Hello, collaborators on what just might be my favorite project! :)
I wanted to share a quick reminder about protecting privacy when building parallel trees. It turns out we accidentally connected a celebrity with an isolated, private tree to the big tree a while back, and now the family is having privacy issues.
Customer Service will sort this one out, thankfully, but it's a good reminder that we need to be super cautious when building parallel trees to not connect into isolated trees.
Is there anything else you all think we can do to help be cautious with these cases? Is there info we should leave out of public profiles we make? I guess it's something of a philosophical question -- how do we balance genealogy and privacy? How much special consideration do we give to public figures? Your thoughts are appreciated.
Any living people have the right to privacy, including their offspring's.
In some rare cases there are also need to protect their parents,
this is to minimize the risk of them being followed, threaten etc.
When it comes to grandparents, it must be determined from case to case and no one higher up than that should ever be made private.
People do not belong just to one family, except some very few case of just one single child marrying someone else who also was a single child under several generations of time, which in itself would be unique but not impossible, but in general, our ancestors do not belong to one family, they belong to everyone, this is unfortunately the hardest part for some people to grab.