Hide private and living persons

Hide private and living persons
Summary	Children marked Private and/or Living will not be shown in the family section of a person page and the descendants pages including the family group page. Father/Mother/Spouses marked Private and/or Living will not have a hyperlink to their person page.
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Mod Updated	14 Apr 2024
Download link	For TNG 14.0 hide_private_and_living_persons_v14.0.4.1.zip
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Author(s)	Rob van Rij
Homepage	Hide private and living persons (This page)
Mod Support	TNG Community Forums
Contact Developer	info@brabantse-genealogie.nl
Latest Mod	14.0.4.1 for TNG V14.0.4
Min TNG V	13.0.4
Max TNG V	14+
Files modified	getperson.php, ajx_perspreview.php, tngdblib.php, descend.php, descendtext.php, descendvert.php, familychart.php, familygroup.php, extrastree.php, showmap.php, showmedialib.php, headstones.php, showalbum.php, browsemedia.php, showsource.php
Related Mods	Family Group Worksheet
Notes	When using the Family Group Worksheet Mod, be aware that this mod does NOT HIDE the persons that are marked living or private!!

Purpose of the Mod

This Mod changes how TNG shows personal information of private and living persons.

The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) states that personal data of living people may only be disclosed after explicit written consent of the person. However, there is no protection for personal data of death people.

This mod uses the Living and Private flag for hiding or showing the persons and links. You have to apply the private and living flags to the persons in order to hide these persons with this mod.

In TNG you can mark persons private or living. Although it will hide personal information for that person it still reveals information about the relationship for this person and if exists further hierarchy information. This mod hides anything that could possibly reveal personal information that according to GDPR is not allowed or debatable.

The mod does the following:

1. It does not show children if they are marked living or private in the family section of a person page and the related descendant pages and family group page. The default behaviour of TNG is that for living and private marked children you will see for such a child 'Living' or 'Private' including a link to the person page of the child. This means that you still reveal information on the number of children for a family and if exist relations of this child. By using this Mod children are not shown and no hyperlink will exist to the child person page.
2. It removes the hyperlink on the person pages for father/mother/spouses if they are marked living or private. You will still see the indication if father/mother/spouses are marked living or private but the hyperlink is removed.
3. It removes the hyperlink on all other pages for persons marked living or private. You will still see the indication Living or Private but there is no hyperlink to the respected person page.

Developer

Mod Developer is Rob van Rij

Credits for fixes and updates to: Ken Roy, MichelK, Rob Severijns.

Requirements

• A working TNG installation.
• A backup of all affected files (see the list in the summary in the upper right corner of the page)
• An installed current version of the Mod Manager.

Revision History

Mod Version	TNG Version	Date	Contents
14.0.4.1	14.0.4	14 Apr 2024	Refactored the mod and fixed various bugs thanks to the testing effort of John Mark Motyer Fixed bug on show... pages Fixed bug showing consecutive entries on 1 line Fixed mod bug in headstones.php
14.0.3.1	14.0.3	09 Dec 2023	Updated with fixes for browsemedia.php, showalbum.php and showsource.php
14.0.3.0	14.0.3	09 Oct 2023	Updated with the fixes and updates from Ken Roy, MichelK, Rob Severijns for TNG 14.0.3 - For details see cfg file.
14.0.1.0b	14.0.1	14 Mar 2023	Updated by MichelK for TNG 14.0.1 - Fix an error in the code - Fix a compatibility problem with install with Collapse Family Children (Thx to Rob Severijns)
13.0.4.5	13.0.4	06 Feb 2022	Updated version including fix for Motherrow
13.0.4.4	13.0.4	10 Sep 2021	Updated version including fix for headstones
13.0.4.3	13.0.4	09 Sep 2021	Updated version including fixes for showmedialib
13.0.4.2	13.0.4	02 Sep 2021	Updated version including fixes for descendant tabs
13.0.4.1	13.0.4	27 Aug 2021	Updated version to work for all private and living persons
13.0.4.0	13.0.4	09 Aug 2021	Updated version of the mod for TNG 13.0.4

Conflicts

When using the Family Group Worksheet Mod, be aware that this mod does NOT HIDE the persons that are marked living or private!!

Installation

1. Uninstall and delete previous version of this mod (if installed)
2. Download the appropriate zip file as shown in the mod summary in the upper right corner of the page.
3. Extract the file from the downloaded zip file into the mods folder or FTP the extracted file to your mods folder.
4. Follow the normal automated installation for Mod Manager, as shown in the example Mod Manager - Installing Config Files to install the mod.

In the event of a problem

• Try using the Mod Manager Remove capability
• Copy the backup of the affected files back to your TNG directory
• Contact us through the TNG Community Forums.

Uninstalling the mod

If you want to completely Remove (uninstall) this mod and any tables if created, you should

1. click the Uninstall button to uninstall the mod
2. click the Delete button to delete the config file from the mods folder.

Upgrade

• Uninstall and eventually Delete the current Mod.
• Proceed as for an installation with the new Mod.

Related Links

The following mods are also related to the Hide private and living children

• When using the Family Group Worksheet Mod be ware that this mod does NOT HIDE the children that are marked living or private!!

Sites using this mod

If you download and install this mod, please add your TNG site to the table below:

URL	User	Note	Mod-Version	TNG-Version	User-language
Genealogy van Rij (van Riede, van Reij, van Rije)	Rob van Rij	Developed the mod.	14.0.4.1	14.0.4.1	DE,EN,NL
Population reconstruction Baarle-Nassau/Hertog and surrounding places	Rob van Rij	Developed the mod.	14.0.4.1	14.0.4.1	DE,EN,NL
South Brazilian Family Trees	Carlos Heuser		13.0.4.3	13.0.4	DE,EN,PT
Helwegs Ahnen	Andreas Helweg	Public site	13.0.4.4	13.1	DE,EN,NL,DK
American Kindred	kentuckykindred	public	14.0.0.0	13.1.2	EN
Dabbling in Genealogy	Jeff Rueger	Public/Private	14.0.1.0b	14.0.1	EN,FR
Wortelboer genealogie	Bernard Wortelboer	Public	14​.0​.1​.0b	14.0.1	NL,EN
GénéaKat	Katryne Chauvigné-Bourlaud	Public & Private	14​.0​.1​.1a​_MK	14.0.4	FR,EN,SP
MOTYER & BENJAMIN Family Genealogy (Bermuda branches)	John Mark Motyer	Public site	See here	See here	EN