MyHeritage's Smart Matching technology constantly compares new family trees to the database of more than 800 million profiles on MyHeritage.com, to find matches and discover long lost family connections. Now, members can work together to easily merge the information in their overlapping trees thr Read more...

If you are working online in a family site, make any change to your family tree. This should send a request to process Smart Matches on your tree. If you are working in Family Tree Builder, then every time you publish your family tree, a request to process Smart Matches on your tree is sent to ou Read more...

Smart Matching is a specialized genealogy technology developed by Pearl Street Software and further advanced by MyHeritage, to connect family trees. It works by comparing millions of names, facts and connections intelligently. When two family trees are connected, both their owners are informed, a Read more...

In order to contact someone from another family site regarding a Smart Match™, use the Contact Site Manager link. You can find this link at the top of a particular Smart Match™ when you are looking at a specific match. Please note that this is a Premium feature. Read more...

Copying information from an online Smart Match™ is a Premium feature for Premium and PremiumPlus users only. To copy information from a match that you received on your site, just go to the match, and click on ‘Review match’. There you will see the option to ‘Copy and Edit details’. You can Read more...

If you no longer wish to see Smart Matches™ for a tree that you are being matched with, go to Family Tree > Smart Matches™. Sort the matches ‘By family trees’ (this is the default setting). View the matches that you have with a specific site. Next to each person's name, you will see the 'Review m Read more...

When confirming a smart match in Family Tree Builder, you can choose to mark the source of this individual as coming from a Smart Match. If you publish a tree with a Smart Match source citation, then you can see this source under the Family Tree > Sources tab. It will also be shown under Read more...

To change the Smart Match™ settings for your tree on your family site, go to Family Tree > Smart Matches™. Sort the matches ‘By family trees’ (this is the default setting). Next to each of your tree names, you will see the setting option, which will take you to the Smart Match™ settings for th Read more...

Unfortunately, Smart Matches™ are not fully synchronized yet between the Family Tree Builder software, and the family site. Even if you are using Family Tree Builder, you are encouraged to use the new Enhanced Smart Matching™ on your family site, and enter new information you learn using Family Tree Read more...

Receiving Smart Matches™, viewing them and comparing trees side by side are free for all users. The following features are available only to Premium and PremiumPlus sites: Expedited matching, the Consensus Page, confirming and rejecting matches, initiating contact with other tree owners, merging Read more...

If you no longer wish to see Smart Matches™ for a specific person in your tree, sort your matches by people, select the person, and click on ‘View matches’. You will reach the consensus page for all of the matches for that individual. On the list of all the matches is the ‘Reject all’ option: Read more...

The improvements released recently in Smart Matches™ include a complete overhaul of the presentation of Smart Matches™, and new premium features for organizing and reviewing matches more efficiently. The new Consensus Page (view example screenshot here) aggregates data from all Smart Matches™ - p Read more...

In our newly released Enhanced Smart Matches, we now show you ALL of your matches, the high quality matches and the lower quality ones. The list is sorted by quality, so you'll see the best Matches first, but we also show you the other matches below, so that no information will be hidden, and all Read more...

Copying photos through an online Smart Match™ is a Premium feature that is now available. If you do not wish that photos from your site will be copied through SmartMatches™, for a specific tree, please change the settings for Smart Matching™ for that tree. Go to Family Tree > Manage Trees. Next t Read more...

The new Consensus Page (view example screenshot here) aggregates data from all Smart Matches™ - presenting the big picture for each person. The Consensus lets you skip doing many one-on-one comparisons with individual family trees, and fill in missing information about relatives more quickly and wit Read more...

There is now a Smart Match™ panel on your homepage, to let you know of any new matches that are awaiting your review. Just click on the review matches link to be taken directly to your matches. Pending matches are matches that you have not yet confirmed or rejected. New matches are matches tha Read more...