Digital Privacy in Family History

Creating a Safe, Private Space for Your Family Stories

Recording now available in the Community Forum

Protecting the privacy of living people is one of the cardinal rules of not only genealogy but also communications in general. Things get complicated when you're telling stories — especially family stories.

What facts can you share, with whom, when, and how?

In the last of our five elemental workshops, we'll drill into PRIVACY and how to protect the biographical facts, artifacts, stories, and more you collect in digital form as part of your family history projects. Our goal is to focus on the technology, revealing the privacy risks you might not have been aware of as well as providing guidance on ways tools can be used to together to protect you and your family's data.

This workshop will primarily focus on protecting the privacy of family data. This includes not only basic biographical data like birth dates but also stories, photos, and other materials in digital form. We'll talk about a range of risks of exposing private information from hurt feelings to identity theft.

Your presenter, Barbara Tien, is one of the co-founders at Ponga.com where she co-hosted Zoomin' events and webinars. She was also the product and customer champion for the innovative platform. She is not selling or representing any vendor or service, so the opinions are her own.

In the spirit of community, we welcome insights and advice from members of our community, many of whom bring in expertise as professional photo organizers or vendor affiliates. This is not a venue for product or service pitches, however.

The program was presented on August 3rd and is available as a recording in the free post-Ponga community forum. Register to express interest in the program and gain access to the forum if you don't already have it.

If this is your first time registering for one of our programs, we will also add you to my email list for community updates and invite you to the free community forum. Watch for updates and an invitation to the Podia platform we use for the forum from projectkin.org@gmail.com.