Family Tree Now

How Giving Out Your Phone Number Can Hurt You

... a little bitty clause in little fine writing that says your information is now ours and we’re going to share it to everybody we want to. And it’s sold, it’s given away and all these telemarketers get it and they call you,” says Detective Laura Soulier with the Mobile County Sheriff’s Office. And it can reveal a lot about you. Just a quick search on a website like Family Tree __link__ shares the names of relatives and past and current addresses. Anything that is open records, they can find. “And that’s just the free stuff that they can get their hands on! If they actually wanted to go online and pay for a background check on you, they can get a lot more stuff,” says Soulier. And if it’s that easy for businesses or telemarketers to get that information, think about how easy it is for scammers to get it. All they need to do is email you saying you’ve won a free cruise and all you have to do is write back with a few details like your address and phone number, that is, if they haven’t gotten it already from a third party source. That’s why Soulier says always think twice before ...

Website Displaying Personal Information Of Police Officers Is Misleading

... Step 2: After you have found yourself in the results, click on the record detail. Verify that this is yourself and not just someone else with your same name. Step 3: After you are 100% sure this is your record, click the big red ‘Opt Out’ button that is on the page. Step 4: You are done. Please allow up to 48 hours for your request to be processed. Once it’s processed that record will be removed from all places on the site. Note: If you have multiple records that need to be removed, repeat steps 1-4. Many users pointed out, however, that there are hundreds of other public records sites out there so opting out wouldn’t make much of a difference. Others, who were specifically focused on police officers, said their patrol car was parked in front of their home anyway so the website wasn’t a big concern. “I don’t even know if it really even matters anymore,” one commenter wrote. “How many other sites like this are there? If someone wants to find you, they will find you.”. Other websites that offer the same ...

Warning Issued About Website Offering Family Information For Free

... a few key strokes and quick click your name, age, and all your previous addresses can pop up for anyone to see. Newschannel 3’s Lourin Sprenger searched her name and it brought up information for her family, even extended family, dozens of names in all. “Really naïve of anyone to think that we can hide anymore or live in anonymity,” said Chief Jeff Hadley, Kalamazoo Department of Public Safety. The site, Family Tree Now is designed to “trace your history back hundreds of years,” putting you in touch with your own genealogy, but some say it’s putting others in touch with a whole lot of personal information. “There’s just a whole lot of our information out in the world and we don’t know where it landed,” said Chief Hadley. “Something we need to have in our consciousness and be aware of.”. A warning was issued on social media for police officers, encouraging them to opt out of the information to protect themselves and their families. Chief Hadley says our information is often legally sold without us knowing, and as technology ...

You've Probably Never Heard Of This Creepy Genealogy Site, But It Knows A Lot About You

... note whether an individual is a member of law enforcement or not. Several Washington Post reporters checked their own listings on the site in response to these warnings. The listings largely appeared to be thorough and accurate - although not perfect in every case. My listing had accurate home addresses going back several years, my correct age and birth month, and links to the names, ages and profiles of my family members. It also flagged two "possible associates" for me, people who Family Tree Now believed might be connected to me somehow, based on its aggregation of public records. Those "possible associates" were my former roommate and my ex-boyfriend. I also opted out; within an hour or so of doing that, my listing was no longer accessible. You can still see that there's a listing for me on Family Tree Now when you search for my ...

Family Tree Website Causing Concern For Privacy

... for privacy. 2017-01-11 T 00:26:53 Z. AMARILLO, TX (KFDA) -. An easily accessible database is causing some alarm in Amarillo. It's a fairly simple process.you put your first and last name into __link__ , and it will pull up a list of all your family members and your current and previous addresses. And as you can imagine this is unsettling to a lot of people. It's a scary thought to think anyone with internet can access personal information about you, but that's the reality. With just a quick search at __link__ , you can find your address, your relatives and their addresses. "That website is not doing anything unusual at all. In fact, it's become the norm," says Life Lock Director of Security Communications Joe Gervais. "There are any number of websites out there, any number of service providers where you can search public records easily.one stop shopping.". These types of sites concerning, considering the number of identity thieves and other criminals. "It seems that everything they find is public record that has been found somewhere on the internet," says APD Officer Jeb Hilton. "They've got people that go through and search and gather ...

