MyHeritage

MyHeritage is a genealogy tool designed for Android devices. With this app, you can begin building your family tree by simply entering a few names. It features an extensive database containing 81 million family trees. You can use the platform to uncover your family history and match historical records, tracing the lineage of your ancestors. The app also offers features to enhance and revitalize old family photographs, and you can add photos to further enrich your family records. Additionally, MyHeritage provides DNA testing services.

Features

Build Your Family Tree: you can simply start your family tree by entering a few names, and MyHeritage’s family tree maker will take care of the rest. The matching technology automatically finds new information for you from their diverse collection of 81 million family trees built by users from all over the world and in their huge database of 15.7 billion historical records. You can then simply watch your family tree come to life.

Make Instant Family History Discoveries: MyHeritage can simply match your family tree to other family trees and historical records. And hence provide you with new insights about your ancestors. 

Find Your Ancestors in Historical Records: My Heritage lets you explore your family history and ancestral tree through a vast database of 15.7 billion historical records collected from around the world. These historical record collections include vital records such as birth, marriage, and death certificates from 66 countries; census and immigration records; gravestone and burial records, etc. You can search millions of historical newspapers, yearbooks, and other valuable historical documents that are not found anywhere else. 

Deep Nostalgia: With this feature, your historical family photos will come to life, and you’ll be able to see your ancestors’ faces move! Deep Nostalgia allows you to animate the faces in historical photos. So you can create short videos. And you can feel like your family’s history is being recreated right before you.

Enrich Your Family Tree with Photos: My Heritage lets you capture and share your family memories be they old or new. Scan your family photos directly from the inbuilt AI-based photo tools. You can even repair scratched or damaged photos, colourise black and white photos, and bring blurry faces into focus with the MyHeritage Photo Enhancer. You can record the stories behind your family photos with the Photo Storyteller and preserve them for generations to come.

MyHeritage DNA test: your DNA is your unique ethnic makeup. The test consists of a simple cheek swab. These tests reveal where your ancestors came from across 2,114 geographic regions. It also matches you to relatives you never knew existed from the DNA database of 5.2 million people. View your DNA results on the app; they’re completely safe.

Highlights

Record Matches – Thanks to the Record Matches feature, you can also find various family records. Find new information about your ancestors through MyHeritage’s 13 billion historical records. This record holds numerous birth certificates, obituaries, adoption records, old newspapers, census records, court records and many more. Add new members to your family tree to ensure that they’re not forgotten! This app ensures that you can pass on your family history to future generations to come.

Preserve Your Family History – The app allows you to capture and share family memories. Combine old and new photos and make the family tree more meaningful. You can also colorize the black and white photos to make them more modern. Thanks to the MyHeritage In Color feature, this automatically colorizes the photos within seconds. This allows you to preserve your family’s history for generations to come.

Trace Your Lineage – You can also trace your lineage by ordering a DNA kit. Find more about your ethnic origins now. Try to see what percentage that you DNA holds.

Advantages and disadvantages

Pros

It works well even in low-RAM phones (2GB).

The app installation pack isn’t that big in size, but cannot be considered as small enough as well.

The interface is user-friendly for some specific features.

The animation effect is stellar. Once you got a photo animated, it feels like you are watching a video although there is still space to improve it.

Cons

No tutorial provided, so it may confuse new users when it comes to use the app.

For some menus, there is no name.

Summarize

Surely you have ever wondered about your distant relatives, about your origins. Would you like to know where you come from? MyHeritage is the app version of a genealogical platform where you can create your own family tree, upload and share photos, find unknown relatives and search through millions of global historical records. Are you up for a try?