 Welcome to the wiki tree challenge. Hi, I'm Mindy Silva, and I'm here with Janet of the one place studies society and then with Azure who runs our one place study project on a wiki tree and You know, it was really just an incredibly fun week. We were talking about it It's we always find the most interesting things. It's so much fun. You know to take a look at it. What's there? and I'm going to go ahead first and talk just a little bit about wiki tree because we usually wind up with a few people that don't necessarily know who we are and For those of you that don't know our mission is to grow one accurate share tree that connects us all and is Accessible to all of us for free forever. It's all about collaboration. There's one profile per person So if you and I share an ancestor we work on them together. There is no your tree and my tree and We just passed the 33 million profile You see what our current there's our current number 33 profile Milestone with almost 11 million of those having DNA connections on them. So, you know, that's just really incredible That we have so many people that have joined the site and also, you know DNA has become such a Trendy thing with genealogy and it does so much to help with the brick walls and you know those hard connections And so it's great to see so many people are adding that But what really makes wiki tree work is its community it cornerstone of the community is our honor code Anyone can view the profiles on wiki tree is free but to edit anybody that isn't an immediate family member You do need to sign the honor code And that emphasizes sources giving credit having courtesy understanding difficulties Accuracy and respecting privacy all of those things are really important to us And that privacy is one of the things that makes wiki tree special Even though we're growing a one-world tree and we all collaborate only close family members can collaborate on modern family profiles So, you know, there's already going to be control set in place if you want to add your mother or your aunt That will protect their information so others can't see their specific details But you know as you go further back the privacy is open up and more and more people can can work on those So if you aren't a member yet Come and join just takes a minute to register as a guest member and you can delete a guest account at any time So now we're going to go to the challenge of the week. We we partnered with a society of one place studies They were started in 2013 and they supported and educated people from all over the world that want to document a one place study And it really just is an incredible way to You know to gather information So they give us seven names. We had seven days to find everybody we could find within seven degrees of them And that means, uh, you know, anybody that's within seven steps of our starting person So on wiki tree, we call that count a person cc seven And you know, i'll give you some numbers here for the people that want math numbers rose holton started with a cc seven of 118 So she had 118 relatives linked to her within seven degrees and she ended up with a cc seven of 623 Charles bullock started with six And he wound up with 1059 William edward manly started with 839. So he had some people connected But by the time we got done with him, he was up to 1370 nine Now sarah monksfield Only started with four and she ended up with 558 people attached L spett smith started with five and ended with 696 Samuel vick started with a cc four of set of four and seven of four and ended with 1082 And george wallace who only had 34 people connected now has 1082 people connected. So or sorry 2290 people So janet, would you like to tell us how you chose your starting people? Yes, thank you very much. So my name is janet, and I'm the current chair of the society And we aim to bring together the skills of local history and family history To find out as much as possible about any given place and the people who were in it And how they they lived and interacted with the wider world and wider events. So that's who we are It's our 10th anniversary this year and thank you for the invitation to be part of this this project. That's great So we emailed our members and explained who you were and what you were trying to do and What the offer was and we invited people to Nominate a person from their one place studies And the replies were pulled out of a hat and these are the seven lucky people whose names were passed forward and it was as simple as that Well, that's a great way to do it. Um, you know, it sounds like you were collaborating also everybody working together to Put something together Here we have a few of our top people during the challenge week stew ward who was our most valuable participant or mvp Rosalie nev and karen low were our top bounty hunters And i'm cathie the team captain for this week You can earn bounty points three different ways and you get 10 points for them One is by the first connection to the global pre Another way is by breaking a brick wall for one of their Ancestors that was chosen The third way to get bounty is to find something interesting that is voted as a top discovery But It takes an entire team to collaborate and come up with amazing results that we do We have more than 72 people participating in an incredible show of collaboration So that's everybody that did some sort of work And there's probably a few others that were on the you know in the background helping out with with certain things that Just didn't show up on the score sheet. So that's a lot of people though Everybody was interested in the one place studies So we'll go on to rose holtman and rose is the closest at 18 degrees or steps from george wallis Else bet was 20 degrees from william manley And i'm returning to rose as she's coincidentally related. This was awesome to edwin boyd Who is a canadian bank robber from our first challenge? So when i was we loved to look at these little