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MyHeritage

4.4

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MyHeritage is the leading global platform for family history discovery. It enriches the lives of people worldwide by enabling them to uncover more about themselves and where they belong.

With a suite of intuitive features and innovative products, MyHeritage creates a meaningful discovery experience that is deeply rewarding. Users build family trees and discover new information and relatives through advanced matching technologies and billions of historical records from across the globe. MyHeritage also offers an affordable at-home DNA test revealing an ethnicity breakdown across 79 ethnicities and 2,114 geographic regions, and AI-powered features to repair, colorize, and animate old photos.

The MyHeritage platform is enjoyed by tens of millions of people around the world who treasure and celebrate their heritage. MyHeritage offers full privacy controls and is available in 42 languages.


myheritage.com
Founded in 2005
Lehi, UT, Israel
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MyHeritage Reviews Summary

MyHeritage is generally well-regarded for its user-friendly platform and extensive database, which many customers find invaluable for tracing their ancestry and connecting with relatives. Users appreciate the regular updates and the powerful search capabilities that facilitate discoveries. However, concerns arise regarding customer service, particularly related to billing issues and the difficulty of reaching support. Some users have reported feeling overwhelmed by the volume of information and have encountered challenges in verifying data. Overall, while the service is praised for its features, improvements in customer support and communication are necessary to enhance user satisfaction.

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Hungary
1 review
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Amikor már olyan erős volt bennem a csalódás, a különböző szervezetek, intézmények, szolgáltató társaságok iránt, akkor vezettek láthatatlan szálak,- igényeim szerint, a MyHeritage és a Familysearch világszerte ismert szolgáltatásaik felé.
Utólag, sajnálattal bevallom, hogy őket is fásultan, reményvesztett állapotban kerestem fel, hiszen addigi, negatív tapasztalataim ezeket az érzéseket erősítették bennem. Meglepődve tapasztaltam, hogy ők, a kivételekhez tartoznak, akik nem unott képpel, nem közönyösen szolgáltak ki, akik alig várják, hogy elmenjen a kedves vevő.
A MyHeritage és Familysearch munkatársai, szívvel-lélekkel adtak javaslatokat, tanácsokat, a termék használatával kapcsolatban. Ez a belső valóság átsugárzott az arcukon, a hangjukon, ami hitelessé tette tevékenységeiket. Bízom abban, hogy egyre több szolgáltató belátja majd, hogy nem minden, a profit, sőt azt is belátják majd, hogy a rideg, kényszer-szolgáltatói háttér inkább viszi a hasznot, mert a vevők elfordulnak tőlük. Nagyon örülök, hogy az emberek egymás felé való nyitása erősödni fog, és olyan termékeket adnak majd el vevőiknek, mint amit önmaguknak is kínálnának. Ajánlom mindenkinek, keressék a MyHeritage és a Familysearch termékeit, szolgáltatásait, ahol olyan emberekkel találkozhatnak, akikről superlatívusokban lehet beszélni.
Üdv. Mindenkinek, Arany

Date of experience: February 10, 2025
France
2 reviews
0 helpful votes
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Un support très limité
February 13, 2025

La première fois je devais cumuler 2 arbres: le support de MyHeritage me l'a fait. Bravo et merci.
La deuxième fois je voulais supprimer une branche complète d'un de mes arbres: la jeune femme du support m'a carrément envoyé sur les roses en disant que je n'ai qu'à supprimer manuellement tous les ancêtres concernés (il y en avait près de 2000 et ça m'a demandé près de 12 heures). Écoeurant.

Date of experience: October 20, 2024
South Africa
1 review
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I love My Heritage!
February 13, 2025

It allows me to to delve deep into my roots and find family. The main purpose of this is to leave a legacy for my grandchildren and their grandchildren. They say to know where you are going it helps to know from whence you came! My Customer Relations Manager went out of his way and was very helpful and patient as I went through challenges renewing my subscription. I am so happy we achieved that at last!

Date of experience: February 10, 2025
Spain
1 review
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MyHeritage
February 13, 2025

Eerst was de informatie overweldigend, maar eens men weet hoe het systeem werkt kan je grote hoeveelheden info verwerken

Date of experience: February 10, 2025
France
1 review
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J'ai pu très rapidement grâce aux ressources immenses de My Heritage remonter très haut dans la plupart de mes branches que ce soit en France, en Amérique ou en Espagne. Mais attention, il ne voit pas les doublons et on peut se retrouver avec de nombreux doublons qu'il ne sait pas fusionner… Il faut donc les repérer et les éliminer un à un, ce qui peut être très laborieux -.

Date of experience: February 10, 2025
Germany
1 review
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Testergebnisse fragwürdig
February 13, 2025

Nach dem die Grgebnisse meiner Mutter gesendet wurden sind auf einmal meine Ergebnise des Herkunft s geändert bzw angepaßt an die Ergebnisse meiner Mutter. Meine gespeicherten Ergebnisse sind verschwunden.
Sonst sind Lieferung von Test- Kit, Laborbearbeitung schnell.

Date of experience: February 10, 2025
Switzerland
1 review
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Expérience avec MyHeritage
February 13, 2025

MyHeritage est le meilleur portail internet en généalogie. C'est un portail internet fiable, simple à l'utilisation, novateur et à la pointe de la recherche.

