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GeneaNet All Relatives can help you stay in touch with family and friends while doing your genealogy research.

Your GeneaNet personal inbox is a great way to connect with other members who have ancestors in common with you and share discoveries.

GeneaNet All Relatives allows you:
- to organise your address book,
- to see if you have been added in a GeneaNet user address book and to manage your authorizations,
- to view your family and friends on Google Maps,
- to manage your contact groups and to use the color tool to spot them,
- to write private notes.

Your GeneaNet All Relatives home page provides a snapshot view of the latest news from your network of family and friends.

The GeneaNet Collection offers more than 200 million digitized documents to go further in your genealogy research!

The GeneaNet Collection contains:

- Library: Almanacs, military directories, etc. with name index (Club Privilege Members), Monographs, bibliographies, genealogy works, etc. provided by our partners (Pay per View).
- Census: Transcriptions provided by our partners (Club Privilege Members & Pay per View).
- Announcements: Digitized French announcements (Pay per View).

The search engine has been improved so you can now enter many search terms:

You can also browse the Collection by country/county.

You can now export the images from your GeneaNet Family History Book.

Click the 'My GeneaNet : Online Family Tree : Export' link in the left sidebar or simply go to http://my.geneanet.org/geneweb/down.php3.

The images are exported in a ZIP archive file.

Please read 'Write Your Family History' and 'Annotate Pictures in your Family Book' for more about the GeneaNet Family History Book.

Your can now share family pictures and postcards on Facebook and Twitter, or by email.
Click the 'Family Pictures' link in the left sidebar of the web site or simply go to http://portraits.geneanet.org/, then search and select a picture.

When clicking on the Facebook icon, you will be send to a new Facebook page. Just click 'Share' to post the picture on your wall.


When clicking on the Twitter icon, you will be send to a new Twiiter page. Just click 'Update' to twit the picture.

Click the star to send the picture by email.

To share a postcard, click the 'Postcards' link in the left sidebar of the web site or simply go to http://cards.geneanet.org/.

GeneaNet allows you to send a free electronic greeting to your family and friends!

You can pick from a selection of our greeting postcards...

... or click on a category area to browse through our selection of postcards.

Once you've selected your postcard your next step is to customize it.


Please be sure to fill out all boxes completely and check the recipient’s email address for accuracy.

When done click the "View Your Postcard" button to see what will be sent. If everything looks right, click the "Send" button. If you would like to make additional changes before sending, click the "Correct" button to return to the editing screen.

And remember that you can upload and share postcards!

The GeneaNet Search by Alternate Spelling of Names has been improved.

Enter a name in the GeneaNet home page Search Form.

A Search Edit Form is displayed in the right sidebar of the search results page.

Select "Search by Alternate Spelling" then click the "Search" button.

It shows the list of existing alternate spellings for this name.

To continue the search, check/uncheck the alternate spellings then click the "Search" button.

To add/delete some alternate spellings, click the "Add/Delete Alternate Spellings" link.

Click the "trash button" to delete any alternate spelling and the "more button" to add some.

This feature is collaborative and any other GeneaNet user may delete an alternate spelling that you previously added! Contact us to report abuse.

When done, click the "Submit & Search" button.

It shows the home page of the earch results list.

You still can add/remove some alternate spellings by clicking the "Modify" link.

Choose any of the category: Online Family Tree, Archive, Library, Other Source.

The search results list shows the GeneaNet Index for all of the alternate spellings of the name.

Some new features have been added in your Contact Page and your GeneaNet Online Family Tree.

Tag Cloud of Most Popular Surnames and Places

A Tag Cloud of the most popular surnames and places in your family tree is now displayed in your Contact Page.

Users can click on these tags to automatically see the selected data in your GeneaNet Online Family Tree.

You can add/remove some surnames in your Tag Cloud at "My GeneaNet : Account : Public Contact Page : Tag cloud of most popular surnames".

The Tag Clouds are building from your Family Tree Index. You should re-index your Family Tree if the tags are not correctly displayed .

Geographical Distribution of your Family Tree

You can now see the geographical distribution of your family tree in your Contact Page by clicking on the link "Map".

The same map can be shown in your online family tree by clicking on the link "Map" in the left sidebar.

Links in your Online Family Tree Home Page

Some links to your Family History Book, your Digitized Documents and the geographical distribution of your data (Map) can be displayed in the home page of your Online Family Tree.

You can select the links to be displayed in your family tree home page at "My GeneaNet : Online Family Tree : Personalize : Home Page".

GeneaNet launches 'Learn The Origin Of Your Surname' Facebook App which display the geographical distribution of your name thanks to the searches of 2 millions members worldwide!

Your name won't appear in some areas of the map if no record has been indexed by the GeneaNet users. But it doesn't mean that your name doesn't exist actually!

You can search for another surname, publish the map to your wall and invite friends to join.

Click the image below to go to the 'Learn The Origin Of Your Surname' application then log in to your Facebook account:

We hope that you will enjoy using our new Facebook app!

An Ahnentafel is a list of the ancestors of a person, numbered in such a way that the starting person is number 1, the father 2, mother 3, paternal grandfather 4, paternal grandmother 5, maternal grandfather and so on. It is also known as the Sosa-Stradonitz Method, for Jérôme de Sosa, the Spanish genealogist who popularized the numbering system in 1676 and Stephan Kekulé von Stradonitz, the German genealogist who published his interpretation of Sosa's method in 1898.

Set Your Family Tree Root

Log on to your online family tree as "Wizard", then select an individual and click "Update - Individual/Family". This will open a window that shows you a list of available update options. Click "Set to home individual" to set the selected individual as your family tree root.

Sosa numbers will be automatically assigned to the ancestors of your family tree root.

Clicking the Sosa number of any person will open a window that shows you a descendancy list.

Remove Your Family Tree Root

If needed, you can deactivate the numbering system. Select the "Online Family Tree - Manage - Expert Options" menu item then click "Remove the family tree root". Note that this will not remove the individual in your family tree!

Anyone who has registered with GeneaNet can send or receive messages from other users as well as reply to messages if they are contacted.

Through the email address

You may contact another user anonymously through the email address provided on their public profile.

To view their public profile:

- In the GeneaNet search results list, click on the username
- In the user's online family tree, click on the icon at the top left of the screen (see image below)

Through the user's personal forum

Every GeneaNet user has their own online family tree forum for free.

By clicking on the icon at the top left of the screen (see image below) you can post a message and an email will be automatically send to the user.

Through the "All Relatives" address book

Enter the name or the username of the user in the search form, then click "Add to my address book". When adding a user to your address book, you can enter a message. The user will automatically receive an email.

More about the "All Relatives" feature.