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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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I was very satisfied with my conversation with your customer service representative. I very pleased that the representative had such patience with me because I did not want to do the wrong thing and he stayed on the line until I was in the system and got all the information I needed to continue my family reseach... KUDOS!
I called regarding registration of my DNA kit. The person that spoke to was exstremely kind and helpful. Thank you very much!
Very good customer service. Erin explained very well the origins of my heritage. I would like to see the DNA process be more precise with the origins.
He was patient and kind and very helpful. He understood my questions and showed me how to navigate. I was working from my iPad and he went so far as to use an Apple device to be exactly on the same site as I. I deeply appreciated his kindness and help. I learned more about working with tge website than I ever have before. Thank you.
I had a problem between my DNA kit and my wife's DNA kit. I called support and it was solved in a matter of a couple of minutes. He spoke clearly and I could understand him.
I received help when i was not able to add relatives to my ancestors family. There were cousin marriages and it was only showing my direct line ancestors in the tree. I had several of my cousins take DNA tests. The only way to show how my cousins are related is to add the siblings of my ancestors in the tree.
I want to thank MayaN for her assistance in helping to activate my Mothers DNA kit that I sent in. It is very important to my family because my mother has passed away. We look forward to getting the results. Thanks again MayaN.
On Monday the 19th of this month, I conversed with Megan S about the cost, size and what needed to be done in order to get a chart of my generations printed. She said she would give the information to someone else and I would receive an email pertaining to this information. I HAVE NOT HEARD FROM ANYONE YET!
Sincerely Gene Alexander
I really want tFo thank David. He was attentive and concerned regarding my issues in activating my account. He would be an asset to any company.
I am very pleased with customer service at My Heritage. I have had very helpful and useful information. Each person I have spoken to has really taken the time to listen to me. They don't seem to be in a hurry to get me off the phone and they listen to my concerns. Anything that I need that will help me with my research is at my phone tips.
A regular Ponzi scheme here. Step one take your money, step 2: sign in, now asking for password which has not been registered earlier, step 3 go to support, step 4 upgrade to get support. When will the scheme end? I can't seem to end this so I will cancel the service by halting the CC payment. Hope that will end the service and the run around.- seems
Dear Joseph,
I'm sorry to read your low star review and I would like to issue you a refund as soon as possible.
I would like to clarify that MyHeritage informs all members of the Free Trial charge and its price on the automatic email that is sent out after you enroll in the membership and before every renewal.
Also, one may view the status or cancel a trial subscription at any time online when logging into MyHeritage from the My Purchases page and incur no annual charge.
Your refund is guaranteed 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.
If you did not read the details of your trial, visit your membership status online or read your automatic e-mail after purchase, you may not be aware of this.
In order to issue you a refund, I must first locate your registered MyHeritage account. Therefore, please e-mail me directly at [email protected] so I may assist you with high priority.
Kind Regards
Rafael
MyHeritage
Alle Probleme konnten Dank des sehr kompetenten und freundlichen Mitarbeiters gelöst werden! Super! Vielen Dank!
I wrote to them regarding the ticket number ************** o which they took 1 month to not reply nor show interest on my query.
I called after 1 month I opened my ticket and finally got my queries answered whitin a minute. They could have replied to it in one line but they ignored the support ticket
Avoid this company´s help center if you want to use their DNA service, is the worst thing you can do.
Dear Jose,
I absolutely sympathize with your struggle in contacting our support center and I'm sorry for the lack of empathy you have experienced.
Your feedback is extremely important and I have sent the description of what happened to our support managers to prevent this from happening again and to ensure better support for our members in the future.
Our intentions and company vision at MyHeritage are to provide the highest form of customer service for our members.
Please feel free to e-mail me personally anytime if you have any questions at [email protected]. I'd always be happy to help you with the highest form of priority.
Warm Regards,
Rafael
MyHeritage Support team
The best customer service bar none! Always prompt, courteous, and solve my very few problems. I have been with MyHeritage.com from the start, and they are all great!
Very kind support. Had not good feedback from the facebook webpage.
I contacted facebook because i couldnt find the support email which at the end i found and provided me with the reply i was expecting
It was hard to get through as I couldnt access my account number but once I finally made it through the woman who assisted me was amazing!
I had just renewed my subscription but it kept showing, 'not a member'. Pauline helped me sort it out and everything is now going great. I spoke with someone who cared.
I have used My Heritage for a couple of years I find it has most information. It still seems to comes up a little weak in Newfoundland records but they may not exist. I have tried others but My Heritage has the best searching flexability.
I misunderstood the instructions, and deleted my mothers account and her DNA-results. They still helped me out with new tests and explained how to store the results and avoid that from happening again :)
I inadvertently signed up to the wrong Family Site. Nadja was very pleasant and helpful and resolved the issue within 3 minutes. Great introduction to MyHeritage.
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 Eugene,
I'm sorry to read your low star review and will do all I can to help you with this with extra high priority.
In order to do so, I need to first locate and verify your registered account.
Therefore, please e-mail me directly at [email protected] so I may assist you with this as soon as possible.
Sincerely
Rafael
MyHeritage