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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Family Tree Software Alternatives, Part 16: RootsMagic 8
Details about RootsMagic 8*
Application: RootsMagic 8
Current Version: 8.1.2.0
Supported OS: macOS Sierra (10.12) through macOS Monterey (12.0); Windows 7 SP1 through Windows 11
Mobile Apps: RootsMagic App for iOS or Android
Price: $39.95 new license/$29.95 upgrade (RootsMagic Essentials free)
Publisher: RootsMagic, Inc.
Website: http://rootsmagic.com
GenSoftReviews: 4.0 stars out of 5 (2021 only)
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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Family Tree Maker* (FTM) 2019 was released on 29 Sep 2019, as a 30th anniversary edition. I’ve been using FTM for over 20 of those years, ever since Brøderbund Software released version 4.0 on CD-ROM for the first time. The software has seen many changes and improvements since its inception. The pre-order sale email from the current developer, Software MacKiev, touted 10 main reasons to upgrade to version 2019. I’ll cover each of those reasons in turn, as well as a few other points, based primarily on using the version for macOS (Mojave), but I took a gander at the Windows version, as well.
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Bottom Line Up Front
Like FamilySearch Family Tree (FSFT), WeRelate, and Geni.com, WikiTree is a shared family tree website. The following table compares their size and cost:
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