If you’ve ever had to present the photos of your ancestors to someone, you probably have your own collection of photos. If so, I’m one hundred percent certain that this services is just for you.
MyHeritage is an Israel-based allows all users to organize their own genealogical tree online. MyHeritage’s mission is to make it a service easier for people in the planet to discover their heritage and make their bonds with family and friends more stable.Peoples use this service because it’s a personal and easy way to share the own photos around the planet.
Michael Arrington wrote a post on techcrunch.com, where picked up on some interesting language for Myheritage. Here’s the passage:
“Geni quickly reached 5 million people profiles and a monster $100 million valuation just a few months after launching”.
Also says:
“They’ve quietly raised $9 million in venture capital (about half from Accel and half from two angel investors, Yuval Rakavy and Aviv Raiz). Until recently MyHeritage required users to upload family genealogy information from desktop based software. The information was viewable online but no changes could be made. An unwieldy system, but they still managed to gather 150,000 family trees with 180 million people profiles from 17.2 million users. 150,000 new profiles are added daily. That dwarfs Geni, although MyHeritage had a long head start”.
For those unfamiliar of what it’s capable, MyHeritage is made up of many features to pipe your own genealogical information(photo, personal data) online that can be visualized and compared. It provides a new ways to add personality your profile allowing to upload and modify all information related you and your own family directly through the MyHeritage admin control panel.
How MyHeritage does work
How MyHeritage has a solid core of social networking features that make it not only easy to create your user profile, but also to interact with those other community members to share your family tree and photos with the people you know.
It doesn’t cost anything to sign up for MyHeritage account, the pitch is simple, all you have to do is add some your personal information(name, surname and so on), username, email and password. For now, MyHeritage system has stored up to 180 million people profiles for now.
Once you open your account you can surfing around the site create your personal site and upload name, email, photos (Over 100 million photos have been uploaded), and so on. MyHeritage.com allows anyone like you and me to create a site for their family and even publish their family tree on the Internet.
Interface
Another feature that I noticed is the beautifully graphic that MyHeritage is capable of. Layout and navigation are impressively clean, so easy that even your grand mother could use.
Member Map
Just as with social networking services such as Facebook, users can create a profile and invite friends from within the user profile.
MyHeritage includes 17,273,482 members from all over the world.Has been developed a cool map to show the new members and where they come from. It’s great for making new friends!
Using Megadex Search
As search engine, MyHeritage provides Megadex the most powerful genealogy search engine on the planet that search on 1200 genealogy databases around the planet.
Video
To give a good idea of how MyHeritage works, you can check out the following short video distributed by YouTube.The video is nice goes for 2.00 minutes. Hit that play button to watch the video.
MyHeritage Face Recognition: Do You Look Like A Celebrity?
MyHeritage recently launched to provide online face recognition software to the masses.
The new features enable to create:
Celebrity Collage-MyHeritage face recognition technology allows to discover which celebrities you resemble, allowing you to match the celebrity photos. You can email to your friends or add in your blog or include it in your facebook profile and so on.
Celebrity Morphing-If you want to transform your face in that one famous celebrity, through the face recognition, MyHeritage allow the morphing technology, an animation technique in which one image is gradually turned into another. If you want see some morph examples prepared by MyHeritage Celebrity Morph™, shown on ABC’s TV, click here.
Look alike Meter-Who does junior look like? Mom or dad?
This has millions of parents puzzled all over the world.
The MyHeritage Look-alike Meter settles the debate once and for all!
Products
MyHeritage includes:
Family Pages
- Create a site for your family – your family’s own place on the Web
- Share family photos, videos and news
- Showcase your family tree online
- Organize family events
- Basic Family Pages are free
Family Tree Builder
- Put together your family tree
- Bring your family tree to life with photos
- Publish your family tree into your Family Pages
- Share your family tree online with your relatives
- Free
Conclusion
For now MyHeritage is just a promise. Especially for people who want to realize their own genealogical tree online. In terms of ease of use and for functionality is ideal solution for all users that want to use these type of services.
MyHeritage is a great success, providing one of the easiest ways to create your own genealogic tree while did a great job for the face recognition with the morphing technology, but also to interact with those other community members that you add as friends. Though of you wanting a simple and reliable way to start upload immediately for some unique old photos you own, MyHeritage is already ready to serve you well.
MyHeritage have on her database much of the world’s genealogy mapped online.You might be one of the few people who has decided not to sign up for an account for this new product.
