 We're all wearing some kind of form of enjoy genealogy. Yay! We have a whole bunch of people in the chat. A lot of people that we were very surprised to see today. A lot of people who surprised us. So we have John here, Jennifer, Aaron, Chris, and Jamie. Jamie's up early. Then we have Mindy here. Hi Mindy. We have Christine, Betsy, Debbie, Steven. They're probably upset because last week somebody ran over by a mile. And we didn't have time to do photos. We didn't. And we didn't talk about the challenge when we usually do talk about the challenge. We were able to do that because somebody went way over. But I did show a cute dog video. That counts. For you. I know. It wasn't even here. I know, but we did it for you. We only did it for you. Every time that you're not here, we're going to play you really good videos for publics and llamas. I have friends who have llamas and I'm going to go videotape their llamas. Yes, Mindy. It was me who went over. Yes, surprisingly. But I also did show a picture of four generations of women from my family tree. He just wanted to draw off his baby. There was at least a photo shown and then a dog video shown. Yes, there was a photo and a dog video. Oh, and there were photos in the question of the week too. So what is the question of the week this week? Oh, look at her. Look at her. Oh my goodness. She's like leave, leave Greg alone. But, but. Hold on. I got to share my screen. There we go. Let's make that big honor of Memorial Day. It's an honor Memorial Day, which is okay. So the question of the week is what military heroes do you have in your family, which is completely different from what Memorial Day is about, but it's still about our heroes. Memorial Day Memorial Day is about our ancestors are our family members who passed away as a result of war. So Memorial Day is a very somber celebration of those who fought to protect our freedoms. There we go. But I really like that we're doing military heroes because we're not just being somber and sad. We're talking about people who did incredible things. So, and be sure to go over and upvote that upvote it upvote it. Who are the military heroes in your family? Please tell us about them in an answer below. And, of course, there's a wonderful military and war project that you can check out. So this got upvoted as the number one and it's Alexis Nelson and Charles Loveless upvoted it to be the best answer of the week. And look at this guy. This is a photo of my father, Master Sergeant Claire Alexander Chick Loveless, who was missing in action for six months. And declared killed in action in World War II. Doesn't he just look like a guy you'd want to hang out with? Seems like a nice guy. He does. Have a beer with? But not a lot of beers. He doesn't like a lot of beers. Probably not even tequila with you, Sarah. So she's got a list. Mike Nelson, who flew rescue helicopters in Vietnam, which was not an easy feat. Jeffrey Marvin, Purple Heart Oak Leaf Cluster for Vietnam. LaRoy Nelson saw action in the Pacific during World War II aboard a destroyer. Robert Julius Long, who received a Bronze Star in World War II for the Battle of the Bulge. If you ever want to read a story about hell on Earth, go and read a story about the Battle of the Bulge. It was unbelievable. Scott Marvin, Jr. I can't even read all of these. These are so great. And then she's got a D-A-R, Patriot, Captain Andrew Sharp. Heroism. Heroism for Trent and Ferry. Crazy cool. Great Alexis. You always have something great for us to see. I'm going to click off here and go to some of these profiles. Elias Buck. I wonder who that's. Tommy's not even here today. John returned. John was doing some cleanup, but he made it back. Check this out. He's got a great biography on this guy. And he does it a little bit differently than what we're accustomed to seeing. He's got the birth and he doesn't even have these set up as title sections so that there's not a table of contents. Which I really like the table of contents. Because I'm the type of person who wants to go straight to the information I want. This kind of makes you take a minute and sit back and actually read the profile. And then he's got the military and he has the military sticker up underneath the word military so that it shows up at that section of the profile. And then after the Civil War, marriage, family. I love this profile. It's not the way I would do it, but I really like it. So Tommy, good job on that. Let's see. And then he's got another one. Let's see. Stuart has military cousins. So he has a whole page of information on stuff. And he's using WikiTree's great category system to highlight these people that are a part of his family who have been a part of military all over the world. Look at this. So Ward 21154 military cousins. Isn't that cool? I like that. Another way of doing, you know, are we related? That's fun. And Sam Desjardins, most men in my family for generations from prior to the 1600s to the 1970s, every military conflict. He didn't even want to list them all. And that's okay. That's okay. Pat Roach has, there are many, but the person that came first to mind is Abraham Tatlock, because I just updated his profile and discovered he died along with 500 others in October, 1862, 11 days after losing a leg, likely to infection. And to imagine him suffering for so long. So here is his wonderful profile. Let's go back. And of course I have my favorite military veteran, Thomas Cleveland Hunt. Now, he was a troop transport commander, which means that he was over a ship that transported soldiers from point A to point B. And in reading his military record, there's lots of records and lots of information. There's letters and stuff. And this is only the stuff that I have because I believe that his records were lost in a fire, I believe in St. Louis. And anytime I try and find him on Fold Free or