicknames
- GRO
  ** Smart search: fix case where start and end dates both in gap caused bad clamping
- FamilySearch
  ** Improve the source reference for citations and the list/table form of the data string
  ** Improve citation for a probate record when person is not the primary person
  ** Improve narrative/citation when the FS record gives an event date with no year
  ** Leave off search fields that cause search to fail for specified collections
  ** Improve extract abdominal classification of some US marriage and divorce records
  ** Fix extract on a danish language image page
- Norway Digital Archives
  ** Add new types of record that can be identified
  ** Fix issue in census for Nynorsk pages where house number was not recognized
- The Genealogist
  ** Update for some changes in the page format reported in Dec 2024
- WikiTree
  ** Implement extract on the SearchPerson page.
Source code released under MIT License
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Older versions
Ruwäch 2.8.8
Elesan pa 11. apr. 2025 - 1.67 MB
Works with firefox 115.0 and later
- WikiTree
  ** Fix a bug introduced in 2.8.7. On the Add Person page when adding a Spouse/Mother or Unrelated Person the Sourcer menu would hang.
  *** There is a workaround - put some text in the Last Name at Birth field.
- Ancestry
  ** Correctly classify a Petition for Naturalization
  ** Classify fix for Washington marriage record
  ** Change Police Gazette type from Criminal Register to Newspaper
  ** Fix issue with nicknames and save person data
  ** Fix an issue caused by a double single quote in a height field in WWII Draft Registration
Source code released under MIT License
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Ruwäch 2.8.7
Elesan pa 9. apr. 2025 - 1.67 MB
Works with firefox 115.0 and later
- WikiTree
  ** Add support for private profiles after redesign
- FindAGrave
  ** Fix exception when URL has no hyphens in the name part. e.g.: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/111269301/blackwell
- IrishGenealogy
  ** Fix record URL in citation
- Scotlands People
  ** Fix failure to recognize search results page due to a ScotP maintenance fix that had a bug
Source code released under MIT License
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Ruwäch 2.8.6
Elesan pa 22. mar. 2025 - 1.67 MB
Works with firefox 115.0 and later
- Narrative
  ** Improve handling of census records where some family are listed after non-family
- WikiTree
  ** Fix error when adding a person from FS with a prefix - the prefix was duplicated in the menu and bio intro
  ** Add backup method for getting profile gender since pageData may not include it for private profiles
  ** Make extracting the spouses work when WBE Change Family Lists is on
- Victoria BDM
  ** Fix exception that occasionally happen when searching
- FamilySearch
  ** Fix occasional exception on timeout
  ** Improve handling of Tasmania Birth Reg when event date is a subset of birth date and birth date is bad format and original birth date is not
- National Archives of Ireland
  ** Fix exception on a will page. But wills are not supported - only census records at the moment.
Source code released under MIT License
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Ruwäch 2.8.5
Elesan pa 16. mar. 2025 - 1.67 MB
Works with firefox 115.0 and later
- WikiTree
  ** Fix error when adding a new person with no first name
  ** Fix error where middle name was lost when adding a person from FindAGrave
  ** Fix adding extra fields to Add Person when needed for Set Fields (e.g. Prefix)
  ** Improve method for getting gender from profile to avoid conflicts with WBE
- IrishGenealogy
  ** Update for the major redesign of the IrishGenealogy site
Source code released under MIT License
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Ruwäch 2.8.4
Elesan pa 11. mar. 2025 - 1.67 MB
Works with firefox 115.0 and later
- WikiTree
  ** Redesign: Fix extract in edit mode when a parent is missing
  ** Redesign: Fix “Set fields” when adding an unrelated person
  ** Redesign: Fix adding both parents to the narrative intro line when adding a child
Source code released under MIT License
