My Heritage Reviews

(based on 374 reviews)

252 of 499 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... (Read the full review)

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

259 of 487 people found this review helpful

This website is terrible. You simply can't do anything without downloading or installing all of their programs on your computer. They use ActiveXcontrols on their programs which can do many harmful things to your computer if meant that way. I refuse to download a million programs just to do the simplest things they offer.

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

219 of 403 people found this review helpful

Looks great on the screen but if you want to print it out you are waisting you time. Very frustrating experience. Not user friendly. A penny would be too much for this program.

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

255 of 480 people found this review helpful

This program will take over your computer, even if you choose to custom install and NOT install all the toolbars and search pages and such, the My Heritage installer will STILL install all those things. It takes over your web browser and it's very very hard to remove everything. Any good points of this program are overshadowed by the company's dishonest installation process and virus/adware like qualities.

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