Using MyHeritage.com Effectively

Dick Eastman

October 1, 2014

Today’s Slides may be found at:

http://eogn.com/handouts/myheritage

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!

MyHeritage:

Is a large collection of vital records from all over the world

Contains a large collection of digitized newspapers from many different countries

Contains billions of records from all over the world Is a web site to store your family tree Is a place to compare your family tree against

those submitted by others Is a photo storage and matching web site

• And much, much more

MyHeritage is available:

In more than 40 languages (far more than any other genealogy web site).

In countries all over the world.

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

Enter the data on the web site, one at a time

Build Your Own Family Tree Web site

You always own the data!

You may add, delete, or modify your contributed data at any time.

Build Your Own Family Tree Web site

Use Smart Matches, Record Matches, 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.

Build Your Own Family Tree Web site

The Best Things in Life are FREE!

MyHeritage has three levels of users:

A FREE basic website for registered users, with up to 250 persons permitted in the tree

A Premium website permits 2,500 persons in the tree

A Premium Plus website permits an unlimited number of persons in the tree

The Best Things in Life are FREE!

A Data Plan to view a few databases also may incur additional fees. These are because MyHeritage PURCHASED these databases from other companies. Much of the content is EXCLUSIVE to MyHeritage.

You never enter a for-pay service without being warned ahead of time and being asked if you wish to proceed.

MyHeritage:

Contains no publicly-visible info about living persons

Contains family trees, historical photos, census records, birth/death/marriage records, military records, immigration records, newspapers, yearbooks, historical maps…

Is built by genealogists for genealogists

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

SuperSearch contains

Super algorithms

Super Name Matching

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.”

SuperSearch looks like this:

Advanced SuperSearch looks like this:

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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?”

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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

International Search Engine

Can search the world or

Can search by continents or

Can search by country

Or combinations of these areas.

All Records Found may be Saved Directly to Your Family Tree

It will be visible to you and…

(optionally) visible to others

Including complete source citations

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 Family Tree Builder Version 4.0 software for Windows

A member's tree on the MyHeritage website can be synchronized with the handheld iPhone/iPad and Android apps.

Collections Include:

One of the largest online collections of newspapers

High School yearbooks Other members’ family trees Census records Military records Many vital records

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Family Tree Builder

• A full-featured genealogy program for Windows

• Fun to use

• Supports SmartMatching Technology

• Private family sites

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Pricing

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Check your email tonight or tomorrow for the half-price offer.

If you are not an EOGN subscriber, drop a note to me at richard@eastman.net and I will send the offer to you.

For more information:

http://MyHeritage.com

Today’s Slides may be found at:

http://eogn.com handouts/myheritage