MyHeritage.com is one of the world’s major family tree and genealogy websites, ranking #3 after Ancestry.com and FamilySearch.org*. In terms of family trees, MyHeritage is more like Ancestry than FamilySearch in that users create separate family trees, unlike FamilySearch Family Tree, whose goal is to create a single collaborative family tree. As of 2021, there are 81 million family trees with 4.7 billion profiles at MyHeritage, but but there’s a lot of duplication among those profiles. MyHeritage also has 15.7 billion “historical” records of varying quality and 5.2 million people in their DNA database. Having already reviewed the other major genealogy websites Ancestry.com, FamilySearch.org Family Tree, Geni.com, and WikiTree.com, I thought it was time to review MyHeritage.
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Should You Contribute to Geni.com? A Review
Bottom Line Up Front
Like FamilySearch Family Tree (FSFT), WeRelate, and WikiTree, Geni.com is a shared family tree website. The following table compares their size and cost:
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Apple released macOS Catalina (10.15) today, 7 Oct 2019. Assuming your hardware is compatible with it, should you go ahead and upgrade right away?
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Bottom Line Up Front
FamilySearch Family Tree (FSFT) is the largest free shared family tree website with 1.2 billion profiles (not all unique). This compares to 20 million profiles at WikiTree and 3 million at WeRelate. Geni.com, a “freemium” website, contains 131 million profiles. So FSFT has the potential to be a great option for those who want to work on a collaborative family tree. It contains all the tools necessary for good family tree building: access to a plethora of free historical records and indexes and the ability to attach them as sources; automatic record searching and duplicate profile detection; the ability to add notes and discussions and various media files; an extensive help center with information on how to use FSFT, search for records, and do genealogy research. Unfortunately, FSFT contains key flaws that prevent me from recommending that people contribute to it: a lack of moderation of disputes, difficulty attaching source citations, and lack of safeguards when merging profiles of people.
[Read more…] about Why You Might Not Want to Contribute to the FamilySearch Family Tree: A ReviewThe Family Tree Software Alternatives Series
This is the landing page for The Family Tree Software Alternatives series, which reviews 14 major Mac and Windows applications for recording family trees. The focus is on compliance with the GEDCOM standard, both for importing and exporting files, but other aspects, including usability and major features, are addressed as well. Some of the information is now out of date, since some of the applications have released newer versions, but most of the points still hold true.