Geneanet

Overview:
About Geneanet

Geneanet was launched in 1996 by genealogy enthusiasts to help family history researchers sharing their data. They wanted their users to pay only if they want and that’s why they created the Premium service. Most of the website pages and features are available for free but you can take advantage of Ad-Free browsing, more effective search engine and access to additional records by subscribing to the Premium. Members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints can receive a fee membership by going through the App Gallery found on the bottom of the FamilySearch main page, then looking under Partner Access. https://www.familysearch.org/partner/geneanet/?cid=lp-lpa-6458 (You must be logged into FamilySearch to verify your Church Membership.  Geneanet is the first French genealogy website and the company has 25 employees.

Free or paid genealogy website?

Geneanet offers every kind of genealogy record published by researchers, genealogy societies, commercial companies, etc. Data submitters decide if they want to give a free or paid access to their information. But most of it is available for free to every Geneanet member and you will never be charged without your authorization.

What you can expect to find there?

They have a forum to post questions and engage in discussions related to Geneanet specifically and genealogy in general. Geneanet is especially useful for those who have ancestors in Europe, and more specifically in France. Geneanet is particularly important to researchers in Latin America, as many professional Hispanic genealogists have added their trees to this database.

Content:

 * The Geneanet members are sharing more than 400 million individuals in their Online Family Trees. They suggest that you contact other members to find and share ancestors.
 * Hundreds of thousands of free digitized archival records and hundreds of mostly free digitized registers are available.
 * Geneanet members are also sharing their indexes for free and some genealogy society indexes are available with paid access.
 * You will find hundreds of thousands of digitized books (paid access), postcards and family photos (free), a wiki, a blog, a genealogy community, etc.

Internet address:

 * www.geneanet.org/

or Google geneanet

Cost:
Free for most services

Premium services require a subscription

Free premium access to members of the The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints who register through the Partner Access app

Tip:
The site can be viewed in Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese. To change the language, click on a small flag near the top right corner of the screen.