How to create a Family Site on MyHeritage

Family Sites help you manage and organize the different groups you belong to. For example, you can create one related to your immediate family and a few others related to your extended family, to your in-law's family and to a certain community you are part of. Learn more about the advantages of creating a Family Site here.

If you are new to MyHeritage and sign up for an account, you will automatically be creating a Family Site.

To create another Family Site if you are already a member you have to go to the "My Sites" drop down menu on the right hand corner of any MyHeritage page you visit. Click on "Manage my family sites".

On this page you will see a list of your existing Family Sites. At the bottom you will find the "Create another site" button.
A pop-up window will appear where you need to follow these steps:

1. Select the plan (Basic, Premium or PremiumPlus) you want for your site.

2. Define a title, subtitle, primary use of the site (immediate or extended family site, genealogy or community site, etc), write a description and set an email address for the site.
3. That's all!

Your new site will be included in the "My sites" drop down menu, where you will be able to access all your existing Family Sites.

Once the Family Site is created, you will be able to define every detail of your Family Site by going to the "Settings" tag of the MyHeritage main menu, comprised by the following options:



* Site account: Change your Family Site Plan.
* My Preferences: Customize communication of the site's events.
* General: Administrate basic settings of the site.
* Content: Select which activities you would like members to be able to perform.

* Privacy: Define the site as Private, Mixed or Public.
* Home page: Select how you want information to be shown.
* Calendar: Define calendar type and national holidays.
* Genealogy: Work on display and information details.
* Tagging: Activate automatic photo tagging.

In case you need further information or assistance, you might want to have a look at our Help section and Forums, where you can find FAQs and topics related to Family Sites.

Having created your Family Site, you can choose to create one or several Family Trees. We will focus on how to do that in our next entry of these series. Stay tuned!