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As a genealogist for nearly two decades, including a stint as a Research Manager for Ancestry's research arm, AncestryProGenealogists, I have heard colleagues and clients alike complain about the "Shoebox," an Ancestry record bookmarking tool, lacking a mechanism to search, sort, and filter content. Once you've saved a few hundred documents, you must endure an endless paginated scroll, 25 records at a time. My solution: Shoebox Plus Organizer — a Manifest V3 Chrome extension that loads every page of your Shoebox in the background, then provides live full-text search, date sorting, and record-type filtering, all client-side over the DOM that's already rendered on the page. Everything runs on-device. No servers, no external API calls, no analytics. There's nowhere for the data to go.
It doesn't scrape or automate faster than a human clicking through pages. Shoebox Plus Organizer reformats what's already loaded.
Works across all 11 international Ancestry sites (.com, .co.uk, .ca, .com.au, .de, .fr, .se, .it, .com.mx, .ie, .es) in 6 languages.
$25 one-time fee, no subscription. 14-day refund, no questions asked.
Not affiliated with, endorsed by, or created by Ancestry. Available now: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/shoebox-plus-organi.... More detail at shoeboxplusorganizer.com. |