MyHeritage combines family-tree research, historical records, newspaper collections, and DNA services. Its published figures include 58 million family trees, 38.6 billion historical records, a 9.6 million-person DNA database, and support for 50 languages. Recent collection announcements also show 766 million historical records added across January, February, and March 2026, while the 2025 year review reports 6.6 billion records added during that year.
Contents
- MyHeritage at a glance
- Historical-record growth in 2025 and 2026
- January 2026 collection additions
- February 2026 collection additions
- March 2026 collection additions
- Geographic and record-type coverage
- DNA, language, and genealogy education
MyHeritage at a glance
The following figures describe the scale of the service according to the named MyHeritage sources and the measurement periods stated in those sources.
| Measure | Published figure | Source or period |
|---|---|---|
| Family trees | 58 million | MyHeritage about page |
| Historical records in global database | 38.6 billion | MyHeritage about page |
| People in DNA database | 9.6 million | MyHeritage about page |
| Languages | 50 | MyHeritage blog, language expansion announcement |
| DNA kits processed per day | 20,000 | MyHeritage company summary PDF |
| Historical records added | 6.6 billion | MyHeritage 2025 Year in Review |
These measures are different kinds of counts. Family trees count tree collections, while historical records count database entries. The DNA database count refers to people, and the laboratory figure is a daily processing rate. They should therefore be read as separate indicators rather than added together.
The global historical-record figure is 38.6 billion, while the 2025 year review reports 6.6 billion additions during 2025. The addition figure describes activity during a year; it is not presented as a separate current database total. Likewise, the January through March 2026 announcements describe new and updated collections, including both records and newspaper pages.
Historical-record growth in 2025 and 2026
MyHeritage’s 2025 Year in Review reports 6.6 billion historical records added during 2025. That annual figure provides the broadest recent measure of database expansion in the supplied statistics.
For the first three months of 2026, the monthly announcements report the following totals:
| Month in 2026 | Historical records announced | New and updated collections |
|---|---|---|
| January | 210 million | 13 |
| February | 190 million | 18 |
| March | 366 million | 17 |
The three monthly announcements together describe 766 million historical records across 48 new and updated collections. This is a simple aggregation of the published monthly totals, and it should not be treated as a count of unique people or unique documents. Some collection entries are updates, and the announcements also separately report newspaper pages and cumulative collection totals.
March was the largest of the three reported months, with 366 million historical records across 17 collections. January reported 210 million across 13 collections, and February reported 190 million across 18 collections. The collection count and the record count do not move in parallel: February had the most collections, while March had the highest announced record total.
The monthly figures are useful for understanding publication activity, but they do not establish how many records are searchable for a particular surname, country, or date range. Genealogists still need to check the collection description and geographic scope of each result.
January 2026 collection additions
In January 2026, MyHeritage announced 210 million historical records across 13 new and updated collections. The additions covered civil and religious records, passenger lists, newspapers, voter lists, births, and military enlistment records.
The England and Wales Nonconformist Births and Baptism collection for 1660–1848 added 5,113,920 records. The companion England and Wales Nonconformist Deaths and Burials collection for 1665–1837 added 1,383,095 records. Sweden Marriages, 1850–1945 added 3,195,944 records, while North Carolina Births added 13,458,857 records.
Passenger research received two large additions. United Kingdom and Ireland Incoming Passenger Lists, 1878–1960 added 15,688,339 records, and the Outgoing Passenger Lists, 1890–1960 added 23,488,175 records. United States, World War II Enlistment, 1938–1946 added 8,705,381 records. Massachusetts, Cambridge Voter Lists, 1904–1947 added 977,883 records.
Newspaper-related updates were reported in pages and records. Brazil Newspapers from OldNews.com added 772,629 pages. France Newspapers from OldNews.com added 414,639 pages, bringing that collection to 4,857,452 pages. France, Names & Stories in Newspapers from OldNews.com added 49,165,118 records, for a total of 236,847,045 records.
The January announcement also reported an update to Names & Stories in Newspapers from OldNews.com covering North Carolina, South Carolina, and the District of Columbia. It added 82,578,451 records, bringing that collection to 852,042,154 records. United States Newspapers from OldNews.com added 5,307,508 pages, for a total of 112,114,106 pages.
February 2026 collection additions
In February 2026, MyHeritage announced 190 million historical records across 18 new and updated collections. The month included Australian, Brazilian, Italian, and Dutch newspaper pages; Swedish deaths; British Army lists; and a broad series of United States newspaper-name indexes.
Australia Gazettes from OldNews.com added 738,697 pages, for a total of 2,240,778 pages. Brazil Newspapers from OldNews.com added 173,112 pages, for a total of 945,570 pages. Italy Newspapers from OldNews.com added 3,934,190 pages. Netherlands Newspapers from OldNews.com added 10,316,118 pages, for a total of 19,323,821 pages. United States Newspapers from OldNews.com added 1,759,660 pages, for a total of 113,873,752 pages.
Sweden Deaths, 1850–1945 added 7,656,150 records, and United Kingdom, British Army Lists, 1839–1946 added 7,319,250 records. These collections can support different research questions: vital events provide life-event evidence, while army lists can help investigate service and institutional records.
