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What are the "MyHeritage collections" found in the MyHeritage Search Engine?

Updated over 5 months ago

MyHeritage Search Engine includes over 30 billion genealogy records such as birth, marriage, death, burial, census, military, immigration, yearbooks, and other types of records, plus scans of the original documents.


It also includes MyHeritage family trees, photos, and members that are public – altogether more than one billion exclusive records from all over the world that in most cases can only be found on MyHeritage.


A collection is a group of records in the MyHeritage Search Engine. For example, BillionGraves is a collection, MyHeritage family trees is a collection.


The "MyHeritage collections" include the following ones:


MyHeritage family sites - includes family sites created by members of MyHeritage.


MyHeritage members - includes profiles of MyHeritage members


MyHeritage family trees - includes family trees submitted by MyHeritage members.


MyHeritage photos - includes public photos, videos, and documents posted by MyHeritage members on their family sites.


Some records in the MyHeritage Search Engine are free (e.g. BillionGraves, Social Security Death Index), however, to access all the collections, a Data subscription is required.


A Data subscription is different from a family site subscription. A data subscription gives you full access to all collections in the MyHeritage Search Engine, an opportunity to confirm and reject Record Matches, save records and extract info from records.


Please note:



If you have a ​​​​​​Premium family site subscription, you can access two of the four "MyHeritage collections": MyHeritage family sites and MyHeritage members.


If you have a PremiumPlus family site subscription you can access all four of the "MyHeritage collections": MyHeritage family sites, MyHeritage members, MyHeritage family trees, and MyHeritage photos.

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