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The Go-To Place for genealogists wanting to grow their business. Extension is completely free to download and take advantage of! Feel free to share with your friends in the industry if you find it useful π After working with hundreds of people in the industry, I have found a ton of commonalities between people that are successful and I decided to put them in one go-to place that people can easily refer to! :) Here you'll find extremely useful resources that will help with your business. π₯³ There are 3 sections to the extension: 1. NECESSARY resources are super popular and used across the industry by most successful salons. π€© 2. RECOMMENDED tools are the best choices (as of today) for their own respective use cases. π₯ 3. FREE BOOKS & GIFTS are amazing stuff that I've found through talking with other people and my experience in the industry. π Hope you find this helpful and feel free to share with your friends in the industry if you find it useful π Note: If the extension shows a blank white box, try turning off Adblock and turn it on again for it to work!
FS Tools
Supercharge your FamilySearch experience! FS Tools adds several helpful features to FamilySearch.org, FindAGrave.com, and other helpful genealogical research sites to improve your FamilySearch tree-building experience. Features: **ONE-CLICK SEARCH FOR POTENTIAL DUPLICATES** Sometimes there is another version of the person you are working on somewhere else in the tree. But you won't see a "Possible duplicate" hint on that person unless the system is *very* confident. Experienced users know to go search the tree to see if there is another version of that person somewhere in the tree. Constructing this search takes time. FS Tools adds a link to the records section of the page that builds that search for you based on the information on the page. You can check for potential duplicates with a single click! FamilySearch recently added a new labs feature called "Full-Text Search" that leverages the power of AI to search films and other images for text. This is especially helpful when you want to read a record from a microfilm scan but the page number is not included in the record. But opening the full-text search tool and building the search parameters for your film is tricky. FS Tools adds a full-text search box to all film records, allowing you to quickly jump right to the page you want! When you're looking at a record on FamilySearch and the record isn't attached as a source to a person, the system helpfully shows you a list of what it thinks might be related records along the side. But this is a very short list. And it only shows if the record isn't attached. If you want to search the tree or other records based on the information of a record, you currently have to open up a search window (one for records and one for the tree) and type all the information from the record. FS Tools adds links to the record to automatically perform a search of the records or tree system based on the information present in the record you're looking at. When browsing Find-a-Grave, FS Tools adds icons linking you from the grave memorial to the corresponding record in FamilySearch. If you have already logged into FamilySearch in your browser, it will even show you whether there is already a person in the tree for that grave record! FS Tools is a new extension, and I'm adding features all the time. If you think of an idea you'd like to see, contact me at watkins.dev! **ABOUT THIS EXTENSION** This is an independent personal project unaffiliated with FamilySearch and uses only the public APIs and tooling available in the FamilySearch and FindAGrave applications. Read the full extension details at https://www.watkins.dev/portfolio/fs-tools
Family Tree Validator
Ensure your family's information on FamilySearch is correct and complete. Validator makes this quick and easy. The purpose of the Family Tree Validator is to find inconsistencies, errors, missing data in your family's tree on FamilySearch. Because these errors are under the surface, you may not even be aware that anything is wrong. It will make suggestions that may help FamilySearch find additional matches. It will find simple cleanup items like date and location inconsistencies. Best of all, it makes fixing these simple issues fast and easy! Validator checks that the information currently in FamilySearch about your family is 'reasonable'. That means common sense tests are applied EVERYWHERE (and if I've missed some, please let me know). It checks all of the information currently available, comparing husband and wife, children, parents and siblings. The extension further checks, for each attached source record, the information was fully added into FamilySearch. This saves you massive time in doing this review yourself! TO BEGIN: Install the extension and it will walk you through a few simple steps. Then return to FamilySearch and login. As you access a person's page, click on the Validator icon in the upper right of your browser. (If you don't see the icon, click on the extension icon - looks like a puzzle piece - and then on the 'pin' next to Family Tree Validator.) The person's name will appear on a small popup window. To validate them, simply click on the "Validate This Person" button. During Validation, the person and their family will be displayed on a separate Progress page, along with any information about them that needs to be reviewed. IMPORTANT: the first time, the amount of information can be concerning. Do not worry, we'll make the cleanup easy! To help you with your use of Validator, full help and suggestions are located on our website FindMyRoots.tech/help. The Options page gives you full control of Family Tree Validator's behavior. Validation should be viewed as a process rather than an event. As items are corrected and added, FamilySearch may find more items to be added to your tree. Lastly, we appreciate your use of the Family Tree Validator as it continues to grow and be enhanced. Despite best our efforts to make everything work as expected, you may find issues in its use. Please report any errors, items missed, things that could be checked, or new suggestions to FindMyRoots.tech@gmail.com or on our website FindMyRoots.tech/support. Enjoy!!!
