How do sharing links work? (Especially ancestry.com)

Question

I am still trying to figure out if there is a way for users of ancestry to access the right source site. I do not have a subscription to ancestry.com, and I get my feed from ancestrylibrary.ca. I can't see links shared by others because for me they are behind a paywall, and I suspect others can't see the links I put up, for similar reasons. I thought I read somewhere that there was a way to configure this in WikiTree, but I did not understand the explanation, and now I am no longer sure whether it is in fact possible to do what I want.

Answer 1

You need to use the browser extension 'Wikitree Sourcer', which creates these free sharing links for you.

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Space:WikiTree_Sourcer

Comments

More info about Sourcer and sharing links here.

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It's absolutely wonderful! Don't know how I coped before.

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Lovely. Sounds REALLY good. Now, how do I download it for Firefox/Windows10? I went to the Add-ons page, even created a profile, looked at the license, etc, hoping that one of these actions would cause a "Download" or "Install" button to appear. No such luck! Now what?

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The page I linked for you says:

• For Firefox install it from the Firefox Add-ons page.

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Quite so. So that is where I ended up: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-CA/firefox/addon/wikitree-sourcer/. I expected to see a "Download" or "Install" button there, and I did not. I saw a "Log in" button and created a profile --- no new information displayed, even after refreshing the page. Sounds like this should probably be taken off-line, but I still have no clue how to proceed.

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There should be a button to install it on that page. Feel free to send me a PM or Discord DM if you can't get it to work. It is a pain sharing screenshots on G2G.