 How are you today? I have got one of my favorite Appalachians if I get my hand motions, right? One of my favorite Appalachians, Pip Shefford's here, and he is here to talk about the Greeders project. Ray, hey guys, it's great to see some Greeders on the chat too, which is good. You can answer some questions along the way. We should have a lot of Greeders also in that chat. I want to, before we go any further, Ewan could not make this bingo, but she will be here tonight, and we'll talk about the bingo that's going to happen, I say tonight, where I am. We'll talk about the second bingo today, and at the end of this one. But I think everybody on WikiTree knows Pip as Mr. Greeders, and if we don't, then we know you're Greeding or Reading, one of the two. Yeah, I'm one of those always begging for Greeders, I guess that makes me miss Greeders, because I was begging for them anyway. Well, I thought that we would, let me put up the bingo card first. Sorry guys, this is your first bingo card. And if you have not been to bingo before, or if you have, what you want to do is bring up the bingo card. We have two bingo games every session, and this will be the first one. So bring up your bingo card while we chat a little bit, give you guys time to kind of bring it up, work your laptop, your tablet. However, you're working your bingo card and our livecast. And I thought that when we booked the Greeders project for this particular bingo, I was thinking how was I greeted with WikiTree? And I remember I just kind of stumbled upon WikiTree, I was frustrated over at the other leaf place, and I was got a greeting. I joined, and somebody said, hey, thanks for joining. But not only that, if you need any help, here's a good starting point for how to and what we're about. A migrator, and I've talked about this a lot, migrator in 2016 was Max. So what I'm going to ask everybody today, well, Pip and I chat, is who was your greeter? And make sure to let us know in chat who your greeter was. And then I thought about greeting in general. So I want to kind of throw this out a little bit before we talk about the Greeders project. I want everybody to kind of put yourself in different scenarios and situations. So it's Friday night, and you're going out to dinner with the family tonight. And you go to a restaurant, whatever restaurant, it could be fast food, it could be fine dining or anything in between. When you first go in that restaurant, what happens? You're greeted. And if you're not greeted, what are you doing? You're not doing much, you don't have a clue. Do I sit down? Do I seat myself? Do I get the menu? What's going on? And we've all been in a scenario where maybe a host wasn't there and we didn't know what to do. So think about that in terms of if you're at a restaurant and you don't know what to do, can you imagine if we did not have a Greeders project on WikiTree? What would these people do? They would go off not knowing some of the requirements that we have. We love sources on WikiTree. We love collaboration. And I think the biggest thing the Greeders do besides welcoming is they let everybody know this is one tree. Everybody doesn't get an individual tree. So the Greeders help with duplicates in more ways than you guys can even imagine. And then I was thinking, I was at a dentist appointment last week and I was thinking, if I just walked into a doctor's office, it wasn't breeding. How would they know who I am? How would they know what my appointment was? How would they know to call me to the back and things like that? So think of all the times in your real life that you were greeted and then put yourself in a situation where if you weren't greeted in those environments. And then when you bring it into WikiTree, could you imagine when you were greeted, when you first joined, if someone didn't say hi, thanks for being here. We welcome you. We're a little different. We like things this way and we do things this way, but we're so glad that you joined us. And I think that's the big key with Greeders. And I think as all of us look back at when we first joined and who greeted us, I'm so thankful that WikiTree has this project because I would be lost without you guys. And I think that you're going to hear Pip and I talk a lot that if you like this scenario, you like being greeted, join the Greeders project. It is a really fun project. They are a group. They have fun together. They collaborate together. They help each other out so much. And this is a global company. So no matter where you're in, we can use you. We are in constant contact with each other throughout the day. If there's an issue that comes up and someone needs to help you, you're supposed to go to the Google group and Greeders will jump in and say, this is what I did. And we have some leadership and stuff like that. Julie, for example, is really a super resource for us. And she's like the next level. David and I, who are the co-leaders, David Selman, who, by the way, was the one who invited me to become a Greeders. So thank you, David. Anyway, it really is a great group. It's just a marvelous group. It really is. And I'm so happy that you guys are telling us who greeted you, because this is really interesting. I agree. This is funnier. It's crazy to think of Sandy being the wiki tree. I am. I'm new to wiki tree almost every bingo because I learned about these projects in a little bit. These are Greeders as well. Ruth, Joe, it's a Greeder. Who else did I see? We've got Aaron. Aaron's a Greeder. People from all over. Germany, England. And