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MyHeritage is the leading platform for discovering family history internationally. On MyHeritage you can explore your global roots, find new relatives, and make amazing discoveries with genealogical search tools.

Start your family tree by entering a few names, and MyHeritage will do the rest. MyHeritage’s matching technologies for genealogical research will automatically find new information for you in a diverse collection of 47 million family trees built by users all over the world, and in a huge database of 20.1 billion historical records.

The historical record collections include vital records (birth, marriage, and death certificates) from 48 countries; census and immigration records; gravestone and burial records; and much more. Learn more.

Scan and improve your family photos with MyHeritage’s AI-based photo features: repair scratched or damaged photos, colorize black and white photos, bring blurry faces into focus, or even animate your photos.

The MyHeritage DNA test reveals your genetic origins across 2,114 geographic regions with a simple cheek swab, and matches you to relatives you never knew existed in MyHeritage’s DNA database of 7.8 million people. Your DNA results are private and secure, and will never be shared or sold.


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Founded in 2005
Lehi, UT, Israel
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MyHeritage Reviews Summary

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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Australia
1 review
10 helpful votes
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Tried it for the 14 day trial to compare to my other family tree website. Charged the fee - I have trying to get it back for weeks. Customer support is NON existant. When I call no one is there that can access my details to refund, when they call me its late at night (when I sleep). Really not happy, very unhelpful. Would not recommend at all.

Date of experience: November 3, 2016
MyHeritage Support T. MyHeritage Rep
over a year old

Dear Tracy,
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Please write to support@myheritage.com from your registered email address and also place my name in the subject line. This will ensure that you are forwarded to me and I will look into this for you.

Thank you for your cooperation and I look forward to hearing from you.
Kind Regards,
Dean,
MyHeritage Team.

GB
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Problem sorted
November 4, 2016

Very pleased that my problem on how to delete an incorrect entry was resolved very quickly
Ron Connolly Edinburgh

Date of experience: November 3, 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
Australia
1 review
0 helpful votes
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My Heritage provides a great means of recording a family (families) history. The site can also be adopted for other historic uses. Photographs, videos and documents are easily downloaded and there is flexibility for membership, privacy and various settings Reliable and very good assistance via Contact Us. Allan (AU)

Date of experience: November 1, 2016
California
4 reviews
7 helpful votes
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Charges
November 1, 2016

The site itself is not bad but I only wanted the 14 day trial so I could compare it to Ancestry. Well I cancelled but was charged $119 anyway and now I'm getting emails that they are trying to charge me another $119 for something called "data"... no I idea what's going on and I've called them and Google.

Date of experience: November 1, 2016
MyHeritage Support T. MyHeritage Rep
over a year old

Dear Karen,
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Please write to support@myheritage.com from your registered email address and also place my name in the subject line. This will ensure that you are forwarded to me and I will look into this for you.

Thank you for your cooperation and I look forward to hearing from you.
Kind Regards,
Dean,
MyHeritage Team.

Canada
1 review
0 helpful votes
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I am MyHeritage customer for a couple of years. In general I do like the site, it has rich feature list and relatively straightforward use.

The weak points are:
- Very slow support (my ticket is for a week without response: I am premium plus member)
- The picture upload to another Tree Builder instance (on another computer) is unreliable
- There I no easy way to merge two trees that share some persons

Date of experience: November 1, 2016
Canada
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Ryckman Web Site
November 3, 2016

I have had great fun making our family tree.
My Heritage is a great way to build a family tree and learn more about our history.
My Heritage makes it pretty simple to add new family and make changes.
The support system is wonderful and very informative.
Thanks so much and I appreciate the different levels and no pressure to go premium!
Ileana

Date of experience: November 1, 2016
New Zealand
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Fantastic Family History
November 3, 2016

My Heritage offers an in-depth coverage of family research. The site accesses many databases which enable me to follow up my ancestors. There is so many resources it is difficult to actually travel one road at a time. In order to get the best out of My Heritage, I research all that I can. And then there are a variety of reports. I can view my history in many different formats depending on my preference. I have been using this tool for a couple of years now and have recently renewed. Highly addictive. Highly Recommended.

Date of experience: October 31, 2016
Portugal
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Fantastic spatial and temporal notion of family tree. Easy and simple construction.
Fast support via email or phone.

Date of experience: October 31, 2016
Florida
1 review
2 helpful votes
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Would not recommend.
October 25, 2016

Customer support through e-mail and phone is atrocious; e-mail "matches" are pretty far-fetched.

