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MyHeritage

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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.

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South Africa
1 review
21 helpful votes
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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

Date of experience: February 17, 2016
MyHeritage Support T. MyHeritage Rep
over a year old

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.

Mexico
1 review
0 helpful votes
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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.

Date of experience: October 21, 2015
Australia
1 review
1 helpful vote
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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.

Date of experience: October 13, 2015
Georgia
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Very helpful!
August 16, 2017

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.

Date of experience: August 16, 2017
Germany
1 review
0 helpful votes
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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

Date of experience: April 26, 2016
New Zealand
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Talking to person
April 16, 2018

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

Date of experience: April 14, 2018
Ireland
2 reviews
0 helpful votes
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Contact / Communication
August 31, 2024
Updated review

Unfortunately, I find that I now need to contact MyHeritage a number of times in an attempt to resolve issues!

Date of experience: August 21, 2024

I give up.
January 9, 2019
Previous review

I give up on MyHeritage.
I just gave up on MyHeritage ability to actually deliver a service.
Total incompetence

Date of experience: January 9, 2019
Washington
1 review
0 helpful votes
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I was and am amazed
March 6, 2018

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!

Date of experience: March 5, 2018
Ohio
1 review
20 helpful votes
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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.

Date of experience: February 29, 2016
Indiana
1 review
1 helpful vote
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Relations
March 19, 2016

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.

Date of experience: March 19, 2016
California
3 reviews
25 helpful votes
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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.

Date of experience: March 8, 2016
Oklahoma
1 review
0 helpful votes
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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

Date of experience: November 1, 2016
Georgia
1 review
0 helpful votes
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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.

Date of experience: October 12, 2017
Canada
2 reviews
3 helpful votes
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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.

Date of experience: June 6, 2018
California
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Excellent Service
April 12, 2023

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.

Date of experience: April 11, 2023
Canada
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Accessing the website
November 21, 2022

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?

Date of experience: November 21, 2022
Sweden
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Perfect help
December 25, 2018

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.

Date of experience: December 23, 2018
Sweden
1 review
1 helpful vote
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Customer service
June 13, 2018

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

Date of experience: June 13, 2018
Sweden
1 review
1 helpful vote
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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.

Date of experience: April 1, 2022
MyHeritage Support T. MyHeritage Rep
over a year old

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.

Israel
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Excellent
May 21, 2017

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.

Date of experience: May 21, 2017