you know relationships And it's so easy to do on lucky tree and you know, it's fun when you find something like that And i'm looking at some of her connections and i'm like, oh wait a minute. She's related to that guy It was one of the other challenges we did. So that was he was really an interesting man That was a lot of fun And you know once again, we have a lot of fun using the connection finder So we like to look and see who which of us are the closest to the starting people You know, which of us are closest to each other And this is your captain's connection to george wallis. So this takes you through the entire path Used to reach him and there are a few connections by marriage. So not a biological relation But uh, you know by marriage And then here we have william manley's connection to george kailey who is the sixth baronet kailey of brompton george's mother arranged for him to be educated by two non-conformist ministers He succeeded to the baronet c of the kailey's Of brompton in 1792 when his father died He was a fellow of the royal society and he's best known for his pioneering work on aeronautics working on flying machines Of different kinds including gliders You know something can do a helicopter that would lift people up in airships And so, you know, we're some of the other sites you can say Oh, I want to know if i'm related to the sixth baronet, you know, baronet of brompton We can say oh, wait a minute. We want to know if william manley's connected to him And um, it just is a lot of fun So here's some more connections we're going to take a look at now samuel vick is 17 degrees from james polk related by marriage And let's see. I have the category for him Throw that up there And this is one of the things that you can do So, you know, we can say oh, I want to look at um, samuel vicks connection to all us presidents And it will go down and tell you how many steps away It is so there's harry truman at 18 degrees, which really isn't that far abraham lincoln at 18 degrees And then if you click on the link it will show you What that path is just like the other one that we looked at And so yeah, just one of our our fun tools we do and Oh, I have another one Since george, he seemed to be related to everybody. He probably wasn't but it seemed like he was when we were doing these connections um We're doing george wallace's connection to scotland notables and here again Here's an entire list of people that were really notable in scotland history and you know, they um You can see the degrees you can click on the paths if you want to and you can see what the distance is And so it's just so much fun But now we're going to go ahead and look at a few more interesting people that our researchers found during the week And janet it's so hard to pick these it really is because we wind up with so much good stuff And you know, there's other things that are in the highlights post and i'll send you a link to that Thank you, you know that we put in our forum But these guys really are Just amazing at you know going in and getting these interesting finds and digging out these details And that's what we want to do, you know, we want to honor these ancestors and kind of bring them back to life for people Now rosa's brother-in-law thomas kassen managed and owned a hotel and managed toba called the kassen house Around 1891 a fire burned the hotel and it had to be rebuilt So, you know, you can actually see pictures of this hotel. I couldn't get permission for one in time. I wish I would have But you can see pictures of it online and and you know, unfortunately, I think it was like right after Poor thomas started managing and the fire happened. So And not the best timing on his part And you know, one of the What are the other things about thomas is that he worked on the construction of the canadian pacific railway for almost 15 years So, you know, that's a really long time and hard work railway work And then To look at a coincidence or something similar rosa's 18 degrees from james alexander low Qc who's a notable person And he also moved following the canadian pacific railway He was a successful lawyer. He invested heavily in real estate on many buildings including the grand theater And just an interesting little tidbit. Both men had six children. So Yeah Now the next one we have is charles bullocks And this was another good one brigadier general alfred douglas miller cbe dso. I have to admit I don't know what the initials are for Is 25 degrees from charles bullock and alfred was actually the high sheriff of oxford char while charles was living there So this is the person that was high sheriff in that point Times that Yeah, it's the command of the british empire in distinguished service order. They're british gongs Oh, okay I'm glad you know There you go Sorry, carry on. Oh, no, that's okay. Now if we were working on the challenge still I just reach out in discord and go Okay, what does this mean and like four people would probably tell me so I learned something all the time Now he alfred ultimately reached the rank of big brigadier general and he was appointed the commander of the order in 1919 And let's see if it'll open this path for me I don't have it on the same screen. Here we go And so that's the connection between Brigadier alfred miller and charles bullocks And you know, it's really fun and you can click on any one of those along the way and bring up the profile Of the person that is on that path um in between them And a slight nod here on those lines also This was just kind of a funny one to miles tolly who's for he's only four degrees from charles bullock But in 1889 they took licensing their dogs like really seriously because They gave him a fine and seven days of labor Hard labor for not licensing his dog I was like, oh man, how crazy is that right? I just don't like that. No Yeah And I know we did um, we did a challenge I think it was our first year and we had a bunch of english people