How privacy works
Tsev Neeg lets you record a relative’s address and phone number so you have them in one place. It never shows them to anyone else.
This matters more for a community this well connected. A published tree is meant to help a cousin find you, not to hand anyone a directory of where your family sleeps at night.
What other people can see
When you publish a tree, everyone in it becomes searchable under four things: their name, their city, state and country, their birth and death years, and how they connect to the rest of the family. That is the entire list.
What nobody else can see
Street address, postal code, phone number, email, and your private notes. These are stored in a separate table from the rest of a person’s record, and the database rule on that table permits exactly one reader: the account that owns the tree.
This is not a display setting. Search, the map, and the public tree page are built on a database view that does not include those columns at all. There is no query available to them that could return an address.
Why map pins sit in the middle of a city
A pin marks a city, not a home. When you save someone’s location, only the city, state and country are sent to the geocoding service. The street address is never transmitted anywhere. Everyone in the same city shares the same coordinate, which is why a pin shows a count rather than a scatter of individual dots.
Private trees
A tree starts private and stays private until you publish it. While it is private, nobody else can open it, search it, or see any of its people on the map. Switching it back to private removes it from search and the map immediately.
Adding people who are not you
You can record any relative, living or deceased. Be thoughtful about publishing a tree containing living people who have not agreed to it. a name and a city is not much, but it is not nothing. If someone wants their entry removed, the tree owner can delete them, or make the whole tree private, at any time.