Date of experience: October 25, 2016
Illinois
1 review
0 helpful votes
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This is a full functioned application. I've found many people in my family that I didn't know existed. After a month or so, just a few speed bumps. Support was slow for one of my problems, but once they responded, they followed up. Too bad you have to pay extra to do real, in depth searches. And beyond MyHeritage's control, contacting other site managers means wait who knows how long for a response.

Date of experience: October 25, 2016
France
1 review
0 helpful votes
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I had no idea of what I could do in order to build my Family Tree.The amazing and powerful tools proposed by the software My Heritage Family Tree have been a great help to me as well as a significant time saving.

Date of experience: October 25, 2016
Canada
2 reviews
1 helpful vote
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Satisfied!
October 23, 2016

Itai was most patient and helpful with all my questions regarding accessing My Heritage on my main computer and my laptop.

He explained how it all works in a way this senior could understand. Thank you so much!

Date of experience: October 21, 2016
California
3 reviews
11 helpful votes
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Don't Trust It
October 21, 2016

I am 98.9% Asian. They sent me an alert that I have 2nd to 3rd cousins, once removed who are all Anglo. Not one Asian. They also showed me as being "christened" at the Church of God in Belfast!. Never been there! I tried to delete myself from the website and the password that I used to logged in would not work was curiously the incorrect password!

Date of experience: October 21, 2016
MyHeritage Support T. MyHeritage Rep
over a year old

Dear Colman,

Thank you for your review here on SiteJabber.

Please write to support@myheritage.com from your registered email address and also place my name in the subject line. This will ensure that you are forwarded to me and I will look into this for you.

Thank you for your cooperation and I look forward to hearing from you.
Kind Regards,
Dean,
MyHeritage Team.

France
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Très satisfaite
October 21, 2016

Adhérente du site depuis 2011, je suis très satisfaite des fonctionnalités.
Les possibilités offertes sont très étendues, et les différentes interactions avec MyHeritage (concours, témoignages, etc...) sont intéressantes.
Je recommande

Date of experience: October 20, 2016
Texas
17 reviews
33 helpful votes
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After owning a software company for 20+ years, this site epitomizes the lack of importance placed on support. I was hung up on twice, then the rep continually spoke over and my ability to ask a question was hampered to the point I asked for supervisor. Then asked for support in America, has none. Having help to existing users is one of the best and worst things about any company. You can either make or break the future. I needed help. All I got was rudeness; so much so if I can find a substitute I will gladly do so!

Date of experience: October 19, 2016
MyHeritage Support T. MyHeritage Rep
over a year old

Dear Dexter,

Thank you for your review here on SiteJabber.

Would you be so kind as to write to support@myheritage.com from your registered MyHeritage email address and also place my name in the subject line. This will ensure that you are forwarded to me and I will look into this matter for you.

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

Kind Regards,
Dean,
MyHeritage Team.

Australia
1 review
2 helpful votes
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MyHeritage is a professional site and handles its search challenges well. However two way guidance and patience is needed by all. It has mapped out my maternal side family history back to the early 1700's and this has provided valuable ancestral tracking closure for me. I am very grateful for this

Date of experience: October 18, 2016
France
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Best in class
October 15, 2016

I maintain my family tree, as well as a wider project based on my surname (2000+ individuals) and publish my results on Ancestry, FamilySearch, GeneaNet and WikiTree. I have tried tools from all of these, none of them come close to the MyHeritage/Family Tree Builder combination. Good sources management, ease of use for voluminous data entries (in FTB), best web design, which particularly important when sharing tree with non computer savvy family members.

Date of experience: October 14, 2016
GB
1 review
10 helpful votes
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£90 was taken from my account even though the account should have been cancelled after the trial. My Bank Card had already been cancelled so my Bank say this is fraudulent and I am not going to authorise it. I was 1st in the queue when I phoned but no one came on the line.

Date of experience: October 13, 2016
Utah
1 review
2 helpful votes
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They need follow up
October 12, 2016

They need follow up
12 Oct 2016
Reviewer: Beverly Carlson from St George, Utah

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I taked to a very nice person who treated me very well, but I have not seen any real help. I had this very nice person help me upload my DNA, and have been watching to see some results. Since it has been more than a week ago, I expected to see something show up on my account. Nothing has showed up. I'm very sad.

Date of experience: October 12, 2016