anywhere Fold 3, I cannot find him. But I have his actual military records that belong to him that I inherited. And he did 17 round trips of the Pacific Ocean during World War II. He was awarded four bronze stars for action. Now, typically onboard ship as a troop transport commander, there would be a captain of the ship that would actually be responsible for the sailing of the ship, making sure it was safe and it got to where it was going. What my grandfather did was he made sure that the troops who were traveling either to the war zone or away from the war zone were happy, well-fed, busy and safe. And I said to my brother a couple of months ago that, and my brother reminds me of my grandfather so much, I said that TC is what we called him. TC was an overachieving person on a cruise ship is what I said to my brother and he was like, what? And I tried to explain to him what he did. Yes, he was in military combat. Yes, he was in a ship that pulled right up close to the shore and let men off in amphibious vehicles and stuff like that. He was in the thick of the fighting. No way to doubt that. But I think it's cool that he spent his entire war making sure that everybody he was over, like his little chickens or his little ducklings were all safe. So that's my grandfather. Going on down James William Page from Marion Ross. Let's see. So she's got a great picture. I love the old pictures of the family and that's the wedding. Small biography, but still a good, good information on this gentleman. There are three pages of people like Aaron Gullison has not been a military hero exactly, but my grandfather Louis Gullison was in training in the Canadian Army during the last years of World War II. He was rather tall. A family joke is that if he had been sent overseas, there would have been no descendants because they would have been able to find him very quickly consuming. Got it. My great grandfather Henry Christian Tapley was in the Canadian Expeditionary Force in the Great War. That's World War I. And I'm not sure that he actually went overseas. A number of my stares cousins served in the first and second World Wars. My grandfather, other grandfathers served in World War I. I love this picture. My grandmother Dorothy Siller Hodge who enlisted for the entirety of World War II, even though she had no idea when it would end. And she spent most of her best years in her twenties in the Army. Can you imagine hearing the stories that she would be telling about all of her escapades in a war situation? That's pretty cool having a great picture there. And of course, Heather Quinlan, what's that, Greg? Your stream yard window just went popped over top of the other thing. Oh, what's up with that? Certificate of completion. J.M. Vasky, Mike Vasky served in the U.S. Navy fighting in Guam and other South Seas. And he could have, well, not on the Navy. Anyway, fun, John Vasky. Lynn Drasthos says that my uncle Harold was killed on the first day of the spring offensive, March 21, 1918. Wow. He was only 19 and he had just arrived in France. Elmer August Heisel from David McNichol, he was an administrative first sergeant with the 424th Infantry Regiment, which was part of the 106th Infantry Division. The 106th was a new division which arrived in Europe in 1944, placed in Ardennes, which was thought to be a quiet sector, the front instead, it turned out that Germans attacked. Yes, they did. And they tried to keep it. So that's from David McNichol. Uncle Gordon, Phil Cox. All right. So there's a cool place here for the SFF Association, USA Canada, first special service force. I am not familiar with them. Anyway, fun. Let's see Alfred Truslow from Dorothy O'Hare. There's three pages. There's three whole pages of stuff. Barry Smith has something. Karen Wisby, Ruth Jowett. My microphone wouldn't work this morning, but I think it's really my mouth that's not working. It's working fine. I'm going to hand this back over to Sarah. Well, thank you. So many good answers for the question of the week. Everybody's sharing all their stories with their ancestors and the military and all that. It's great. So I guess now we will, we want to do the profiles crank or do we want to do photos first and then profiles? Who knows? I guess we'll do the profiles. Let's do profiles first. Or we could wait and do that at the end and he would only have that much time to do it. But I'll be quick this time. I was quick this morning. That's right. Well, you did go till half an hour. Like the half past last week. So you set me up for taking a half hour. But anyways. Okay. So the profiles of the week and the reason I'm going, I am going to go quick because at the end, you have to, if you stick around to the end, we'll talk a little bit about the wiki tree challenge and a new app that I've created. And you guys will be the first ones ever to see it and to play with it. Did you tell Mindy and Jamie, you were going to be showing that to me? I did not. It's just a total fluke that they're both here. I can't believe it. Now I'm nervous because, you know, people will think that I'm a bit of a steak. Are we watching? And anyways, it's still need some polishing. So, you know, be gentle. But anyways, before we get to that, though, before we get to the science of writing apps, we're going to be talking about science celebrities. Because that is the theme for this week, which science celebrity are you most closely connected to? And so the premiere one, The, the, the headliner is Carl Sagan. It's not just me having problems with speaking this morning. Yes, you know, that's right. It's contagious. Jamie's like, oh, a new app. Oh, shiny. Shiny, shiny. But we have to get through this first. Don't distract me. I'm already distracted enough. Why was, why was Carl chosen as the leader? Like the, was there something special or just was laid down? So as in terms of science