In Family Tree, profiles of confidential people have limited visiblity. Users should consider setting memory visibility to private or limited access.
Family Tree information
If the person's profile is in your FamilySearch tree (your private tree), then only you can see the profile information on a pedigree and the person page.
If the profile is in a family group tree, all members of the group can see it.
If you do not know which tree you are in, look at the far left side of the Family Tree menu.
Memories
All memories—even those attached to confidential people—are publicly viewable by default and potentially findable:
- They can be shared through linking, social media, and email.
- They can be found through a topic tag search in FamilySearch Memories.
- They may be found using Google and other search engines.
If this is acceptable, you can leave the memory's visibility setting at public. Otherwise, we recommend that you open the memory and change the visibility setting to private (only you) or limited access (only members of a family group).
Please see our Submission Agreement before adding memories to FamilySearch.
Change history
Sometimes, a confidential person is linked to a deceased person that all FamilySearch users see.
If another user merges or deletes the publically visible deceased person, FamilySearch updates the change history of the living or confidential person to show that a change was made to the relationship between the confidential person and the deceased person.
This update may show the contact ID of the user who performed the merge or delete. This user did not see the confidential person.
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