MyHeritage.com

MyHeritage is a great website for people who are looking for information about their family in other countries. Their goal is to connect people from one side of the ocean to the other. I have heard MyHeritage, called the Facebook of family history.

Here are some great features of MyHeritage…

1. Smart Matches - This feature takes the information from the tree you uploaded and looks at all the rest of the trees on the website. When matches are found in these different trees, you get an email, stating that there is someone else who has a tree with the same people as you. When you see these trees, you will find that you cannot just add the information to your tree, but you can request to visit with the person who owns that specific tree.
2. Record Matches - This feature looks at your tree, and then matches each person to records in their database. When you decide to attach records to your tree, remember to look at the bottom of the page, and you will see more records that can be attached to your tree. This feature is called "Record Detective".
3. Research Tab - MyHeritage will find a lot of records for you, but that does not take away having to search for additional records, not found by the computers. In order to research, you can use either the search all records, or pick a category available.

One really fun thing to do on MyHeritage to get to know your family, is to look at the family statistics, which is found under the home tab. You can visually see on charts different events in your ancestor's lives.

Have fun getting to know MyHeritage, and how you can use it in your family history research!