Articles from MyHeritage

MyHeritage, the leading global platform for family history, announced today the release of Scribe AI, a powerful new feature that uses AI technology to analyze historical documents and images. Scribe AI helps people better understand and preserve their family history by transcribing, translating, and interpreting documents, letters, photos, and other family records.

MyHeritage, the leading global platform for family history and DNA testing, has expanded its reach by making its website fully available in 50 languages. This expansion marks another milestone in the company’s mission to make family history accessible to people everywhere. With the addition of nine new languages, MyHeritage is enabling millions more people around the world to discover who they are and where they belong, in their native language. This expansion will also facilitate more valuable matches and discoveries to MyHeritage users worldwide as more diverse audiences join and build their family trees on the platform. For example, new users who create family trees in Irish or Welsh will receive matches with family trees of members of the Irish or Welsh diaspora who are using MyHeritage in other countries, and vice versa.

MyHeritage, the leading global platform for family history, and ScanCafe, the leading photo and video digitization service in the U.S., announced today a new partnership to give consumers an easy and safe way to digitize their family memories. This new collaboration combines the power of two giants in the fields of media scanning and family history. ScanCafe enables consumers to easily digitize their physical media items. MyHeritage then safeguards their digital legacy and provides a starting point for exploring their entire family history.

MyHeritage, the leading global platform for family history and DNA testing, announced today the release of Ancient Origins, a major new product that complements the company’s DNA ethnicity reports. Ancient Origins goes back further in time, thanks to the latest developments in archaeogenetics, allowing MyHeritage DNA customers to trace their origins up to 10,000 years into the past and discover the ancient populations from which they descend, such as Imperial Romans, Norse Vikings, Phoenicians, and Ancient Egyptians. MyHeritage is now the only major genealogy service to offer such high-resolution ancient DNA ethnicity analysis.

MyHeritage, the leading global platform for family history and DNA testing, announced today the launch of MyStories, a new global service that enables people to capture their personal stories in a beautiful printed book.

MyHeritage, the leading global platform for family history, announced today the release of LiveMemory™, an incredible new feature that enables you to relive your favorite memories by turning any photo into a short video clip. The video reimagines the scene as if you were watching it live, and is perfect for sharing with family and friends. LiveMemory™ is available on the MyHeritage mobile app for iOS and Android.

MyHeritage, the leading global family history platform, announced today the acquisition of MesAieux.com, a popular family history service specializing in French Canadian genealogy. This is the 13th acquisition by MyHeritage. In August 2021, MyHeritage acquired Filae, the leading genealogy service in France. With the addition of MesAieux.com, these acquisitions bolster the company’s leadership position in the global genealogy market and secure its prominence in the Francophone world.

MyHeritage, the leading global family history platform, announced today the launch of OldNews.com, an innovative website for historical newspapers. OldNews.com enables genealogists, researchers, and history enthusiasts to search, save, and share articles about people and events throughout history. At launch, OldNews.com includes a huge repository of hundreds of millions of historical newspaper pages from around the world, with millions more added monthly. The website features easy navigation and consists of a diverse range of high-quality publications, from major international newspapers to small-town journals and gazettes.

MyHeritage, the leading global family history service, announced today the release of two groundbreaking features that mark the next frontier in family history research: AI Record Finder™ and AI Biographer™. AI Record Finder™ revolutionizes genealogy like ChatGPT revolutionized searching the internet: it is an interactive, intelligent, free-text chat to help the user locate relevant historical records about a person of interest in MyHeritage’s vast database of 20 billion records. AI Biographer™ automatically compiles a rich narrative about an individual’s life using information from historical records that match the person, creating a Wikipedia-like biography about anyone. Narratives are enriched with relevant historical context using AI and are easy to share. MyHeritage is the only service to offer such groundbreaking features for family history, and the first to leverage conversational AI for searching historical records. The two features are integrated, allowing users to generate an AI Biography™ for individuals they find using AI Record Finder™. AI Biographies™ may also be generated directly for individuals in family trees on MyHeritage.