celebrities, he is, he's well known. He's pretty up there, Sarah. Look him up. I just meant like, was there something that happened this week in relation to something else? Oh, that, I don't know. Like I don't know if there was a top. Well, I follow science. There were two rockets that were launched from Kennedy, which is not a usual experience. Well, then two days of each other, which is big. One of them was the first time Boeing got their Starliner to the ISS and back home again, which was great for Boeing because Boeing's been having issues. There's a new meteor shower going on. I don't know what else. Oh, a web telescope is sending home. There's lots of stuff going on in this space. Fine. Yeah. They didn't specify what specific thing triggered this particular theme or why Carl was anointed the headliner for it. But he said we've been blinded with science this week, so. Blinded with science. There we go. Blinded with science. No, we didn't find aliens. And that would be why I would think Carl Sagan would be the top. That's right. I hope you guys know this when I go like this. You guys don't know that? No. What do you say? The one guy who's like that one show, the alien show, he's always like, it's aliens. That's what he does. Aliens, yes. Yeah. I think some people know, but. Okay. I thought that was funny. Okay. Speaking of programs, Hillary Gatsby says the Wiki Tree source were updated for me today and I'm trying out new search capabilities. Okay. You're making it hard for me to say I'm tracking. We're gonna make it. It's, anyways, Carl, let's get back to Carl. Carl, how does Carl do it? 1934 in Brooklyn, New York. He's an American astronomer, astrophysicist, author, cosmologist, science populizer, and science communicator. Born in 1934, Jewish household, but his scientific work is key in the discovery of, so he actually did scientific work, but he was also, he also popularized science later on, but his actual scientific work was key in the discovery of the high surface temperature that's on Venus, which is kind of cool. He's best known for his contributions to the scientific research of extraterrestrial life, which is what Mags was referring to. He published more than 600 scientific papers and authored or co-authored over 20 books. He had a TV series, Cosmos, which was the most widely watched series in the history of American television. So the way it's phrased there, it sounds like it still is the most widely watched series. I think Roots unseated him. Yeah, yeah. I mean, maybe it was up until a certain point. I can't imagine it's still the same, but it was very popular. And then in addition to this non-fiction work, he also wrote science fiction novel, Contact, which is sci-fi novel, but it turned into a 1997 movie. Sagan. Sagan. It looks like a science fiction novel is about. Damn it. Really? Yeah. There we go. So, and isn't he familiar with saying billions and billions of stars or something? The news did mention this week that there were UFO sightings by the military from June Batka. Way June. Nice. Okay. Moving right along. Isaac Yudevich Asimov. Or I think Asimov. You were 23 a ways from him, Sarah, and you were 26 from him. From Carl? Yeah. What's your name? Oh my God. I need to get back to bed. My name's on the screen there with the little orange bubbles. Oh, Greg. Yeah. Greg. Greg. Yeah. Greg. M&M's. I need M&M's. Chris keeps telling me that the aliens guy's a hack. I know he's a hack, but I like his. You like his stuff. I like doing this. So Isaac- Oh, I know who you're talking about. The guy that wears the little- Yes. Yeah. Gotcha. Mindy, help. Sorry, Greg. No. Asimov. And we all wonder why Greg takes so long. Oh yeah. Usually I don't need the help to get derailed and take longer, but you guys are in fine form this morning. Isaac Yudevich Asimov. Born the 2nd of January, 1920. You know what's special? Okay, I'm gonna derail myself this time. You know what's special about January 2nd? It's the Feast of St. Gregory and St. Basil. And my brother's name is Basil. So I always thought that was a special feast day for the two of us. Basil? Of course you did. Yeah, well my adopted brother, yes. You're 23 from him, Greg. 30? 23. 23, okay. Anyway, Isaac Asimov, I'm a huge fan of his work. And one of the things I decided to do when I retired was to start reading all of his books from the beginning because he's written lots of, well, he's written lots of nonfiction as well as fiction books. But in his fiction, he has, many of his books are interconnected in one mass of universe. There's the robot books, and then there's the empire books and then there's the foundation series. And all three of them sort of follow from the same timeline over thousands of years. So I've started, and I've gotten through the robot and the empire books, and I'm about ready to start the foundation books again, which I've already read before, but. Anyways, so huge fan. And he's got a lovely, nice, long, well done profile here. He started, when they moved to New York, his father opened a candy store and he was expected to help. I love this that he's, but he also liked to read the sci-fi pulps. So back in the old days, there were what they called pulp magazines that, because they're written on pulp paper. And he liked to read the sci-fi stories. His dad didn't want him to write them, but then he started writing them themselves. And then eventually, he went on to do great things and publish books and so on. But I can't really do justice to all of this. I just recommend you read it. Great, great man. Lots of contributions to science itself as well as literature. Mags is saying something, but I'm not sure what. Well, I was saying something on this. I miss your laughter, it brings a smile to my face. And I think I was pointing at Sarah, because I think Sarah is who she's talking to. Thank you, June, you're very