With the latest update to Genealogy Assistant, you can now navigate directly to either the Trees tab or the Shared Matches tab of your DNA matches based on where you click. Learn more: www.genea.ca/opening-dna-...

Genealogy Assistant now supports additional international versions of popular family history websites like Ancestry and MyHeritage, bringing our powerful tools to users around the world!

The latest update for Genealogy Assistant adds support for new platforms and additional international versions of popular websites. This update will require you to accept updated permissions in your browser by clicking "Accept permissions" when prompted. Learn more: www.genea.ca/protecting-y...

Coming this week to Genealogy Assistant: You can now set the default sorting of your AncestryDNA match list from the "Quick Settings & Search" section of the popup panel.

The latest update for Genealogy Assistant coming early this week adds groups, star status and shared DNA percentage columns to CSV downloads across all platforms. 🌳

Genealogy Assistant is the most powerful tool a family historian can have while researching using online platforms. Start saving time and supercharge your family history research! ⬇️

Genealogy Assistant is updated multiple times weekly! See what's new in the latest version. Learn more about Genealogy Assistant: www.genea.ca/genealogy-as...

New in Genealogy Assistant this week: Easily search multiple genealogy websites when viewing records on Ancestry as well as when viewing people in the MyHeritage family tree! Learn more and install: www.genea.ca/genealogy-as...

Our AI Handwritten Text Recognition Tool is ready to go with OpenAI's newest GPT-5 series of models! Try it out now: www.genea.ca/htr-tool/

The latest update for Genealogy Assistant is now available for Chome, Firefox and Edge! 🎉 · Updated keyboard shortcuts for Ancestry family tree · Added new feature "Easy Hide and Expand in Family Tree" · Internationalization improvements for a number of features genea.ca/genealogy-as...

Genealogy Assistant is now available for Mozilla Firefox! 🔥 Get access to all the tools that make your family history research more efficient on any platform. Try it now: addons.mozilla.org/en-CA/firefo...

Updates in version 2.2.6 of Genealogy Assistant ⬇️ - Quick Search: Better matching for searching people in your family tree. - Advanced Research Tools: Added support for View changes, Check for errors and Print. - Cluster CSV Downloads: Bug fixes and improvements. AND MORE!

Perplexity user? Use Genealogy Assistant in the new Comet AI Browser for the ultimate family history research setup! #genealogy #familyhistory #ai

Now available in Genealogy Assistant: Download your new Ancestry clusters data as a CSV file. Use the "Download CSV" button at the top of each cluster list to start the download.

The latest version of our free Genealogy Blurring Tool now supports Ancestry's new clustering feature! Hopefully this helps content creators share their knowledge about using this helpful tool. Install for free: chromewebstore.google.com/detail/genea... #ancestry #genealogy #dna

New in Genealogy Assistant v2.2.1! View DNA paths on Ancestry and copy all surnames from a match with a single click on AncestryDNA. Learn more: youtu.be/O4BgRJPirdw #genealogy #familyhistory #dna #ancestry

New update! Version 0.3.6 of our free AI Handwritten Text Recognition Tool now supports custom output locations as well as merged PDFs for your entire batch of images, making easily shareable and printable documents. Learn more: www.genea.ca/htr-tool/

Coming this week to Genealogy Assistant: Visualize the Y-DNA, mtDNA and X-DNA inheritance paths of people in your family tree from simple toggle buttons in the bottom right hand corner of your family tree. #DNA #genealogy #ancestry

New in Genealogy Assistant: Customize the keyboard shortcut to launch Quick Search, with the ability to set it to whatever is easiest for you and your workflow. Available now! You can record a custom keyboard shortcut in the Advanced Settings window.

NEW UPDATE! Our new handwriting text recognition tool now supports exporting your files as CSV or TXT files. Learn more: www.genea.ca/htr-tool/

Join me live on the always informative @dearmyrtle.bsky.social's Mondays with Myrt on YouTube - Today at Noon Eastern, 9AM Pacific and forever recorded on YouTube! ➡️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=W6io...

New update for Genealogy Blurring Tool! Updated blurring locations on Ancestry, added support for GEDmatch and future support for 23andMe. Install for free: chromewebstore.google.com/detail/genea... #genealogy #familyhistory #ancestry

NEW FREE TOOL! Genealogy Assistant AI Handwritten Text Recognition Tool is a free cross-platform application designed to transcribe collections of historical documents into an easier-to-read format. Learn more ➡️ www.genea.ca/htr-tool/ #genealogy #familyhistory #ai

Latest update: Thursday June 19th, 2025. v2.1.6: Fixes for "Add Select All Button to Shared Matches" and buttons on the "List of all people" page on Ancestry.

