 Morning. Morning. I hit too many wrong buttons at the same time and no stuff happened. Tommy Buck. Tommy Buck from the Bayou State. Sunny and 63 degrees. Um, it's minus eight and cloudy, apparently out there right now. It is cloudy and it is cool. Very, very cold. Yeah, like six hours away from me, right? I know. That's right. So, but you're west of me. So whatever you have, you're sending to me. That's right. Tommy Buck's here. Norman Weston's, uh, Chile, but Sunny Lancashire, England. Nice. Uh, apparently Wiki Tree is here. Morning. That's me. Oh, yeah. Good. Kathy Nava. Hey, Kathy Wiseman. 39 in Northern Ohio. That's almost Ontario. Almost. You people in Ohio have the same, uh, acronym for your conference that we used to have here in Ontario and we changed ours. It was OGS, the OGS conference, the Ontario Genealogy. So now we're Ontario ancestors. So take that, Ohio. Um, Kathy Nava, let's see. I already said good morning to Kathy. Hey, Kathy again. Hillary, Hillary from Wales, trying to multitask. Are you at Roots Tech currently, Hillary? Is that why you're multitasking? Hey, Patricia Jackson. Nice, nice in Kentucky. Things are starting to spring down there, down that way. Down that way. We've got lots of snow still here in my heart. Oh, yeah. I've got, I don't know. I can't even measure it on the screen for you. It's so deep outside. It's up to my window. I have a window that's about four feet up in the back and it's all the way just up under the window. But I had a friend in South Carolina who took a picture of, and this is a wonderful way to do your ancestors. They live in a house that they inherited or they, somebody else bought and they want it, once it came available, they bought it back and it's back in the family. And so they sent me a picture of hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of daffodils that their great, great, great grandmother had planted. And so every spring they have to talk about their great, great, great grandmother because all those daffodils were hers. And so they call them her named daffodils. Wow, nice. Tommy Buck says the trees have begun to bud. Wow. Yeah, no, not here for a while. Those little itty bitty purple flowers are the first ones that come up and we won't see those for another month and a half. I don't know what they are. Anyway, don't ask me the names of flowers. Obviously, Sarah is not here today, but you get us instead, just us. Just us, yes. And I'm very sorry for Sarah because there's dogs in some of the pictures. Yeah, I know she's going to miss it. That's too bad. Hilary's doing a challenge. Are you doing the Irish genealogy challenge, Hilary? Because I started that and then I left it at one point, but I got booted out by... I bet it is a highest in Weston, Norman Weston, but it is. Doing the challenge, did you get booted out because they didn't like Greg? Yeah, they didn't like me. They said it's 9 30. It's time to get ready for your wiki tree. Oh, no, I thought they were saying he's mapping too much. Well, maybe. I didn't say anything in the chat or anything. I was just following up, but I did find the baptismal record and the marriage record before she revealed the answer on the screen. Tell Hilary where it is in case she hasn't found it yet. Oh, Daffodils in our garden. Morning, June. Mm-hmm. Snow drops and crocus as well. Nice. Oh, she's working on the wiki tree challenge. With Oliver Wakeman. Oh, that's a different one then. Oliver Wakeman. Yeah. You know, somebody should probably pull that information up so that we can look at it later. You know what, Greg? What? We have a question week. Hello, Jonathan Boyer. How are you? It's a question of the week. Oh, that big hair. There you go. Can you people see that? I can make it bigger. Question of the week. What is your most embarrassing genealogical mistake? Now, I've decided that instead of me choosing the question of the week that is the best, I'm not going to do it before, but I'm going to do it after. I've already picked one, and if you guys disagree with me, just let me know. So, and apparently people really like making me a copas over their mistakes because that was like the theme. The theme was, I am so sorry, but I have made this mistake. Vlog me. I am so sorry I made that mistake, which is really so indicative of the wiki tree mindset. Yes. We believe that those, that's in our honor code. We believe mistakes are unintentional. Let's see. Naomi Warren. I don't normally talk about the ones that are just in the comments because those aren't answers, but oh, there's a few. I researched and added the wrong paternal family line for my Nana who was adopted by her mother's second husband. How do you figure out all of these? I would have made mistakes putting that one in too. Sorry. Oh, yeah. Yeah, for sure. Let's see. Marking myself as dead. Now, yeah, I should try and just cover up the name. Yeah, that's right. Yeah. But you know what? You know what? That one is my favorite one. If you mark your, and he's not even here right now. I know. I know. Chris, you mark yourself as dead. Oh. That is like funny. That's really funny. My question is, is did you apply for a life insurance policy? Yeah, that's right. And a lot of people said, hey, we're glad you're still here. Yeah, that's nice. Of course, Chris goes off into some sort of weirdo regeneration. Like a video game. Yeah. Like a video game. Dieter Lawrence, yes, just today I discovered one. And that's the other thing. Oh, yeah, I discovered 20. Yeah. I'm holding up five. Funny, you just discovered one. One of my ancestors was married to Margarita Magdalena means, and of course Dieter always put stuff in here that we have to pronounce. Yeah. At least I