The new Ancestry Toolbar: research and organize the whole web

Now you can enhance family history sessions with online facts, media and information while saving time and enriching your tree. It can help you search in ways and places that were once reserved for those “in–the–know.” And best of all, it’s free.

What can I do with it?

The Ancestry Toolbar can help you find information about the people you’re researching, organize your findings, access your tree faster and more. With it, you can:

Save and attach photos to people in your tree directly from any webpage.

Save text from the webpage you’re on directly to your tree as a story.
Save online links – keep a permanent record of where your information came from.
Access all of your Ancestry Quicklinks instantly
Access your family tree on Ancestry instantly

Conduct an Ancestry–specific search powered by Google™

What do I need?

The Ancestry Toolbar requires the following:

Windows XP/2000/Vista
Internet Explorer version 6 & 7
Firefox 2 or higher

When and how do I use it?

There are two places you can conduct a search.

From your Ancestry family tree – while viewing a person in your tree, you’ll notice a “search the web” link in the “web links” section. Clicking this will open a new window showing the results of a Google–powered online search for that person’s name.
Everywhere else – the Ancestry toolbar appears at the top of your internet browser and gives you the choice of two different searches. The default search will allow you to specifically search Ancestry for a name using Google’s™ search engine. To search the entire internet, click the arrow to the right of the search field and select “search the web (Google)”.

NOTE:
You are responsible for the content you add to your tree, including obtaining copyright permissions where necessary.

Using the toolbar

When you find a result you want to save, click the “save” button in the toolbar. You’ll have the choice to instantly save the web link alone, or photos and text from the page as well.

If you choose to save pictures and text, the toolbar will allow you to highlight pictures and blocks of text.

After selecting the items you’d like to save to your tree, click the orange “Save Selected Items” button.

Next, indicate the person in your tree you’d like these items saved for. The interface will help you choose the correct person, auto–filling the field and allowing you to pick the right ancestor.

That’s it! A copy of the photo/story has been attached to your tree, as well as a link back to the source. Click on the person’s name to return to their place in your tree.

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