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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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Had heden een probleem met het inloggen op My Heritage-site. Ik werd snel en vakkundig geholpen door Tessa van het team klantenservice. Ze was heel geduldig en vriendelijk. Veel dank Tessa.
Maor was the best. He went the extra step to explain why the DNA results were what the were.
Then a bonus, he listened to my long search for my bio
Daughter, and put me in touch with a reunification project.
Had major site relationship issues. Elizabeth from MyHeritage understood my problem and fixed several other issues as well. Full marks and praise from me (manager of family tree)
For my second need of assistance in past months, I am very pleased to report that I enjoyed the same exceptional courtesy, patience and understanding that I experienced while resolving my previous situation.
Different helper, same outstanding service!
Excellent response. I forgot to stop my trial and got charged for the year's subscription. After talking to their support person. I was refunded in full.
I had ordered two DNA kits, one for myself and one for my wife. My kit had arrived about a week ago but I had not received my wife's kit. I called to see if there was a problem. A very nice lady answered my call and immediately researched my order. She found that it was to be delivered on the day I called, and it was. I also was curious as to why my mother's side of my family had grown very quickly and my father's side had not. She allowed me to use a research tool that provided quick information and I was able to grow my father's family easily and quickly. What wonderful service. Friendly and able to handle my questions accurately and completely. Thank you My Heritage for such service.
I had unfortunately been unable to continue using MyHeritage and had forgotten to cancel my subscription before the next annual payment came out of my credit card account. The CSR Pauline was very pleasant to deal with and was quick and effiicient and had no hesitation in cancelling my account and arranging the reversal of the payment - no questions asked and no pressure upselling, which is very rare these days! Thank you!
The contact was very good and my problem was solved. I had sent the package to MyHeritage about five weeks ago and hadn't heard about it since then.
Awesome person on the other end of phone in Cork, I was calling from New Zealand, Kiran had my problem sorted very quickly, she was very helpful, extra nice to speak to a English spokeswoman and I could understand her very well.
I had to wait about 30 minutes before it was my turn in the queue.
I got Very helpful telephone support to resolve issues. The technician was knowledgeable and resolved all my issues.
Dialled 0800 number expecting the worst. But answered promptly and given the best possible help. My thanks to Efa from Ireland
The time I soent on hold was a full hour despite being only 4th in line. I would have complained if it weren't for the fact that the consultant who picked up my call was not only very fast and very friendly, but had an extremely heartwarming irish accent. I just couldn't be upset! Overall the customer service was extremely helpful and would've been basically perfect if it weren't for the hold time.
My husband called my heritage and they spent a long time helping him with problems we were having loading another dna from another site. They have helped us each time we have called.
I found myself with a few problems that occurred when I deleted my family tree and uploaded a new one. Had to call support and Shoham helped me fix everything. She was very friendly and patient with me throughout the whole process. Thanks so much.
Helped me in purchasing a DNA kit and explained that I could purchase it from my account and when the kit arrives then I would use my family members information to distinguish his DNA from mine.
Assistance from Kiran was helpful, accurate and patient.
Gaining access to the help via telephone was very slow because I was unable to open the MyHeritage site and so could not announce my ID number by phone. Kiran trained me to clear all files and start the google process again. Thank you.
I was having issues with resetting my password, (I'm a new user), and the MyHeritage support person, (PaulineG I think), was very helpful and quickly got me back online and into the MyHeritage web site. She had a lot of patience with my questions and I appreciate her customer service. Thank you.
I moved my subscription date forward to take advantage of an offer by MyHeritage. Unfortunately two months later an automatic renewal was due to be triggered. Contacted company to clear up issue and all seems satisfactory. Makes a difference when you have an operator that:-
Listens;
Understands the problem;
Offers a solution; and
Does something about it.
So all good and hopefully auto =-renewal will not trigger
I joined up on a 21 day free trial. Unfortunately, I entered an incorrect email address, which I did not realise at the time.
On the site, I requested access to a restricted family tree, but received no response. After some time, I found the incorrect email address in my account details, but could not amend my email address. The password had been sent to the incorrect address I had given and I had no access to alter details on my account.
Since I had received no response to my query for access to the restricted information, I decided to cancel my account at the end of the trial period, and rang the number given on the MyHeritage website. After pressing the option for account enquiries, I was tele-prompted for my password, which I did not have. Thinking laterally, I chose the option to open an account instead, which produced a live operator in very short time. This lady, Pauline, was a joy to deal with, and dealt with my story with the utmost efficiency and politeness. The account was cancelled as requested, and I then agreed to an extension to a new indefinite free restricted account.
I am impressed with the amount of detail available on the MyHeritage web site for the research I have done. Even the freely available information is surprisingly comprehensive. My fears of possible account mishandling were allayed by the courteous efficiency of the operator when contacted about my problems, and I intend to take up a paid account to access the full range of their information once I have settled down a bit.
In short, MyHeritage.com have a comprehensive data base with masses of information, and their support staff are extremely good at their job; very helpful and efficient. I have no hesitation in recommending them.
I wanted to modify the content of the « facts » listing but couldn do it. My request was very specific, according to the help desk clerk comments. Although I was not able to do exactly what I was hoping to do, the Help Desk Agent showed me how to access the desired information and played with it
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.