and we were having a hard time finding some of the Records for them And we actually were able to track them through the use of the dog records in that particular location for some reason They kept these extensive dog rush records And you know, they would tell you like how many dogs they had all the details But then they would also tell you, you know owned by who who lives on this street who is a baker or you know Whatever his occupation was it was crazy Um, it was really a huge help and I would have never in my life thought to look at you know records for dog licenses So we'll go on to William Manley who was also born in england and John Gregory was on his line and this was actually Williams, um uncle And he was credited with saving several lives at sea as a watchman on the fish docks and you know Just a few minutes before he died one of the men he had saved years and years before Came to him and was actually there when he passed away So, you know, here this man was that he had saved his life and um He showed up and was there for him when he died That was just really touching Further out from William at 22 degrees is john de veer kb He was also from Essex and in 1544 he served with an expedition to belone holding the rank of captain in the Rear guard of the army of henry v8 Um in Essex where his estate slay he held a number of posts of honor He was appointed chief commissioner in 1545 joint lord lieutenant in 1550 and 1553 Just as of the piece in 1554 and lord lieutenant 1557 through 1559 So, you know, here was somebody with a lot of titles. Yeah Um You just find that you never know who you're gonna find when you get way out in the branches like that Now with sarah monksfield, we're gonna look at a much closer connection Here we had rebecca monksfield, which was sarah's sister And she was convicted of theft and transported to van demon's land for a seven-year sentence And you know on the voyage she became hysterical and they actually wound up having to restrain the poor Yeah so It was just um another thing where we were looking at connections and and how the relations were and it turns out that sarah is 15 degrees from dora may teedaman wicks, which was of our last challenge And 20 degrees from jesse mayhill from that same challenge And you know, if you don't know jesse mayhill is uh Is known for doing a huge amount of research years and years of research On all of these convicted women that were sent to australia And she collected huge amounts of data that's now held by the um australian society genealogist archive collection and so You know just really interesting and we learned a lot on that one too You know just about these these poor people that had been sent over for a lot of times small sentences You know to serve out these seven years in this foreign land where it wasn't built up and you know ironically i did look because um I was wondering what she got sent for you know I was expecting it in the australian challenge, but not necessarily with this challenge And she stole shoes so she stole 17 pairs of shoes And she went around and she was sailing them to the different palm brokers And she would say oh my husband makes shoes. Here's this two pairs of shoes and she'd sell it to one And then she'd move on to the next shop So you know then of course they go back and they re-interview all these these palm brokers And you know i'm sure she didn't think 17 pairs of shoes was worth that You know, but we did also find During the time that we were doing that that type of research I mean some of those people were just they weren't doing stuff like that But they were maybe stealing a little bit, you know enough to put some bread on the table for their kids that night or you know Just enough for dinner not like Outropping a bank or something you would think is serious and they would send them for those seven-year sentences. It was just incredible Now we have on elspets lines Four degrees from her through her oldest son who was illegitimate Alexander moir, he died from wounds sustained in action while serving with the gordon highlanders during world war one Elspets 20 degrees from lance corporate shirsey kenneth hunt Also of the gordon highlanders who died in service in 1915 and was awarded the british war medal and the victory medal And then she's also 33 degrees from alexander william menzies Now he was a lance corporal of the gordon highlanders and he also died in service 1916 So you know here if you're looking at it And even where you have those swaps with you know marriages and whatnot I mean you think about your own life where you have aunts uncles cousins their wives their son-in-law You know what? I mean not everybody's relative, but they're all family and they kind of Yeah, affect how you interact with the world out there. So So we find all connections fascinating Three from the same war in the same richam Yeah, within a year They all they all died in service within a year of each other hard times So here was another this was just kind of a fun interesting fact now We had william top who's six degrees from alspeth smith He had eight sons before the birth of his only daughter and then barbara top Who's eight degrees from alspeth And her husband had eight daughters before the birth of their only son and their first cousins It's not even like they were siblings, but their first cousins and you know, what are the chances? I mean seriously Yeah We have samuel bick next and he had quite a few interesting people in his branches And you can see some of them in the highlights post in our forum Helen madeline cook jones was the wife of samuel's nephew samuel henry jones She was an american actor and civil rights activist Helen was active in the unitarian fellowship for social justice in the fifties She moved to philadelphia and got involved with the clakers and their civil rights activism And she earned a master's degree from san francisco state university Now she continued on as an activist, especially