FamilySearch Family Tree Bookmarklets

Bookmarklets are small pieces of javascript code that are saved as Bookmarks in your web browser. For details about the concept, see the Wikipedia article about bookmarklets.

Here are some bookmarklets that might enhance your user experience on FamilySearch, by creating shortcuts for repetitive actions that take a little longer when are done conventionally. The bookmarklets were written by FamilySearch users like Flominator (talk) and are not officially tested and/or approved by FamilySearch. All are supposed to work with Google Chrome v49. ''Usage is at your own risk. ''

In order to use them, just store them as bookmarks in your browser and call them by clicking them while being on FamilySearch.

Possible duplicates
Usage: Click the bookmark while being on a person's page in FamilySearch in order to see the list of potential duplicates Advantage: On slower internet connections you don't need to wait until the whole page is loaded, you just need to see the person's name in the title bar.

Research help
Same as for research hints:

Add source
Same as for adding sources from your collection:

Merging people
Usage:
 * 1) Copy ID the person that you want to delete after merging (the right side)
 * 2) Select the ID of the person you want to keep
 * 3) Start the bookmarklet
 * 4) Paste the copied ID into the dialog that pops up
 * 5) A merge site for the two people will show up

Bonus: if you are on a merge page already, it will also submit the existing merge (you have to change the text after  to your language version of the submit button with which you finally merge people in your language version (for German it would be 'Verschmelzung abschlie%C3%9Fen')

Source linker
Opens all research hints each in a new window.

Firefox (and others?)
Usage:
 * 1) Open a research hints page
 * 2) Click the bookmarklet
 * 3) All hints open in new windows

Chrome
Usage:
 * 1) Open a research hints page
 * 2) Click the bookmarklet
 * 3) Copy the URL list that appears on top of the page
 * 4) Paste it into the dialog created by the Bulk URL Opener Extension or anything similiar in order to open the urls in new tabs/windows