Family Tree now supports a new feature called private spaces. The addition of private spaces is the result of bringing new.familysearch.org to a close and moving all of that data over to Family Tree.
Each Family Tree user now has a private space that allows them to manage their own private information. The information in that space can only be seen by the individual user and no one else. All living people, their relationships, and their data will be stored in that space. For example, I can view information about myself and my close living relatives that I have added to Family Tree in this private space but no one else can. Information that someone else has added about living people, their relationships, and their data will be stored in their own private space.
When a user sees a banner like the one shown below, it means that they are viewing private information and no one else can see this specific view.
FamilySearch.org is currently in the process of doing the following:
- Moving the data of all living people from new.FamilySearch.org to Family Tree.
- Removing links that tie information about living LDS Family Tree users to their Church membership records. (This is the case only for those tree users who are members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Those who are not members of the LDS Church never had these links to begin with.)
- Giving each person a private space for viewing their own private information.
These changes allow users to modify information for themselves and for living family members who are part of their Family Tree. For example, if I list one of my children on my own tree and want to add his marriage date, I can do that in my private space. However, the changes I make in my private space do not show up on their private space.
