 Good morning. Good morning everyone. How are you? Welcome to the Saturday, welcome to the Saturday livecast Saturday round up for wiki tree. Yes. We should call it the orange cast. Well, if you go to roots tech, you will find wiki tree very easily once somebody took a picture of the exhibit hall or the expert hall from one of the windows up above and looking down and you can spot the wiki tree crowd because it's nothing but a big orange blob in the middle of that floor. How are you this morning. Happy birthday, Greg. It was Monday. Yes, I got lots of greetings from the the final live cast of the connectathon on Monday morning. So that was nice. Thank you for everyone who said hi and happy birthday that time. Because of course the chat goes by so fast and I what I didn't read it all but I know I saw some things that was nice. It was a good week. I sound better. Lisa and I got together this week. Oh good. We got our secret Santa meeting and we met I drank coffee. She doesn't drink coffee. If I don't know that I wouldn't have suggested a coffee out. Oh, no. Oh well. So we met. So that was fun. Good. I still do have a deep bit of a deep sexy sultry voice. If I sneeze or call for if anything gets on you from me doing that. I'm so sorry. But you do sound a lot better. You sound a lot better. I do sound a lot better. I do sound a lot better. I'm going to jump right into the question of the week. Okay, if that's okay with you people. Oh, wait a second. I lost my screen completely. What's up with that. Uh oh. Yeah, there we go. There we go. It's coming back. There we go. There we are. Question of the week. Which of your ancestors migrated the farthest. 76 answers like four pages people. It was like reading a novel this week and I'm not kidding. It was like reading a novel because the stories were that interesting. They really were. Wow. I'm going to start though with a little bit of a tongue-in-cheek answer. Oh, okay. Phil Phillips. And his answer is tongue in both cheeks here. Is it as the crow flies one transit say northeast Russia to the Falkland Islands. That's quite a trip. Yeah, that's a pretty none of minded that he says is it repeated transit. Probably a sailor in the old days. What about the ISS crew. So how many times I mean Chris Hadfield actually migrate to the ISS for months and months and months that he was. He lives there long enough that could be a permanent residence for. Yeah, and how did he get taxed. Yeah, that's right. Okay, so I well I know Canada got their chunk. Some some great tales and these answers and that is so correct Phil that's a great answer that you just gave. Like I said 76 answers. I don't ever talk about the comment but the first comment was really good from Gail Conley. Before I joined wiki tree and began to find out about my family, I figured that my ancestors, it comes from another planet, which will probably make me the least, at least tied for the farthest, depending on which planet they came from and what planet other members and you know more than did thought their answers ancestors came from so that's Gail Conley so Gail we're going to start looking for your internet. We have a lot a lot a lot a lot of great answers. Um, and of course, again, you people were sending me off looking to try and figure out what the heck you were talking about. My grandparents immigrated from England to Australia twice. This is our now Steve Thomas says you're going to win, because they immigrated twice. But the thing here is that she says that they were 10 pound palms. Anybody have any idea what that is. I've heard that term before from about England to Australia but I don't know what it means you think it's a cheerleader with pompoms. I don't think it's I don't think that's it. Okay, so I had to look it up. Yeah. 10 pound palms that was they got free tickets on an airline or a ship to migrate to immigrate to leave to go and the amount of the administration fee was $10 or 10 pounds. Okay. And so they became the 10 pound palms. Okay boy where's the word palm come from. Yeah, as in like in your palm, like, Oh, it's P O M S that they don't exactly they don't get through the, the actual entomology of the word. 10 pounds. Wait, palms at glossy, a glossary names for the British, including nicknames in terms including affectionate ones neutral ones and derogatory ones to describe British people so there we go that's what a palm is. So it's a 10 pound brick. How much they cost. They're just pretty inexpensive. If you get down. So that was good. So ancestors, Alpar, his or her ancestors, early 1950s, but struggled to establish themselves and returned to England just after two years. Then almost 20 years later, they again immigrated. Although grandpa hedged his bets this time, he sent his beloved car first. England, just in case. And they had a good two years, but it was too long and too far away from home so they came back and they left his beloved car. That's crazy. That's crazy. And Oliver speaking was talking about how let's see if I go down here I'll find Oliver's post. And this would be that would be my father he left Germany to go to Australia and so he's giving me the kilometers, because when I went to look for England to Australia. Do you see this. It says sorry, we could not calculate the driving directions to Australia in that hilarious. So I went and I typed in England, Australia, London, Australia, and I got some persons special maps. Oh, wow. You could actually drive to Australia. It is up through Russia and down through China. The other avoids Russia for the most part and goes through Turkey and down. Either way you have to go down and catch a boat at some point. But that's basically the migration pattern of the original aboriginals. Yeah, the original people so that's pretty cool that this route is lower. How many hours is that route. So I don't know how many hours, like, does it say. Oh, that would be cool. It doesn't it just shows it. Yeah. And then you have to imagine people walking it. Yeah. Oh yeah. And they have found that the closest people genetically and this this is a while ago so it may have changed the closest people genetically to people in Australia or some people in India. India. Yeah, which is interesting. They had to go through that area they went over here and hung out for a while and then on down through here. Kind of that lower route so that's kind of fun. I love migration patterns. So, I eventually got it to run and figured out England to Germany and then did Germany based on Oliver speaking thing. The total mileage one way from London, England to Australia, whoever