The genealogy is based on the involvement of everyone, and Geneanet offers several ways to contribute: upload your personal archival documents, participate in the indexing of some archival documents, or take part of a project...
Do you have free time? Do you like history? Do you want to help other genealogists? It's very easy to index some archival records to make them searchable in the Geneanet database. Ready to try?
Place: New York City, New York, United States
Level: Easy
Type of participation : Online indexing
The goal of this project is to index the half a million cards of the New York City Geographic Birth Index. Indexing is done online with our Collaborative Indexing module.
Time period: Present
Place: World
Level: Easy
Type of participation : Photos on site
Cemeteries are one of the most important resources for genealogists, and we must capture and index graves before they are lost. Join our project and take pictures of graves around your place.
Place: World
Level: Easy
Type of participation : Photos on site
View, photograph and superimpose old photos and present day scenes of your favorite places!
Time period: living
Place: World
Level: Easy
Type of participation : Online indexing
In memoriam cards are very useful for the genealogy research. They are printed as a commemoration for certain events, and they are most associated with a death and funeral. They often contain the date of death and the names of family members.
Time period: 1866-1900
Place: United States
Level: Medium
Type of participation : Online indexing
In the latter part of the 19th century, every US Navy ship had a register listing every sailor of the crew. Many crewmen on the American ships were of foreign origin; up to a third were British or Irish! Researching sailors is often challenging; these previously unindexed registers will no doubt break brick walls on both sides of the Atlantic.
Place: World
Level: Medium
Type of participation : Other
Were your ancestors aboard the PS General Slocum which burned in New York's East River in 1904? Find them in our tree of passengers and their families.
Place: Worldwide
Level: Medium
Type of participation : Other
Participate in the collaborative tree project about the Filles du Roy (King's Daughters). The King's Daughters were young French women who immigrated to New France between 1663 and 1673 as part of a program sponsored by King Louis XIV, to promote marriage and colonize the territory.
Time period: living person
Place: World
Level: Easy
Type of participation : Photos on site
Number of commemorative plaques and monuments pay tribute to famous people who were born or who lived in a place, or to soldiers killed in action, for example. The goal of this project is to index them.
