Searching your ancestors in the GeneaNet collaborative database: 2-The Contact Page

Posted by admin on Jul 9, 2007

By selecting a GeneaNet user in the search results list, you will be redirected to its Contact Page.
The first screen of the Contact Page gives information about the user family tree:


Online Family Tree
This gives you the link to the list of all the individuals in the family tree that fit to the search you made.

My GeneaNet
Index: This is the number of indexed data (see Searching your ancestors in the GeneaNet collaborative database: 1-The Index). Depending on the distribution of the persons in the family tree (surnames, places), there could be more individuals.
Documents: Every GeneaNet user can upload and share some documents for free (see the documents collection). This could be any parish register, will, census, etc. The documents can be associated with any individual in the family tree.
Postcards: Every GeneaNet user can upload and share some postcards for free (see the postcards collection).
Pictures: Every GeneaNet user can upload and share some pictures for free (see the pictures collection). The pictures can be associated with any individual in the family tree.
Registers: Every GeneaNet user can upload and share some registers for free (see the registers collection).

File Description
Every GeneaNet user can enter its own file description. It usually gives a list of surnames and places.

Most Popular Surnames
This is an automatic surnames tag cloud. Note that every user can manually add or remove any surname in the tag cloud.

The second screen of the Contact Page gives details of the user:


Username
The GeneaNet username is the only information that identifies any user.

Name / Location
Note that the address can be hidden by the user.

Language / Other Languages
Shows user mother tongue and other languages spoken.

Email Address
The Contact Page creates an image file from the user email address to guard it from spam harvesters.

Last Update
Shows date of last update of the user family tree.

Personal website
In addition to the GeneaNet online family tree, every user can own a personal website!
And dont’ forget to thank any user that could help you in your searches !

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