thought so. Other than the church records from her Ostolstein area where she came from or online, I simply could not find her birthday. And then I checked all the available documents again in this morning. And on closer inspection, I found the error. Her name is mere not means. Okay. So, and also I love some of the comments coming back. And here it is. This is this this sums up the entire mood of today's question of the week. I second Robert's comment about and reading your confession, Dieter, remind me of why I need to have compassion toward other people are fellow genealogists. We'll all have a variety of levels of experience. And even those advanced levels are still human. I make mistakes daily. I listened today, I got up and I made mistakes from the second I got up until I got here. And I'm just assuming it's going to continue through my day. So mistakes are going to happen. That's why prone to arrows. So Leslie, I really liked your comment on that question. Long ago, and I remember which line it is possible my swarbricks, but I had made my ancestor the son of his oldest brother. That's from Heather Jenkins and Alexis Alexis Nelson. My most embarrassing mistakes I have made here on Wiki Tree have been the first photos I put up for photo challenges. I did not understand about the whip. And I was left with parts of photos that I could not figure out how to remove. Okay, there you go. But just for fun, I accidentally I told you I've been doing things backwards. When I was trying to pull up the photos of the weeks, I accidentally went to the 52 ancestors post on G to G and I stumbled into this, which is an Alexis Nelson profile with with interesting, crazy fun background of people. I can't figure out if that's a these are is this a wartime is the settlers, but Phoebe Palestine long, formerly Morris look at this profile. Great DNA connections over on the right, lots of great dates, places, a couple of great stickers, but check out the biography. Great biography. Amazing. And of course, since it's Alexis, she's got great photos on this thing too. So I just thought because I accidentally went to the 52 ancestors that I would just show show off what Alexis did. I love this photo. Very nice. Good work, Alexis. Yeah, really? Yeah. So yeah, how about that? So fun. That was just going off on a tangent. Oops, I didn't mean to show that. Where was I? Oh, back here. All right. So thank you, Alexis, for showing us that and talking about how you you didn't figure out. I can't upload to G to G. I can't figure it out. Are we going to read Chris Ferriolo has joined us now, Mags. Chris Ferriolo should I'm not even going to tell him watch it and figure it out. I made mistakes over the year. This is from June. The most embarrassing was when the wife and mother had the first the same first name I added the mother mother as his wife. When I finally found the birth and marriage records, it made everything much easier to research, I bet. Let's see my effort yielded mothers as sisters, grandfathers as children and other equally silly errors. I'm doing those kinds of errors are an immense tangle. I love that short and sweet answer, Mark. Oh, I just did another one a few days ago, Carol Baldwin. I added a son to a family and saved and then added the same son to the family and saved. Fortunately, I was a PM for both so I could merge them. Carol Baldwin, very experienced wiki tree are getting into some mistake stuff there. And this is this is from Hillary Gadsby. Mine was not noticing I had the wrong Richard Ward. You know, every time I notice Richard Ward, I just assume he's wrong. I don't know. What about you, Greg? Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. There were two of them in the same village. One with a father, William, who I was trying to find the parents for but was a brick wall. I had Desjardins in Canada is like Smith in a lot of other places. It's a very, very common French name. And apparently not only is Desjardins a very common name. It's also the first names are very common as well. And they're like 20 Desjardins are the same name. And so I had the wrong guy connected to my family and my sister-in-law corrected me on that, which was good. Yeah. The wrong Daniel as my paternal grandfather that profile connected to branches on wiki tree that held thousands of profiles, all of which the PM had kindly added me to their trusted list for when he sold and yes, I've had that happen. Not not that I somebody added me to their trusted list who had thousands and thousands of profiles. And it's taken me thousands and thousands of years to get off of that trust of yours. I saw one yesterday. Oh, let's see. My excuse was I was just a kid. I've tried that Rob. Yeah, treasure of the US was Francine Neff. That's not a common name. And in fact, only nefs I had ever met were my relatives. I told my class to school. She was related to me. Oops. Well, maybe they still maybe. Oh, Brian, I haven't queued you up. I'm going to queue you up and we're going to ignore the ad for just my goodness. You're wax. Here we go. Something I find kind of embarrassing. I was doing some research on my second great grandfather, Patrick Nash. And I was reading through a city director from the city of Halifax from the 1800s, and it listed them as a cordial manufacturer. Well, for about eight months to a year, I thought it was kind of amusing that they listed that he was friendly and polite. Boy, all I had to do was look back to the director before and I would have seen an advertisement from his brother about the real story. Now that was embarrassing. He was making cordials, Brian. I saw his post on YouTube when it first came out, and I was tempted to put in the