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MyHeritage has a rating of 4.3 stars from 4,740 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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Slovenia
1 review
2 helpful votes
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After few weeks I decided to cancel my PremiumPlus subscription and also Data subscription because it is too expensive to me I do not satisfied with services. I wrote to MyHeritage stuff and they give me my money back as they wrote in Money back guarantee and Refund Policy. It takes about one week, so I am satisfied and feel that I have to share it with others! It means that they respect their customers and honor the agreement. Thanks!

Date of experience: April 6, 2017
GB
1 review
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Furious with this service
August 18, 2022

I am absolutely disgusted and furious with myheritage. They made a mistake in my DNA results and made my question whether my father was actually my father. I had to get results from a different DNA service to verify that a mistake was made. I would STRONGLY recommend against ever using this service.

Date of experience: August 18, 2022
Germany
1 review
0 helpful votes
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I used the premium version of the app and was very happy with it: I really used most of the available features and found the immigration letter of my great great great-grandfather, which was an amazing experience.

Next to that, I was really impressed by the servicedesk. Not only did it take 30 minutes to reply, but they also solved my problem in this time.

Would totally recommand.

Date of experience: March 27, 2020
GB
1 review
1 helpful vote
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December 28, 2017

Lidija was so Professional Excellent Attitude on the phone, She was extremely patient with me as I was very nervous about asking for Refund. She accepted my explanation with no fuss Credit to the company. Thank You N Wheeler

Date of experience: December 27, 2017
California
1 review
0 helpful votes
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There is no doubt in my mind that I have African ancestry and that is fine. But with my knowledge of genes, for me to be 66% African, either what little European blood I have was so strong that it beat out the vast majority of my African genetics or something is really wrong with how they are reading certain data. Yes, that is me in the picture. Given that, African genes tend to be dominant; it is odd that I can even get a suntan and at 66% you would think that that wouldn't be the case. Living in California, I am the only African American who must put sunblock SPF 100 on when he goes out. I wish I were 66%. I would almost believe you Rafael had I not received completely different results from another DNA company. I have emailed My heritage and received no response, and in fact, I have email My Heritage twice sending the results of the other company with the email and have still received no reply.

Date of experience: August 20, 2017
MyHeritage Support T. MyHeritage Rep
over a year old

Dear Robert,

I am sorry to read your 1 star review and I regret to find you are unhappy with your DNA ethnicity estimate's results.

As you know, skin color is determined by the number, distribution and type of pigment-producing cells (melanocytes) in the skin. While there is a common assumption that skin tone measures the amount of a specific ethnicity you may have, it is not necessarily the case.

It is important to understand that percentages of ethnicity and genes are not passed down on in equal amounts and a very small amount of your DNA is likely to come from any given ancestor say 5 generations back. Because of this some descendants may inherit more of some genes than others do, while some descendants may not inherit specific genes at all.

To estimate your ancestral ethnicity, MyHeritage compares your DNA with other DNA testers around the globe whose genetic ethnicity is known. We call these people the Founder Populations. Currently our genetic models are based on 42 ethnic groups around the world, but this will improve thanks to our Founder Population project that is ongoing.

Nonetheless, it is a true that Africa is one of the world's largest and most populous continent. There are 3000 distinct ethnic groups and over 2000 languages on the continent making it home to the most genetically diverse people on Earth. The results of our project and these tests will yield a better DNA data set as we constantly work to better our DNA research model.

As we both know, given the history of what African Americans have gone through, especially where many of the traditional methods of genealogy research for African Americans have been complicated by the history of slavery, missing records and names being changed. Also, not to mention, many people were trafficked across state lines and stories were simply not passed down because they were too traumatic. DNA research does offer a way to circumvent these obstacles by measuring and comparing ones genetic makeup to trace roots and find more insight into ones family history to ultimately indicate lineage to specific ethnicities within Africa.

Along with the Ethnicity Estimate, we also offer you tools such as ancestral surnames, comparing trees and measuring ones shared DNA through DNA matches that have also been very valuable in tracing family history.

I'd be happy to go over your Ethnicity Estimate and give you more literature on what your results show and how to research your lineage. Please feel free to e-mail my inbox at rafael.vipsupport@myheritage.com from your registered e-mail address at your nearest convenience.

Warm Regards
Rafael
MyHeritage

California
1 review
4 helpful votes
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These baffoon's are the worst. When we ordered our kits, the website stated there was a 2 week lag time. Fine, okay. Six weeks later we contact them to see where our kits are. "Oh, we're behind, and didn't anticipate so many orders, you should get it soon". Have they heard of emailing all p their order era and let them know? They received our kits back on January 10th, didn't log it in until January 24th, and took until a couple days ago to start running it. Reallly? They advertised receipt to finish 2 weeks. Why advertise something you cannot comply with? Now they don't answer emails trying to find out what the hold up is. Professional. Can't wait for the results. Stay tuned. I had another run from 2 different companies to compare

Date of experience: February 4, 2017
Canada
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Hello,
I wanted to underline the quality of Eden's interventions to solve my complex problem of not being able to carry out my research on My Heritage. The instructions for connecting with Team Wever were clear.
During Eden's intervention when she took charge of my computer, I could see the quality of her knowledge and technical skills to solve my problem. I could follow all her operations on my screen. He very quickly identified where the problem was coming from having reviewed all the possibilities of conflict with My Heritage. I had previously been in contact with Sophie who offered me very fast and competent service. She referred me to Eden because the problem was very complex. I congratulate you for the quality of service given by your technicians. I am very satisfied.

