Genealogy Research Support

The Spider's Apprentice, Spidap, is not another search engine.  Our purpose is to help you understand and use search engines.  How do they work?  Why do certain results come up frequently and others not at all?  Which search engines are most useful and efficient?  How can you improve your searches and find what you want more easily? 

This Flickr sidebar is used for viewing and searching photo lists. You can access it by the command key Ctrl+Shift+F, the toolbar button, or clicking on the menu option View|Sidebars|Flickr Sidebar. Once you have authorized the extension to work with your flickr account, you can search through or view a full list of your photos, your favorites, everyones photos, your individual contacts, or your groups. Double clicking a photo opens it's page in the current tab. You can also use all the standard link modifiers to open in tabs and windows.

Saves and manages frequently-entered text for later pasting into Web page forms in Firefox or email and newsgroup messages in Thunderbird. Pasting a clipping is accomplished with just two mouse clicks, eliminating the hassle of retyping or repetitive copying and pasting.

ScribeFire (previously Performancing for Firefox) is a full-featured blog editor that integrates with your browser and lets you easily post to your blog. You can drag and drop formatted text from pages you are browsing, take notes, and post to your blog.

ScribeFire (previously Performancing for Firefox) is a full-featured blog editor that integrates with your browser and lets you easily post to your blog. You can drag and drop formatted text from pages you are browsing, take notes, and post to your blog.

View a Yahoo! map of a selected address without having to open a new window or tab. Currently, Map+ only supports addresses within the United States (sorry).