Ancestry versus My Heritage

[crazydaizy]

Hia, whilst I love Ancestry website, I've also been using My Heritage and had a free trial on this site.  Now they're offering me Ł56.40 for a whole years subscription, which appears to be for overseas records as well as UK.  This obviously works out a lot cheaper than Ancestry.

What's everyone's views on My Heritage?  Do you think it's as good as Ancestry?

[Ruskie]

I think most people will say “no”. 

I’ve never used My Heritage apart from the DNA component, but everyone’s research areas are different, so maybe check both sites to compare coverage and decide which would be more useful for you.

You might need to look deeper into numbers of records in record sets rather than just what they say they hold. I recall years ago being a bit miffed when taking a 23 and Me subscription thinking they had some records I wanted, but when I looked more closely, the numbers of records in some sets was very small.

[crazydaizy]

I think most people will say “no”. 

I’ve never used My Heritage apart from the DNA component, but everyone’s research areas are different, so maybe check both sites to compare coverage and decide which would be more useful for you.

You might need to look deeper into numbers of records in record sets rather than just what they say they hold. I recall years ago being a bit miffed when taking a 23 and Me subscription thinking they had some records I wanted, but when I looked more closely, the numbers of records in some sets was very small.

I think you're right.  I'll say "no" too.  I must admit, during my "free" trial I don't seem to have found quite what I was looking for, whereas on Ancestry and FindmyPast I seemed to locate it quite quickly. 

I'm best sticking to Ancestry.   Especially as I can upload and update my FamilyTreeMaker on there.

[Seelife]

I have used Ancestry, My heritage and Findmypast. As a paid site, FindMyPast has been good for records and basic research, not tried trees. My heritage has errors and seems not as complete IMHO.
Having said that 85+% of Ancestry trees for Winn/Winds are wrong and I have found many other trees incorrect/unsourced so apply caution. The data is good but for me at times confusing offering too many hints and alternatives.
Added- check what you need with Ancestry, it sometimes seems you need a bigger investment to have access to certain records, costly for me anyway.

[fiddlerslass]

I recently joined Myheritage as one of my German DNA matches on Ancestry said she was mostly on there rather than Ancestry, and as I was looking for German/Czech ancestry I would be more likely to find matches on there. This tends to be true from what I have observed, as I have a lot more continental European DNA hits showing up. Ancestry tends to  have more American subscribers.  So far I have been luckier with getting replies back to messages on Myheritage too.
However I find the tree building interface on Ancestry with the ability to quickly add census information and webpage links etc easier to use. Myheritage seems to be more clunky to use for treebuilding in my opinion. I am updating a tree on both sites concurrently which is a bit of a job!
 I have not added my English tree to Myheritage so can't say if their searches/records are any better than Ancestry.
It was relatively easy to download the Gedcom and DNA from Ancestry and attach it to my new Myheritage account as a not particularly savvy computer user too.

[knapsack]

i prefer the myheritage due to the dna ethnicity has been abit more accurate. and iREALLY liked the autoclusters. i can see who to figure out cause usually one person per cluster is someone i know.and the Report thing with photos, even though i had to purchase one time a software to make it more readable. had to study on it,l but am glad i used them. and i like the import ability of raw DNA from other companies.Ancestry is proprietary that way.