supporting the japan town neighbors Who were battling redevelopment and gentrification? She frequently spoke about cuts to arts education and You know spoke at school board meetings. So that was just kind of really cool This was yeah, this one was kind of a twist. It was interesting So we have makin more barry men whose three degrees from san jelvic was a social worker He was the commissioner of the department of social welfare of three united states and virgin islands For more than 15 years now. It also involved with the boy scouts in a 1972 He was awarded the silver analogue award by the boy scouts of america 19 degrees from samuel as john Fitzgerald kennedy, of course, they're 35th president of the united states and Turns out he was the first president who had done a boy scout Right here we have two boy scouts And then we're going to go ahead and look at a few unique ones. These were military men Kathy, I had to read your part. I'm sorry Um, I wish I could let you see my my text right now This is john pal shine who was seven degrees from george walis and this was really cool He was a royal navy person and notable for being part of the expeditions to find franklin ship Which was lost in the search for the norse passage But he also devised a plan to reach the north pole by balloon And then also off of george walis's branches by 19 degrees is clay rex cattrell Now he was a member of the 39th balloon company in 1918 And those consisted of one captain three first lieutenants four second lieutenants 174 enlisted men and a balloon. So they're right there. I learned something Excuse me. I got this itch tonight. How why does it take like 185 men to To me on a balloon It seems a lot Yeah And then here were a few more um fun ones or interesting ones So these are going to be military though and you know some of these I always like to give a nod to them We always appreciate the service and what our ancestors have done for us You know, whether you believe in war or not, um, you know, they they stood up for something they believed in So we have samuel vicks on daniel vicks served as a private and the student's army training corps at the negro agricultural and technical college In greensboro, north carolina The u.s. War department created the student army training corps the satsi as a way to hasten the training for the students of war and um He was spared overseas combat, but he did learn do these college courses while he was training for the military Now four degrees. We talked about alexander moore who died from his whims. So these are the ones Um I thought I stayed within the great war. Yeah, I did world war one But we also had seven degrees from al-spat is James top and he was a donkey man serving in the ss travail when he drowned as a result of an attack by an enemy submarine So, you know, he was 48 years old Which We had cesil herbert cox who served with the british army in world war one and he died of his wounds He was only 23 years old Then there's william gillingham howard who served with the 14th battalion of the london scottish Regiment died of his wounds and he was actually in france at that time and age 24 That was on the manly line We have thomas william bones who served as a stoker in world war one and received the victory star medal and the general service medal We had four degrees from charles bullock sydney tolly who served as an air mechanic first class with a britain's royal navy And he survived the war And four degrees from charles was herald thomas tolly Who served in the british army six court troops 101st brigade ammunition column? So, you know, there's there's a few of them that made it through that war But it's always sad to see how many, you know, we lose Now in wiki tree we're all cousins by blood or marriage. So, you know, once again right now we have 28 million six hundred and seventy three thousand three hundred and twelve cousins connected on wiki tree alive or not That's a lot to be I know and it's only a drop in a bucket right for what the rest of the world is So we started out with just four countries to research in and kathy. Do you want to go ahead and tell us where we wound up Kathy Sorry, what was that? I asked if you wanted to tell us what the countries we wound up in honey Um We started out with a few and as you can see we were ended up in quite a few Canada, england, scotland united states angola, australia the british west indies portarico portugal germany hady france jersey and japan wow The one The one that kind of surprised me the most was actually japan Yeah, me too just because I can see with You know england and scotland and they're you know going to canada the u.s australia, but japan Yeah, and the ones that were transported, you know, you know, they had no choice to be in australia Portugal and angola is interesting as well Yeah, I get excited when we find portugal. That's one of my areas of expertise So, um, it's actually very rare during the challenge that we wander in One accidentally wander into portugal, but every once in a while we get somebody that goes through there Was it the same person? In portugal and angola was it the same person with links in those two, do you know Um, I'm not sure about that. I don't remember if any angola one was but we did have the one couple that was missionary And that traveled to a whole bunch of countries like a whole list Yeah, they was the same family yeah And portugese speaking of course Yeah, they started out in british best indies Uh, the that's where the parents were born and then they were missionaries in worcester angola And then some of their kids became missionaries in In went to portugal and so just really very interesting family Yeah, they were incredibly well traveled That's amazing where people end up, isn't it? Yeah, I'm not sure Where does azure do you remember where the japan came from though? Oh No, um, I thought that was somebody else that was in japan Yeah, it doesn't say Anything in