Accounts
What is my MyHeritage Account?
At MyHeritage, your account is your personal gateway to our platform. It's created with the email address you used when you registered.
Your account includes:
Your login credentials (email, password and account number)
Your billing information
Access to create and manage all your family sites
Privacy settings and preferences
Your account can contain multiple family sites, and each site can host one or more family trees - creating a structured hierarchy for organizing your genealogical research:
Family Sites
What is a Family Site?
A family site is your dedicated space for exploring and preserving your family's history. You need a family site to have a family tree.
In addition, if you have a DNA kit, that kit needs to be assigned to a person's card in a family tree.
If you delete the tree to which the DNA kit is assigned, the DNA results will no longer be tied to a person and the kit will appear as "unassigned". That is why we recommend you keep the activation cards on which you wrote down who tested this DNA kit. Should you by accident delete a tree or even just the person's card to which the DNA kit was assigned, this will allow you to assign that kit again to the right person after creating a new tree or person's card (for the testee).
With a family site you can:
Manage multiple family trees
Invite members to view or edit your family tree
Access specific features based on each site's subscription level
Why would I need multiple family sites?
Multiple family sites are useful when you want to:
Research completely separate family lines with different privacy needs
Maintain different subscription levels for different research projects
Collaborate with different groups of people on separate research interests
Family Trees
What is a family tree?
A family tree is the actual genealogical chart showing relationships between individuals. Within each family site, you can create multiple trees to organize your research in different ways.
Why would I need multiple family trees in one family site?
Multiple trees are helpful when you want to:
Separate maternal and paternal lines
Create hypothesis trees to test different theories
Build separate trees for different branches of extended family
Maintain a simplified tree for sharing while keeping a detailed research tree
Key Takeaways
Account: Your personal hub with login and billing.
Family Site: A site for your family history, can have multiple family sites under one account.
Family Tree: A visual representation of your ancestry, can have multiple trees under one family site.