Walk through your family tree and discover 3.6 million new records
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Big news: we just launched an entirely new family tree section on GeneaGenie! Saving your tree to your account unlocks a powerful, highly visual experience. You can navigate smoothly through generations, browse everyone in a clear table, spot research gaps instantly, and launch targeted searches directly from a beautiful, interactive dashboard. You can even manage multiple trees within a single account.
While saving your tree is completely optional and our quick dropdown tools are still fully available, doing so brings huge advantages. It makes choosing who to search for and uncovering new leads easier than ever — 100% secure and private, of course.
On top of that, we're expanding our database considerably with no fewer than 3.6 million new records from Belgium, the Netherlands, and France.

Walk through the generations

Pan and zoom through an interactive family tree, follow a line back through the centuries, and open a person to see their life story, partners, parents and children right away. The overview shows at a glance where information is still missing — such as a missing child or an unknown partner — so you can immediately start a targeted search. Your family tree stays 100% private throughout, of course.
Select a person and you'll also see their life plotted on a historical timeline of world events, from major wars to the moon landing.
Everyone in a single table

Browse everyone in your family tree at lightning speed via a filterable table. Easily put together a specific selection — for example everyone born in a particular place, all namesakes within a time span, or people with missing details — and search this whole group at once with a single query.
New research opportunities

View births and deaths per decade, discover the most common surnames or birthplaces, or see the average life expectancy (for your whole family tree or for one specific surname).
The same dashboard also maps out your new research opportunities straight away. You see the number of people per category at once, and click straight through to the full list:
  • Missing records: People whose missing birth or death certificate may yet be found.
  • Generation gaps: Couples with strikingly large gaps between their children, which can point to an as-yet-unregistered birth.
  • Incomplete dates: Entries with only a year, which you can now complete right away.
And that's not all: behind the scenes the dashboard maps out plenty of other research opportunities for you to get started with right away.
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4 new sources in Belgium

Prosapia – 570,774 records
Prosapia collects complete transcriptions of Ancien Régime parish registers and of the civil registry for some fifty municipalities south of Ghent (including Merelbeke, Oosterzele, Melle, Gavere, Wetteren, Zottegem and Oudenaarde). Every entry links directly to the original, scanned record at the State Archives or FamilySearch.
Like us, Prosapia believes transcribed sources should be freely consultable by everyone — a vision we wholeheartedly share.
Visit Prosapia
Made in Denderland – 153,731 records
A wonderful heritage project by Erfgoedcel Denderland, together with Aalst, Denderleeuw, Erpe-Mere, Lede and Ninove. Volunteers track down, register and open up vulnerable family and association collections. In this way this scattered material gets a safe digital home.
Visit Made in Denderland
Open Data Ghent – 452,353 records
The City of Ghent's open data portal, where Ghent Archives publishes the civil registry of Ghent and its districts: birth records from 1901, and marriage and death records up to the early 1970s for the districts. A very welcome addition for anyone with twentieth-century Ghent roots.
Visit Open Data Ghent
Familiekunde Deinze – 38,545 records
The Deinze branch of Familiekunde Vlaanderen shares its index of death notices from Deinze, Zulte, Nazareth and surrounding villages. This also includes two memorial-card collections: the Gentiel De Smet collection and the cards kept at MUDEL (the Museum of Deinze and the Leie region).
Visit Familiekunde Deinze

2 new sources in the Netherlands

West-Brabants Archief – 1,228,429 records
This regional archive in Bergen op Zoom unites nine West Brabant municipalities, including Bergen op Zoom, Roosendaal, Etten-Leur, Moerdijk and Zundert. There you'll find civil registry, population registers and DTB (baptism, marriage and burial) registers, often with a direct link to the scan of the original.
Visit West-Brabants Archief
Drents Archief – 1,084,564 records
The provincial archive of Drenthe opens up the civil registry of every Drenthe municipality from 1811, together with the older baptism, marriage and burial registers for places such as Assen, Meppel, Hoogeveen, Emmen and Coevorden, including scans of the original documents.
Visit Drents Archief

1 new source in France

Fonds Yves Lemaire – 70,905 records
For more than fifteen years, railwayman Yves Lemaire transcribed the parish registers and notarial deeds of Saint-Omer in the Audomarois (Pas-de-Calais). After his death, his widow had this remarkable work preserved and shared: baptisms, marriages and burials from dozens of parishes, some even dating back to the sixteenth century.
Visit Fonds Yves Lemaire
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