the interesting minds or anything about Once again, there's just so many, um, you know good ones It's You wind up looking at all of these, um You know all of these names and locations and pretty soon we get to the end of the week You know and the team will have done like 15 000 edits to the And you know, we'll have 8 000 new people on the tree and Yeah, I'm pretty soon after a while. You're like, where was that one that went here? You know the guy was the thing that went to japan. Yeah, that one Yes, you need a vox solid filing system And then azure do you want to go ahead and tell us, uh, some about the once play studies project But also how you, um, you know worked with the challenge this week Yeah, sure. Uh, so we only had actually one of the ancestor profiles that was Part of an existing study on wiki tree where it was Created on wiki tree already and that was the part of whole society sailors orphan home And when it started out, I think there were about Um, we think there were about 70 Profiles that were in that category and now there's, uh, Almost 200 that 193 profiles in that category And I can actually share my screen and just show you Where we're at. Is that okay? Yeah Okay Share this real quick So I'm just gonna upsize the screen here Okay, so we had Here they are here's the list and so Here are just basically the state the ancestor and then the sticker with a sticker looks like on the ancestor profile and then This is how many profiles are registered, you know In the category for the study So the largest one of course was the um Samuel vick one place study in wilson, north carolina We had a we had quite a few people from the us black heritage project that were taking part in the challenge for the week and so there are quite a few Profiles added for those lines and I got the they got added to that category, but they all all these studies got Created and added to So we had a lot of fun and Now this for the next week's challenge people are asking for studies to be created. So it's really exciting to You know, it's been a really good showcase for Creating interest in one place studies Excellent good. I hope you encourage us people to dive in and and do their own studies on their own places of interest whether it's where you live or Where your ancestors are from or just anywhere that perhaps you fancy really? Yeah, I hope so And Because george, uh, you know, he started out in in stotland and he ended up in Ontario We wanted to to cover both of those places. Thank you Yeah, yeah, I mean we know there's such a great genealogical tool But you know, it was really fun to have the focus on this Because like azure said now this time people are already getting in the habit of it and they're like, oh wait But I have a church or would this be a good one place study and azure's like, yeah, let me set it up for you It can be anywhere you want it to be and we find there's a lot of people do places they have a connection to um that cemeteries or warm memorials or a school or a place of work or um You know that just something that Peaks, you know peaks your interest of you the sparks you fancy Yeah, some people have done ships for example and who served on particular ships So, yeah, it doesn't have to be a town or a village it could be an institution or a memorial or something like that Yeah, they're really great So this just kind of gives you an idea where people Traveled, you know, the the birth is the red house and the boy was the death and so the migration happened around the for the study Kind of fun to see. Yeah, it gets around a bit And even if you're we're studying, you know one place in particular people come in and people go out and people have relatives in All over places. So it it kind of spreads Yeah, it's good to see where it ends up Yeah, and it really is helpful, you know, when you wind up with You know part of your family that was in one location for a long time, especially You know, because I know I'm researching and I'll get bad and I'm like, okay I got to put my blinders on because I'll Wait, but I have that surname over here But you know, if you just go ahead and put them all in the same town and you study them in a one-place study Um, it's going to be easier to find those other people You're like, oh, I mean get that other guy that lived in, you know, Teverton And you know, you can just pull your your space page up or your category up and you can find that person So I'm an incredibly helpful tool. Yes And a lot of people who've started Been researching their own family And then realized that they've got so many in one particular place And that the only way to sort them out is to research everybody in that place and see how they're all linked Yeah, this helped break down fruit walls that way too Yeah And then azra you want to tell us tell us a little bit about what you're showing now Yeah, so I was just going to show you the different one-place study categories kind of so you can see the grouping of All the profiles that are in the study So these are all the ancestors that have the sticker or the category attached on their profile And so of course from any category page you can click on that wiki tree plus maps and get that map page that I showed And then also you can Click on the my connections And see what your connections If you're connected to the tree, you can see what your connections are to the people Or you can put in a wiki tree ID of somebody And have it show you I'm saving that way Yeah, so I was just showing kind of an idea of what that looks like for the different the different studies You went through and and added the category to them And I have it I have pictures You know attached so he kind of helps you see what you can do with a a study on the tree So lots lots of options Thank you, there's plenty to explore in there Yeah, I guess even if it's not your place in my place it gives ideas for Our own studies that we can adapt and Yep, and incorporate that's