MyHeritage has a rating of 3.3 stars from 3,771 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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On august 12th 2023 I took a trial subscription on myheritage.com. I subsequently canceled that subscription hours after using it. 2 weeks later I get charged through paypal for a full subscription. I want my money back! I have an account number and an invoice number. I will pursue this legally. I am on sick leave so I need a mission since I have time and money on my hands.
Date of experience: September 1, 2023
I failed to check weather I had cancelled the renewal, consequently it came out of my account at a bad time finactialy due to short time working, caused by coronavirus, after waiting for 20mins to talk to a operator the issue was resolved quickly, professionally, with a great deal of understanding, a great wait off my mind, thank you my heritage especially the phone operator who dealt with my problem, the man deserves a medal and a pay rise, keep this chap at all cost, thank you once again
Date of experience: May 26, 2020
I am 100% Italian! Although that's what I thought because my mother is 100%. My dad is 100% Italian. My grandfather and great grandparents were all born in Italy. I am not adopted, yet when I received my DNA results there was not even 1% Italian. My cousin, whose father is my mother's brother and her mother is not Italian, at least had a small percentage of Italian in her results from a different company. What? I also had my daughter's done, and I did adopt her. I was told she was Gernan and American Indian. Well not according to the results! This appears to be a money generator at best. Stay away and save your money. I am very disappointed that I wasted all that money!
Date of experience: September 4, 2017
Dear Dori,
I'm sorry to find your low star review and see that you have written to us on various platforms about this issue.
I understand you are frustrated with your ethnicity estimate and I would like to ensure you get the assistance you deserve as a MyHeritage member.
In looking at your ethnicity estimate, I show you share a large amount of southern European DNA.
This is very logical because it is found that people within surrounding countries in Europe share common DNA for various reasons such as people moving around frequently and official borders and communities being occupied. There is verifiable historical evidence that Greeks established many colonies around the Mediterranean and Italy and Greece have been in contact for centuries. Therefore, your estimate doesn't necessarily mean that you are not Italian.
As you may know, there is a noticeable genetic difference between Northern Italians and Southern Italians, with northerners being close to the French population, while southerners overlap with both Balkan and other southern European populations.
As a side note, I have actually located your account with us and I currently see that you have published a tree with two people on it. I'd like to make mention that along with our estimate, many of our members benefit from other research tools we provide that is integrated with their DNA results such as DNA matching, ancestral surnames and comparing matching family trees to help understand their family story.
I have already written an e-mail to you and I invite you to please write back to me personally with any questions or requests you may have.
Warm Regards
Rafael
MyHeritage
Sebastiaan from MyHeritage its always trying to help and find solutions to the problems.
Its always a pleasure to talk with the My Heritage's support. They always make it all easier and do very well their job.
Date of experience: March 15, 2019
Even though the DNA identity results were slightly hard to comprehend initially, I was greatly helped with questions over phone by their helpful customer support rep Desmond, who better explained results and the ever evolving DNA reporting processes.
Shortly afterward I received an updated report that showed more expected cultural identity and percentages, just as Desmond predicted likely to happen.
Kudos to My Heritage!
Date of experience: February 6, 2018
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
Thieves... Charged my credit card $203.00 and say they have no record of it, to refund me. They say I have to supply them with Proof and then they will send it too billing... wtf... I WANT MY MONEY BACK!
Date of experience: July 7, 2022
Dear Chris,
I am sorry to read your low-star review.
Firstly may I assure you that we MyHeritage.com are not thieves and that you may have simply started a free trial which you may have forgotten to cancel before the billing period.
I would like to look into this personally for you and make sure that your concerns are addressed. In order to do this, I will need for you to write to me from your MyHeritage.com registered email address to, dean.vipsupport@myheritage.com.
Thank you for your cooperation and I look forward to hearing from you.
Kind regards,
Dean,
MyHeritage team.
I have been a user of the My Heritage Application for seven months now. Each time I got stumped about how to accomplish my goal, I called their tech support and was rewarded with even more info
Than my original concern, guiding me further into my quest of searching my ancestry. With a little effort most questions solve themselves before I call them, the site is easy to use and I thank the latest
Rep to help me, Maor for his patiently dealt out help.
