Strongly recommended Genealogy software 19 January 2014 Reviewer: Francisco from Belgium
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I have been a user of My Heritage Family Tree Builder for almost six years. Being new to genealogy production - and having very limited time for my project - I found it incredibly useful. It is very user friendly and very intuitive. It was very easy to start working with and to produce all sort of reports and tress - and it is free!
The link with the My Heritage site is simple and a plus, especially since new tools were added, like the possibility to search huge databases of birth and immigration records. You even get feeds for matches the software finds for you in these databases. In my case, I was informed of the imigration documents of a few relatives that emigrated to Brasil, but I must admit that at EUR7,49 per record I find it a bit expensive and will only use for really key persons in my tree.
The "smart matches" tool is also most useful, as it will alert you of possible matches between your tree and ohers in My Heritage, still protecting the confidentiality of your data if you so wish. This will still need some improvement, though, at it turns out a huge number of false positives, which is rather annoying. But all those false positives are quickly ignored when you find a common branch in someone else's tree.
I did have a couple technical issues over the last years, which is always annoying, but staff has been most helpful and bugs were quickly corrected.
Strongly recommended!
In summary, I would recommend My Heritage to a friend.
