#geneanet — Public Fediverse posts

Bon, la série de la Revue française de #généalogie sur l'histoire des principaux acteurs informatiques français est intéressante... Mais elle met tout de même un voile pudique sur certains détails stratégiques moyennement éthiques, donc ça frôle le storytelling...

#informatique #filae #geneanet

@gerhardbeck Die blockierten Suchoptionen und der blockierte Zugang zu Quellen bei #Geneanet wirken für mich schon etwas kostenpflichtig.

Je découvre l'espace "actes insolites" de #Geneanet. Exemple : un registre brûlé par le maire dans le but d'éviter plus tard la conscription à son fils https://www.geneanet.org/anecdotes/search?categories=3-33&country=&date_range=1800-1900&id=5627&main_filter=categories&place=&region=&subregion=#anecdote-5627

#Généalogie 🌳 Quand Napoléon signait les contrats de mariage de ses sujets ✍️

La découverte d’un modeste fascicule aux AN a éveillé l’attention des bénévoles de l’association Familles Parisiennes.

Ce carnet recensait initialement 80 unions. En fouillant dans #Retronews l’équipe a fini par identifier 130 contrats marqués du sceau impérial. Explorant deux siècles de monarchie, de Louis XIII jusqu’à Napoléon III, 250 actes ont été exhumés de l’oubli.

Blog #Geneanet 🌿
https://www.geneanet.org/blog/post/2026/04/quand-napoleon-signait-les-contrats-de-mariage-de-ses-sujets

Geneanet: Indexing Week at Geneanet! Help us transcribe the New York City Geographical Birth Index. “From January 31st through February 8, Geneanet is organizing a special week dedicated to the transcription of the New York City Geographical Birth Index. Whether you are a frequent contributor to Geneanet’s indexing projects, or you haven’t used our indexing tools yet, discover this unique […]

Un bénévole de Geneanet a trouvé comment raccourcir les URLs des Archives de Paris et pointer vers une page en particulier.

https://www.geneanet.org/forum/viewtopic.php?p=2873652&sid=f3621938b302188eb5689b4b49e217fa#p2873652

#Archives #Geneanet

Geneanet: Ahnenfest 2025: free access to German records October 3-10!. “October 3 is Tag der Deutschen Einheit — German Unity Day — and October 6 is German-American Day. Let’s celebrate ‘Ahnenfest’ – Geneanet’s German ancestor festival – with free access for American members to our Premium German collections from Oct. 3-10!”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/10/06/ahnenfest-2025-free-access-to-german-records-october-3-10-geneanet/

Geneanet: Geneanet ‘Save our Graves’ Weekend, October 17-19, 2025. “Since cemeteries are among the most important resources for genealogists, Geneanet has launched the ‘Save our Graves’ project to capture headstones before they are lost. On October 17-19, 2025, we will need you to photograph as many graves as possible worldwide with the Geneanet mobile app or with your camera.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/09/29/geneanet-geneanet-save-our-graves-weekend-october-17-19-2025/

**Genealogy tools and migrating data from FamilySearch to WikiTree**

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TL;DR

– Just start with WikiTree as a main tool for building your family tree, but also check other platforms to find your ancestors.

– Moving ancestry data between platforms is possible, but far from from trivial

– A combination of several online tools (presented below) and offline research is needed to progress in genealogy research

– Dealing with long dead has very real impact on living.

Intro

I have a strange urge to research my roots and store the information to some system. I started entering my ancestors 10yrs ago in FamilySearch portal. I choose this one because it looked the least suspicious. Now I’m moving to WikiTree.

FamilySearch

FamilySearch uses the principle ‘collaborate on one big tree’. It’s free to use and it has some nice functions, like search old scanned church archives. In all these years I didn’t found any downsides, except … it’s a closed system. And they’re entering AI train heads-on. I accept the usefulness of ML for handwriting recognition, but chatbots and similar … no, thank you.

