I saw this privacy doc, which suggests that as a user when I create links in the family tree, they are private to only to that user, and others can't see them. But the lines get blurry when a person in the tree dies, the record becomes "public".
But what if my sibling has kids, added to the tree, and one dies. Say my sibling is in the tree, and our parents, and it is all private to me. Does that mean that whole branch becomes visible down the tree to the kid of my sibling? Or does it appear as a floating node with no parents (assuming we wanted to keep the parent detail private)?
Where can I find more information on all of the privacy rules for modern family tree websites like familysearch.com? I would like to know:
- How they have solved the problem of giving a family member access to all of the tree they created, or just a portion of that tree (seems like they would have to give a family member access to each individual link in the tree, so they can only see a portion of it, which seems like a really hard problem to solve).
- How they solve the problem of creating public trees where certain branches are private? Maybe a user on some of these sites can "publish" their tree and make it public, is that allowed anywhere?
Basically I would like to know the basic privacy / protection / permission rules applied to family tree apps like familysearch.com.