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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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Great site, lots of awesome features, discovered some l new family members, brought old family to life.
And true, real support, I had an issue (by my fault,) and got the result ion quick and to my satisfaction.
I will totally renew and recommend the subscription
I'm very unhappy with the 'resolution' to my problem. I was on auto-renew, but received NO advance warning that it was scheduled to renew. The DAY it renewed, I called to cancel and request a refund. After 8 DAYS of me calling/emailing, I finally get a callback, only to hear they do not cancel or issue refunds once a subscription renewed. The best offer I got was a reduction in subscription price with a few extra months tacked on. Which, if I'd wanted to keep the subscription, would be great, but I will be paying for a service that I won't use. Very frustrated, and will not be recommending MyHeritage to anyone.
I had cause to use this service recently and was pleasantly surprised to at the speed and compertency my enquiry was delt with.
Waited 2 weeks to receive it and i had no idea it's coming from USA now i have to pay for the postage back to the lab in USA!
My family tree had not been active for approx 10 years and had some quite valuable information which would have been quite hard to replace after the passing of my parents. The tree would not open but after some great help from Peter the support worker it was reinstated and worked perfectly.
Thank you Peter
Très contente d'avoir adhérée à MyHeritage, très enrichissant de découvrir nos ancêtres et cela m'a permise d'avoir des matches avec des membres de ma famille et de pouvoir échanger par mail.
Je n'aurai jamais pensé remonter aussi loin dans le temps.
I ordered more kits for my family and messed up the shipping address. It was really difficult to figure out whom to contact, the 0800 number wasn't in service anymore. I ended up emailing and also writing on Facebook messenger. A rep got back to me in a few hours. They sent new kits to the correct address, free of charge. The kits going to the wrong address were deactivated. The whole experience was really nice and I definitely will be ordering more kits soon!
I have used my Heritage in the past and the records are not that great find my past and ancestry are better. I re-joined last year as I uploaded my DNA so wanted to see matches etc. It is £50 so no big deal. This year, without any warning that my subscription was up for renewal and without my consent, and after keeping my banking details without my consent, they have taken £225. I have called them and emailed them but no reply. This auto renewal must be in the small print and they purposely don't being to your attention what you are agreeing for. I also don't understand how they can keep my banking details and send a charge through without me authorising it on my banking app. Maybe I'm naive, but this company seem to be out to trick you. Be very careful when they give you a 'great discount', there's not such thing as a free lunch as I've learnt to my cost.
There ppl have extremely pushing behavior. Their work from home sales ppl do not take NO for an answer even I told them time and time again within the same phone call NO I M NOT INTERESTED. Price goes from $400, us to $350us to $190us to $134us during all this I kept saying nononononononono. They are like drug dealers pushing on you and pushing. They have a way about making sure that a person will never deal with them again.
I have been working with Myheritage for almost 2 years to create a family tree. This has led me to also use a DNA test to learn more about my ancestors and ancestry. The whole event has given me a lot of knowledge and was a wonderful pastime during the Corona pandemic. Several times I have enlisted the help of knowledgeable MyHeritage staff, which has helped me tremendously and I am very grateful to them. I can recommend everyone to embark on this adventure with MyHeritage it is an enrichment.
Jan Bouwmans
Ich verwende MyHeritage schon jahrelang und bin sehr zufrieden. Die Bedienung ist einfach. Mögliche Fehler bei Datumseingaben zwischen Personen einer Familie werden sofort angezeigt, Möglichkeiten zur Prüfung (doppelte, verstorbene Personen Duplikate) sind möglich - sehr hilfreich!
Die Unterstützung durch den Support ist sehr gut und hilfreich, eine Bearbeitung mit Lösungsmöglichkeiten von gestellten Fragen und Problemen werden kurzfristig übermittelt
Thanks to the myheritage team, especially Claudia! It was really professional, timely and friendly help! Nice to do deal with you!
Second time using customer support to my complete satisfaction.
MyHeritage is my favorite family tree support.
MyHeritage Support team is extremely prompt and helpful when it comes to answering different kind of questions. Kind experts with helpful guidelines.
Looks like their information is Limited to Social Security Index, Census records, and what some other active member uploaded or attached to the family tree. If you are trying to get an obituary not found in Google, Forget It! That is what I originally wanted - nope, Non-Existent unless another member loaded it and not any even remote member of my family. As Far as the DNA Results, I think they do something VERY Intentional. They will hold on to your results until you get past the first "free" month, although you already paid for the kit and really only get the one month membership free if you paid $64 (inc shipping) for the DNA kit. I mailed mine back the very next morning after receiving the kit to make sure they couldn't claim it was my fault! My additional charge just went through for the Year ($149) and still no results. I read another review that if you don't renew or pay for the next period they won't release your results! I also heard they erase what you established if you cancel. So, I am going to invest in one year to have time to work with my tree and really see about these results. But, the Family Tree really seems to be the only thing I get. So, really think about what you want out of subscribing to something like this and compare to other companies - something I failed to do! I really feel like $149 (which they said is half of the real $299 price) is Quite Pricey. I think the $149 could be appropriate if it were a one time membership fee to start and keep your tree there, but per year when most of us won't use it much after initially checking out the family! On top of everything else, they are actually depending on the members to source information that they use!
My Heritage, where do I begin. My grandmother originally recommended this to me. This advice was the worse the she has ever given me. Yes even worse than her Christmas gifts. The platform was terrible and outdated. And when my free trial was over I canceled my subscription. A few days later I was charged $139, for no reason. It's a real shame I'll never find out what heritage my grandmother came from. I may never know what genes made her crazy enough to think this platform is anything but garbage! I would give you a zero but I can't do I give you a one.
Got this DNA kit in August 2021, and have been waiting for results now 6 month because tests can not go true customs in usa..
I highly appreciate the help of MyHeritage team that was qick and professional. It helped me to correct lost members of my tree.
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.