Jul 23
MyHeritage announced they have added 8.3 million historical records from June of 2020 from six new collections from the U.K., Spain, and New Zealand. Four million records from a World War I medal index were added from the U.K. Three collections from the Vitoria Diocese in Spain were added: a baptism index, a marriage index, and a death in...
Jun 16
MyHeritage has introduced Cross-Language Record Matches. MyHeritage is already translated into 42 languages, and has become the most popular and heavily-used genealogy website in most non-English speaking countries, in addition to its popularity in the English-speaking world. MyHeritage announced that their Global Name Translation Technol...
Jun 4
MyHeritage announced the addition of an exclusive death records collection from the state of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, from 1874 through 1938. This collection is part of civil registration death records which have been made available by the Landesarchiv Nordrhein-Westfalen. The Germany, North Rhine-Westphalia, Death Index 1874-1938...
May 14
MyHeritage added their Theory of Family Relativity to their service in February of 2019. Recently, the company announced that they have run updates and refreshed the data that their Theory of Family Relativity uses. This could mean that users who were not getting any updates from that feature may start getting them now. What is the Theory o...
Apr 9
MyHeritage is offering a Stay At Home Sale to encourage you to stay home. The discount on their MyHeritage DNA kits will be valid through the month of April 2020. MyHeritage says that your health and safety are of the utmost importance to them. In light of the unfolding global situation, MyHeritage strongly encourages all their users to pr...
Mar 12
MyHeritage introduced a huge collection of historical U.S. city directories. The collection was produced exclusively by MyHeritage from 25,000 public U.S. city directories published between 1860 and 1960. It comprises 545 million aggregated records that have been consolidated from 1.3 billion records, many of which included similar entries for...
Feb 18
MyHeritage announced the 24-hour Genealogy Webinar Marathon. It is an unprecedented event hosted by MyHeritage and featured on Legacy Family Tree Webinars. Registration is required. The marathon will begin on Thursday, March 12, 2020, at 5 P.M. Eastern U.S. time (Friday, March 13 at 9 A.M. Sydney time) and end on Friday March 13, at 5 P.M....
Dec 19
MyHeritage has announced a major addition to their MyHeritage DNA Health + Ancestry test. They have added 9 new health reports. MyHeritage recommends that people who are estimated to have a genetic risk for a certain health condition seek additional information and screening from their healthcare providers. The 9 new reports are: High Bl...
Dec 10
MyHeritage announced that UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson is distantly related to the newly elected President of the European Union, Dr. Ursula von der Leyen. This revelation could make Brexit appear to include a family feud. That said, it seems unlikely that these two would have to share a Christmas dinner together. MyHeritage researchers ...
Nov 7
MyHeritage announced that it added that it added 18.6 million new records in October of 2019, in seven new collections including Australia, Spain, the former Soviet Union, Latvia, the United States, Germany, and Denmark. Australian Death Notices 1860-2019: This collection of over 7 million records contains death notices, and obituaries fro...