Have you used my heritage to climb your family tree? If you haven't then you need
to check out my heritage and today we're going to do a newbies guide to the
website.
Howdy, I'm Devon Noel Lee with family history fanatics where we
help you understand your DNA, climb your family tree, and write your ancestors
stories along the way. Now I do not officially work for MyHeritage
i'm just a casual user of the website. So here we are at the my heritage website
you can go ahead and sign up using your Facebook page your Google account or an
email. I'm already member so I'm going to go
ahead and login, but if you need to change the language on MyHeritage you
can change it here and look at all those choices you have available to you.
Before we begin diving into the website I want to know if you are subscriber to
that platform? If you are write subscribe and if you are not tell us you're not
subscribing and whether you're considering the platform? So now that
we've logged in my heritage wants you to choose which family tree website you
want to investigate. The one up here is the one that I created and the other
threes are the ones I have been invited to collaborate on so I'm actually going
to go to my tree. Now right before filming this video my heritage changed
their homepage of your retreat and I love it love it. Okay so let's go ahead
and start exploring what you see here. The first thing you see right here is the
person discovery tab and when you click on that goes to recommendations
from my heritage where they have found some trees. This tree is managed by W
Long from the United States. So you can go ahead and say yes that matches I like
it and I'm gonna add 12 new people to my tree. But do you have any idea if this is
a good tree or not? I can't figure out how to click on here to
evaluate it so I wouldn't use this sorry guy who's at my heritage I know you guys
really try hard but I don't like that feature. Over here on the right you
can start searching for your family. So let's look for George Geisler I like
this, but I really would move this search over here if I was designing the page.
But here I can go ahead and start my search and I can see there's a lot of
George Geiszler and I can start filtering my search down there. How to
filter on MyHeritage is a topic for another video in the future the next
part on this home page is your recent activity. And you can see that on
December 21st I went ahead and confirmed a record match for Thomas Kramer and I
did a lot of research. Now personally I think this little too long, but I guess
if you just want to know what you've been working on and jump right back in
that's kind of handy. The next thing that we have to pay attention to is this
sidebar over here I kind of like this this is this is kind of handy so we can
click on people and what I would like it to do is go to a list of people in my
trees so I can jump to my family tree, let's see what happens. So it takes me to
the MyHeritage view of the tree I can zoom out and see certain parts of the
tree I can jump to the profile edit page. So the next one I do I do like this
I like the photos and I can see the gallery of pictures that I have added.
The next thing I can do is go to discoveries, now this one's a little bit
different from this discovery in the middle because this discovery page is
for all of the different ways that you can have instant discoveries and
instantly expand your trees based on some other trees that are on my heritage.
You can click view discovery but again were brought back to this
page where we can't really evaluate somebody's tree. In order to do that we
need to hover over the person's name and then we can see the information people
have added about that. And then finally you get to your DNA kits now I thought
it would take me to a list of the kits I managed because it has that number 8 on
it right here I managed eight kits instead it just came and took me to my
DNA results page and if we scroll up a little bit we'll see some of the
ethnicity. Now on my heritage my ethnicity group is a little different it
seemed that ancestry is the only one that figured out I'm German so I have
this huge percentage of Scandinavian which makes one of our viewers very
happy to see so much Scandinavian because I have a small smidge of a
Swedish ancestors that she's trying to figure it out for me. But this
percentage is just a little high so anyway I digress. So now let's go ahead
and go over some other parts of the my heritage website. If you want to get to
your smart matches. Now smart matches our individual matches of other MyHeritage
trees with people in them to your tree with the people in them instant
discoveries is. Oh look, I found this one likely match and there's 12 other
people in this person's tree I think you should check it out and we'll add them
instantly. With the smart matches you're just gonna match one person at a time so
if you want to do tree matching I'm going to recommend you do smart matches.
So the other icons you have up here this one takes you to record matching and for
genealogist this is the one you like because these are basically your hints.
There are hints to the Geni World Family Tree. So you're gonna not only
just match membered trees on my heritage but it also links to the
Family tree, to the Wiki tree, and to the Family Search tree. So these are lots of
trees that you're trying to connect all over the internet but then you have your
two records so this is a Canadian burial record your death records and you
can go ahead and click on those and explore. Hey look, they found a record for
Carrie O Comfort in my tree she's Carrie Octavia married named Lymburmner,
but she's born comfort. So that's a unique way that my heritage tries to
give you the naming structure. The other icon up here takes you to your DNA
matches rather than your ethnicity estimate and we can go and explore these
matches again this is a newbies guide to the website so that you can find things
you haven't explored before. So in home you can go to family events.
Now MyHeritage is kind of a social platform concept and that you can work
with other family members and celebrate events and plan them and share
the information here. If you want to do that this is one thing you might not
have a sound that's really cool is the family statistics click on that well
zoom in a little bit, so you can see some more information here make that go away.
