Canopy

Formats names, dates, and places on Ancestry. GEDCOM reports, graph distance, Report Writer, and AI merge summaries.

**Canopy — Smart Formatting & Data Quality Tools 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 **✦ 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 **✦ GED Batch Processing** - Process a GEDCOM file to apply formatting and gender mapping across many records at once, with a resumable progress log **✦ Multi-language & multi-region** - Works across Ancestry.com, Ancestry.co.uk, and Ancestry.com.au --- After your 7-day trial, a license key is required to continue using Canopy' full feature set. *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. *