MyHeritage has a rating of 4.3 stars from 4,742 reviews, indicating that most customers are generally satisfied with their purchases. Reviewers satisfied with MyHeritage most frequently mention family tree, customer service and support team. MyHeritage ranks 1st among Genealogy sites.
Im very disappointed with the service i received. I received an email after $78 was taken out of my card and I immediately called the support team. Upon which i was told that i would get a call back from the billing department. After 1 week of waiting they finally call only to tell me that I will only to be told that I will receive 45% of the money even if i told them and also emailed that I want to cancel my membership with them. Im so dissapointed. The guy i spoke to was even rude and said they cant cancel my membership i have to do it myself and was not helpful on how I do. Their 30 day refund policy is a total lie. Whats the point if keeping the other 55% when you clearly know the person clearly stated to you that they are not interested and want to cancel membership. Just remove the refund policy because clearly you do not stick to it
I started using Geni.com and ended up (almost automatically) with a subscription to MyHeritage in order to get more data. I understand MyHeritage owns Geni.com. However, you cannot import work from MyHeritage to Geni.com and for my purposes Geni.com has superior reports. This lack of integration of the sites and lack of support integration has resulted in a waste of time and money for me. The lack of disclosure about trading data along with the lack of adequate support between the two sites has resulted in a very unfavorable experience.
I have been involved with My Heritage for over 4 years and in the last few weeks I have had
Some personal matters that I needed to be fixed. On contacting MyHeritage support I found them to be extremely helpful, they replied promptly and the person I dealt with had the authority to able to fix the problem. I only dealt with the same person who communicated with me regularly until the matters had been resolved.
Also the consistent updating of the site with new features shows what a progressive site MyHeritage is.
I called MyHeritage and spoke to Enga. I needed some help in changing the name on my account. She was very professional. She was very helpful. And she took care of my needs. It was a great customer service experience and I compliment Enga on her professionalism.
Due to a wrong klick while synchronizing the data from my heritage to the family tree builder I lost 5000 relatives and I had no backup. Daniel from the support managed it to restore the complete data which took some weeks but finally was successful. A great thanks to Daniel for this! Robert
Fabulous to actually talk to someone, Jack I think it was. Can only say Thank you Thank you Thank you for all your help.
I was starting to get really frustrated when things weren't going as I thought they should & almost at a press of a button(by Jack) I was up & running, much appreciated. Cheers & once more thank you for all your help. Val
Unfortunately, I find that I now need to contact MyHeritage a number of times in an attempt to resolve issues!
I give up on MyHeritage.
I just gave up on MyHeritage ability to actually deliver a service.
Total incompetence
I was and am amazed at the discoveries and help I get with discovering my ancestry at MyHeritage.com! They have given me a strong positive upward lift!
I called and talked to customer service today and talked to Shoham - I was very very pleased with the service she gave me on how to transport my family tree-very good education and knowledge was given me. --Thank you so much My Heritage and Shoham!
I tried to use their service, however, I found it to be subpar. I tried to cancel the account, and thought I had, however, that cancellation apparently didn't go through and I was charged 119. I tried to call to have the issue taken care of, however, after leaving multiple messages, I was only called back once, and didn't catch it. They left a number to call back, but after being on hold their system told me to call back later and hung up on me. At this point I have disputed the charge with Paypal, citing the entire issue, and will be taking the issue up with my bank as well.
I was using a different ancestry website for a year and recently switched to MyHeritage. I was used to the way the other website displayed relations as far back as my 10th Great Grandparents. Or how the cousins that far back were displayed. I noticed that MyHeritage at some point would refer to the grandparents as 5th, 6th (or whatever) generation. I asked MyHeritage if they could change the way they display the relation and they said they would look into it. They did however, give me directions on how I could look it up myself. It was a huge help to me. So now when I type up the family tree I will be able to include how the person is related to me. I am slowly learning how to get the most from MyHeritage. So glad I made the switch.
I signed up for a free trial and used the site for a week. I had access to all the information sites and they never made it clear that it takes TWO subscriptions to see all information AFTER trial period. I paid for the year subsciption that was being offered every few minutes and as soon as the 14 day trial was over, I was shut off from 99% of the intformation unless I wanted to pay for a data package. I thought that was what I had already paid for with my subscription. I could have just put my family tree into my software for free. I feel like this conpany is practicing the old bait and switch business practice. There was definitely no Clear disclosure of all costs involved. I had told 3 friends about the site. I called them back and told them NOT to join. Very disappointed. Also very annoying that you cannot add marriage dates later.
