Check out our latest communities fighting
AI scams on Reddit and Facebook

business logo of MyHeritage

MyHeritage

4.2

On SmartCustomer, businesses may not offer incentives or pay to remove reviews. Learn more about our Review Guidelines.

From the business

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
How would you rate MyHeritage?
grey stargrey stargrey stargrey stargrey star

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.

This summary is generated by AI, based on text from customer reviews

This company does not typically respond to reviews

We monitor reviews for authenticity

Australia
1 review
1 helpful vote
Follow Derek D.
Unfollow Derek D.
Share Review
Report Review

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.

Date of experience: November 11, 2015
Ohio
1 review
3 helpful votes
Follow M L.
Unfollow M L.
Share Review
Report Review

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.

Date of experience: November 9, 2015
MyHeritage Support T. MyHeritage Rep
over a year old

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.

NL
1 review
0 helpful votes
Follow REH L.
Unfollow REH L.
Share Review
Report Review

Right away
November 10, 2015

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.

Date of experience: November 9, 2015
France
1 review
1 helpful vote
Follow Yves J.
Unfollow Yves J.
Share Review
Report Review

Moyen
November 8, 2015

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!

Date of experience: November 8, 2015
Florida
1 review
1 helpful vote
Follow Maureen S.
Unfollow Maureen S.
Share Review
Report Review

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.

Date of experience: November 7, 2015
Michigan
1 review
0 helpful votes
Follow Duane M.
Unfollow Duane M.
Share Review
Report Review

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.

Date of experience: November 6, 2015
Alabama
2 reviews
0 helpful votes
Follow Bonnie M.
Unfollow Bonnie M.
Share Review
Report Review

Very good site!
November 7, 2015

Love being able to track my ancestors. Especially appreciate the smart matches which does so much work for you. Also very responsive customer service.

Date of experience: November 6, 2015
Germany
1 review
0 helpful votes
Follow Barbara N.
Unfollow Barbara N.
Share Review
Report Review

Best Service
November 6, 2015

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

Date of experience: November 5, 2015
Australia
1 review
0 helpful votes
Follow Joyce O.
Unfollow Joyce O.
Share Review
Report Review

I had problems with my Heritage but after I contacted sitejabber My Heritage contacted me and resolved the problem to my satisfaction.

Date of experience: November 2, 2015
MyHeritage Support T. MyHeritage Rep
over a year old

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.

Chile
1 review
0 helpful votes
Follow Ro E.
Unfollow Ro E.
Share Review
Report Review

Excelente atención
November 3, 2015

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.

Date of experience: November 2, 2015
Florida
2 reviews
0 helpful votes
Follow Sue D.
Unfollow Sue D.
Share Review
Report Review

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.

Date of experience: November 2, 2015
Maryland
1 review
1 helpful vote
Follow Anne H.
Unfollow Anne H.
Share Review
Report Review

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.

Date of experience: November 2, 2015
Portugal
2 reviews
0 helpful votes
Follow Ruben d.
Unfollow Ruben d.
Share Review
Report Review

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.

Date of experience: November 1, 2015
Austria
1 review
0 helpful votes
Follow Peter C.
Unfollow Peter C.
Share Review
Report Review

Very positive action
October 29, 2015

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.

Date of experience: October 29, 2015
France
1 review
0 helpful votes
Follow Michael C.
Unfollow Michael C.
Share Review
Report Review

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.

Date of experience: October 28, 2015
Spain
1 review
0 helpful votes
Follow Ferran A.
Unfollow Ferran A.
Share Review
Report Review

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.

Date of experience: October 28, 2015
Germany
1 review
0 helpful votes
Follow Peter h.
Unfollow Peter h.
Share Review
Report Review

Billing 2019
October 28, 2015

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.

Date of experience: October 28, 2015
Canada
1 review
0 helpful votes
Follow Valerie W.
Unfollow Valerie W.
Share Review
Report Review

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.

Date of experience: October 28, 2015
Australia
1 review
0 helpful votes
Follow Chris L.
Unfollow Chris L.
Share Review
Report Review

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

Date of experience: October 27, 2015
Germany
1 review
0 helpful votes
Follow Karel B.
Unfollow Karel B.
Share Review
Report Review

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.

Date of experience: October 26, 2015