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Do you think genealogy “family finder” websites like Ancestry.com are an invasion of privacy?
I don’t know, I think that the idea of compiling family records and phone numbers (though legal) is somewhat unethical, since I’m sure there are family members or relatives in ANY family that want to maintain their privacy, and don’t want to be contacted or their personal information accessed.
What do you think about it?
a Generally speaking Ancestry.Com does not have information on living people. Any phone numbers etc you find on the living in their records are not as much information you can find on Yahoo People Search or Zabasearch. They get them from phone books which is public information.
If you post your family tree in the Public Member Tree anyone that is not shown as deceased will be shown as “Living Smith,’ for example to anyone else unless you extend a specific invite to someone to view your tree. On the old Ancestry World Tree, anyone not shown as deceased born 1930 and after were also listed as “Living Smith.” I actually had a daughter of a first cousin that died and for a long time they still wouldn’t allow her name to be seen as she still had a living parent.
There is one group of records that the State of Texas sold to Ancestry.Com which raised my eyebrows. I won’t say what they are as I don’t know what troll might be reading this whose intentions wouldn’t be honest.
Most genealogy websites try to protect identity of the living.
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