Are their sites that do not require registration to view family tree ?

Replies to This Discussion

Permalink Reply by Tamura Jones on July 20, 2009 at 10:28am

WebTree advertises "Embed your tree on any website or blog" right on their home page.
Verwandt.de offers embeddable surname maps.

Permalink Reply by Brian DeGraaf on July 21, 2009 at 3:44pm

Tamura, Thanks for your website ideas. Your mentions of the sites must of been just that, mentions, and not endorsements. I signed up to give WebTree a try. I want to make it clear that any frustrations I write about are with WebTree and not with Tamura's suggestions ;-)

WebTree does sound exactly like a family-tree tool with the options I am looking for. However, There is no ability to change my account information after I signed up. My e-mail address is public by default and I'm unable to change it. My complete name is also public and I'm unable to change it too. You can see my public profile here: http://webtree.com/StartingRoots . This brings up obvious privacy issues especially if WebTree.com is searchable at Internet search engines.

I have messaged WebTree.com requesting to change my Name and e-mail address. I will share their response when and if I receive one.

One other thing I just noticed; WebTree.com doesn't have a terms-of-service nor privacy-policy stated.

Permalink Reply by Brian DeGraaf on July 21, 2009 at 3:59pm

I received this e-mail response from WebTree.com . It sounds like FamilyLink is going to continue improvements to WebTree.com even though their shutting down FamilyLink.com . Well, that is the way I decipher the e-mail :


Dear Brian,

Thank you for contacting us. We apologize for any delay in responding to your email. At this time based on our customer feedback, we are currently working to create a more enhanced online family tree that will help give our members a better customer experience.

Webtree.com will still be made available to its current users however; FamilyLink.com will not be providing any customer support at this time. We apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused and will keep all of our users up to date as to when the new family tree becomes available.

Again we apologize and thank you for being a part of our family.

--
Thank you,
Webtree.com Customer Support
Website: Webtree.com
Email: support@webtree.com

Permalink Reply by Tamura Jones on July 21, 2009 at 5:59pm

You are right, there are no privacy options, and there is no privacy policy.
It's a pity it ain't the right solution, but I'd say you got a blogging topic out of it ;-)

I know that embedding geni.com trees has come up on their bulletin boards, but they are not offering it yet.

You could put your data on say geni.com and link to it, just as people link to RootsWeb.

Don't think you want this (you said you do not want to run a site), but there is an experimental WordPress PhpGedView (WPPGV) plug-in: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wppgv/

Permalink Reply by Chris Whitten on January 2, 2010 at 6:55am

I know this was posted months ago, so it may be too late to matter, but ...

I'm the webmaster of WikiTree.com. At WikiTree, family trees are public once there are no connections to living people. For example if you're living but your parents have passed away, your parents are still not public. But beyond this it's open.

Sample WikiTree family tree

John Adams family tree