How is the deceased spouse listed as private?

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How can there be collaboration when a deceased person is set to private?  How is that even done?
WikiTree profile: Dora Hillman
in Genealogy Help by Anonymous Anonymous G2G1 (1.1k points)
Try to contact the profile manager as he is the manager of all three profiles.

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Privacy comes in several different flavors, so it doesn't necessarily mean it is 100% private - just that the relationship portion of the privacy is flipped "on" so that you are unable to see much about this particular profile. Sometimes this is done intentionally to prevent others from seeing the relationships and/or the details within the profile. Other times, it's done accidentally just because someone doesn't understand what the privacy settings will actually do. I would ask the profile manager if they know who this person is that is marked as private, if they're able to see the actual profile ID and who the profile manager is, and then hopefully they can ask the PM if they can either loosen the restrictions or open it altogether. They "technically" are within the acceptable privacy restrictions for that profile (most likely), but without actually viewing it I can't be 100% certain.
by Scott Fulkerson G2G Astronaut (1.5m points)
Hmm... backtracking up and down the tree, it's odd that I can see the person by going to one of the children and looking at the father. I just can't see from the wife. That is odd... perhaps he has the marriages portion blocked out. Not sure on that one.
And just for the record, it's plain old Yellow privacy. Private with Public Biography. I'd have to hunt down the formal definition of that one.
Might be something unique as she has 2 spouses - both are Yellow, while she is Green privacy. Neither husband can be seen from her profile, but can be seen from the children's profile. And neither husband can see the other. I'm thinking I'm out of my depth with being able to explain this one.

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