MyHeritage continues to improve its products for family historians. Following in the footsteps of Ancestry, MyHeritage yesterday introduced labels for DNA matches that allow you to easily organize DNA Matches into groups.
Labels are a free feature on MyHeritage. No subscription is required.
You can label your DNA Matches by the criteria of your choice with 30 different colours. (AncestryDNA has 24 colours.) Each colour can be assigned to represent a different group of interest, such as different family lines, descendants of a specific ancestor, matches of high interest, matches that you haven’t had a chance to investigate yet, or matches that require a closer look when you have the chance.
Having used Ancestry’s labelling system for more than a year, I find MyHeritage’s labels to be similar and easy to set up and use.
If you are like a friend of mine who likes to read all the instructions, instead of just jumping in the deep end as I tend to do, the MyHeritage Blog explains how to label matches in easy-to-follow steps with useful graphics.
You can also watch a video recording of MyHeritage’s Daniel Horowitz show how to set up labels on Facebook.
Transferring DNA data to MyHeritage
If you have tested your DNA with other companies, you can transfer your raw data to MyHeritage for free.
Dr. Leah Larkin on her blog, The DNA Geek, explains how to transfer data from Ancestry, and Roberta Estes explains how to transfer autosomal FamilyTreeDNA to MyHeritage on her blog, DNAeXplained. For 23andMe and Living DNA, simply Google “how to transfer 23andme (or Living DNA) to MyHeritage” to find several good resources.