One of the newest features we've added to Genealogy Assistant is the ability to open the page of any person in your Ancestry family tree directly from the Quick Search bar Learn more 📺 youtu.be/pRH7njrOpvc #genealogy #familyhistory

The latest update for Genealogy Assistant is here! ⬇️

🌳 Latest update: Thursday June 5th, 2025. v2.1.2: Updated Quick Settings, added new features for Ancestry, MyHeritage and GEDmatch, including the ability to search people in your family tree using Quick Search.

Latest update: Tuesday May 20th, 2025. v2.1.1: Performance improvements for "Add Select All Button to Matches List" and "Download Shared Matches as CSV File".

Latest update: Tuesday May 13th, 2025. v2.1.0: Updated select all button for hints on Ancestry, performance improvements for a number of features. ➡️ chromewebstore.google.com/detail/genea...

Latest update: Monday May 5th, 2025. v2.0.9: Big performance improvements for CSV download features, update for "Add Select All Button to Shared Matches".

Thank you Barb for your lovely review! 😊 ➡️ chromewebstore.google.com/detail/genea... #genealogy #familyhistory

When using the Ancestry image viewer, Genealogy Assistant adds a handy toolbar to the page, enabling you to you quickly skip forward or backward by 2, 10, 25, or 50 pages at a time, making it easy to navigate large record sets. #familyhistory #genealogy ➡️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=Za76...

🍃 Latest update: Tuesday April 22nd, 2025. v2.0.8: Genealogy Assistant now supports a larger list of websites! Improvements for a number of features including Advanced Paging and FamilySearch Wiki tools.

As Genealogy Assistant continues to grow we will be supporting an expanded list of family history websites! In a future update, your browser may ask you to review the pages which Genealogy Assistant can read. Learn more ➡️ www.genea.ca/protecting-y...

Quick Search is a feature in Genealogy Assistant that can help you quickly run searches and find the information you're looking for without losing your research flow. Learn more in the latest video on YouTube ⬇️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=XPpq... #genealogy #familyhistory

Thank you Jack for your lovely review 🫶

Latest update: Tuesday April 15th, 2025. v2.0.7 - Updates for "Hide Matches Already Connected to Tree", improvements for CSV download tools.

Please enjoy this Substack article I wrote on some of my very interesting Quaker ancestors, and how they helped to spark Confederation in Canada. ➡️ genealogyassistant.substack.com/p/american-q...

If you're using both MyHeritage and Ancestry DNA, this new feature helps save a lot of research time!

The fastest way to open historical calendars is with Quick Search in Genealogy Assistant. #genealogy #familyhistory chromewebstore.google.com/detail/genea...

Latest update: Monday March 24th, 2025. v2.0.3: Added new feature for MyHeritage "Add Search Ancestry Button to Trees", improvements for Quick Search and other core updates.

🌿 A new feature of Genealogy Assistant allows you to search for people appearing in MyHeritage Family trees on Ancestry with a single click. Automatically get a search auto-populated with their name, dates and places, even their spouses name in seconds.

The next update for Genealogy Assistant adds highlighting for family trees larger than 2 people on MyHeritage DNA, helping you to quickly spot trees that can help the most with identifying a common ancestor. #genealogy #familyhistory

An update for Genealogy Blurring Tool rolling out in the coming days does a much better job at identifying living people in family trees, and adds blurring to some of Ancestry's newest features. #genealogy #familyhistory #freetool Try it out ➡️: chromewebstore.google.com/detail/genea...

NEW: "Advanced Paging for Image Viewer" adds buttons to the bottom of the Ancestry image viewer allowing you to skip forward or backward by 2, 10, 25 or 50 pages at a time.

Genealogy Assistant Version 2.0 is here! 🎉 Empower your family history research and save hours every week with custom tools for popular #genealogy websites. 👉 Learn more in this two-minute video on YouTube:

Hey, #Genealogy community, assuming I am competent enough to have done this right. (😅) with #RootsTech2025 not too long away, any post relating to RootsTech [which will pick up various hashtags], that'll be the one-stop feed to pin to keep up with it all! bsky.app/profile/dani... Please RT!

Latest update: Friday February 21st, 2025. v1.8.8: Fixed bug with Advanced Search and updated user interface. Added "Enable All Features" link to popup panel.

Enjoy Genealogy Assistant? Please consider leaving a five-star review on the Chrome Web Store 💚 chromewebstore.google.com/detail/genea...

Latest update: Saturday February 15th, 2025. v1.8.4: Core performance improvements. Bug fixes for a number of features on Ancestry and MyHeritage.