Review (August 2025)
Généalogie : comment retrouver vos ancêtres et créer votre arbre généalogique sur geneanet ?
2.97M
Estimated Revenue
8.54M
Website Visitors
2.3/5
Trustpilot Score
What do we know about Geneanet?
What is Geneanet's Revenue?
Geneanet's estimated revenue for 2024 is $2.97M.
What does Geneanet do?
Founded in 1996 and based in Paris, France, Geneanet is an international collaborative genealogy website. Geneanet offers a secure solution for sharing family trees, family pictures, archival records and more. Geneanet also offers a powerful search engine, email alerts to be alerted when new data has been indexed, and forums and personal mailbox to discuss with other members. Geneanet is available in English, French, German, Spanish, Finnish, Italian, Dutch, Portuguese, Norvegian and Swedish. Sharing and access to other members data and archival records is free. A fee-paying membership offers advanced options and features, and additional genealogy records. Geneanet has 4 millions of members and more than 7 billion indexed individuals.
What are the monthly traffic metrics for Geneanet?
6/mo Traffic Growth
-17.80%
All Time Traffic Growth
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Monthly Hits
9M
Time on Site
12.3Mins
Pages per Visit
15.0
Bounce Rate
39%
How fast is Geneanet growing?
Geneanet has grown by -15.7% in the last 6 months according to SimilarWeb.
How do people interact with Geneanet?
Last month, Geneanet received 9M visitors who spent an average of 12.3 minutes on the website and visited 15.0 different pages per session. Overall, 39% of people bounce on the first visit.
How do people find Geneanet?
3.2M people (38%) visit Geneanet directly. 3.7M (43%) people search for them in Google. Whereas, 79.1k (1%) discover Geneanet through Facebook, Reddit, and YouTube. 1.4M (16%) visitors come from Geneanet's email newsletters. Finally, 4.5k (0.1%) people come from affiliates and or paid referrals.
Who uses Geneanet?
Geneanet's top market is the France and they receive 5.6M (65.2%) people.Then the 2nd is Belgium with 718.7k (8.4%).The 3rd is is United States with 480.3k (5.6%).
Traffic Growth (last 6 months)
What do Geneanet's customers say about them?
Review Score
2.3/5
Total Reviews
37
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Leighenne Rivero
Unwanted premium subscription
Reviewed on 2021-05-04T18:16:57
I'm really disappointed about the lack of transparency in the premium subscription- don't sign up for this unless you are prepared to be charged whether you asked for a subscription or not.Do not enter your card information!!!
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Clive Jacobs
A really useful and inexpensive / free genealogy site.
Reviewed on 2021-02-12T20:34:17
I have to give 5 stars as much to partially balance some of the slanderous comments made below as forthe excellent free info that I have found that wasn't on Ancestry or My H,
I've only used this as a free service so far, and have found some very useful info and DNA matches that weren't on other sites. The interface isn't as good as some, but better than others. But it is much easier to search other people's trees here than either of the majors.
Obviously the database is smaller than others, and this is reflected in the significantly lower subscription price.
As always, check what you are getting before subscribing, and my advice would be to enjoy all the free features and get to know the site properly before signing up and paying.
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Lena Koch
Geneanet and DNA--- first I want to…
Reviewed on 2021-02-07T22:26:36
Geneanet and DNA--- first I want to point out my opinion to all the complainers. As a genealogistspending large amounts for companies like Ancestry and MyHeritage this is by far the least expensive service to get right now online. The databank is not as large as Ancestry, but the fact that it is free to access family trees of other users is a lot more than what you get in the two major companies that are taking you to the cleaners over many years.
So, remember, nobody is forcing you to pay. I have worked with this company as long as it is online and only a few month ago I decided to pay the small amount they are asking to look at some of the stuff that they have now available. Geneanet is a service more used in Europe which is often a benefit to Americans/Canadians, because it is less expensive paying for using their data base than making a trip overseas.