wherever in Australia is about 9000 miles one way. So 18,000 miles back and forth and then these people did it twice. Yeah, I think they probably win. Yeah. Yeah. I would say so. Yeah, you had me going down rabbit holes we genealogists know how to dive down. That's right. Let's see Rob Neff. Let me scroll on down here with these when we have lots of questions I really have to try and catch just a couple Gonzalo Alonzo. I liked his. If I don't miss anything it's my ancestors from Wigtonshire, Scotland. They traveled 11505,000 kilometers to get to Mar del Plata, Buenos Aires. That's crazy. Wow. Yeah, it's, you know, that's a long way to go Alonzo. And Lisa Gervais. Lisa. I mentioned Lisa already Lisa and I had, I had a cup of coffee while she gave me chicken. She brought me chicken soup and her daughter had baked a lemon loaf bread. So I didn't even have a chance with the lemon loaf. My son came down on the kitchen table and scarfed it down. Oh, evil, evil child that he is. That's okay. Didn't even leave you one piece. Not one piece. He thought it was out for him because when sometimes we leave a whole move. No, no, just a piece one piece. Oh yeah. I can see my son like I was thinking a whole loaf. No, I'm not that important. But Lisa, Lisa, what's up with this? She says Canada is mostly a land of immigrants. We're all immigrants. We all came from somewhere out of Africa. All of us. But she says different distant French Canadian cousins arrived by the ship France also England, Germany. I don't care about all that. No offense. Lisa. We have well burn in my family names. We need to chat. Look at here. Thomas Welburn. Yeah. They came over much earlier. Settled in South Carolina and upper Georgia in the mountains of Georgia. So we need to talk anyway. That's the only reason I'm bringing Lisa. Rob Neff down here. My grandfather born in a village on the Southern Volga river. The Russian Empire 1901 family went to Georgia. Georgia USA by way of Bremen, Germany. Stayed in Georgia six months and was a logger. After Georgia they traveled the central North Dakota where my grandfather's uncle lived. So that was about 7600 miles. His older brother died in Boise. What white after 1917 we lost contact with a family that was left behind in Russia. This is why I brought this up. They were presumably star killed or forcibly scattered to Siberia, Kazakhstan during Stalin's pogroms against the Germans and other minorities. Millions died in Southern Russia and Ukraine because of Stalin. It's amazing that we have any people left in that area of the world. I know. You know. You know, and Elpar says thank you for the reminder of the ones who didn't migrate. So I thought that was a really nice, good thing. Let's see. And I love Celia Marsh's and we're still on the first page here. Celia Marsh's thing. She says, oh, they didn't migrate. They just wandered about. They just wandered around for a while. They just did a big walkabout. That's right. Walkabout. Gotta go over to page two here. I'll be done in a second. And to raw. There we go. My great, great. This is Ross Escott or Ross Escott. My great, great, great grandmother. Honorah Ahon was 18 when she was convicted for an unknown petty offense in Cork, Ireland. Sentenced the transportation beyond the seas for seven years. The convicts were all on board the Catherine by October 1st, October 1813 and she sailed for a week later from Cork to Falmouth, Cornwall where her ship was to travel and convoy with two armed frigates because it was the height of the Napoleonic Wars. There was a battle at sea and a friendship captured. They lost their escort and continued unaccompanied to Rio de Janeiro. From there they crossed the South Atlantic Ocean past the Cape of Good Hope, across the Indian Ocean, past Tanzania and up the coast of Australia to Port Jackson. Three weeks later, Honorah boarded a single masted brig to be sent to Hobart Town in Van Diemen's Land, Tasmania. They got halfway, took shelter from the gales, then were blown back past where they had departed from. Eventually they arrived in Hobart Town and I think this is the longest trip, migration trip. It's almost a year now at this point. It's a year. It's 11 months and going back and forth even. I think this is the winner for the longest one. And this is a third great grandmother? I'm having a hard time reading it. One, two, three, third great grandmother. I wonder how they know all the details like if there was a diary. I know. We need to go and check that. And I'll do that while we're doing other stuff. The good news is by the time they landed, she only had six years left on her sentence. She married a non emancipated convict. She was okay anyway. I don't know what the penal colony was like in Australia. I don't know if you got off the boat and you were just kind of on your own or if you had to go live in a facility. Somebody tell us what went on. I was saying that he has one. Yeah. That does not beat. Roz escots. I think that's impressive. Yeah. That is the question of the week that goes into my stack of stuff over here. Yeah, I've got, you know, I keep notes every live cast. And I have this little folder here, this little folder. I've got all the notes from every live cast that's ever been done for six years, seven years. Live cast files. Yeah. There you go. The live cast files. All right. So I have picked the question of the week winner for this week. That's got you in. As we go on. Oh, I wanted to mention one more thing. Okay. Go ahead. Migration. I had worked with two other researchers, Jack Templeton and Ron Templeton, who had started the basics of this and had come up with the fact that there were people that migrated in my Templeton family. And I started thinking, huh, I know all the subclades for these people. I wonder if I can track them. And I did. So I started working, took a couple of weeks, maybe a month to figure out all of these people by their location, Ireland, United States, Kentucky, Missouri. The reason why I did that is I'm lazy. Somebody sends me a long letter and tells me their entire family story and they want me to tell them how I'm related to them. And that's very hard to do. So I created this little thing on my profile. Let's see. Let's go here. Oh, we had another one that was a relationship that connected back. One of the answers connected back to Chris Whitton's earliest known ancestor. He was part of the Montpellard immigrants to Nova Scotia anyway. Nice. So on my profile, I created this, this cool thing where if somebody sent me a note that said, what are your surnames? I need to know that so I can see