Date of experience: February 10, 2025
Massachusetts
1 review
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I am doing a research project for my large family. At a point, I was not allowed to purchase any more DNA kits. I kept getting an error message when I tried to buy another set of 10 test kits for ten more cousins. I called customer support, who read from a script, did not know how to answer my question, and then said they would escalate the case to a customer support person who could address the issue. Eventually, someone got back to me. And was not really able to answer the question either. I was left with the impression I was being penalized by the company for having a large family and doing a large family testing project. Which is silly because I am selling ancestry subscriptions at no benefit to myself. Though not advantageous for the company, the key point is that customer service did not know how to answer my question or resolve the issue.

Date of experience: February 10, 2025
Oklahoma
1 review
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Awesome
February 13, 2025

I've always wondered what my ethnicity was it's neat to find out. I really like seeing pictures of my ancestors and learning where they lived and a little about their lives.

Date of experience: February 10, 2025
Germany
1 review
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Family discovery
February 13, 2025

I'm pretty satisfied, but I'll mention it again. If I turn down discoveries, why do I keep getting them anyway?
My family is in Denmark, Germany and England. There are different spellings. They don't always need to be corrected. They are correct even if they are spelled differently.
And it is possible to become a father at over 7o. That is always criticized. Please take the person and look it up on Google.

Date of experience: February 10, 2025
Canada
1 review
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My Heritage
February 13, 2025

I first went onto My ANcestery and didn t get far on my tree. I needed Europe. I have gotten my tree back to the 1500's on some all thanks to my Heritage. If there is one improvement I would like to see is a search on Invite more family. I have ******* names in my tree thats a lot of looking. Other than that I always tell everyone to do my Heritage as a DNA test. Great program

Date of experience: February 10, 2025
Germany
1 review
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Sehr hilfreiches Programm
February 13, 2025

Mit MyHeritage ist es mir gelungen, Spaß an der Ahnenforschung zu bekommen. Guter Aufbau, interessante Informationen über Vorfahren und die einfache Bedienerführung.

Date of experience: February 10, 2025
Spain
1 review
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Preplejo
February 13, 2025

Me salen muchas cosas y no coincide con otros análisis antetiores

Date of experience: February 10, 2025
Colorado
1 review
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A world of information (literally)
February 13, 2025

There is a lot to applaud about MyHeritage. And a few things that need filtering for someone like me. The total amount of information about my maternal line is overwhelming. Many duplicate entries, slight spelling differences, make for a flood of information. It is not difficult to push through it. Yet, it is time consuming; it's a lot! I have liked the occasional pop-up article or photo that is family related. These are great to save (and easy to do so). And they are not as frequent. My maternal information is all in Europe, and MyHeritage has this covered!

Date of experience: February 6, 2025
Minnesota
1 review
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I contacted the man whom it was suf ggested in a match and was able to make some great family connections.

Date of experience: February 10, 2025
Turkiye
1 review
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Dear team,

Whilst I consider myself to be an addicted user of MyHeritage for years, there one thing which makes me down every time I launch MH.

Having more than 25 DNA sets under my management, I feel the view of current "DNA management" page to become very messy nowadays.

1. There is neither opportunity to sort different DNA sets into folders, nor the tagging option available.

2. There is no opportunity to delete the purchased but lost, non activated DNA sets. I have up to 10 of these kind, they dont deliver the seamless usability in my personal experience.

It would be great if you decide to put some efforts to upgrade this part of the MH, according to my and other active users experience.

My regards,

Nikita.

Date of experience: February 10, 2025
GB
1 review
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My Tree
February 13, 2025

A beginner at researching my Family Tree. Receiving regular information and updates from My Heritage.

Date of experience: February 10, 2025
Canada
1 review
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Consistency Checker is invaluable
February 13, 2025

It's easier than you might think to enter birth and death dates that clash with the births of children. I have more than a thousand people in my extended family tree now, and Consistency Checker keeps track of all the mistakes entered, so I can go and do research and fix those! Overall, you have a stronger, more accurate ancestry database. This is the goal.

Date of experience: February 10, 2025
New Jersey
1 review
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An Amazing Experience!
February 13, 2025

Except for those I already know about, I haven't found anyone as close as I grandparent. However, I found cousins as close as great grandparents and made connection at times with new relatives that are now friends. I have the top level membership, it may be pricey, but worth it. The amount of information on family links is amazing. Add geni.com into the mix, which is coupled with MyHeritage, and the information blossoms! I've been able to expand my family tree to over three fold and it's still growing - that's from about the 35 I knew about. The census records, the marriage and death certificates, newspapers, and all the extras - Fascinating! I jokingly refer to myself as an 'old geezer'. Topping 80, I no longer had the ability to reach out to my parents, aunts or uncles for information. I had many gaps in my family relationships, MyHeritage has filled in many of those gaps.

Date of experience: February 10, 2025
Ukraine
1 review
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Не точно
February 13, 2025

Вообщем доволен, но после обновления приложение многое изменилось в моих результатах, появились новые этносы и исчезли старые!

Date of experience: February 10, 2025