Ancestry Acquires Geneanet

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Keith Lorando

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Aug 31, 2021, 8:14:19 PM8/31/21
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Not real sure how to react to this news.  Keith


Calvin Leger

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Aug 31, 2021, 9:42:40 PM8/31/21
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That’s good news right.
We might be able to find those missing links.

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Calvin J. Leger
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Not real sure how to react to this news.  Keith


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Patty Lill

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Sep 1, 2021, 7:59:53 AM9/1/21
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Hello all,

To me, it is very worrisome.  Geneanet is a fantastic site with a lot of volunteers collaborating and indexing records, plus they have a huge indexed online library.  There are many online trees although, as is common everywhere, some are well documented and others are not.  Best of all, the subscription price is actually reasonable and affordable, unlike that of Ancestry.  After Filae was acquired by MyHeritage, many Filae members moved their data to Geneanet and cancelled their subscriptions to Filae.  My biggest initial concern is that Geneanet users will pull their data too and all the volunteers will disappear.  I'm also sure it is only a matter of time before Ancestry totally absorbs Geneanet or the subscription price doubles or triples, or worse.  I also like the tight privacy controls they have due to EU regs.  The only silver lining in all this is that so much source data is still free and available online at departmental and/or municipal archives.



Calvin Leger

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Sep 1, 2021, 12:03:21 PM9/1/21
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What’s not changing?

Geneanet will remain Geneanet with everything you are attached to.

Geneanet will remain a stand-alone site within Ancestry.

In concrete terms, this means that you will continue to be able to use all the services of the “geneanet.org” site, which are managed by the Geneanet company based in Paris with the same team of employees.

Your trees are and remain your property and will continue to be hosted by Geneanet. The Geneanet teams remain your contacts.

Our model does not change. It will continue to be based on a “contributive, collaborative and freemium” model. The principle is still the same: everything that is shared by our members is accessible for free. We will continue to provide and develop our free or premium services, all financed by our Premium offer.

What will change?

Geneanet subscribers will benefit from access to many additional databases as part of their Premium subscription. For example, we have just added the entire civil registry of Paris, indexed by Ancestry, which is more than 11 million records. Other collections will be available soon.

Just as the public individuals in your trees are indexed on Geneanet’s search engine, they will also be indexed via Ancestry’s search engine with a link to Geneanet for viewing the trees.

The Terms of Use that apply will still be those of the Geneanet site. However, they will be adapted to reinforce the security of your data and to correspond to this new situation. We will come back to you in the next few days to explain the changes.



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