comments that I guess you didn't read Anne of Green Gables, because the whole raspberry cordial affair was a big deal in the books and in the movies afterwards, too. Yeah, yeah. I love Brian's video stuff. That's great. Let's see. I'm going to skip over. Oh, yeah. Andrea Zooker, I love your comment. Jim, having started looking for ancestors in 1969 and later using YDNA to trace my father's line, I considered myself an expert until I found out he'd been married in another state before he married my mother and not divorced. But that's not your mistake. That's not your fault. I added my name twice to the same family on here. Oops. That's pretty fun. I'm going to skip on down. I'm going to show Chris what we did. Okay. You guys get sick because I'm scrolling. Look at that, Chris. Yes, we made you the best answer. Oh, look, he already said. Yeah. And you're his insurance agent. That's hilarious. All right. So scrolling down, you guys get sick on me here. Let's see. Research helped at an archive. I was pointed out to me that my great, great, grandfather was married with children at age 10. I had the wrong guy. Embarrassing, but valuable lesson. Yeah. The age 10 is a little bit young. Don't forget to upvote these great answers. Putting down the wrong gender and last name of ancestor. I've done that too many times. That's from Eileen. Marilyn says, lots and lots, but the most confusing was making my grandfather the nephew of my husband. Yeah. That's a hard one to do, Marilyn. Yeah, that's pretty complicated. Still no idea how it happened. No, I don't know. Yeah. Bobby West says, allowing my ire toward my father and his family to influence my research. I tried to ignore them completely only to find out my family connections may go back centuries. That's interesting. See, sometimes we're forced to deal with our pain, whatever that pain is. Because my family is mostly German, Zern, Detweiler, my research documents in grades would mostly be German. I had the bright idea to learn the language of no, not nearly as easy as one would think. Three years in and I mastered dog, milk, coffee and here lies. That's the first three being useless. That's funny. How do you say here lies in German? Even here? I don't know. I don't know. Somebody Google that real quick. Here lies. I don't think I've ever had to use that phrase. No. Don't forget to upvote them. I trusted an official extract from a church with signature stamp and everything that my grandparents had requested in 1939 for an ancestor in Bohemia. I had entered the birthday at the profile on Winky Tree and only now over a year later had time to go through the actual digitized church books that are available from the Czech website and found the ancestor died as an infant. They're not your ancestor if they died as an infant, correct? They wouldn't be your ancestor. They would be your uncle ancestor or your ancestor. But that's interesting. Always look at the originals. Transcriptions can trip you up big time. I'm forever putting a death date before my person was even born from Shirley. That's a good one. Let's see. Daniel Dixon. I had my great-great-great-grandmother as the son of who I suspect might be her brother for three years. She went back and fixed it. I love all these miacopos. Yeah, that's right. I added some of my Norwegian ancestors without adding sources. Yikes. Hey, sources are really important. When you hear this, you're like, well, then how did you add them? Well, you have to have a source to be able to put them on. WikiTree was at a family tree. Was your nana, was her ghost whispering in your ear as you were entering the information in? Well, he said that's 2016. So he might have just been joining at that point. Okay. That was Cheryl, anyway. It's not a heat. Oh, sorry. I'm distracted. I was looking at the chat there. So Aaron has helped us out with some of the German. Where's the other one? I was close. You were. Put the tea on the end. Sorry about that. I did put a tea on it. I did. Oh, you did? Well, I did. When I first started this quest, I believed that I believed what was on the computer screen finally was deleted my tree and started again. You can't delete your tree from here, but you must have done it from somewhere else. I consider nuclear families to be my direct ancestors as my ancestors. I got you. I blame WikiTree for my most embarrassing mistake, Janet Gunn. A few years ago, WikiTree announced there was going to automatically change the property status of everyone born less than X years ago. X may have been a hundred without death of date, death, fate of death to something more restrictive. In advance of the deadline, I worked on updating my profiles. Look at that. Yeah, my profiles that were in danger of being closed down when I could not find a death record. I fell back to the UK 1939 register in which the names of living people are blacked out. So in principle, if the name on the 1939 register, that means that the person is dead, even if I can't find a death record. Oh, the converse is not true. There are plenty of people who are dead for my parents, for example, whose names are blocked out, even though they even though they are dead, especially if they died in the outside of the UK. What? I was very embarrassed a couple of days later, but my second cousin who was on WikiTree informed me that not only is his elderly relative alive, he had seen her that week. I quickly changed the status. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, that's unfortunate. So there's tons and tons and tons to look at, go through and make sure you read them and upvote them. There's a whole nother page to go, but we're not going to go throughout all of them discovering that I was related to L. Ron Hubbard from both my mother's mother and my mother's father's side, despite the fact that my grandparents had absolutely no direct familial, social, or even geographical ties. The mistake was finding out. Yeah, added a spouse to a find a grave from a finer to a finer grave profile, put the woman's son as their spouse. Oops. Yeah, no. So you guys go through and enjoy reading through some of these. That's it. And we have our favorite picked out, Chris, that you added yourself, that you were dead. So since you started, Kurtistic had joined us. He suggested that maybe Chris was a time lord when he regenerated. Of course, Erin helped us with the German. June has joined us and Nancy and Jonathan and John Tyner. Apologize for being late, but that's okay, John, anytime. Glad to have you here. My father's name is on a family monument where he was not buried there, corrected it on other sites. That's cool. That's cool. What's going on with the profiles? That profile. Well, the profile of the week is Theodore Geisler and the theme is children's authors because Theodore Geisler's birthday was on March 2nd. Now, do you know who Theodore Geisler is more commonly known as? I do. I do. I do. I do. I do. I do. I do. Who, who, Mags? Who is it? Dr. Seuss. Dr. Seuss. Exactly. Yes. So if you go to the connection finder, you can see down here how you're connected to everyone. Let me just. So for me, it looks like I am closest to Sarah Parton in that list. So in the chat, put down who you're most closely connected to from today's list. So going through. So Theodore, Theodore Robert Geisel was born in on the 2nd of March 1904 in Springfield, Hampton, Massachusetts to Theodore Robert Geisel Jr. and Henrietta Augusta Zeuss. So that's where he gets, that's where the pseudonym comes from. It's his mother's maiden name. And he died in the 24th of September 1991 in La Joya, San Diego, California. La Jolla. La Jolla. La Jolla. Oh, thank you. You are 22 degrees from Ted Geisel through Geisel through your Dwight Douglas. That's my, yeah, first father. Yeah. Thank you. You're welcome. He was an American writer, cartoonist and poet best known for his illustrated books under the pen name of Dr. Seuss, of course. He was born in his parents' home, not in hospital, grew up. He had an older sister. His parents lost their youngest daughter, though, in infancy, so that's very sad. He was recorded as six years old on the 1910 census and he would appear in the 1950 census when that comes out, which I know lots of people are excited about. His dad was a brewery manager and his mother was listed as Keeping House. Interesting entry there. I would like to manage a brew. Yeah, that's right. That'd be a much more interesting thing. Earned his bachelor's degree from Dartmouth College, went on to study at Oxford University and there he met his first wife, Helen Marion Palmer, and she also studied literature. I like this. She completed her master's in English literature, but Ted, who truth be told, spent more time courting Helen or traveling around on his motorcycle than studying did not. So no master's for him. Interesting, all of his grandparents came from Germany, or what are now part of Germany, the Grand Duchy of Baden and the Kingdom of Bavaria. And anyways, they set up housekeeping in Manhattan and that's where he wrote his first books, the very first Dr. Zeus book, and to think that I saw it on Mulberry Street. I remember that. That we had a collection of Dr. Zeus when I was growing up and yeah, they were very, very formative. I quite enjoyed it. And I didn't, hadn't realized this until just recently that he had done cartoons during the war. That was part of his war effort because he didn't want to, he wasn't a combat, combatant. So he was part of that. And then even did a post-war film too. Janine Isleman says she had a telescope and she used to look across the valley, the canyon to see if she could find his house when she was a kid. Wow, how cool is that? That's a huge story. That's very cool. Anyways, this is a very well done profile. It has lots more detail, which I'm not going to go into here, but he won lots of awards and is well known and loved by many. So very cool. The next is Hans Christian Andersen, famous for many fairy tales and stories. He is the son of Hans Andersen and Anne-Marie Gundersen, born in Denmark, Odensa, Denmark and died in Denmark at the age of 70. He's a famous author known worldwide for tales like The Emperor's New Clothes, The Little Mermaid, The Nightingale, The Steadfast Tin Soldier, The Red Shoes, The Princess and the Pea, Snow Queen, Ugly Ducking, The Little Match Girl, and Thumbelina. Lots of classics there. My spousal unit is closely related to The Princess and the Pea. We've been through pillows for years. His dad was a shoemaker and his mother was a washerwoman. He was christened on the 16th of April, 1805, at St. Tronskirk in Odens. Good for you. SKT is the short for Saint, which means Saint. Good for you. You're 36 degrees through Pauline Marcot. My mother. There we go. Parents were married just two months before he was born. That's an interesting fact to have put in there. He was close to his paternal grandparents and then this is another really well done profile. It really describes his life really well. But so he was really close to his one grandmother. One grandfather though, and it goes into more details there, did have some problems, some mental problems. It's a tragedy. It's actually kind of tragic here. Well described and there we go. Elsa Beskow, Elska Martin, board in Sweden. This one I did not practice pronouncing. Maria Formsamling, Sotramam Stockholm, Sweden. I'm not sure how you, I think we asked that last week. Daughter of Berndt, Andreas Martman, and Augusta Josefina Baldstich. 