 Welcome. Hi everyone. This is the Midnight Madness and we've got a lot of friends with us here. How's everybody doing? Everybody doing okay? Second Midnight Madness? Yeah. Everybody's chatting. Everybody's doing well. A lot of fun chat. I dropped the link for the selfies. If there's one of the selfies that we do take one before we came live. I think Chris did, right? Tania, you did. I got my selfie. Yes. So make sure you guys take the selfie as well. And last time I checked, we're going to go over stats in a minute. But last time I checked, we had 52,000 profiles up from the connected line. That's amazing. Good work guys. Good work. So what's happening in your own life? Chris, David, Cathy, Darren, Tania, everybody in chat. Everybody. Well, I'm currently working on one of my, a while back I did a family tree. One of my friends, Anthony, also a family in Sicily and another one in a few other places. So I'd start, you know, I was going to transfer his tree to WikiTree. Why not? You know, I asked if it was okay. He said, yeah, I was trying. Yeah, so. Okay. Alright, whatever. I hope everybody in chat just smiled for Cathy. She just. I don't know what I do. Like deja vu. Oh, then you didn't see all of this three four hours ago, but you saw Chris. Oh, just about four hours ago. Yeah. I really like to do on the game shows where we film three episodes all back and back. Well, as you know, this is kind of our midnight madness and we've got some fun things to go over. I have got questions. I need answers to everybody in chat and everybody that you see here are going to help me with these questions that I need answers to. But first, there is kind of very interesting way to do stats. So let me bring up the stats real quick and let's go up and let me refresh you there so we can see what we're looking at. And we have 50. Oh, this sounds like a number. Greg would like 52 222 or how many profiles we have in Darren. Where are we starting? We're looking at the users. Yeah, we're looking at the users and I worked out that this is the 11's hangout. So I'm going to do positions that have got okay. I did forget something. Let me interrupt real quick. Let me bring this up really quick. Give me one second and let me make sure I get this right because I know everybody is also here to win a prize. Yeah, as well. So let me tell you what the word is. Everybody type in ancestors. And while you're typing, Darren's going to tell us starting at 11th place, right? Yep, starting at 11th place. We've got Alan Key in whistle. He's keeping on the spleen of streusel. He's got 642 profiles done so far. And we do a big jump down to position 111. 111. Yep. There we go. At least that person is in a keyway because then they'll be bringing the emergency number here. Yeah, so we've got Aaron M Astell, Canadian connectors. And am I reading it this right? She's got 111 profiles as well. Yeah, that's her position number. Yeah, very good love. No, she's got 100. And then we're going to go to 211. Yep, down to 211. Oh my gosh, it's me. See now you know why we planned it. That's so cool. No. I love that response you just gave. Yeah, so it's that. She's got 67 profiles. So that's pretty good. And that's this other super sweepers. And this other super sweeper. Then we're going down to 311. Then we've got Catherine Reynard. Probably you must pronounce this and I apologize. And she's got 38 profiles. And another big jump down to 411. I like this idea. There it came up with this idea. I like this a lot. So we are, I think that's 411. Is that a nuke? Yep, it's mainly a global. So it's great to have a nuke being noted. And she's got 22 profiles. And if we have anybody, this is your first thought. Let us know. Just say first thought or me. Let us know how many nudes we have in our chat. All right. So we're going down to 511. And we've got NM. All right. I'm going to let's pronounce this one. Sourish. Beckonson. She's done nine profiles. And then the last one. Today is number 611. And it's Carol Seinfeldt. Maybe of the Cornwood Caches. And she's on my profile. Okay. And then let me refresh and see. Nobody look at the screen. I don't want anybody getting where to go. Let me refresh as we look and see just in a few minutes. So 52, 287. Good job, everybody. And I'm seeing that we do have a lot of new people that are here. Don't forget to type in the word ancestors if everybody sees why that word is there. That is going to be how the random drawing for the prizes. So welcome. Look at everybody that's new in the chat. We've got Ann Yvonne, Gandra. So welcome, everybody. Arlene, thank you guys for joining us. And just to let you know, and the regulars that come here can also let you know, we get a little crazy at midnight because, you know, we have a lot of people who got up early and been working all day and this is going to be the last of that they do for the night before they go to sleep. And then we have some people that are taking their lunch. They're halfway in between the