Private "Notes" Option
It would be nice to be able to take notes on certain people that remain private to your family search account. These are notes that you are personally using to help you search and stay organized, so you don't need a separate record or piece of paper. It would also be great to have a "notes" page where you could see a list of all your notes and where you are at with each person/family.
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Are there things in these notes that need to be private? Why not just use the existing note feature? Just title a note something like "Work In Progress Research Notes." That would have the advantage of being available to your cousins to help you out with any current research questions.
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In addition to Gordon Collett's recommendation there is also:
- Add the profile to your Following list, apply a Label, and add a note to the label. Following is discoverable by other contributors who follow the profile, but labels and their included notes are private.
- Create a shadow profile in your private tree space and put notes there. Just take care not to mark the profile Deceased.
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I agree. I wanted to add my deceased aunt's social security number so that I could order her original death certificate but didn't want others to see it for security reasons.
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Another reason it would be good to have private notes is to save some sensitive information about our close relatives that we do not want to be known to strangers, such as the type of illness that ended the person's life or other circumstances in which they died.
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Why do users want to add every piece of private information on their relatives to Family Tree, or elsewhere on the internet? There are plenty of other options - like handwritten journals or databases that just sit on your personal hardware. After all, if they're private notes nobody else will see them, so what's the point in adding them to a program that is based on collaboration and sharing of information with other users?
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Paul W - to answer your question, we would like the option of saving sensitive info because as time goes by, that info may become less sensitive and can then be moved to public notes.
For example, in the case of a person who died of suicide or was murdered, plastering that info for public consumption right now may be painful to close relatives, but in 20, 30, or 50 years from now it will be just a historical fact.
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There is already a private option within Memories. Would that satisfy the need?
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@Joseph.H Unless your aunt died in the last few years, her Social Security Number is available on several free websites.
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