This New Creepy Website Knows Everything About Your Family – and it’s Free
Anyone who knows your name can discover your home address and the addresses of every member of your extended family thanks to a new free genealogy website, FamilyTreeNow.com.
In less than five seconds, FamilyTreeNow.com accurately listed my age, my birthdate and eight of the last nine addresses where I received mail. It also accurately listed the names, birthdates and addresses of my parents and my brother – all tied to my name.
Disturbingly, FamilyTreeNow.com is totally free and does not even require registration. It gets all of its data from public records.
Nor is it just relatives who might be listed at FamilyTreeNow.com. Washington Post reporter Abby Ohlheiser discovered that the names of a former roommate and her ex-boyfriend were listed as “associates.”
“The site listed my 3- and 5-year-olds as ‘possible associates,’” Anna Brittain, a writer from Birmingham, Ala., told The Post. She said FamilyTreeNow “scared me to death.”
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Ohlheiser’s description of FamilyTreeNow as “creepy” seems very accurate. There are other similar sites that scan public records available online, but most of them charge a fee for searches and require registration.
Who Is Behind FamilyTreeNow?
Ohlheiser was not able to determine who was behind FamilyTreeNow.com. She located a company called Family Tree Now LLC, but was unable to find anyone willing to talk.
Opting out of FamilyTreeNow is fairly easy. All you have to do is follow these steps.
- Visit FamilyTreeNow.com/optout.
- Click on the “I’m not a robot” captcha at the bottom of the page.
- Click “begin.”
- Run a search for yourself by entering your name, state and city and age.
- Read the record carefully to make sure it is you.
- Click the big red “opt out” button.
- Visit the site 48 hours later to make sure the information has been deleted.
There is another low-tech way to keep your home address off of sites like FamilyTreeNow. Simply get a mailing address other than your home, such as a P.O. Box.
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OK. I went there and looked me up.
Their information is only partially correct.
I bet it’s more correct now that it just tricked you to adding yourself to it. All these are a mass data collection
I went there and put my neighbors names in…
But you’re already in it if your name came up, and it will if you’ve ever conducted business, legal or otherwise, that required personal information being saved by whomever you did business with. DMV, Taxes, Credit Card, Bank Account, etc…
Of course I’m guessing at some of this because I noticed none of my nephews or nieces came up. All of them would be in a database somewhere for medical, or school, but none of them are old enough that their signature would be binding to any type of legal mumbo-jumbo. So, I have to assume the trigger is that you’re old enough, probably 18, to sign your name as the responsible party.
Nice, free advertising for another data aggregation service with about half of the info being incorrect. lol
Another fishing expedition. Nice address book but says nothing about family trees that is accurate.
That’s where james alefantis gets his info to rub you out.
Click bait… miners.
I put my name in and it couldn’t find ANYTHING! My bet is, if it’s click bait or data gathering after putting your name in it that it still will not find anything on me.
Only works for Americans though. Where’s the fun in that?
Ok. Let me try again: Would’ve been cool if it worked for everyone. Apparently it only works for the US though.