Media Kit – MyHeritage.com

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Company

MyHeritage.com was founded by Gilad Japhet and a team of people who combine their passion for family history with the development of innovative technology. Since its launch in November 2005, MyHeritage.com has become the world’s leading international online network for families and the second largest family history website.

Vital stats (last updated: August 3 2010):

Registered members: more than 50 million, see our member map
Geographic presence: 163 countries and 6 continents
Profiles (names in family trees): over 600 million
Family trees: 15 million
Photos: 91 million
Languages: 36
Employees: 50
Subscription plans: Basic (free), Premium, PremiumPlus. More details.

More information about MyHeritage.com and the management team

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Products and Technologies

Family sites

Free personal family website.
Share family trees, photos, videos, events and messages.
Connect and stay in touch with relatives, regardless of how far away they live.
Privacy settings let you control how private or public your family site is.
New feature: Create a Timeline, an interactive display of the family´s history. Read more in our blog.
New feature: The Timebook is an automatically-generated digital scrapbook. Read more in our blog.

View a sample family site of the Kennedy's or the Obama's
Download our flyer with the key facts about our family sites (JPG, 291KB)

Family Tree Builder 4.0

Free software for Windows for building a family tree.
Maps: Stunning geographical displays of where your family came from or live today. Read more in our blog.
Photo albums to organize media files of the whole family.
Slideshow and screen saver to showcase your photo collections.
Family Toolbar with Family Chat, giving direct access to your family sites.
5 different charts, including an "All in One" chart that displays your entire family tree on one sheet - regardless of how big it is.
Available in 37 languages, supporting multiple language data entry.
3 different calendars: Gregorian (standard), Hebrew, and French Revolution.
8 different reports: generate easy-to-read reports showing your ancestors, descendants, relationships, timelines, close families, and addresses.
Publish your family tree to your own MyHeritage family site.

Download the Family Tree Builder 4.0 Software
Download our flyer with the key facts about Family Tree Builder (JPG, 553 KB)

Face Recognition Technology

Face recognition technology and automatic photo tagging: tag a family member in one photo, and our tagger will recognize their face and tag them in all your photos automatically. Read more about Photo features in our blog.
Celebrity face recognition lets people discover which celebrities they look like and post the result to any social network. Try it here.

Click through our photo tagging tour
Watch our sample slideshow of the Obama family

Genealogy Tools

Smart Matching Technology:

Compares each family tree to the millions of family trees contributed by other users, to find matches.
Uses fuzzy logic to bridge across gaps of spelling, language and fact differences.
Allows users to make new discoveries and reunite long lost family ties by harnessing the aggregate knowledge and data of the genealogy community.

Learn more about Smart Matching

MyHeritage.com Research:

Search engine built specifically for genealogy.
This search engine runs each query simultaneously in 1,500 genealogy databases, aggregates the results and displays them in one consolidated report.
Search based on exact name spelling, names that sound similar, or synonyms devised using a unique Megadex(tm) algorithm.

Media

Awards

Named one of the 10 best web sites for storing and sharing family history and photos, by Family Tree Magazine, 2009.
Ranked the #3 most popular genealogy site by ProGenealogists, 2009 and 2010.

Recognition

"Family Tree Builder might just be your primary genealogical software solution."
Bandy, Tony. New and Improved: Family Tree Builder. Family Chronicle Magazine, Canada, May 2010. P 6-9.

"Melody Amsel - Arieli finds long - lost relatives through facial recognition software; discovers which celebrities she resembles; on MyHeritage website."
Amsel - Arieli, Melody. MyHeritage - our future. Ancestors Magazine, UK, March 2010. P 58-59.

"Its exceptional feature is that, whereas nearly all software these days can produce web-ready pages, FTB has a unique near-symbiotic relationship with its own website."
Taylor, James. Family Tree Builder 4.0. Family Tree Magazine, US, February 2010. P 80.

"Family Tree Builder [...] is an attractive free genealogy program that's packed with useful features and wizards to help guide you through all the major steps."
Williams, Wayne. Advanced genealogy tips. Web User Magazine, UK, June 2009. P 36-37.