if you connect to my family. Instead of emailing with people back and forth, I send them to my profile page. And on the profile page under DNA, it has my surnames. Now I created this a few years ago and I had it on my profile, but now my good friend, Greg Clark has automated it. And if somebody wants to find my earliest known ancestor and all the DNA information for that ancestor is over there on the right too. So I'm lazy. I do things like that to make people not keep me involved in long conversations. Okay. Isn't that awful? So I created this chart, this list of migratory patterns for my Templeton family. And I would figure out where they were and which happened to me. So that if I had somebody who contacted me, say from Pike County, Missouri, I could look at it and immediately know that they are a part of the R1B M222. It probably went through Indiana to Missouri, talk about immigration and migration, and that they originated not only in Lawrence County or Irdell, but also in the United States. I can tell them that based on this list of the migration. And all of these are category pages. And you can also go and find the individual person's information about where they lived and what they were doing and who they are and all of that stuff. And you can go and see my great grandfather's profile. And you can also find the individual person's information about where they lived and what they were doing. And you can also find the individual person's father's profile if you wanted to, based on that information from that name state. So that's a cool way to use category system to do work on migration patterns. So there you go. I'm done. Yeah. I'm done. Wow. How are we going to follow that? Oh, my laziness. Follow my laziness. Okay. Wow. I'm just following the first wiki tree challenge of 2023 on the Ontario genealogists is about notable Ontarians, people from Ontario, Canada. So that is just a great thing. And so two out of three hosts are currently living in Ontario, Canada. So that's great. We have Lisa who's from Ontario is in the chat. Do we have any other people from Ontario? Say hi if you are in the chat there. But we got Brian from out in, well, we just, we'll make him an honorary on it. He's Ontario. Oh yeah. He's close by. Lisa Canadian. So that's good. My grandfather was an Ontarian. Oh, well, there you go. There you go. I have Ontario connections through my Mechamiles. Yeah. So it's great. So the first one is our primary, our current Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau. Is the face. The face chosen for this one. Hey, Billy. But there's a bunch of other ones. So let's just go through them. But it's funny that you were, that you went into all, you went into map mode because I went into map mode too. Cause I wanted to. I'm mad this morning too. I had all of those, those numbers to try and figure out how far it was from England to Australia. Yeah, that was a lot of. I added. You added. Wow. There you go. Okay. So here's a map of Ontario. Just in case you're not sure where that is. I mean, they can zoom out there in North America on top of the United States, is Canada and Ontario is that big one there. It's, it's quite a, quite a large province because look at the size of that. We could fit all of Texas, maybe throw in a Florida and a Wisconsin and probably squeeze a few others around the corners. And anyways, in land size, it's, it's pretty big though population wise, not nearly as big as, as many of the States. And realistically, the majority of the population just lives in this corridor right here in Southern Ontario in between Ottawa, Toronto and Windsor down here, sort of that's sort of the, the main, where most of the population lives, but there's lots of great people who live in Northern Ontario as well and so on. So that's where we are. And all of the, all of the places that are mentioned in the profile as I put little pins in so that we can, you can see. Fantastic. I love doing that on that. Yeah. You like sticking pins and things. Do you like sticking pins and things? Yeah. Do you have any dolls you do that to? Yeah. No, I don't. I don't. But, and interesting. So it didn't look like any of the, any of the people went farther north than Sudbury. Which is fairly far north. There's a really right there. No, I think that it's interesting though that, that Canadians consider Sudbury or North Bay North. Well, it's not. Yeah. But, but, you know, it's a three, three, three and a half hour drive from Toronto. So for people who live in Toronto who don't like to drive that much, you know, that's north for them. Considering north in Ontario is really about 10 hours from Ontario. Exactly. Yeah. That's right. Yeah. That's true. It takes, if you take your, our family had a secondhand motor home when our kids were young and we went across Canada and when we did the west coast trip, it took, it took so many days just to get out of Ontario. And then one day to get across each of the other provinces. It was, it was wild. But anyways, I digress surprisingly. No. So let's go on to, here's Justin, Justin, my cousin, eighth cousin once removed is our prime minister, Justin Trudeau. And so, of course, being the prime minister of Canada and the capital of Canada is Ottawa, which is in Ontario. I thought, well, that's why he got in, he got a shoehorn because his family is obviously French, French Canadian tru with the last name Trudeau. But in fact, he was born in Ottawa on Ontario because he was born in 1971. When his father, Pierre Elliot Trudeau was our prime minister of Canada. So was he born at Sussex or was he born in one of the hospitals? My guess is in a hospital, but I don't know that information is not included in the biography, either the French version of the biography, the biography, or in the English version. We just said Ottawa. So I don't know. My guess is he was probably born in the hospital, not at home. So this is a really neat profile because it gives lots of information about his, his first ancestor of the, with the Trudeau name arrived in, in New France, Nouvelle France in 1659. So that's kind of neat because Lisa mentioned something like that and her answer and the question of the week. And then his mother, Margaret Sinclair, her first Sinclair ancestor arrived as a native of Scotland. Went to school in Ottawa, studied at Collège Jean de Bebeaufe in Montreal. And then he got his teacher's degree in BC, British Columbia. And in fact, he was a, he was a high school teacher for three years and taught French and math. Cool. Then went on, did some other stuff, they called Polytechnique. Now