kind. Anyways, I'm gonna move along. Asimov was my favorite, my favorite, my closest. Oh, my word! Your favorite, and your closest? He was my favorite too, but I could spend the rest of the time talking about him, but I should say. The books, yeah. David Attenborough. Now, there's another famous person from England involved with the BBC, an English broadcaster and natural historian. Born in 1926 in Isleworth, Middlesex, England. Three sons and two daughters at age 10. So again, an early start for this person. He was introduced to the concept of conservation. When he attended a lecture on the subject and was immediately inspired by the speaker, Archibald Bellini. Now, I'm not sure about you, Sarah, and Mags has taken off, but were you going to scientific lectures at the age of 10? Negative. No. So this guy was destined for greatness. Anyways, then he was called up to the Navy, got married, and then in 1952, his career took off with BBC television. He started out working on nonfiction broadcasts and quiz shows, and then eventually he became a controller for BBC2 and did lots of shows. When he was the controller, so I guess sort of like the manager of BBC2, he revamped the programming so that it would be more appealing. And he apparently was one of the ones who decided that Monty Python's Flying Circus should air on BBC2. So I can imagine its ratings went up from that. But then he did lots of other documentaries and he's famous for his nature documentaries. And it lists a bunch of them. Blue Planet, I was going to say Blue Earth, but the Blue Planet is one of his most popular ones, the Perfect Planet. And in fact, just this week on Apple TV, he narrates a new series that's called Prehistoric Planet. So that's kind of cool. Next one, Bill M. Bryson has a nice short bio. He's still living, which is one of, he was born in the 1950s. An American author best known for his travel logs and his scientific non-fiction. And looking at his Wikipedia page, there, let's see, if I zoom in, there you can see him. That's better. And here's the specific. So he was born in December of 1951 in Des Moines, Iowa. And his genres were travel, English language and science. The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid, one of the things he published apparently. Richard Dawkins, FRS, which is, does it say here? It doesn't say here. It is actually defined in a future profile that we'll get to later on. Friends of the Royal Society, I think it is. I think he's a friend of the Royal Society. Ethologist, evolutionary biologist and a writer, an emeritus fellow of the new college Oxford and was the University of Oxford's professor for public understanding of science from 1995 until- Fellow of the Royal Society. Fellow, not friend, fellow of the Royal Society. Thank you. And his Wikipedia page, there he is again in closeup. Clinton is actually his first name. Clinton Richard Dawkins, interesting. Yes, you don't see that as a first name video. He was born in Nairobi, British Kenya, interesting. Yeah, I didn't say that before. I usually do, okay. Known for gene-centered view of evolution and the concept of the meme, but not the meme that you're all thinking about, like not social media memes. The meme he's talking about is how genes and it's a biological meme. How- It's a biological meme. A gene meme. A gene meme. A gene meme, yes. So, quite a learned man there. Oh, actual cousin. A cousin, very cool, very cool. Ben Volto Felderike, who was born in Sedra, Stockholm, Sweden, born on September 12th, 1925 and died on the 21st of October, 2019, at age 94. So, look, this was mentioned as one of the new features on the- I know, look at that, I like that. It tells you the age. No math involved. I know. No, no mathing. No mathing. No mathing. No mathing. Oh no, they're giving in to you, they're giving in. But, so maybe we should make a plugin that removes that so it forces you to do math. No. What fun would that be, Greg? I don't think that would be- Really? Making a plugin for- We're gene biologists, not mathematicians. We're like, doctor- We're like, we're going backwards, making plugins to make things more difficult for yourself. I know, no. I take it back. Oh, that's funny, Greg, I dare you. I dare you. I dare you. Create a plugin. Jamie's here, she's working on the new extension. So, you know, she could write that down, but I bet you that'd be the bottom of the list of options. Nancy, I used to really like you. Yay, Nancy. Yes, two thumbs up. It does make us smarter, but you know, sometimes doing your math kind of difficult, especially with like, you know, different centuries and things. Okay, continue. Okay. Bankwalder Felderike was a radio and television journalist, producer and presenter. He was awarded an honorary doctorate at the University of Linköpingk for his contributions as a science popularizer. So sort of similar to some of the other profiles we have, in that not only do they know a bit of science themselves, some of them actual have had scientists, but they're also made science popular and understandable for the masses, which is just as important. He became a high school teacher, did his teacher exam in 49, augmented his work as a teacher by night as a announcer for Radio Jansk. Radio soon became his main job and when television broadcasting was started, in the 1950s, he was one of the pioneers. And look at that friendly face. You can imagine him as a television host, so. Very cool. The neat thing is he had a sweet, from all of us to all of you, was part of the Swedish Christmas tradition since 1960 and up until his death, he always filmed a little bit of a few snippets for the program. Isn't that cool? Sarah was miming that for you while you did it. Oh, what? I like that, that was good. Oh, that's great. Ruth Debra Gates was born on the 28th of March, 1962 in Akroteri, Cyprus. I'm not sure if I pronounced