Annotate Pictures in your Family Book

Posted by admin on Sep 18, 2009

GeneaNet lets Club Privilege Members easily adding notes to family pictures in their family book.

This will help you to identify people, places and events, to mark notable details and comment specific objects.

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.

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