a brand new Greeder. Yes. I'm so glad to get Ruth. Part of the difficulty we have is that we have so many Greeders in the United States that some time periods don't get covered real well. And Rosalie in Australia who helps cover nighttime. Hey, David. David's your partner with the Greeders project, right? She's co-leader with me. I'm glad to see him on here today. David, really, if you want to know the truth, David knows way more than I do. I'm glad to tend on David to. I could definitely do project well by myself. If it wasn't for David, it would be less of a well-ed project. David has been kind of my official mentor over the years here on wiki tree and I appreciate him so much. And it's funny. You see what everybody's doing? Everybody's saying hello. Guess what you guys are doing? You are greeting each other. I was mentioning before we have so many Greeders in the United States. We do have a few Roots in England. Gen language is in England. We've got Rosalie and Libby in Australia. And it helps to have these people who are on different times than those of us in the U.S. because those nighttime shifts for me are, I can't say it in the middle of the night, but sometimes I do occasionally hop in if I wake up. But it helps to have people from around the world do this to make sure the shifts are covered. It really does because we're global. Yeah. We're not just in Europe. We're not just in the U.S. We are global. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Sorry. I had to work with my microphone a little bit. Okay. I just, for those of you just joined, I put the link in the description. I'm having some weird feedback. You guys hear that weird feedback? Or is it just me? It's just you. Okay. I like it when it's just me. Oh, there we go. So, Matt, in the fourth floor for you. Oh. Why is it you've been on here all the time? How? Any one greeted you. That's way back. Yeah. Oh, I see. I thought I had something here. Maybe I'm a bit too close. Here's a seat. I don't hear it. It's a little spooky. Like right there. Nope. I guess bear with me. I'm going to try and move a little bit. And see what we got going on here. But let me go ahead and bring up the greeters project page. And I'll have Pip kind of talk us through it. We're going to talk about the greeters project. About what it is. Important. We're going to do a bingo card. And then we're going to come back and tell you how you can join and how easy it is. Oh, that's true. Do you happen to have a YouTube? In the background. No, not me. Not me either. Let me check. I might have it on my laptop. So if you'll do me a favor. Just kind of close more about the greeters project. Sure. Sure. Sure. You know, we have a lot of enthusiastic people who sometimes want to be greeters. We should quite well. Help. If they have been here a while. And. So we have some things that we look for. Your farmers. Or someone's a couple of reader. You know, 45 days. And you can have a hundred. Not dead home. Contributions. We need people who are really positive too. Who are. Not just positive in their. Their presentation to. To new members, but also willing to. Help guide any members to help pages. One of the things that we don't do. Is that there's a genealogy question. We don't do the genealogy research for these people. We guide them to G to G. That's not part of our duties. That's not something that we have to do. Helping people. We say that. Is to help them. Understand how lucky tree works. So. Most often we have to try to be familiar with. All the help pages. And cannot. We do research for these things. And have those links in. We may explain things in a little more detail. But generally. We're not genealogy researchers. For the few people. We are. People have been. Learned how lucky tree functions. So that's why we look for people. We have a pretty much good understanding. Which tree principle. Which tree. Which tree. Which tree. Which tree. Which tree. Which tree. Which tree principles. And procedures. Where those found the answers. And help pages. And help search. And we require. Only one hour a week. To. To your duties to the project. And. I think that. I think that. We know. We have a. We just do this way because we're shorter readers. We have a log readers who. Have. Extra hours. To my own horn here. I do. Generally. The minimum. Which. Now. And. I did 16. Because. You need to cover. To ships. That you're only required to do one. So once you go through the train. To. You pick a. Of the slot on the calendar somewhere. And that becomes your slide. And then we do that one hour. If. comes your slot and then we do that one hour. If you want to do more, there will always be open slots that need to help out. I know for us in Appalachia that we talked about many hand light work. Yes, that's exactly right. And I'm sorry about the echo guys. I don't have anything going on here. I'm not sure where the echo is coming from. Bear with me. Hey Chris. Anyway, so where was I? I can't remember. But I think what you do in a one hour week is always required. Yeah, we do have a training program which is really good and we have great trainers who just steps about how to do the greeting process. Usually it's about three or maybe two or three or four training sessions. It depends on how fast someone picks up on it. And we have excellent trainers that help out. So you go through the training process and then we don't cut you absolutely free. We have a greeter, usually the trainer that will monitor how you do the first couple of times and