At the end of this month, MesAïeux.com, a bilingual family history website and service specializing in French Canadian genealogy, will migrate to MyHeritage’s website.
Last September, MyHeritage announced it had acquired MesAïeux.
Founded in 2004 and based in Quebec City, MesAïeux.com has grown to have more than one million users. It is available in French and English. The English side is known as MyFolks.
For a number of years, MesAïeux.com has offered an online family tree builder with automated features to add ancestors, and has been home to about 15 million historical records from Canada, primarily from Quebec, and several exclusive collections. It covers all marriages in Quebec from the beginning of New France to the 20th century, as well as some births and deaths. It also lists some marriages from other Canadian provinces and some American states.
With the migration, a MyHeritage user account will be created for MesAïeux users, using the email address associated with their MesAïeux account. All of their data, as well as their family tree, will be added to MyHeritage — unless they opt out.
If MesAïeux users do not opt out by April 29, 2025 at 11:59 p.m., all of their data will be copied from MesAïeux to MyHeritage and will be governed by the MyHeritage terms and conditions and privacy policy.
As of May 5, all family trees on MesAïeux/YourFolks will become read-only on MesAïeux/YourFolks. Growing a family tree further will be possible only on MyHeritage. All family trees will remain accessible on MesAïeux/YourFolks and users will be able to export their tree whenever they wish as a GEDCOM file.
Will MyHeritage subscribers benefit from this acquisition? I suspect we will, but I’m not aware of exactly what we’ll see. Let’s all stay tuned.
