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Marcel K.

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1 Review by Marcel

  • MyHeritage

4/5/20

Yeahhhhh, finally after a lot of years I spoke with a nice person from Holland who is living in Israel. She listened and not as other people were dominant and not listening what I want to tell and ask them. Brigitte is a dutch woman who is living in Tel Aviv and she from the helpdesk. She understood my arguments about the fact that in the contracts we have to pay there are websites included which are free to search in etc. Also the high costs myheritage charge for premium and premiumplus contracts she listend well. I hope to get a contract that I only click if there is a match in what kind of register or with an other familytree. This because my tree is good as finished an mostly I dont get any new info from sites or other trees. I hope they finally listen to this arguments! This last part is why I give only 2 stars, because myheritage contracts are to expensive according to the free registers which we can use in the Netherland and Family Search in Salt Lake City. Maybe you have make an account but info is for free. Also info from Delpher is in Holland for free to access so why do I need to pay plus when the information in Delpher is free to search in. Also Online Begraafplaats.nl is for free. Local registers and whoiswho is for free etc. So to my opinion I understand that a company have to make profit but not with these amounts and especially if you see less activity like in my tree.

Also without my knowledge the yearcontract has been go on without my approval. This is against Dutch law. The website itselve is good, but the way the people (english language and sales persons) threat a client who is critics the english talking people are getting angry instead of learning from the experience. I got the feeling that its only to get as much money as they can. After a couple of years Brigitte is the only person who took the time for me. Nothing changed so far, but atleast I am heared. Will I recommend myheritage to people, NO WAY STAY AWAY and go to a dutch website with dutchrules and dutch peoples.

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MyHeritage S. – MyHeritage Rep

Dear Marcel,

I'm sorry to read your low star review but I am happy that my friend Bridgette was able to assist you and collect your feedback with regards to our memberships. All feedback we receive is escalated to the top for consideration.

Indeed, MyHeritage is based on subscriptions. Mainly because It is not possible for us to stay consistent and offer so many record collections along with state of the art research tools without having a paid membership. In other words, in order to maintain our online research tools, we must hire staff and we do have staff members and offices worldwide.

As you mentioned in your feedback, many services in general, are subject to a membership charge. This does include the genealogy research market because it expands as more historical data is uploaded from MyHeritage partners that require royalties on its use by customers.

That said, one may still very well research their family roots with a FREE basic membership.

A FREE basic membership is a great start if you are just beginning the research of your family roots. When you sign up for MyHeritage, you do receive an included free basic membership and a free downloadable Family Tree Builder program.

It is true that some records collections found in our SuperSearch engine are free (e.g. BillionGraves, Social Security Death Index).

Some of our members will purchase a complete subscription that offers all research tools but many of our users prefer to only pay for some features as they don't really use the entire array of tools we offer.

I would be more than happy to have a colleague of mine in our sales department to help you find the best membership that will aid you with your research while fitting your budget.

If you are interested, please feel free to contact me at rafael.vipsupport@myheritage.com at your nearest convenience if you would like more information.

Sincerely
Rafael
MyHeritage

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