everything goes good there. And we always tell you new greeters that if anything comes up that you have a question about, post another Google group. We do have a Discord channel but we don't use it very much. Most people are, most of our greeters are almost always monitoring the Google group. So when I first came on, I had lots of questions to ask and greeters are more than willing to help to you become really experienced at it. So anyway, there you go. There you go. Feed it. You two just stop and sound. I have no sound. Sandy, I have no sound for you right now. Okay. There you are. There we go. It doesn't sound like feedback anymore. I think we're good. Thank you guys for hanging in there. You know how live cast goes. Sometimes there's quirky little stuff that goes on. So thanks for hanging in there. Why don't we get straight to bingo card and have some fun. Now that we're not dealing with some of this technical stuff with the webcast, let's get to bingo card and I just posted it up there. And let me bring this down. And we'll recap the greeters project when we come back because we've got some interesting ideas to calm your nerves with reading. A lot of people get shy about reading, whether it's in person or online. So they say, oh, Pip, can you hear me? Yeah, I hear you. John says I'm on mute, but I think I'm ready to go. Sure. Okay. Let me go and bring up the bingo card. Give me one second. Everybody get their bingo card and everybody ready to go. We're going to start. Now, as with bingo, for those of you that have not played and a reminder for those of you that have played, when we bring a project in, the project gives us the bingo words. And for you greeters, I know that you already know the words because I think Pip sent out a call for words. And it's a lot of words, the projects have to give us. So the way to do bingo is you bring up your card and to win bingo, you've got to either get it horizontal, vertical, or diagonal. And the first person who has actual bingo but types in the chat that they want bingo to say bingo, bingo, bingo. That's fabulous. If you do that, you're the winner. So if five people get bingo at the same time, it's quick draw typing. Whoever types in bingo, bingo, bingo first is the winner. And then we'll talk about what you win and how you can get your prize. I'm sorry, David, I don't know what's going on with the sound. But at least with bingo, you can see the word so hopefully that'll work. Okay, so everybody ready? Let's go. I think John told us to go ahead and engage. So let's go ahead and engage. So, ah, wait, this is not yours. This is yours? Yeah, that's one of our words. The reason I chose DNA is sometimes people will ask a little simple question. How do I transfer my DNA from ancestry or what we need to tell them is what we do. She doesn't accept all of that. All they need to do is to list their texts. So we have a little message for that. It's necessary and sometimes we'll just type it up ourselves. I get this frequently. People asking a question about how to transfer their DNA over and all they need to do. Or I'll get a question like, why is my DNA not connecting? Well, part of the thing with new people is they haven't built into the tree enough to make a connection to the tree. And that's where the DNA kicks in. And that's what we've sent the thing to tell them. This is interesting because the reason why I question whether this is yours is because the second bigger today is adoption angels. And they're all about the DNA too. Yeah, right, right. So we will learn a lot about DNA. And you're right. So as you look at a profile and you see all the DNA connections, if they haven't built out their tree, they're not going to be connected to their 6G gear. We often look for, one of the new joints, as they mentioned in their communication preferences, that they're adopted. They don't know which name to use on a profile. We guide them through that process. And we also guide them to a link to the adoption angels so that they can have some assistance there. We get, you'd be surprised how frequently we get this kind of question. I really would. And I got a little nervous again because I'm like, did I bring up the adoption angels? But you break up an excellent question. When you first join Wiki Tree, and if you were adopted, you have usually a birth name and then adopted name. So breeders have this information handy. And we're going to talk about how you know as a greeter what to do. Trust me, David have got this all together. But I'm so glad now that you brought this up because it does tie into the adoption angels. But it also answers that important question. What do I do? What name do I use? And I am surprised how much you guys bring it up in open slots. I'm going to take a wild guess that your calendar has open slots for breeders. Yes, it does. Sometimes they're long. One of the difficult things that readers face is that when they come on to their shift, there's been a long series of open slots. For example, usually on Monday mornings, when I come in at nine o'clock in the morning here, Eastern Standard Time, there will be several hours that have been open. And I will start with the guest feed and usually anywhere between 30 and 50 people have joined. And I'll need to post messages for them. And then I'll move over to the family member upgrade. And usually there's about 15 to 25 of those. So there's a lot of ketchup. And because I've been breeding for a long time, it takes, I could do it pretty quickly. I can cover all of the needed