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Privacy on Ancestry?
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BettyLou | Report | 1 Sep 2009 11:15 |
I have my family in a tree on FTM 2008. I have my grandchildren's names and dates in full temporarily as I was printing a tree for them. I now find that people are researching these names on Ancestry even though I have NO tree there! Does this mean everything that one thought was private is in the public domain? |
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Mummy Bear | Report | 1 Sep 2009 12:58 |
Betty |
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Thelma | Report | 1 Sep 2009 13:01 |
Are you saying that the tree is on your computer only? |
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InspectorGreenPen | Report | 1 Sep 2009 13:02 |
Your FTM data is held on your PC, so unless someone is hacking your PC it is only available for you to see. |
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Potty | Report | 1 Sep 2009 13:05 |
Further to Hawkwind's question about whether you have contacted the tree owners - I think you should contact them and ask them to remove the info as it obviously refers to living people and should not be there unless they the relevant people's permission. |
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MargaretM | Report | 1 Sep 2009 13:10 |
Have you entered your tree on Familytree Maker online? |
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Mick in the Sticks | Report | 1 Sep 2009 14:04 |
Do these ancestors have birth/death dates? Ancestry has a very good facilty to block from public view, even on a public tree, the names of living persons? |
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InspectorGreenPen | Report | 1 Sep 2009 17:29 |
With ref to Potty's suggestion I don't think Ancestry adopt a policy re removing living persons names, so you can't insist they remove the names of living persons, only request the member to do so. |
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BettyLou | Report | 1 Sep 2009 17:29 |
Sorry to delay coming back everyone - had a 'bit of a do'. Will read through all your advices and try and work out what's happened. |
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MargaretM | Report | 1 Sep 2009 23:18 |
I don't understand this. I have my grandchildrens' names and dates on my Familytree Maker here at home but there's no way they will ever go online anywhere. The only online tree I have is here on Genes but there are absolutely no living people on it except for myself. |
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