Lise-Andrée Morin

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Date of experience: December 8, 2016
Thailand
1 review
0 helpful votes
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The Best of AI service that real useful
October 14, 2021

It's past for 45 yrs, i cant' imagine how about my dad smile. But with this AI service plus some photo, i can see again and again our family enjoy very much.

Date of experience: October 12, 2021
New Zealand
1 review
0 helpful votes
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I'm loving my journey with MyHeritage and in particular, the wonderful help from the support team members who go out of their way to assist and provide such incredibly helpful information!

Date of experience: September 5, 2021
New Zealand
1 review
1 helpful vote
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Sent DNA Kit Last year
June 9, 2023

Have received nothing back. It's extremely difficult to get in contact with customer service to find out what happened. Pretty disappointed as I wanted to discover who my biological family is

Date of experience: June 9, 2023
MyHeritage Support T. MyHeritage Rep
over a year old

Hello Cal,
I would be more than happy to assist and follow up.
Please contact me at Shane.vipsupport@myheritage.com from the registered email address of your account at MyHeritage. In addition, please provide a direct link to this review.

Thank you,
Shane, MyHeritage Team

Georgia
1 review
0 helpful votes
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I truly appreciate the customer service representative being very patient and thorough with all of my questions that I asked Which were at least 10+ I truly appreciate the service she provided and look forward to completing my DNA test with Myheritage.com

Date of experience: January 17, 2019
Sweden
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Very useful
May 30, 2018

Another website copied my tree, and put my websitephoto (of me) in my cousins prophile. After that i contacted that webmaster and asked her to correct it, but she couldǹt and made me her webmaster instead, so i could erase the picture. After that all my DNA-matches was referred to my cousin, on the other website. Your support could fix it though.

Date of experience: May 30, 2018
Portugal
1 review
2 helpful votes
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This is a total scam. What they advertise on their website, about documents you can get information from, find more about your ancestors is just untrue. After subscribing to the complete package, I could not find any more information about my family than what I had already found from someone else tree they made themselves. So this trash of website was completely useless.

I got in touch with them, to which a lady phone called me a few days later. Even though they supposedly offer a 30 day money back guarantee, she was saying that it was not possible to do so, even thought just 8 days since my purchase had passed. And she was pretending to speak with a billing department, trying to find me a deal, which was just another lie, as one of the times, i got on hold for just 5 seconds while she went speak with the billing department. Everything smells as a scam here.

So, do not fall for the lies that are advertised about their services, and don't fall for the scam this company is. And forget the money back guarantee they say. At this moment, no other option left for me rather than involve law enforcement entities to solve my situation.

Date of experience: April 10, 2023
MyHeritage Support T. MyHeritage Rep
over a year old

Hello Joao,

Please send an email to Nikolina.vipsupport@myheritage.com from your registered email address at MyHeritage so that I may locate your account. In addition, please provide a direct link to this review and I’ll gladly assist you further.

Best regards,
Nikolina, MyHeritage Team

France
1 review
0 helpful votes
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When I made my first purchase, I was contacted by someone from MyHeritage who gave me advices on what I had bought. Later, when I involuntarily bought a product, they accepted to give me a full refund.

Date of experience: July 3, 2020
Denmark
1 review
0 helpful votes
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I have been a very happy user of MyHeritage for many years. It is a very user-friendly program that makes searching for your roots and relatives very easy and interesting. Through SmartMatching you can really go exploring and get many interesting finds.
When you have problems the support-team is quick to respond and helps accordingly. I can only give MyHeritage my best recomandation.
Helge, Denmark

Date of experience: July 31, 2019
New York
1 review
0 helpful votes
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With a genealogical tree, and so many names to track, it is inevitable to have duplicates and widow additions. Today Mr. James was most helpful in detangling my Maternal family tree. He explained MyHeritage is available six days a week, and email on Sundays for assistance.

With his guidance, my untangled tree yielded the only portion of my relatives who were floating in space.

Thank you and MyHertiage for the support!

JF Purcell
Oceanside, NY
35k strong!

Date of experience: September 8, 2017
Norway
1 review
1 helpful vote
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Problem is with your phones. It's quite hard to get to speak to a person when dialing in and maneuvering "please press 1 for this and 2 for that". Once I finally managed to get a human I was VERY pleasantly surprised with the swift and professional way my problem got salved. 6 out of 5 stars once you get a human on the line. Br Sten.

Date of experience: September 3, 2018
Texas
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Combining Accounts
March 19, 2019

I wanted to combine my account with my husband's account. Tadhg was so helpful and walked us through each step - even though we were using both a Mac and a PC. He was so patient while we got to the proper places and downloaded and uploaded...
Thank you Tadhg!

Date of experience: March 18, 2019
GB
2 reviews
4 helpful votes
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Subscription payment?
November 27, 2020

I paid £106.80 registration fee on November 10th 2020 but a further £82.80 was taken out of my account on the 18th November 2020? I've tried phoneing but told number not recognised? I've emailed three times this week but no reply!

Date of experience: November 27, 2020
MyHeritage Support T. MyHeritage Rep
over a year old

Dear Janine,

I regret to find your low-star review.

We value the satisfaction of all of our members and strive to offer a first-class service to our members. I would like to investigate your case personally, please send me a message from your registered email address to john.vipsupport@myheritage.com and I will be more than happy to help you.

Kind regards,
John, MyHeritage Team

GB
1 review
1 helpful vote
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I just couldn't get one of the DNA samples registered, so I went onto the helpline. I was number two in the queue, but the 'music on hold' was so jolly I didn't actually mind too much and got on with what I was doing.

Once Aaron answered, after not too long, he sorted the problem in a couple of minutes, talking me through Plan A, whilst assuring me there was also a Plan B.

The latter wasn't needed.

Date of experience: July 17, 2017