So of the 346 people that I have in this tree on my heritage it shows me the
gender make up the living versus deceased, the relationship status, there's
a hundred and eighty-six that are married a hundred and forty-six that are single.
They're not necessarily single I might not have found their spouses yet but
currently they're single in my tree. I really like common first names so
I have put a lot of Browns in this tree so that's common Townley there's a lot
of Townly in this tree sparks and Townsend. Common first male names in
common first female names it's kind of fun. But next you got to go
to the next page this really is fun guys you can see places of her birth most of
the people I have in my tree are from the USA. did you have one little
Switzerland and one little Swedish person and I have 37 Germans so going
back to the ethnicity is German really Scandinavia we have a video that people
fight about um Finland being part of Scandinavia I wonder what people would
say about journey and so then you just keep going down and you see places of
death places of residence you next can see age distribution now the ninety plus
there are some people who the oldest living Carson Henry but he's listed as a
hundred and eleven years old I think I might need to go make some Corrections
especially since Beatrice mark Muriel is 120 years so it's nice to come here
because this is kind of an analyzer of your information and then when you get
it correct then you can see some fun facts to live the least who lived the
most average life expectancy it's 66 years oh I hope I hope I can outlive the
average and just go ahead and explore they even have one about your zodiac
signs how many of the zodiacs do you have in your tree so if you're into that
kind of thing let me know and if you want to tell me your zodiac sign go
ahead and drop that in the comments section so that's kind of fun and you
get that from the family statistics you can invite family members to participate
in your tree and then you can see some other site members I'm gonna skip that
for now my family tree goes back to that that pedigree view of your tree the
photos goes back to the gallery you can upload a gedcom and start a new tree on
family search and then here's when you can manage your trees on managing your
trees you can edit the tree settings you can download a gedcom
and you can export it to other locations as well did you know there's more on the
family tree part are pretty cool tools they're kind of
hidden and you want to go explore them the first one is the pedigree map and it
takes it a little while to load but we're gonna go ahead and explore it now
you have to hover over the bar and click more and then click the map so be
careful with your clicking so my heritage is going to go through your
tree and see how many people appear in the different locations so you have to
click on the locations to start adding them to the tree alright so there's your
plus and minus to zoom in I've added Ohio to the tree I mean to the map now I
can go add Canada and I have to zoom out again so there are my Canadians and
there's my Ohio clan there was a little bit of migration down here not a ton but
that's really cool that you can see where your ancestors are from now we can
look at the consistency checker on it the consistency checker I can see some
problems in my tree so the first one I have an unlined clay bob was born about
1863 but this is after the death of her mother I have a problem in my tree that
I need to go try to investigate so you're gonna see data errors child born
after death of parents errors you're gonna have a live but too old girl was
is not marked as deceased and is a hundred and fifteen years old
so that means I'm lacking a death date for this individual or I need to mark
her as deceased and I can do that from this field right here now let's say you
have somebody in your tree and you want to figure out how you're related to them
so you can put the source individual we could pick me and then I can type in any
name let's see if I have a Samuel Jefferson Ross I can display my
relationship and it shows that Samuel Ross married a great aunt and then I can
come down my tree so that's kind of a cool way to see how you relate it to
different people you just type in their names they have to be in your tree in
order for this to work and then you have sources and in this do you used to see
all the sources that you have attached to your tree and then you can go and
review those and then from that source you can see who it was attached to
now finally it's a lot of things under the Mott the family tree I climb that
our menu option that I'm sure that you haven't explored now the backup service
this is a new technology by my heritage it's the tree vault and you can pay
additionally for this service and it will be a backup to the information you
put in the tree so again these are the discoveries and I am just gonna skip
over this then you have your menu for DNA um we're gonna expend too much time
on that but that's where you're gonna go for DNA if you've subscribed for the
health part you can go here and then finally way over here is when you can do
your research you can search all records or you could go to the card catalog and
see what my heritage has for newspapers and you can drill down to US newspapers
and so on and so forth or you can go to a search form that's just gonna look for
birth marriage and death information one more thing that I want to call your
attention to is if you need to change my heritage to a different language again
here's a second opportunity to do that there but there's the Help Center in the
Help Center it gives you a portal to all the different
so resources you may need in order to work on your account and your
subscription information you also have a knowledgebase Center and I really think
they should rename it to their my heritage education center this is where
they're going to have lots of articles and webinars on how to use their
services now what's also great is a lot of this training will be in your native
language so those of you who watch from Brazil or from France or the other
languages that I showed you earlier a lot of this training is starting to
become available in your own native language how cool is that so there you
have it that's a brief overview of the my heritage website if you have specific
questions on how to do my heritage go ahead and let me know to find more
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