FamilyTreeNow
A people searchsite that exposes your name, address, phone, and relatives. Here's what they collect, how to opt out, and why it matters if you're on the job.
What FamilyTreeNow collects
- Full name and aliases
- Family relationships going back generations
- Birth and death dates
- Current and prior addresses
- Phone numbers
- Approximate age
How to opt out yourself
Direct opt-out: https://www.familytreenow.com/optout
- Open https://www.familytreenow.com/optout in a private window.
- Search your name on FamilyTreeNow to find your record.
- Submit the opt-out form with your record URL.
- Provide an email address.
- Click the verification link in the email.
- Allow 48 hours for the listing to drop.
What FamilyTreeNow knows about you
FamilyTreeNow positions itself as a free genealogy site — search a name and find their family tree. In practice, the family-tree data plus current address plus phone numbers makes it a people-search broker. The genealogy angle exposes parents, siblings, and extended-family relationships in a structured format most brokers don't offer.
Why it matters if you're on the job
Anyone running open-source research on you — OSINT, basically searching public sources — uses FamilyTreeNow to find family members. From there it's phishing, pretexting, or knocking on a relative's door. Once they have your name, they can pull your parents (often by birth/death dates), your siblings, and your extended family.
How to opt out
Standard search-claim-verify-by-email flow. FamilyTreeNow processes opt-outs faster than most — usually 48 hours. Steps in optOutSteps above.
What we do that's faster
We file the FamilyTreeNow opt-out and re-check every two weeks. Continuous coverage on every broker that re-lists in under six months.
Doing this for one broker is straightforward. Doing it for 200, on a continuous basis, is what we do.
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