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MyHeritage’s time machine

Posted on January 1, 2023

Israeli genealogy company MyHeritage.com has released AI functionality that (for a fee) simulates how you would look if you lived during the past or at some future time. It offers to show you in a variety of roles, such as … Continue reading →

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MyHeritage to perform coronavirus testing

Posted on April 5, 2020

Last week, Israeli genealogy company MyHeritage.com announced it is donating 66,000 swabs to boost Israel’s coronavirus testing efforts.  Now it is building a COVID-19 testing lab (at its own expense) and will perform at least 10,000 tests a day from … Continue reading →

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MyHeritage expands its family

Posted on September 15, 2019

Israeli genealogy company MyHeritage has acquired Utah-based River Road Bio (RRB). This means MyHeritage inherits RRB’s SNPedia website and its Promethease DNA report analyser. SNPedia explains the effects of variations in DNA. https://www.calcalistech.com/ctech/articles/0,7340,L-3769847,00.html https://www.snpedia.com/index.php/SNPedia:About

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MyHeritage buys Genie

Posted on December 2, 2012

In the biggest genealogy takeover in history, Israel’s MyHeritage.com has bought Genie.com into the family business. MyHeritage now covers 72 million registered users — about 8 million of which came from Geni.com — 1.5 billion profiles and 27 million family … Continue reading →

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Find your Israeli relatives

Posted on January 15, 2023

Israeli genealogy company MyHeritage has posted 1.7 million Israeli immigration records online, using scanned ship and plane passenger lists stored at the Israel State Archives. The records are from 1919 to around 1979. The data is free for everyone to … Continue reading →

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Turn old photos into movies

Posted on March 21, 2021

Israel’s MyHeritage may have been taken over by Francisco Partners, but it is still innovating. It has now released Deep Nostalgia – a new feature for its photo enhancer app that allows users to turn old photos into short video … Continue reading →

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Israeli exit benefits charities

Posted on March 7, 2021

The recent exit of Israel’s MyHeritage for $600 million, benefited Israeli youth charities. MyHeritage donated share options in 2013 to the nonprofit Tmura (reported here previously) which distributes the proceeds. 718 Israel startups have donated options to Tmura since 2002 … Continue reading →

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Enhancing photos

Posted on July 5, 2020

Israeli genealogy company MyHeritage Ltd. (reported previously here) has launched Photo Enhancer, that brings blurred, low-resolution or low-quality photos into sharp focus. Newsletter readers may remember (here) when MyHeritage launched its app that turns B&W photos into color. https://www.calcalistech.com/ctech/articles/0,7340,L-3833191,00.html https://blog.myheritage.com/2020/06/introducing-the-myheritage-photo-enhancer/

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Israeli awards in the Internet “Oscars”

Posted on May 24, 2020

Two Israeli companies did well in the 24th Annual Webby Awards – the “Oscars of the Internet” for online excellence. Leo Burnett Israel won a “Webby” for the Best Use of Stories for its “Eva” stories. MyHeritage also received acclaim … Continue reading →

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Philanthropic Israeli companies

Posted on March 29, 2020

Big-hearted Israeli companies include Israeli-founded Mobileye, which is donating NIS 10 million to cash-strapped non-profits. Mobileye’s parent, Intel, is donating $320,000 to Haifa’s Rambam Hospital to buy a hi-tech coronavirus testing system. And MyHeritage is donating 66,000 swabs. https://www.calcalistech.com/ctech/articles/0,7340,L-3803273,00.html https://www.calcalistech.com/ctech/articles/0,7340,L-3803096,00.html … Continue reading →

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