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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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Nach einer etwas längeren Wartezeit fragte eine freundliche Damen nach meinem Problem (Speichern von Änderungen im Stammbaum nicht möglich) und nach einer ersten kurzen Erläuterungen haben wir gemeinsam synchron eine Änderung durchgeführt. Bei ihr funktionierte alles, bei mir versagte wieder das Speichern. Nachdem ich auf Ihre Empfehlung den gleichen Vorgang mit Google-Chrom statt mit meinem Firefox wiederholte, war der Fehler behoben. Viele Dank für die schnelle Hilfe und die Geduld der netten Dame.
I already say everything in the first line
Nice people - fast answer and helpful on the telefon
Thank you Lydia
Thank you for helping me Ron! I am keeping my fingers crossed to get the kit before I have to travel out of South Africa for the next 11 months.
It was unclear on where my kit is however and I would still like to get a clearer idea.
Thank you very much for the assistance.
Meguy
On phoning the accounts dept of MH I was met with an automated push-button menu that got stuck when I was unable to answer, "what are the last 4 digits of your credit card?" I could not answer as I paid with PayPal. My lack of response pushed me back to the start of the menu, and so on. When I finally got to a live person, my issue was dealt with courtesy and speed. The help person was amazing.
Maja was a great help.
She walked my non-tech self through the process to complete my information.
Thank you for having such professional associates.
I needed to cancel an order and MyHeritage made it very simple and easy. Just sent them a request from the website and it was done in a matter of minutes!
I've been trying to figure out what to do with my old basic site and move my family tree and DNA to my wife's new Premium for a while using the online support. The instructions I got via email were not clear enough for me to understand, and may have been wrong.
So, I chose to try phone support and was fortunate to get Brigitte, a very knowledgeable and courteous customer support person. In about 10 minutes we had it solved and working perfectly.
The solution was to start over. I first had to have my most recent GEDCOM and DNA files on the computer. She got rid of the old site and walked me through uploading the GEDCOM and DNA files to my wife's account (not entirely intuitive). It was all quick and easy, and now my tree can be as big as it needs to be.
We had one other call to MyHeritage customer support when my wife first set up her account and it went flawlessly as well.
My recommendation is to forget email support and just call them up.
Support team was great and provided creative solutions to my problem. The solution ended up meeting my needs. They could have easily said. No we can't help... but they did not. They were a great help.
Sean was quite helpful in assisting me with learning how to download my raw DNA and uploading it. He courteous and polite.
I subscribed for 14 days free trial and the 23/7 telephone support was unavailable on the two occasions I tried to use it on the first day. I therefore tried to unsubscribe but there was no way to do it on line as it goes in a loop with no end. E mail was no better with the promised acknowledgement of appearing. They still tried to take my money but fortunately my credit card company supported me. I strongly advise to stay away.
Emailed MyHeritage support re my problems and received a response relatively quickly. It has taken a bit of time to solve the issues but the person assisting (Jonathan) was ever helpful and patient. The issues were fully resolved. I don't know what caused them or how they were fixed but I assume it was a fix within the online database.
Impressed.
When I called My Heritage support, I was ready to be on hold for a while. I was surprised when after a few rings, I had a person! Very nice, polite person. She walked me thru my problem and I was very pleased. This is the second time I have called support and both times, got very good help.
Thank you!
2/28/2018. While it was the most frustating time of my genealogy research, I was in shock when I received notification when I tried to log in about 18 days ago and received the message I was blocked because of possible misuse. What? My tree is private and I couldn't imagine. I waited about 5 days before contacting MyHeritage and finally reached a human and pled my case. He agreed I had done nothing wrong and there was possibly an incident of someone hacking my account (this very probable and I have an idea of who tried it...). MyHeritage and I contacted back and forth and temporary passwords issued, and unsucessful. Contacted again and was told there was a glitch that was preventing my login. Perseverance paid off and I finally logged in again, and success! MyHeritage Help (technical and admin) was difficult to contact as I kept getting a message help was for paying customers... I was one... In the end, I guess I needed the break from genealogy and I was able to get into my trees yesterday. The final account help reps I ended up dealing with were wonderful and did everything they could to get me back on line. All is working well now.
It took me over 2 months, just to mentally process my DNA results. A couple months after receiving my results, I had questions. The My Heritage support member that answered my questions, was knowledgeable about not only DNA, but also countries, regions and the history of humans. MHS answered beyond what I'd expected. I've had a few people purchase kits from MH and I've been encouraging as many of my family members, colleagues and friends to purchase the My Heritage DNA kit.
Phoned with a strange question and was helped enormously, the young man even had a little chat with me while answering my question showing customer service with a capital S! Brilliant service thank you
I wanted to recognize Ordan for delivering an incredible customer service experience. Their level of professionalism and responsiveness was impressive. We can't thank you enough for trouble-shooting and successfully resolving the issue we had with one of the kits we purchased. Receiving a customer service experience this positive is becoming increasingly rare in the consumer marketplace these days. Thank you Ordan for your extended efforts! You are exceptional at your job and we appreciate your pleasant support and quick resolution!
Zeer vriendelijk, duidelijk en snel. Mijn eigen fouten werden goed opgelost. Alles werkt nu weer. Ook werd even gekeken naar de smart en record matches.
I was not able to upload a piece I had written and had tried many times. I contacted the support team of My Heritage and they took my writing and worked with it until they found the problem: one word in the whole four pages! I truly appreciate the effort.
I get very quickly and clear answer about the type of DNA test: it is a SNP DNA autosomal, without haplogroup
Thanks
Tessa was fabulous - resolved my issue immediately. She took the time to explain my options and we decided on the best outcome for me.
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.

