To access the profile of an individual from the family tree, visit your tree and click the name of the person you wish to research. This opens the left panel of the tree. In the left panel, click the “Profile” icon, marked below in red.
If you find a profile of interest while searching in MyHeritage’s search engine for historical records, the record page will have a link to view the profile page in the originating family tree at the bottom of the record page.
The profile page is implemented as multiple tabs. Any time you see a number next to a tab, it indicates the presence of information; in other words, it shows you at a glance that this tab contains useful information.
The top section of the page remains the same regardless of which tab you are on. It shows the vital information about the person, and provides several useful buttons to research them further, view them in one of the family tree views, and edit their profile.
Many buttons are displayed at the top of this section:
“Research this person” searches for this person in MyHeritage’s historical record search engine.
“View in tree” opens the default view of your family tree, showing this person in the tree.
“Edit profile” opens a popup window where you can quickly edit vital details about the person.
The three-dots icon opens the “More” menu with more actions for managing the person’s profile. These include all the actions that until now were only possible in the left panel of the family tree.
Details tab
The Details tab displays the person’s main life events, under the section labeled “Facts”. These life events include birth, marriage, birth of children, immigration, residence, and more. Click the “Add” button to add more facts to the profile. Click any row to edit the information that appears there, or click the name of any relative on the page to visit their profile.
If you prefer not to see the life events of the person’s children, click the filter icon and uncheck the box (marked below in red).
Any historical records you’ve saved about a person appear on the right-hand side (marked below in red). These can be confirmed Record Matches, or records that you previously found on MyHeritage’s historical record search engine and saved to your tree. These are the sources for the information that appears in the person’s profile.
Hints for the displayed facts
Hints rely on the same matching technology you know from Smart Matches™ and Record Matches, but package it in a new way that focuses on the new information that you don’t have, for the individual whose profile you are now viewing. Hints surface the matches that are available to you and can enrich your tree in three very important ways: by adding more complete life events, more complete details for life events already listed in the tree, such as a birthplace or birth date, or revealing new relatives.
In the example below, you can see the Hint showing that MyHeritage has found a more complete burial place, marked in red.
Click any Hint to review it. This opens the Hint panel on the right-hand side of the page. The information is highlighted on the panel which also shows the sources that Hint is based on. Scroll down the panel to see a side-by-side comparison of the information in your family tree and the information from the matching family tree or historical record.
If you prefer to see only certain types of Hints, or to turn off Hints altogether, you can do so by clicking the three dots icon at the top of the page, and then clicking “Settings” to open the Settings panel.
Once you’ve selected your preferences, click “Apply”. Any changes you make from the Settings panel will also change the settings in your family tree.
For further details about the profile page, please visit this comprehensive blog post