Issue 34.16
In addition to Ancestry.com, Findmypast, MyHeritage and American Ancestors, FamilySearch has just added a new partner. This site is called Geneanet. With 3 billion referenced individuals and 600,000 trees online, Ge3neanet is the first site dedicated to the genealogy in France and Europe including Belgium, Netherlands, Sweden, and Germany. The Geneanet community gathers 2 million members who exchange and share much genealogical information. All of this information is accessible thanks in particular to powerful search tools, a wiki, and a blog.
The release is starting its rollout this week. There are free accounts available to members of the LDS Church through FamilySearch. To gain member access to Geneanet, use these steps.
Go to https://familysearch.org/partner/geneanet. Sign in with your LDS Account. Click Continue for your FREE Geneanet account. Read the information about granting Geneanet access to information. If you agree, click Accept. A sign-in page appears. If you already have a Geneanet account, sign in on the left. Otherwise, on the right, create a username and password to use with the Geneanet website. The website opens with a message to check your email. Go to your email inbox and open the message from Geneanet. At the bottom of the email message, click Go to Geneanet. Choose your language and begin exploring the website.
This is exciting news for those of us with ancestors from the European area. As I was exploring, under Projects I found Archival registers which are registers uploaded and shared by other Geneanet members with notarial archives, censuses, parish records, etc. These included other countries beyond what I listed above.
Geneanet was launched in 1996 by genealogy enthusiasts to help family history researchers sharing their data and it was an instant success. We wanted our users to pay only if they want and that’s why we created the Premium service. Most of the website pages and features are available for free but you can take advantage of Ad-Free browsing, more effective search engine and access to additional records by subscribing to the Premium. Today, Geneanet is the first French genealogy website and the company has 25 employees.
For more information, contact Shanna Jones shannasjones@Msn.com www.searchshanna.com