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Originally Posted by b29510
i didnt like "my hertiage," I know its all about money, but they start blocking early on without payment
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You don't like specifically what about them?
Specifically, what are they blocking?
Are you talking about them for trees and information or DNA? Since this is a DNA thread, I assume that's what you're talking about.
They allow us to upload our DNA and as many kits as we want to our tree. I currently have one tree on a free account, I have uploaded my DNA, my 2 kids, their two grandmothers, my fathers brother, my first cousin and my two grand kids to my one tree. I have full DNA tools because I uploaded all but two before their cut off date in 2018, then I reuploaded the last two kits during this free full tools week.
Before reuploading, my two kits only showed direct DNA matches and on the main landing page, I could see how many matches I had in each country, I was also able to click on them to see them. If I wanted ethnicity, being able to see shared matches, their trees and common surnames, along with the "advanced DNA tools" they wanted $29 to unlock it which was not unreasonable. FTDNA does the same, except they charge $19, but they do not have all of the features My Heritage has.
My Heritage is a gold mine for people like me who's parents were immigrants, to be able to see DNA matches all over the country.
With a free account, they only allow 250 people per family tree. You also can not see record sources just like at ancestry.
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Originally Posted by SUPbud
Same lesson as Facebook folks -
if you're not paying for it, you're not the customer.
You are the product for sale.
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They are not selling "us', they are using our free, uploaded DNA to be able to match other people and grow their database.
With Ancestry DNA costing $59 on sale and 23 and me $150 on sale, uploading free and paying $29 to unlock is a great deal.
I personally do not care they're using my uploads to increase the size of their database. I've been with them from day one. I am also part of their founders project, so my DNA is part of their founding ethnic DNA database.
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