33 your mom again. 33, okay. Your mother. What about you, Megs? How are you? I'm fine, thank you. You're talking how unrelated, you're not telling me how many degrees you are. Let's see, I'm 28. 28. Through my spousal unit. She was the author of children's books illustrating her own stories with an art nouveau touch. Many of her books are classics. She was born in Stockholm, her father was a merchant. She studied art and art education and she subscribed her own career. This was interesting. She subscribed her career as every other year a boy, every other year a book, and then they put a timeline here. So in 1897 she had a book. That's cute. Then she had a child in 1898. 1901 she had a book. 19, oh, oh, she doubled up there. Oh, but then that makes up because then she had two children in a row and then a book child, book child, book, book child. She had urine in 1910 and dog. I'm looking at her name. I know. Bury, Bo, urine, and dog. Amazing. Very cool. Last book, Red Bus Green Car. Interesting. So on these two little, that's two illustrations from her book, Children of the Forest. John Tyler gave you an ad a boy, by the way. Oh, thank you. Thank you, John. Okay. Next is Sarah, Sarah Willis Parker, Sarah Payson, Willis Parker. This is everybody's closest connection, I think. Oh yeah, because that was mine at 19, right? You are 17. 17, okay. Yeah. Through your mother again. Okay. And she was more formerly known as Fanny Fern. She was born in 1811 in Portland, Cumberland County, Maine. And she passed away on the 10th of October, 1872 in Manhattan, New York. She was married three times. And she had three children, though one of these, I believe, is when she adopted, who was the daughter of her, one of her daughter, one of her daughters who died in childbirth or shortly after childbirth, which is very sad. She's an American novelist, children's writer, humorist, and newspaper columnist known by the pen name Fanny Fern. Have you heard of Fanny Fern before? I have. You have. Fern's popularity has been attributed to her conversational style and the sense of what mattered to her mostly middle-class female readers. Was the first woman to have a regular column in the American newspaper? That's where I've heard of hers. I knew that little. Yeah. It's always neat to find these trail blazers who are the first to have done this for something. And the highest paid columnist in the United States at the time, I'm guessing. There's probably higher paid people now, but that's pretty cool. And as credited with coined in the phrase, the way to a man's heart is through his stomach. That is like all the time now. It's so true. Oh, it is. So her father was a newspaper owner and she had four older siblings. She, her eldest did not live to adulthood, dying at age seven of what was called brain fever at the time. And her husband Charles also died of typhoid fever. There's an illustration from one of her books. Again, a nice, very nice full profile here. And there's some of the books and they're available on Gutenberg. So one of the things that I found interesting in these profiles is a couple of them referred to places you can get the books. So you can see that she wrote starting out with 1854 was her first book up until 72 and that just shortly before her death, which was 72. Yes. So her basically in a 20 year range, she had all these books, but because they are over a hundred years old, they are available in the public domain. And Gutenberg is one of those sites where you can get access to any of those books. So if you're interested in that, that's a nice way to nice place to access for free, free reading material. Yeah, good literature too. Mm hmm. Yeah. Jacob Ludwig Karl Grimm. There he was born in, well, that's how I do this here. I don't even need to use any of my German German training when you're around. Well, no, it's I use Duolingo to learn some German. And I'm trying my best to remember. And it was born, died in 20 September 1863 in Berlin, Prosen Deutsche Bund, which is the German Confederation, which would be the English translation of that, as opposed to Heilige Romisches, right, the Holy Roman Empire. So this is one of the brothers Grimm, of course. And this one, Jacob did not marry or have children, at least according to the profile here. But he's what I found interesting is that what I didn't know is that besides being the, the co author of the brothers Grimm, the, the children's tale fairy tales. He's done other stuff. So the author of Deutsche Mythologie, Teutonic Mythology. And the big work that he worked on was the Deutsches Werter Wuch, the German dictionary, which he was working on even till the, when he died. But the one that he worked with his brother Wilhelm on was the Children's and Household's Tales, which is the Kinder und Hausmachung, which would be the collection of film. Yes. I'm so impressed. So his father was a town clerk. They moved, moved around. He would became a, the father became a bailiff and then was a lawyer. He transferred his bailiff and he was a lawyer too. So they, they moved around a lot, but he went to university, studied law, and his brother also joined him at university, also began studying, began studying law. He had the profile goes through a lot of history. He ended up doing lots of different things. He was, he was in Paris. At one point he was working for, so he found the, he met with, he was working for Napoleon's brother, like Napoleon, Napoleon Bonaparte's brother, Jerome Bonaparte. So that was pretty, I thought that was kind of cool. And since 1806, that's when he and his brother collected fairy