Notrefamille.com

Name

Notrefamille.com

Legal name

Filae

Website

https://infoduc.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2016

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Filae.com is a French consumer-facing SaaS genealogy platform offering digitized French civil, census, parish, and military records through a freemium-plus-premium subscription model, serving individual genealogy enthusiasts in France and the French-speaking diaspora.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Online Genealogy Services

NAICS

Libraries and Archives (51921), Web Search Portals, Libraries, Archives, and Other Information Services (5192)

akta.pro primary industry

Document Scanning, Digitization & Archival Reproduction (Records, Transcripts, Microform) (EDAEAJAI)

akta.pro secondary industry

Social Q&A & Knowledge Communities (BPAMABAI)

Keywords

• Online genealogy platform
• French historical archives
• Civil records database
• Family tree software
• Genealogical research service

Headquarters

HQ city

Paris

HQ country

France

HQ region

Europe

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Technology or R&D, Operations, Personnel, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Premium Subscription: Subscription-based access to premium genealogy records and features. Users can subscribe to Filae Premium to access billions of digitized French archives including civil records, censuses, parish registers, military archives, and shared family trees. The service also offers gift subscriptions (Coffret Filae) and association discounts.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

Filae.com (operating under Notrefamille.com) is a web-based French genealogy platform providing online access to billions of digitized French historical records, including civil records (from 1792), census data (1872, 1906), parish registers (1700 to French Revolution), military archives, and Bulletin des Lois. Users can build family trees, search historical archives, and access millions of shared family trees contributed by other subscribers through a freemium model with premium subscription upgrades.

Product overview

Filae is a comprehensive online genealogy platform offering access to digitized French historical archives. The core product includes civil records (1792-early 1900s), census records (1872, 1906), parish registers (1700-French Revolution), military archives, and the Bulletin des Lois. The platform also features millions of shared family trees and GEDCOM import functionality. Filae Premium is a subscription tier providing enhanced access to these genealogical resources. The platform collaborates with over 60 regional genealogical associations.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Filae Premium Subscription Paid annual subscription that unlocks access to billions of digitized French genealogical records, including civil records, censuses, parish registers, military archives, and millions of subscriber-contributed family trees, available to individual consumers and gift subscribers.
• Coffret Filae Gift Subscription Prepaid gift subscription packages that allow individuals to purchase Filae Premium access as a gift for friends or family members interested in French genealogy.

Named customers4 records

Segments1 record

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature6 records

Partnerships

Two partnerships are on record, tiered core.

• 60+ Regional Genealogical AssociationscoreTechnology or IntegrationFilae partners with over 60 regional genealogical associations across France that contribute their digitized records to the platform, expanding the breadth of genealogical data available to users.
• French Departmental Archives (Archives Départementales)coreTechnology or IntegrationFilae collaborates with French departmental archives including Côte d'Or, Dordogne, Vienne, Calvados, Meurthe et Moselle, Haute Alpes, Haute Saône, Loir et Cher, Rhône, Savoie, Seine et Marne, Loiret, Lyon, Cantal, Ille et Vilaine, Loire, Seine Maritime, Territoire de Belfort, Val d'Oise, and Charente to digitize and provide access to historical records.

Scale indicators4 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Broad incumbents

• FindMyPast: FindMyPast is a subscription genealogy platform focused primarily on UK and Irish records, with some French and Commonwealth coverage. It is comparable to Filae in its national-archive-led, subscription-based model.
• MyHeritage: MyHeritage is a global genealogy platform with strong presence in Europe, offering family trees, historical records, and DNA testing. It competes with Filae across French-speaking markets and bundles DNA matching as a core feature.
• Ancestry: Ancestry is the global category leader in genealogy, offering billions of international records, family-tree tools, and AncestryDNA. It competes broadly with Filae for users with French ancestry but operates at a vastly larger scale with multi-country content.
• FamilySearch: FamilySearch is a free genealogy service operated by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, offering a massive globally distributed record archive. It competes with Filae on free access and breadth, particularly for users researching French ancestry.

Direct peers

• Geneanet: Geneanet is a leading French genealogy platform with similar coverage of French civil records, parish registers, and family trees. It directly competes with Filae for French genealogy hobbyists and offers comparable freemium subscription access to historical archives.

Others

• Notarial record digitization vendors (e.g., MGIL): MGIL and similar firms provide digitization services for French notarial and archival records. While not direct competitors, they are ecosystem participants that could either partner with or compete against Filae in archive digitization.

Emerging players

• WikiTree: WikiTree is a free collaborative family-tree platform with a global community model. It shares Filae's network-effects philosophy around shared trees but lacks proprietary digitized historical records and operates on a volunteer model.
• 23andMe: 23andMe is a DNA testing and genetic ancestry platform increasingly overlapping with genealogy use cases. It represents a competitive threat to Filae by addressing ancestry from a genetic angle that Filae does not currently cover.

Regional players

• Archives & Culture (Geneafinder): Geneafinder is a French genealogy research service focused on professional genealogist-led searches. It overlaps with Filae's French archive focus and represents an alternative channel for users who prefer assisted research over self-service.
• Bottin Généalogique: Bottin Généalogique is a French directory of genealogists and genealogy services. It is comparable to Filae as a French-category player but operates as a professional-services marketplace rather than a record-archive platform.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Xtwitter.com/filaecom
• YouTubeyoutube.com/filae
• Facebookfacebook.com/genealogiecom
• Instagraminstagram.com/filae_genealogie

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds1 record

Investors1 record

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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