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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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Oregon
2 reviews
1 helpful vote
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Their support person, Maya, did an exceptional job in assisting me with resolving issues I was having with their Family Tree Builder software.
I work in the tech support industry so I know when someone is knowledgeable and good at their job and she did a great job in helping with my frustrating issue.

Date of experience: July 2, 2018
New York
1 review
0 helpful votes
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I've received excellent customer support for my two issues. I've found out some info (including my grandfather's death date) that I don't think I would have learned otherwise. I was scared to sign up for an 'ancestry' site because of bad stories I've heard... but I've had a very positive experience with MyHeritage. (And I just love those Irish accents on the support calls).:-)

Date of experience: July 2, 2018
GB
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Fast and Efficient
July 2, 2018

I recently discovered my account was in my name but used my wife's email address, making it harder to monitor on our desktop PC. This was resolved quickly and efficiently by one of your customer service advisers.

Date of experience: July 2, 2018
California
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Luke was very pleasant and totally professional. He was especially patient with my lack of tech experience. Made everything really easy.
Thanks Luke!

Date of experience: July 1, 2018
Australia
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Thank you Alon for your prompt help. It was greatly appreciated and resolved my problem.

My problem was that I was unable to use the Book Report. It kept saying book report software wasnt installed or something like that?

I contacted the My Heritage Support team and they sent me an email with how to update the software. It was an easy fix in the end.

Thank you so much
Carol

Date of experience: July 1, 2018
Australia
1 review
0 helpful votes
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I was pleased to be able to contact My Heritage by phone regarding my subscription. The operator explained the time difference was the reason I could not contact the Billing department. She has taken my email address and phone number and hopefully I will get a call back soon.

Date of experience: July 1, 2018
Washington
2 reviews
0 helpful votes
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Lorna, in Ireland, patiently walked me through the complicated process of transferring two sites into one, multiple times until we got it to work. Best and most patient help I have ever experienced. Great job Lorna and My Heritage.

Date of experience: July 1, 2018
California
1 review
0 helpful votes
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In a computer crash, I lost Family Tree Builder with all my contacts and photos -- years of work. In trying to restore it, I lost them on the MyHeritage website. Luckily they were backed up on the website, and the Help team showed me how to restore them on Family Tree Builder and the website.

Date of experience: July 1, 2018
Nevada
1 review
0 helpful votes
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7/1/2018
Saoirse was extremely helpful in figuring out, when I had the 14 day trial plus wanting to be billed for the annual rate, couldn't access the the information once I logged on. She was able to trouble shoot what the problem was and she was able to give me a new password which enabled be to pursue my genealogy resesrch.
She was professional, friendly and very knowledgeable in helping me out today. She was very patient with me for which I am grateful.
I told her I found out my girlfriend, was actually my half-sister, whom I worked with at a bank over 40 years ago. We still laugh this, God has a sense of humor.
Saoirse is a valuable asset to My Heritage.com.
Thank you, Prudence

Date of experience: July 1, 2018
Sweden
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Lösenordsproblem.
July 2, 2018

Trevligt samtal som löste problemet. Mitt lösenord hade försvunnit efter vad jag förstår utan anledning. Nu är allt som det skall vara igen. Varför problemet uppstod framgick inte. Sedan jag tittade senast på min sida har programvaran blivit uppdaterad (är bättre nu). Kanske var det uppdateringen som gjorde att lösenordet försvann.

Date of experience: July 1, 2018
Czechia
1 review
1 helpful vote
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Myheritage program I have been using for 4 years. It has been able to assemble a Family Family Pedigree of 16 generations. This amount of data and clarity can not be solved by another program with the same focus. It has many functions for bug fixes.
Thanks to this program, I found other relatives I have not known before.

Date of experience: July 1, 2018
Denmark
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Perfect
July 2, 2018

Meget fin hjælp til en, som ikke er god, når det gælder computeren! Alt blev forklaret tydeligt og klart.

Date of experience: July 1, 2018
Israel
1 review
0 helpful votes
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I have been struggling with a number of problems dealing with matches from Myheritage - I was close to giving up.
I rang the local number and the English speaking rep took me through various processes and menus and explained how I should proceed. Such a great help

Date of experience: July 1, 2018
South Africa
1 review
0 helpful votes
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You have an excellent program to help people who are doing research about their family. Unfortunately we cannot continue using it because of lack of finances and of time presently.
Thank you for the work.
Regards

Date of experience: July 1, 2018
Florida
2 reviews
0 helpful votes
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Awesome help!
June 30, 2018

Everytime I call - it has been often lately - they are very very helpful in guiding me to fix my mistakes, or add adopted children. This last time it was Megan., who was very patient with this old great grandmother!

Date of experience: June 30, 2018
Australia
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Best site to trace your Heritage
June 30, 2018

I have had a tree on My Heritage now for several years and I have found numerous relatives & ancestors. Record hints, photo hints, matches with other trees, newspaper matches, DNA matches, etc, etc, all makes for an interesting journey through history. Purchasing birth, death & marriage records can be quite expensive but thankfully through My Heritage I can see details of these records and I can save the details to my tree. The best decision I have ever made was to purchase a subscription to My Heritage

Date of experience: June 29, 2018
Louisiana
1 review
0 helpful votes
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I never really knew about my heritage. Basically, what I really knew, is about my Mother, and Father, and my two Grandmother's told me. Beyond that, I was in doubt. But I was told I was American Indian, a little German, and English. With the DNA it's really opened up a lot of things I never knew about myself. So now I know where I came from. I thank you so very much. Hout Colwell

Date of experience: June 29, 2018
NL
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Over the years I contacted the helpdesk several times by telephone and by mail. I only met kind, helpful people, with quick and clear answers.

Date of experience: June 29, 2018
Australia
1 review
0 helpful votes
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I had a query regarding seemingly ambiguous date entries, however the support member explained the reasons very satisfactorily and I was entirely satisfied with the help given. Many thanks.

Date of experience: June 28, 2018
Canada
2 reviews
2 helpful votes
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I had some questions about the results of my DNA test and was pleased to get a response within 2 days. Not only was my question answered, but a follow-up e-mail from Gerard had a complete and understandable explanation about genetics, etc that really helped me understand everything better.

Date of experience: June 28, 2018