greets within about 30 to 45 minutes. And since I'm open for three hours, that's not a problem. But again, many hands make light work for everybody. And I know how much PIP is online with breeders and how much David's online with breeders. These two gentlemen are rawly pulling a lot of extra weight. And then you've got a project coordinator and Pam, and I know Pam's pulling extra weight. So it's a really easy thing to just donate one hour of your time each week. And I've asked everybody in chat, and if you haven't seen it yet. If you are a greeter, tell us your favorite reason for being a greeter with wiki treat. Share the love in aliases. This kind of goes to what we were talking about with adoption too. We have a lot of people who use quite just initials. First initial and last initial. There's a message that we actually post for that. In order for people to get the full benefit of wiki treat, at least your surname and a first initial, your first name, will never integrate you into that. We use a Google calendar on a regular basis to keep track of who's all and who's not all. And Pam is for a couple of cases. Jenny has been training. So the calendar is in use all the time. I mean the calendar, you guys are probably so extremely communicated because you're greeting. You're talking to other people so you keep your entire project members well informed. One of the things that we try to do is make sure that we try to get people to join us. You don't have to know all the health pages. You don't have to access the health pages and find information for new people. We want people to lean more on learning to do things themselves. They learn that there are health pages for those things. And I think that's important. You know, the Greatest Project isn't asking you to know every single wiki treat policy and rule. I think all of us, once you've been around wiki treat a while, you know the general. You also know where to go for help. And the Greatest Project gives you like a cheat list. This is what you need to do for this item or that item and go to the health pages. Don't feel that you have to be all knowledgeable knowing of every wiki treat rule and policy. They help you out with these health pages. In one hour, we've talked about this a lot, just one hour a week. That is just really easy to do. Do it whenever the kids go to sleep at night or maybe when you first wake up in the morning, pick up a lunch hour. I know I donate an hour for a similar project, the Ranger's Project. And I pick when my dogs are napping. So I don't have to worry about that. So I pick middle of the day when I'm guaranteed they're napping. I do about one hour on Wednesday night. I'll greet from 8 to 10 and I'll do my Ranger hour for the following hour for that. What's really funny is that I follow Cheryl who greets right before me and then she switches over to the Ranger Project. When I get to the Ranger, she's there and I'm filling in for her there too. So you guys do that. And we have a couple good answers too. So Kavi said one of her favorite reasons is being able to welcome a guest and help when they need it. Projects. I can tell you as a project leader, I'd be lost without readers. We often, if they mentioned something that gives a location or something they're interested in, we try to remember to post something linked to that project to their project page for their project. You might be interested in. You mentioned Scotland, your communication purposes. Here's a link to the project that may help you with research, things like that. We do that frequently. And I think that is just, I mean, it's fabulous because you guys are feeding us new project members as well. So think about how much the greeters give to us as project members, just general members with other research that we do. Sample messages. We have a page for the greeters that has simple messages that we can send for lots of different kinds of situations that pop up with new people. There is a standard greet that we always use. And we don't modify that. And oh, Mindy, we miss you too, baby. One hour, Mindy, one hour. Mindy, really, when I joined the greeters, it was a big help to me. JETCOMs, we get people asking about how to transfer their tree over from another site. And so we talk to them a week about JETCOMs. We have several links that we can use for that too in the help pages. JETCOM is a big thing. See, this is a good example too. You don't have to have done a JETCOM and wiki tree. You don't have to know about them as much. Because the greeters project has a whole page and information for you to give to people that are new to wiki tree. Because I know some wiki tree years joined and they're not super technical. And they might not do JETCOMs. And then some are like, I have a JETCOM. I just don't know how to get it in the wiki tree. Again, the greeters project gives you all this information. This was the first word Pip gave me on the list. I love it. The reason I put this one in was we get messages that sometimes seem pretty desperate. They're really calling out for help. And we're more than glad to do that. Some people come in with little or no experience, even with computers. And so we're there to help them get through that. And that's the kind of thing that you hear a lot. This is something you don't hear about a lot with greeters project. We check people who upgrade to the honor code, sign the honor code. And one of the things we look for is to check to make sure we look through their contributions and see how well we're doing