Genealogy Chat

I e-mailed a radio programme once - and was amazed to dicover that the e-mail (which was quite personal) could be Googled!!
Fortunately, unlike many people, my e-mail address isn't under my 'proper' first name - I use a nickname, so had to google my nickname (ie 'chalky' white) to see the e-mail.

I didn't realise that this happened so I did as Elizabeth suggested and Googled my name and yes, there I was on Facebook and I have only been on it a few times!! Frightening.

Makes one a little more careful in the future, but it's a worry as to what some of the kids are putting on the likes of Facebook thus on the net.

As the sender of the pm that started this off - I was taken aback and googled it - and my goodness the rest of this thread is on there as well!

Jeanie - it's only the boards that are generally available - trees are not.

Amazed and quite worried to discover this thread. Had no idea this information so widely available. Have looked into concealing living people but seems to me this in some ways makes a bit of a nonsense of sharing trees at all. For example my father's eldest brother (very big family) was born 1894. I doubt he is still living but have no idea when he died so no date of death shown. As is the case for many relatives. If privacy setting means no-one else can see anyone born less than 120 years ago sharing a tree with someone who you are pretty sure is a distant relative would not be very helpful to them. Or am I misunderstanding.

I have a message from one of my firm confidants,,.that Google now have complete access to whatever is written on these Boards..........I don't think that's a problem per se..but could be when it comes to living relatives.....

Derek (Derbyshire)

oh that can be great fun!!


My daughter has a rather rare christian name ................. years ago she googled it to see how many there might be in the world.

Only about 10 listed


BUT






........................... lots of very dodgy sites by ladies from the Philippines and Malaysia, all allegedly having that same name! The services they offered were mind boggling!




sylvia

Try "googleing" your own name-you may be surprised !

which is also why you should be very careful about asking for look ups for people potentially still living, especially if the look up includes some sensitive info e.g. about illegitimate children etc

Oh yes, anything on the site other than a PM is potentially visible on the internet.

This is from GR's privacy statement within their T's and C's

"Any posting, including but not limited to the family tree details and/or message board postings you submit to the Genes Reunited Service (including any personal information you post) may be able to be viewed by non-Member internet users around the world including via internet search engines. We advise that you never reveal via the Genes Reunited Service any personal information about yourself or anyone else (for example: telephone numbers, home addresses or email addresses) which you do not want to be visible to third parties. "

Yes indeed it will as Genes is an open forum .

I put a thread on here yesterday, and someone replied. Nothing wrong with that. BUT
today a friend forwarded me a Google alert with that persons message on. Fortunately the content was only saying that they sent me a private email, but be very careful what you put on here.

I never realised Google could filter messages on this site.