one sad thing with his family, there were three brothers, Justin Michelle and Sasha and Michelle, the middle brother passed, died in an avalanche disaster in 1998. So that was very sad. And I think that probably affected the whole family. Of course. He got into politics in the, in the 2000s and then was elected leader of the liberal party in 2013 and became prime minister in 2015 and still is prime minister right now. Very Josie, Sophie, in 2005 and have three children. So that is our current prime minister in an Ontario connection. The next famous Ontarian is Margaret Atwood, a 12 cousin twice removed from me. And daughter of Carl Edmund Atwood and Margaret Dorothy and she is still living. So her specifics are generic, generic a size, made generic. She's born in the 30s. Canadian poet. What's that? Privateized. Privateized, yeah. Privateized is a better word for it. Poet, novelist, literary critic, essayist, environmental activist. She's done a lot and she's, she's written a lot. She's an amazing writer. Of course, many of you will be familiar with the Handmaid's Tale, which is a great book that she wrote actually many years ago, way before when the TV series came out, a dystopian tale of the future, of the future or a possible future, which has since of course taken off. But she's written lots of other books like that. But she's, she's a very, she's a very smart lady and not afraid of sharing her opinions, which is a good, which is a good thing. She uses that as a force for good and change. And we've lost Megs. Or we'll get our M&Ms. Maybe she's searching for that lemon low. Anyways, Jim Carrey is my closest relative at Seventh Cousin Once Removed. And through the French connection here, you can see our common ancestors are who's your closest of them all this week? Edwin Boyd. Oh, the bank robber. Yes, the bank robber. And who's your closest, Megs? Mine is Jim Carrey right here. Yeah, yours is Jim Carrey. Mine, I thought Betsy's was... The bank robber, Edwin Boyd, 18 degrees. And then Margaret Atwood is the next one for you. Mine closest is Jim Carrey through my spouse. Not even close. Wow. So Lisa's closest is Jim at 12 degrees. I'm 16 degrees. So if you're at 12 degrees, you might be like a Fifth Cousin or something. I'm wondering. That's pretty close. If I go just from me to them, I'm 17 Cousins Once Removed. Oh. To Jim Carrey. I don't mind being related through my Canadian family. Oh, no, that's right. So pretty famous Canadian American actor, comedian, artist known for his energetic slapstick performance, the mask and the Grinch, lots of things like that. But he has done some dramatic stuff. What was the film where it was basically, they were following him around for his life? Oh, yeah. Truman. Yeah, the Truman Show. There were some dramatic moments there too. Yeah. It was born just one day after me. Well, one day and two years earlier. One day later and two years earlier than me in Newmarket, Ontario. And the son of Percy Carrey and Kathleen Orham. He's been married a few times himself. And he's still living so that is a short bio, but more details could be found in Wikipedia. Fifth Cousin Once Removed, Lisa. Thank you. I was wondering if it's something like that. Next, we have Elsie Marie Knot. And she was born on the 20th of September 1922 in Curve Lake First Nation in Peterborough County, Ontario. So there and she passed away at the age of 73, 3rd of December, says Ontario doesn't say specifically where and it's not like I'm watching the Big Bang Theory. All of their ringtones were the American beauty. She was the first. That's my mother. I can't answer right now. Call Julie. She does not know that and I forgot to put my thing on you because no one normally calls. But anyway, Elsie back to Elsie. She was the first woman in Canada to be elected as chief of a First Nation. And that was so she was born in first she was born in First Nation. When was she first elected chief? That's at 33, I think. Yeah, there it is. In 1954, she became the first woman in Canada to be elected as a chief of a First Nation. She was 23 years old and she held that position for 16 years. She also held the position of senator of the union of Ontario Indians and a peer supporter of her native language Ojibwe and then she died in Curve Lake. So it should say Curve Lake. It shouldn't just say Ontario up there and bury the Curve Lake cemetery. So we should add that information to the profile. Elsie's was one of the seven through the challenge. Yes. Yeah. Now, had she been connected before or did she get connected because of that challenge? I don't know. Mindy might know the before and after stats. Right. That's cool. Very cool. Yeah. Canadians have a very different take on Indigenous peoples and Indigenous relations. I mean, you hear all the horror stories of the Indigenous schools. Indigenous schools in the U.S. as well. But they're really, the Indigenous people are much more a part of their nation and acknowledges that through Canada, which is really cool. Well, we're all learning. We are learning. Yeah. Now Gordon Lightfoot. Now he's not my closest connection degrees wise, but he's definitely my, physically my closest connection because he was born in Aurelia. And I live just outside of Aurelia. Cool. And I'm going to a party for somebody named Aurelia at lunch. Are you really? There you go. It's Aurelia Fest. Yeah. In fact, I often tell people I'm from Aurelia because they wouldn't know where Up to Grove is. 25 for you there. How many? 25 degrees. So yes, so he was born in the 30s. Son of Gordon Meredith Lightfoot Sr. So the M in Gordon M. Lightfoot stands for Meredith. And his mother is Jesse Big Trill. So internationally known Canadian singer, songwriter, guitarist helped define the folk pop sound of the 1960s and 70s. So he was born in 1938 in Aurelia, Ontario. And so this bio on wiki tree is fairly short. Just mentioned some of those specifics. List some of his favorite, his best hits, If You Could Read My Mind, Sundown, Carefree Highway, Rainy Day People, The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald. And his career has been documented in a documentary, Gordon Lightfoot, If You Could Read My Mind. Amazing, amazing musician. There's some of his highlights. He performed at the, he was the, In the opening ceremonies of the 1988 Winter Olympic Games in Calgary, which I watched along with my roommates when we were at our year of teachers college. And he's one of the companions in the Order of Canada, Governor General's Award, performing arts, Queen Elizabeth Jubilee Medal, induction of the Songwriters Hall of