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MyHeritage is the leading global platform for family history discovery. It enriches the lives of people worldwide by enabling them to uncover more about themselves and where they belong.
With a suite of intuitive features and innovative products, MyHeritage creates a meaningful discovery experience that is deeply rewarding. Users build family trees and discover new information and relatives through advanced matching technologies and billions of historical records from across the globe. MyHeritage also offers an affordable at-home DNA test revealing an ethnicity breakdown across 79 ethnicities and 2,114 geographic regions, and AI-powered features to repair, colorize, and animate old photos.
The MyHeritage platform is enjoyed by tens of millions of people around the world who treasure and celebrate their heritage. MyHeritage offers full privacy controls and is available in 42 languages.
MyHeritage is generally well-regarded for its user-friendly platform and extensive database, which many customers find invaluable for tracing their ancestry and connecting with relatives. Users appreciate the regular updates and the powerful search capabilities that facilitate discoveries. However, concerns arise regarding customer service, particularly related to billing issues and the difficulty of reaching support. Some users have reported feeling overwhelmed by the volume of information and have encountered challenges in verifying data. Overall, while the service is praised for its features, improvements in customer support and communication are necessary to enhance user satisfaction.
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I recently called the support system for help with my DNA results. The staff that took my call was not only very helpful but as pleasant as could be. He listened to my questions and walked me through everything I needed help with. He was very patience and caring to my plight. Thank you so much.
I contacted them that I was having problems printing trees and that all I was getting was errors and garbled trees. They sent me a message of how to print a tree, Really did you not even read the message, still not resolved.
I was helped step by step with patience, courtesy and the right information.
Gave me time to follow the instructions and to reach good results.
I am not the most technically savvy individual but IanV was very patient, thorough and efficient in helping me resolve my challenges. Thank-you Ivan for all your help and your very pleasant manor.
I spoke to Laurie from MyHeritage. She was so approachable, listened to my family stories with patience and interest and addressed my questions with expertise and sound advice on possible future purchases. It was really a very reassuring and helpful call to Laurie. Highest praise to her! wish so many other call-takers had her gifts/skills!
I had a problem in my program, which prevented me from adding a kin to it. The Common Questions section of Heritage Support Center had not proper answer to the mishap. I sent them a letter, described the dilemma, and after few days they fixed what was wrong.
I want to thank you all for letting me know who I really am. You see I am mixed race. Although I had difficulty to get into my heritage but ( although) I didn't have a password it keep saying you have to put a legal password, but I put my password. Anyways that's that. And I am here now. The lady ( Amanda)on the phone help me. I hope that will put a feather in her cap.
For some reason, I had to change my password and it turned out that my settings were associated with an Email that I had stopped using. After several attempts to do it online, there was no choice and my sites co-manager had to call MyHeritage on the phone and a lady called me back on July 19 and arranged it all on the phone, leaving us, my co-manager and myself, with 2 separate settings of login for the same website!
Though with some delay I got clear clarifications plus tips how to handle and solve one particular problem from my sister access to My heritage
As a beginner (2 years) I have made some misstakes and have struggeled a lot. When calling the support team I have got very friendly, skill and useful help.
I had signed up with MyHeritage when I wanted to build some sort of a family tree to see where one side of my family came from. Then I seemed to have more time available which I used to search out details to fill in the spaces. Then my domain- based email address expired. Because I hadn't been using the service I wasn't conscious that I had stopped getting helpful suggestions about people I might have been related to. Not being able to remember when my membership started I thought they will email me to ask me to renew it. But of course I forgot they only had an address which no longer existed. The first indication I had was that a payment showed up in my bank statement. Trying to prepare myself for a verbal duel with a robotic voiced call centre clerk, I phoned. I have listened to many accounts on Radio4 of people doing battle with airlines, telephone providers and subscription services so I knew what to expect.
But no. The phone rang, a recording told me I was first in the queue and in no time I was talking to Eve who was eager to hear this rather boring story. "That's not a problem," she says when I explained that I really hadn't intended to renew, "I'll cancel that and arrange to refund the payment we took." Then she sent me an email confirming all this and asking, very politely, if I would write what you have just read.
Trevlig kompetent support som tog tid sig tid att lösa problem med att logga in i MyHeritage appen via I Phone
Hittade bug i MyH appen som skall åtgärdas!
Immediately started trying to build a tree using my grandfather who was a state senator, a colonel in the US Army, and a very prominent businessman and I could find nothing of consequence in the MyHeritage database. If one so prominent as this was lacking for data then finding my European relatives was a non-starter.
Dear Thaddeus P.,
I'm sorry to read your low star review. I would be more than happy to help you find the best membership that fits your needs if you are interested. Please feel free to contact me with your account ID number or registered email address of your account with MyHeritage to john.vipsupport@myheritage.com if you would like more information. Thank you.
Kind Regards,
John,
MyHeritage Team
There are some imperfections with the structure and analysis tools, as there is with all genealogical software, but in the main it works very well and has given me many enjoyable hours with few frustrations. Importantly, on those rare occasions where something goes wrong I have found the telephone support to be excellent - courteous, competent, enthusiastic, and (usually) able to solve the problem.
Pretty sure I had reached the wrong department for my request but Chloe was very helpful and walked me through my request successfully. Very happy to have had her help, today.
Hatte die Hilfeseiten nicht gelesen und war mir nicht sicher, wie man Personen löscht, also habe ich angerufen. Die Dame der Hotline war sehr nett. Sie ist mit mir jeden einzelnen Schritt in Ruhe und verständlich durchgegangen, so konnten wir das Problem gemeinsam lösen. Vielen Dank für die nette Hilfe.
Rassurée d'avoir pu avoir un interlocuteur et je recommande ce site. Le sérieux et professionnalisme sont preuves de qualité, merci
Could not log into my site to change my password, got great help and finished in a matter of minutes. Very helpful
Talade med en trevlig människa med tålamod som var villig att hjälpa kunden till rätta. Med kunskap över det vanliga, lotsade hon mig till sidor på MyHeritage, så att mina kunskaper ökade och alla frågor fick bra svar.
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, Yes I have the same problem, I wrote to My Heritage and they have still not responded to my request for assistance. They are highly Sloppy and unprofessional in responding to customer request for assistance. Even though they have and excellent Technical Team. Fortunately I have another Computer with Windows 8 as a result of which I am able to continue working with my Website. But recently a few problems have cropped up with the recent upgrade of the My Heritage Program and have sent in a request for assistance and till today 3-5 months later I have no response. Apparently the company believes that they can play games with the customers. I firmly believe that they have somehow gone into self destructive mode.
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: If you have any problem with My Heritage you should email support@myheritage and state that you with to terminate the programme. They will tell you how to go about it. Hope that helps Sandra.
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: Hi After posting my complaint about MyHeritage on here I got a very quick response from some one called Dave at the company. He told me to send an email to support@myheritage.com and add the subject Dave: sitejabber. He responded a couple of days later - I emailed on a Saturday - and the auto repeat on my subscription was cancelled and my money refunded within days. Hope this helps.
Dear Patricia, I am sorry to read you low star review and would like to resolve any issues you may be having. Feel free to email me with your account ID or registered email address to john.vipsupport@myheritage.com Thank you.
Kind Regards,
John,
MyHeritage Team