MyHeritage DNA Results - Subscription ??

[Biggles50]

MH’s response to a query.
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I understand that you wish to pause your free trial until your DNA results are ready.

Note that the free trial was active since the moment you purchased your DNA kit and can't be paused.

Also note that a free trial is not necessary for you to receive DNA results. and was not designed to that. Although this trial allows you to use the DNA Advanced Tool with your DNA Results, this free trial is designed to be used while you wait for your DNA Results as it will allow you to add an unlimited number of individuals to your family website, use features such as Smart Matches and Instant Discoveries, apply most of the groundbreaking MyHeritage photo tool, full access to our billions of easily searchable historical records from across the globe and will allow you to extract the information you find in them to your tree.

Without a free trial or subscription, you will receive your DNA Matches and your Ethnicity estimate and you will be able to access them always.

If there is anything else I can assist you with, please let me know.

And with that reply MH stretch their lead in the race to the bottom.

Being very generous and a wee bit optimistic there Glen 😎

[Steve3180]

I half hoped when I started this thread that someone would actually have an answer to accessing my dna results, a hidden way to pay a one off fee or some such. From the lack of suggestions I must assume there isn't one and the only way is via a subscription.

Seems to me that the whole cheap dna test thing is just a bait and switch scheme to get people to sign up to a subscription. Without access to the shared matches and trees then what you get is just a list of names. Without being able to download this list of names I can't compare this test to the earlier imported Ancestry one unless I want to do it by hand, one at a time. So the whole thing has been, mostly, a waste of time.

[Glen in Tinsel Kni]

The 23&Me data breach took place in Sep 2023, MH responded by withdrawing the match list download option in Oct 2023.

[HughC]

I did a test with Ancestry a couple of years ago and uploaded the results to MyHeritage.
The few matches that repeated Ancestry matches had considerably higher cM values.
Then there were hundreds of unknown people.  Many of the names looked Jewish. 
I know MyHeritage is an Israeli company, but I do not believe I have any Jewish ancestry.

Conclusion: forget MyHeritage!

[Romilly]

I half hoped when I started this thread that someone would actually have an answer to accessing my dna results, a hidden way to pay a one off fee or some such. From the lack of suggestions I must assume there isn't one and the only way is via a subscription.
Seems to me that the whole cheap dna test thing is just a bait and switch scheme to get people to sign up to a subscription. Without access to the shared matches and trees then what you get is just a list of names. Without being able to download this list of names I can't compare this test to the earlier imported Ancestry one unless I want to do it by hand, one at a time. So the whole thing has been, mostly, a waste of time.

Ancestry do lots of special and shorter term offers. There’s a thread on here dedicated to this very subject.

Plus, most Public Libraries offer free access to Ancestry and FindMyPast on Site.

And you can always request look ups on here.

Romilly.

[Zaphod99]

Those two different companies use different algorithms, and different source data. I've been tested with both companies, and while there are differences, they do generally correspond. Anyone serious about DNA research would do themselves a favour by being tested by both.  Denying your Jewish ancestry, when it has been discovered via DNA makes me think that you should do more research into the whole process. It would be time well spent.  There are some very good films on the internet. 

The only exception would be if the Jewish ancestry was only a very small trace.

Zaph

I did a test with Ancestry a couple of years ago and uploaded the results to MyHeritage.
The few matches that repeated Ancestry matches had considerably higher cM values.
Then there were hundreds of unknown people.  Many of the names looked Jewish. 
I know MyHeritage is an Israeli company, but I do not believe I have any Jewish ancestry.

Conclusion: forget MyHeritage!

[HughC]

If I had Jewish ancestry it would have shown up in the Ancestry results.
Why does Ancestry show me as related to many known cousins, MyHeritage to none?

[Romilly]

If I had Jewish ancestry it would have shown up in the Ancestry results.
Why does Ancestry show me as related to many known cousins, MyHeritage to none?

Not everyone tests on the same Site?

Romilly.

[Biggles50]

If I had Jewish ancestry it would have shown up in the Ancestry results.
Why does Ancestry show me as related to many known cousins, MyHeritage to none?

Give it time and it may well do just that.

Our test result admixtures show very little similarity 5 years ago to today.

In another 5 years who knows what will show.

My Heritage will be at about 7,000,000 tests, Ancestry about 30,000,000.

It also depends upon where ones origins are and the number of tests analysed in those areas.