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MyHeritage

4.2

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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 a family history and genealogy website that allows users to create their own family tree, research their ancestors, and connect with distant relatives.

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NL
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Ik heb nu ongeveer 5 jaar het premium gebruikt, en ben zeer tevreden daarmee. Ik kreeg vaak genoeg mails over mijn voorouders, en kon mijn stamboom verrijken met aangeleverde data. Ik ben nu gepensioneerd, en moet helaas uit kostenredenen terug gaan nar de basis-versie van MyHeritage. Ik hoop ooit nog weer terug te kunnen, maar dat kan nog vele jaren gaan duren.

Date of experience: January 4, 2016
NL
1 review
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Onlangs ondervond ik problemen met het inloggen bij MyHeritage. Via Internet lukte het wel maar op mijn PC was het wachtwoord niet (meer?) geldig. Ook na het opnieuw aanvragen van een wachtwoord lukte het me niet om op mijn PC MyHeritage op te starten. Dankzij de ondersteuning van de Helpdesk is dit probleem echter binnen 1 werkdag opgelost. Heel hartelijk dank voor jullie goede service.

Date of experience: January 3, 2016
Israel
2 reviews
3 helpful votes
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I have in the past commented about the highly unprofessional Customer service and support of this service provider. Recently another incidence has cropped up. I suddenly found out about three plus weeks ago that one whole album of about 80 articles was suddenly erased from my website. Further I was not able to upload anything else or correct this erasure. I sent several emails to customer service to which no response was ever received. Finally I went to their Office in Or Yehuda Israel and met a very polite representative of theirs. He informed me that they had a bug in the system but would get around to solving the problem according to their priorities. He could not give a specific date when they would around to it nor when it would be solved. When I had problems with AOL and Reimage other companies the problem was solved within one chat session. Here at My Heritage the customer service do not even respond with a courtesy note sating that we have received your email... This company in my opinion has absolutely no professional courtesy for its customers and even the lowest evaluation I gave it of one star is in my opinion over rated for customer service. I hope this review will stimulate them to improve their customer service.

Date of experience: January 2, 2016
NL
2 reviews
1 helpful vote
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Ik werk nu een paar jaar met My Heritage en ben over het algemeen prima tevreden over de mogelijkheden, toegankelijkheid en vormgeving. In de laatste update van Builder liep het fout met de toegankelijkheid en werd ik er vaak na enkele mutaties of toevoegingen aan mijn stambomen 'uit gegooid'. In een intensief contact met support van MH zijn we er samen uit gekomen en is het opgelost. Complimenten voor de service en het vastbijten in het probleem, net zolang totdat er een oplossing was. Ander punt van discussie vind ik de privacy. Op zich biedt het systeem aardige mogelijkheden maar al een paar ben ik gestuit op reacties van anderen die via zoekmachines als Google alle foto's van mijn site kunnen zien, downloaden etc. Natuurlijk kunnen ze niet in stamboom (afgeschermd) maar ik vind het niet correct dat vanuit de beschermde omgeving van MH gedownload kan worden. Dit schendt toch de privacy. Als ik upload naar bijv. Dropbox kunnen anderen er niet bij, tenzij ik daar een akkoord op geef of anderen uitnodig via mailbericht. Ik vind dit punt echt een minpunt en zou verbeterd moeten worden door MH.

Date of experience: January 1, 2016
CD
1 review
0 helpful votes
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I lov so much myheritage
December 29, 2015

J'aime myheritage ce mon site preferer je reve devenir un jour un expert en la matiere j'aime les ordonnances pour les morts et les vivants j'aime le temple car c'est la maison du seigneur

Date of experience: December 29, 2015
Sweden
1 review
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Jätteroligt
December 28, 2015

Fungerar bra för mig just nu med hjälpen jag fick

Date of experience: December 27, 2015
Norway
1 review
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After some trial and error a few years ago, I ended up with a page in MyHeritage. It was one smart choice would be seen as time passed. I chose a side of my father's family and one side of my mother's family, not something I would recommend if the families are large. Better and have all gathered on a page.
Start-up and creation of a family tree at MyHeritage is free and only after several years if the tree has been great, it will cost a bit, but it's worth itathered at one familieside.

Date of experience: December 27, 2015
NL
1 review
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If what goes wrong
December 28, 2015

For eight years I make as a premium-member use of the great Family Tree Builder of My Heritage. Then there are what go wrong. And if the digital Help ultimately in my case no solution, then there is the personal support from My Heritage Support Team. A great service!