Date of experience: June 16, 2017
I purchased 3 kits, one each for my Mother and Husband and one for myself. Before doing our swabs, I activated each kit, the swabs were sent and I received notification that the kits had been received but had not been activated. I managed to activate mine, but my husband had thrown out his information. After phoning my Mother to get her kit number, I tried in vain to activate it for over a week, each evening trying. I tried phoning a couple of nights ago, but didn't get anywhere. In the meantime, my husband and mine results came back. Tonight I phoned again, a very friendly, polite and helpful lady, after many attempts, we finally managed to activate my mother's kit on a different browser than I normally use. Now we are waiting in anticipation for her results. Not sure why the origional activations did not work and had to do each a second time (except my husband's). A very big thank you for helping. Ruth J
Date of experience: December 15, 2017
Wanted everyone to know that PayPal was able to get my money back -- in full. They gave My Heritage 10 days to respond to them. Of course that didn't happen, so the money was automatically taken back from them. I LOVE PayPal.
Date of experience: May 30, 2019
Dear Joy,
I'm very sorry to read your comment.
Please note that MyHeritage is a refund friendly company and we value the satisfaction of all of our members.
Your refund is guaranteed by all means because of our money back guarantee to ensure all of our members with a full refund by contacting Customer Support within thirty (30) days of the initial purchase date of the subscription.
Have you been in contact with our customer support team regarding your refund request? I'd like to follow-up on your case on a direct basis.
Please contact me personally at "catarina.vipsupport@myheritage.com" so I may look into this.
Sincerely,
Catarina, MyHeritage Team
These are bad actors. I cancelled the free trial 4 days in. They took the money out of my Paypal account right after I called them and got " all circuits are busy" over and over again. They were obviously listening in and illegally withdrew the money. I'm certain of this because I was on the phone with Paypal and the rep said the money was withdrawn just minutes before. The phone # they gave Paypal is not in service. This is a scam company and I hope I convince some to stay away. I have filed a dispute claim with Paypal and MyHeritage has not returned their calls. At least Paypal has been able to block future monthly billing but I'm hoping to get my $92.78 back. Good luck to all and DON'T DO THE FREE TRIAL. --Joy
Date of experience: May 8, 2019
I have so enjoyed the amount of information about my family that has also connected me so effortlessly to family in Europe, the United States, and the South Pacific. MyHeritage's computer system is amazing and easy to use.
Date of experience: December 27, 2016
I started to do some research in my actual family tree and was surprised that it actually supports the MyHeritage DNA test. I discovered a Scottish grandfather which I did not know exists, even the people which MyHeritage suggested as family checked out. Lesson: we must educate ourselves - how does autosomal DNA results work - before passing a judgement.
Date of experience: November 17, 2017
I find it very interesting that almost everybody that had their DNA tested at MyHeritage has the same combination just in different percentages. We all have Scandinavian, British/Irish, Eskimo, Italian, Ashkenazii Jewish, etc dna. I think they are most certainly sucking their thumbs when doing the dna results and licking their ring fingers counting the money!
Date of experience: April 1, 2017
I had some specific questions and was given a great deal of help. They walked me through exactly what I needed to do to print out the information I needed. I was concerned that I had too many fringes around the families and learned how to deselect the information that was not relevant to me. Great Customer Service.
Date of experience: May 4, 2018
This call went smoothly, and Meghan was able to quickly take care of my needs. No complaints. On the other hand, this was the third time I called MyHeritage. Neither of the first 2 interactions led to my problem being resolved. I guess the third time was the charm :).
Date of experience: July 17, 2018
I want to thank Markus at My Heritage for helping me figure out how to send kits to my family living out of state. We have had great service with My Heritage, even when they were in the midst of Harvey.
Date of experience: October 9, 2017
I had a problem with my family tree that I could not work out what was happening. When I called the support team I talked to a young Lady called Shoham She was very helpful and polite and In no time she had rectified the problems and did a great job.
Thank you Shoham.
Kind Regards
Tony
Date of experience: February 25, 2018
I had a problem opening the tree builder after an update but Linoy continued to provide me with advice and guidance and the problem was solved. I found the instructions given to me were clear and easily understood. Linoy was very understanding and a great advert for Myheritage.
