“Why Should I Use MyHeritage?” Here’s Why . . . and Why Not

I saw the link to this article in my Twitter feed, and was curious, because I have assiduously avoided MyHeritage ever since they nicked my data without telling me they were doing so, and then wanted to charge me for accessing it.

“Why Should I Use MyHeritage?” Here’s Why . . .GeneaBloggers

and here's why not...

MyHeritage.com — another scam site? | Hayes & Greene family history

You pays your money and you takes your pick.

But the emphasis is on you pays your money.

MyHeritage/FamilySearch Partnership Announcement

FamilySearch and MyHeritage have recently announced a partnership, which I find not a little worrying.

MyHeritage/FamilySearch Partnership Announcement—Frequently Asked Questions:  

We recently announced a joint agreement to begin a multi-year effort whereby FamilySearch will share select historic records collections with MyHeritage, and MyHeritage will provide cutting-edge technologies to FamilySearch that will help people find their ancestors more easily. This combined with MyHeritage’s support for 40 languages will enable wider access to data and records to more users worldwide.

Past experience of such partnerships with MyHeritage has not been very good. A few years ago MyHeritage took over data I had entered in GenCircles, and then demanded that I pay to access it -- details here MyHeritage.com — another scam site? | Hayes & Greene family history. More recently I have been contributing data to FamilySearch, and now it seems likely that something similar may happen there. I don't think I will be contributing any more data to FamilySearch.