One of the most positive sides was I found my wife’s relatives in the US . One day I was checking the log of edits of her ancestors and found someone was editing her part of the tree and adding ancestors back to 1660. I contacted her and established a contact that was missing for almost a 100 years, from their migration to US around 1900. She told me about some other relatives from other parts from Slovenia, that I wasn’t aware of. We meet with them and received a thick genealogy book of forgotten branch of the family.
Interesting, dealing with long dead has a very real impacts on living 🙂

Some stats of my edits:

Ancestry

I also tried out Ancestry briefly, but I quickly dropped the idea because I don’t like the principle of private ancestral trees. Also, it’s a closed system, behind a paywall.

WikiTree

This year, as a part of my broader de-centralisation and de-corporatisation efforts, I choose to move my ancestors from FamilySearch to WikiTree.

WikiTree also uses ‘collaborative one big tree’ approach, but it is open and governed by a community.

For the purpose of data migration, I had to get the data out of FamilySearch first.

I installed Ancestral Quest Basic under Wine under Linux Mint, connected it with my FamilySearch account and exported the data in GED format to a local database. It took a little gymnastics, because if I exported only all my ancestors, it left out the parts of the family tree that are not my direct ancestors. I had to click on all my ancestors and export their descendants. This way I built a local database and hoped it contains all the data I inserted in FamilySearch.

Then imported GED archive to WikiTree. I assumed it will automatically merge the data, but no. It’s GEDCompare tool takes a smarter approach. Firstly it check the WikiTree data and compares with the imported data. Then it offered a table with all the persons I imported and their existing records in WikiTree. I have 2 options: 1. to compare and merge each person or 2. add it if it doesn’t exist.

Currently I’m halfway of my 460 records, but I’m progressing.

During my migration activities I found what I like and dislike about WikiTree:

Like:

• Collaborative type of building a shared family tree.
• The community is welcoming.
• I can invite other people to help me with editing. I can add email address to living persons and they’re invited to the WikiTree.
• I can set privacy for each record in details.
• 20+ various tree visualization tools, for example timelime tree:

Dislike:

• some data is not imported well. For example, some birth/death dates are interpreted wrongly (esp. from … to) and meta data like ‘burial site’ is just dropped to ‘bio’ section
• group photos can be tagged with names, but faces related to names can not be selected (as in FamilySearch)

Geneanet

During the research I recently found out about Geneanet portal. The nice thing about it it has a database of cemeteries, tombstones and their photograps. Some of them are even indexed and searchable. It’s a collaborative community effort: people photograph and index tombstones.

I found some my distant relatives using this tool I didn’t know about them before.

Matricula Online

Matricula Online includes scanned old(1600-1900) church documents (baptism, marriage, death) for some European countries: Slovenia, Germany, Austria, Poland, Serbia, Luxembourg, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Italy. This is the best source for my research. The script gives me headaches, especially Kurrant (Gothic).

Additionally, local archive has a ‘status animarum’ books that are not available online. This books include a list of addresses and all the people that lived at the specific address. Useful to research whole families.

Arcanum maps

Arcanum maps help me to research old place names. It includes scanned Austro-hungary military and catastre maps.

Old place list – Seznam krajev

Seznam krajev is also a good resource to research how names of the places changed through the history.

Conclusion

My overall impression is I will stick with WikiTree as a main database for my family tree with the help of other tools. I hope I will pass the information to my children or other relatives to continue the work. The work of ancestry research is never done.

Interesting blogs

Genealogy research has a lot of traps: https://ancestryroads.blogspot.com/2025/06/the-magic-is-gone.html

https://blog.rozman.info/genealogy-and-migrating-data-from-familysearch-to-wikitree/

#ancestralquest #familysearch #ged #geneanet #wikitree #wine

Verstorbene aus jüngster Zeit in Schweden und Frankreich finden

Die schwedische Datenbank der Verstorbenen („Sveriges Dödbok“) enthält die Daten von 16,5 Millionen Schweden, die zwischen 1815 und 2022 verstorben sind, mit Geburts- und Sterbeort, Adresse, Zivilstand und die Gemeinde, in der die Daten registriert sind. Über die vorherige Ausgabe des schwedischen Totenbuches 1830–2020 berichteten wir zuletzt hier im CompGen-Blog. Die Datenbank wurde in der Vergangenheit alle zwei bis drei Jahre aktualisiert. Aber nicht nur in Schweden kann man […]

https://www.compgen.de/2025/08/verstorbene-aus-juengster-zeit-in-schweden-und-franreich-finden/

