MyHeritage Expands to 50 Languages

We’re excited to share that the MyHeritage website is now fully available in 50 languages, following the addition of 9 more languages. This expansion enables millions more people around the world to discover who they are and where they belong, in their native language. It will also lead to more valuable matches and discoveries for MyHeritage users worldwide as more diverse audiences join and build their family trees on the platform.

The addition of new languages is another step forward in our continued commitment to making family history accessible to as many people as possible. This commitment has made MyHeritage the world’s leading international genealogy and DNA testing service.

Here are the new languages just added to MyHeritage:

• Albanian
• Basque
• Bosnian
• Georgian
• Icelandic
• Irish
• Luxembourgish
• Maltese
• Welsh

The 50 languages

Below is the full list of all 50 languages now supported by the MyHeritage website:

Why language matters in genealogy

Family history research often depends on records, names, and places that were documented in the language spoken where people lived. Being able to navigate those details in a familiar language helps people enter information accurately into their family trees and better understand the information they are seeing.

When more people can use the platform in their own language, more family trees are created and shared. This increases the chances of discovering ancestors and relatives through matches.

This is especially important for families shaped by migration. Ancestors may have moved to different countries, spoken different languages, or left records far from where their descendants live today. When someone builds a family tree in Irish, Welsh, or one of the other newly added languages, relatives in other countries can still find and match with that tree, even if they use MyHeritage in a different language. These connections help bring together families that have been separated by distance, language, and time.

Localized websites for different languages

As part of this expansion, we’ve added new MyHeritage top-level domains for the newly supported languages, so that people likely to speak those languages are directed to the most relevant version of the site from the start.

For most users, this will feel seamless. For example, users who visit MyHeritage.com in Iceland from now on will be redirected to the myheritage.is domain and be served in Icelandic. If they want to use another language instead, they can always switch using the language picker, as explained below.

How to change the language on MyHeritage

If you wish to use MyHeritage in a different language, click the language picker on the upper right corner of any page on the website, as marked below in red:

Accessing the language picker on MyHeritage (click to zoom)

Then, click on your preferred language on the list:

Selecting a language

A word of thanks to the MyHeritage Translator Community

For two decades, MyHeritage has benefited from the dedication and efforts of a global community of volunteer translators who share our belief that genealogy should be accessible to people everywhere. Their contributions have played an important role in helping MyHeritage reach users around the world and in shaping the localized experience that millions rely on today.

We’re deeply grateful to the members of this community for their ongoing commitment and care, and for the time and effort they continue to invest in helping MyHeritage speak to people in their own language.

If you’re passionate about genealogy and languages, and feel that improvements can be made on MyHeritage in the languages that you are fluent in, we invite you to join the MyHeritage Translator Community and join our mission to make family history accessible across the globe.

Looking ahead

Expanding MyHeritage to 50 languages reflects our ongoing commitment to serving people around the world through thoughtful localization. But we’re not done yet! We plan to add more languages soon. As we continue to grow, we remain focused on making genealogy resources available to more people and supporting family history research that crosses borders, languages, and generations.

The new languages will be added to the MyHeritage mobile app in the near future. We look forward to continuing to improve and expand the MyHeritage experience for users everywhere.