Fame, Canadian Music Hall of Fame. Lots of needs. He's a great guy. So in Aurelia, we have a folk festival every summer called the Mariposa Folk Festival. And, yeah, and he was, he actually was rejected from the very first folk version, when it first started in 1963. And in fact, when the festival started, there were a lot of straight lace people in Aurelia that weren't quite sure that this was the thing for them. And so they tried to ban it, but it kept on going. But he did make it in the 64. And where is my, I thought I had that page open. I had a page of the festival open. There we are. So here's a picture of him on stage in 1964. He's playing, that's him there. And he's playing alongside the Reverend Gary Davis and Mississippi John Hurt at a workshop in 1964. But there's some of the, this is them dancing in the streets in 1963. You can imagine some of the straight lace Aurelia folks made were a little... That's not dancing in the streets. It looks like they're dancing on a 68 Corvette. Well, you know, it was, it was pretty risqué back then, you know, but anyways. Very interesting history. Yeah. So I don't, are you familiar with the, the song of the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald? Yeah. So it's a, for those who aren't out here, let me show you the map of Ontario. Here we are. There's the map. So this here, this is Lake, yeah, this is Lake Superior up here, right? No, no, here we are. There's Lake Superior. Let me zoom out a little bit. Okay. So in the Great Lakes, Lake Superior, of course, is the most northern lake of them. And the coldest and the wildest of them all. And the Edmund Fitzgerald was a liner that was, was sailing through Lake Superior in November. I don't remember what the year it was, but it hit, it hit Gale storms and, and sunk. And so his song, the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald was all about the gales coming in and the wind blowing and the, and the crew, you know, trying to save it. And then it going down and whatnot. It's, it's a haunting song, but it's lovely. But at, at a folk festival, which I go to, which my wife and I go to and our family usually goes to, Gordon Lightfoot was headlining and he was playing, but it started raining. So, you know, we started getting packed up to, to leave because it's outside in the park. But he was starting to play the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald. And I thought, so Julie had already hit it, off to get to the car cause it was coming down pretty, but I wanted to stay. So here I was, you know, in the rain, it was starting to pour down buckets. It wasn't lightning because they cancel it right away. If there's lightning, but it was almost that it was dark and he was singing the song about this, this boat going down in the rain. It was just, it was amazing. You're real. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It was wow. So that's one of my best memories of, of Gordon and. You're on first name basis with him. Oh yeah. Yeah. We're like that. I mean, one of the neat things about the festival is that, along with the main stage throw show, you know, where there's thousands of people out on the, in the park, there are throughout the day, before the main stage show at night, there are a little wee, little wee mini concerts basically underneath the tree, you know, and people gather around and there's, you know, like 40, 50 people, whatever. And I've been where, in one of those where he's been there, you know, and we're just basically like a room away, you know, like we're that, I was not close to him. Anyways, I go on. Let's, let's, let's move on. Yeah. Uh, Alton Parker is our next one who I do not have a personal connection or a family story about. So, um, maybe this will go a little faster. We're not worried about time. You're not worried about that. I've worked a little on him in the challenge. Oh, did you? Oh, neat. Yeah. You know what? I wanted to work. I signed up to do the challenge. I thought, Ontario, this is my wheelhouse. And I was just so busy getting ready for the connect-a-thon and helping Team Italy out and doing some other stuff that I just did. The timing was tricky. It just didn't work for me. And I felt that was bad. Oh, well, but I'm glad you did Betsy. So, you know, when, if there's something I've missed that you want to highlight, just jump right in. Um, I just worked a little bit on the weekend. Okay. And he's joined airline. Yeah. So he was born, he born and, born and died in Windsor. Um, married in Windsor. Windsor all the way. Windsor, um, which is the very bottom of Ontario. Um, right across the, right across the river from Detroit. Um, but he, which was cool about him. He was the first black detective in Canada. So he was born on the 3rd of July, 1907. Uh, son of Emmanuel Crawford Parker and Ida Joyner. Uh, got married in 29. 1929, that is. Um, initially he was a mechanic. Um, and then worked in a car dealership. Um, and he was president of a, an association and helped black people gain employment. And then he was hired as a constable for the Windsor service service and then was promoted in 1951 and became the first black detective in Canada. And he worked there until he retired in 1970. Um, so he led a distinguished 28 year career. Um, and it became a member of the order of Canada. And, uh, now this paragraph here could be reworded because they stayed that state the same thing a few times. So, um, uh, so I don't know if there were multiple cooks working in this kitchen on this paragraph. Um, but it could be tightened up a little bit, but the important thing, the, I mean, all of this stuff was important. So you can't fault them for repeating it as opposed to omitting it, right? Um, but along with his police work, he also did other stuff. He was involved in activism, founding member of the apartment living for physically handicapped adults. Um, and, uh, also got the Ontario medal for good citizenship and a Queen Elizabeth Silver Jubilee medal. His funeral service was so large that attracted so many people, they had to broadcast it to nearby churches to accommodate all the mourners. So that speaks volumes, doesn't it? Yeah. Research. Yeah. And I like this quote. He was a man who understood that citizenship doesn't give you rights. It gives you responsibilities. Oh, I like his responsibility to a T. Sounds like John Kennedy. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So very impressive. Uh, then we have Beatrice Agnes Thelma Earl, uh, who was the daughter of Solomon Levi Earl and Sarah Ann Woods, born on March 10th, 1913, in Owens Sound, uh, and passed away in Hotel Juge Grace Hospital in Windsor Essex, another Windsor connection. Um, so she, uh, so large three generation family, uh, so this is an interesting profile. It gives all of the sort of the stats and the details that you get, you get from all the records. Like every, every line here, every little paragraph, there's a source citation for where it came from. Um, so she grew up a large three generation family. So, um, probably grandparents as well, uh, living with her, um, documents when she crossed the border, when she got married, um, listed as wife in a military record, when she was naturalized and when she passed away, but it doesn't actually give all of the connective tissues, um, you know, all the stuff in the dash. There's not a lot of fiber in there. There's not a lot of fiber in there. Yeah. But luckily they've got a quote from, well, this quote is from the Great County, um, Museum and Archives, um, which gives all of the details about her life. And then there's also a link to an obituary, which would also give more detail. And I do hope that they had, well, if it was part of the week, they had permission from that archive too. So there's a source there. Yeah. That was quoted. So from a, from a website or a publicly available. Normally we don't like to take entire articles and just pop them in. You just want to look from them. Yeah. Even though you, you state the article citation, you can't just plop a whole article in that. That's copyright problems. John Tyler says yet another profile from last week. Yeah, John. We're covering the stuff from last week. Yeah. Uh huh. So she was, um, one of only three colored young women to receive. So she became a, um, where, uh, anyways, the more details are here. Um, and I read them and now I'm, I'm blanking on them. She found work in Toronto. She's one of only three colored young women to receive a degree in dressmaking degree. And, um, then she all in her retirement, she learned to swim. She had something she didn't have time to during her busy life up until that point. That's very cool. Yeah. But there's so much water here. When she got, what's that? Considering that there's so much water here. I know. Yeah. You can walk after front door and hit water. Almost anywhere. Yeah. Uh, when she first got married, they got wed in 1937 and they planned a honeymoon at the King Edward hotel, which is in downtown Toronto. But they arrived, the hotel refused to honor the reservation because of the race. That's it. Um, so they ended up staying with their sister and brother-in-law on their wedding night. So that's a sad fact. Honeymoons. Yeah. Betsy. Yeah. You have something on your, your desk there. I have something on my desk. Yeah. So what to do with Ontario? Oh yes. Yes. Oh. Nigra. I'm in capital. This morning just for the theme. That's great. Yeah. So, um, her, uh, one of the things that she did is that she, um, Helped out with the local black community and much of Grey Roots, Grey County is in Owen Sound. So that's on the, We went back to the map. I would show it. I can show you. That's right. There was. One sound is up here. As opposed to down. There's Windsor. Um, So she helped out with the black roots and helped out her black community, the black community there. Nice. Yeah. Uh, moving on. Here, Jenny kid, Down lock. Um, Born and born in Scotland. So in terms of migration, This is the profile that wins the question of the week for Of the, of the profiles. Cause she was born in Scotland, Got married in Stratford and then moved on and passed away in Los Angeles. Oh wow. And was she a medical doctor? She was. She was the first woman physician licensed to practice in Canada. Nice. What year was that? That was, so she was licensed in. She emigrated in 46. She lived, she taught school from 61 to 65. Got married in 65. There. 1875. She became an MD. Um, And so she opened up a practice with another woman. Um, Uh, but then she, 82, She announced her retirement from active practice. Um, And so she opened up a practice with another woman. Um, She announced her retirement from active practice. Um, There was another rival that was sort of stealing her, Her patients. Um, But she became involved in Bible study, Bible studies, Foreign missions in the temperance movement. And then after her niece passed away, She moved. Uh, They moved to Toronto. She adopted or she adopted her niece's children. And then in 1908, she moved to Los Angeles. Hmm. But first woman doctor. Cool. And here is Betsy's famous relative, The bank robber. Edwin Alonzo, John Boyd born the second of April, 1914 should have been born the first of April, April fools. Uh, Born in Toronto, Passed away. 2002. And at the age of 88 in British Columbia. Uh, So he was the famous Canadian bank robber and leader of the Boyd gang. And a notorious Canadian folk hero. Uh, So this guy, What a character. One of those that stole from the rich and gave to the poor. I don't think he gave it away. Usually when you say a robber is a folk hero. That's, Yeah, I know. That's true. I think his folk hero is just because he just, He just couldn't learn or he just couldn't give it up. So age of 22, He robbed a gas station and then he served time in the Prince Albert penitentiary in Saskatchewan. Uh, then he got married. 1940 in Surrey. So that's BC. Um, 41 his son was born. But sadly, Um, Uh, there was a bomb. Because of a bombing, His baby suffered a serial hemorrhage and he died. Uh, a few days later. So that's very sad. Yeah. Um, Oh, Surrey, not to BC Surrey. Must, Must to be if the bomb, Like Surrey, Uh, England. In a York cemetery. Must be England, right? No, York, But what kind of bombing? Would there be? I don't know. Maybe he was making a bomb. Oh, To blow up a bank. Well, it's an air raid siren sounded the bombing. Hmm. Hmm. Interesting. Let's look. So let's just check out the son's profile. York Yorkshire England. Oh, How interesting. Here we are going down that rabbit hole again. There's the rabbit hole. Okay. There'd be rabbits here. Uh, okay. Um, anyways, he came back. He was back in Canada after the war. 49. Uh, his first bank robbery in 49. He was a lone bandit wearing a disguise and he was drunk. And then acting either acting alone or with the help of other accomplices, um, it buried, I guess, from Robert to Robert. He committed six more robberies before he was captured and imprisoned in the Don jail, which is in Toronto. Uh, there's a mugshot of him. In the jail. That is not a mugshot. Oh, well, no, not a mugshot, but he didn't have numbers on a plate. Great. Okay. Um, but then he met his other and each of