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Geneacta helps you find and document your ancestors — whether you build your tree yourself or entrust your research to us.
We can help youAbout us →Start your family tree for free
What Geneacta lets you do
- Keep several possible ancestries side by side, without ever erasing one.
- Read old records: scripts, bygone given names, places that changed their name.
- Leave with everything, in the open .genea format — your data stays yours.
What sets us apart
- Tradition and openness together: the craft of genealogy in a format any program can read back.
- As close to the record as possible: we start from what the register says, not from boxes to fill.
- Doubt is written down, not negotiated: two possible ancestries stand side by side, and nobody decides for you.
- 179,129places, 16 countries
- 556languages and dialects
Community
- Help & communityThree spaces to move forward together: shared knowledge, questions, and how-tos.
- RecordsRecords indexed by the community.
- ForumThe community gets you unstuck.
- WikiShared knowledge: methods, sources and vocabulary, written by members.
- How-tosGuides written by members, ranked by your votes.
- Open puzzlesPremiumPublish your brick wall and let the community suggest leads.
Tools
- Vanished placesPremiumMerged municipalities, absorbed hamlets, old spellings.
- Languages and dialectsPremiumWhat was spoken, what was written: where, and until when.
- Dictionary of given namesÆgidius, Giles, Gillis: the forms of one given name, from language to language.
- Library of scriptsFraktur, Sütterlin, English round hand, pre-1918 Cyrillic, Greek: reading the old hands.
- AI-written storiesPremiumA biography written from your tree.
- Geneacta TreeYour tree, everywhere.
How it works
- The site in a nutshell
- The two anchors: subject and founder
- The dashboard, profiles, the tree
- Search
- Nothing gets lost
- Free and Premium
A tree online is findable: there is no act of publication. What protects is not a switch on the tree but the rule for entering the index, applied person by person — someone with no known death does not enter it. You may withdraw entirely, and you then stop searching other members' trees. Privacy
Geneacta Premium
The heart of Geneacta is free and will stay free: your tree, the indexes, the community. Premium funds the site and unlocks the tools that cost to run — cross-member search, the hint engine, AI-written stories.
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