Privacy: what is shown and what is withheld
What this site publishes about people, what it withholds, and how to ask for something to be removed.
What is shown
Deceased people are published in full: their names, the dates and places of their events, the sources behind them, photographs and documents, and the families they belonged to. Places, surnames and sources are published as well.
What is withheld
A living person is not published at all. Where somebody is living, no name beyond the word "Living", no date, no place, no photograph, no note and no source is shown to a visitor, and the structure of the family is drawn without labelling them. Records a researcher has marked as restricted are withheld in the same way.
How it is done
Privacy is applied when the records are read, not when a page is drawn, so a withheld record never reaches a page, a chart, a print view, a share card or an export. A request for a record you may not see answers exactly as a request for a record that does not exist, so no page can be used to discover that somebody is recorded here.
Search engines
Pages about deceased people, places, surnames and sources may be indexed by search engines. Search results, filtered lists, media files and every members-only screen carry an instruction not to index them.
Asking for a change
If you are recorded here and would rather not be, or something about you or your family is wrong, use the contact form and say what should change. A living person can ask for their record to be suppressed entirely.