Date of experience: April 5, 2016
I was very happy to help my dad purchase his dna test. We wanted to know a bit more where he was from etc. If he had more family out there. Heritage gave us the basics where his blood line came from, no haplogroup was offered could not contact family without paying over 100.00 to join etc. I did mine with 23and me and got so much more and can contact others for free. I'm angry I wasted my money my father can't spit enough to do the the 23and me the only bad of 23and me they don't offer a swab test. My dad is in the final cancer stages and has trouble spitting and now with chemo can't do the test.
Date of experience: November 4, 2017
Dear Emma,
I'm sorry to read that you are dissatisfied with your DNA kit purchase and I will do all I can to help. I admire your courage and strength in helping your father through chemo and I sympathize with what you have gone through. My thoughts and prayers are with you during this time.
Indeed, we currently offer an autosomal DNA test which does not include the Y-DNA or mtDNA SNPs that would be useful for determining your father's haplogroup.
The test we provide is specifically for identifying the first 22 pairs of 'autosomal' chromosomes. This test provides you with DNA matches with relatives that share your DNA and an ethnicity estimate.
Indeed, our intentions are to offer the kind of test ( Y-DNA or mtDNA) that includes haplogroups for our members, but we cannot give an estimated time of when this will be released.
All in all, your overall satisfaction is extremely important to us and I invite you to contact my inbox if you are in need of any help with your purchase and research at rafael.vipsupport@myheritage.com.
Warm Regards
Rafael
MyHeritage
I had just signed up for MyHeritage and was enjoying using various features searching for ancestors from Ireland. It was late at night so I signed off, but then I decided to check one more thing and when I tried to sign on I had a problem. It was after midnight here in Arizona when I checked for support and to my surprise I see 24/7 phone support. Called the 800# and spoke with a delightful lady in Ireland who solved my problem.
THANK YOU
Date of experience: February 26, 2018
I recently was searching for a small amount of history about our family name which lead me to my heritage. I reluctantly signed up for the free trial which i intended to cancel. I was then charged with no notification that the trial period was over. I wrote to support asking to cancel and refund as I had not used the service and had not intended to.
The agent I spoke to put me on hold to speak to billing and came back saying he can only give me 30 back of the 110 that was charged. Very unhappy and I will be seeking a charge back as I beleive Im entitled to a full refund. 100% would not recommend using them if this is how thwy treat customers.
Date of experience: September 10, 2016
I've purchased my order using my facebook account, so they used my old email adresse that I don't have access to anymore, so I'm not going to receive any of the emails concerning the order and the shipping etc. I contacted them and they solved my problem in no time, by changing the email adresse to my current one, and they resent all the old ones so I can read them. Very nice and very understanding people.
Date of experience: December 9, 2019
I have had great success building my Family Tree on the MyHeritage.com website. Although I have used many genealogical websites, I use MyHeritage to built my tree because I believe it is the easiest to display not only the tree but also the information stored for each family member.
Date of experience: March 5, 2019
I had a unique family family circumstance I needed assistance with. I was fortunate enough to have Breck answer my call. Breck couldn't have been more helpful and more resourceful. I'm extremely impressed with the family research I've been able to do. I've got a significant amount of my family tree in place and with Breck's help and encouragement today I'll be a MyHeritage member for years to come. -thank you Breck!
Date of experience: August 10, 2017
I had a problem with my shared surnames from my tree not showing up. The site said that I didn't have a tree and I needed to start one, but I had a tree on the site. I called support - the menu prompts were easy to navigate and then I was greeted by AnnaS. After several attempts at fixing the problem, she indicated that she would need to escalate it to Tech Support. She said they would be back in touch. Very shortly after hanging up the phone, Anna called me back. She then walked me through the process of associating my tree with my profile (actually needed a logout and new login to succeed). Problem solved! Very courteous, professional service. Couldn't have been better.
Date of experience: September 7, 2018
After a few consulting questions, not only the problem with the mixed picture was resolved, but also a newer version of the Family Tree Builder was recommend and sufficient instructions were provided to prevent the error from re-occurring and should this happen I am can now simply repair that
Date of experience: May 5, 2020
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Dear Davy,
I'm sorry that this happened and will do all I can to help. In order to help, I need to verify some things with you.
Therefore, please contact me directly from your registered account at dean.vipsupport@myheritage.com. I'd be happy to assist you with high priority.
Sincerely
Rafael
MyHeritage Support Team