MyHeritage – The Family History Guide Blog

April 28, 2024

New Goal in The Family History Guide: Artificial Intelligence

Over the past year, and especially in the past few months, artificial intelligence in genealogy has been a hot topic. RootsTech 2024 featured a number of presentations and videos on the topic, including a three-part series from James Tanner. We are excited to announce a new Goal for The Family History Guide: “Learn about artificial intelligence.” It’s included in the...

Ancestry/artificial intelligence/Learning/MyHeritage/What is new at The FHG

March 3, 2024

AI Update: Tools from MyHeritage and Ancestry

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is quickly becoming an integral part of how genealogy companies develop their tools and technologies. Two examples are MyHeritage and Ancestry, who have been in the family history business for many years. You can learn about some of their latest efforts in this article. MyHeritage MyHeritage.com has released two interesting tools: a search engine for records based...

Ancestry/artificial intelligence/MyHeritage/Technology

January 28, 2024

MyHeritage Releases AI Record Finder™ and AI Biographer™

Note: This article was published previously on the Genealogy’s Star blog site. AI Record Finder™ and AI Biographer™ are two Groundbreaking Features That Transform Genealogy Using Artificial Intelligence. If you have been following the online news about artificial intelligence or AI, you will already know that AI applications are expanding at a astronomical rate. Some of the AI features...

MyHeritage

August 20, 2023

PhotoDater™ from MyHeritage: Another Amazing Technological Advance

Note: This article was published previously on the Genealogy’s Star blog site. You can read about all the details of this amazing addition to the MyHeritage.com arsenal of photographic innovations in this blog post: “Introducing PhotoDater™, an Exclusive, Free New Feature to Estimate When Old Photos Were Taken.” Here is a quote from the blog post: If you are like most genealogists,...

Memories/MyHeritage

June 5, 2022

MyHeritage Census Helper™ Gets a Major Upgrade

Note: This article was published previously on the Genealogy’s Star blog site. MyHeritage Census Helper™ Quoting from a press release: Just before the release of the 1950 U.S. Census in April 2022, we released the Census Helper™, a tool that scans your family tree and compiles a list of your relatives who are very likely to be found in census records....

MyHeritage/Technology

May 30, 2021

Introducing Photo Repair on MyHeritage: Fix Your Scratched or Damaged Photos

Note: This article was published previously in the Genealogy’s Star blog site. Please see Introducing Photo Repair: New Feature to Automagically Fix Scratched and Damaged Photos On top of being able to Colorize, Enhance, and Animate photos, now MyHeritage has added the ability to repair some types of damaged photos. Here is an example from one of my damaged photos. You...

Memories/MyHeritage

June 21, 2020

MyHeritage’s New Photo Enhancement Feature

Once again, MyHeritage has recently announced a new feature that continues to make photographs come to life. This new feature allows people to take their old photographs of their ancestors and enhance them. Essentially, the feature ‘cleans’ the photo from static and aging in a way that makes the pictures look like they came out brand new. Combined with their...

Family History Activities/MyHeritage/Technology/Uncategorized

September 9, 2019

New: The MyHeritage App Project

You may be aware that over the past year, The Family History Guide has included Projects for three mobile apps: FamilySearch Tree, FamilySearch Memories, and Ancestry Family Tree. Now there are four, as we are just finishing a new mobile app Project for the MyHeritage App. The Project has entries in the Word Tracker and the Online Tracker so you can...

FS Partners/MyHeritage/Technology/What is new at The FHG

August 25, 2019

James Tanner at the MyHeritage Conference in Amsterdam

From September 6-8, 2019, MyHeritage will be hosting its annual user conference “MyHeritage Live!” It’s held at the Amsterdam Hilton Hotel in The Netherlands, and there will be a wide variety of classes, computer labs, and Q&A sessions across the three days. We are honored to have the Chairman of The Family History Guide Association, James Tanner, speaking at the...

MyHeritage/Uncategorized

June 30, 2019

Understanding MyHeritage’s Smart Matching™ Technology

Editor’s Note: This article was published in the Genealogy’s Star blog site by James Tanner and is used with the author’s permission. As I teach classes about MyHeritage.com, I find a lot of confusion about the differences between the website’s Smart Matching™technology and the Record Matches. Once users understand the differences, they begin to see the tremendous power in both technologies. Here...

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