Making tree PRIVATE

sharonmruiz

How do you make a tree private?

Thanks.

Sharon

Graham Buckell

Apart from records of living people, which are always private, you cannot make a tree private. This is due to the nature of Family Tree. I suggest that you read the article

https://www.familysearch.org/en/help/helpcenter/article/what-is-the-purpose-of-familysearch-and-family-tree

sharonmruiz

Thank you very much!!!!

denisecynthiawatson1

Hello, at Roots tech conference 2023, a mention was made that a private family tree attached to your profile would soon be a new feature on family search with a public tree that everyone can see and access alongside it but I can't find any information about how, what and when?

Gordon Collett

As I understood from the RootsTech presentation, and from previous discussions, but which we won’t really know until we see it, is that the upcoming feature is not that we have a “private tree” but that we will have an expanded ability to see living people.

Right now we have a branch in Family Tree of Living people that are private and that only we can see that lets us connect to our deceased relatives that are in the public part of the tree.

If I am anywhere close to right about what is coming, it is that in addition to the collection of private people we currently have, we will be able to create a group with other users and all be able to see the same living people.

I would assume this will be part of the current Family Group structure. In that, we can belong to up to ten groups. Since the RootsTech presentation showed that there would be a notation showing which group one was currently working in, I would also guess that we could belong to more than one group such as having our own group of living people, as we do now, belonging to a group with our maternal cousins and working on the living people that are descendants of our maternal grandparents, and maybe also belonging to a group with paternal cousins and working together documenting living people that are descendants of our paternal grandparents.

I heard no talk of any private trees for deceased individuals. When you review the presentation, you will see that one of graphics showed a landscape pedigree view with a line down the middle separating the living people showing which were in a shared private space and the deceased people which were in the universal shared public space.