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Did you know that you can upload your census documents, parish registers, land ownership and much more on GeneaNet?

SUBSCRIBE

Go to the "Archives > Records" page and send a detailed email to GeneaNet to subscribe for free.

When your subscription is validated, go to "My GeneaNet > My Records" to upload and manage your records.

UPLOAD RECORDS

Select the "Upload Records" option and just fill in the form.

If you have a lot of documents to upload

You can mail us a CD-Rom/DVD-Rom at GeneaNet - 44 rue Liancourt - 75014 Paris - FRANCE.

You can also upload your files on our FTP server:

- Using a web browser, enter "ftp://ftp.geneanet.org", press return/enter to send the browser to the address you just entered, and drag&drop your zip files in the "incoming" directory.

- Using a FTP Client, enter "ftp://ftp.geneanet.org", enter the word "anonymous" as the user identifier and as the password, select the "incoming" directory, and drag&drop your zip files.

Then, send an email to releves@geneanet.org with your username, the file name and the records description (date, places, type, etc).

You can authorize (or not) GeneaNet Club Privilege Members to download your records from the "My GeneaNet > My Records > Downloading Options" page.

 You can select access rights to your records from the "My GeneaNet > My Records > Transcript Options" page.

The Search Filters are a useful way to narrow your search and reduce the number of search results.

Specific Filters (only for GeneaNet Club Privilege Members)

- Family Trees: Search the Online Family Trees only instead of the whole GeneaNet Index.

- Transcriptions: Search the transcription database. It will include free transcriptions (represented by a book) and commercial data (represented by a padlock).

- Records: Search the digitized documents.

- Family Pictures: Search the family pictures gallery.

- Forums: Search the surname and regional forums.

- Club Privilege: Search the Collection GeneaNet (free for GeneaNet Club Privilege Members).



Latest Entries (for all GeneaNet users)

- Show the GeneaNet Index latest entries only.


Options

- Refine your search: Modify search criteria for different results.

- Subscribe to the Newsletter: Receive a weekly email aggregate of the latest entries that contain the surnames and places of your choice. Read More about GeneaNet Email Alert.

To receive a weekly email aggregate of the latest entries that contain the surnames and places of your choice, fill in the search form and click on the "Search" button.

At the bottom of the search results page, click on the "Subscribe to the Newsletter" button.


You can edit or remove your alerts, and view the new entries for each of them.


Click on the "Email Alert" item of the menu to go to your email alert page at any page.

GeneaNet Club Privilege members can now annotate pictures in their family history book.

This will help you to identify family members and ancestors, tell about places where photos were taken, and comment sweet moments in the life of your family.

To create/edit your family history book, log in as "wizard" on your online family tree, then click on the "Family history book" button.


Your family history book can be a few pages or hundreds.

New: Annotate pictures

To insert an image into a your family history book, first move the cursor to the location in the document that you want the picture, and then click on the "Image" button.

Select your image file, resize the picture if needed and select the "Allow Notes" option.


The code is added to your family history book. Click "OK" to confirm and view the image.


Click on the "Add a note" tab and drag the frame to the location that you want the note. Then enter the title and the text of your note.


You can add as many notes as you need, and you can edit/remove/hide your notes.

The notes are automatically displayed when the mouse moves over the picture.

Managing your GeneaNet profile is very easy!

Click on the "My GeneaNet" button to go to the account section.
Profile:

Change your details, your password, your email address and your langage preferences. Subscribre to the GeneaNet newsletters. Close your account.

Club Privilege:

Subscribe to the GeneaNet Club Privilege or renew your subscription.

Public Contact Page:

Set your contact details, enter a welcome message and upload a profile picture.

Recommendations:

'Recommendations' is a fully featured rating system that show replies from your online family tree visitors.

Ticket Contact:

'Ticket Contact' allow you to contact us quickly and easily (only for GeneaNet Club Privilege members).

Forums Preferences:

Edit your forums preferences: signature, privacy, moderation, etc.

Search Preferences:

Set the default country code that will be automatically added to your database search requests and exclude some account usernames from your queries.

GeneaNet now use the Sosa-Stradonitz System, also know as Ahnentafel or Kekule, for numbering ancestors on your online family tree.

Your family tree root (Sosa 1) has been automatically calculated but you can easily change it.

Then, just select the D, F, H or I online family tree template to show Sosa-Stradonitz numbers on your family tree pages.

Cross-Database Search is an exclusive and powerful GeneaNet feature that compares your family tree against the complete GeneaNet database index

You first need to complete the form below to describe your search:

For anyone who uses a computer on a regular basis, data backup is very important. Your GeneaNet data is backed up on solid state backup servers in our secure data center, but what if you accidentally remove individuals from your family tree?

To export your family tree, select My GeneaNet : Online Family Tree : Save.


Export your complete family tree:

Available file formats are:

GED: GEDCOM File Format. If you want to share you data or import it in a genealogy software.

ZIP: Zipped GEDCOM File Format.

GeneaNet users had, until now, the ability to build their online family tree using GeneWeb, a free interface created by Daniel de Rauglaudre, research engineer for INRIA .

GeneWeb is a powerful genealogy web interface but we know how difficult and frustrating it can be to some of the GeneaNet users. That's why we have added a new Simplified Online Family Tree Editor.

Simplified Online Family Tree Editor

This new feature is mostly aimed at new users and first-time visitors. You couldn't take advantage of it if you already built your online family tree.

It will be your default family tree editor when you will register to GeneaNet but you will be able to switch to GeneWeb at anytime.

What can you do on this editor?

- Add/modify/delete individuals
- Link individuals
- Add pictures and create a slideshow
- Add notes
- List individuals in alphabetical, ascendant or descendant order
- Show your family on Google Maps

GEDCOM File Test

You can now upload GEDCOM files up to 10 MB.

The interface shows a progress bar while uploading and your file is automatically checked.

When successfully done, the number of individuals in your family tree and the number of entries in your GeneaNet Index are displayed.

If there was an error in your GEDCOM file, you will be notified to correct it and try again.

Did you know that GeneaNet can help you calculate the relationship between two persons from your online family tree?

Select the person who will be the subject of the relationship and click on the "Calculate relationship" link at the bottom of its individual page.

The relationship calculator form will open as below:



Just type in the name of the relative. If needed, just type in the surname and the list of persons with that surname will open to select the individual.

Options are:

- Ancestors/By marriage: find out the closest common ancestor for both the subject and the relative
- Shortest parth: calculate relationship between two persons whatever their lines are

- Long display: display individual names, dates and places
- Include spouses: display individual spouses
- Images: display pictures
- Border: display frames

Relationship calculation:



Shortest path between two persons:



Note: Please check your data if a loop is detected. The relationship calculator can't work if any person of your family tree is its own ancestor!