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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 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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While I agree that their service may appear expensive, but when I compare them to other similar Family Tree Builder sites that I have tried, they come out on top. I therefore have no problem with what I have paid to date. It like buying a car, the best make and model will always cost more.
MyHeritage has always responded to my queries fast and no problem that I have experienced has remained unsolved to date.
For me and my family it is first class and the information I found through them about my family history has been absolutely amazing... some details I had searched for years without any success but a short time after joining MyHeritage I found exactly what I had been looking for. Thank you for a great site and keep up the good work.
Initially I thought myheritage.com was a great site, better than ancestry.com. However I contacted them within 3 days of signing up to cancel, received an email from their customer service that I would receive a refund of the charge for a premium account (I was trying to sign up for data, not premium). That was over 4 months ago. I recently resent their email back to them where they indicated a refund would be sent and no reply. I will never purchase any service from them again. I have discontinued building our family tree through them.
They helped me right away without trouble and I didn't have to wait more than a day to get an answer. Within three days my problem was solved. That's how services are supposed to be.
J'utilise ce site comme complément d'un logiciel de généalogie, uniquement pour rendre visible l'arbre généalogique aux membres de ma famille. Il est intéressant et assez complet, mais à mon goût il n'est pas suffisamment personnalisable.
De plus, je suis toujours embêté quand on me propose des mises à niveau supérieures en réclamant toujours plus d'argent.
Ceci n'engage que moi!
I've just started building my family tree on Myheritage - the user interface is very easy. I had an issue arise and it was quickly corrected for me and answered via email. Very prompt and thorough!
Myheritage does have a lot of expensive subscriptions though - that's the only negative I've found so far.
My Heritage program has been fun listing my ancestors and building my family tree.
When help is needed the support team is wonderful and they have both online information and they offer personal answers quickly as well. Thank you for your support, My Heritage team.
Love being able to track my ancestors. Especially appreciate the smart matches which does so much work for you. Also very responsive customer service.
I since 2004 working with MyHeritage.
Was then taken up by verwandt.de here when this page was closed.
The first few years I was a member and the base but always had a good service. Never remained unanswered.
Starting this year, I am now Premiummtiglied and therefore also the service has improved.
It is in principle promised what and so I could expand from 87 to now 460 the number of people in my family tree from September to November 2015th
Many thanks to MyHeritage for the beautiful side and taking good care.
Weida in November 2015
Barbara Nitschke
I had problems with my Heritage but after I contacted sitejabber My Heritage contacted me and resolved the problem to my satisfaction.
Dear Joyce,
Thank you for your review here on SiteJabber.
We at MyHeritage do pride ourselves on giving our users the best possible service as many other reviewers here on SiteJabber have mentioned.
I invite you to contact me from your registered MyHeritage email address to [email protected]. Please also place my name in the subject line so that you will be forwarded directly to me and I will be more than happy to assist you with any problems you may be having.
Trusting this has proven useful.
Kind Regards,
Dean,
MyHeritage Team.
Tuve problemas con mi contraseña y usuario para entrar a mi cuenta que hace varios años había dejado de utilizar. La atención de usuario de MyHeritage, fue increíble. Me ayudaron en muy poco tiempo a recuperar todos mis datos. Totalmente agradecida de su ayuda.
I am "electronically challenged" but the Support Team at MyHeritage.com and in particular, Shimon, helped me resolve the problem, I had created for myself, very easily.
Service is surprisingly good. When I run into something I can't handle, they get back to me promptly and politely.
I wish there were a way their computers could take a specific match and put all matches on one page to compare with mine. I am simply overwhelmed with matches for the same person(s) in my tree. For example; Could all matches with the name "Jane Doe" be listed together and all confirmed or rejected at one time?
I am thinking about DNA testing, but want to go back the male line. My brother is willing but I am worried about privacy issues.
I have been a member of MyHeritage for many years and the development of this program has been truly remarkable. It is a powerful tool for people interested in discovering their ancestors. I really enjoy it. It is almost addictive.
After a small error I have caused by myself the Service Team of My Heritage solved the Problems precise and within a very short time period. Thank you, My Heritage... P. C.
MyHeritage gab mir die Möglichkeit, sehr schnell und verständlich aus den wenigen vorhandenen Daten meiner Vorfahren eine übersichtliche Dokumentation zu gestalten, die mir immer wieder neue Anregungen zur Erweiterung und zur Verfeinerung gibt. Mein besonderer Dank gilt dem hervorragenden Serviceteam, das mir bei vielen für mich scheinbar grossen Problemen schnell und präzise geholfen hat.
Empezamos siendo unas pocas familias conectadas por mediación de la herramienta MyHeritage y actualmente en este inicio del año 2016, ya estamos relacionadas 187 familias con un total de 492 personas.
Imposible conseguirlo si no hubiera tenido la ayuda de otros miembros de la familia, que gracias a la simplicidad de uso de la herramienta, ha permitido ir haciendo mas grande este árbol familiar.
Cierto es que no utilizamos toda la potencia de información que el programa permite, pues en muchos casos, es difícil de obtener o conocer, sobre todo cuando se trata de personas fallecidas hace muchos años.
Para muchos de los miembros de este árbol familiar, las opciones de visualización e impresión de una parte del árbol hace que su interés por completarlo sea cada vez mayor.
Hasta cuando y hasta donde llegaremos? No hay que correr, poco a poco es una buena velocidad.
Unfortunately I had not the opportunity to talk to support in German nevertheless the English help given to me was full satisfactory. I received all answers which helped me to under their billing policy.
I was having syncing problems on My Heritage software and with the help of Noa a My Heritage technician, the problems has now bern resolved. He was very gracious and patient and certainly went the extra mile. I do so enjoy this geanology program My Heritage, have been able to connect and find my ancestors and now am able to leave this heritage to my children and grandchildren.
Thanks to Noam's help I was able to sort a problem. Got back to me within a short time with a very informative reply. Was able to sort things very quickly. Thanks
I signed up for MyHeritage in February, 10th, 2009 23:02. A reason was that my father and grandfather created a family tree with the beginning from 1754 but all information was on paper only and therefore very difficult to read and look up it. I once read a review in magazine Computer about genealogy and programs which support it. I decided for MyHeritage because it was (and still is) for free:-). And because it was very easy to create the tree I stood with it up to now. Unfortunately due to lack of free time I interrupted the usage of MyHeritage for a few years. Now I'm retired so I decided to begin again. I wander what changed till now and if some shortages were repaired. It was very easy to create a tree but very difficult to do some changes and repairs, especially when he or she was divorced and married a few times or lived with boyfriend or girlfriend only. Nevertheless I managed to create our family tree and publish it for my relative. Maybe I will publish it for the wider public too and this way to allow the connections with the family trees from somebody else.
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 M. L,
Thank you for your review here on SiteJabber.
What I would like for you to do is to contact me from your registered MyHeritage email address to [email protected] and place my name in the subject line. This way you will be forwarded directly to me and I will investigate this matter for you.
Thank you for your cooperation and I look forward to your reply.
Kind Regards,
Dean,
MyHeritage Team.