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.
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
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.
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.
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!).
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!
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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
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
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!
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.
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,
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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