The Land Genealogy Application!
Your family tree tells you who your ancestors were — Géné Foncier is where you map where: the parcels they owned, farmed, leased and handed down. It isn't a ready-made database of records; it's the workspace where you reconstruct land history, piece by piece, from the archives you explore.
You bring the findings — registers, deeds, old cadastres, often still on paper in the archives — and Géné Foncier gives them shape. Build parcel records that evolve over time, link owners, tenants, lords, events and the sources you transcribe, and place it all on an interactive map. Feudal tenures, mortgages, patrimonial titles, coats of arms and seals included: the dimensions ordinary genealogy tools leave out.
A young, growing project: you fill it with your own research and explore what others choose to share, while historical cadastres are added on request, commune by commune. Genealogist, historian, archaeologist, teacher, cartographer or heritage lover — turn your archival legwork into a living, shareable portrait of the land, bridged back to your family tree through Webtrees and GEDCOM. The archives hold the story; Géné Foncier helps you tell it.
Search your ancestor
Put faces and lives back onto the land. As you find them in old deeds, record the owners, tenants, lords, buyers, notaries and witnesses, link them across parcels, sources and events, and tie it all back to your family tree.
Search a parcel
Give a parcel the biography you reconstruct. From a number and a place name, record its successive owners, tenants and lords, the events that split or merged it, its feudal tenure, mortgages and titles — each fact anchored to the source you cite.
Search on a map
See history from above. Where cadastres have been added, overlay them on a living map, create parcels from the digitized plans, follow boundaries, and jump to the people, sources and events behind every plot.
One platform, every layer of land history
A toolbox to reconstruct, link, map and share land history — you bring the archives, it gives them shape.
GénéAtlas
Browse digitized historical cadastres georeferenced over today's map, and read the old division of the land at a glance.
Parcels through time
Follow a parcel across the centuries — its owners, tenants, surfaces and values, and the mutations that split or merged it.
Online parcel creation
Trace your parcels straight onto the georeferenced historical cadastre to create them online — no GIS software required.
People & families
Record everyone tied to the land — not only individuals and families, but also legal persons and groups such as companies, communities and institutions — and connect them back to your family tree.
Sources & transcription
Catalogue the archival sources you consult, transcribe the documents, and link them to the people, parcels and events they mention — each fact backed by the citation that proves it.
Notaries & deeds
Keep notaries, their offices and repertories, and tie each deed to the parcels and people it names.
Feudal tenures
Document Ancien-Régime tenures — fiefs, censives, homage and dues — that classic genealogy tools simply ignore.
Titles & mortgages
Give patrimonial titles a life of their own: tied to a parcel yet following their own chronology — a 'genealogy of paper' beside that of people and land — with their transmissions, mortgages, offices, registers and formalities.
Heraldry
Attach coats of arms and seals to families, lords or documents, with their blazon and iconographic descriptions.
Media library
Upload and organize photos and scans of your documents, stored securely with automatic thumbnails.
Statistics
Turn your data into charts and dashboards to visualize and steer your research at a glance.
Webtrees & GEDCOM
Keep your family tree where it already lives. Rather than scattering your data into yet another silo, bridge to your existing genealogy — via Webtrees, GEDCOM and more — so your land research connects to your tree instead of duplicating it.
A research tool — and a database that grows with its community
isn't a ready-made archive where everything is already filled in: it's a workspace to map your own land research and make sense of it. Most historical records still live, often on paper, in the archives — you bring what you uncover there, and historical cadastres are added on request, commune by commune. The platform grows with its members: the more each person chooses to share, the richer it becomes for everyone.