This is what our users think: Read actual user Testimonials

Press releases

22 July 2010: MyHeritage.com Offers New Feature-Rich Profiles for Families on the Web. (As PDF, 61KB. On PRWEB)
10 July 2010: JewishGen and MyHeritage.com collaborate to build the Family Tree of the Jewish People. (As PDF. On JewishGen, on PRWEB)
22 April 2010: MyHeritage.com Releases Innovative Technologies for Presenting Family Memories. (As PDF, 74KB. On PRWEB)
8 February 2010: MyHeritage.com Acquires Dutch Family Network ZOOOF.com. (As PDF, 74KB)
3 February 2010: MyHeritage.com Acquires Major Family Network OSN (Verwandt.de) to Accelerate Building the World’s Family Graph. (As PDF, 82KB. On BUSINESSWIRE)
15 December 2009: MyHeritage.com, Beit Hatfutsot Family Tree Collaboration. (As PDF, 61KB)
13 August 2009: MyHeritage.com Adds Maps to its Family History Suite - New Version 4.0 of MyHeritage.com's Family Tree Builder Visualizes Family History in Colourful Maps, and Offers Family Chat™ in a New Family Toolbar. (As PDF, 94KB. On PRWEB)
10 June 2009: MyHeritage Launches a New Version of its Photo Service, Making it Easier for Families to Share, Organize and Present their Photos Online. (As PDF, 78KB. On PRWEB)
19 February 2009: Significant Improvements for MyHeritage's Genealogy Search Engine. (As PDF, 66KB)
2 January 2009: MyHeritage Makes Family History Research Easier With Launch of Family Tree Builder 3. (As PDF, 115KB. On PRWEB)
20 November 2008: MyHeritage And Family Tree DNA Partner To Help People Trace Family History Using DNA. (As PDF, 94KB. On PRWEB)
31 October 2008: MyHeritage Adds Nine New Languages, Supports More Than Any Other Family Web Site. (As PDF, 74KB)
23 September 2008: MyHeritage Acquires Family Social Network Kindo. (As PDF, 86KB. On PRWEB)
8 September 2008: MyHeritage Raises $15 Million from Index Ventures and Accel Partners; Innovative Photo Tagging Technology Makes it Easier for Families to Stay in Touch. (As PDF, 106KB. On PRWEB)

Coverage

Techcrunch.com,2 February 2010. MyHeritage Acquires OSN. MyHeritage Buys Germany's OSN, Now 540 Million Profiles Strong.
Thenextweb, 13 August 2009. MyHeritage Releases New Version of Family Tree Builder. Ayelet Noff.
Social Media Biz, including interview with MyHeritage.com Director of Marketing Mario F. Ruckh. 13 August 2009.MyHeritage Updates its Family Tree Builder. Ayelet Noff.
Examiner.com, July 2009. MyHeritage helps unite families worldwide. Shannon Hollifield.
TechCrunch, April 2009. MyHeritage: Avoiding the Metacafe Curse. Sarah Lacy.
Ancestry Magazine, March 2009. Can the Latest Tech, Tools, and Trends Help You Do Your Genealogy? Kelly Burgess.
Times Online, Jan 2009. Using the web to hunt down your family tree. Murad Ahmed.
Babble, Jan 2009. Look-Alike Meter's Busting Family Fights. Jeanne Sager.
Guardian, Nov 2008. Genealogy website MyHeritage offers low-cost DNA tests. Jemima Kiss.
Mashable, Nov 2008. 35+ Sites Made for Web-Savvy Families. Doriano Carta.

User Stories

USA, Norway, England, France: Father and son construct family history
USA: MyHeritage helps Wanda build a 20,000 people family tree!
Israel, Australia, USA, Austria, Hungary, Slovakia: The Frankl family gets reunited through MyHeritage!
USA and Germany. World War II Child Discovers Secret Ancestry.
Australia and UK. Knight, Masons and Loyalists

To find all the users stories see our blog's category "user story"

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Financials

Funding

MyHeritage.com has raised a total of $24 million, initially from business angels and later from some of the world's foremost venture capital firms. In the last round (summer 2008), the company has raised $15 million from Index Ventures, investors of skype, and Accel Partners, investors of facebook.

Acquisitions

In 2007, MyHeritage.com acquired Pearl Street Software, a leader in genealogy software programs based in Colorado, USA.
In 2008, MyHeritage.com acquired Kindo.com, a family social networking site from London.
In 2010, MyHeritage.com acquired OSN (Verwandt.de), a family social networking popular in Europe that was operating from Germany.
Also in 2010, MyHeritage.com acquired the Dutch family network ZOOOF.com.

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