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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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Sweden
1 review
1 helpful vote
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Quick and good service
January 22, 2018

Something went wrong in the cancellation of my subscription and MyHeritage started to debit my credit card for a full year. The man in the support was helpful though and gave me a refund of the fee.

Date of experience: January 21, 2018
Sweden
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Easy to create a tree but more difficult to handle it and do things with it. That's why I'm glad It's easy to contact the support and get there help.

Date of experience: January 21, 2018
Germany
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Awesome
January 22, 2018

My english isnt the yellow from the egg (we would say in germany) but the nice lady helped me and solved my problem real quick so! Good job :)

Date of experience: January 21, 2018
Illinois
1 review
0 helpful votes
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I had a glitch that I was unable to solve on my own. It did take two calls over two days to resolve. The second call may have been needed because of confusion at my end; never-the-less, the MyHeritage representatives were calm, friendly, professional and most of all my problem was solved.

Date of experience: January 21, 2018
Finland
1 review
2 helpful votes
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Follow up
January 22, 2018

My kit took 5 months to arrive and the results weren't entirely accurate. The information from my heritage website was awful and made me upload my information to a third party website to actually even SEE what my results were. Don't buy through this company. Stick with NatGeo.

Date of experience: January 20, 2018
North Carolina
1 review
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Explanations of my DNA
January 20, 2018

Megan Sheehan from MyHeritage based in Ireland thoroughly and patiently answered all of my questions about my DNA results. I was very pleased with the timely and interesting results. However, my biggest question was about my Native American DNA. I was disappointed that MyHeritage does not have a data base for Native Americans. PBH

Date of experience: January 19, 2018
Michigan
1 review
1 helpful vote
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Helped me alot
January 19, 2018

I called for 2 reasons and both were dealt with in a timely manner the young man who answered helped me resolve these 2 issues in a timely manner

Date of experience: January 19, 2018
Spain
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Great Customer Service
January 19, 2018

Tuve problemas con la entrega por un error de la oficina de correos y el paquete volvió al remitente. Dana me ayudó a solucionarlo y espero ansiosa que llegue mi kit.

Date of experience: January 19, 2018
NL
1 review
3 helpful votes
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They say I am 36% Scandinavian, uh NO! Not one person in my family on both sides has that in their family tree, but my VPN has my computer thinking it is in Sweden. Maybe that is why My Heritage says that...

It seems that My Heritage has ALOT of people coming from the same places... I think they are ripping people off left and right. Even people who have paid alot to get their TRUE DNA matches are getting the same wrong crap from My Heritage.

I have Cherokee Native American on my mothers side, 100% from her mother. I have Choctaw Native American on my fathers side, 100% from his great grandparents on his mothers side. Yet, my results say I have 0% Native American. I do have 2.3% Nigerian though, that makes sense as the Cherokee Nation adopted Black slaves into their tribe. I keep reading about My Heritage's explanation about percentages from relative to relative being why some people can have some of their relative's genes while others do not. BULLPUCKEY!

I am kicking myself for paying for this... but at least I got the holiday deal. I know where I came from and this makes no difference at all. I have proof of my genes. And NONE of them come from Scandinavia!

Date of experience: January 18, 2018
MyHeritage Support T. MyHeritage Rep
over a year old

Dear T S,

I'm sorry to find that you are unhappy with your Ethnicity Estimate and I'll do all I can to help.

It is true that DNA is not found to be evenly divided throughout the higher generations (Grandparents and higher) and some of your family can inherit more of a specific ethnicity than others. One may inherit more European DNA than Native American DNA depending on how far back your Native American ancestor is from you.

In addition, many of the Native American Tribes have not been a part of the sampling used to build reference populations in general. Within the United States alone, there are over 562 recognized Native American tribes, communities and Native villages. Your concern is a fairly common one and there is a lot of literature on it online.

That being said, I understand that you are trying to pinpoint the exact location that matches your research or family story. This can be done by utilizing the research tools available to you such as building your own family tree and finding comparable matches whether they be Genealogy or DNA matches. Our match algorithms have been proven to automatically find and compare similar DNA strands along with ancestral surnames, records, and family trees to find very interesting discoveries. New DNA is uploaded every day and the chances of that new information to match your research are high.

MyHeritage has been assisting millions for over a decade with their genealogy research and your feedback is paramount to our growth and development.

Therefore, I would like to assist you with your research and answer any questions you may have with the highest amount of priority.

Please e-mail me personally at [email protected], I'd be happy to help you, always.