I am giving you the four stars for the way you have operated over the years, improved the website and have used the advise of your members to improve.
However, if it comes to DNA I have to take down all the stars. But...... it is a free service and I have learned that you never complain if you get something free. You work with it and make the best out of what you get.
DNA improvement is needed!!
Uploaded DNA is analyses totally out of numbers.
I don't even want to go into details, except that I had not one DNA match that was a match. Compared on Gedmatch showed a match, but so low that even myself working with lower matches are not able to find something useful.
Perhaps if geneanet explains how the match system works, we could find a connection.
Right now, my DNA and that of my husband have a fair amount of matches, but not even the matches in the green come out as real matches.
I am sure you will be working on it and I am also sure in time it will work out fine for your company. I will still keep my DNA up and take a look at the names on a regular base.
The four stars are for past performance, staying free for your tree uploads and usage of the system, being able to freely contact people by e-mail and now to let us upload our DNA for free even if that needs major improvement. Keep up the good work.
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Marvin
Empty Promises
Reviewed on 2020-10-26T02:23:56
This is a genealogical data base with very sparse data. They don't have enough data to justify their prices.It is more scant than many free sites. And my spam went from a few per week to hundreds per week. It may be happenstance, but I personally wonder. Save your $ for a real genealogical data site.
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Megan
Horrible service
Reviewed on 2020-09-10T23:49:59
Horrible service, poorly designed. Waste of money. Do not use this website. The site is not even able to merge family trees other people have created.The entire point of joining a site like this to begin with. Go to Ancestry.com.
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Jim Mulhearn
Misleading user interface and defiant support staff
Reviewed on 2020-07-23T10:29:48
Once I joined Geneanet I discovered that it did not meet my needs so I cancelled within a few days.The user interface led me to believe that I had successfully done that.
To my surprise, after a month I received an email to tell me that my subscription had been automatically renewed.
I contacted them immediately to explain that this was a mistake. The contact person was particularly unhelpful and despite my best efforts to ask for a refund, they simply doubled down and refused to do that.
I consider that theft.
Then, in looking at this site, I discover that several other people have had exactly the same experience.
I have a very poor impression of this company and would never recommend them to anyone.
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Valerie Lecaille
i just love it
Reviewed on 2020-04-15T06:08:54
i just love it, thank you for your help over the years.
Harry B
A Scam -- An utterly useless Database and no way to get a Refund!…
Reviewed on 2020-03-06T00:04:44
I found Geneanet.com to be utterly useless, and this, frankly, came as a rude awakening to me becausethe site bills itself as "Eurocentric" and claims "3 million members who share their genealogical information for free: more than 6 billion individuals in the family trees," Well, I had been both a basic and premium member of MyHeritage.com for 5 years and,through painstaking personal research in LDS-Church microfilms of German parish registers, the holdings of city and state archives in Germany, reviews of pertinent literature in the German language, and endless e-mail exchanges with genealogists and regional experts in Germany, had managed to build a family Website and family tree reaching back as far as the early 1600's that I had been able to expand to well over 3,000 person entries using the MyHeritage.com search engines. Nevertheless, I had finally hit a dead end in my search and had hoped for help from Geneanet.com. I was stunned to find not a single member of my family in the Geneanet database, although everyone of my forebears whom I put through this test had been fully documented and verified by multiple means. As soon as I discovered how totally useless the Geneanet database was to me, I contacted Geneanet via e-mail and demanded my premium membership fee back, and I did this within just 1-2 days after my Geneanet membership took effect. I never received anything other than a non-responsive, boilerplate reply stating that I was not entitled to a refund after "expiration of the cancellation period." Nowhere, in anything that I was presented with when I applied for membership did I find any mention of the "duration of the cancellation period." I then demanded answers to two questions: 1: What is the duration of your cancellation period? and 2. What is your refund policy? After several follow-up requests, I am still waitng for answers. My conclusion: Geneanet is a scam!.My advice;: Stay away. Use MyHertitage.com... .
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