General Chat

Well, as I said earlier, the nearest to a living relative on my tree are my g grandparents, none of whom have my surname, so I can only presume a 'name gatherer' has my daughter and grand daughter on their tree, in the public domain.
I don't care if their main aim in life is to add random names to their tree - related or not - means their tree is a total lie - but they could at least not include living people, and definitely not children.

Why would you have to be 'skint' to keep a tree online?
The idea of having a tree on GR is so others having the same ANCESTORS can link up.
Come to that, what's the problem with being 'skint'?

You can hide a living person on your tree which prevents the information being available to an invitee.

This however does not prevent the same individual being found in your tree under Search All Trees function.

I had to ask both GR and Ancestry to have both mine and OH's details removed from a randomers trees.
He told GR that he knew I was living but assumed that I would be hidden from thie search function
Anyone in your tree will be found this way, whether they are hidden or not.

For continuity between myself and my OH's family, anyone who may still be living or even recently deceased ( 25yrs or less) is overtyped with " Private Person" or "Not Available"

OH and I are "Private People" as are our deceased parents.
No siblings and definitely no children appear on it in any form.

My OH and myself were both showing as private on the Ancestry tree but I knew from the ancestry that this was us!
Ancestry had to remove us and BOTH sets of our parents from this tree as he would not respond to their requests.