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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 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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MyHeritage was extremely helpful when my 14 day free trial came to an end. I was too late to unsubscribe only by a few hours. The money was charged straight away to my account and when I asked to be refunded by email they got back to me straight away. The refund came through within 3 days. I am very grateful.
I sent an email asking a question about my membership at 11am, to my shock they had replied in person at 1pm. Absolutely the best service I've ever had. Even compared to face to face communication with businesses. Thanks My Heritage...
Your fantastic
Levei um grande susto quando tentei acessar a minha árvore e vi que ela estava em nome de outra pessoa, assim eu não poderia mais fazer nenhuma alteração, modificação ou inclusão nela.
Felizmente, depois de algumas tentativas e com a ajuda do Suporte do MyHeritage, consegui recuperar a minha árvore, confesso que achei que a tinha perdido.
Agradeço a ajuda de todo o suporte, em especial ao Jonas, que a recuperou para mim.
Célia
Excellent service, very friendly and professional. Very patient with while helping find the right buttons as I have a vision problem.
Thank you so much
I talked to Patrick to help me sign into the MyHeritage site so I could order a DNA kit.
Patrick was very helpful, very professional. He gave me a sign-in code and stayed on the phone with me to be sure I was able to sign in. A very good experience for me thanks to Patrick.
I was suggested to change my password and contacted MyHeritage. I met a very, very helpful lady called Lidija and with her patient mind I managed in changing. Willy Ebert, Norway
Estimado equipo de Soporte de MyHeritage:
Mi experiencia con MyHeritage es satisfactoria, tomando en cuenta que aun no he recibido
Mi kit, han respondido a todas mis dudas y acompañan cualquier proceso en el cual necesite ayuda.
Las respuestas son prontas y claras.
No tengo mas que agradecimiento
Mina Hauser
I cancelled my order and there was no pressure no change my mind, much more pleasant than most people expect something like that do be.
I was so frustrated not being able to sort the problem myself but within two minutes all was fixed by Olivia who helped me. Thank you so much for an excellent job.
A very helpful and expedient talk. I didnt even have to wait too long to get help, and it was very quickly resolved.
Made it very difficult to cancel free trial. Required multiple emails, a phone call and threats to contact BBB. They charged my credit card anyway after 2 weeks though now claim to have reversed the charge after I complained enough.
I have very positive impression about this company. Assistance is very helpful. Only reason I rated 4 stars and not 5 is because for some geografical regions they are not very specific. But still, for some regions they are, so I recommend this company.
I was concerned that my DNA results were taking much longer than indicated. I make phone contact with a most helpful employee, who went through my problem, discovered the reason for the delay, explained it would be rectified within five working days. I was impressed with your employee`s courtesy and efficiency.
Love the Myheritage webpage. I enjoy all the discovery and piecing together my family. The assistants I have spoken to are very kind and so knowledgeable. Many thanks.
In a telefone call with a very polite and technically savvy person the problems could be solved within a very short time. Thank you very much for your support.
Regards, K.-P. Voelkl
Buenos días, Su ayuda telefónica ha sido
Muy buena. He resuelto el problema. Gracias por su atención.
Un saludo Esperanza
I recently had a Login issue which was resolved very efficiently by Rafael at MyHeritage. I asked another question which was just as promptly dealt with. Excellent Customer Service from Rafael. Thank You.
Globalement très satisfait de ce site, juste un petit problème de mot de passe en plusieurs années vite résolu par un appel téléphonique.
Puis je me permettre de vous dire que le statut premium est quand même un peu trop cher - vous devriez faire une réduction après la première année de 30 ou 50%
Cordialement
B. Deixonne
Answer: My issue was the automatic renewal without any kind of courtesy reminder prior to the effective date, as other businesses do. Advising one year in advance is a poor business practice. When I contacted them immediately on the renewal effective date, they refused to cancel and offered me a 25% discount. They eventually gave me the full refund but it was due to me turning it over to AMEX to resolve. I do however agree with the advice to base your renewal on your own personal experience.
