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MyHeritage.com

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MyHeritage.com is a family social network. The site offers a private home on the web for exploring family history and keeping in touch. It allows users to create their own family website, share pictures and videos, organize family events, create family trees and discover ancestors and long-lost relatives.

The MyHeritage system contained 58 million members and more than 792 million online profiles as of August 2011. There are also more than 19 million family trees and 120 million photos on the site, and the site is accessible in 38 languages.

Family trees can also be visualized and compared to one another to find overlaps. The service includes face recognition technology to tag photos automatically based on who appears in them.

Competitors include Geni , Ancestry.com

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  MyHeritage.com added Mario F. Ruckh as Director of Marketing.
  Posted 6/1/09 at 10:53pm
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  MyHeritage.com added Danny Rimer as Board Observer.
  Posted 9/6/08 at 4:37pm
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  MyHeritage.com added Saul Klein as Board of Directors.
  Posted 9/6/08 at 4:37pm
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  MyHeritage.com added Simon Levene as Investor, board member.
  Posted 9/6/08 at 4:37pm
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  MyHeritage.com added Craig Sherman as Advisory Board Member.
  Posted 8/28/07 at 2:48am
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  MyHeritage.com added Sara Japhet as Advisory Board Member.
  Posted 8/28/07 at 2:48am
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  MyHeritage.com added Aviv Raiz as Board.
  Posted 8/28/07 at 2:48am
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  MyHeritage.com added Yuval Rakavy as Board.
  Posted 8/28/07 at 2:48am
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  MyHeritage.com added Ran Peled as Chief Architect.
  Posted 8/28/07 at 2:47am
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  MyHeritage.com added Gal Cohen as Chief Scientist.
  Posted 8/28/07 at 2:47am
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  MyHeritage.com added Chris Shearer Cooper as Genealogy Architect.
  Posted 8/28/07 at 2:47am
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  MyHeritage.com added Shmulik Albo as Creative Director.
  Posted 8/28/07 at 2:47am
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  MyHeritage.com added Guy Shalev as Director of RIA.
  Posted 8/28/07 at 2:46am
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  MyHeritage.com added Uri Gonen as VP of Product Management.
  Posted 8/28/07 at 2:46am
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  MyHeritage.com added Nir Sharony as CTO.
  Posted 8/28/07 at 2:46am
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  MyHeritage.com added Sueli Tolub as VP of Research and Development.
  Posted 8/28/07 at 2:38am

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MyHeritage

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Website	myheritage.com
Blog	myheritage.com/blogs/companyblog
Stage	Live
Launch Date	2005
Tags	myheritage, genealogy

Above: MyHeritage Screenshot -- #1
Uploaded: 2/5/08

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1. MyHeritage.com Acquires Family Tree Backup Service BackupMyTree (techcrunch.com) [edit]
2. Exclusive: MyHeritage Acquires Poland’s Bliscy.pl, Now 760 Million Profiles Strong (techcrunch.com) [edit]
3. MyHeritage.com Buys OSN Group In European Expansion (paidcontent.org) [edit]
4. MyHeritage Acquires Family Social Network Kindo (sociableblog.com) [edit]
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8. Family Tree Wars Continue: MyHeritage Raises Big Round, Shows Impressive Growth (techcrunch.com) [edit]