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Ruwäch 2.8.3
Elesan pa 2. mar. 2025 - 1.67 MB
Works with firefox 115.0 and later
- WikiTree
  ** Update Sourcer so that it works with both the existing design plus the upcoming Redesign
- National Archive of Ireland, Census
  ** Correct the naming of the option for the age exactness in search
Source code released under MIT License
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Ruwäch 2.8.2
Elesan pa 8. feb. 2025 - 1.67 MB
Works with firefox 115.0 and later
- National Archive of Ireland, Census
  ** Updated to handle the site redesign of February 2025
- Ancestry
  ** Add the 1921 England Census to known collections
- FindAGrave
  ** Fix an exception: “TypeError: Cannot read properties of undefined (reading 'replace’)”
- UK GRO
  ** Fix an exception: “Uncaught (in promise) ReferenceError: response is not defined”
- FamilySearch
  ** If age on a census is “0 days” then change to “infant” since they use that for anything under 1 year
Source code released under MIT License
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Ruwäch 2.8.1
Elesan pa 3. feb. 2025 - 1.67 MB
Works with firefox 115.0 and later
* FamilySearch
** Update to handle new URL format for person pages
** Improve URL detection of an image with a record in a side bar. It was not working for: https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:S3HY-DRVJ-ZJ?view=index&personArk=%2Fark%3A%2F61903%2F1%3A1%3AVFR1-FH4&action=view&cc=1478678
* FreeBMD
** Search: Fix bug in date calculation for when to use mother’s maiden name
* Ancestry
** Recognize a record type of “Marriage Licence”
** Pickup up “Decree Date” and “Decree Place” in a divorce record
** Recognize “Voter Registration“ record as an Electoral Register.
** Add some beta features to build tables for pages of the 1881 England Census
* WieWasWie
** Remove “jaar” from spouse age
Source code released under MIT License
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Ruwäch 2.8.0
Elesan pa 5. dec. 2024 - 1.66 MB
Works with firefox 115.0 and later
* Firefox
** Fix keyboard shortcut that brings up Sourcer menu
* FamilySearch
** Improve the extraction of the place name for a record when doing Build All Citations
* Ancestry
** Add support for ancestryinstitution and ancestryclassroom domains
** Improve classification of Canadian immigrant records
* FreeBMD
** Add similar feature to the GRO smart search. Can search for births of children of the current person.
* American Ancestors
** Improve search by adding extra parameters so that sort and refine work
* Library and Archives Canada
** Improve parsing of some Metis scrip records
* Archion
** Fix for crash when URL was not in the form expected
* National Archives of Ireland.
** Change manifest to work with URLs starting with https://census.nationalarchives.ie/ rather than https://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/
* WikiTree
** Alert the user of not logged in or if no permissions to use the API
Source code released under MIT License
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Ruwäch 2.7.2
Elesan pa 24. nov. 2024 - 1.66 MB
Works with firefox 115.0 and later
* Search
** Change the options for the order of search items on the menu to use a draggable list
* Ancestry
** Add classification for a few more record collections
** change default for search option “Restrict the search to record results (not trees, stories or photos)” to false to match previous behavior
* FindMyPast
** Improve handling of birth place (in 1871 census for example)
* FamilySearch
** Fix bug in build all citations when a source has no last name
** Handle parsing of date ranges in the form: "from 1934 to 1946"
** Improve extract for new image viewer to handle non-English languages
* GRO
** Allow export of table of search results from the smart search page
* Open Archives (NL)
** Update to handle a different data format returned from the Open Archives API
Source code released under MIT License
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Ruwäch 2.7.1
Elesan pa 8. nov. 2024 - 1.65 MB
Works with firefox 115.0 and later
* Add Person