day. And then we have some, some of the Europeans that are just waking up and getting ready to do their thawing and digging in again. I know that, you know, the thawing starts on Friday. Some people are working on Fridays. So Saturday was when we start to see a really, really big push through this. And for those of you also that are new to the thawing, it goes all the way to a Monday morning, 8 a.m. Eastern time. There's no stopping. U.S. Eastern time. So no stopping. So how many of you all are going to keep on going Sunday night, Sunday into Monday? I'll probably stop tomorrow afternoon. And you know that's a popular decision. Get ready so that people get their kids to school. Yeah, everybody for the world. Things like that. You gotta start winding down. For me, I find it hard where to stop. You know, you're on a roll when we were talking. You've got to add your parents. Don't forget to add both parents or don't forget to add all the siblings because you'll forget when you go back. So for me, that's always a really, really tough one. Darren, is that Han Solo? Yeah, as you can sort of say. I always have trouble on Monday because I don't know what to do with myself. I've been going all weekend and then it's time to stop and I can't. And then you're like, I sleep. I don't know about you all. I sleep. Yeah, well for me it's sort of, the phones usually end up, it's the whole day on Monday for me. So it finishes at usually midnight or 1 a.m. Tuesday morning. So it's like if I can stay up on the screen and not have to worry about the kids in the morning, yeah, I'm staying up. You're staying up. And I know a lot of people love coffee. To do it, I can't do coffee. So I see we did have the Coke and Pepsi discussion as well. In Atlanta, I gotta say Coke. I would say Coke anyway, but I would say Coke. Okay, so now the fun portion of this program. So everybody has seen the stats. Everybody's typed in ancestors, I hope. So I have got questions. Got questions. They are not easy decisions. So these are really good decisions. So I want everybody in chat and help us out. Let us know what your answer is and we're going to share our answers too. So is everybody ready? Ready? Okay, so very first question. And since we're talking genealogy and we're talking wiki tree and what we add to profiles and what information do we need to add to profiles? Sources. Photos would be nice, right? Stories, obits, things like that that we add. So this kind of be what the questions will be about. Number one, would you rather discover treasure chest filled with your ancestors lost treasures or uncover detailed family tree dating back centuries? I know. So is it a treasure or is it the tree? Now think about this for a second. The treasures could be what? They could be jewels. They could be baby photos. They could be the pearls, your great grandmother wore, you know, at her wedding. They could be family Bible or would you like very accurate detailed family tree dating back centuries? I'm going to throw a wrench into this. Here's the wrench. What if there's a family tree in the treasure chest? I went in and I moved it. Good call. Here's the problem with the family tree though. If the family tree is complete and accurate then where does my obby go? I know that's what I was thinking about. So they're going to become what, a typist or transcribed. So is it tree or treasures? What do you think Chris? Ah, I have to go with the tree because hey, the treasure is all on hold before you anyway. So what else? Oh, but do they? David, tree or treasures? I got to go with the treasure. Tania, I'm going to go with the tree. Really? I thought you might go for the treasure. Okay, Darren. Uh, this is something personal. I'd love to have the, the chest because there was a, was a chest for my great-grandfather and it's gone missing. So I'd love to have that. And Kathy, and yes, the tree is vaguely sourced. I'm going to go with the treasure chest. Which line, biological or adopted? I would probably go definitely adopted just because of the history, but then I want the biological for the Italian. So it's just for everybody. The tree is vaguely sourced. You're not going to have sourced documents attached and it's a full tree both sides. I'm going for the treasure. I don't want to see my great-grandmother's pearls that are gone. So I'm going for the treasure. Okay, so next question then. Would you rather be able to meet your great-great grandparents, you decide which side, which one your great-great grandparents and hear their stories firsthand, sit down and hear the stories firsthand, or have access to a time machine to witness any one moment in your family's history. So think about this. You can either meet those great-great-grandparents with a couple, one couple that you really love and like and curious about, or that time machine might help you with that brick wall. Oh, I got the perfect answer. So are we going for the meat or the machine? Well, using the TARDIS, I would