Kind Regards
Rafael
MyHeritage

Wisconsin
2 reviews
0 helpful votes
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I was unable to open the Family Tree Builder app after upgrading the operating system of my Mac. I contacted the help department of MyHeritage and after waiting 11 days they gave me a link to download the latest version of the app. It worked perfectly!

Date of experience: January 18, 2018
Belgium
1 review
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Nog niet lang geleden begonnen met het gebruik van My Heritage. Kortelings ondervonden dat deze site blijkbaar hoofdlettergevoelig was zodat ik door opladen van Gedcom en persoonlijke invulling, bepaalde familieleden dubbel had Gezien ik niet wist hoe dit op te lossen contact opgenomen met het helpcentrum en vrij snel was ik van mijn probleem verlost.

Date of experience: January 18, 2018
Australia
1 review
0 helpful votes
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I loved having the complete package so I could access a lot of information. I was amazed at how much I could find out about relatives I never knew I had. Kinda takes you into another time as you imagine how they lived.

Date of experience: January 18, 2018
Pennsylvania
1 review
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Awesome
January 18, 2018

My kit was lost in the mail. I mailed it over a month ago, they never received it. They are sending me another one free! Great consumer service.

Date of experience: January 17, 2018
Canada
1 review
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Excellent
January 18, 2018

What a pleasure to speak with a Joy! She answered all my questions and helped me get on the right path with my tree.
She was also very patient. Another site I have used could get lessons from her!

Date of experience: January 17, 2018
Wisconsin
2 reviews
0 helpful votes
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This was my first time having to call customer support. They were very quick in answering the que as well as very polite and friendly. Very prompt with answers and support.

Date of experience: January 17, 2018
Switzerland
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Ich hatte während längerer Zeit ein gröberes Syncrhonisationsproblem zwischen dem Web und dem FTB. Auch der Support konnte es zuerst nicht lösen. Eden vom Support übernahm den Fall und scheute keine Mühe, mir zu helfen. Nun ist das Problem gelöst. Ganz herzlichen Dank.
Sowieso bin ich ganz begeistert von MyHeritage, insbesondere von den Zugriffsmöglichkeiten auf Millionen von Dokumenten. Eine Anregung habe ich: Meine Frau und ich liessen eine DNA Analyse machen. Es ist schwierig, diese zu interpretieren. Hier wäre eine für Laien geeigntete Erläuterung oder auch Links zu solchen Erläuterungen hilfreich.
Richard Heinzer

Date of experience: January 17, 2018
GB
1 review
1 helpful vote
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Why can't I cancel?
January 17, 2018

I've been informed today by Paypal that £127 has been paid as a subscription renewal despite sending numerous messages that I do not want to renew.
I've also attempted to phone customer support unsuccessfully.
I didn't want the initial subscription and have never used it.
Please return the money which has been taken without my authorisation

Date of experience: January 17, 2018
MyHeritage Support T. MyHeritage Rep
over a year old

Dear Jennifer,

I regret to find that you are unaware of your annual membership charge and will do all I can to help.

MyHeritage informs all members of the annual 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 an annual subscription at any time online when logging into MyHeritage from the My Purchases page and incur no annual charge.

It seems you were unaware of this and I'd like to help you receive a refund as soon as possible.

Therefore, please e-mail me personally from your registered MyHeritage address at [email protected] so I may verify your account.

Always happy to help
Rafael
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Canada
1 review
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How to correct mistakes
January 17, 2018

I had made a mistake putting in a wrong e mail and the agent corrected it and showed me how I could correct it in the future. I was very pleased with the service.

Date of experience: January 16, 2018
California
1 review
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Fixed problem quickly
January 17, 2018

It was easy to navigate Myheritages phone tree and my call was answered promptly by Natalie. She asked appropriate security questions and then asked me to describe my problem. She quickly identified the source of my problem and corrected it. She was both very pleasant and competent.

Date of experience: January 16, 2018
Germany
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Super Service
January 18, 2018

Habe gestern zum ersten mal und heute ein weiteres mal Kontakt zum Support gehabt und würde es jeder Zeit wieder tun. Die beiden Damen haben sehr gut erklärt und haben sich auch Zeit genommen um auf meine Probleme einzugehen. Habe auch schon Kontakt mit dem Support anderer Firmen gehabt aber so kompetent im Verhältnis zu Zeit und Preis war bisher keine. Macht weiter so.

Date of experience: January 16, 2018