I was reviewing a lot of comments about MyHeritage on the Legacy User
Group and ran across the comment Carrie Pillow wrote mentioning "you
can transfer your raw DNA to MyHeritage for free. You must have an
account with MyHeritage to do this but you can create a free account
which allows you to have a tree up to 250 people."
Sorry. Be wary of anything "free" from MyHeritage. My husband and I
first did autosomal testing with 23andMe in about 2013. They also had a
crude tool for entering family tree history. I detested the clunky
format and did not enter much data on it. Later, 23andMe informed us
they were no longer going to support family tree data, and they had sent
our DNA and family tree data to MyHeritage. That was in February of
2014. I had previously opened an account on WorldVitalRecords, and in
February 2014, MyHeritage informed me that WorldVitalRecords had been
merged with MyHeritage, so in February 2014, MyHeritage said they had
given us "a free empty MyHeritage account for one year, which is a gift
worth $119, for free, and we would have access to World Vital Records
and My Heritage both. The Premium Plus account will not renew
automatically. By creating your family tree on our site, you will
automatically receive your matches for free. "
In February 2015, email from MyHeritage thanked me for purchasing an
annual bundle of data subscription plus PremiumPlus family site. You
have been charged US $99.95 ...We have upgraded our existing family site
Cramer Family Site to PremiumPlus. I had to request a new password,
because I had not been using it and had not recorded the password. The
next day, they sent another email starting with "An error occurred while
renewing your MyHeritage Data Subscription. It was not possible to
extend your subscription and it expired. " They offered a MyHeritage
Data subscription that will cots US $71.40 for one year, instead of the
usual $119.40. About two weeks later I requested a new password again
and tried entering data again, but did not like the user interface.
Again in Feb 2015, I requested a new password. So I remember I put a
few photos on the tree, but I really did not like the data entry format.
That was about the last time I remember even looking at the MyHeritage
website, until I started noticing funny little orange icons turning up
on my Legacy Family Tree on my desktop computer.
Apparently my desktop computer was getting messages from MyHeritage
asking me to verify something someone else had entered on their trees,
and smart matches found my entries, which I found very annoying, since
whenever I saw these messages, my mind was always focused on something
else far away. I have been a subscriber to Ancestry.com for many years,
and I have been focusing on AncestryDNA and growing my trees on
Ancestry.com and on my Legacy Family Tree file, and looking for my
1000+ living cousins on AncestryDNA, and how I am connected to them, and
also on FTDNA and 23andMe. And I had no interest in working on the old
trees on MyHeritage. And I never considered buying DNA analysis from My
Heritage. But I noticed people on the Legacy Family Tree user group
talking about My Heritage DNA testing.
Unfortunately, a few days ago, Februrary 2018, I noticed an email from
MyHeritage saying I was charged $250.74. This shocked me because I
thought my subscription had expired. I asked my husband to check
charges. He had just paid it that morning. He also found we had paid
$238.80 in 2016, etc.. Which was another shocker. He immediately sent
an email cancelling the 2018 payment he had just made. It took a couple
of years to look at 5 years of paper trail. We appear to have have
charged over $750 for something I did not ask for in the first place
and did not like when I attempted to use it. I have been using Legacy
Family Tree for over 15 years, since 2002, but, if Legacy Family Tree is
now owned by My Heritage, my first impulse is just to give up on genealogy.
Pauline
On 1/12/2018 1:43 AM, Carrie Pillow wrote:
You can transfer your raw DNA to MyHeritage for free. You must have an
account with MyHeritage to do this but you can create a free account
which allows you to have a tree up to 250 people.
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