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Born in the London Borough of Southwark, sisters Ellen and Mary Ann Harrington became orphaned as young girls after their parents had both died. They remained close and in the late 19th century were together again at Florence Road in Leytonstone, East London.
Rows of brick terraced homes lined Florence Road and the area as far as one could see. Built in 1879 this working-class housing block ran between Cathall Road and Trinity Street.
The houses of Florence Road were simple “one-up one-down” style brick, terraced buildings. These small homes would have a single room upstairs for sleeping and a living kitchen on the ground floor. There was no washroom or toilet inside the home.
Florence Road was demolished in the 1960s as part of the ‘Cathall Estate’ council housing development, a social housing complex of multiple apartment towers connected by common courtyards. Many of the families from Florence Road were relocated to these…
I prefer working with Ancestry’s vertical tree view while doing my family history research, especially when taking screenshots to share with family and clients. Sometimes I do not want siblings to automatically appear when expanding generations in my tree, so I created a tool which automatically hides all siblings as soon as they appear. This tool can be toggled on and off directly from the family tree interface depending on your preference.
When you activate Auto-Hide Siblings in Family Tree, a button is added to the top right corner of all family trees which allows you to select whether siblings are automatically shown or hidden when expanding generations in your family tree.
Auto-Hide Siblings in Family Tree is available in Genea Research Tools for Google Chrome, it...
With an Ancestry ProTools subscription, your shared matches tab will now display matches of matches as well. This is an incredibly helpful feature which greatly assists with triangulating high-quality mutual matches. Finding who your matches match highly with can help establish deeper connections in your DNA match list. To identify these high matches, I created a plugin for Genea Research Tools which automatically highlights matches over 50cM or any amount you choose.
When you activate Highlight Matches of Matches 50cM+, any “match of a match” who shares more than 50cM with your mutual match will be automatically highlighted in red and the text will be bolder/larger. You can change the cM threshold at which matches are highlighted in Advanced Settings. Note: Requires Ancestry ProTools subscription.
Highlight Matches of...
The DNA Painter Shared cM Tool is an excellent resource for helping to establish relationships based the amount of cM shared with your matches. Their crowdsourced databases offers valuable insights which you can use to determine a range for different relationship types. To make this tool more easily accessible I added a button to the Ancestry DNA match page which links to the appropriate page on the Shared cM tool, available now in Genea Research Tools.
When you activate DNA Painter Shared cM Tool Button, on the Trees and Ethnicity tab of a DNA match a button will be added which opens the DNA Painter Shared cM Tool with the matches shared cM.
DNA Painter Shared cM Tool Button is available in Genea Research...
I often take screenshots of family trees on Ancestry to share with my family and clients. When I need to print these family trees, the dark background and low-contrast lines of the default Ancestry tree make this difficult. To address this, I developed a custom tool that modifies how Ancestry trees are displayed, making them more printer-friendly for sharing offline.
When you activate Ancestry Printable Tree, any family tree you are viewing will have a cleaner look for user-friendly screenshotting. Simply deactivate the style when done screenshotting your tree to view the user-interface again.
Ancestry Printable Tree is available in Genea Research Tools for Google Chrome, it can be installed in one click from the Chrome Web Store: Click here to...
When researching new lines or documenting existing ones, I often save hundreds of records to my family tree in a single session. Using Ancestry’s text transcriptions in the record viewer allows me to quickly verify that a document matches the person I’m researching, and access suggested records recommended by Ancestry. To streamline this process and save valuable time, I developed a tool that automatically fills in the person’s name from the record you’re viewing into the appropriate box in the ‘Save to someone in your tree’ dialog box.
When you activate Text Records Name Autofill, as soon as you click the “Save to someone in your tree” button in the text transcription portion of Ancestry’s record viewer, it will automatically fill in the name of the person on...
Finding high value DNA matches on Ancestry is an important part of genetic genealogy work. Frequently I am scanning different lines and searching different surnames looking for close connections to help build towards identifying a common ancestor. I created a tool which automatically highlights matches and shared matches over 25cM in red and increases the font size slightly, making them easier to see at a glance while scanning the page.
When you activate Ancestry Highlight DNA Matches 25cM+, any match or shared match displayed in your match list, shared matches list, or search list over 25cM will be automatically highlighted in red and the text will be bolder/larger. You can also adjust the threshold of the cM level at which matches are highlighted in the advanced settings panel....
The Ancestry Add to Tree Auto-Clicker is a lightweight extension for Firefox that streamlines the process of adding new individuals to your Ancestry family trees. With just one click, it automatically selects all checkboxes linked to parents, spouses, and children. Note that it does not select the checkboxes for the factual details below each person, as these should be manually verified.
I find this tool incredibly helpful, especially when constructing trees for genetic genealogy as well as traditional family history research. Follow the guide below to add the Ancestry Add to Tree Auto-Clicker to your Firefox browser.
