MyHeritage has discontinued DNA file uploads as a security enhancement. The company implemented this change to prevent unauthorized uploads, including those from law enforcement agencies and other non-consumer sources.
To access DNA matches and ethnicity reports on MyHeritage, customers must now purchase a MyHeritage DNA kit directly from the company. This policy aligns with AncestryDNA’s existing requirements.
MyHeritage DNA kits rank among the most competitively priced options available. Consider timing any purchase during one of the frequent sales events.
Be aware that AncestryDNA has the largest client database. Testing with MyHeritageDNA will be of particular interest for those with heritage outside America.
UPDATE
MyHeritage has just announced spectacular sale!
Thank you for explaining why MH discontinuing DNA uploads from outside sources helps with security – I was completely baffled, but you mentioning it means police etc can’t upload DNA to MH makes perfect sense.
I think that it is equally important to note that a native kit, regardless of where it is produces a more accurate result than a transfer
As my experiment, I found that the transfer provided me with 2000 more matches than my native did. While some might say then that the ancestyr kits on ancestry kits might be more accurate but I do not think that to be the case because all would have to go into a consistent single database with imputations on any transfer kit
So likely this would be 2000 more false matches
As we do note on gedmatch, with 23 and others we get an overlap score with a pink indicator with the lightest shades likely being no issue but as they get darker the confidence shifts
It would take an extended discussion for me to illustrate but I have concluded that the MyHeritage Welcome Kit (ethicity, genetic groups, variety of matches, chromosome browser, useful cluster tool and built in see all matches is blowing away ancestry’s ethnicity, genetic groups and journeys and cluster tool
This applies big time to my paternal father’s Irish side who were original Irish and with adds from 1200 to 1850 English and Welsh and 1700 to 1800 Scottish and the massive hit of my Courlander/Caribbean/Devonian third great grandmother (2nd to most of my samples).
But it also is applying equally to dad’s maternal side which is NS/Hopewell planters