tales, which were edited and then published between 1812 and 1858, and then assembled in that collection. So went back and forth. And that's, and the, his final work was on that dictionary, but interesting because there's a lot more to his life than just one little snippet that you know about, you know, the Grimm's Fairy Tales. Yeah. Okay. Rosina Ruth Luchia Park was from New Zealand, born in New Zealand, often, and then died in 2010 in New South Wales. She met and married her pen pal. Isn't that cool? That's interesting. That's the old way of doing an online dating service. That's online dating. That's what, yeah. I remember when online dating was pen pals. Did five children and even, and twin daughters went on to become book illustrators. She was a well-known New Zealand-born Australian author, wrote for all ages, classic children's books, including The Muddle-Headed Wombat, and then Playing Peter Bull, The Harp in the South, Poor Man's Orange, and Swords and Crowns and Kings. And look, there's a picture of her. She was lovely. Yes. And here is the, this is the cover of The Muddle-Headed Wombat. What a cute book. I know, eh? I'm not familiar with that, but I need to read that. Yeah. Isn't that cool? That is very cool. Arthur Mitchell Ransom, CEB, Commander of the British Empire, was born in 1884 in Leeds, Yorkshire. He passed away on June 3, 1967 in Manchester, England. And he's the author of the Swallows and Amazons series, which is a series of books that I am not familiar with. I'm sorry to say. It was a presser of history at what is now called the University of Leeds. He attended rugby school in Warwickshire, but did not excel neither in academics or sports, physical pursuits, mainly because he had poor eyesight. Sorry. I hear you. Then Arthur married Ivy Walker, and then he married a Russian woman, Evgenia Katovna, from Latina, and they're buried in the same grave in England. He also, if you read down here, he supplied, he was, he became a far correspondent, and because of that work, he became a sympathizer for the Bolshevik cause. He supplied information to the MI6 about this, and he had a code name. But then in 1919, he would be, he was charged with being an agent, which makes sense. It doesn't make sense. If he was working for the government, why would he be charged all of a sudden? Anyways. Sounds like a double situation. I know. I'm helping the government out here for MI6, but then MI7, or MI5 thinks that's a threat. I don't know. Poor guy. Anyways, Swallows and Amazons is this, is what he, is how he got into this category for his children's books. And here is the cover of Swallows and Amazons, and this is one of the books that's available on the open library, which is part of the Internet Archive, which is another place you can access some of these books for free. Literature, yeah. Yeah. Okay. It's the Wombat on there. What's that? The last authors, the Wombat. Um, that's a good question. It probably, it might be. I didn't check. I have to look for it. Yeah. Call him Milton Thiel, A-C-B-A. So that's the companion of the Order of Australia, and B-A, I think, just means Bachelor of Arts because he did graduate from university. I didn't see a B-A being an Australian award, but if someone knows that, then let me know. Okay. He is a notable. He is a South Australian educator and author of over 100 books, 100 works, renowned for his award-winning children's fiction, most notably the novel Storm Boy, Luffy and the Sun on the Stubble series, and the February Dragon, which were made into films and or television series. Apparently, Storm Boy, which was a 1975 Australian film, was very popular. And, um, yeah, at the end, where is it? It says somewhere here. So there's a list of all the awards he'd won, poetry prize, South Australian, like very well known. So that's, that's a second, isn't it? Australian? Yeah. Well, with the New Zealand, and I don't, yeah. Yeah. That's cool. We're hitting the other side of the world. Yeah. That's very cool. So in terms of his legacy, a life-size memorial of Thiel with a pelican, was sculpted by Chris Radford, is located in Udunda Town Gardens. Nice. His book, Storm Boy, the story of a young boy's relationship with a pelican, his father, and an outcast Aboriginal man named Fingerbone, sold more than a million copies worldwide, was translated into nine languages, dramatized several times, including a play and a film. That's neat. And there is Storm Boy. Elwyn Brooks White, which that name doesn't sound familiar, but if you shorten it to E.B. White, you probably know who we're talking about. From born in 1899 in Mount Vernon, Westchester, New York, died October 1st, 1985 in North Brooklyn in Hancock, Maine. E.B. White, most popular for children's books, including Stuart Little, which was his very first one, written in 1945, Charlotte's Web, my favorite of them, 1952, and the trumpet of the swan, 1970. Graduated from Cornell University, had a Bachelor of Arts, worked as an editor, and then it was a cub reporter, worked for two years with an advertising agency, and then went on to write his books. I love how they incorporated the pictures into the profile. There. Yes. Very nice. He received the Laura Ingalls Wilder Medal from the U.S. Professional Children's Library. Librarians. That's kind of cool. Terrence Hanbury White, another one that you have to reduce to initials to become more familiar with, T.H. White. T.H. White, born in 1906 in Bombay, India, and passed away. This jumped out at me. He passed away on the 17th of January, 1964. So there was one day when the two of us, our lives, overlapped. Oh, wow. I was born on the 16th of January, 1964. Wow. So one, for 24 hours, we were, we shared the