Goldie May
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- Extension status: Featured
- Live on Store
More Genealogy in Less Time
Goldie May is genealogy research software to accelerate your research, sort out tangles in your family tree, and keep you more organized.
It won't replace your current family tree software, but it might replace your spreadsheet, your word processing program, the papers on your desk, and the sticky notes on your monitor.
🏅 One of the 101 best genealogy websites of 2025 according to Family Tree Magazine: "Though named for two female ancestors, [Goldie May] is anything but old-fashioned...."
🏅 FamilySearch Compatible Solution
🏅 Authorized training partner of The Family History Guide
✅ Projects
Organize your research into projects, each with an objective, subjects, and research plan. Great for client work or all your family lines.
✅ Research Log
Mark each item in your log as a positive or negative result. Write abstracts and comments. Search your log. Export it to a spreadsheet.
✅ Automatic Research Log
Turn it on, then start researching. Goldie May keeps a list of all the sites you visit, rabbit holes and all.
✅ Screenshots
Take screenshots and save them directly to your research log.
✅ Citations
On known websites, citations are created for you.
✅ Snapshots of your windows & tabs
Too many browser tabs open? Take a snapshot and save them for later. Let's call it rabbit-hole insurance.
✅ Accessible from anywhere
Your data is stored in the cloud. Access your projects from the library, an archive, or your nearest FamilySearch center.
✅ Subway Map
See where your ancestor lived over time with this unique timeline tool. See census and newspaper hints in context. See county and state boundary changes in context.
✅ Newspaper coverage tool
See which newspapers ran when and where your ancestor lived and open them on the provider's website.
✅ Canvas
Sort out tricky situations like pre-1850 U.S. censuses with this visual tool, as if you were sorting papers on your kitchen table.
✅ Catalog of catalogs
See what collections the big genealogy and newspaper sites have for a given time and place and quickly go there.
✅ Auto-search
Launch searches into census records, and quickly jump to the next and previous census for that location.
Latest reviews
- Tyra Robinson
- I love this app! I kept losing my genealogy notes and struggling to keep track of my projects and goals. After getting frustrated, I checked RootsTech and discovered Goldie May. Richard Miller's presentation was excellent, and his app has been the perfect solution. Thank you for creating such a fantastic tool to help me to stay organized and focused!
- Eileen Swanberg
- This is just what I needed to help me keep my personal and clients' research logs! I can log pages I need to pull at my local FamilySearch Center. I can input tasks that I am working on in each project (I have one for each of my family lines, as well as my clients'). I love that I can add comments to my research log since the name of the page is sometimes of no help. I have tried other platforms to keep my research straight, but this is the only one I have found that is genealogy based in its development. I have told Richard that it is how I would have done it if I knew what I was doing! I recommend the extension to everyone that comes into the FamilySearch Center where I volunteer and they all love it too. Thank you!
- Michael Gardner
- Best family history research assistant I've ever used. This really helps me to keep focused, navigate quickly, log my reseach, and visualize my family relationships. The developer is also extremely open to feedback and responds to questions and issues quickly!
- Dee Ann Buys
- A great tool to help with family history research. I use it mostly when comparing two duplicate people in FamilySearch. It helps visualize how closely they match. I hope to explore more aspects of this tool soon.
- Joe Price
- I love using Goldie May. It really is the perfect companion to have alongside the large genealogy websites. It can help so much in visualizing what is going on when I have a complicated family or a case where two families might have been incorrectly merged. I also love using the volunteer tools with youth groups.
- Mary Schwartz
- Goldie May helps me keep track of extended searches and provides many sophisticated tools that are quickly accessible to analyze the information I locate. I am grateful for this software.
- Ira Toles
- this looks better than what i created in vscode. if its as good as it says it is ill upgrade the rating. i bet as soon as i upload my dna im gonna hit the paywall. im sure of it!
- Barry Sachais
- Goldie May is an indispensable tool for staying organized while researching. I highly recommend this extension.
- Olivia Morgan
- Makes increasing the FamilyTree size infinitely easier and faster, would highly recommend giving it a try!
- Olivia Morgan
- Makes increasing the FamilyTree size infinitely easier and faster, would highly recommend giving it a try!
- Matt Armstrong
- Really great extension that simplifies so many of the steps for keeping track of research. Particularly for me, as someone who is not only disorganized but also distracted by every rabbit hole I find, this helps to keep me on task and most especially know where to start each time I begin researching. A huge game-changer in the family history tech space.
- Matt Armstrong
- Really great extension that simplifies so many of the steps for keeping track of research. Particularly for me, as someone who is not only disorganized but also distracted by every rabbit hole I find, this helps to keep me on task and most especially know where to start each time I begin researching. A huge game-changer in the family history tech space.
- Eileen Phelps
- The chief benefit of this extension in my opinion is that it points out which ancestors are well sourced and which have never had any updating since the old Book of Remembrance pages. Let's face it. Too many of us think our family history is "done," when the tree hasn't been pruned or fertilized for years. This is a great time for this utility to be launched, since more of us are housebound and need some constructive things to do with our browsers. It can also serve as a way to create a to-do list and "research log" that might be useful to whoever inherits our computer if we pass on sooner than we planned.
- Eileen Phelps
- The chief benefit of this extension in my opinion is that it points out which ancestors are well sourced and which have never had any updating since the old Book of Remembrance pages. Let's face it. Too many of us think our family history is "done," when the tree hasn't been pruned or fertilized for years. This is a great time for this utility to be launched, since more of us are housebound and need some constructive things to do with our browsers. It can also serve as a way to create a to-do list and "research log" that might be useful to whoever inherits our computer if we pass on sooner than we planned.
- Anne Marie G.
- I was disappointed to see that this extension relies solely upon individuals added to Family Search's "one shared tree". I strongly encourage individuals to recognize that while Family Search's primary benefactor, the Church of Latter Day Saints, generously provides an outstanding array of digitized array of genealogical resources, their goal of building "one tree" offers zero privacy or control by family members who might not share their vision. I do not subscribe to the religious beliefs of the Church of Latter Day Saints, and therefore, cannot recommend a tool that is in line with their principles.
- Anne Marie G.
- I was disappointed to see that this extension relies solely upon individuals added to Family Search's "one shared tree". I strongly encourage individuals to recognize that while Family Search's primary benefactor, the Church of Latter Day Saints, generously provides an outstanding array of digitized array of genealogical resources, their goal of building "one tree" offers zero privacy or control by family members who might not share their vision. I do not subscribe to the religious beliefs of the Church of Latter Day Saints, and therefore, cannot recommend a tool that is in line with their principles.
- Nicole Dyer
- Great research log tool! The extension includes guided research steps to help you in each part of the research process - from creating an objective, to planning tasks, finding locality information, and even taking screenshots. Goldie May logs each website you visit - a great start for newbie research loggers!
- Nicole Dyer
- Great research log tool! The extension includes guided research steps to help you in each part of the research process - from creating an objective, to planning tasks, finding locality information, and even taking screenshots. Goldie May logs each website you visit - a great start for newbie research loggers!
- James Tanner
- This is a fabulous extension that opens up a new world of learning about the FamilySearch.org website and other genealogical information. It is a must have for anyone who needs help with either FamilySearch or the FamilySearch Family Tree.
- James Tanner
- This is a fabulous extension that opens up a new world of learning about the FamilySearch.org website and other genealogical information. It is a must have for anyone who needs help with either FamilySearch or the FamilySearch Family Tree.