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Different ethical values

It is interesting that the guidelines on GR are different to how Ancestry view tree data.

Without boring members with the full details:-
In an email reply to my question I was advised that if a record was in the "Public Domain" Ancestry would not act to have the data removed.

"Members must have permission to add the names of any living relations to their tree."

https://www.genesreunited.co.uk/help/faqs?key=270

Also -

"You can opt to hide the details of living relatives in your tree. Please click here to be taken to the page to do this. You must choose 'yes' next to 'Hide living relations' and then save the changes.
This now means that the following will happen:
Any individual in your family tree with a year of birth within 120 years, and who has no date of death recorded in the tree, will be shown in the tree as hidden – this replaces the name usually shown in the tree. This also includes your own entry. All of their details will be hidden, including photos.

>>>>>> Please note that even if you have privatised your tree, the full names and details of the privatised names will appear in search results for other members. "<<<<

https://www.genesreunited.co.uk/help/faqs?key=110


The names are only hidden on your tree, not on search results.
Crazy, I know!

Yes, you are wrong to assume they can’t be seen. That was how I knew Alana had put her in her tree

The site’s guidelines say that one must have permission from any living person to include their details in a tree on here. Not sure how one accesses the guidelines these days - GR’s admin is virtually non-existent

Erika H
Are there rules about posting people on your tree? I haven't read that anywhere. I just assumed if they were still living (Ie you have clicked the living box) they wouldn't show to anyone else. Am I wrong?

Thiught the marriage was only a possibility

So can only suggest getting the later death cert for the parent

I see that you have included Susan's details in your GR tree. You can't have obtained her permission

Someone other than you has Alice Bluck in his tree -= are you in contact?

The Susan E Griffiths who married in 2004, as mentioned by Shirley, was born 1966-68, according to the ER on Ancestry.

Many thanks to you for helping. I know Griffiths is a difficult name to research in the Birmingham area. The details you gave regarding Susan's parents are my uncle and aunt.

Possible marriage in 2004 to Casey

Try the electoral rolls


Will pm you with a possible address

Or on this one but an earlier death

Name: Ernest William Griffiths
Death Age: 72
Birth Date: 27 Jun 1912
Registration Date: Mar 1985
Registration District: Birmingham
Inferred County: West Midlands
Volume: 32
Page: 1817



May show if Susan was the informant if she was single or not

Maybe Susan was the informant

Name: Alice Elizabeth Griffiths
Death Age: 78
Birth Date: 1 Mar 1918
Registration Date: Dec 1996
Registration District: Birmingham
Inferred County: West Midlands
Register Number: C5B
District and Subdistrict: 0611C
Entry Number: 295

Alice died in Birmingham in 1996 and Ernest may have died in 1985.

1939 reg

45 Cherrywood Road, Birmingham, Birmingham C.B., Warwickshire, England
First name(s) Last name(s) Birth date Sex Occupation Marital status Schedule Schedule sub number
Alfred J Bluck 11 Apr 1892 Male Railway Cartage Foreman Married 239 1
Alice E Bluck 07 Apr 1891 Female Unpaid Domestic Duties Married 239 2
Alfred C E Bluck 07 May 1913 Male Sheet Metal Worker Single 239 3
Alice E Griffiths (Bluck) 01 Mar 1918 Female Laundry Press Hand Single 239 4
Agnes A (H) Brown (Bluck) 01 Mar 1918 Female Laundry Hand Single 239 5

Parents marriage

Marriages Jun 1941
Bluck Alice E Griffiths Pershore 6c 713
Griffiths Ernest W Bluck Pershore 6c 713


Susan was reg Meriden reg district

Susan was born in Warwickshire in the summer of 1957. But there seem to be quite a few with the same name. Which makes searching for her difficult.

That one who died in Swansea appears to have been nee Roberts and married a Griffiths in 1984

She may have died, unmarried, in 2006 Swansea.

Start with ‘search all member trees’.

What research have you done yourself?

You can get accurate parental info by using freebmd

Hi all I am trying to find the whereabouts of my cousin Susan.
Her father was Ernest Griffiths and I believe her mother was Alice Elizabeth nee Bluck.
Her father was my father Alfred John Griffiths younger brother. We have not been in contact for over 40 years. Any information on her whereabouts would be good news

Alana