19 Dec 2023 My Heritage Newsletter : Exclusive German historical records added, introducing the MyHeritage Wiki, and more

We recently published the Germany, North Rhine Westphalia Marriages, 1874-1899 collection. Comprising 4 million records, this collection includes excellent scanned images of the original records. It is exclusive to MyHeritage and cannot be found on any other commercial site.

We are excited to announce the launch of the MyHeritage Wiki: the new, community-led online encyclopedia for genealogy and DNA. The new wiki is hosted on MyHeritage, but its scope is very broad and goes far beyond the specifics of the MyHeritage service. We invite you to explore the wiki and use it to further your knowledge of genealogy and DNA.

In November 2023 we published 36 historical record collections from the U.S., the U.K., Australia, France, Germany, Sweden, Belgium, the Channel Islands, Scotland, and Switzerland. The records include obituaries, marriages, court records, deaths, tax registrations, births, census registers, and emigration records.

In this webinar hosted by Legacy Family Tree Webinars and presented by Uri Gonen, SVP of Product Management at MyHeritage, you’ll get a masterful overview of the latest updates to the online family tree on MyHeritage. Gain clearer and better insight into the family tree tools and get inspired to dig more deeply into your family history research.

As we approach the holiday season, it’s fascinating to look back at how the tradition of gift-giving has evolved over the years. The MyHeritage Research team has delved into a century’s worth of holiday ads in our vast collection of nearly 20 billion historical records to reveal some startling differences in the kinds of presents that were popular back then — especially for women.

MyHeritage user Kate Valerio always felt a little out of place, and she grew up wondering why: why did she look so different from her 9 blond, blue-eyed siblings? Why had she, a native Portuguese living in Luxembourg, been so drawn to Egyptian culture all her life? Watch part one of Kate’s incredible story.

Reta Michael, 80, from England, had always been aware that her biological father was a Canadian airman, but apart from his name and where he had served in the U.K., she knew nothing — until her husband and her son offered her a DNA kit for Christmas. That gift changed her life.