great So janna, what do you um, what kind of tips do you have for the genealogist that's new to creating a one-place study? Okay, so I think the first one is to pick a place that that holds your interest um Because you end up doing an awful lot of work on it, but To some extent it's like harry potter the one chooses the wizard and you find you're doing it and then be like Oh, that's what i've been doing all this time you know I think in many ways the tips are similar get organized um Try and set Some idea of your boundaries and your goals. So how are you defining your place? Are you going to do a big place in? They're concentrating on a particular aspect So like one person will do a large town but on records from before the start of civil registration in the census So basically pre-1800 records Or are you going to do a small place just a house and find out everything you possibly can about it? Um, you're going to time limit it you're going to limit it to a certain kind of record or a certain kind of event um I think another is research widely So as well as the standard sources for genealogy family history um, look at the tools that some of the people who do population studies use or Some of the things for physical or landscape or industrial history because that affects How your place developed and why people moved in or out Where money came from or where they stopped making money But the main and there's only two main Rules which one is which to research with integrity like you have your code of honor And the second is to have fun. It's your study. It's a whole bit. Enjoy doing it. Go where it leads you Um, it's not there's nothing in or nothing out if it's relevant to your place and you enjoy researching it then fine But being loose does mean we do have to have a degree of discipline because uh, it's very easy to follow rabbit holes and Like you were saying Mindy realized you're researching something very interesting But a long way away from where you started. Did I get here and how am I going to get back? Those those would be the main ones. Um There is only we have a website obviously there's advice on there on getting started And a plug for a book which I didn't write So I can plug it is one of our previous chairs called, uh, janet food doctor few Has written a 10 steps to a one-place study That is readily available Um, and that is a very good brief introduction On on how to start how to get organized and how to structure a study that you can adapt Whatever your study is anywhere in the world really So, yeah, I would Highly recommend that if you Interested in starting one and going down a step further with it Yeah, all really great advice Thank you And come and join us. We're a friendly bunch Yeah You just gave me some ideas of what I can do for my Study that excellent My husband I'm blaming my husband for it. Um On the way to pick up my daughter where she lives we pass an air museum And so it's a building and they have the airplanes there that are you know, we're used and no longer used And I'm there and all of a sudden my brain starts going and going one place study one place study one place So I'm like And she set it up So I took I took some pictures of what I could and by doing the the tips and kind of the ideas of goals and stuff now I'm like Oh now I should look at what kind of planes and helicopters and maybe do a little blurb on like each one And maybe find out who flew it. Yeah Oh, there's so many aspects to that, isn't there? Yeah I designed them who built them who flew them why where Who won't know if they come to be where they are Who built the building and yeah Yeah, my mind just started going Who set up the museum where did the money come from? Yeah Yeah, that that could be a never-ending. Yeah, I think I might spider out a lot It was for our little baby one place studies I'll warn you thought it can become crazily addictive You know, oh, it is it can be a massive time of money sink if you you can do it for free You can do it cheaply, but it can be a massive time of money sink if you want it to be Yeah, yeah, but you know, you can do it either with free online material or What you can get from the standard subscriptions And of course wikitry with the Enormous contribution there because there's so much available and the connections and the links I think are the one of the greatest strengths of wikitry that you can Come up with links and connections that you want to have done top otherwise. They think all right, okay So they fit in or so that's who they fit in And I think they are it's one of the the big advantages of Of wikitry as a project it just shows how everything's linked You So very talented and very generous researchers and having collaboration at the heart of that I think is absolutely great Yeah, we we have a really incredible community, you know, there's just so many people out there that are helpful And you know, some people don't realize that we have everything up to professional genealogists or you know other professions Doctors lawyers other things and they're in here volunteering their time To help people or to advance these projects and you know to help us connect the world out there. So Really really friendly though really friendly nice And Kathy that's a good segue into the collaboration for the week So how do you feel that the collaboration went during your challenge week? it went Awesome and I do have to say I did like a little mini challenge inside The challenge because I saw that there were Two to three of the profiles that didn't have as many Additions new profiles made for for them. So I'm like Okay, this line and this line and this line there Can we get it up to 300 new profiles for these people? You know, can we do it because some of these other ones were like over there the big the big line was Way out there. I was waiting to see if it would get to a thousand crazy um And the collaboration is just there people were like, oh Where do you need me