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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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Australia
1 review
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We had considerable difficulty in downloading the Raw Data from our DNA tests. Maya spent considerable time in helping us to fix the problems we were having with Edge Browser and our Mail app. Her patience and help resolved our problem and we now have our raw data and assistance in interpreting it.

Thank you Maya

Peter and Lori Bloch
Perth, Australia

Date of experience: April 6, 2017
Australia
1 review
3 helpful votes
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Best support service
February 5, 2017

A member of My Heritage for almost 7 years and my contact with MyHeritage Support (Linoy) recently was without doubt the best of any call centre that I have used. Friendly, helpful and a desire to resolve my problems and the follow up from "Support" was exceptional. Very happy with "My Heritage" and have recommended them to others many times over the years.

Date of experience: February 5, 2017
Canada
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Awesome Service
March 8, 2018

All I have to say is MyHertiage is the best site for Geneology research and I started mine in 2000 and have been to a few. I can't get to this site enough. The staff that dealt with my question was really helpful.

Date of experience: March 7, 2018
New Hampshire
1 review
5 helpful votes
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No. Just no.
July 9, 2017

Uploaded my DNA from 23 and me. 23 and me was pretty spot on with my ethnicity (which I pretty much already knew, except for a little extra). My mother is straight off the boat from Engand, as British as they get, and I have my family traced back for generations (as in, middle ages). Funny though, myheritage tells me I am 0% English, hahahaha. Thanks for the joke. Better luck next time (unless you go out of business for being complete BS and a waste of time!).

Date of experience: July 9, 2017
MyHeritage Support T. MyHeritage Rep
over a year old

Hi Jennifer,

I regret to find you are unhappy with your Ethnicity Estimate. I understand that you have researched your British ancestry and find no British in your ethnicity estimate.
It is very important for me to investigate why this is so, as we consider feedback such as this to be very essential to enhancing our research products.
In order to investigate this, I will need to locate your account with your raw DNA that has been uploaded.
Please contact me directly from your registered e-mail address at rafael.vipsupport@myheritage.com so I may locate your account at your nearest convenience.

You already have my first priority here and I will be looking for your e-mail.

Warm Regards
Rafael
Myheritage

New Zealand
1 review
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I had unfortunately been unable to continue using MyHeritage and had forgotten to cancel my subscription before the next annual payment came out of my credit card account. The CSR Pauline was very pleasant to deal with and was quick and effiicient and had no hesitation in cancelling my account and arranging the reversal of the payment - no questions asked and no pressure upselling, which is very rare these days! Thank you!

Date of experience: May 14, 2018
Netherlands
1 review
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Brand new member of My Heritage I stranded in the website labyrinth. Called costumer service in the Netherlands and spoke to Brigitte B. An excellent contact. She helped me in a fastastic way, showing me several options, changing my type of subscription so that I could do research and taking away my desparate feeling. And some extra information in an e-mail message. Great helper. Thanks so much. Marie-José

Date of experience: January 14, 2018
Greece
1 review
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I had to cancel my order for personal and economical reasons. I contacted my herrutage via email. Although it took them three days to reply they canceled my order and i got my refund. Those three days were stressful, cause i wasnt sure if they would cancel an already sent order but thankfully they did.

Date of experience: September 18, 2018
Alabama
1 review
22 helpful votes
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I bought and paid for this service for one year and never once got a reply when I asked for help. I was charged for the following year and had to fight to get my money credited to my account when I tried to tell them I didn't want it a second year. Their customer service representative was a very angry hostile man and when I asked for his manager he said he was the manager and there was no one else above him that I could talk to. They locked me out so that I can no longer simply view all of the work that I did toward my ancestry during the first year. As I said, A DREADFUL experience.

Date of experience: August 12, 2016
MyHeritage Support T. MyHeritage Rep
over a year old

Dear J D.,

Thank you for your review here on SiteJabber and I apologize for the negative experience you have had.

I really would like to help and resolve this case for you, so I kindly ask you to contact the support team from your registered MyHeritage email address to support@myheritage.com.

Also place my name with also /SiteJabber in the subject line and this will ensure that your case is handled promptly.

Thank you for your cooperation and we look forward to hearing from you.

Kind Regards,
Dean,
MyHeritage Team.

Pennsylvania
1 review
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I was having issues with resetting my password, (I'm a new user), and the MyHeritage support person, (PaulineG I think), was very helpful and quickly got me back online and into the MyHeritage web site. She had a lot of patience with my questions and I appreciate her customer service. Thank you.

Date of experience: May 11, 2018
Lebanon
1 review
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Bad service
March 14, 2023

My kit was sent by confirmed mail. I got the information that they received it on the 8th of February. Yet it only appeared received on 22nd Feb in their website.
Meanwhile I was worried that my DNA kit was lost I email the customer support on the 22nd of february. But no one replied until today 14th March. Almost a month later to tell me the package was received.

They say procedure takes 3 to 4 weeks. Yet last week a month passed and results are not out yet.

