When a MyHeritage hint appears and I click on it only a limited amount of information is displayed and to see more it appears you have to sign up to MyHeritage. I’ve no problem with that but what level of subscription do I need to purchase and will the cheapest one (Premium) be sufficient?
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Inside MyHeritage, search for Data Abb
I don’t think any of the MyHeritage collections are good for US research. From what I have found, I can get almost all of the same hits from either FS and Ancestry so I am not able to answer your question. What I can suggest is that you wait if you plan to purchase. MyHeritage has historically offered up with 50% off sales towards Christmas. I dropped my plan some time back and I still get an occasional offer for 80% of a year subscription.
Premium is sufficient, and often offered with a discount. I got a one year subscription by the end of last year for a little more than € 60, but cancelled it after a few months, because I ran into problems with their desktop program, and did not get proper help.
I live in The Netherlands, and have ancestors in England and other European countries, and found that in most cases, My Heritage isn’t worth it, because they don’t have enough original records. They often show fake record matches which are actually matches with persons on FamilySearch, or on some other free sites, like Geni and the Dutch Genealogie Online, which means that you’d essentially be subscribing for smart matches with other people’s trees. And that can be worth your money for a short while, especially with such a discount, but I’d never recommend it for the long term.
For England, Ancestry and Find-My-Past are much better, because they have way more original records, and some of those are free. And although their yearly prices are higher, you can also by a subscription for a few months, and that can be really worth it.
Ancestry also shows free hints from other people’s trees on Geneanet, which is quite big on the continent, and much less commercial than My Heritage.
@Dark-Moon I agree with @ennoborg --if searching in England, Find-MY-Past is a much better source than Ancestry or FamilySearch-- I could find some of the info I wanted on Ancestry and FamilySearch BUT the info was only from Indexes–no access to actual documents-- started looking at the source info for the records on Ancestry and FamilySearch and kept seeing Find-My-Past listed–so I subscribed and never regretted it–sometimes I still only get indexes BUT for the most part, you can view actual images and browse the whole book–went from just having the names of my g-grandmothers parents to having documentation for 5th and 6th g-grandparents on at least 80% of her ancestors…
just my opinion…
Many thanks to everyone who replied, food for thought, but basically just looking for the cheapest option to check out MyHeritage hint from RootsMagic, so the “Data Abb” looks like this might suffice, at least for a test.
I too use FindMyPast, as most of my family tree is UK based, and I generally take out a full subscription every couple of years or so, especially if there is a Census coming up, but that’s out of the question for the forseeable future.
Anyhow, many thanks for all the advice.
I guess most of you know this but Geneanet is now free since Ancestry acquired it a few years back. One can still subscribe for a small fee to other resources on their site. Geneanet does show up in Ancestry searches. I would be interested in how often Ancestry updates what they post from Geneanet.
I do make good use of MyHeritage hits from RM7 and RM10. Frequently there is a link going back to FamilySearch or other source of the information. I use the least expensive subscription. This is useful since one can no longer directly access FS from RM7 and it is not always convenient to switch back and forth from RM7 and RM10 to get the FS hints.
I just gave this a try, with RM 9.1.1, which is the latest that works well under Linux, and this works with a free account too, in the sense, that My heritage gives you enough details to figure out that there is a probable match on FamilySearch.