Great for close matches with trees.

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I could not agree more with Jo Swearingen. All seven of my hints are correct, and what’s more, three of them manage to get around serious errors — not just gaps — in my match’s pedigrees. On the other hand, the competitor’s tool appears to have been rushed into release without adequate testing. It gives me no matches whatsoever, even though according to the documentation, it should show more than 40 DNA+pedigree matches that can already be found using existing features on the site!
I too am very impressed with this feature. I now know that I am certainly related to Mary [Private]. She is my fifth cousin once removed though a common ancestor.
Thanks to the new feature we just found out that my grandmother’s best friend was actually her 2nd cousin, 2x removed! So exciting!
I too am amazed at your company’s rapid, very advanced and seamless approach to matching such valuable information to a still new and progressing science! Keep up the good work, you continue to surprise your customers with your ever advancing tools!
I find the TOFR very helpful, even with an error in someone else’s tree.
Very interesting.
Hope to see some brick walls come down
This is going to be a game changer! Especially if you add the enhancements mentioned in the article. Because as you know manually copying information can lead to errors. Removing this risk by having an option to electronically send the information from one family tree to the other family tree. The suggestion to recognize information from Geni and FamilySearch as smart matches rather than records is a brilliant suggestion. I feel that too must trust is placed on “records” as being absolutely correct. Which is definitely not the case when taking information from these sites. Definitely helpful for many users. In closing, thank you, thank you, thank you!
I am really excited to try this put. I have seen the competitors and was thinking of how MyHeritage was superior!
I also tried the auto clusters last week and was amazed at how those work.
Kudos to the teams involved in creating these incredible new features!
Very exciting and very clever.
Wow! The most exciting advance imagined!
I love it.
This will be an awesome new tool!
Interesting.
Thank you for your on going research to make exciting break through technology work. This can save hundreds of hours of work, plus all the time I spent on expanding my tree more rewarding. Now if we could just fill in the NPE gap, or maybe a color for suspected NPE event.
I am looking forward to finding out more about my DNA family tree….not about the family by marriage to my uncle’s wife.
This sounds very interesting as I have a number of 3rd to 5th DNA Cousins that I have not been able to connect with Russell Addison in Australia.
I will combine Heritage with my Ancestry membership.
I like new feature but will have to study it more.
Such good news! I am looking forward to ssving hours off searching.
Yes, I have done my DNA testing.
excited to try it
So proud of everyone at Heritage excellent news that I am sure took a lot of hard work and a lot of passion am looking forward in using your new technology keep up the good work
Sounds great!
Thank you for this information as it is really hard to put together the pieces when I dont know either my dad nor any information about him nor any about my Mum’s dad so we are at a loss quite a bit to fill in the pieces, but havent given up Hope and this adds to that.
How do I bring my Ancestry DNA results to your program?
How wonderfully amazing
You’ve certainly explained a lot here. As Emperor Franz Joseph of Austria said to Mozart when Mozart was describing his new opera (“The Marriage of Figaro”) “Too many notes.” A lot of description of what to do but with no direct experience. It will certainly take a while to figure out what to do in order to figure out how it works.
this is great.I will think about it
Hi Team
You are all brilliant!!!
Just a quick question, how do I upload my DNA results please?
Kind regards
Rosemary CreightonThis looks amazing. It will surely increase the chances of my finding a relative from my mother’s (1936 Jewish orphaned refugee from Lithuania) side of the family. Well done MyHeritage.
I am very excited about this new and look forward to using. Thank you.
Once I figure all this out, I”m sure I’ll be thrilled!! Sounds as though this site is becoming more authentic. I have some questionable relatives from “back in the day” that I’ll watch to see if they are who they say they are.
Um belo e perigoso jogo!
I’m excited by this new feature and hope to see it’s benefits in the future.
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Just started experimenting with the new tools and its interesting.
