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History• Based near Tel Aviv in Israel• Founded in 2005• Acquired a number of similar sites• GenCircles 2007 (Pearl Street Software)• Kindo 2008 (London)• Online Social Networking 2010 (German)• ZOOF 2010 (Dutch)• Polish family network 2011
• Voted a Top website for sharing & storing family research (Family Tree Magazine 2011)
Organise, find and share
Statistics• 60 million members
• 848 million profiles
• 20 million trees
• 130 million photos
• 210+ countries
Build your tree
Family tree builder v 5.1• To date over 27 million
downloads
• Easy to use
• Impressive array of options for free software
• Some features require the premium version
Privacy
• As with other social networking sites you need to manage your privacy settings• The options are:
Public site – all information open though living individuals masked as Private for guests
Private site – accessible only to members Mixed site – private information restricted to
members
Family events
• Can be notified automatically by email
• Prompt for important family events• However, in our case only Eric’s side of
the family gets events listed – the wife’s tree misses out!
Latest news
MyHeritage has acquired World Vital Records – its seventh and largest acquisition
• Announced eight days ago – full integration by 2012
• MyHeritage now has access to over 3 billion historical records
• Marks a significant move into the US• Of importance to Australian and New
Zealand researchers is that World Vital Records also holds about 35 million records for Australasia