The Research Tools menu on Ancestry is incredibly helpful for quickly accessing key features on the website, adding quick links which are among the most common you will need in your research. This menu, however is only available while viewing your own tree, and on other users’ trees they are buried in the Tools menu at the top of the page. This plugin displays available Research Tools on all users’ trees, including your own, makes them bolder/larger and adds a new option to quickly upload a photo to that user in your tree.

When you activate Advanced Research Tools, viewing any person on Ancestry, whether it’s someone in your tree or in another user’s tree, all available Research Tools will be displayed. With this plugin you will want...

When I am building out trees for family and clients I am regularly saving hundred of records within a short period. In an effort to save some time and make life easier, I developed a tool which copies the name of the person attached to the record you were viewing and autofills that name into the appropriate box in the “Save to tree” pop-up dialog.

When you activate Ancestry Image Records Name Autofill, as soon as you click the “Save to tree” button in the Ancestry image viewer, it will automatically add the name of the person selected on the record to the appropriate box within the pop-up window.

Ancestry Image Records Name Autofill is available in Genea Research Tools for Google Chrome, it can be installed in one...

In April of 2023 Ancestry modified their website to make the menu bar a bright white colour, as well as generally lightening up the entire interface. I prefer a slightly more subdued look to the site with the original black menu bar, so created a tool which adds a darker look to the Ancestry user interface. This changes the look and feel to something a little easier on the eyes for extended periods.

When you activate Ancestry Darker Styled Look and Feel, all Ancestry pages will be automatically be loaded with a darker, easier on the eyes colour palette.

Ancestry Darker Styled Look and Feel is available in Genea Research Tools for Google Chrome, it can be installed in one click from the Chrome Web Store: ...

While building out family trees, particularly for mapping DNA matches, I am often saving hundreds of people from other trees to my own. This tool automatically takes the persons name whose details your viewing and auto-populates it into the “Person in tree” field of the “Save to tree” form. It saves quite a bit of copying and pasting and makes things much more efficient. This tool now also bypasses the “Heads up!” warning pop-up when no trees are attached to a source.

When you activate Ancestry Save to Tree Name Autofill, as soon as you click the “Save to tree” button on a persons details page it will automatically add their name to the appropriate box within the pop-up window.

Ancestry Save to Tree Name Autofill is available...

When building networks of DNA matches using AncestryDNA, I am often loading the profile of dozens of matches at a time, and hundreds of matches every hour. Always looking for ways to save a few clicks, a.k.a. time, I made a tool that automatically loads the “Shared Matches” section of an AncestryDNA matches’ profile when opening it in a new tab.

When you activate Ancestry Auto-Load Shared Matches Tab, clicking a users profile on AncestryDNA will auto-load the Shared Matches section or the Matches of Matches section if you have Ancestry Pro-Tools.

Ancestry Auto-Load Shared Matches Tab is available in Genea Research Tools for Google Chrome, it can be installed in one click from the Chrome Web Store: Click here...