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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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Viet Nam
1 review
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PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
November 22, 2022

If you have European/Jewish ancestry, MyHeritage would be the best choice. MyHeritage's customer service department is professional and willing to assist me.
When I wanted to change the shipping address, Customer service department did not reply me quickly. Consequently, the 2 kits had been shipped. They offered me 2 new kits to ship to my correct shipping address.
When in my country there are strict regulations on shipping DNA kits to foreign countries, Myheritage asked if they could refund the service fee to me. Actually, we went to France for business or asked someone travelling to USA to send our kits directly to Myheritage.
My grandmother had European appreance with pink skin, big brown eyes, brown hair but refused to share us information about her roots. The way she taught me was in Jewish style. We were so curious that we used Myheritage to discover our European, Jewish roots. I have 2.3% Iberian. My sister has 1.3% Finnish and 0.8% Jewish.

Date of experience: November 22, 2022
Italy
1 review
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Great customer service
November 22, 2022

The customer service, in particular Maor from the DNA customer service was very kind and provided me patiently with all the information and tools I needed answering duly every one of my questions in the many mail I sent them. Thank you very much,I sincerely recommend the customer service of this company!

Date of experience: November 21, 2022
Belgium
1 review
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Great customer service
November 22, 2022

Due to an error in the online payment system, I got charged twice for the same order. I messaged the customer service and I was really surprised (in a good sense) but the speed in which they replied and fixed the problem. I should also mention the politeness of the employee who took care of it. This is true professionalism, thank you!

Date of experience: November 21, 2022
Canada
1 review
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Accessing the website
November 21, 2022

After not looking at my family tree for years, I decided to use My Family Heritage because of my granddaughter's interest in our ancestry. When I try to get into My Family Tree I get messages: 1. Access denied or 2 This website is unavailable. Why is this happening?

Date of experience: November 21, 2022
France
1 review
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Kits ADN
April 17, 2023

Je suis déçue, je suis en attente de deux kits ADN achetés en mars 2023 (les 10 et 15 mars 2023) et toujours pas reçus malgré le règlement. Et aucun contact pour m'aider à régler quelques incohérences. Je ne parle pas anglais.

Date of experience: November 15, 2022
France
1 review
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Service client
November 11, 2022

Service client au top Sacha, mon interlocuteur, a su répondre avec gentillesse et professionnalisme à toutes mes questions de débutante en Généalogie il a également reglé un litige en cours
Merci

Date of experience: November 11, 2022
Louisiana
1 review
0 helpful votes
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The free trial is outrageous and could charge you up to 150-300$. DON'T MAKE THE MISTAKE OF USING THIS SITE LIKE I DID. Use ancestry or something

Date of experience: November 9, 2022
MyHeritage Support T. MyHeritage Rep
over a year old

Dear Matthew,
Thank you for your review and I am sorry to hear about your experience.

Please be assured that this is not a scam. Upon commencement of the free trial period, you are sent an email from MyHeritage thanking you for your participation. Within this email, there are also instructions on how to cancel the free trial period so that you do not incur a charge once the free 14-day or 1-month (depending on which subscription) trial has ended.

You are invited to contact us at any time should you have questions or concerns with our support team at, [email protected].

Trusting this has proven useful to you.

Kind Regards,
MyHeritage Team.

Australia
1 review
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We had a query and straight away got a response and they followed up the query for us with results in no time. Very happy with customer service.

Date of experience: November 8, 2022
NL
1 review
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Nooit meer
November 8, 2022

Vreselijk commercieel bedrijf, slechte service je kan geen contact krijgen ja via mail dat duurt dan een week en heb he je nog geen antwoord en alles in het Engels waardeloos

Date of experience: November 8, 2022
Maryland
1 review
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Recently while working on integrating my new DNA test on the site with an older genealogical effort on Ancestry I created two trees and needed help coordinating the different trees and two e mail accounts. The My Heritage team and JoseM did an outstanding job on this complex effort. I can move forward now confident that the data will seamlessly match up.

Date of experience: November 6, 2022
Colorado
1 review
2 helpful votes
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Horrible Company
November 4, 2022

DO NOT DO BUSINESS WITH THIS COMPANY! Horrible customer service, the agents lie, mislead and never resolve your issue. Thumbs way down! Huge regret! They are also thrives.

Date of experience: November 4, 2022
MyHeritage Support T. MyHeritage Rep
over a year old

Hello Brian and thank you for your review.

It is unfortunate that you feel like you have been lied to and misled, I am sure this was not the intention.

