MyHeritage – The Family History Guide Blog

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

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...

MyHeritage/Records/Technology

March 30, 2019

My RootsTech Experience, by James Tanner

My RootsTech 2019 Experience Editor’s Note: This article was originally published on the Genealogy’s Star blog site and is reprinted here with the author’s permission. https://www.rootstech.org/ I am fairly certain that my RootsTech 2019 experience was far different than nearly everyone else attending the Conference. I have been attending the RootsTech Conferences since the very first one in 2011 except...

RootsTech/What is new at The FHG

September 24, 2018

The Family History Guide: A Comparative Look

People sometimes ask us, “What’s the difference between The Family History Guide and FamilySearch (or Ancestry, or MyHeritage, etc.)?” The short answer: we are a learning and resource system. But there’s more to the picture … our success depends in part on on the success of other family history and genealogy companies. You could say that we’re into “co-opetition” rather...

Ancestry/FamilySearch/Learning

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