Nothing Tra so aren't about this service. I wonder if the DNA info will come out real or also they would lie about it the way they lied about not receiving the Package.

Date of experience: March 14, 2023
MyHeritage Support T. MyHeritage Rep
over a year old

Hello T-Jose,

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

California
1 review
6 helpful votes
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Wish I could give 0 stars
November 17, 2021

Heritage DNA took my money and they are refusing to give me my results I was contacted by someone who worked for them due to my complaint I live on this site I'm assuming they respond so people could think keyword think that they are taking care of the problem however Its all for show and I have not received a response and I responded to her pretty fast so once again I would not go with my heritage please go with my ancestry or 23 and me because my heritage is taking people DNA for reasons unknown

Date of experience: November 17, 2021
Canada
1 review
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Best there is!
June 14, 2018

Excellent service - Nevertheless waiting time not so good - Notwithstanding the service was probably the best my wife or I have experienced whilst using this medium - Should you need to expand your companies website to facilitate your growing demand - then let me recommend Eire especially Samuel and Megan - - Polite - intelligent - thorough and efficient - couldn't get better... Canada

Date of experience: June 14, 2018
New York
1 review
4 helpful votes
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Canceling membershi
March 23, 2017

How can I contact someone about canceling my membership immediately? I have emailed several times and if I phone I am placed almost 20 wainting. I did not want it renewed and they took the payment out of my charge account. I requested they stop my membership and they make it effective a year from now. I want a refund now!

Date of experience: March 23, 2017
Washington
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Site and 1st set of DNA kits went OK, I then ordered 3 more kits on the holiday special and only 2 arrived in the shipment.
Contacted support (email) took some time and they gave weird answer so I restated that they should read my 1st email which contained the kit ID's and photo of shipment with missing kit.
The final answer I got was that they would re-ship 3 kits (i only needed one) and then they cancelled the kit ID's I already had, one of which I had already used to collect sample.
It seems that support does not under stand english and has random answers to move the ticket along that does not relate to the problem.

Date of experience: December 19, 2017
Michigan
1 review
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Dear MyHeritage HR and management team. First, I want to tell you a little about myself. I have flown all over the world for work from Japan, China to Hungary, Spain. Italy and multiple other countries for work. So, with that being said when you see customer service as excellent as I have witnessed with the MyHeritage team I felt it important to let you know that you are getting it right. This is what separates a good company from the best in class. I consider you the best in class and that is due to people like Isabelle from Ireland and Zvonimer. In my opinion I would look to bring both into a role of train the trainer. They offer so much to a great team. Please forward this review to each of their supervisors and may God Bless you, your team, your co-workers and all you friends through this coronavirus pandemic. Have a great upcoming year and again great job to each of you. Thank you, Mike Garvonic Clinton Township Michigan USA,

Date of experience: May 14, 2020
Canada
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Although I had a fairly long wait to have my call answered, the young man, Markus Witte, who answered my call, was very efficient and easy to talk to, he understood my problems and was able to help me.

Date of experience: June 1, 2017
GB
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I have been a member of MyHeritage for a few years and have no complaints with their service. Their frequent communications are a great help in developing ones family history, although I do have some reservations about the accuracy of some data form Family Search and Geni World.

Date of experience: June 8, 2018
Australia
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My own stupidity
October 10, 2017

I had a problem that came from my own stupidity. It took a couple of work arounds to get to e-mail help, but when Judit dealt with my complaint, everything went swimminingly well. I think My Heritage support did a good job for me.
I'm probably what you'd call a genealogy power user, and My Heritage does not give me as much as Ancestry used to, but I'm happy to go with it for a while because has impressive international collections it has, and through the new Legacy Family Tree deal, I got a good price.
I'm with Family Tree DNA which is very comprehensive, but I appreciate the MyHeritage capability of uploading results.
Will I auto renewal? No, but a year's worth is OK.

Date of experience: October 9, 2017
Sweden
1 review
1 helpful vote
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Have a ******* person in a Family tree from My Heritage and used it Several years. Now it happened a brake when uploading Syncing the tree´s. Heart attach was near. When looked on the Site I couldn't find my tree. Gone... tried several time, no, no success. Write a mail for help... After a short time got a mail to try again. Then have succeeded to upload a new tree... now its quite okay... thought it was something which stopped the upload because of the old tree was corrupt. They fixed it and don´t now what happened. But therefor I have several copies on my computers... Its only frustrating when it happened and the time to fix a new again... Its much work behind the tree and every time then thinking of to have to do it again. Thanks for all help and in so short time... thanks from all of my heart

Date of experience: January 23, 2014
Poland
1 review
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Great service
June 3, 2019

I was most impressed with the help and support I received from Mayra at MyHeritage. She had my issue resolved a few hours after I sent an email to the Help Support Team. Thanks so much Mayra. I am looking forward to working on my family tree again and researching some of the matches I have received from MyHeritage notifications.

Date of experience: June 3, 2019