Please write to me directly from your registered email address to [email protected] and I will be glad to look into this for you and assist you with anything you may need.

Looking forward to hearing from you.

Kind Regards,
Dean,
MyHeritage Team.

Illinois
4 reviews
21 helpful votes
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Disappointing
November 4, 2022

I had MyHeritage a few years back. Then I went to Ancestry. I still have ancestry and love it. But decided to add MyHeritage. Maybe find information not on Ancestry. MyHeritage is a scam. Nothing is included in membership. They charge extra for everything. The only thing included is the tree you download yourself. I tried to cancel immediately. But was refused. I have not been back since I signed up. Do not use this site.

Date of experience: November 3, 2022
MyHeritage Support T. MyHeritage Rep
over a year old

Dear Beverly,
Thank you for your review and I am sorry to hear you feel this way.

Please write to me directly at, [email protected] and I will gladly assist you with any problem you may have.

Looking forward to hearing from you.

Kind Regards,
Dean,
MyHeritage Team.

Switzerland
1 review
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MyHeritage ist eine sehr gute Software. Mein Problem ist die Kommunikation per Mail. Der Mail-Link ist sehr schwer und mit viel Zeitaufwand zu finden - offensichtlich wollen Sie nicht, dass die Kunden Sie per Mail ansprechen.
Ein konkretes Problem ist pendent: Ich habe in letzter Minute mein Total-Abonnement erneuert. Aber ich will keine automatische Verlängerung. Ich weiss, dass man das irgendwo einstellen kann. BITTE SAGEN SIE MIR WO ICH DAS ÄNDERN UND DEN AUTOMATISMUS "AUTOMATISCHE VERLÄNGERUNG" KANN!

Date of experience: November 3, 2022
Australia
1 review
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How amazing!
October 28, 2022

This has to be one of the best companies to deal with! Their professional support is so expedient. And the product- was the best gift for my daughter. She was so excited to do her DNA test kit, organised a new app, did the test and sent it off all on her own. Alas- under 18's can't get the information released to them for privacy reasons! Having her DNA information returned to my management was flawless. You made her day! She is just blown away to learn of her DNA heritage and has already had people reach out to her. She is finally using the internet to research about her family instead of just playing games.
Thank you My heritage! For making families important again x what a fascinating adventure for us all to go on

Date of experience: October 27, 2022
France
1 review
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Bonjour depuis que je suis au site Héritage, j'ais progresser dans mes recherches généalogie, quand j'avais un problème, héritage étais là de suite pour m'aider et résoute le problème. Cela fait 12 ans que je suis à Héritage, si ce site n'étais pas bon je ne serais pas rester 12 ans. Je pues vous dire que Héritage est un site de bonne qualité ainsi que le personnelle qui est toujours là pour nous aider.

Date of experience: October 25, 2022
NL
1 review
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The best program available. Amazing databases that allow you to find relatives and friends around the world. Special thanks to the support service for informal help and a real desire to help and get into position.

Date of experience: October 23, 2022
North Carolina
1 review
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The site is great, research is great. The most important experience I can share is the patience and help from the personnel when I called in to get some guidance and help. The gentleman was one of the most helpful and kind I have ever dealt with. Thank you.

Date of experience: October 22, 2022
Canada
1 review
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Best company for genealogy
October 21, 2022

I am so happy with MyHeritage because I could grow my family tree. The results of my DNA tests made it possible to find other relatives and we could connect our family trees which helped to find dates of birth and marriage for examples. Thus, we could find family documents. The ethnicity results are also precise and accurate, and express most of my origins

Date of experience: October 21, 2022
Florida
1 review
2 helpful votes
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My card was charged for an annual subscription of $129. I cancelled this free trial before it was over and my card was still charged. I've tried to reach out several times and I cannot get a representative on the phone or by email. They don't even send anything to show transaction such as a receipt. I wouldn't have known if I didn't check my account daily.

Date of experience: October 21, 2022
MyHeritage Support T. MyHeritage Rep
over a year old

Hi Beverly,

If you require assistance then please write to me directly at [email protected] and I will be only too happy to help.

Looking forward to hearing from you.

Kind Regards,
Dean,
MyHeritage Team.

Philippines
1 review
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DNA kit
October 21, 2022

In 2016, I received my free DNA kit and shipped to the Philippines but unfortunately, misplaced it. Now I found the DNA kit, and emailed Myheritage if I could still use it. But to my surprise, they reply to me that they will replace a new DNA kit instead, and it is on the way. Im so happy with their customer service. Im so satisfied. Thank you for your excellent service.

Date of experience: October 20, 2022