ShaneVery very excited by this new feature! I am trying to assess how this can help me in solving other mysteries within my tree. For me I have already matched 15 of the 17 theories presented for myself. I found of one connection that one option was more valid that the others presented. On my adopted mother-in-law’s DNA, I did not have her tree filled out as I current knew it (I had no one listed beyond her); so other than my wife’s connection to her, I understandably could Not solve the other 9 people’s theories. I have since placed what ancestors I know for her in my tree and hope MyHeritage is constantly running this utility to embrace my newly updated tree!?
I had my DNA done by Ancestry and after reading all about Theory of Family Relativity, I wish that I had chosen My Heritage. Now, from what I understand, I can upload my DNA results from Ancestry, but do not know how to do so. Do I forward my results to your Email. I plan to buy my Premium Membership, sometimes next month, when time becomes more available, this year.
Thanks for sending me emails, I do appreciate that my Family Tree was acknowledged despite not having Membership.C est un excellent site de partage et de point de vues sur l histoire généalogique de nos origines
I found this awesome. Would like to know how to get more.
Love this new feature. Now, this will be at least as helpful as Thru Lines in Ancestry.com.
Good work!When I started my tree with MyHeritage, I also started trees on several other sites. I ended up concentrating on my tree with MyHeritage because I found it to be the most user friendly site. I don’t do much on my tree with Wikitree because they would not allow me to transfer my whole tree from MyHeritage, as it was too large.
I have no confidence in information with Family Search because I have found a multitude of errors in other trees on that site. Many of the people working on Family Search trees appear to “force square pegs into round holes”…they don’t thoroughly vet information before posting it to their trees on that site. In one instance, my ex-husband’s grandmother, Velma Schultz (born Bebb), who preferred to be called “Vicki” because she didn’t like the name Velma, was listed under both names, as two individuals within the Harvey Carl Bebb family. Another incident, which I noticed several years ago, within the same family, was the erroneous listing of life events for a generation of Bebb family members as occurring in Overland Park or Overland Township, in Johnson and Morris Counties (respectively) in Kansas when the incidents actually occurred in Oberlin, Decatur County, Kansas. Some of the errors have been corrected since I originally ran across them. I posted a message to let the person responsible for that tree to check the accuracy of their information. Obviously, the person who originally entered the information did not check the census records as the family was living for years in Oberlin. I believe the information was originally obtained by word of mouth from other (maybe older) family members, and Oberlin was mistakenly heard as Overland and was mixed between Township and Park in a haphazard fashion. Both of these incidents could have been prevented if the researcher had just used some common-sense and checked the census records. The one incident that really infuriated me, though, was when several people took it upon themselves to completely change the family of my G-Great Grandmother, Philomène Caillé (born Langlois LaChapelle), from her siblings to her parents, which nullified her entire ancestry. I traced her entire pedigree through the Programme de recherche en démographie historique (PRDH) at the University of Montréal. The data base is one of the best for tracing French Canadian ancestry. I came close to deleting my family tree on Family Search because of the “hijacking” of Philomène’s family and ultimate pedigree, but I changed my mind. Instead, I plan to change all the entries back to my original and CORRECT information. If it happens again, my tree WILL cease to exist on Family Search.
In conclusion, I want to say that I never take anything into my tree from other trees without verifying the information first…ESPECIALLY FROM FAMILY SEARCH because I don’t trust other researchers’ commitment to accuracy.Your records consistently misspell my father’s mother’s name. It is Mildred Ester Eggleston Reafs. I would very much appreciate this correction and it might–just might– help my familial search.
I have had several ‘theories’ sent to me and the majority were wrong, for example two individuals supposed to be the same person were born years apart in different locations obviously with different parents.
However, one which was correct introduced me to a previously unknown ‘cousin’.
This new dna thing is brilliant
This was a very interesting article and explained the theory of family relativity well. Now I look forward to using this theory to find more information about my family. Thank you for adding this feature to my heritage.
Jo Swearingen
February 28, 2019
I’m blown away with this new functionality. Its superiority to the competitor’s tool was evident the first day I compared them. Exciting stuff!