RootsTech is finally here, and we’re kicking it off with our first big announcement! I’m excited to introduce Scribe AI, a powerful new feature from MyHeritage that uses AI technology to transcribe, translate, and interpret historical documents and photos — helping people better understand and preserve their family history.
Old family letters, records, and photos often contain valuable information, but handwriting can be difficult to decipher, languages may be unfamiliar, and images may lack context. Scribe AI overcomes these challenges by revealing important insights, providing historical background, and suggesting next steps for further research.
Caution is advised! This feature is highly addictive and genealogists we’ve given early access to this feature have become hooked! It would be fair to say that Scribe AI is one of the most important genealogical features we’ve added to MyHeritage in the past few years.
Anyone can use Scribe AI for free on a limited number of images at myheritage.com/scribe-ai, with extended use available to subscribers.
More details and interesting examples can be found in the blog post and video.
I’m giving it a try on a will from 1696…we’ll see how it does.
It seems to have done well on the face of things, but I’ve been fooled before when I compared the document to the included details and found information that was clearly pulled in from elsewhere and totally unrelated. In the end, I can’t afford an MH sub on top of Ancestry and FMP, so it’s neither here nor there for me.
And, as you know, I think it’s important we use our “little grey cells” on work like this rather than allowing machines to do everything for us. It’s a good teaching tool, especially if it’s accurate as doing a couple with AI and comparing the handwriting, form, etc can be very helpful.
And just for the record, the limited number of records is 2. I had thought it might be 10, like with the free photo editing etc, but nope, just 2. So choose your 2 carefully.
I wish they would offer a sub just for these features. A regular MH sub would not help me much with my research as they just don’t have the record set and document images I need. Ah well, such is life.