Canopy

Formats names, dates, and places on ancestry software. GedCom reports, kinship tier, and Report Writer.

**Canopy — Smart Formatting, Data Quality & GedCom Reports for Ancestry.com** 🎁 **Free 7-day trial — no credit card required. ** Install and start formatting immediately. Canopy is a browser extension that helps genealogists keep their family trees clean, consistent, and well-sourced — directly inside Ancestry.com, Ancestry.co.uk, and Ancestry.com.au. **✦ Automatic Formatting** - One-click formatting for names, dates, and places across Edit Person sidebars, Edit Fact panels, and Add Person/Family forms - Smart place-name normalization expands abbreviations, adds missing counties/parishes and countries, and verifies city/county names against a built-in US place database - Consistent name casing, suffix cleanup, and date qualifier formatting — all driven by your own preferences **✦ Bulk Operations** - **Format Family** — format every family member shown on a profile in one pass - **Format Ancestors** — sweep formatting up the family tree - **Format Fields (Merge Page)** — clean up both sides of a merge comparison before you commit - Built-in undo and a downloadable change-log report for every batch run **✦ Data Quality & Validation** - **Timeline Validator** — runs 19 rules against birth, death, marriage, and other life events to catch impossible or conflicting dates - **Vital Stats Check** (merge page) — flags inconsistencies between the two records you're comparing - **Quality Score Stars** — at-a-glance scoring for profiles and merge candidates, based on sourcing, relationships, and completeness - **Kinship Tier badge** — on profile pages after GedCom import, shows how many relationship steps separate each person from the nearest blood relative (blood drop for kin, numbered stairs for everyone else) - **Surname Origin Mix** — on Facts pages after GedCom import, a pie button beside the surname origin builds a six-generation weighted mix of stored ancestor-origin labels (first-listed origin dominant; groups under 1% are All Other) **✦ GedCom Tools & Reports (v2.85)** - Import a GedCom once to build a local per-tree index with Kinship Tier for every person - **33 reports & charts** under Canopy → GedCom Tools → Reports & Analysis - **Report Writer** — build custom PDF reports from filter rules, column pickers, sort, grouping, and saved quick sets (runs locally; no AI) - **Relationship Finder** — pick any two people in the index and see their closest blood or marriage relationship - **Prune Distant Branches** (licensed) — safely delete one outer Kinship Tier group at a time from your Ancestry tree, with Do not delete tag protection - Pedigree & lineage: Fan Chart, Classic Fan Chart, Butterfly, Funnel Ancestor Tree, Ahnentafel, registers, Surname Index, Surname Origins, Surname Origin Mix on Facts pages, Kinship, Household Migration, and more - Family & demographics: Marriage Analysis, Maternal Risk, Family Group Sheets, lifespan studies, Possible War Deaths - Data quality: Age Outliers, Duplicate Detective, Generational Gap Check, No Kin of Mine, Orphan Hunter, Who's Your Daddy - Special interest: Doubling Down, Kissing Cousins, The Widowhood Effect, They're the Ones, Twins & Then Some **✦ AI-Powered Merge Summaries** - Optional: generate a plain-English summary comparing two tree records on a merge page, powered by your own Anthropic API key (Report Writer does not use AI) **✦ Multi-language & Multi-region** - Works across Ancestry.com, Ancestry.co.uk, and Ancestry.com.au During the 7-day trial you get full formatting plus seven sample reports (Age Outliers, Duplicate Detective, Generational Gap Check, Narrative Register, Orphan Hunter, Kissing Cousins, Who's Your Daddy). Format Families is capped at 10 profiles. After the trial, a license key unlocks the full report set, Prune Distant Branches, and unlimited Format Families. *Canopy is an independent tool and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or associated with Ancestry.com or its related companies. All formatting suggestions are optional — you review and approve every change. *