that right, Akroteri. She's the child of John O. Amos Gates and Muriel Peel. In addition to her career in research, she served as a mentor, a public speaker, a science communicator and a proponent for change and progress in the field of marine science. Her appearance in the Netflix documentary Chasing Coral was one of her several efforts of public outreach and engagement, working to raise awareness of coral bleaching and inspire the public to put a stop to the damage being done by the coral reefs. Sadly, she passed away on the 25th of October, 2018 in Kaluwa, Kauai. Is it pronounced Kaluwa or Kailua? Kailua? Kailua, I think it's Kaluwa. I have no idea. I may be remembering what's in my bar upstairs. Any Hawaiians on the line? K-L-L-U-A, looking at us. Hawaii. So, noted marine biologist, yeah. And then we have probably one of the most famous and Chris did send me a link. It's a three minute video, which he wanted me to play, which I'm so, I'm not going to play it. Yes, oh, we're scared of you, Chris. No, I did watch it. It's kind of funny, it's another scientist who is singing a song, but using sort of the Stephen Hawking voice filter or whatever. And it's fun, it kind of ties in, but maybe- No time, no time, Chris. Sorry, Chris. Put it in the comments, you know, on the YouTube. Afterwards, when you like and subscribe and the bell and all that, put it in the comments. Mindy says she knows how to pronounce it. It's Kaluwa and just like the alcohol. Just like the alcohol. Maybe, what is it, is it this or a link? Did they make the alcohol in Hawaii? Ooh. Ooh, is there a, where did Kaluwa come from? I thought it was Mexico. Well, you can continue with Stephen Hawking, Greg. Okay. Yes. Okay, we digress again. Stephen William Hawking, born the 8th of January, 1942 in Oxford, Oxfordshire, England, United Kingdom. So this is what's really cool about Stephen, well, there's lots of cool things, right? About Stephen Hawking, but as he was apparently quite happy to tell everyone, his birth date is exactly 300 years to the day of the death of Galileo. Now, I don't know if you ever claim to be the reincarnation of Galileo or the successor of his scientifically or not, but that's a pretty cool fact, exactly 300 years to the day. And the other thing is he died on the 14th of March, 2018. I had age 76, again in Cambridge, England. But the 14th of March is Pi Day because March, which is the third month, and then 14, 3.14 is an approximation of Pi. So he died on Pi Day, which is an amazing day. If you have to go, you know- You've got to die on Pi Day. Especially with Blueberry Pi Day. Yeah, Blueberry Pi Day, that's for you. It's just how Houdini died on Halloween. It's like they're conveniently- Who died on Halloween? Houdini. Yes, yeah, that's perfect. I love it when that works, yeah. Now I'm trying to figure out what the best day would be for me to die on. Is there an Eminem day? Eminem day, yum. So, popular regarded as one of the most brilliant theoretical physicists since Einstein. Also celebrity, except in cameo roles in numerous television shows and movies, such as the Big Bang Theory and others, of course. Star Trek, the next generation, that's right. He was part of that. And on the Big Bang Theory. Yes, I said that, didn't I? Yeah, you did. Okay. I'll be back. That's okay. There's a time lag here. Houdini just talks about it. So he was diagnosed with ALS. And amazingly, he was only given two years to live. This was in 1963 when he was diagnosed. But he did not, he never accepted his fate and went on to defy all the odds, living a long life, productive life, true inspiration. I love this profile, the way they've included some quotes of his. I want to show that people need not be limited by physical handicaps, as long as they're not disabled in spirit. That's very cool. I became a brilliant researcher. Anyways, another really well done article, profile I should say. And yeah, passed away on Pi Day. The theory of everything was, I think, was the name of a, was the name of the major motion picture about his life in 2014. Anyways, great man and scientist. Oh, there we go, brief history of time. There you have it. You have that right there. Way to go, Mary. She had it ready. She had it ready. See, and I should have had that ready, too. Julius Sunder Miller, born in 1909, May 17th, in Valerica, Middlesex County, Massachusetts. Son of Shmuel Miller and Sarah Newark. And died on the 14th of April, 1987, in Torrance, Los Angeles County. A host of Why Is It Soul, which is a kids program, American physicist and television personality, best known for his work on children's television programs in North America and Australia. Won a Carnegie grant that allowed him to visit Albert Einstein at his home in Princeton, New Jersey. That's kind of cool. And was a Ford Foundation Fellow at the University of California, Los Angeles. Youngest of nine children. And then he was living in Massachusetts. And then, I think the, anyway, he said, again, a well-written profile. I'm not gonna go through all of it, but he spent many years traveling between the United States and Australia, presenting physics, mainly to children, by his television shows such as Why Is It Soul, which was profiled up there, and also one called Demonstrations in Physics, as well as lecturing at Sydney University. And when he passed away, his body was built to the University of Southern California School of Dentistry. I wonder if that means he had really good teeth. As I eat my M&Ms. Yeah, that's great. Bill Nye, the science guy. Bill Nye, the science guy. I'm gonna make this one. Science communicator, television personality, mechanical engineer, comedian, inventor, chief executive officer of the Planetary Society. That's kind of cool. 23 from him, Greg. Okay. Sarah, you are 24, and he's one of my closest. Wow. 19, 20. Through my spousal unit. I still can't