transform myself to San Pietro in the 1930s using the power of the TARDIS to translate any language. I would be able to go and visit everybody that's there. I felt everything odd once. Yeah, that's true. That's true. One time, like 1910, something like that. David. Okay, so because you said great-great-grandparents, they would be in San Pietro. Very specifically for them, my great-grandmother told everybody in her life that she was an orphan, even her own kids, and it turns out she wasn't, that her parents were alive and well for well into her adulthood, but we don't know what happened to them. So I've got their stories up until they were married and they had kids, and then they just disappear from the records. We don't know where they went, so I would love to hear their story, and that's kind of my brick wall. And that would definitely help. If you had said any other relatives, I might have picked the other, but for those in particular, that particular couple, that would be my choice. Antonia. I'm going to go for the meat. Again, I was thinking specifically of that generation, because you said great-great, and for me, those are my ancestors that were right post-enslipement. So to be able to hear their stories for San would be incredibly powerful. And I think that's kind of the difference between the machine and the story to sit there and you could ask them any questions. We have questions. As you know, every midnight hangout, we have questions. What happened if we were to alter our own family history, just by like, you know, stepped on it and stuff or something like that? You have to think about it. Well, it's me, the great grandparents, the great-great grandparents, because my great-great-grandfather, who has the call-up name, I know that he, when he died, I don't know where he was born, I don't know when he was born. So it's like, it would break down into a lot of brick walls. I agree. I agree, Kathy. I'm with David because you specifically said great-great-grandparents. This was just random, too. I can't believe you. Well, I've talked about this before that my biological, paternal, great-great-grandmother, Nellie Seggers, went by a different name on her marriage record. There was a few years that she was using a different name. I want to know why she used that different name. I cannot figure it out and nobody, the few people I've talked to, have no idea why. But you could meet her and you could find out? I could find out why she went from the Helen or Nellie Seggers up to the Orphanage and then she was adopted out and then she got married a few years later under the name Corinne Townsend and then once she got married a couple years after that she started going by Nellie Allen. I think I'm going to go for time-mishing because I want to see the town where a lot of my ancestors in the middle West Virginia lived when it was Virginia before West Virginia. I want to see what the town was like, their home, their pioneer cabins, things like that, and also a lot of woods, a lot of woods and a lot of mining equipment. No electricity and here's a fun fact, so my mom grew up without indoor plumbing, so I would go for their back day. That's a good use of the time machine because if you're going back to see a moment in time, we hear all these great legends and then you get back there and you find out it wasn't nearly as interesting as they made it No they're ordinary people just like us and then you're jealous of all the people that chose to see their great grandparents because I like this too. Me too, most of my questions would start with why. That's a good question to ask. Yeah, why? Why am I seeing this? Why is this? Why is that? Okay, so let me move on. Here's a better question. What time machine would you use? The TARDIS or the DeLorean? Keep in mind that the DeLorean has a really crafty entry. I don't know, that one is tough, but you know, being back to the future and loving it, I think I'm going to have to go to the floor, is there? I think it will. The history of the TARDIS was a working Cambodian circuit. And I bet most people will say the TARDIS as well. So here's an interesting one and think about this because you're going to want to instantly pick one of these real quick, but I want you to think about this. Would you rather live in the same town your ancestors settled generations ago or travel the world to explore all the places your family lived throughout history? The problem is you would live in the town or you would have one week to travel the world without it. If you lived, then you would have more time to explore, go to the cemeteries, you know, go courthouse, do things like that. Or if you always wanted to travel to where all your ancestors are on maybe a global tour, but you don't have a lot of time there, but you could at least say it was there. So are we talking, you know, town or travel? Town for you. That's a tough call for me because I lived literally five minutes away from April, Massachusetts, where