Geneanet

[lisalisa]

Hello,

I came across this French (at first I presumed it was German as the pages were in German from my search) genealogy site https://de.geneanet.org/ whilst googling for some names and seemed to be able to view a few results before the website wanted me to register for a free account to continue.

Does anyone have experience of this site?
I think it was just name and email required to register and it would be a free account but wasn't sure if it was committing me to anything else.
I don't really want to take out another paid sub right now, but this looked interesting and potentially useful.
thanks

Lisa

[Mart 'n' Al]

Lisa, having traced my mother-in-law's ancestors back to former East Germany I think I will find this very useful.

Update a few minutes later, there's even an option to change the website language to one of your own choosing. I went for English.

Martin

[lisalisa]

Martin, this morning I was looking at the map feature which shows instances/frequencies of a surname in say 1800, 1900, etc, and it was possible to zoom in to refine the results.

Yesterday I managed to get a list of people with the same surname in the same place (quite small) but couldn't seem to recreate that today. 

Hope you find something interesting,

Lisa

[youngtug]

It is free for the basic version. I think it is French, not German though.

[lisalisa]

It is free for the basic version. I think it is French, not German though.

Yes, I was just reading more about the website and saw it's French, it must be because I was looking up a name and place in Germany that I got a search result with pages in German and incorrectly assumed it must be a German website.

thanks
Lisa

[garstonite]

I use Geneanet all the time - some is pay per view and some is free - it is primarily a French research site but you will find most countries have surname research - this is my homepage - note the en before geneanet - so this is the English site you need

https://en.geneanet.org/

so for instance - if you were looking for a Frederick Pollard from your tree - you would get this

https://en.geneanet.org/fonds/individus/?go=1&nom=pollard&prenom=frederick&prenom_operateur=or&with_variantes_nom=&with_variantes_nom_conjoint=&with_variantes_prenom=&with_variantes_prenom_conjoint=&size=10

[joger]

Free but Premium version is not ( you can have more infos) . In the basic version You can choose your langage , (French, english, german spanish,italian , etc...) , you can use the forums ,very useful, don't hesitate to browse the numerous  trees .

[lisalisa]

Thanks Garstonite,

I registered for the free account yesterday and was looking at the surnames on the map, a very interesting feature.  It certainly gives you some different possibilities or directions to look in.

Lisa

[lisalisa]

Free but Premium version is not ( you can have more infos) . In the basic version You can choose your langage , (French, english, german spanish,italian , etc...) , you can use the forums ,very useful, don't hesitate to browse the numerous  trees .

thanks joger, haven't looked at the trees or forum yet, but will do so soon.

Lisa