Answer: You can find your site subscriptions via MyHeritage homepage - pull-down menu on the right upper corner button "Settings". Then click on "My purchases", and button "Site subscriptions". Click "View details". The details contain section "Cancel subscription". Maybe you can get advice by mail from MyHeritage support team ([email protected]).
Answer: If you are looking to get as many connections to your tree that you can, use My Heritage. If you want flexibility in who is added to your tree, use Ancestry.
Answer: Dear Jonathan, Yes I have the same problem, I wrote to My Heritage and they have still not responded to my request for assistance. They are highly Sloppy and unprofessional in responding to customer request for assistance. Even though they have and excellent Technical Team. Fortunately I have another Computer with Windows 8 as a result of which I am able to continue working with my Website. But recently a few problems have cropped up with the recent upgrade of the My Heritage Program and have sent in a request for assistance and till today 3-5 months later I have no response. Apparently the company believes that they can play games with the customers. I firmly believe that they have somehow gone into self destructive mode.
Answer: Probbably you should like to know what are additional charges - described on MyHeritage site: Help Center > Account and Subscriptions > Subscriptions Whats the difference between a FAMILY SITE SUBSCRIPTION and a DATA SUBSCRIPTION? A Family Site Subscription (Premium or PremiumPlus) entitles you to increased storage on your family site for people in the family tree, photos, videos and documents. A Data Subscription entitles you with the access to billions of historical records in all the collections in SuperSearch. You also get unlimited access to Record Matches, including confirming and rejecting matches, if you have a family tree on MyHeritage.com. In addition, you can save and extract information from historical records you find in SuperSearch or get with Record Matches directly to your family tree.
Answer: If you have any problem with My Heritage you should email support@myheritage and state that you with to terminate the programme. They will tell you how to go about it. Hope that helps Sandra.
Answer: I believe a direct ancestor is someone without whom you would not be here. All your other ancestors are indirect.
Answer: Julija L. A: Probbably you should like to know what are additional charges - described on MyHeritage site: Help Center > Account and Subscriptions > Subscriptions Whats the difference between a FAMILY SITE SUBSCRIPTION and a DATA SUBSCRIPTION? A Family Site Subscription (Premium or PremiumPlus) entitles you to increased storage on your family site for people in the family tree, photos, videos and documents. A Data Subscription entitles you with the access to billions of historical records in all the collections in SuperSearch. You also get unlimited access to Record Matches, including confirming and rejecting matches, if you have a family tree on MyHeritage.com. In addition, you can save and extract information from historical records you find in SuperSearch or get with Record Matches directly to your family tree.
Answer: Hi After posting my complaint about MyHeritage on here I got a very quick response from some one called Dave at the company. He told me to send an email to [email protected] and add the subject Dave: sitejabber. He responded a couple of days later - I emailed on a Saturday - and the auto repeat on my subscription was cancelled and my money refunded within days. Hope this helps.


Dear Kelly,
I regret to find your low star review and that you found it difficult to cancel your free trial.
Issues such as canceling the free trial are important to us and we do try to make it easy for our registered members by allowing one to view the status or cancel a trial subscription at any time online when logging into MyHeritage from the My Purchases page to incur no annual charge. It is also true to note that MyHeritage informs all members of the annual charge and its price on the automatic email that is sent out after you enroll in the trial membership and before every renewal.
If one is unable to log in for any reason, they are absolutely guaranteed a refund because our terms and conditions that read that If you are not satisfied with your purchase you may request a full refund by contacting Customer Support within thirty (30) days of the initial purchase date of the subscription.
(Our terms and conditions) ----> https://www.myheritage.com/FP/Company/popup-terms-conditions.php
Al that said, your overall satisfaction is what is most important to me and If you need any further assistance with your refund, please feel free to e-mail me personally at [email protected]. I'd be always happy to assist you with high priority.
Sincerely
Rafael
MyHeritage