them say and I would say like oh this line could use some profiles made and people would jump on And I know that like azure would do some and if she couldn't finish something she would put it in discord um And somebody else would come along and they'd pick it up and they'd start adding profiles on it. So all seven Starting profiles that we were given all had at least 300 profiles added On yeah, and that's incredible, you know, and it it just It blows me away the collaboration on people um I George Wallace is my nemesis and he always will be For but everybody's related to George For his parents, um I had somebody from the scotland project helping me kind of a little bit behind the scenes ahead of time so I was learning how to research and scotland And just people kind of jumping in and trying to explain to people you can't just Take something at its Um word or what it looks like you have to investigate it and do research just because The time may be right doesn't necessarily mean the place is right or Yeah, it could be off a little bit place name You have to look at the boundaries because towns don't Change but boundaries so you need to be careful and so George Wallace was very Learned quite a bit on on that one. So he was my main focus, but I kept an eye on everyone and There was no shortage of people jumping in saying what can I do? Who needs help with what? um azure would get on and say oh where can I work and then for the vic line the US black heritage they just would go with it and they would just go back and forth, you know, who needs this who needs this and One of the people would just she was just going Crazy with making the cemetery Categories I think she made like 15 of them during the week by the time She fit she finished But it's like if anyone needs one, let me know go ahead And yeah, and our chat goes our chat for the challenge goes around the clock. It's We're we're definitely global. So 24 7 that chat goes until the challenge weekends That's a lot And then people are still working on those profiles Yes, yeah, even after the challenge we get people are still adding people. So Yeah, you say George Wallace is your nemesis, but I bet he's got under your skin. No We'll never come across him. No, no It's gonna I think we went back and forth and back and forth on him and finally I told Kathy I said, you know what and I said just hang on to it and let's just let the group attack it And that's exactly what she did. So she stopped working on it and you know when the challenge week started She was like, okay, you guys get together and fix this and go And guess what I was back to work it on him But there was like I think there was at one time five of us working on him for a couple of days there so But it it was and that's what I love about the collaboration on these challenges If you don't know an area and somebody does It kind of those people kind of team up together You can have a newbie that you know, kind of not sure about something and you kind of lead them Gently, you know, which I've I've done But people have done that for me. So I'm paying it. Yeah, pay it forward. I pay it forward Yeah And I think that's what wiki tree is all about is We learn from everybody And the collaboration between the sort of family local one place to these communities is superb and we find, you know from the society That somebody will come across something and send you an email. I think this is your place. Is this one of yours? Oh, yeah, great And you find one that goes for somebody else and you pass it on that way I and once you get used to that kind of an environment, you know, it's hard to to not do that Um, you know the first when we first started the challenge We ran it every week and this year we're only doing it every other week But you find yourself, you know getting in a sticky spot in your own research and you know How to have it you want to jump in discord and go? Okay, everybody look at this census record They're not there Who's gonna look at my record Somebody somewhere will know Yeah Azure wasn't it today somebody was asking you about setting up a one-place study for the challenge that's going on Right now. Yes. Yeah, actually two two new ones today Yeah But four all together so far for the news for this new challenge four new studies three new Projects so yeah So still very welcome Janet Thank you And thank you for letting us collaborate Oh a pleasure Thank you very much and to all your wonderful volunteers and the hours that they've put in I hope they've had loads of fun um, and I'm sure that the Certainly the seven whose names came out of the heart will be Delighted to be the bot what you've what they've managed to come up with so thank them very very much um Yeah, it's been great working together Yeah, definitely our pleasure and I guess this will be a good time to um start wrapping things up And if anybody has questions about the presentation or wiki tree in general You can go to wiki tree dot com and ask or about the one place studies Others, you know plenty of people will just all point you at azure. She'll get you going And then um, you know while the credits play for attributions I'd like to take a minute just to thank again all the wonderful wiki tree years that help with the research for this challenge We so, you know, we had more than 74 people working For an entire week and they just found an amazing amount of discoveries and they were a fun group to work with So, um, you know, it's just it's always memorable and I always learned something from somebody else's methods And I'd also like to congratulate and thank kathy nava for leading such a successful week as a captain Great job And we'll go ahead and wrap this up and um Yeah, it was a lot of fun janet and I'll send you some of the links to the pages so you can find the rest of the goodies And you know really really appreciate your time here and joining us and also letting us work with you It's been a true pleasure Thank you