everybody lived basically. I can walk down there, we thought it was advisable, but I couldn't go to Europe and that's about all I could think of. My problem is, is most of my ancestors all the way back that I can document lived in the same place. So the answer is the same for me, technically. It's like, if I travel everywhere they've been, I'm going to fly back to the next and then I'm done. It's like going to April and you'll report for Italy. She won't make that pick. I'm like 45 minutes away and you'll report also. That's true. So what do you think, David, what do you think? You know, that's tough, but I think a week is not enough time. It would be so overwhelming. I wouldn't be able to absorb it all. And I'm actually, you know, as I get closer to retirement age and have the ability to go anywhere in the country that I want to spend my final years, I'm actually thinking about going back to my ancestor's hometown just for the reasons you said to be here, the archives and the churches and the cemeteries and all that. So I may wind up doing that anyway. Yeah, Mike wants me to go to ancient Rome, huh? Well, that was a gladiator question from last night, too, right? Yeah. Dania, what about you? I do the town, you know, I've had a chance to go to one of my ancestral hometowns and spend about five days there and it was wonderful. So to be able to do that again in a different town, I think would just be really rewarding because again, I don't think I'd have enough, I wouldn't, like someone in the comments say it'd be a blur if I traveled around in one week. So I want the on-site in-depth opportunity to just be immersed. You know, it walked the same land that they walked and actually look at the same, maybe the same buildings or the same stores that they were different back then, but they were there, you know, they were there. Darren, what about you? I've got too many places there. So I'd have to travel. Good luck. Have to see him. For one line, I'd go for him, go to Timoru in New Zealand, to London, to St. Petersburg and Russia, then back to Yorkshire and England. That's just one line. You're getting jet lagged. And Kathy, what about you? I'm going to take the travel because between adopted and biological, most of my ancestors are over in Europe. So I would rather take a day in different countries and at least see something and have the memories and use pictures, you know, to do the memory and then go back and prioritize, I guess, where I would want to go back to, to spend more time, to do that living on the ground. That makes sense. Okay, now you know that we do talk about food on the hangouts a lot. So I did kind of sneak in a food question. So we've just got a couple more and we'll go through these a little quicker because I know everybody wants to get back to Thani. So this one is, would you rather inherit a collection of old family recipes passed down through the generations or receive a book, maybe a scrapbook or something like that, containing stories and letters written by your ancestors? So are we going with food or stories? Stories. Now think about this too for a second. Those stories could be about anybody, not necessarily just the family, you know, the neighbors, you know, everybody around town and they talk about everybody and it could be some current where there were newspaper articles maybe or handwritten stories or somebody writing down in the local gossip. That is not true, you know, things like that. Or would you rather have the recipes of your family passed from generation to generation? This one's tough. So are we going with food or stories? I'm gonna have to go with stories here because we already have a bunch of recipes. So what am I gonna pick? The recipes would just sit on a shelf. Stories. This is by, it's Stephen. Oh no, it's all stories after she stopped gugging. That's so funny. And I will tell you, I was on vacation in the mountains last week and I always go to this one antique store and there was a scrapbook. It was a really, you know, good size with all these cutouts and little notes and newspaper clippings. So it was $5. I held it in my hands, I walked around the entire store with it and I sat it down and I said, I don't have enough time. It was $5 and I still regret not buying it because maybe I could put it up on a space page and everybody help or something like that. Yeah. Okay, so I think everybody pretty much agrees. We're going with the stories in chat as well. Okay, so what, this one's the tough one. Would you rather receive an obituary? You don't have access to it. You've never seen it before. An obituary, full details of one person in your treat could be your brick wall, could be anybody. You make that up or a photograph of one person that you don't have that you really want to see their face. So obit or photograph. So what's everybody in chat think? Are you going with a detailed and keep in mind that obit is going to have the parents, you know, the kids, the siblings or that photo? I'm