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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.
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- 🔎Where to find recordsPremiumThe right archives for each place and period — and it learns from your findings.
- 🌳Other members' treesPremiumFind your ancestors in shared trees.
- ✨Automatic hintsPremiumMatches between trees and sources.
- 🧭Exclusive databasesPremiumCollaborative “where to search”, open puzzles, vanished places, revolutionary records.
Help each other
- 🗂️Collaborative indexesRecords indexed by the community.
- 💬Help & forumsThe community gets you unstuck.
- 📚Genealogy wikiShared knowledge: methods, sources and vocabulary, written by members.
- 📝How-tosGuides written by members, ranked by your votes.
- 📖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.
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