My Heritage Reviews

(based on 378 reviews)

368 of 750 people found this review helpful

I've been using MyHeritage for a while now, it's really good to have access to a Family Tree program that is different from all the others. One thing I have found is that when I make a mistake they are quick to help and they've never made me feel like the 70 year old I am, now that has to be good in anyone's book:-) Just recently I clicked on something, and I still don't know what, and my tree went from 200+ to over 2200 people. Imagine me trying to work it out and not going any whiter than I am already. Well MyHeritage sorted it all out, and told me how to correct the mistake [should I do it again] Thanks Rafael and Roni.

I'd really like to be able to buy into all the benefits, but our government does not pay us oldies enough for that, perhaps that is the one thing I find hard, no doubt it is the same with other programs, the cost! T'is frustrating!

I cannot reccommend the program and the 'team' enough.
Best wishes and Shalom MyHeritage.
Phyllis Pearson [Robinson]

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

371 of 706 people found this review helpful

Began my family tree about 3 years ago and am up to 6000 persons. Came to it from Ancestry.com which became cost prohibitive. Once with My Heritage, I began to feel it to be much easier to use and way friendlier with it's sharing capabilities. The main draw for me was that it was more economical. The support I've received the three times I've requested has been outstanding. Many of our family members have visited, many other researchers have become members, and my children's children have all the work done for them already - a bonus. Already I've encouraged others to try the site and they have.

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

464 of 835 people found this review helpful

I have been using this product for several years now and have even paid up in advance I love it so much. Not only is the family tree portion excellent (especially with the freehand note section and ease of correcting errors), but the manner in which this has become our world wide family social network is very special indeed!

Prior to signing up with MyHeritage, I looked into over a dozen other products and the true selling point for me was that, in my opinion, the security was the best of any genealogy product on the market.

Now with SuperSearch and RecordMatch, they are getting more and more powerful.

The core of MyHeritage, family history and tree building is simply the best!

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

439 of 855 people found this review helpful

We've used My Heritage for about two years. We have 950 entries in the site and about 140 family members actively using the site. We take advantage of most of the features with special emphasis on Photos, Articles and Family E-mails. Our use of the Search features has been limited, relying more on family records. We are quite satisfied with the backup services.

The annual fees are very reasonable, especially when compared to Ancestry.com. I have to say that those complaining of limits on the free subscription program seem a bit petty. Especially since the paying customers are subsidizing their use.

We are particularly happy with the support crew - they have never let us down. They are professional, thorough and completely familiar with their product.

I don't think that My Heritage can be beat.

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

433 of 836 people found this review helpful

I've used MyHeritage.com's program for the last twelve-ish years and I like the program and find it easier(for me) to use than Ancestry's program. I used to love MyHeritage.com because I could find matches with other trees and I even found a distant cousin this way who is also working on our tree and we shared information with each other. However in the last few years the site has made some changes which they claim were supporting the majority of the users. I suspect that if that is so than the majority don't use it for keeping large trees online. I was already using Rootsweb at the same time for my tree though I didn't like that site as much back then. MyHeritage reduced the number of people a tree can have under the free membership so they could increase the amount of videos and photo albums users can have. I do not used videos or the other added features that were added as I have no use for them. I don't mind that they were added, only that now I can't fit my tree on the site anymore when before I could since I don't have the money on... (Read the full review)

In summary, I would not recommend My Heritage to a friend.

405 of 792 people found this review helpful

I have used my Heritage for 2 years now. No it is not free ( only the first 250 names). I have now upgraded to Premium because I have found this site excellent for locating our missing family lines. ( not located with other programmes ) The programme is easy to navigate and is great for easy understanding where family members may have married again after being widowed. Especially good for establishing whether family or not is the Smart Search section.

Helps to eliminate inaccuracies.

Overall for me this site is excellent to use, does not take over my computer. Having looked at a number of different genealogy programmes think that it is " different strokes for different folks'

Suggest that you undertake another review of this website given you are inicating it is free when it is not.

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

424 of 793 people found this review helpful

Do not download My Heritage program. It will take over your computer. They are collecting data from your searches. No matter how you try to uninstall this program it keeps coming back. My heritage is not free and it comes with a virus, that tracks it's users.

In summary, I would not recommend My Heritage to a friend.

444 of 810 people found this review helpful

I tried this site for the "free" 14 day trial. The site bills your credit card for $1 initially and then they refuse to cancel your membership if you are unhappy with the site. I have been billed for $76 and have had to cancel my credit card as they are still not cancelling my membership even though I have contacted them numerous times. Dont give these people your details they are not to be trusted. If you have registered with them cancel your credit card before it is too late.

In summary, I would not recommend My Heritage to a friend.

403 of 787 people found this review helpful

This site is the biggest headache I have ever come across ! Once you use it they NEVER leave you alone. I click on another personnel website of mine & they keep popping up instead !! NEVER use this, they are snoops & leaches, I am having a hard time getting them off my computer !
Do NOT go here !!!!!

In summary, I would not recommend My Heritage to a friend.

436 of 845 people found this review helpful

I think most of the negative reviews posted about myheratige are from user who are not very computer savvy. I've been using myheritage for six months now and have almost a hundred family members who have signed up and none have had any issue.

I simple tell everyone to not use the downloadable software. You and your users can easily work with the site live on the web without utilizing the software. The user interface is far easier than any other website I've used in regards to adding people etc.

Finding information can be somewhat frustrating if you don't have an account with worldvitalrecords.com, im sure. However if your serious about genealogy in general you know spending that little bit of extra money makes a huge difference. With the amount of information online now it's a virtual field day for anyone serious about genealogy. One website will not be sufficient, but worldvitalrecords is a great addition to the myheritage family. I have located hundreds of documents for my family and those of my friends.
There are some minor things that could be added to make this even better, but overall it's a great site and I highly recommend it.

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