New Feature: Instant Discovery Tree Cards

Last month, we announced that Instant Discoveries™ are now available to all MyHeritage users, allowing our users to add entire branches to their family tree in just a few clicks. Many of our users have already been enjoying these Discoveries every day, and you can see this in near real-time using our exciting Discovery World Map.

Today we are introducing a useful new feature that lets you see the Discoveries available for you right in your family tree, in their exact context. For example, if a branch connected to your great-grandmother, which includes her father or mother, is missing in your family tree, but found by MyHeritage in another tree, you’ll see a special yellow card above your great-grandmother’s profile labeled “Discovery!”

New Discovery Cards

Hover over the Discovery card to learn more about it: a tooltip will open describing the Discovery and specifying how many missing relatives it can add to your tree and the source of the information.

Hover over Discovery Card to display relatives found

Click on the yellow card to review the Discovery. Discoveries are always based on a match, so you will first be asked to confirm whether you think the match is correct.

Confirming the match upon which the Discovery is based

If you confirm, you can then add the entire branch to your family tree in just one click!

Click "Add to my Tree" to apply the Discovery

You can also click “Reject Discovery” if you are not interested in applying it, or you now think that the match on which the Discovery is based is incorrect.

The new Discovery cards are an additional way to access Discoveries directly from your family tree. All Discoveries can be accessed from the Discovery Hub link in the main navigation of your family site.

In this initial release the yellow Discovery cards are only shown for up to 50 Discoveries in each tree, and only for Discoveries that can add a parent to an existing person in the tree. In subsequent releases, we will increase the number and include Discovery cards also in situations where they can add a spouse, sibling or child to your tree.

If you don’t like the Discovery cards, you can turn them off in the tree settings, available through the wheel menu in your family tree.

Configuring Discovery cards

Instant Discoveries are based on our matching technologies and, therefore, have an extremely high accuracy rate. Nevertheless, you should always use them with care! Do not apply them to your tree unless you trust the source of the information and its veracity. You can also contact other tree owners on MyHeritage and discuss your family connection, before making any changes to your tree.

In the coming months, we will continue to enhance your experience around Instant Discoveries, and add more features to make them better and easier to use.

Have you made any discoveries? We invite you to share with us your family discoveries at our User Success Stories site and submit your story there.

Enjoy!
MyHeritage team