03 July 2016

MyHeritage Launches Online Family History Map

The following is from a MyHeritage press release.

MyHeritage, the fastest-growing destination for discovering, preserving and sharing family history, launched  PedigreeMap™ today  an innovative way to visualize family history, optimized for tablet devices. PedigreeMap™ displays all events in a user’s family tree, such as births, marriages and deaths, as well as digital photos and scanned historical photos, on an interactive map. This allows users to trace the locations of their ancestors and gain new insights into their lives. All data is grouped by country and location, and users can easily filter their view of the map by person, family group, event type, and time period
PedigreeMap™ comes with additional features such as place name standardization to improve data quality, and Heatmaps that showcase which geographic areas have a high concentration of activity in the user's family history.
“MyHeritage is the family history technology leader. We’re constantly developing new ways to give people insights about their family history," said Uri Gonen, Senior VP of Product Management at MyHeritage. “The first release of PedigreeMap™ helps people understand the life journeys of their ancestors, and we have interesting and original ideas lined up for the next releases.”
PedigreeMap™ is free for all users. To access it, log in to your account on MyHeritage or create a new account for free, then select PedigreeMap™ in the “Apps” menu.

1 comment:

Unknown said...

I wondered if you're familiar with the workings of My Heritaage: I have a problem with my on line ancestry.com tree being transferred to My Heritage. A distant cousin who was a guest on my tree did it. (I don't use MH so don't know how this can be done and did not give permission for it to be done.)
Problem is, living people, including my Grandchildren show up in google searches, as a result of this site.
I've requested her to remove us, but she seems unable to resolve it.
Are you able to shed any light on this? Thanks!
I always enjoy your posts and find much useful information. Peggy. email salsaqb-mail@yahoo.ca