MyHeritage, the leading global family history platform, announced today the launch of Reimagine, a groundbreaking mobile app for family photos. Reimagine boasts a powerful photo scanner that enables high-speed scanning of entire album pages, alongside MyHeritage’s world-class AI tools for improving historical photos. These features, together with MyHeritage’s capabilities for sharing family photos, make Reimagine the ideal app for organizing family photos, old and new. Reimagine is available on both iOS and Android.

MyHeritage, the leading global service for family history and DNA testing, today announced the launch of the third installment of DNA Quest, the company’s worldwide pro bono initiative to reunite adoptees with their birth families through genetic testing. First launched in March 2018 and extended the following year, DNA Quest pledged 20,000 free DNA kits to adoptees and people seeking family members placed for adoption, resulting in countless reunions all over the world, and many lives forever changed for the better. MyHeritage is now relaunching the project with a donation of 5,000 additional DNA kits.

MyHeritage, the leading global service for family history and DNA testing, announced today the release of cM Explainer™, an innovative, free new feature that accurately estimates familial relationships between DNA Matches. For every DNA Match, cM Explainer™ offers a detailed prediction of the possible relationships between the two people and the respective probabilities of each relationship, determines their most recent common ancestor, and displays a diagram showing their relationship path. cM Explainer™ is fully integrated into the MyHeritage platform to shed light on any DNA Match found on MyHeritage, and is also available as a standalone tool to benefit consumers who have tested with other DNA services.

MyHeritage, the leading global service for discovering your past and empowering your future, announced today the release of AI Time Machine™, a cutting-edge, fun feature that creates images of a person in different time periods throughout history using text-to-image AI technology. The stunning, hyper-realistic results can easily be shared on social media and used as profile photos to amaze friends and family.

MyHeritage, the leading global service for discovering your past and empowering your future, announced today the complete publication of an image-only collection of the full 1950 U.S. Census records, which can now be browsed free of charge. MyHeritage is the first company to achieve this with all metadata to make the images searchable (by state, county, city/town, and enumeration district), since the records were released earlier today by NARA (National Archives and Records Administration), 72 years after the enumeration was initiated.

MyHeritage, the leading global service for discovering your past and empowering your future, together with New York’s Museum of Jewish Heritage – A Living Memorial to the Holocaust and its affiliate JewishGen, which serves as a repository for Jewish genealogical records, announced today the publication of 5.8 million records from JewishGen on the MyHeritage platform. The 28 collections in this release represent the initial implementation of a licensing agreement that will ultimately make almost all JewishGen records accessible on MyHeritage.

MyHeritage, the leading global service for discovering your past and empowering your future, and Expedia®, the world’s leading travel booking site, jointly announced today a new partnership promoting heritage travel.

MyHeritage, the leading global service for discovering your past and empowering your future, announced today the publication of 463 million historical records from France. The collections published by MyHeritage provide the most comprehensive coverage available for vital records from France in the 18th, 19th, and early 20th centuries. Until now they have been available exclusively through Filae, a leading French genealogy company recently acquired by MyHeritage. By the end of the year, MyHeritage will publish hundreds of millions of additional records from Filae, further solidifying its position as the market leader for European genealogy.

MyHeritage, the leading global service for discovering your past and empowering your future, announced today that it has signed agreements to acquire 90.91% of the share capital and 89.11% of the voting rights of Filae, a leading family history service in France, through TreeHouse Junior Limited, a parent company in the MyHeritage group.

MyHeritage, the leading global service for discovering your past and empowering your future, announced today the release of Photo Repair, a powerful new feature that automatically fixes scratches, tears, holes, stains, and other damage on historical photos. Photo Repair takes photos that have deteriorated over the years and corrects the damage, making flaws disappear as if by magic. MyHeritage is the only company to offer a complete suite of features for colorizing, enhancing, animating, and now repairing historical photos, all of which produce exceptional results. Photo Repair is effortless and immediate: it is suggested only when it is needed, and is activated by the user with a single click.