world. That's kind of a cool intersection. Yeah, it's kind of. It's a very, a men's diagram that has just a little witty video. Perfound. It's a way of connecting yourself to something, even though you're not connected. Exactly. The sword and the stone. The sword and the stone, yes. And then he went on to write other books based on the Arthurian legend. The Once and Future King. I actually just one of my favorite books. What's that? The Once and Future King is one of my favorite books. I actually took a university course in Arthurian legend. Oh, cool. Yeah, it was very cool. It was very cool because my math courses and computer science, all of that, but were so heavy and I got one elective and I thought I'm going to do something. Fun. So anyways, again, a nice profile here. He was inspired by his, when he was at school, when studying discovering Thomas Mallory, who wrote the definitive work on Arthurian legend back in the 1500s, I believe it is. He collected a bunch of legends and sort of compiled them. And that's sort of the basis that T.H. White wrote his books on, which sort of has reignited or popularized it since then, too. And you can go to Wikipedia to find more about the Moorth Arthur, which is the book that Mallory wrote, if you want. But we'll move on to, I believe, our final one, which is Francis Eliza Hodgson Burnett, daughter of Hedwin Hodgson and Eliza Boond. She was an English-American, English-American playwright and author, best known for her children's stories, in particular, little Lord Fontaroy, a little princess in the secret garden, which is one of my wife's favorite books. Yes, one of mine, too. Yeah, born in Cheeknam, near Manchester. The family fell on poor times, so they migrated to the United States, settling near Knoxville, Tennessee. There she began writing to earn some money. Her mother died, and then she married. They went back to, they've revisited England at one point. Yes, traveled to England, bought a home there, and that's where she wrote the secret garden. Her oldest son died of tuberculosis, though, that said. And then she came back to Long Island, and there's a memorial sculpture erected in her honor in Central Park's Conservatory Garden, depicting her two famous characters, Mary and Dickon. Nice. Very cool. Nice. Thank you for doing the profiles of the week. It's always fun. It is. I left you some time for the photos. There's a little time for the photos. Pull those up. Yay, we're going to go straight to the G to G feed. And the photo theme is Friendship. Oh, nice. Nice, from Dallas Moore posting that for us. April 5, 1942, LaRoy Nelson. Guess whose profile picture that is? Alexis. And Sarah, we're so sorry you're not here, but there's a puppy. This looks like Rosie O'Donnell. Yeah, it does. So this is Friends. Annette's dog wanted to be a part of the fun that she even knows who the dog is, Alexis. This is our friends that we meet on a trip in England in 2009. This is from Gary Novus. Started our friendship travel theater card and games playing with everlasting memory. That's fun. That's a cute photo. Nice. Well, look at the car in the back. That car has a rumble seat in it. Oh, yes. I can tell. I remember sitting in a rumble seat of the car and the smell of the leather of the seat. Willoughby, Frank Willoughby, Irine Riffit, and Raleigh Murphy were all from rural Montgomery, County, Kentucky, and moved to date in Montgomery, Ohio around the same time. But didn't that good? They've been friends for a very long time. That's from Lucas Murray. Now this isn't friends, but some people think that their family are friends. Yeah. So left a rider, France, Patsy Louise, Janet, Heather, and Margaret. Silly hats, eating cake, playing games came later for this birthday event. The first photo of the girls by my father, John Miller. How many friends in a party dress can you squeeze on a sofa in 1957? Oh, that's cool. They weren't siblings, but they were friends. There are siblings somewhere. This is a crazy funny picture. This is Camp Fire Group 1930s. They would go camping, have picnics together. My grandmother's in the driver's seat. You can barely see her head right there of old Sally, but you can only see a bit of her hair. My great aunt took the picture. The people in the front seem to be having a good time, but not so much the people in the back. Oh. Especially the one who seems to have burnt her toast. Isn't that an odd thing to mention? I know that the shock absorbers weren't really good back then. If that vehicle had actually been moving, they might have been sick to their stomach. Yeah. How fun was that picture? 1930s. That's crazy. Here's a good one. Photo shows my grandfather, Matt, and friends, Austin and Alan. In 1952, collection of slides as they were stationed in Alaska during the Korean War. And they've got, I guess, foxes wrapped around their shoulders and whiskey. Love this. Continue to figure out who these people are supposed to be. They're groovy. No, no, no. They're not groovy. Way too late for that. Is it the Marx Brothers? It's the Marx Brothers. So these are my lifelong friends. My mother is Harpo. That's so cute. A nurse's training, 1928 to 1931 at Good Samaritan Hospital in Portland, Oregon. My mother Florence McClain made numerous friends, but she remained friends with two of her classmates in particular throughout her life. Isn't this crazy? That's a good picture. Nursing school. How sweet. Florence is on the left there. That's from Lloyd Wright. Now, isn't Nellis Air Force Base where Area 51 is? Sounds like it might be. But this is, isn't that in Las Vegas? Anyway, Nellis Air Force Base. That does not look like Nellis Air Force Base, but people are on ponies. That's