Its website consists of data added by registered participants and is available for free to any interested people.
[1][2] In December 1996,[3] Jacques Le Marois, Jérôme Abela, and Julien Cassaigne launched a website for "using the strength of the Internet to build a database indexing all the genealogical resources existing in the world, available or not online".
[18] Geneanet explained for French genealogy magazine La Revue française de Généalogie that the acquisition was the consequence of Geneanet's failure to acquire French competitor Filae, which instead had been sold to MyHeritage a month earlier.
The Geneanet management promised that the Geneanet.org site would remain autonomous, but indicated that the sale meant that its Premium subscribers would get access to many of the Ancestry databases.
The site allows users to create a family tree with an unlimited number of individuals for free.
[27] In September 2017, Geneanet has launched a new matching option for finding common persons between the family trees of the members.