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My heritage monthly or quarterly?

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  • 22-02-2021 11:48am
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    OU812
    Registered Users Posts: 6,035 ✭✭✭


    Do my heritage ever do monthly or quarterly memberships? I doubt I’d need the full year as I’m just trying to fill a couple of blanks.


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    Mick Tator
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    OU812 wrote: »
    Do my heritage ever do monthly or quarterly memberships? I doubt I’d need the full year as I’m just trying to fill a couple of blanks.


    Any particular reason for using ‘My Heritage’? I have found them extremely poor for Ireland and did not renew my sub after I joined. (So poor in fact that I forgot about it, then got auto-renewed and took nunerous calls/emails and three weeks to get a refund!)


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    OU812
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    I have some DNA stuff on there which doesn't appear in Ancestry & wanted to explore it, as well as various trees I wanted to check that some of the detail (in the mailout) matches mine, but they have additional information I don't.

    Also interested in the DNA Ethnicity estimate. which was previously available but is now under subscription.


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    Mick Tator
    Registered Users Posts: 654 ✭✭✭Mick Tator


    OU812 wrote: »
    I have some DNA stuff on there which doesn't appear in Ancestry & wanted to explore it, as well as various trees I wanted to check that some of the detail (in the mailout) matches mine, but they have additional information I don't.

    Also interested in the DNA Ethnicity estimate. which was previously available but is now under subscription.

    That’s close to why I took out a sub initially – I availed of a special offer for DNA test (two for one?) for a family member to help identify lines, then after a while took out a full sub to investigate further.

    About 600 out of 10,000 matches were in Ireland. My comments on their DNA results are HERE. I’ve yet to use the second DNA kit.

    I was going to write a review of MyHeritage and saved some details. My search results were so ‘off’ I thought I was doing something wrong, so I tried using details I knew. I input details for my grandfather born 1895, Co. Tipp. The results numbered 1,499 but despite the data input he did not appear in the first 40 ‘hits’ – most are in UK/US/Australia and after no.40 it goes into spelling variations of my surname. I then searched more precisely, for a Cork (born, married, lived & died) great grandmother using her name and year of birth, place of birth, place of residence and father’s name – that produced 842 results. The first is a woman of her name & y.o.b. but in New York. The second is a marriage for a woman of her name but the marriage is seven years before her birth. The next two are for Cork marriages when she would have been aged 9 and 13 years respectively and the fathers’ names are incorrect. By no.10 I’ve hit those in Massachusetts and Australia. After that the results are just names with ill-matched dates, taken apparently from CLDS etc., and the records have no images.

    In my opinion if you want a cheap (when on special offer) DNA test for use on Gedmatch buying one from MyHeritage is OK, but for Irish genealogical research it has very poor results and has been very disappointing for me.


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    OU812
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    I already have the DNA for most of the family (couple of people didn’t want to unfortunately) which I uploaded to my heritage from ancestry.

    It’s the other looks into what that tells that I’m interested in.

    For example, before they went sub only on some of the features, my spouse reported as being 16% Spanish which although it answered a couple of questions in terms of personality, raised more as her father thought his heritage was purely Irish. Her mother is a mixture of English and Irish so it doesn’t come from there.

    We eventually talked him into doing a test too but unfortunately they’d gone sub only at that point.

    Would appear that there may have been a Balearic or Spanish sailor in the mix a couple of generations ago which is being contested.


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    pinkypinky
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 6,616 Mod ✭✭✭✭pinkypinky


    My Heritage is not charging unlock fees for uploaded DNA kits this week, so I think that means you can get those additional features.
    I really wouldn't really on anything in the ethnicity area though.

    Genealogy Forum Mod



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