GeneaNet: Add and Annotate Pictures in your Family Book

Posted by admin on Jun 11, 2010

GeneaNet Club Privilege members can easily add and annotate family pictures in their family book.

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

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

To create/edit your family history book, log in as “wizard” on your online family tree, then click the “Family history book” link in the left sidebar.



To add 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.

Upload an image file or select an image in the thumbnail panel.

Align and 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 in the picture. 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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