his. Um, compatriots in the future ones had nicknames Leonard tough, Lenny Jackson, Willie the clown Jackson. Um, Lenny. Oh, this is great. Had an artificial official foot and they concealed soft hacksaw blades in his prosthetic device. That's great. Three stooges do bank robberies. Oh my goodness. So the three of them use those blades at to saw through the bars and they escape from prison. Um, I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. And then they, they did four more bank robberies and then they were caught again. Um, Well, because of this, then they first they were, of course they were. Run back to the jail. But then they escaped again using the same method. The first. Okay. You have to check the false legs. Oh my goodness. But he was captured. So they were 10 days later, they're captured in a barn, except Edwin, who was captured at a flat. Where his brother was renting. Like you don't go to your brother's flat. I mean, you go somewhere. I mean, I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know where your brother's flat. I mean, you go somewhere where they would. Yeah, Yeah. Okay. So this. The math here doesn't work out for me in 1952. You received eight life sentences. And then, and we got a 30 years sounds, but he was paroled in 62. So how does he get out 10 years later. After having eight life sentences. Okay. Anyways, his compatriots, those two butt who killed the cop, they were actually hanged in 1952. We still hung people in 1952 for those offenses. Anyways, he moved to Victoria, BC, lived under an assumed identity and drove a bus for disabled people. So I think he was making up for past ronds. And he married, he devoted his life to a disabled wife, Marjorie, whom he met on the bus. So there we go. He probably gave up his seat for her and that's how they started talking. His Canadians are nice that way. They're nice. Yeah. So after a career of crime and folly, he turned his life around and became good in the end. Isn't that something? That's the last one. That is a perfect one. Well, it is almost the last one. I should have saved that one. Oh, okay. Barbara McCullum, Hanley Smith, born in Ryerson Township, Muskoka, just a little bit farther north. Fisher has a really good comment about our folk hero, bank robber. Maybe they thought he wouldn't do much harm. I like that. That's true. Married in Berks Falls. And she's famous because she was the first Canada's first female mayor. So she married a machinist who worked for the Canadian Pacific Railway, which is the railway that connected Canada from coast to coast. She organized musicals and worked for the public school board. And then she became, when did she become mayor? She ran for election in 1935. So this was during the Great Depression. And she became the first counselor. And then she was reelected as mayor seven additional times. And as mayor, she always tried to, her entire mayorship was colored by either economic depression or war. And she always worked on, there was something here, there was a line about always serving to better the community. So first mayor, we've had a lot of first, first mayor, first female doctor, first woman, Indian chief, or chief of a first nation. The first Alton Jones. The doctor. Yeah. Chief or detective. First detective. Yes. First black detective. Yeah. And our final one. So this one may be also up in the air for greatest distance. She was born in the Ukraine. In a prop ketost. In a prop ketost, something like that. Yeah, no, not so much. And she was the first female athlete of a, she was named Canada's female athlete of a half century in 1950. She was a runner. And lots of awards there. She went to school in Berry, which is just down the road from Aurelia just 20 minutes away. Wow. Yeah. Single daughter. And then she burst into the scene. She was, where did she did a, she was working at, she was working in the Toronto chocolate factory. Now that's, that's got a cool job, I got to say. And she entered 100 years, it was at a picnic and she entered 100 year dash. 100 year dash. That's a longer dash. On a, on a dare. She entered this contest just on a dare and then she won and she beat the reigning Canadian champion and then she went on to compete and become champion herself. Uh, including in the Olympics. She won gold in the Amsterdam Olympics and also a silver. So there we go. All right. And there you have the colorful prose files of the week from lovely Ontario, Canada. Nice. Wow. Yes. Um, are you going to do photos as well today? Oh, I wasn't planning on it. We're going to wait and do the photos at the end of the month. I think so. I do want to point out real quick. Can I share my screen real quick? Go right ahead. I do want to point out where is it? Oh, let's do this. Um, duplicate and then I'm going to go up here and hit this. I do want to point out that the homepage picture of the week has changed. And, and it has twice, twice this month, I think. It has twice this month. Thank you so much. The, the elves working at wiki tree who have been able to update that. I think it's important to update that photo because it brings more people in. This is the John Wesley Parker and family wiki tree featured photo. That is crazy cool. Look at his hand. He's a worker anyway. That's cool. So no photo of the weekend. I'll, I'll stop that. Nice. Nice. Um, so before I jump into the tip of the week, which has to do with personal categories. Um, when we were talking about rabbit holes, it reminded me that this weekend tomorrow is the Chinese lunar new year. And it is the year of the rabbits. Is it the rabbit hole rabbit? Yes. For us genealogists and happy new year to everyone. Yes. So if you were on connectathon involved in connectathon last weekend, you might have been working on off of a list like this. And I will make it bigger. So something like this where wherever the project is you're working and you could just had a whole list of possibilities of profiles that you could work on and connect and get your points. And I noticed when we were doing the live casts that the two big topics were, of course, people were excited about increasing their CC seven. And then this topic of personal categories came up and I did not know about this. This was very intriguing to me. And I learned that you could make something like this, your own co 31 category. Well, you wouldn't call it co 31. What would you, what would you call it? I would call it mags 31. Yes. Yes. I'm I'm using myself as an example. Right. Right. Oh, 31. Category colon, whatever your wiki, your personal wiki. Insert, insert here, put some, some reference had