with you all. I love seeing the photos as you go around wiki tree and you randomly look at profiles or profiles come up. I love it when Greg shows his fan chart and you see all the photos and the fans of the photo as well. This is kind of interesting. Most people are going with photo, but some of you are surprised. And this is great. I'll take the obit. What the fuck? Well, I've got trees. Do you have a photo like when they published? And this would be probably if you think about this is going to be that ancestor where there's no photos probably wasn't even invented, but somehow we're going to make it happen. We're going to make it happen. Wouldn't that be cool if there was somebody that's on your colonial ancestors or now see what they look like? See, well, that's go back and see them with that time machine. There you go. It will bring our digital camera or sofa and those big freaks. No, I'll bring you on the stage for witchcraft. Witchcraft. You never know. Somebody that'll be able to parse our DNA and recreate our ancestors for us. Very last question. And you think this one's easy, but it's a little tricky because, you know, I got to put something tricky in there. So would you rather preserve your family's historical documents and artifacts, put them nicely, you know, in a book, ebook or real book for future generations? So we're doing the work here. I think everybody would agree. That's part of the reason we love wiki tree. It's free. We know anybody can jump on our cousins. We talk about cousin fate, but also our descendants. We don't talk about that very much. Our descendants. So would you rather preserve your family's historical documents and artifacts for future generations or take that information because your family is so amazing to publish a best-selling book detailing your family's remarkable story for the world to see? So are you going to make money? Or are you going to cherish? Wow. Now there's a little difference because when you're preserving your family's historical documents and the artifacts, those artifacts usually get handed down. And don't forget, and if you publish your family's remarkable story, you've got to have some first. Exactly. But also, some of those remarkable stories are not to come to light. They were always meant to be kept secret. So are we cherishing and keeping for yourself or are we publishing? Cherish. Reserving for the future. Yeah. Cherish, maybe my nephew could tell him later. This is kind of, this is kind of mixed, but I think the cherish is going to come out for the winner. The hard thing is, if I keep all the artifacts, my family's going to throw them away after I'm gone. No, I do wonder what that was. A book they'll keep. And others will be able to read. And others will see it. Be able to read. But I would like to say if you anything like artifacts, pictures, things like that, that you are, excuse me, items that you can take pictures of, put them on the profiles. Definitely. But if you flip that question around, would you rather inherit artifacts from your ancestors or a book about your ancestors? Well, that was kind of like our first one. I want the artifacts. I want my great grandma. That's what I want. Okay, guys, that was, that was pretty cool. So I think we have a drawing to do it. Ancestors is the word. So if you guys want to type it in, whoever hasn't typed it in. Now, just one little caveat. Again, if you have won anything through a live cast, and that includes our bingoes, hangouts, anything at all in the past six months, you're not eligible to win again, to make it fair for everybody else, until your six months has passed. If you won something at the last thong, which was the source of thong, you were not eligible as well. So if your name comes up, and you already know you're not eligible, could you just let us know real quick and we can draw it again so everybody gets a chance. Okay, so let me bring it up on the screen and let's see everybody put it in. Here we go. Let's see who gets it. Jenny, this looks like Jenny. Jenny Nader. So congratulations, Jenny. Jenny, I'm going to ask you, have you won before in the past six months? I don't think so, though. Kathy and I looked at the list and I don't think so. Aowyn is going to get in touch with you and let you know what the prize is. I don't know what the prize is. It's a surprise prize. But congratulations, Jenny. That's pretty cool. And everybody, anybody got any questions? Everybody ready to go? Now I will warn everybody. Now the last night of the midnight evening out is silly fun. No more tough questions. Silly fun. So bring your silly, wear your silly hats and things like that. And want some silly fun and everybody get back to thonging. All right. So it sounds like fun. Thanks, everybody, for joining us live. If you joined us live and thanks to those who watched after the fact. And thank you guys here in the chat and on screen for joining. This was great fun tonight. Thanks for playing along. Bye, guys.