Genealogy Assistant
Adds custom features to popular genealogy websites like Ancestry, MyHeritage, 23andMe and more! **Get ready to supercharge your family history research!** Genealogy Assistant adds 100+ custom features to popular genealogy websites like Ancestry, MyHeritage, 23andMe, FamilySearch, FamilyTreeDNA and more. This extension helps you save time and research more efficiently by connecting these individual websites into one powerful, unified platform. Designed with both traditional and genetic genealogy in mind, we provide you with the tools to break down brick walls in record time. Genealogy Assistant helps you focus on what matters most: uncovering the connections that reveal our fascinating family histories. **Transform your genealogy workflow with powerful tools designed for serious researchers:** β’ Download DNA matches to CSV files for advanced analysis β’ Highlight high-value DNA connections with customizable thresholds β’ Research faster using handy custom keyboard shortcuts β’ Run cross-platform searches and open record collections directly from any page β’ Skip through hundreds of record images in seconds with advanced paging tools β’ Easily organize matches into groups using bulk selection tools β’ Add groups to your 23andMe DNA matches and shared matches β¦and much more. View the full list of features at https://www.genea.ca/genealogy-assistant/ Enjoy a free 30-day trial of Genealogy Assistant, then unlock the full version for just $2.95 per month or a one-time payment of $34.95. Get access to all of our tools with an easy to use, one-click install. Features are automatically updated and new tools are added regularly. Join thousands of genealogists who have already discovered Genealogy Assistant and start saving time today! Use the "Report a bug" link at the top of the Genealogy Assistant window to report any issues you encounter. Latest update: Thursday June 4th, 2026 v3.5.5: Continuing updates for AncestryDNA match list pages.
Goldie May
Goldie May is genealogy research software to accelerate your research, sort out tangles in your family tree, and keep you more organized. It won't replace your current family tree software, but it might replace your spreadsheet, your word processing program, the papers on your desk, and the sticky notes on your monitor. π One of the 101 best genealogy websites of 2025 according to Family Tree Magazine: "Though named for two female ancestors, [Goldie May] is anything but old-fashioned...." π Authorized training partner of The Family History Guide β Projects Organize your research into projects, each with an objective, subjects, and research plan. Great for client work or all your family lines. β Research Log Mark each item in your log as a positive or negative result. Write abstracts and comments. Search your log. Export it to a spreadsheet. β Automatic Research Log Turn it on, then start researching. Goldie May keeps a list of all the sites you visit, rabbit holes and all. β Screenshots Take screenshots and save them directly to your research log. β Citations On known websites, citations are created for you. β Snapshots of your windows & tabs Too many browser tabs open? Take a snapshot and save them for later. Let's call it rabbit-hole insurance. β Accessible from anywhere Your data is stored in the cloud. Access your projects from the library, an archive, or your nearest FamilySearch center. β Subway Map See where your ancestor lived over time with this unique timeline tool. See census and newspaper hints in context. See county and state boundary changes in context. β Newspaper coverage tool See which newspapers ran when and where your ancestor lived and open them on the provider's website. β Canvas Sort out tricky situations like pre-1850 U.S. censuses with this visual tool, as if you were sorting papers on your kitchen table. β Catalog of catalogs See what collections the big genealogy and newspaper sites have for a given time and place and quickly go there. β Auto-search Launch searches into census records, and quickly jump to the next and previous census for that location.
