Kindo MyHeritage FAQ

Why is Kindo joining MyHeritage?

Together we can better help you to learn more about your family.

Kindo’s vision has always been to build a site that helps you interact with the family that is around you here and now. We were trying to come up with tools to help you share information and communicate with the people that matter most to you right now.

MyHeritage has built one of the world’s leading family websites. With an incredibly strong technical team, they develop technologies that help you to learn more about your family.
For example, we are happy to bring their face recognition enabled photo sharing to all the Kindo users.

You can read Nils’s personal story about how everything happened in this blogpost.

What will happen to Kindo?

The website will remain as it is for now, so you can go on using it. However you cannot start any new trees from now on.

We are encouraging you to check out the MyHeritage website though, as this is what we will focus on and develop further.

What does happen to our family tree?

You can still use your tree on Kindo. We are helping all Kindo members move to MyHeritage, if they wish. Their face recognition based photo sharing makes photo management really easy and the powerful tools for genealogy, like Smart Matching, can help you discover and learn about your family history.

About a week after the announcement, we will send you access details to your family tree on MyHeritage via email. Your family tree and photos will by default have the most rigid privacy settings. So they will still be private and for your family only, just like they were on Kindo.

If you do not want your family tree to be moved, please let us know right away.
Additionally there will always be the option to delete your tree from MyHeritage later (Go to the “Manage Trees” page to delete a tree, send an email to support@myheritage.com to delete the whole account).
In case you would want to delete your tree from Kindo as well, email to support@kindo.com

What are your plans for the future?

The MyHeritage and Kindo teams will work together to create the world’s leading online destination for families. Facebook is great for friends, and LinkedIn for business professionals, but we see a huge opportunity to help families stay in touch online.

What will happen with your great family blog?

Our Kindo family blogs will soon be continued on MyHeritage.com. We will let you know about it on our blogs, so subscribe to our RSS feed here: http://feeds.feedburner.com/kindo/en

More about MyHeritage

When was MyHeritage founded?

  • The site went live in November 2005

Where is the company based?

  • Bnei Atarot, Israel (outside of Tel Aviv), with an office opening in London as part of the Kindo acquisition

How many users are there?

  • More than 25 million registered users
  • 265 million profiles in 5 million family trees
  • More than 230 million user-contributed photos

How fast is the company growing?

  • We’re growing extremely quickly. For example, in the month of May 2008, MyHeritage added more unique visitors than one of our more well-known competitors has total [according to ComScore metrics], and in the past 12 months MyHeritage has been signing up more new users each month than the preceding month

Who works at MyHeritage?

  • The MyHeritage team has been together for a long time – many of them working together prior to joining this company. This creates a close, family-like working environment that’s important for the company to preserve as it grows
  • The strong engineering backgrounds of most of the team members allows them to take on complex technical challenges that many other companies wouldn’t touch

Who are MyHeritage’s investors?

  • Index Ventures, represented by Saul Klein
  • Accel Partners, represented by Simon Levene
  • Yuval Rakavy a tech industry expert from Israel and seed investor in Check Point
  • Aviv Raiz, a prominent investor from Israel

How much funding has MyHeritage raised?

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