** Died Young sticker, add second option to specify parameter using a keyword drop down.
* BillionGraves
** Update search to use new search params
* FamilySearch
** Improve image citations for the new FamilySearch Image Viewer
* The Genealogist
** Add option to search either thegenealogist.com or thegenealogist.co.uk
** Allow selection of person to cite for 1939 register and for marriages
** Allow selection of spouse for marriage registration
** Improve parsing of dates
* Ancestry
** Improve classification of obituary records
** Improve extract of recordId and dbId for new URLs
** Improve extract of parents from some records
* Scotlands People
** Improve valuation roll citations by including status
* NZBDM
** Allow user to choose bride or groom to create citation for
* WieWasWie and OpenArch
** Expand BS to “Burgerlijke Stand” in citations
Source code released under MIT License
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Ruwäch 2.7.0
Elesan pa 31. okt. 2024 - 1.65 MB
Works with firefox 115.0 and later
* New sites supported
** Archion
** American Ancestors
** The Genealogist
* Ancestry
** Improve extract of DB and Record ID from URL. Fixes a recent issue since Ancestry changed URLs
** Improve extraction of last name from profile
** Add option to restrict search to Historical Records only (defaults to true)
* GRO
** Improve GRO Smart Search
Source code released under MIT License
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Ruwäch 2.6.7
Elesan pa 21. okt. 2024 - 1.58 MB
Works with firefox 115.0 and later
* Ancestry and other sites
** Fix some issues related to relative IDs
*** Fix Ancestry not being able to fetch linked records
*** Fix Ancestry not being able to user Sourcer menu when viewing a source on profile page
*** Fix caching issue with Ancestry Find A Grave index
*** Fix relative URL issue on Wikipedia
Source code released under MIT License
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Ruwäch 2.6.6
Elesan pa 14. okt. 2024 - 1.58 MB
Works with firefox 115.0 and later
* Ancestry and other sites
** There have been issues with relative links on web pages, change to handle relative links in a better way
* GRO
** Smart search improvements
*** Break down to individual years or quarters if hit 250 limit
*** Prune by MMN during search to avoid hitting 1000 limit unnecessarily
*** Support search by MMN of “-“
*** Change district links to open in new tab
Source code released under MIT License
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Ruwäch 2.6.5
Elesan pa 11. okt. 2024 - 1.58 MB
Works with firefox 115.0 and later
* Ancestry
** Additional fix for issue with linked records after Ancestry changed the HREFs
Source code released under MIT License
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Ruwäch 2.6.4
Elesan pa 11. okt. 2024 - 1.58 MB
Works with firefox 115.0 and later
* Ancestry
** Fix issue with linked records after Ancestry changed the HREFs
Source code released under MIT License
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Ruwäch 2.6.3
Elesan pa 9. okt. 2024 - 1.58 MB
Works with firefox 115.0 and later
* FindMyPast
** Fix crash error introduced in last version that prevented Source working on this record for example: https://www.findmypast.co.uk/transcript?id=GBC%2F1921%2FRG15%2F05188%2F0475%2F01&tab=this
Source code released under MIT License
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Ruwäch 2.6.2
Elesan pa 8. okt. 2024 - 1.58 MB
Works with firefox 115.0 and later
* UK GRO
** Smart search beta
* ScotlandsPeople
** Some improvements to the context menu search to support more formats
* FindMyPast
** Improve extraction of birth place on some records (like census)
** Fix bug where the country name was sometimes repeated when searching FMP
* FamilySearch
** Improve classification of military records
** Fix issue where event date was not being extracted for a California County Marriage record
* Ancestry
** Improve record type recognition for a couple of record collections
* Archive.org
** Include volume number in citation
Source code released under MIT License
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Ruwäch 2.6.1
Elesan pa 24. sep. 2024 - 1.55 MB
Works with firefox 115.0 and later
