WikiTree Sourcer update (version 1.12.1)

Question

I have released a new version of WikiTree Sourcer (version 1.12.1). Several features/improvements have been added since my last update on G2G. The full release notes are here but here are the highlights of the releases since then:

Version 1.12.1 (released 9 Nov 2023)

• When searching WikiTree for a person from another record/profile it often failed because the birth or death locations did not match exactly. There is now an option to omit these locations or only use the country name. It defaults to only using the country.
• Merge/Edit improvements. When merging source type citations (say from Family Search) it used to put them at the end of the == Biography == section. Now it correctly puts them at the end of the == Sources == section. Also, new options were added to generate birth marriages and death lines (like in Add Person).
• On Ancestry make it easier to create household tables for larger households. Ancestry has rate limiting which returns errors if too many records are requested in a short time. Sourcer now slows down its requests in this case. There are also buttons to skip the fetches or, if some records could not be fetched, to continue to create the table/citation, just minus the extra column data that could not be fetched..

Version 1.12.0 (released 30 Oct 2023)

• Added support for several new sites:
  • Wikipedia
  • Google Books
  • HathiTrust
  • Internet Archive (archive.org)
  • JSTOR

Version 1.11.0 (released 19 Oct 2023)

• Added support for Canada Census records and other records from Library and Archives Canada

Version 1.10.3 (released 11 Oct 2023)

• Try to avoid the situation where users sometimes switch to another tab while the citation is still building and thus accidentally paste in the previous citation that was created. To avoid this I implemented a couple of changes.
  • First, at the start of building a new citation it clears the old one from the clipboard.
  • Second, there is a more obvious busy indicator in the Sourcer popup when it is busy doing something

Answer 1

It would be difficult to overstate the usefulness of this app.  It saves me so much time.  Rob doesn't say much about it, but if you benefit from his work, you might want to consider buying him a cup of coffee (i.e. make a donation):  https://www.buymeacoffee.com/robpavey

Comments

I agree with your answer and appreciate you adding the coffee link. This is the first time I ever bought a coffee for anyone and Rob deserves it.

Answer 2

Thank you for the correction in the first bullet point! I do a lot of sourcing the unsourced and it was a real pain to have to manually change the location when a search failed.

Comments

It's working for me ... searching from Find a Grave back to WikiTree.

Answer 3

The WikiTree Sourcer is a wonderful App - I love it and it makes my live in the Tree so much easier! And I'm sure that because the Sourcer makes it so easy for us to cite sources, it also works as a motivator for everyone to provide sources for everything. So: Thank you Rob (again) for your wonderful work!

Answer 4

Thank you, Rob!  Library and Archives Canada is a great addition to a superb app!

Answer 5

Thanks Rob for the Sourcer app and all of your helpful updates!!

Answer 6

Sourcer continues to bring us ways to do some exciting and sophisticated things. Best of all it makes it makes it so much easier to get started on WikiTree. Love pointing to this tool when enticing people to give WikiTree a try.  Thank You!