More than 1.5 million online family trees from Geneanet’s website have been indexed and added to Ancestry.
Each record in the index includes a link to the originating family tree on Geneanet, which is free to access. Users just need to sign up to continue the free access after looking at a few trees.
Ancestry announced last September it had entered into an agreement to acquire the Paris-based genealogy company Geneanet, and we’re starting to see the benefits.
Geneanet has a large European community of more than four million members. Its website is available in ten languages and more than 25 countries.
Providing access to Geneanet’s online family trees allows Ancestry’s subscribers to broaden the scope of their research. I’ve found several of my ancestors who lived in Canada, the United States, Britain, and Ireland on Geneanet’s online trees.
A search for my husband’s ancestor, Louis Houde from Manou, Perche in France, who was among the first European settlers in New France, produced several online trees. Even my husband’s grandparents and father appear on some of Geneanet’s family trees.
Ancestry indicates that the trees are in French, but that is not the case. Everything I viewed was in English.
In the agreement with Ancestry, the Geneanet.org site remains an independent site and retains all of its services. It remains managed by the Geneanet company with the same team of employees and headed by its founder Jacques Le Marois.