yes, yes. So I thought I would quickly for if you didn't know what you could do on here. So I've created two subcategories. I'm going to create a third one live to show you. And you can also add your pages to this, which is kind of instead of going to your watch list. And yes, what, what, why would somebody want a personal category? So it's a way for you to be able to quickly see where you can be working on your personal genealogy projects. So you've got needs for baptism. You've got profile created. Yeah. So for instance, the next thing, the April Connectathon, I will add to this list. And I can see that, oh, Milson, she has some children that I have not added yet. She has a husband. So I can, you know, go to this list. And if I'm wanting to work on my personal genealogist, genealogy, I will have a whole ready made list where I know there are profiles waiting to be created. Nice. Yeah. So basically what you're talking about is categories or space pages of your own to do list. Exactly. Yeah. Yeah. So let me now go to, okay. So I've already created my personal category, and it's very easy to do. I'm here. I am in edit mode. Remember categories go above the biography heading. And there it, there it is. All you have to do is enter this with your profile ID. And I'm also going to put there's an excellent help page, of course. So I would, I would have a look as you're doing that. Now I'm going to get out of here. What's going to, the help page sort of talks you through the process. When you save the draft, the profile, your new profile category, whatever is going to show up in red to a rule follower. Like, you know, it's like alert, alert, and it's a little bit alarming, you know, and it says, are you sure you want to save it? And you just say yes. And then you click on it and you follow the instructions. And then, then you'll be, you'll be set up with that. Now, if I want to, I am going to go to Milson's. And I'm, I'm going to create a subcategory here for needs bio. So the way you do that, I'm going to go to edits. And then add this here. Yeah. Everybody can watch the type badly. Colin. Needs underscore bracket, bracket. Okay. All right. Now I have done cat, categorization. Right. I'm going to full save. And she's going to scroll up and see where it's read. Right. Right. Okay. Warning. Warning. Warning. Do not be alarmed. Don't be alarmed during this live cast either. I know. Save anyway. Save any. Are you sure? Okay. Now when I go down now, there, there it is. It's in red. It's still a little bit concerning. Yes. We're going to click here. And, and now you'll see up a very familiar, Bob. Very empty. Very empty. Very empty. Okay. How do you know what to put there? Well, here's what you put here. So the first time, you only have to do this the first time you create a subcategory. Yeah. Category, category. It's not like we're putting pressure here. No pressure. And then, and then I'm going to do that. That's the, the, the master category that means telling, that's telling the system that this page that she just created belongs in the category co 31. Correct. Right. I'm, I'm going to go down here. I'm going to save the page. Boom. Boom. Now, if I go back to my, and you can see this is the subcategory page. There's Milson. And if I go back to my, there you go. There we go. Now you see before I only had needs birth baptism and profiles created. Now there's my subcategory needs biocategory. So I am planning to really use this feature a lot. I think it is so helpful for it is your, your personal goals and not, and not having 12 pieces of paper all over your desk lists of assorted sizes. Yes. And another personal category kind of thing that I showed doing the Templeton where I did personal categories for the Templeton name study. So I could figure out those migration patterns so I can be lazy and not have to talk and, and send a thousand emails to people. That's so cool. Thank you so much. You're welcome. We appreciate everybody being here and we're not worried about the time. CD said this, this will not self destructing in seconds. We got a couple of things coming up on wiki tree. We've got challenge three. Please help research for the society of one place studies coming up. Oh, we've got a whole thing on the January Connect-a-thon highlights. The biggest highlight was that nobody fell asleep at the microphone doing live guests. Yes. That's a plus. It's a win. We've got a highlight going on for the genealogy Ontario ancestors, which we found out a lot about today because we did some of those profiles. And then challenge two week is the connect seven by seven for the society of Australian genealogists. Yes. Yes. That is so cool. We've got a lot of stuff going on. Now I showed you a couple of weeks ago that a really nice way to figure out what's going on on wiki tree is to go to the ambassadors project and click their social media information. And especially if you've got social media going on in your life, you can also help out. Here's that link for that. You can also help out by posting on your social media that things are going on or join the social media team as a part of the ambassador project. So we've got week of January 15th up right now. So we've got wiki tree hangouts, connect-a-thons that happened. Question of the week. That happened this week. One name study Tuesday. We've got lots of stuff going on. Friday night bingo. What is wiki tree? They don't have, they don't have information about the live cast. There we go. They don't have information about the date night. I don't see date night showing up on Friday somewhere there. Was it replaced by the bingo this time? Oh, it may have been. Maybe it's next week. Date nights every other week, isn't it? It is every other week. Bingo is every other week. So so you can go through here and you can find great links and great information and stuff about the Saturday hangouts with links and stuff. Azure is very good. She keeps up on that stuff and all that good stuff. I did try this week to go into the wiki tree question of the week thing and pop in the link for this week's live cast. So featured on Saturday live cast weekly roundup. So I've got the YouTube link in there. So one of us will try and remember to do that. So it's easier to find us. And we have somebody during the connect-a-thons say Saturday live casts. There are Saturday live casts. Really? Yeah, there are. There are. And we're here. And we're here seeing you all week. So have a great week. Stay out of trouble and all that good stuff. I'll see you guys next week. See you next week. Bye everyone. Thanks for coming.