cute. Some friends from way back when. Photo, Felicity Standing and Josephine and another friend in Norwich, England in 1964. And that is from Christine Frost. This is a good one. Friendly hunting party from Okanagan Lake, BC. Father William Henry Thompson with a shotgun on his arm, this guy. And my, on the left and my father re-enlisting in the armed forces protect the west coast at the time of Pearl Harbor. That's a hunting party. Oh, and there's a dog. Do you see the puppy? Yep, there it is. Sarah, there's another dog. Photo of my friend and I, Donna, and this is from Jeanine, taken in 2010. We had been friends since 2005 or so. Time of the pick was taken. My brother and mother are both going through cancer, of which my brother died of 2011 and my brother in 2010. And Donna was there for me when I found out about my tumor. It helped me through. Wow. Oh, she passed away. Wow. So sorry, Jeanine, but that's a great photo. Yeah. Not a great photo, but an interesting photo from Joyce Fander Bogart. Eleanor in the same playpin when we were five, can't even move to our neighborhood and joined in our games. The three of us remain friends. Eleanor and I still keep in touch. So are you playing dress up in this picture? Or are you actually, it's hard to tell because it's so blurry, but it's a cute picture. It is cute. Oh, and here's a picture of Eleanor, Kathy's mother and my brother all dressed up. Okay, so they were playing dress up. That is cute. And Sarah, another puppy. Look at the lady in the middle, which one has the biggest personality, do you think? I do. Great photo from Dieter Lawrence taken in 1957 at Hotel Boomer in Haviksbeck, Munster, shortly before his parents' wedding. Nice. That's sweet. And that is it. That's about all the time we have for that today. I do want to point out that this week's Oliver Wakeman is the fifth challenge. He was in the rock band Yes, one of my favorite bands. Oh, yes. And I happened to know for a fact that Ms. Mindy is on the road doing a real live interview with the next challenge person. But not this one? Not this one, but the next one. Real live person in the next one. We can look and see. Real live person. She's Jimmy Fadden from the nitty gritty dirt band. Yes, she's on the road doing a live interview with him. That's hilarious. Obviously not date night this week since they had it yesterday. And apparently they had a real chat. So they must have been on Zoom doing chat with people live during there. Somebody? Yeah. I don't think it's going to be a live interview, Chris, because I think it will be recorded. Mindy Silva live. No, I think she's enjoying the party right now. The band's performing somewhere and she's gone to meet them. Isn't that cool? That's very cool. I do want to do this. Okay. Yeah. If you're over at Rootstack and you want to upvote my thing, please do so. You just type in my name under sessions and type in search for Max Galden and you'll see using DNA group projects in your family history research. There's another one in there for YDNA as well. But I head over to Rootstack. If you're not doing Rootstack this weekend, that's okay. And what else do we need to talk about before? Oh, and don't forget to upvote the stuff. Are you doing Rootstack, Greg? I am. Yeah. I've been following. I did one session live. I watched a couple of the keynotes live and I bookmarked a bunch of the other ones to come back to. So what were you doing this morning? So this morning, before I got kicked out, there was an Irish genealogy scavenger hunt. So I was doing that and it was very cool because the handout gave a list of websites to preload in your browser and she introduced it with, it was for the host and I can't remember her name offhand, but it was part of her family. And so she introduced it, gave us a bit of information and then said, pointed us to the site to look for. I think we started off with a, we tried to find a census listing and whatnot. So it was kind of cool. I always liked a good scavenger hunt and this was, it was well laid out. So it was sort of in stages and then she gave you time to find it and then she showed how to, you know, if you didn't quite make it there, she showed the results and then you went built on that one to get to find the next record of baptism and then a marriage record and very cool. Sarah, June has a present for you. Let me get rid of that. Oh, I can't get to it to zoom it right here. I know how to zoom. Here you go, Sarah. Nice, very nice. He even calls it relaxation photo for Sarah. There you go, Sarah. All right. Let me close that. All right. Where are we? Oh, we're in Greenville, South Carolina just then. So I should do that. So if you're on Roots Tech, check out the relatives by Roots Tech and see how closely you're related to mags or myself. Yes. We're cousins. I mean, what I've found interesting, I don't know if you've been doing this is, I get cousins contacting me and I go and I look at the relationship on Roots Tech and then I go and look and see if there's a relationship for me to look at on Wikitree. So I know that the stuff that connects my family on Wikitree is pretty strong. I'm not so sure about the family search stuff yet. I mean, I know family search is working on getting their tree to one single tree. But I mean, I have one back to the time of the Pharaohs, I think, on one of my matches and I'm like, no, cannot be. No, no. So if you guys are not doing anything for the rest of the week, check out the Wikitree challenge and we will see you here. Same place, same channel next week. Next week. We'll see you then. Next week. What should we play today? What should we play? We'll just play us out with the same one. See you guys. See you.