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How to do, that that all profiles of my deceased relatives be private.

Daiva Urbutienė

February 13, 2013 11:51

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How to do, that that all profiles of my deceased relatives be private?

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  Jeff, Geni Curator February 13, 2013 15:43

  If you're the profile manager or in your family group, then you should have an option to make them private when editing the profile (should be a check box on the top right when editing).  Keep in mind though that this should not extend too far in your ancestor tree, one or two generations is sufficient for privacy.  If you go beyond that, it creates problems for the world family tree.  I think they probably even block you from making it private if you get into the 1700's or X number of generations deep.  I'm not sure if it will stay this way though.  They may be moving to the MyHerigate and Ancestry model, where all deceased profiles are public and all living profiles are private, or maybe one generation from living.  

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  Jeff, Geni Curator February 13, 2013 15:57

  Note that my last statement was speculation based on Geni blog posts.  MyHeritage purchased Geni and they have stricter privacy requirements for living profiles, but appear to have lower requirements for deceased.  They've already started making changes for the living profiles, making them all non-public.  I haven't heard anything regarding deceased profiles, but it would seem to fit the Geni design for the One World Tree and help future cross-development with MyHeritage if they were based on the same privacy model.