Method for establishing and maintaining a digital family and friends tree

A method for establishing and maintaining a digital family and friends tree, comprising:

• providing a private social network operating on a system that comprises:
• a cloud-based server having a memory and programmed instructions stored therein,
• a plurality of computing devices in operative connection and communication with the cloud-based server, each computing device in the plurality comprising a display, a processor and a memory, wherein the computing device is configured to access the memory and programmed instructions stored in the cloud-based server and execute at least some of the programmed instructions;
• enabling a user to subscribe to the private social network to become a subscriber,
• wherein the private social network comprises other subscribers and wherein the subscribers can execute the programmed instructions using a computing device in the plurality of computing devices;
• wherein the subscriber accesses the programmed instructions with a computing device and actuates the accessed programmed instructions to perform:
• establishing a private circle comprising the subscriber and of some of the other subscribers to the private social network, wherein the private circle is enabled to include both current subscribers and future subscribers who are not yet born, or are newborn, but are identified by relationship with the subscriber;
• building, by at least one subscriber of the private circle, the digital family and friends tree formed of members who are also subscribers of the private circle;
• validating, by at least two subscribers of the private circle, the identities of one or more additional subscribers to the private circle;
• for each of the one or more additional subscribers, after validating the identity of the additional subscriber:
• granting the additional subscriber access to the digital family and friends tree and adding a digital profile of the additional subscriber to the digital family & friends tree;
• and
• creating and storing digital content associated with the additional subscriber's digital profile in a data library located in the memory of the cloud-based server of the system;
• for each of one or more ancestors of at least one of the subscribers of the private circle:
• adding a digital profile of the ancestor to the digital family and friends tree;
• and
• creating and storing digital content associated with the ancestor's digital profile in a data library located in the memory of the cloud-based server of the system,
• wherein the digital profile of each subscriber and ancestor added to the digital family and friends tree is represented on an interactive digital map as a pin in a geographic location associated with the subscriber or ancestor.