* Narrative
** Improve narratives for military records on Ancestry and FamilySearch
* ScotlandsPeople
** Improve the context menu search
* Ancestry
** Fix missing gender and missing source titles on person facts page
* National Archives of Ireland censuses
** Automatically expand “Co Kerry” to “County Kerry” etc. in birthplace (did table in last release - this fixes citation).
* NZ Ancestor Search Helper (https://ash.howison.co.nz/)
** Added search only support
* Tasmania Names Index
** Change Tasmania to Van Dieman’s Land in earlier records
* DigitalArkivet
** Fixed a crash
Source code released under MIT License
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Ruwäch 2.6.0
Elesan pa 17. sep. 2024 - 1.54 MB
Works with firefox 115.0 and later
* New sites supported:
** Libraries Tasmania Names Index
* Context menu
** Fix bug opening a template link in edit mode
* Menus
** Add option to use keyboard shortcuts to build citations
* Scotlands People
** New feature: Context menu can now search for a selected citation on Scotlands People site
** fix legacy search url support
** change default search option to fuzzy since sounded is broken
* NZBDM
** Fix last name used in deaths search to be last name at death
** When searching NDBDM for a marriage and no gender is known, try to predict gender from forenames
* FamilySearch
** Improve citations for Social Security Correspondence
* Ancestry
** If name and gender are hidden on a person page, try extracting gender from script
* NSW BDM
** change data string in citation to make it clear that the year is the registration year
* FreeBMD
** Change names that are in upper case to mixed case for narrative
* National Archives of Ireland censuses
** Automatically expand “Co Kerry” to “County Kerry” etc. in birthplace.
Source code released under MIT License
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Ruwäch 2.5.2
Elesan pa 14. sep. 2024 - 1.5 MB
Works with firefox 115.0 and later
* Ancestry
** Update the code to handle new Ancestry URLs that have “%3A” in place of “:”
Source code released under MIT License
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Ruwäch 2.5.1
Elesan pa 4. sep. 2024 - 1.5 MB
Works with firefox 115.0 and later
* Scotlands People
** Fix issue parsing spouse name in Church of Scotland marriage
* Matricula
** Fix issue that could crash search menu creation
* FamilySearch
** Fix issue where no event place was found for a US PA marriage
* NZBDM
** Fix issue in search where the to date could be today instead of yesterday
* New South Wales BDM
** Fix case in search where the from and to dates could be the same
Source code released under MIT License
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Ruwäch 2.5.0.1
Elesan pa 3. sep. 2024 - 1.5 MB
Works with firefox 115.0 and later
Fix filename error in manifest for matricula
Source code released under MIT License
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Ruwäch 2.5.0
Elesan pa 3. sep. 2024 - 1.5 MB
Works with firefox 115.0 and later
* New Zealand BDM
** Add support for this site
* New South Wales BDM
** Add support for this site
* Matricula
** Add support for this site
* NewspaperArchive
** Add support for this site
* Ancestry
** Ability to add a source to Ancestry: Add support for filling the fields when adding a source that references another site.
** Add support for HeritageQuest
** Minor fix for an unwanted <br/> after “free access”
* FindMyPast
** Add support for building citation on a newspaper clipping
* GRO
** Update end year for search to 2022
* FamilySearch
** Change to use the event place from the page rather then picking one from the JSON data
* ScotlandsPeople
** Update the search URL after web site update
Source code released under MIT License
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Latest version

Ruwäch 2.8.9

Older versions

Ruwäch 2.8.8

Ruwäch 2.8.7

Ruwäch 2.8.6

Ruwäch 2.8.5

Ruwäch 2.8.4

Ruwäch 2.8.3

Ruwäch 2.8.2

Ruwäch 2.8.1

Ruwäch 2.8.0

Ruwäch 2.7.2

Ruwäch 2.7.1

Ruwäch 2.7.0

Ruwäch 2.6.7

Ruwäch 2.6.6

Ruwäch 2.6.5

Ruwäch 2.6.4

Ruwäch 2.6.3

Ruwäch 2.6.2

Ruwäch 2.6.1

Ruwäch 2.6.0

Ruwäch 2.5.2

Ruwäch 2.5.1

Ruwäch 2.5.0.1

Ruwäch 2.5.0