Thank you for the information, I will be very careful with my dealing with MyHeritage. I am a long time user of ancestry.com, family search.com, and findagrave.com, coming from rootsweb long ago. I have noticed a few times MyHeritage has sent things for me to fill in on my lineage on their site, I have answered yes, this is my family but I knew the records were indeed mine from other sites, I will be very careful to watch and make sure they are not charging me for my own records.
Sent from my Verizon, Samsung Galaxy smartphone -------- Original message --------From: Susie Zada <sz...@zades.com.au> Date: 2/16/18 2:10 AM (GMT-06:00) To: Legacy User Group <legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com> Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] MyHeritage - not free Hi Pauline, You're talking about two totally different things - subscription to MyHeritage data etc. and FREE to upload DNA data from other companies if you're not a subscriber. It sounds like you were using MyHeritage Online to add to your tree and haven't been using the MyHeritage Family Tree Builder which is the FREE genealogy program you can run on your desktop and sync to your online tree if you have one there. So people recently talking about FREE MyHeritage are all referring to uploading their Ancestry DNA and FTDNA results to MyHeritage.- particularly since MyHeritage have upgraded their algorithms and people are getting heaps more accurate matches than previously! I can personally vouch for that with some excellent matches in the last few weeks. Hope that explanation helps. Regards ... Susie Z February 16, 2018 6:39 PM, "Pauline B. Cramer" <crame...@comcast.net> wrote: 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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