![]() I appreciate your suggestion for creating a separate guest account for the purpose of taking an “outside” view of my tree. Step 1: From the Trees menu, select Create & Manage Trees. To start, you need to view your tree as a guest who doesn’t have permission to see living individuals. Not sure if your tree has private ancestors who shouldn’t be private? Instead, she shows up as Private, despite the fact that she would have been born more than 100 years ago.Īssuming the owner of Private’s family tree didn’t intentionally mark her as living, rule #3 (see above) didn’t work here.įrustrating? You betcha! How to Find and Fix Private Ancestors It would be nice to know who Ancestry thinks my 3x great-grandmother might be. Here’s an example from my own Ancestry ThruLines™: Is it to help your DNA matches find you and compare notes?Īnyone viewing your family tree for these and other reasons will find it extremely frustrating to climb your family tree only to find a private ancestor perched at the top.Is it to share what you know about your family history?.Think about why you have a public Ancestry family tree in the first place: Your public family tree works better – for you and for other researchers – when you aren’t displaying ancestors who shouldn’t be made private. RELATED: 10 Places to Search for Free Family History Books Online Why This Matters If all else fails and we can’t make a safe estimate, we assume the person is living to err on the safe side. In this case, we look at the birth dates of close relatives to estimate a birthdate if the birthdate is less than 100 years ago, they are considered to be living.Ĥ. The tricky part is if we don’t have birth or death information. If there’s not death information entered we look for a birth date, anyone younger than 100 is considered living.ģ. ![]() First we look for death information, anyone with death information (date, place, etc.) is dead-that one’s easy.Ģ. Secondly, if you add someone through a GEDCOM upload or link a tree from your Family Tree Maker software (where there’s not a living/deceased setting), then we calculate the living status based on the following rules:ġ. So how does Ancestry determine who’s living and who’s not in your family tree? This happens a couple of ways: First, when you add or edit a person on you set whether the person is deceased or living-and we respect that setting. If you uploaded a GEDCOM to create your Ancestry family tree, and you did not include death dates for some of your ancestors, they could be showing up as private… even if they’re long dead.Īccording to this archived blog post, here’s what is happening (emphasis added by me): ![]()
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