Genealogy Chat

It's got my attention... nudge up for others to see.

I've just tried that as well Cornish Susie. Same result as yours. Seems some privacy is being looked after thank goodness.

I did actually join Facebook in hopes of finding relatives with a less than common surname. De-activated my account last night!

You leave you stamp on *every* website you visit not just GR,,only by a certain word will google find it.so dont get paranoid over GR being picked up via a web search.Its not a fault with GR.

You leave your name,it can be found.

Take your point everyone - I'm not paranoid - honestly ( ! ) just intrigued at how much shows up on google. At least with a board name your identity etc is protected, but I'm certainly much more careful these days about how much detail my tree on here shows, and who I share it with.

Sue

Yes, as I said earlier
Yes, anything posted in public can be seen, even if later deleted; this is why search engines can be useful picking up things relating to family history.



Although deleted, it would be in "cached".

The last time I googled my maiden name, it came up with a posting on a site then called BidFrenzy

I'd never posted on that site, nor been a member of it.

BUT I was at that time a regular poster on Friends Reunited (parent of GR) .......... someone had taken a posting of mine from FR and re-posted it on BidFrenzy


I couldn't see which posting, or why it had been "lifted" because I couldn't get access to BF, even by clicking on it on Google ........ it just kept saying I had to be a member etc etc.




sylvia

nudge

I am so glad that I have read this thread .... started to Google family members. Have now found (almost anyway) my husband's cousin and his wife in Perth, Australia. Found a local newspaper report about his wife written in December 2009, this mentioned the primary school her children attend (scarey that !). I have since found a Facebook group for the school and put in a request for her to contact me, mentioned a nick name for her husband only known to a select few people so she will know it is really me trying to contact her.

We moved house in 2002 and lost both their e.mail and home addresses and I have been trying to trace her for a number of years. Think they have moved as well because my in-laws get Christmas cards every year and although they send cards also, the address they have is completeley different to the suburb where they live.

Fingers crossed thst Facebook comes up trumps.

Hi Julie,

Thank you very much for that helpful hint.

Regards
Anne-Marie

A nudge for people like me who didn't know this

Carol

I heard on the news this morning that Facebook are changing their privacy settings. Perhaps the message has got through to them at last.

Jeanie

Hi all,
Just read these threads whilst browsing the tips board, and i did what was suggested and googled my name, I was stunned to see that my facebook profile was there, what is the point of having a "password" if all and sundry can google you???? I am now going to follow the advice on altering my "settings"
I was also stunned that my thread regarding family was on there for all to see, obviousley did not read T & C very well !!!! thanks for the warning M.