Discussion: Alternate methods for attaching non-familysearch sources
RecordSeek no longer available on Chrome. I sure liked that extension. I have been using RecordSeek for years and have not kept up with other methods.
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@Chas Howell Have you tried contacting Dovy, the one-man band developer of RecordSeek? I've had some success in the past, when certificates expired. He doesn't respond quickly, in my experience, but he does eventually reply and fix the problem.
I miss RecordSeek more for Ancestry. It was a great quick way to make a source on Ancestry, where it is more complicated than on FamilySearch. These days, on FamilySearch, I mostly just add a link from the external source/website to my source box and then attach to the profile(s) from there.
Edit to add - I've just sent a message to Dovy asking if he plans to reconfigure for Chrome.
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Thank you, I have contacted RecordSeek support to see if they plan to make the Chrome extension compliant. I had RecordSeek working on Chrome as of yesterday on a temporary override for a few months.
I used RecordSeek exclusively for Ancestry. Oh well, time for an old-dog to learn a new trick.
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RecordSeek hasn't worked for Ancestry, on any browser, for over 4 years.
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I think I explained that incorrectly. I used RecordSeek to attach my Ancestry sources to FS. What I meant to say is that when working from the Detail screen in FS, under Search Records I would click Ancestry. That brings up several potential source records. For example, US SS Applications & Claims. Clicking on that, I would then use RecordSeek to create my source that I would attach.
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@Chas Howell I use RecordSeek to create FS sources all the time on Chrome with no problems. The difference is that I use the bookmarklet, not the extension. I have always done so — I never saw any particular benefit in the extension.
To use the bookmarklet, just follow the simple instructions on the home page of RecordSeek.com and drag that button to your bookmarks bar. Then when you are on a page that you would like to turn into a source (e.g., you are on an Ancestry source record page and you want to create a FamilySearch source from it), just click the saved entry on your bookmarks bar.
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@Alan E. Brown, cool, that works great. RecordSeek really saves a lot in copy/paste time.
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And unfortunately allows some editors to mass-attach every record Ancestry thinks might be without them even having to look at them. Because apparently a lot of Renaissance Englishmen fought in the American Civil War and it was totally normal to christen your newborn when you're 206 years old, and fun fact: in the 18th century there was only one man named John Mills.
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