The genealogists among you have probably heard about DNA research. Genetics is a fascinating field of biology and its technical advances can help you to find out more about your family history.

Therefore we have now teamed up with FamilyTreeDNA, the company that has pioneered DNA-based family research almost a decade ago. By now they are the most popular DNA testing service and as a MyHeritage user you'll get an amazing deal on some of their products.

Through MyHeritage you will save $60 on the mtDNAplus package. We offer you three of their products, all with a nice discount and starting from as little as $129, including the testing kit that you will receive ahead and the results and certificate after the analysis.

Some of the tests will give you details about your ethnic and geographic origin. Or they can help you to find out if you are really related to someone of the same name from another country. Especially if there are no written records. So it's the perfect supplement for your family tree on MyHeritage.

A DNA test can help you to recreate missing family links. And by the way:

We've just released the new version of our popular genealogy software "Family Tree Builder" (it has been downloaded more than 4 Million times so far). It now includes amazing new features, like "Smart Match Merge": the merging from data between trees with Smart Matches. Or the automatic research of all the people in your tree.

And the publishing features are greatly extended: You can now also upload all your family videos and documents and publish them on your MyHeritage family site.
The newly released advanced features now require a Premium family site, but everything else in Family Tree Builder continues to be completely free.

Enhanced Publishing: Bring your family tree to life with photos, videos, audio files and your family research documents! (click to enlarge)

The expert users among you can read a more detailed account of what's new from Schelly on our genealogy blog.

This is the full text of the press release (you can also find it on PR Web):