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How NOT to show living relatives in your tree
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Gillian | Report | 20 Dec 2006 18:15 |
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Is there a way possible that you can have living relatives in your tree on GR but so that they can't be seen either with hot matches or when you allow someone access to your tree please? Thank you. |
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Shirley~I,m getting the hang of it | Report | 20 Dec 2006 18:23 |
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Yes go to your account details and there is a box under your name etc that you can denote by yes or no whether you want to hide living relatives. dont forget to click on the save at the bottom of the page |
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Her Indoors | Report | 20 Dec 2006 19:46 |
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This is what I posted on the other thread: 'The Hide Living Relatives option is not what it seems (or should be). If I have access to your tree, and the living relatives in it are hidden, their names and year and place of birth will still appear in the GR index. I can search for them, and if I have been in contact with you before, the search results will link your name with the names matching my search request. If I am looking at your shared tree, and search it for your name, the correct box on the tree that contains your (hidden) name will be immediately highlighted by those nice GR programmers. Worst of all, if you have included dates of birth (which is very frequent with living relatives) the date is not hidden. So if I know the family name, and the date, I can find the hidden name from the GRO births index in 30 seconds, 9 times out of 10. GR's T&C require that you have the express permission of each and every living person to appear in your tree, and there is no meaningful sense in which the data is hidden REGARDLESS of whether the Hide Living Relatives option has been selected. You do not need the tree to be shared to have access to the index, and once I have contacted you, GR will kindly match your name to any relatives I search for. If I sent you a message now - and it needn't actually say anything at all, a blank one will do, I could probably work out who your parents were in less than 15 minutes. I've done it loads of times, and criminals can do it too. The only answer is to import your tree from your own family history software, and to filter out all details of living individuals. My PAF software has a one-click option to hide everything about a living soul except the gender (and you can record 'unknown' if you wish). All that will appear is a place marker for a person, connected by BMDs to other place markers. No names, no places, no dates: indeed nothing at all that the search feature can get its hands on.' |
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