MyHeritage adds 900 million global historical records

We’re happy to announce that we’ve added 900 million global historical records to SuperSearch bringing the total number of records on MyHeritage to over 6 billion.

The new content has been made available thanks to MyHeritage’s partnership with FamilySearch and consists primarily of family tree profiles that have been submitted by more than 22 million FamilySearch users. Integration ensures that this data is refreshed on MyHeritage on a daily basis as it is updated on FamilySearch.

Adding this data to MyHeritage alongside the 27 million global family trees submitted by MyHeritage users, brings together for the very first time 2 of the world’s 3 largest family tree collections.

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MyHeritage matching technologies are currently comparing the huge FamilySearch and MyHeritage trees and generating matches between them that will be sent to MyHeritage users during the next month or two. Comparing about 900 million profiles (FamilySearch tree) to about 1.6 billion profiles (MyHeritage trees) is a substantial undertaking. Millions of users stand to gain a lot of new information from the matches.

As of today, users of MyHeritage partners such as RootsMagic and Family Historian – these are desktop programs that use the MyHeritage matching APIs – will receive matches with the FamilySearch tree via MyHeritage (the copy that is on MyHeritage that is) without having to have an account on FamilySearch. That’s another benefit of the FamilySearch tree being on MyHeritage.

Geni.com users will also enjoy matches with the FamilySearch tree too, via MyHeritage.

This significant addition is part of MyHeritage’s goal to continually add global historical records and family tree profiles, and by combining advanced technology with massive amounts of data, we’re making it easier for people to unravel their family history.