FamilySearch website - Personal information removal

[dawnsh]

In England & Wales you have to supply the parents names as well.

I wonder how many people have applied for my birth cert since I turned 50 in 2012?

It's not hard to work out who my parents are if you're really determined.

[fifer1947]

As Ruskie pointed out at the beginning of this thread he provided the information for those that wanted to have their information removed.

It isn't up to anyone else to criticise their personal choice nor is it polite to tell anyone they are paranoid.  If YOU are happy to have your data on FS that's fine, nobody is stopping you having that right or choice, others think differently and that, equally, is their choice.

Thanks. 

[KGarrad]

I Think you're missing the point, fifer?

If the information that FS has is publicly available, why would they remove it?

You would need to go back to the original source of the data and ask THEM to remove your details.

[fifer1947]

I Think you're missing the point, fifer?

Nope I think you are.

This thread was put out not to question people's motives in wishing their data removed, but to provide information on how to do that.

[KGarrad]

As you wish, you have every right to ask, but I think FS and the LDS church will simply not accede to your wishes?

[BumbleB]

Perhaps the question that should be answered is "Is the problem only with Family Search having access to this information?"   

We know that this same information is available from 3 other sources - Ancestry, FindMyPast and FreeBMD - plus at least 7 other sites quoted by Dawnsh.

In other words, is only Family Search being targetted?

[Erato]

I wonder if, in some cases, they even can remove it?  What are they to do with a census page?  Black out the line that includes a forbidden name?  Fiddle with the index so that a search for that name comes up blank?  What if it's a common name?  Do the government agencies which supply the data even permit any alteration of the original database?

[fifer1947]

As you wish, you have every right to ask, but I think FS and the LDS church will simply not accede to your wishes?

Did I say I was?  A bit of an assumption on your part isn't it? I respect the rights of everyone to either have their data removed or not as they so wish.

You really shouldn't jump to conclusions 

[Rosinish]

"Let them add the info. when a safe time has lapsed/elapsed"

The government of a large country has decided that it is safe to release a census conducted in 1940.  Likewise, other national and state governments have made decisions about what information can safely and legally be made public.  I can't see where FamilySearch is wrong in accepting those decisions and making the information readily available.  Just because you think that anything less than 100 years is 'unsafe' doesn't mean that the whole world has to dance to your tune.

Again, you see what you want to see.

I didn't specify a time ...............merely "a safe" time.

I already stated the "100" was an example of contradiction against what is presently available on the LIVING 

In other words.........we WONT give you the addresses of the dead of 99 yrs ago but you CAN have the addresses of the people living in these houses at present 

1940 is not PRESENT....................it's over 70 yrs ago which is fine.