WHAT IS GENEANET?

Geneanet is one of FamilySearch's lesser known partners. James Tanner, in his blog "Rejoice and be Exceeding Glad", provides us with a short introduction to this site. While it is headquartered in France, it covers all of Europe and the USA as well. Receiving a hint from Geneanet about an ancestor in NJ convinced me that they are on the ball.

Rejoice, and be exceeding glad...

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A Short Introduction to Geneanet.org

You may or may not have noticed but FamilySearch.org has a new partner listed on each individual's detail page; Geneanet.org.  Who is this newcomer to the list of websites that can be automatically searched from the FamilySearch.org Family Tree? Here is a brief explanation from their website:

Launched in 1996 by genealogy enthusiasts, Geneanet is a community of more than 3 million members who share their genealogical information for free: more than 6 billion individuals in the family trees, some digitized archival records, some family pictures, some indexes, all available through a powerful search engine, and a blog. 

The Premium subscription offers additional options, including an advanced search engine, and to access hundreds of million of indexes provided by our partners. 

The Geneanet team is passionate about genealogy and emerging technologies. And at Geneanet, genealogy is almost a family affair as several team members have common ancestors!

Members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints have a free subscription to the website because of the FamilySearch partnership agreement.

https://partners.familysearch.org/solutionsgallery/s/gallery-profile/a2Rf10000079nuHEAQ/00063

The link for logging on with your LDS Account is available on the Solutions Gallery at the bottom of the pages on the FamilySearch.org website. Members qualify for the Geneanet Premium Subscription.

Geneanet.org has a huge searchable collection of French and other European records called the Genealogy Library containing over 3 billion indexed individuals in old books, academic journals, newspapers, obituaries, and hundreds of thousands of documents. You can search for the names of your ancestors. These resources come from all over the world from places you may never have seen documents previously. Here is a search of just the newspapers and magazine titles.

Here is a part of the list of collections:

The website is particularly helpful in searching for French ancestors.

The website has a lot of other projects and resources and is certainly worth investigating. You can also put a family tree up on the website and receive record hints from the website.