A Dive Into Birmingham's Greek Restaurant Family Tree

... became the Millionaire Banana King after he introduced the fruit to Birmingham in 1888. Today, Alex Kontos Fruit remains in business, still helmed by a Kontos. Alex's son-in-law founded the legendary John's Restaurant downtown in the 1940 s. More than a century after Kontos sold his first banana, granddaughter Zoe Cassimus and great-grandson John Cassimus ran popular restaurants, including the namesake franchise, Zoe's. In Bessemer, a procession of Peleta-born relatives named Bonduris and Koikos, and their U. S-born offspring, built a restaurant into an award-winning institution. Established in 1907, The Bright Star is still family owned. Generations named Hontzas have fed Birmingham. Hontzas restaurants Niki's Downtown and Niki's West provided first jobs to immigrant cousins, uncles, and brothers, many of whom later opened their own restaurants. Each of these families represents a branch of the monumental Greek ...

This Ancestry Website Might Reveal Information You Don't Want Public

... "compiled from 1000's of U. S. public records sources, including property, business, historical and current records.". Even if the information is public record, a lot of people don't want their addresses on display for any internet harasser or real-life stalker to find. @familytreenow How do I take everything about me off your site? Had a week from hell from a stalker who got info from you. Thanks for that. — Mary L. (@Ms Vegas Mary) May 5, 2015. Twitter user  @Almost_Anna  posted a thread with step-by-step instructions on how to opt out and get your personal information off the site. 1) familytreenow dot com only needs your name and your city to pull up the following information. — Anna Brittain (@Almost_Anna) January 10, 2017. 2) *your spouse. — Anna Brittain (@Almost_Anna) January 10, 2017. 3) if you're a part of an online community, ...

Familytreenow Website Causing Alarm

... EST 2017-01-13 00:14:55 GMT. Thursday, January 12 2017 7:14 PM EST 2017-01-13 00:14:55 GMT. Back dropped by the US and Cuban flags, US President Barack Obama, left, and Cuba's President Raul Castro gesture during a press conference following a joint statement in Havana, Cuba, Monday, March 21, 2016. (Source: AP Photo/Dennis Rivera). The Obama administration is ending the "wet foot, dry foot" policy that granted residency to Cubans who arrived in the United States without visas. Thursday, November 3 2016 8:36 AM EDT 2016-11-03 12:36:17 GMT. A father in England is sharing his daughter's fight with childhood cancer with the world after doctors have told them she only has weeks to live. Thursday, April 14 2016 4:18 PM EDT 2016-04-14 20:18:51 GMT. Friday, April 15 2016 2:28 PM EDT 2016-04-15 18:28:34 GMT. A screenshot of the video from Shana Perez's Facebook page. (Source: Facebook screenshot). A Georgia mother said she's upset that her son was paddled as a part of disciplinary actions at school - and she posted the videos of the incident to social media. Thursday, January ...

Does Familytreenow Display Sensitive Personal Information

... below. The web site in question,  Family Tree __link__ , allows users to look up a person by first and last name. The site then pulls up information about the named person obtained from public records, such as age, month and year of birth, immediate family members and "associates," and past and current addresses. The searches are provided free of charge. The site does not specifically categorize members of law enforcement, but of course any user who knew enough about a particular police officer (such as name and hometown) could potentially retrieve more information about that person. Persons whose information appears on the web site can use the "opt out" to block their information from being displayed to users, and our tests so far indicate that that option does work. However, as we have noted about similar search services in the past, your personal information will still be ...