My Heritage - "A Scam" ? (cont)

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My Heritage - "A Scam" ? (cont)

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A more up to date evaluation of the MyHeritage software and its organisation can be seen here at this site : https://www.facebook.com/MyheritageFamilyTreeComplaints

If that doesnt scare you off from using it and revealing your entire family history to them then I suppose nothing ever will.
Fortunately I had a serious software glitch when I used them initially and had only managed to build a 'tree' of 4 or 5 people before deleting it from my PC. Unfortunately I didn't then know as much as I do now and made a very basic mistake in its construction which I now cannot rectify unless I pay them, and for which I apparently have to endure a lifelong stream of e-mail "matches" that, if it were not so seriously incestuous in its telling would be hysterical ?

In this case "You pays no money and makes your choice" (but it seems you WILL pay later SOMEHOW?)
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Re: "My Heritage" - A Scam ? (cont)

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It certainly seems to have it's fair share of complaints, rather more excessive than even Genesreunited used to have.

To add to this, I am a user of Family Historian software and this now gives hints to online matches - to this very site. Noticing a couple of numbers against my father's name when I clicked on it, one led to the death indexes of course, but the other led to a family page that included my mother, myself and my brother!

To be fair to My Heritage when I contacted them about these entries they were fairly quick to have them removed as I didn't have a membership to contact the owner of the tree.
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