A presentation that explains a few of the services available from the MyHeritage genealogy powerhouse.

1. Using MyHeritage.com Effectively
Dick Eastman
4 June 2017

2. Today’s Slides may be found at:
http://eogn.com/handouts/myheritage

3. MyHeritage is Now the Third or Fourth
Largest Family History Site
 FamilySearch.org and Ancestry.com are #1
and #2
 MyHeritage and FindMyPast are #3 and #4
• The exact numbers vary depending upon who
compiles the numbers!

5. MyHeritage is a:
 Large collection of vital records from all over
the world, called a Data Subscription
 A large collection of digitized newspapers
from many different countries
 Contains 8+ billion records from all over the
world

6. MyHeritage is a:
 A web site to store your family tree privately
or share it with a few relatives or with
everyone
 A place to compare your family tree against
those submitted by others
 A photo storage and matching web site
 The most accurate Matching Technology of
any genealogy web site

7. MyHeritage is a:
 A New DNA Service
 A Major New Comprehensive DNA Ethnicity
Analysis – the Ethnicity Estimate covers 42
different ethnic regions, more than any other
major DNA company; and is uniquely
provided for free to those who upload their
DNA data from other services
• And much, much more

8. MyHeritage is available:
 In more than 40 languages (far more than any
other genealogy web site).
 In countries all over the world.

9. MyHeritage has four primary offerings:
 8+ billion images of original records plus fully
searchable contents of 450,000 genealogy-
related books
 2.2+ billion profiles in 32 million family trees
contributed by other MyHeritage users
 DNA testing
 FREE software for Windows, Macintosh,
Android, and iOS

10. Build Your Own Family Tree Web site
 Upload a GEDCOM file
 Use the MyHeritage Mobile App for iPhone and
Android
 Use Family Tree Builder, a free genealogy
program for Windows and Macintosh
 Enter the data on the web site, one at a time

11. Build Your Own Family Tree Web site
 You always own the data! Your data cnnot be
changed by anyone else without your
permission!
 You may add, delete, or modify your
contributed data at any time.

12. Build Your Own Family Tree Web site
 Use Smart Matches, Record Detective, and
SuperSearch to compare your entries against
vital records, census records, newspapers,
entries contributed by other MyHeritage users,
and more.
 Searches may be performed on U.S. records
as well as records from many other countries,
especially from both Eastern and Western
Europe.

13. Build Your Own Family Tree Web site

14. Family Trees You Can Create
 MyHeritage has three levels of family tree
users:
 A FREE basic website for registered users, with
up to 250 persons permitted in the tree - FREE
 A Premium website permits 2,500 persons in
the tree – $106.14 NZD/year ($8.85
NZD/month)
 A Premium Plus website permits an unlimited
number of persons in the tree - $168.98
NZD/year ($14.08 NZD/month)

15. Data Plan
 A Data Plan costs $168.98 NZD/year ($14.08
NZD/month).
 You never enter a for-pay service without
being warned ahead of time and being asked if
you wish to proceed.

16. Data Plan in USD

18. MyHeritage contains:
 No info on living persons in family trees
(except in your own family tree)
 Family trees, historical photos, census records,
birth/death/marriage records, military records,
immigration records, genealogy books,
newspapers, yearbooks, historical maps…
 Built by genealogists for genealogists

19. Search for names
 1,500 databases
 Records from 75 million users
 1.2 billion profiles
 200 million images
 Search for Exact, Soundex and Megadex
options
 Save the search results to your MyHeritage
site and click through the matches at your
leisure

20. SuperSearch contains
 Super algorithms
 Super Name Matching

21. Smart Matches
 Once the tree is online on MyHeritage, the
their "Smart Matches" system finds potential
matches of the user's tree persons with
persons in the trees of other MyHeritage
users.
 These Smart Matches come in the online
email at MyHeritage and at the user's home
email address. This is truly "finding relatives
without searching.”

22. SuperSearch looks like this:

23. Advanced SuperSearch looks like this:

24. “But Wait, There’s More!”

25. “But Wait, There’s More!”
 An Instant Discovery™ is a “package” of
family history information that you can apply
in one click. If an individual in your family
tree connects to a branch in another family
tree, you’ll be alerted about this and can
then choose to add everyone in that branch
(up to 40-50 people) to your tree, who is not
already there, in one go, rather than
manually add people one by one, and amend
the data piece by piece.

26. “But Wait, There’s More!”

27. “But Wait, There’s More!”
 A Photo Discovery provides users with a set
of photographs of ancestors and relatives
they may have never seen before,
originating in family trees contributed by
others. Users can add the photographs to
the matching profiles in their family tree, in
a single click.
.

28. “But Wait, There’s More!”
 Layered on top of MyHeritage’s highly
accurate Smart Matching™ technology,
which locates matching profiles in other
family trees, and Instant Discoveries™,
which enable users to add entire branches to
their family tree in just a few clicks, Photo
Discoveries identifies the profiles that have
no photographs in the user’s family tree and
provides photographs of these individuals
from matching profiles on other family trees.
.

29. “But Wait, There’s More!”

30. “But Wait, There’s More!”
 The Consistency Checker employs 36
different checks on the family tree data,
ranging from the obvious (e.g., a person was
born before their parent, or when the parent
was too young to be a parent) to the subtle
and hard to find (e.g., a person was tagged
in a photo and the photo is dated before the
person’s birth; or two full siblings were born
5 months apart, which is impossible).

31. “But Wait, There’s More!”

32. “But Wait, There’s More!”

33. “But Wait, There’s More!”
New this week: an Ethnicity Estimate that
covers 42 different ethnic regions, more than
any other major DNA company; and is
uniquely provided for free to those who
upload their DNA data from other services

34. “But Wait, There’s More!”
 The Name Dictionary is Amazing!
 For instance, let’s say you are looking for a
person named Alexander who may have
lived in any of several countries. Family
members called him “Alex.”
 Should you search for “Alex” or “Alexander?”

35. “But Wait, There’s More!”

36. Different Records Automatically Use
Different Search Methods
 Newspaper searches are non-structured.
That is, all words are searched.
 In contrast, census records are always very
structured in columns. Only names will be
searched when you specify a name.
• Photos are searched by metadata

37. International Search Engine
 Can search the world or
 Can search by continents or
 Can search by country
 Or combinations of these areas.

38. All Records Found may be Saved
Directly to Your Family Tree
 It will be visible to you and…
 (optionally) visible to invited guests
 (optionally) visible to everyone
 Including complete source citations

39. Your Data May be Saved…
 A member's tree on the MyHeritage website
can be downloaded in GEDCOM format to
import to a user's desktop software.
 A member's tree on the MyHeritage website
can be synchronized with the (FREE) Family
Tree Builder software for Windows and
Macintosh
 A member's tree on the MyHeritage website
can be synchronized with the handheld
iPhone/iPad and Android apps.

40. Collections Include:
 450,000 genealogy-related books online
 One of the largest online collections of
newspapers
 High School yearbooks
 Other members’ family trees
 Census records
 Military records
 Many vital records

41. “But Wait, There’s More!”
 Family Tree Builder
 A full-featured genealogy program for
Windows and Macintosh
 Fun to use
 Supports SmartMatching Technology
 Private family sites
 FREE!

42. “But Wait, There’s More!”

43. “But Wait, There’s More!”

45. Data Plan in USD

47. For more information:
http://MyHeritage.com

48. Today’s Slides may be found at:
http://eogn.com/handouts/myheritage