I have nothing against freemium websites, or even paying for genealogy websites. The comparable All Access membership at is $398 per year (FamilySearch is completely free). The Complete package consisting of an unlimited family tree, historical records, and all features is $299 per year ($199 for the first year). To build a larger family tree, use advanced matching features, and/or view historical records, you must pay for a subscription plan. MyHeritage operates on a multi-tier freemium business model where a family tree of 250 people is free, but the feature set is extremely limited. So you’ve been warned that I’m biased about MyHeritage, but that doesn’t mean I can’t be fair.

To be honest, I’ve put off reviewing MyHeritage for 2 years because I don’t like what they did to when they bought it ( see my post about for an explanation), and I think their subscriptions are overpriced. Having already reviewed the other major genealogy websites, Family Tree,, and, I thought it was time to review MyHeritage. MyHeritage also has 15.7 billion “historical” records of varying quality and 5.2 million people in their DNA database. As of 2021, there are 81 million family trees with 4.7 billion profiles at MyHeritage, but but there’s a lot of duplication among those profiles. In terms of family trees, MyHeritage is more like Ancestry than FamilySearch in that users create separate family trees, unlike FamilySearch Family Tree, whose goal is to create a single collaborative family tree. is one of the world’s major family tree and genealogy websites, ranking #3 after and *.

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