figure out that connection. Interesting. So he is still living. So his biography is fairly short, but if you went on Wikipedia, you could find out lots more about Bill Nye, the science guy. Now, did he ever show up on Big Bang Theory? If he didn't. Yes, yes, he did. He did. And the Big Bang Theory had a guy called Professor Proton. Oh, but that was Bob Newhart. Well, that was played by Bob Newhart, which was great. But Bob Newhart and Bill Nye had stuff going on sometimes because they both had supposed TV shows. Yeah. And then the last one is Magnus Alfred Pike, OBE, FRSE. Order of the British Empire, I believe. And FRSE, the Royal Society. Is this here? No, you know what? I think it was Stevens. On Stevens profile, I meant to point this out when I was here, so I'm zipping back. Sorry if I gave you a vertical and sliding. Oh, vertical. But at the bottom of Stephen Hawking's profile, it has a note section which gives you the meaning of acronyms of those now. So the Order of Companions of the Honor is an order of the Commonwealth. So that was the one of the ones up top. The most excellent Order of the British Empire was another one of the initials that was after his name. The FRSE, which you guys was the Fellowship of the Royal Society. And then the FRSE. The FRSE is the Fellowship of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. Edinburgh, okay. And this is FRSE is the Royal Society of Arts. Okay, so Edinburgh, okay. The FRSE could also be Fellowship of the Ring Society. Ah, the Ring Society, very cool. So he was born on the 29th of December in Gloucester, Paris, Paddington, London. Parents Robert Bond Pike and Clara Hannah Lewis. And there's a snippet from the censuses educated in London and Canada, attending MacDonald College McGill University in Montreal. Here we go. He was awarded a Bachelor of Science in 1933. Yay, Canada. He came back to the UK the following year and became Chief Chemist at Vitamins Limited in Hammersmith, London. Working on vitamin research, he was awarded a PhD in Biochemistry. Another snippet from the census. And then began working for the Distillers Company in the Yeast Division, interesting. Became President, Council on Chairman of the Fallen Institutions, became an Officer of the Order of the British Empire and then died in 1992. So- I love, Betsy Ko just posted that all of today's connections for me come through new connections that I did for my family over the last two weeks. That's pretty cool. That is amazing, Betsy. It is. Fantastic. Good stuff. So, over to you, Sarah. Oh, what? What, it's not even 11 yet. I know. Even all the- I need five minutes to show off my new app. So- All the tangents we went on. Try to distract- Yeah, you tried to be with me so badly. Wow. And it worked. Mostly. Okay. Photos of the week. While you're doing that, Jennifer has a question. Is there anyone who is related to the Bragg family? I found an article that my grandfather had that involves a B-17 All-American 414 Squadron 97BG crew. There you go. Whoops. Okay. So photos. This week's theme is summary of the week. We only have eight photos to look at. So we'll be kind of quick because then Greg can show off a bunch of other stuff. His new app and the backup challenge. So this one's cute. Ruth and the sand dunes. Wonderful. See any, any dogs? That's a pretty cool picture. It is. We got the action shot with the ball in the air. It looks like it's so much closer to us. Or is it a huge ball? Look at where the kids are looking up. They aren't looking towards the building. So that must be a really big ball. Oh, wow. Yeah, really. Maybe it almost hit the person who was taking the photo. They threw it too far. Who knows? Aw, Indian guides. How cute. Train. So they were in Canada and Fraser Valley Regional District. I guess this train was just chilling on the tracks. Just chilling. I bet it wasn't chilling. Yeah, it's pretty hot. Maybe so. It's probably very hot. Isn't that a cute picture? I know. That is neat. Like, it looks like, is that a wagon and a little mini chair? And it looks like they're just doing outsidey stuff and organ. We have little itty-bitty chairs left over from our children. Because it's in the pond. Looks like fun. They weren't allowed to get the shorts wet. No, yeah, look at the world rolled up, yeah. The parents are probably, yes, you can go in. No, they were wearing rubber boots or no, or is that just a reflection on the... The which one? Were they wearing wellies? Oh, no. They weren't wearing wellies. No. Getting their toes nibbled by turtles. I think that's the most PG thing that Chris has ever said. Look, they're petting a bit. It's a kangaroo. It's a kangaroo. It's a kangaroo. You didn't see a dog when we saw kangaroos. So I guess that works. No llamas. Janine and Sebastian at the Nashville Zoo with the kangaroo. Isleman. That's adorable. He looks like he's taking a bath or just in a tub and he looks very confused. It says tubby. So maybe he's in a tubby or maybe his name is tubby. I don't know. Oh, yes. That's me and my grandparents on their back porch in the wash tub. I was about six months old. My mother made her protest and my granddad was getting a lot of laughs. I don't know what I thought, but I know, but I do know I laugh at it now. That is an adorable picture. And now we have anything for you, Karen. That was it. That's it. That's it? Brief moment. A look at the G2G real quick. Cause I wasn't going to put this up, but I will put it up now. We saw that. So his balls bounce better on asphalt for this one. Oh, we didn't see this one. Dolls were fun with dolls. We didn't see that one either. With his smile and cigar. Saw that one. Saw this one. Hot summer day. So it was hot. I said it would be mags. Mm-hmm. Saw that one. There's an old TV show movie series called Ma and Pa Kettle, and she looks like Ma Kettle. Oh, no, no, no, no, no. King of the