I want my tree to be public. i want people I contact to be able to go to my profile and hit "view tree". i don't want to have to send them a collaboration request or a family group request. I want the entire thing to be public. I want people to find me on google and see my tree. I want to be able to send people a link to view my tree, even if they are not yet geni users. I want my kids' profiles to be public also. I don't want anything in my tree to be private. Can we add a feature that allows me to do that?
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Eldon Clark (Geni volunteer curator) Randy, under US law children under 13 can't be public. Otherwise, I feel much the same way but I bet the privacy advocates would scream.
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Lo Randy - are you forgetting that once one other person joins "Your" Tree it stops being yours, and belongs to everyone on it with a claimed Profile?
According to the Top 10 Project, "Your Tree" belongs to over 1,000 other folks as well as to you. Or are these all non-relatives you simply did a "Family Group" request with? (And would everybody in the latter category also be forcibly made Public?)
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Eric Randol Schoenberg, Geni Curator Eldon, you comment about US law is incorrect. US law does not prohibit making children public. There are limits on COLLECTING information online FROM children, which requires parental approval. But otherwise there are no restrictions.
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Eric Randol Schoenberg, Geni Curator It makes absolutely no sense to me that even my collaborators cannot click to view my tree. How do you expect me to show people what geni can do?
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Lo Randy - Are you sure your collaborators cannot click to see your Tree? It looks to me like the Geni-Team granted your request; I have been able to click "View Tree" for you (from Geni-Search, and from your Profile if click on your name and then go to your Profile) and see your tree for quite a while now. Seems unlikely your collaborators cannot also do so.
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Eric Randol Schoenberg, Geni Curator It may work only if you are connected to the same tree. I have a test non-pro account and even after collaborating it cannot "view tree" from my main profile. This is what makes it so difficult to help new users connect to the big tree.
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Judith Judi Elaine (McKee) Burns trees outside the 4-5 generation level should be public - and those who want to carry on private trees should not ne put into the same databank ast the big tree and they should be put over into an area that is totaly private and they should pay accordingly to keep their information privtae - like I was told by one geni user this is not a "storage place" for your own private files and back when i first joined geni I was told by a rep if i did not like it i could "dump" my tree and leave - by dumping that gave it entirely to geni to do with as the saw fit. We all joined GENI for one purpose - to share our data - to find people who researching our lines - keeping profiles private or seperate private trees defeats this purpose plus defeats GENI's orginal goal which was ONE BIG TREE - but I guess since the crash of aug. 2011 they revanped that goal by allowing people to maintain private trees out side the 4--5 generation - - as to living profiles below this are the should contain only the very bare essentials of data if none at all if living - and then it would be up to that lviving person if the join GENI as to how much inf they put into their profile since they are the one who controls it. after joining And those under 13 years of age have ways of getting around the issue of age etc. by putting trees up or joing internet pages such as Facebook I have seen it done especially on facebook thus it could be done on any other internet site -
Its funny that we are so willing to share information with others freely and without reservation through e-mail and snail-mail of those who claim to be of our family tree and not knowing if they are Legitimately of our direct line - they present us with a lineage and unless we take the time and expense to privately document... and we even correspond with very distant cousins in order to get the information we need and with out hesitation send our family information to them - many are willing to publicly put it on websites they create on there own also, into family Search and into ancestry.com
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Lo Randy - my apologies. From my Pro Account, which is connected to /part of the Big Tree, I see View Tree - and can click on it, etc.; not from my non-pro test account which is not connected to Big Tree. My guess would be the difference is Pro vs Non-Pro, but you may be right about connected to/part of Tree or not. Have you asked anyone on separate Tree with Pro Account to try it out?
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Jim Thomason I have moved, therefore I have a new address, a new phone number and a new email address. I have now signed on and my tree is blank/ How do I get the tree back that I filled out? My old address was jet.lat@sbcglobal.net. New is jet.lat@me.com
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