The February announcement listed several regional Names & Stories in Newspapers updates. The additions included 2,091,000 records for California, Hawaii, Alaska, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands; 25,941,400 for Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Washington, and Wyoming; and 27,134,100 for Iowa, North Dakota, and South Dakota.
Other regional additions were 17,515,800 records for Massachusetts, Maine, New Hampshire, and Vermont; 13,485,800 for Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Illinois; 8,803,000 for New York, New Jersey, Rhode Island, and Connecticut; 37,048,700 for North Carolina, South Carolina, and the District of Columbia; 11,251,200 for Ohio, Indiana, and Michigan; and 13,981,200 for Texas, Arizona, New Mexico, Nevada, Utah, and Nebraska.
The same update reported cumulative totals for these regional collections, including 1,460,619,476 records for the New York, New Jersey, Rhode Island, and Connecticut grouping; 1,348,083,486 for Iowa, North Dakota, and South Dakota; and 1,281,753,816 for Massachusetts, Maine, New Hampshire, and Vermont. The reported totals are collection-specific cumulative figures, not a count of unique newspaper mentions across the whole service.
March 2026 collection additions
In March 2026, MyHeritage announced 366 million historical records across 17 new and updated collections. The month included Canadian and Czech vital records, Irish court registers, British military lists, and major newspaper updates.
Canada, Quebec Births, 1820–1917 added 7,682,296 records. Canada, Quebec Deaths, 1825–1917 added 3,330,127, and Canada, Quebec Marriages, 1820–1917 added 2,548,707. Czechia, Moravian-Silesian Region, Opava Births and Baptisms, 1800–1920 added 6,013,794 records; Opava Deaths, 1800–1950 added 3,745,296; and Opava Marriages, 1800–1945 added 2,840,505.
Ireland, Petty Sessions Court Registers, 1828–1926 added 23,456,657 records. The United Kingdom, British Air Force Lists, 1919–1945 added 3,947,075 records. These dates and record types matter: court registers and military lists may provide context that is not present in a birth, marriage, or death entry.
Newspaper pages were added for Canada, the Netherlands, Spain, and the United Kingdom. Canada Newspapers from OldNews.com added 651,705 pages, for a total of 2,420,003 pages. Netherlands Newspapers added 97,463 pages, for a total of 11,225,943. Spain Newspapers added 3,518,418 pages, for a total of 21,746,615. United Kingdom Newspapers added 2,198,105 pages, for a total of 14,890,648.
March also reported Names & Stories in Newspapers updates: Australia added 11,893,771 records, for a total of 2,024,834,756; Canada added 8,516,177, for a total of 461,640,570; the Netherlands added 227,634,581; Spain added 49,728,874, for a total of 332,936,632; and the United Kingdom added 7,814,121, for a total of 799,414,468.
Geographic and record-type coverage
The 2026 collection announcements span multiple continents and several research traditions. The named coverage includes Brazil, France, Sweden, England and Wales, the United Kingdom and Ireland, Australia, Italy, the Netherlands, Canada, Czechia, Spain, and numerous United States regions.
The record types are similarly varied. Vital records appear in births, baptisms, deaths, burials, and marriages. Passenger lists cover arrivals and departures. Voter lists, newspapers, gazettes, military lists, enlistment records, and court registers add social, occupational, migration, and institutional context.
Newspaper statistics need especially careful interpretation because the announcements use two units. “Pages” refers to newspaper pages, while “records” refers to indexed names or stories in the named collection. A page total and a record total measure different layers of the same research resource and should not be combined as though they were equivalent.
For a family-history search, the geographic label is also part of the statistic. A collection covering Quebec is not interchangeable with one covering all of Canada, and a grouped newspaper update covering several states should be read as that specific regional grouping. The supplied collection names and date ranges are the appropriate guide to scope.
DNA, language, and genealogy education
MyHeritage reports 9.6 million people in its DNA database on its about page. A MyHeritage company summary PDF reports that the laboratory processes 20,000 DNA kits per day. The first figure is a database population count; the second is a daily operational rate. Neither figure states how many kits are processed over a particular year.
The service has 50 languages, according to the MyHeritage blog announcement “MyHeritage Expands to 50 Languages.” That language count is relevant to an international user base and to research involving records, relatives, and place names across borders. It does not by itself measure the number of collections available in every language.
Education is another measurable part of the MyHeritage ecosystem. During 2025, Legacy Family Tree Webinars presented 225 webinars by 157 speakers. The same MyHeritage 2025 Year in Review reports 41 MyHeritage-specific sessions and 256,369 people attending live.
Those webinar figures describe programming and attendance during 2025. The 225 presentations, 157 speakers, 41 MyHeritage-specific sessions, and 256,369 live attendees are related measures, but they answer different questions: volume of sessions, contributor count, MyHeritage-focused programming, and live audience size.
Taken together, the published statistics show a genealogy platform measured through several distinct lenses: database scale, annual and monthly record expansion, geographic breadth, DNA participation, laboratory throughput, language availability, and educational reach. Each number is most useful when kept with its source label, measurement period, geography, and unit.