Geneanet: Indexing Week at Geneanet! Help us transcribe the New York City Geographical Birth Index. “From May 31st through June 8, Geneanet is organizing a special week dedicated to the transcription of the New York City Geographical Birth Index. Whether you are a frequent contributor to Geneanet’s indexing projects, or you haven’t used our indexing tools yet, discover this unique project […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/05/29/geneanet-indexing-week-at-geneanet-help-us-transcribe-the-new-york-city-geographical-birth-index/

Geneanet: Results of our “Save our Graves” weekend. “Since together we are stronger, we asked you, from May 16th through 18th, to participate in our ‘Save our Graves’ weekend. Thousands of you answered our call, and more than 100,000 photos of graves from Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Spain, Switzerland and more were uploaded to Geneanet. Bravo and thank you to all of our […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/05/29/geneanet-results-of-our-save-our-graves-weekend/

Ich war heute für “Rettet unsere Gräber” von #Geneanet unterwegs und habe Gräber fotografiert, die (offensichtlich) vor der Abräumung stehen, oder um die sich schon lange nicht mehr gekümmert wird.
https://de.geneanet.org/nachrichten/post/2025/05/mitmachen-bei-geneanet-rettet-unsere-graber-an-dem-wochenende-vom-16-bis-18-mai-2025
#RettetUnsereGräber

RT @sophieboudarel - #Geneanet vient de mettre en ligne les archives de l'état civil du canton de Genève. Cela représente près de 2500 registres allant du milieu du XVIe siècle jusqu'en 1970 !
 https://www.geneanet.org/blog/post/2025/05/participez-a-lindexation-des-archives-cantonales-suisses

#genealogie #indexation #veille #archives #Suisse #Geneve

Geneanet: Geneanet ‘Save our Graves’ Weekend, May 16-18, 2025. “Since cemeteries are among the most important resources for genealogists, Geneanet has launched the ‘Save our Graves’ project to capture headstones before they are lost. On May 16-18, 2025, we will need you to photograph as many graves as possible worldwide with the Geneanet mobile app or with your camera.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/05/06/geneanet-geneanet-save-our-graves-weekend-may-16-18-2025/

Quand tu utilises un logiciel de #généalogie et que tu ne veux pas exporter l'ensemble des données sur un site comme #Filae ou #Geneanet, tu créés son propre site. Et tu as un peu la flemme de tout refaire, donc tu fais du "reverse engineering", surtout quand tu sais que les donnés du logiciel sont dans une base SQLite. Et donc tu as tes scripts qui font à peu près tout. Sauf que, à chaque montée de version de ton logiciel, ben, y a des renommages de colonnes, des changements de paramètres, de variables, etc, faut tout revoir. Bref, c'est un peu le bordel quand même.
Et donc je viens de passer #MacFamilyTree en v12.
Et les données s'exportent bien.
Ouf !

[#veille] Les mises en ligne et indexations hivernales de Geneanet (Nièvre, Haute-Vienne, Calvados, Paris) | La Revue française de Généalogie
https://www.rfgenealogie.com/infos/les-mises-en-ligne-et-indexations-hivernales-de-geneanet

#genealogie #geneanet #archives #Nievre #Calvados #HauteVienne #Paris #archivistodons @archivistodon @geneafr

#Généalogie 🌿 L’arrivée au pouvoir d’un nouveau président américain 🇺🇸 a donné envie à #Geneanet de savoir si certains avaient des racines françaises 🇫🇷… c’est le cas, et pour un nombre non négligeable d’entre eux !

