Tell Better Family Stories with MyHeritage

We all have stories we know or discovered in our family history, we are constantly looking for ways to engage our families, especially the younger generation in family history. We need more than just preserve these stories, we need to bring them to life and pass them on, be known, and remembered for generations to come. Well, the search stops here, with DeepStory. What can be more exciting, moving and more memorable than our ancestors telling their story in first person? We all have this tool at the tips of our fingers. The use of artificial Intelligence has never been easier.

DNA testing has transformed the options available to people with unknown parentage or other unknown ancestor mysteries. This presentation will explain how to use DNA results from MyHeritage to help with solving these previously unsolvable enigmas. Michelle will guide you through how to use the tools and features provided by MyHeritage specifically for unknown parentage situations from investigating MyHeritage matches, utilising the detailed shared match lists on offer, building master research trees for your projects, using the 30 helpful color-coding labels to cluster and organise mystery matches right through to identifying links and obtaining solutions. She will provide practical demonstrations of the core techniques you should employ and genuine case studies and success stories will be included to show how DNA results from MyHeritage can be used in tandem with traditional research to solve mysteries and gain answers.

When visiting MyHeritage users often focus on growing their family tree or experimenting in the photos section. There are lots more features available to use at MyHeritage. This talk will be a speedy trip around the Home, Discoveries, DNA, and Research Sections of the MyHeritage website. Find out the benefits of looking beyond your own family tree and the photos section. This talk is most useful for new visitors to MyHeritage and those wanting to make better use of their membership.

This lecture will describe the ways to use various resources available through MyHeritage to find information about ancestors originating in Poland and to find relatives that still may live there. Zbigniew will focus on a unique resource: family trees uploaded by individual users from Poland. In most cases, they started a few years ago at the beginning of a big wave of popularity of family history research. The concern about privacy was not that strong yet so thousands of people uploaded their information and made it available through MyHeritage making it a unique source that is not available anywhere else. Learn the strategies for using this kind of information, its advantages, and possible traps.

Vous êtes-vous déjà demandé lequel de vos ancêtres a vécu le plus longtemps, l'âge moyen des membres de votre famille au mariage ou quels sont les prénoms les plus courants dans votre famille ? Savez-vous qu'il existe une section très pratique du site Web MyHeritage qui peut vous dire tout cela et bien plus encore ? Nous sommes ravis d'annoncer que notre outil des statistiques familiales vient d'être mis à jour ! C'est une fonctionnalité totalement gratuite qui fournit des dizaines d'informations intéressantes et amusantes sur votre famille. Si vous aimez repérer les tendances et analyser les données, cet outil est fait pour vous.

German vital records can be goldmines of information for your ancestors. Learn how to search MyHeritage to find these records and how to decipher them once you do.

Gilad Katz, Senior Product Manager at MyHeritage, will introduce the latest features on the MyHeritage mobile app and show you how the app makes scanning, organizing, and improving your photos easier than ever before.

MyHeritage's AutoClusters are a great way to start exploring the clusters of your genetic cousins and narrow in on potentially pertinent genetic cousins, but sometimes AutoClusters can only take you so far. Learn to leverage MyHeritage's Theories of Family Relativity, shared matching and DNA match labeling to isolate pertinent genetic cousins for a research question and solve your family history mysteries.

Author and speaker Richard Hill, founder of the DNAFavorites.com website, will review his ten favorite DNA features included with the MyHeritage DNA test. He will show how these features support the basic functions of genetic genealogy, including (1) finding previously unknown relatives, (2) identifying the common ancestors responsible for our genetic matches, and (3) estimating the mix of ethnicities inherited from our ancestors. Using examples from his personal account, Richard will demonstrate these features and show how they can be used productively by genealogists, adoptees, and anyone curious about their family history or ethnic background.