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Remove yourself from FamilySearch

Estimated time: 15 minutes. Difficulty: medium.

Steps

  1. FamilySearch is a free genealogy site, but its indexed "historical" collections (public records, directories, voter rolls) include plenty of living people. Sign in with a free account at familysearch.org and use Search → Records to find entries about you.
  2. Open each record about you and copy the URL from the address bar. FamilySearch uses that URL to tell your entry apart from the thousands of similar names in its database — a request without it goes nowhere.
  3. Open the FamilySearch Data Privacy Request form (hosted by TrustArc).
  4. Fill in your details, state your relationship to the person in the record (yourself, or someone you are legal guardian of — those are the only two they accept), paste the record URL, solve the CAPTCHA and confirm. No ID upload is asked for up front.
  5. Once FamilySearch acts, the record page itself shows "Record Removed" straight away. Search results can lag "several days or weeks" behind because of indexing delays.
  6. Search for yourself again after a couple of weeks and file another request for anything that's left.
One request covers one record URL, so several listings mean several requests. This form is for indexed historical records only — if a relative has put you in the shared Family Tree, living people there are private to the person who added them, and you'd need to ask that contributor to delete the profile.
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