Roo. Pet in the Roo. Oh, that's it. That's it. Greg. Yes. Oh my goodness, Greg. I know. Wow. Okay, let's see. Cause Mindy's waiting. Mindy's waiting. Okay, well, I'm going to share with you. You can put it back up. The other thing we have to talk about while Greg is getting his stuff together here is that we do have connections going on this week. And this week it is... Oh, oops. Nope. Can't go there from here. Let's try it again. There it is. I got it. I'll plop it up real quick. I am not firing on all stream. I'm all... Woo. There we go. Yay. Kevin Bacon. Kevin Bacon. Yes. This has something to do with what Greg is getting ready to show us. That's right, yes. Yeah, so the Wiki... This was an off week for the... An off week. A week off for the Wiki Tree Challenge. See, I'm not the only one having issues with my mouth today. I know. Who just... But the Wiki Tree challenges that's coming up starting this Wednesday is connecting more the Kevin Bacon. So we are the... We were still accepting signups. Mindy, are people still registering or is the... If you can answer in the chat. 269. So far. So far. Okay. So the challenge this week will be to connect to fill out his tree even more. Now, if you look at his tree, he actually has a very full tree of all his direct ancestors. But Mindy's word to us is that he doesn't... He's got the direct ancestors there and they go far, far back in the States and then eventually over to England. And there's a little German and a little Switzerland, I think, as well if you go far enough back. But a lot of the sidelines haven't been filled out so we can do some of those related connections. And that's what the challenge is going to be to try to do. So I had, at the beginning of the year when the Wiki Tree challenge sort of changes format from genealogists to other famous people, non genealogists. And the scoring points was you get points for not just the direct relatives but also for the side connections out to up to, I think it is six degrees. You get points for adding profiles that are connected that way. I had started working on an app that would sort of visualize that. And when Kevin Bacon's came up in the news, I thought, well, I've got to finish this off. So I do have an app and let me just show, and you guys are the first to see it here live. And there's the URL. If you click on that, it'll take you to the app and I'm just going to open it up here. You might want to make that a little bit bigger there, Greg. Okay. And take away your view source. All right, source there. Okay, there we go. So here it is in action. So it's loading up, because I've already logged into the Wiki Tree server, it's loading up six degrees of my, for me. And you can see here it's loading, it's all the connections of the degree four. Now degree five are loaded and it's currently loading connections of degree six. Thank you for your patience. And then when it is done, it's done. So now we can use the app and explore. So by default there, it's showing this little, a little stepper here, shows that there's one degree. So you can see there's me and then there's all my connections at one degree. And the legend here is the siblings are the bright green spouse is a red for Valentine's. Children are blue and parents and ancestors are in gray. So I've got two of those at the first degree. And then when I add the second degree, then you see you get another outer ring of more people. So I've got 13 people who are two degrees from me. And likewise, we can continuing on up to six degrees. So that is what six degrees of Greg Clark looks like. And I've actually put the numbers at each degree level. So you can see how many people are connected at each degree. So that's, that was the initial version of the app. If I click on it, if I hover, do I get any information when I hover? Well, funny, you should say that. Oh, I'm excited. I'm gonna change the view slightly because the default view is just the dots per person. Because when you have, if you've got someone with lots of things, then this is the most compact way to look at it. And, but you can still visually sort of interpret what you're seeing and you've got some overall sense. But if you click on the letter A, then you get the first initial of their name. Well, that helps me. I know who that 205th person is over there with the dots. And if you want a little bit more of a hint, you can get their initials. Ooh. And then you wanna go really crazy. You'll get their whole first name. Now, because that's going to make it really huge, I'm gonna go back to initials there. But if you click on anyone's circle, no matter which version you're looking at, either the points or even up to the first name, you will get, so I'm gonna click on DD, which is Dwight Douglas, who is my birth father. And I drew a little diagram there of how they're connected. So if I go out to the other, so MR, is Mario Rikiki, who is my wife's mother's brother. And you can go as far, so up to the sixth degree. So there is one of the persons who's six degrees for me. Again, up through my wife, I picked them over here. Kevin Bacon just has no idea what he's created. So there you go. So you can explore all through your family and see how all of them are connected. It probably, for most of you, it's probably more fun to do it by first name, because then you can figure out, okay, now for me, there's a whole pile of Mary's and there's a lot of Marie's and Maria's and whatnot, but anyways, that's kind of fun. So. Getting lots of yells for yay. Yay, lots of yays, that's good. Mindy Silva, who says she had no idea you were doing this. Wow, I love that. Good, so if you want to add someone else, you can, if you click on the new degree chart, then you just put in someone else's name there. And because. Golden Seven, go ahead. Golden Seven, okay, so if you remember I had, how many did I have? I think I had 285? Something like that. Okay, let's see, do you have a guess of how many connections you have? 10. 