They say you get what you pay for - Not with My Heritage 22 March 2014 Reviewer: Vintage Yorkshireman from Sheffield, Yorkshire, UK
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My Heritage is certainly easy to join and the website is no harder to navigate than others, but it's downhill from there.
The free features of My Heritage, particularly the basic family tree builder facility, are excellent with lots of "bells and whistles" , but as a research facility, it is frankly useless.
There is constant pressure to "invest" in more than just the basic site in order to enjoy the ability to search further, and a constant (sometimes frankly annoying) stream of e-mails announcing "smart matches" which you need to spend money to follow up.
My advice would be to SPEND NOTHING as the search facilities are hopeless when compared to such as Ancestry, Family Search, GRL...etc., and many others. Repeated searches for many simple records I already own produced reams of results, none of them relevant.
In summary I would say that when you have exhausted My Heritage's free features - move on!
In summary, I would not recommend My Heritage to a friend.