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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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Pennsylvania
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So far, so good.
February 15, 2018

Sent two DNA samples at the end of January 24,2018 for wife and myself. Wife just received notice that her DNA was being evaluated, but not mine. Checked the USPS tracker and found my DNA didn't arrive until Feb., 11,2018. My wife's arrived on Jan 31,2018. Megan at MYHeritage explained that my sample has not been released by the shipping department, but will very soon. I look forward for confirmation of this.

Date of experience: February 14, 2018
Florida
1 review
1 helpful vote
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Why something was missing
February 15, 2018

My late husbands family are ALL from Italy. Some from the middle, Umbria and some from Naples. My Granddaughter and I did the MyHeritage. I myself a bit excited to see where 'my life' tracks have been leading to now. I'm adopted. I, as was my Granddaughter were excited to see her results and to see the Italian %. When 'I' saw NO Italian %'s anywhere, I was confused. I called and talked to JackO and he was a HUGE help in explaining it all to me. Needless to say, as I also explained to my Granddaughter, she was still thrilled to see the diversity in hers. Her results went back 7 ethnicities, where mine only goes back 5 ethnicities, so far. BUT, he is a real gem and was very polite, didn't make me feel rushed and fully explained away all my questions and concerns.

Date of experience: February 14, 2018
GB
1 review
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Quick response from My Heritage help, second in queue so didn't use call back option.
Majal was extremely helpful, patient and confident. She eventually solved a difficult problem concerning compatibility of FTB with my on-Site family tree on iMac
Well done!

Date of experience: February 14, 2018
New Zealand
1 review
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Called from NZ and didn't have to wait long because instructions on phone meant I got through to appropriate area immediately. Majal answered the phone clearly and was very quick and helpful with my enquiry and I have coming away feeling confident that all is well. Thank you and looking forward to my results.

Date of experience: February 14, 2018
New Zealand
1 review
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Maya helped me I had a problem getting a report to print in the right order. The other day I followed advice but it didn't solve it. This time Maya was great she worked on it and had the solution pretty quickly. All sorted now.

Date of experience: February 13, 2018
California
1 review
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Solid Customer Service
February 14, 2018

I'm so pleased with the assistance I received today from MayaN! She was very patience, courteous, and kind, not to mention knowledgable.
I had a few duplicates in my tree that she helped me take care of. Now I know how to solve the problem by myself.
Thank you so much for your assistance!

Date of experience: February 13, 2018
Florida
1 review
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Telephone customer service was great. No complaints.

Afterwards, we ordered two kits online each costing $12. Shipping, total of $24 to send both kits to us. They arrived in one envelope weighing less than 1 kilo. Therefore they paid less than $5 to ship to us and we have to pay return postage with the vials. For the exorbitant charge of $24, My Heritage should include return shipping which is basically in an envelope costing about $1.13 postage. We assume their small flat box, vials, swabs, instructions costs are included in the purchase price. $5-6 shipping charge including return is enough for each DNA test.

Date of experience: February 13, 2018
Germany
1 review
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Mein Anliegen wurde von einer sehr netten und zuvorkommenden Dame namens Lidija bearbeitet und erledigt. War echt eine tolle Erfahrung - Danke und weiter so!

Date of experience: February 13, 2018
Australia
1 review
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I had to wait 15-20 mins for customer service but once representative was on-line I explained problem and AlonL very professionally, walked me through steps to fix, which only took a minute or 2.

Date of experience: February 13, 2018
New Zealand
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Finding Duplicates
February 13, 2018

Thank you for your help to my query re how to manage duplicates in my online tree, the advice given was most useful.

It would be great if the program gave a warning when you are about to add a duplicate record with the same / similar name and birth date.

Date of experience: February 13, 2018
NL
1 review
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Helpdesk
February 13, 2018

Ik heb wel een tijd gewacht tot ik een medewerkster aan de lijn had, maar dan heb ik wel een echte medewerkster gekrijgen met de naam Tessa, die alles heeft gedaan om mij echt te helpen. Met veel gedoeld en kennes heeft zij mij geloods over de site om mij laten zien hoe het site werkt, geen vraag was te veel voor haar en ik was tevreden.

Ik vindt allen dat de zoek maschine van MyHeritage, te veel resultaten geeft die niet relevant zijn voor mijn zoek opdracht, ook wanneer ik precise gegevens in tik, ik krijg soms tousende resultaten en pas naar veel zoeken vindt ik (of niet) wat ik heb gezocht en dat is heel vervelend.

Date of experience: February 12, 2018
Connecticut
1 review
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Awesome
February 13, 2018

I had a question concerning my parents' DNA results. The company explained to me that sometimes aol does not accept myheritage emails. However, Pauline from Ireland could not have been friendlier or more helpful. She was able to switch over the email addresses easily. I would definitely rate their customer service excellent!

Date of experience: February 12, 2018
Texas
1 review
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Pleasent and very helpful
February 13, 2018

I am hard of hearing so I missed your representatives name. However I started as number 11 and waited for my turn. I appreciate know where I was in line and also how I was advancing in line. Had it not been for that I would have hung up. Once I was answered by your rep I found her to be most pleasent and helpful. She straighten my situation out and advised me what and when to expect my results
I wish all of my calls to business were that professional and successful.

Date of experience: February 12, 2018
Canada
1 review
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Just a short wait and I was connected with Lisa who was most empathetic. Patiently she worked through my problem and repeated steps when needed. She never left me until she was convinced that my question had been answered to my satisfaction.

Date of experience: February 12, 2018
Massachusetts
1 review
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I had some questions and was put in touch with Maor in customer support. He is an an amazing representative--very polite, knowledgeable, and possessing a fine grasp on how DNA, world history, and family history are best served when allowed a forum to work together to reasonably explain the origins of all of us.

Date of experience: February 12, 2018
New Zealand
1 review
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Thank you JackO
February 12, 2018

Had made a stupid blunder when entering details when my husband's name came up automatically on my pc. Realised that had to be corrected but wasn't sure how. JackO helped me through the process, so very grateful to be back on track and looking forward to my results.

Date of experience: February 12, 2018
Illinois
1 review
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After a few months I had not received my results so I called. Oh jeeez. All my fault. I had put the wrong e-mail on my account! They had been e-mailing me (17 times!) that they needed more info to complete my results. The representative was patient and nice about my mistake. We laughed and I apologized. All straightened out. Sigh

Date of experience: February 12, 2018
Connecticut
3 reviews
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I sent my sample kit through the US Postal Service. The tracking number showed that the delivery was "Delayed" after three days in the system then there was no further activity for the next two weeks. When I went to the USPS website I needed the "To" address to fill out the contact us page. It isn't listed in the kit instructions so I emailed My Heritage asking for it. Meanwhile I submitted my inquiry using "unknown" as the address (leaving it blank gives an error message).
My sample was delivered the next day before My Heritage responded and I received emails from My Heritage informing me of it's delivery as well as another a couple of days later responding to my inquiry. There has been no response from the Post Office. My Heritage has much better customer service than the Post Office!

Date of experience: February 12, 2018
New York
1 review
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Resourceful and Thorough
February 12, 2018

My Heritage DNA customer rep took the time to answer my requests and helped me to process information and make changes to my account easily. I received excellent customer service from Aoife.

Date of experience: February 12, 2018
GB
1 review
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Helpful assistance
February 12, 2018

I made a mistake in my posting of one DNA package but the problem was sorted. Very interested to see the results.

Date of experience: February 11, 2018