MyHeritage

MyHeritage is a family-oriented social network service and genealogy website. It allows members to create their own family websites, share pictures and videos, organize family events, create family trees, and search for ancestors. With over 50 million users, MyHeritage is one of the largest sites in the social networking and genealogy field. In 2003, CEO Gilad Japhet and a team of genealogy enthusiasts founded MyHeritage in Japhet's living room in the small town of Bnei Atarot , just outside Tel Aviv , Israel . Within six years, the company had grown to its current size as a community of 50 million members with 320 million online profiles. There are 6 million family trees on the site, and the site is accessible in 35 languages. This makes MyHeritage the second-largest genealogy company in the world. In 2008, the company raised $15 million, when venture capital firm Index Ventures joined Accel, which had invested earlier in the company. In 2008, MyHeritage acquired Kindo, another family social network site that was popular in Europe. In 2010 MyHeritage acquired the Germany Online Social Networking GmbH (OSN) who has genealogy web sites in ten different languages, which are represented in over 15 countries. OSN started in June 2007 with the project verwandt.de and was able to grow within two years to over 10 million trees with over 100 million profiles. With this new acquisition, MyHeritage grew in size and added a number of new features. "We are now a family of 30 million" . myheritage ltd .

Original MyHeritage office in the village of Bnei Atarot, Israel MyHeritage headquarters in Or Yehuda, Israel MyHeritage is a website for discovering, sharing and preserving family history. It offers online, mobile and software platforms to its users worldwide. Users can create their own online family tree, search for ancestors in billions of historical records, share and preserve photos and videos while they discover and connect to new relatives. In 2003, CEO Gilad Japhet founded MyHeritage in his living room in the moshav of Bnei Atarot , just outside Tel Aviv , Israel . Gilad started the company as a result of not finding a tool that satisfied his own genealogy needs. With 42 languages, 80 million users, 1.6 billion profiles and 28 million family trees, MyHeritage is a popular destination for family history research. In February 2012, the company moved its headquarters to new offices in Or Yehuda, Israel, near Tel Aviv. Additional offices in Tel Aviv, Israel were opened in December 2014.

MyHeritage is an online genealogy platform with web, mobile, and software products and services that was first developed and popularized by the Israeli company MyHeritage in 2003. Users of the platform can create family trees , upload and browse through photos, and search through over 9 billion historical records , among other features. As of 2018, the service supports 42 languages and has around 92 million users worldwide. In 2016, it launched a genetic testing service called MyHeritage DNA. In January 2017 it was reported that MyHeritage has 35 million family trees on its website. The company is headquartered in Or Yehuda, Israel with additional offices in Tel Aviv, Israel , Lehi, Utah , Kiev, Ukraine, and Burbank, California . The Wall Street Journal . The Times of Israel .

Online genealogy platform MyHeritage is an online genealogy platform with web, mobile, and software products and services, introduced by the Israeli company MyHeritage in 2003. Users of the platform can obtain their family trees , upload and browse through photos, and search through over 19.4 billion historical records , among other features. As of 2023, the service supports 42 languages. In 2016, it launched a genetic testing service called MyHeritage DNA, with more than 6.5 million DNA kits in the company's database by March 2023. The company is headquartered in Or Yehuda, Israel , with additional offices in Tel Aviv, Israel , Lehi, Utah , Kyiv, Ukraine , and Burbank, California . The Wall Street Journal . The Times of Israel .