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Family Tree Page

If you have linked your account to a MyHeritage account, you will now manage your match connections in your tree through your account settings.

Accessing tree settings 

To access your Tree Settings page:

  1. Sign in to your kit.
  2. In the upper-right corner of the page, hover your cursor over your name/Kit No., and click Account Settings from the drop-down menu.  
  3. Click on the Genealogy Tab

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While the connection is pending, customers will see a message stating it is pending and that they will receive an email when it’s done. After connecting to MyHeritage you will see the following buttons:

  • Link/Change Home Person - Identify who the root person in your tree.
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  • Disconnect from my MyHeritage account - If you wish to revert to the FamilyTreeDNA Tree builder, you can use this button to disconnect your account. If you have connected to the wrong MyHeritage account, you can also use this to disconnect and connect to the correct account.
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    Note: No information is removed from MyHeritage. Any tree they previously had on MyHeritage will still exist there and any account you created/used will still exist there.
  • Link your matches - Allows you to select matches and attach them to specific nodes on your tree.

Relinking previously linked matches

In the GEDCOM that FamilyTreeDNA sends to MyHeritage, we will indicate which individuals in the tree have a match link associated with them. Those matches will still need to be relinked after the connection is complete, but the process should be smoother than if you used a different tree. 

Once the accounts are linked, you will click need to click Link your matches to relink your matches on the Tree Settings page. Your tree on MyHeritage will not have any indication that an individual on the tree is a match at FamilyTreeDNA.

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This will open a pop-up window that includes the names of your previously linked matches. A suggestion will be made to link each to specific individuals in your tree. Those individuals will have been identified from the note FamilyTreeDNA made in their transferred GEDCOM. However, you will need to confirm each link. If there is not an individual in your tree that matches their search, you will see a message suggesting that you try a similar name or that you may need to expand their tree to include the individual.

Privacy settings

MyHeritage's tree privacy settings are slightly different than FamilyTreeDNA’s. On FamilyTreeDNA, your tree can be private, shared with matches, or public (shared with any kit via a link). On MyHeritage your tree can be private, shared with site members, or public. If a tree on MyHeritage is shared with only site members, MyHeritage will display a screen that allows users to contact the site owner for access.

Customers can view a tree without a MyHeritage account if it is public. If a tree is shared with only site members, the customer must be signed into a MyHeritage account and that account must be a site member.

Project Preferences

If you have linked your tree to MyHeritage, you can grant permission to project administrators to upload and manage a tree for you on MyHeritage. This can be done on the Project Preferences page in your Account Settings.

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