How to make your family family tree with the family?

Genealogy is much more than just historical research: it is an exciting journey through the history of your family. Make these discoveries together!

How to make your family family tree with the family?

Make your family genealogy will bring generations together and reveal unique stories!

With Geneafinder, transform this quest into a moment of sharing and family discoveries, even from a distance.


Why make a family family tree with family?

Make a family tree with others, with the family, has many advantages:

- Strengthen your family ties - Because genealogy brings together all generations, from grandparents to the youngest and allows you to experience unique moments of sharing.

- Transmit your family history - Because each member of your family has anecdotes, memories, documents and life stories that will enrich your genealogical research.

- Preserve your memory - Because documenting your family history makes it possible to transmit a precious heritage to future generations.


Key steps to make your family family tree with family

1. Prepare your family project

Do you want to establish your genealogy and find your ancestors together? Organize a family meeting To launch the project. You can define your research goals, distribute the tasks and motivate each other.

Now is the time to designate a coordinator, the one who will be the guarantor of your family data and who will be the owner of your family account on geneafinder.


2. Collect first information and memories

Everyone's memories and family archive documents are treasures that should not be overlooked. Take advantage of this start of project for Contact and question the elders of the family, For Gather the documents (Photo albums, Proceedings, family booklets, etc.). 

You can Scan all these archives and import them into the Geneafinder gallery. This gallery can be shared in all members of your family team. Everyone will be able to add documents but also enrich them with family annotations and anecdotes.


3. Create a family team in Geneafinder

With A family account, Geneafinder provides you with efficient tools to facilitate your research and ensure the sharing of your genealogy and your memories. 

Voici comment créer un family account on geneafinder : 

1) Define who will be The owner of the family account. This person will have to create an account on geneafinder then Subscribe to the family offer which allows unlimited sharing of the tree and the gallery.

2) The owner of the family account can invite as many family members as they wish : - Pour ce faire, depuis le tableau de bord, cliquez sur le lien utile « Gestion des équipes ». - Cliquez ensuite sur le bouton « Créer une équipe ». - Renseignez le nom et la devise de l’équipe. - Créez une branche à partager - vous pourrez partager l’arbre entier ou une branche uniquement à partir d’une personne-racine. - Choisissez les dossiers de votre galerie à partager. - Ajoutez des membres en renseignant leur adresse email et leur rôle (lecteur ou éditeur), cliquez sur Ajouter. Chaque membre invité recevra un email l’invitant à rejoindre votre équipe (ils seront invités à créer un compte gratuit sur Geneafinder). - Cliquez sur Sauvegarder.

geneafinder-création d'une équipe



💡 for Manage your teams, retournez dans le Panneau de configuration > onglet Equipes > Bouton Gérer une équipe. C’est à cet endroit que vous pourrez ajouter de nouveaux membres, modifier la branche et les dossiers partagés et supprimer des membres.

3) To access and work on the shared tree, cliquez sur le menu déroulant orange puis sélectionnez votre espace de travail. Pour revenir à votre arbre personnel, cliquez sur le menu déroulant orange puis sélectionnez « Mon arbre ». 

geneafinder-sélection de l'espace de travail


4. Work with others with geneafinder

Une fois que vous avez créé A family account et invité vos proches à rejoindre votre équipe, profitez d’outils partagés pour travailler ensemble : 

Make your family tree grow and follow everyone's additions to your dashboard : sélectionnez votre espace de travail partagé, ajoutez de nouvelles personnes et complétez des fiches. You can retrouver toute l'activité de votre équipe dans votre tableau de bord.

- Gather all your family photos and archives : Share your files from the gallery and invite the members of your teams to import new memories.

- Organize your research through our task tool : You can define lists of tasks that you can assign to a member of your team. Also add labels, priorities, statutes, dates and connect your tasks to your ancestors.

- Communicate easily thanks to your team messaging : Click on the messaging button at the top of the page and select the team with whom you want to converse. All team members will receive your messages. It is the ideal way to communicate around your genealogical and family project without losing track of your exchanges!


Our advice for a successful family genealogy: 


Be methodical : agree on a working method and annotation of sources and hold it.


- Define rules : To have confidence in what the other members of your team will do, define the fundamental rules for your genealogy (check your sources in the archives, add the archive to the gallery, etc.).


- Communicate and step back : Genealogy must remain a pleasure (especially with the family!), Ask for help when you need it ...


With Geneafinder, transformez votre projet généalogique en une expérience familiale enrichissante, ludique et collaborative.



Commencez dès maintenant votre voyage dans le temps en créant un family account on geneafinder !


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