10. Oh really, really setting the bar high, Max. What did you say? 10. No, no, you've got a lot more than that. You've got a higher score. One degree, you have more than that. In fact, you've got a higher score than Kevin. Oh wait, wait, I'm just kidding. Sarah, are you playing along? Oh, 300. You've got 300? Yes, that's my guess for six. Okay, building, and see here on the legend here, it tells you how many are currently showing in whatever visual you're looking at. So I've only showing three degrees, so it's showing 42. I've got up to four degrees. 422. There we go, at six degrees, you have 845 connections, Max. Yes! You win. I've only been doing wiki tree for 10 years. Yeah, that's right. I figured it was going to be a lot. And under history, under history, I have pre-populated Kevin Bacon's ID. So you can click on this and it'll automatically do Kevin Bacon's six degrees for you. So there you go, Mandy. Mandy? Wow. Oh, no, please don't sing that song, Nancy. That is my least favorite year one. Now look at, see, Kevin, let's look. He probably has like a thousand. He has only 291. But we have to look and see how much work we've been doing too. This will be a good indicator of six degrees of Kevin Bacon. That's exactly what I'm saying. We can take a snapshot now of what it looks like before the contest, before the challenge, and then we take a snapshot afterwards. So I thought, what's that? Is this him? This is him. He's only 291. Somebody screenshot this or come back next week and we'll compare this. Yes. What do you think are goal? What do you think they'll get it to? Are you going to catch up to me? Yeah, let's see. We'll get more than that. So we have to get them up to the 800s then. Now, there's still some things I need to tweak before I make my G to G post about this. There are some things that aren't quite working, but I'm not telling you what. But I will tell you, if you try to put in Tudor 4, which is King Henry VIII, you'll crash the system. Don't do it. Don't tell them that. Greg, we all want to be able to work on WikiTree today. There's only 35 people watching. We won't crash the WikiTree, but your app will crash. At least it did this morning when I tried it. Oh, look at Jamie showing off. Oh, look at Jamie. Jamie. 1213. Wow. And Aaron. Aaron. And it didn't crash for you. Well, that's great news. Chris has 6,726 more than you, Greg. Wow. Well, he's been on longer than I have, hasn't he? I'm jealous of Jamie and Aaron. Yeah. I don't think I have somebody. I think I'm in your room. I think I'm in your room. How many do you have, Mindy? I need to look at him. I'm not tying you're all six. Mindy, how many do you have? So all of you who came to this YouTube video, when I tried to do that. Ian, this isn't like out there. Mindy's got 330. This isn't out there yet. So remember, while you're doing this, if you find any bugs or anything weird, make sure you send a note over to Greg so that he can work those bugs out before he looks at it live again. Yeah, and I've actually got a link under the help there. Contact authors. So if you do find it, it'll automatically pop up this so you can send me a direct message. OK, so I thank you, Megs, for pointing that out, because that will be very helpful. And it may be a bug that I already know about, or it may not. So feel free to send me anything. I only have 132. I knew it was going to be a low number. 132! Oh, Hillary! Hillary's scaring me. Still waiting for it to finish loading. Oh, no, Hillary. Yeah, I was just going to say, we're just going to say, if you put the tiny URL and you forget the S, you get taken to this YouTube video by this kid who's talking about the six degrees of separation. Oh! I don't want to watch it. I don't know. But I'm just telling you, I forgot the S, and it took me to a YouTube video. It's somewhere else. 398.5 for Hillary. OK. I've never been around, sorry, Hillary. You're so much older than me. Hillary's been around a lot longer than I have. So she may have way more. Yeah. John, it should work anywhere. It's running with JavaScript in the background. So as long as you have enabled JavaScript in your Android browser, it should work for you. If the fan chart works for you, then this should work for you. I think when I did try Henry Tudor, King Henry, because I don't know if you noticed or paid attention when, as it's loading, it populates the number at each degree as it goes along. So you can see the number at degree two and then the number at degree three. And then I got up to number degree five, I think, and it was 1,000 and some at degree five. And so it was just because it just grows exponential. Debbie Root says she got a fan chart, not six. But really, you are real correctly? Oh, if you, the URL has to have this part at the end that says app equals six degrees. If you left out that part here, let me zoom in on that. But you had to put it in URL. I just put it at tinyyearoald.com slash six. Here, I'm gonna put it back up. There you go. Put that one in. That worked for me. Yeah, it should. There we go. You don't need the HTTPS either. You can just do tinyyearoald.com. Right. That's true. Hillary's up to 522 at six. Yeah, the saving, I haven't enabled the auto-saving yet. If you click on save, it's not available yet, but that's one of the features I will make it so that you can save it just like when the fan chart can save. And Mindy said it also has a PDF. Though, I suppose if your browser has that feature already built in. Right? If I go to... Debbie says she did. Maybe I need all caps? No, it's capital S, capital D. I didn't do any capitals. You don't need capitals. You don't need capitals. If you... Well, guys, we are also a middle... We are. Let me get that up. Uh-oh. Anyways, thanks everyone. See ya.