@geneafr

https://www.geneanet.org/blog/post/2025/01/des-presidents-americains-avec-des-origines-francaises

#Immigration #Huguenots #Potus #etats_unis

RT @guepier92 - Nouveauté #Généalogie 🌿 La base de données des bénéficiaires du Mérite Agricole (nés avant le 31 Xbre 1891) est disponible sur #Geneanet, numérisée et entièrement indexée. Son accès est libre et gratuit.

#agriculture #agriculteurs

@geneafr

https://www.geneanet.org/blog/post/2024/04/la-medaille-du-merite-agricole

#archivesnationales #histoire #20esiecle #genealogie

@fatuus
Gramps est très (trop ?) complet, mais ce n'est pas un client web. Il peut exporter pour le web de deux façons, soit en créant une fiche par individu, soit en créant un fichier unique XHTML, malheureusement incompatible avec certains navigateurs (voir ma bio).

Je trouve Geneweb très limité.

#Ancestris #Geneanet #webtrees #Genealogie

RT @linforme - Données personnelles : #Geneanet risque une #classaction aux États-Unis

👉 Propriété de l’américain #Ancestry.com, le site de #généalogie français est ciblé par un recours collectif, qui pourrait lui coûter cher.

https://www.linforme.com/tech-telecom/article/donnees-personnelles-geneanet-risque-une-class-action-aux-etats-unis_1254.html

Détails libres d'accès sur le forum de Geneanet : https://www.geneanet.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=851216

#justice #droit #genealogie #donneespersonnelles @geneafr

#Napoléon au cinéma 🎬 et sur #Geneanet 🌿 @geneafr

🔹️Registres Matricules de l'armée Napoléonienne (1802-1815) ➡️ 900 000 noms
🔹️100 Monuments 📷
🔹️List3 de 16 000 militaires faits prisonniers de guerre (1810 à 1814)
🔹️🌳 collaboratifs des généraux de #Napoléon
🔹️🌳 généalogie de la famille impériale sur #Geneastar
🔹️Recensement des mariages de 6000 militaires à l’occasion du mariage de Marie-Louise et Napoléon 1er le 25 mars 1810.

https://www.geneanet.org/blog/post/2023/11/napoleon-a-laffiche-au-cinema-et-sur-geneanet

Would you be interested in a way to incorporate your #pets into #Genealogy (in a very basic way)?

#geneadons #généalogie #genchat #geneanet #familyhistory

@fatuus Auto-hébergé et web, je dirais #GeneaWeb (le logiciel qui pousse #geneanet).

Il est assez intuitif à l'usage pour être utilisé sur une des plus grosses plateformes web... Peut-être un peu casse-pieds à configurer mais je n'ai pas un recul suffisant pour l'affirmer (teste une fois il y a déjà plusieurs années).

#genealogie Signalez-vous systématiquement les erreurs que vous constatez chez d'autres généalogistes (sur #geneanet par exemple) ? Parfois c'est fastidieux car beaucoup recopient sans vérifier.

(Je fais évidemment aussi des erreurs (!))

[#brevedegénéalogie] #Cejourla en 1687 à #Paris (paroisse Saint-Hippolyte) est née et baptisée Marie Jeanne Charlier (aïeule à 11e génération), fille de Robert, soldat des gardes françaises (!!!), et Charlotte Bertault.

Information découverte ce jour-même grâce au signalement d'une indexeuse de #Geneanet ❤️ 🌳
#généalogie

[#veille #genealogie ] 1,5 million de faire-part sur #Geneanet | La Revue française de Généalogie
https://www.rfgenealogie.com/infos/15-million-de-faire-part-sur-geneanet
@geneafr

#Généalogie 🌳 parmi les mises en ligne de la semaine sur #Geneanet :

▶️ 68 Registres des passeports (passe-ports) de #Montpellier (1791-1914) @ArchivesMtp34

➡️ Registres des passeports
➡️ Visa des Passe-ports
➡️ Rubrique de la délivrance des Passe-ports pour l'intérieur payants et gratuits

https://www.geneanet.org/registres/geo/FRA/F34/Montpellier/france-herault-montpellier?category=archives%23acte_passeports