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Give MyHeritage a try
11 November 2010
Reviewer: James Craighead from Scotland, UK

250 of 494 people found this review helpful

I have to say, you could be missing out on something if you believe all you read. The printing was fine - the customisable book form was actually an excellent way of presenting familly data that can otherwise sprawl all over the place.

Like the Adobe plugin for viewing PDF files, the ActiveX for MyHeritage is perfectly trustworthy. While I dislike specialised toolbars with a vengeance, neither that nor the program took over my machine - it was easy enough to go into View and untick the Family toolbar anyway. But actually, the main point here is that if you are not using MyHeritage to do your research, which I wasn't - I used the IGI and other references, there is no point in installing the plugin at all! The downloaded program isn't needed either - online updating on the web page is fine.

I found the navigation and updating to be better than most (compared to 5 others) but it is, in my view, inferior to Genes Reunited - if you try them both you will see what I mean. An early bugbear was that portions of the tree would be hidden until you clicked on an icon to view them - a bit unnecessary I thought, but not a big deal. It can also spread the entries for a family right across the web page - a bit of a pain but liveable with. In truth, I have a copy of my data on Genes Reunited (exported as a Gedcom file) and I tend to view the tree there if I can.

A big plus point for MyHeritage is that I was able to give access to my tree to others who had common ancestors - fruitful correspondence has resulted from this - best of all, you can do this for free! Another plus point is the fact that other members of the family can be given permission to update the tree - again this is free.

Now if the tree goes over 250 entries I will have to pay but only a single subscription for the family and that isn't as high as most of the others.

Definitely worth a try then, especially if you are new to this - don't spend your money unless you really know it is going to be worth it.

In summary, I would recommend My Heritage to a friend.



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