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In reply to the discussion: Do you collect anything as a hobby? [View all]DebJ
(7,699 posts)so as to insure that every single living person is listed as living. For awhile there, the program was
set up to default to dead unless you changed it to living, meaning all of that person's information would
be public...birth dates, etc. I have slowed down in my tree now with a base of 7300 people. So if i get
the time to go back to insure that every living person (or might be living person) which is hundreds
are each set up as 'living', then I would feel free to do so. I've seen many a person on other public
trees whose info had been inadvertently revealed this way, and immediately advised the tree owner
of such so they could change it. Problem is, sometimes people don't check their ancestry mail for
months at a time. So, that's why.