I am please with the team and the knowledge that they have. I know they are working as hard as they can to fixes the problems I have. They have help me very much. I would tell anyone to use MyHeritage for their tree.
Leonard Smith
Watonga, Ok
VIZ took me through the process of extracting a tree of approximately 100 entries from Getcom file of approximately 2,800 entries. He was very clear, concise, and effective and the results were great.
I was selected for a DNA kit through their DNA Quest (related to adopted people) and the kit was sent to an incomplete address. When I called in, they were very attentive and remedied the problem very easily and with no fuss. I'm very happy with the experience.
The representative Majoa perfectly assisted me and came up with a solution for my issue. She also provided me with accommodation for the inconvenience, which was not the fault of the company, but instead of the postal service.
After not looking at my family tree for years, I decided to use My Family Heritage because of my granddaughter's interest in our ancestry. When I try to get into My Family Tree I get messages: 1. Access denied or 2 This website is unavailable. Why is this happening?
I got fantastic help, my problem was that I was forced to change my e mail address, and therefore I could not get hold of the information I had in my previous family tree. I also had forgotten my old password. But with professional help I got from "Ziv", who also spoke my language, Swedish, fluently, the problem was soon solved, and I can enjoy continuing my research of my relatives.
I called to confirm that an email concerning a data breach of MyHeritage was genuine. I'm not a very fluent English speaker, but your customer service was very patient and helpful, reassuring me that the email was genuine.
Best regards,
Gertrud Schicke
I had a free trial and failed to end my subscription with one day. I immediately contacted customer service to get
Help with this and had hope for understanding. I had ordered a DNA kit and clicked that I would get a free trial, and missed to cancel it with one day. I was surprised that I didn't get any more e-mail about this before they charged me a lot of money.
MyHeritage's customer service refused to cancel my subscription and give me a full refund. I almost beges them too, and after not answering my emails I got a call and talked to a Costumer service agent that said all they could offer was 40% refund. I lost 60% to a service I don't use.
Customers make mistakes, and the fact that they could not understand that it is a lot of money to lose made me really disappointed. No understanding and no e-mail before charge. I am a dissapointed costumer and I almost feel fooled.
Dear Frida,
Thank you for your review and I am sorry for your experience. Please write to dean.vipsupport@myheritage.com and I will personally look into this for you.
Looking forward to hearing from you.
Kind Regards,
Dean,
MyHeritage Team.
I found "MyHeritage" to be of extreme importance for families who are intrested to build a 'family tree' or to look for lost relatives.
Personally, during my search in the site, I found information which I was never aware of, concerning my late father.
MyHeritage has a lot to offer, and their support is very professonal. I needed some help and it has been a real pleasure talking with Maya, their support representative, who was very patient, polite and helpfull.
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 (support@myheritage.com).
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 and fellow users, In regards to the FTB not working, I may have found a solution, please follow these directions. Please right click on the FTB icon on your desktop, and click on 'Properties': Once you have opened the 'Properties' menu then click on the 'Compatibility' tab: If the field "Run this program in compatibility mode for:" is checked, and it says below "Windows 7", uncheck the box. Please let me know if this has solved the issue. Should this not work for you then please get in touch with the support team at support@myheritage.com from your registered MyHeritage email address and a friendly representative will help you at the first available moment. Kind Regards, Dean, MyHeritage Team.
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: Dear Susan, Thank you for posting your question to us here on SiteJabber. I agree with Sandra in that you should write to the support team from your registered email address to support@myheritage.com and a friendly representative will be in contact with you at the first available moment. Trusting this has proven useful. Kind Regards, Dean, MyHeritage Team.
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: Dear Carolyn, Thank you for posting a question here on SiteJabber. I would like for you to as advised contact me directly at support@myheritage.com from your registered email address and also place my name within the subject of the email to ensure that you are forwarded directly to me. I will be more than happy to assist you with any questions or problems you may have. Looking forward to hearing from you. Kind Regards, Dean, MyHeritage Team.
Dear Patience,
Thank you for your review here on SiteJabber.
Would you be so kind as to contact me from your registered MyHeritage email address to support@myheritage.com and place my name in the subject line.
This way you will forwarded to me and I will personally look into this issue for you.
Thank you for your cooperation and I look forward to hearing from you.
Kind Regards,
Dean,
MyHeritage Team.