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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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Thumbnail of user peterb209
Australia
1 review
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April 6th, 2017

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

Date of experience: April 6, 2017

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Canada
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March 8th, 2018

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.

Date of experience: March 7, 2018

Thumbnail of user geoffc10
Australia
1 review
3 helpful votes
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February 5th, 2017

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.

Date of experience: February 5, 2017

Thumbnail of user jenniferb312
New Hampshire
1 review
5 helpful votes
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July 9th, 2017

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!).

Date of experience: July 9, 2017

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MyHeritage Support T. – MyHeritage Rep

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

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New Zealand
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May 14th, 2018

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!

Date of experience: May 14, 2018

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Netherlands
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January 15th, 2018

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

Date of experience: January 14, 2018

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Alabama
1 review
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August 12th, 2016

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.

Date of experience: August 12, 2016

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MyHeritage Support T. – MyHeritage Rep

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.

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Greece
1 review
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September 20th, 2018

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.

Date of experience: September 18, 2018

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Pennsylvania
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May 11th, 2018

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.

Date of experience: May 11, 2018

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Lebanon
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March 14th, 2023

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.

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Date of experience: March 14, 2023

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MyHeritage Support T. – MyHeritage Rep

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

Thumbnail of user samd699
California
1 review
6 helpful votes
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November 17th, 2021

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

Date of experience: November 17, 2021

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Canada
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June 14th, 2018

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

Date of experience: June 14, 2018

Thumbnail of user kathleenm98
New York
1 review
4 helpful votes
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March 23rd, 2017

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!

Date of experience: March 23, 2017

Thumbnail of user klausp5
Washington
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December 20th, 2017

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.

Date of experience: December 19, 2017

Thumbnail of user mikeg975
Michigan
1 review
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May 15th, 2020

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,

Date of experience: May 14, 2020

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Canada
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June 1st, 2017

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.

Date of experience: June 1, 2017

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GB
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June 8th, 2018

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.

Date of experience: June 8, 2018

Thumbnail of user davidt287
Australia
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October 10th, 2017

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.

Date of experience: October 9, 2017

Thumbnail of user nicolat5
South Africa
1 review
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October 20th, 2015

I wrote to Heritage as I had 2 family trees and asked them to delete the one as it was a duplicate. I received immediate assistance from Adina and my request was promptly attended to. It is rare to receive such prompt and efficient service. Thank you Heritage and Adina - Nikki Fourie, South Africa

Date of experience: October 19, 2015

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Sweden
1 review
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January 23rd, 2014

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

Date of experience: January 23, 2014

Thumbnail of user rachaelc45
Poland
1 review
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June 3rd, 2019

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.

Date of experience: June 3, 2019

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Spain
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December 7th, 2017

Today I had a lot of questions for different areas, and met Talia Sofie who spoke my own language. She was listening patiently, and gave me a lot of good information included experience from her own family tree building. The questions she qould not answer will be investigated and answered in a few days. She was very polite, and helpfull even if most questions were not "her department". Very good+++! :o)

Date of experience: December 6, 2017

Thumbnail of user ambyr1
Georgia
3 reviews
3 helpful votes
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August 10th, 2017

My DNA kit was a total joke, different from 23andme and Gedmatch. My family is colonial America on the Mayflower, Spanish, Native American, British/ Irish and French Canadian. My results are totally different from 23andme and GED match. Usually get DNA from North Africa or Israel/area near there or East Asia. Instead got Scandinavian 45.1%. On myhertitage and 1.9% 23andme, and GEDmatch has Fennoscandian 15.9%. Dark hair, hazel eyes, short/small, no back hair, big lips, and high check bones, not a description of a Scandinavian.

Date of experience: August 10, 2017

Thumbnail of user alissah18
Australia
1 review
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January 12th, 2019

I have bought 5 DNA kits from My Heritage and have had several inquiries regarding how their product and site works. Their customer service and genuine assistance is of a very high standard, thank you My Heritage!

Date of experience: January 10, 2019

Thumbnail of user maryc529
Canada
1 review
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May 6th, 2018

I know my familys history back to the 1800s. My father is Sardinian back as far as they can remember; my husbands family is half English/Scottish and half Icelandic/English. The results had no British, no Sardinian, no Icelandic, and a little Native American thrown in, which is impossible. Not sure how the algorithms are supposed to work, but they didnt for me. Waste of money.

Date of experience: May 6, 2018

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MyHeritage Support T. – MyHeritage Rep

Dear Mary,

I'm sorry to read your low star review.

I'd like to clarify the current ethnicity estimate doesn't necessarily mean that you do not have British, Sardinian, Icelandic, or even Native American heritage.

For your information, the percentages of DNA a person receives from his ancestors at the level of grandparents and further back (Great-grandparents, etc.) are not necessarily divided evenly in each generation. You indeed inherit 50 % of the DNA from your mother, and 50 % from your father. However, segments are inherited randomly. On that note, when parents conceive a child their DNA goes through recombination. You can imagine that the mother's code looks like AAAA and the father's code looks like XXXX. Now the child may receive the code AXAX and it so happens to be that AXAX is another segment that may code for another ethnicity.

Moreover, if you have ancestors of a specific ethnicity it could be of such a low amount that the ethnicity estimate could not find a percentage from our references. To estimate your ancestral ethnicity, MyHeritage compares your DNA with the DNA of living people around the globe whose genetic ethnicity is known. We call these people the Founder Populations. This study is currently ongoing and new references will be applied to your DNA as long as you have it uploaded at MYHeritage in the future.

With regards to DNA in it is indeed 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. Please keep in mind that it is difficult to build a distinct profile for Great Britain and Scandinavian countries, as those are admixed with Western European DNA. As you may know, Anglo-Saxon people settled the British Isles, and they were comprised of Germanic tribes. Therefore we keep the current version of our estimate on a higher regional level.

The same applies to Native American DNA. Though you might have Native American DNA, it might belong to a tribe that is not part of the sampling used to build our Ethnicity Estimate. There are more than 500 recognized tribes which are ethnically, culturally and linguistically diverse. However, the majority of these tribes have not contributed their DNA for research purposes which would allow science to establish better ethnicity models. Therefore, the fact that we did not find Native American DNA in your sample does not mean that you are not Native American. Therefore, If your Native American ethnicity does not appear in the Ethnicity Estimate, you might also consider testing one of your parents or grandparents as it is more likely that Native American DNA will be traced in the generations closer to the Native American ancestor.

Most importantly, I'd like to inform you that the progress of your DNA research and your overall satisfaction is extremely important to us. If you need any further assistance, please do not hesitate to contact me directly at rafael.vipsupport@myheritage.com so I may assist you with high priority.

Sincerely
Rafael
MyHeritage

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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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