Ruud

Date of experience: December 27, 2015
NL
1 review
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First class
December 24, 2015

De jonge man die mij heeft geholpen een moeilijkheid op te lossen, getuigde van kundigheid en geduld. Het is buitengewoon snel en correct op een zeer vriendelijke manier opgelost.
Een sieraad voor de organisatie.
Zijn naam is Daniel.
H.Vos

Date of experience: December 24, 2015
Indiana
1 review
2 helpful votes
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Try, try again...
December 24, 2015

I've always had good experience with customer service in the past. This time, the information given to me to solve my problem didn't work. I was trying to delete an unwanted photograph. The support person fixed my problem himself, deleting the unwanted photo, then gave me a different set of instructions on how to do it... which did work when I tried it on a different photo. The end result was satisfactory; however, I think the correct steps should have been offered the first time. All's well that ends well... just my valuable time was lost.

Date of experience: December 23, 2015
Michigan
1 review
1 helpful vote
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Customer Service
December 24, 2015

The lady that helped me gave me a detailed description of the answer to my question. She went on to describe if I did this or that and how it would not affect anything on my tree. I was afraid if I clicked that a person was a match that it would automatically connect our trees. She very carefully explained what steps were involved. I am very glad I had her answer my question.
I got an answer back within 24 hours.

Date of experience: December 23, 2015
Canada
1 review
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Great support Team
December 23, 2015

I am using MyHeritage Family Tree Builder for more than eight years. The software is very friendly and the technical support very good and quick. The publication fees for the tree low. I recommend the site and the software to everybody who love genealogy.

Date of experience: December 22, 2015
Utah
1 review
12 helpful votes
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Do not scam me!
December 21, 2015

I am being charged $119 in my checking account for a service of yours. I have never been to your site and would like to have the charge rescinded please. If you don't, I will file a charge against you.

Lorrie Dunn

Date of experience: December 21, 2015
MyHeritage Support T. MyHeritage Rep
over a year old

Dear Mrs. Dunn,

Thank you for your review here on SiteJabber.

I invite you to contact us from your registered MyHeritage email address to [email protected]. Please also place my name in the subject line. This will ensure that you are forwarded to me and I will assist you with your problem.

Trusting this has proven useful to you and I look forward to hearing from you.

Kind regards,
Dean,
MyHeritage Team.

Pennsylvania
1 review
1 helpful vote
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Very Helpful Support Team
December 21, 2015

In migrating from a PC to a Macbook, I was unable to restore my tree into Family Tree Builder on my new laptop. The support team gave me step-by-step instructions to diagnose the problem and then offered the right solution. I am up and running again thanks to the MyHeritage support team!

Date of experience: December 21, 2015
New York
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Great experience
December 21, 2015

Customer and technical support is excellent. They clarified a few questions quickly and accurately. I highly recommend this company.

Date of experience: December 20, 2015
Washington
1 review
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I would like to thank the support team for helping me to make changes in my family heritage tree.
Great and fast service!

Date of experience: December 16, 2015
Indiana
1 review
1 helpful vote
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I recently contacted customer support service regarding a free upgrade to my tree. I was not sure of what all was provided. I got several responses from Dean at Support Services and he completely explained to me just what I was and was not entitled to receive in a very in depth email. I was very happy with the quality of service that was provided to me!

Date of experience: December 16, 2015
Idaho
2 reviews
0 helpful votes
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I recently contacted the support team about transferring my family tree to My Heritage. They were very quick with their response and helpful with how to go about getting started with very easy to follow directions. I was very pleased.

Date of experience: December 15, 2015
Mexico
2 reviews
0 helpful votes
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Love this site/app
December 16, 2015

Myheritage has been very useful in setting up our family tree. We had notes and Excell files, but now we have everything arranged into a single source, and it's easy accesible for everyone.
I love the reminder e-mails it sends with birthdays and anniversarys!

Date of experience: December 14, 2015
Israel
1 review
10 helpful votes
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SCAM
December 14, 2015

Rip off. Stay away. They do not respect their cancellation policy. Absolute rip off.

Date of experience: December 13, 2015
MyHeritage Support T. MyHeritage Rep
over a year old

Dear David,
Thank you for your review here on SiteJabber.

Please contact me at [email protected] from your registered MyHeritage email address and also place my name in the subject line. This will ensure that you are forwarded to me and I will look into your case for you.

Trusting this has proven useful and I look forward to hearing from you.

Kind Regards,
Dean,
MyHeritage Team.