with that. If we see problems with that, sometimes we'll get an NIH or an NIR for new members that need help. And then we'll help that. Sometimes we see things are not right now. This is the one we use for people who ask us for genealogy questions. Oh, that's smart. So we don't, like I said, we don't do genealogy research for new members. What we tell them to do is to post it in G2G because that's where they're going to get a lot of help with that. Because I can imagine if I just join and I say, well, I don't know where to start on my tree because I didn't have the money to pay for the other sites. I want to join a free site. And I can imagine joining us. Well, I heard we're talking about storytellers on Pip's weekend chat on G2G today. So I just joined WikiTree. Hey, I heard a story that my great-grandfather was part of the hat filled in McCoy's. Can you find that for me? Can you tell me that? And as a greeter, you would take it and say, I would say, what you need to do, this is a, I tell them that this is a great question for our G2G forum. I don't, I just don't point them there. I tell them that it's a good way to get help with that. I also tell them to put as much detail as they can into their posts. And so that helps them get connections to other people who are interested in the same families that they are. So again, you don't have to help them with their tree and be all knowledgeable of a region and get them started. You get them started by going to G2G, which is a great thing to help to. Yeah. Now, this one's a huge one. This one is a huge one. One of the things that freeers are trained to do or get help with frequently from within the group is when we recognize that somebody is coming. Oh, so it's got bingo. I'm going to assume we're donating. So keep playing. So we'll get people who just put random letters into the first name and last name. Obviously the spam are not there for the real thing. And sometimes we have actual companies who will come in and then start posting on profiles. Oh, really? Sometimes profiles of dead people. And so we put a block on there. There's a few of us in the group that can actually do the block. And we forward that out to the leader group, which Julie is launching all the time, and to the mediators. And quickly we get a deletion of that profile. That happens a lot. It happens a lot more frequently. Sometimes it happens in first. Same person doing the same thing over and over and over again. It happens. That makes it easy to recognize, I imagine. But again, keep in mind, even if you're not technical, that the greatest project helps you out to learn and to recognize things like this. So we have a bingo. And Barb, you are the bingo winner. And let me tell you how to. I'm glad we got to that last comment. And I know that everybody's telling me bingo bingo bingo. I appreciate that. Keep doing it because, you know, I can talk with a guest all day long. So especially when we're talking about security and things like that. So Barb, what you want to do is you want to email you in and let her know that you won the bingo for today's bingo. First bingo with the Greeter's project. And what she will do is she will email you back and give you information on where to go shop. This is a really awesome thing that wiki tree does. It's a wiki tree branded prize, which everybody loves. I believe it's up to $30. There's different things that you can buy. But again, I'm going to point out the most popular bingo mug. And just tell her you want, if you like this month, just tell you what the all black bingo mug. I do believe that has so far this year been wiki tree's most requested prize. So that makes me happy to let's go ahead then and talk a little bit about the Greeter's training. So give me a second. And I will bring that information up because I don't know, do you think that people do not want to agree because they're either scared of putting themselves out there. Or they're nervous. They don't know all the rules or technology involved. Do you think that's maybe what's walking from? I think that they probably think that the training is a lot more technical than it is. But really there's just a few core steps in the training process. It's knowing which message to post. It's knowing how to handle the sign in, sign out page, which is very simple. It is. It's very simple. Really simple. You're putting your four till days to get your name in there. And also, you know, putting in that the last person you greeted, the last person that upgraded your family member, the last person that went to the honor coding, the last person that did a pre-1700 certification. So that's the Greeter sign in page right there. And then we have all the sample message pages. We go through all of that. It's really, the training is not difficult. But the main thing about training we try to emphasize is keep in touch with all the other Greeter. Keep in touch with us. We will help you become more adept at it. Some people pick it up rather quickly because they've been on with the tree for a while and they're all the end of the ounce. Some people are not as confident as that, but you don't have to be confident. And there's another 2016 with your colleague, David. David is a wonderful co-leader and I really depend on him. He's a, he truly is. You guys don't see him out there very much, but David is truly a wonderful wick of tree here. And he knows his stuff and he helps me out all the time. He sees things that I don't see. And I really appreciate that. And this is a good point for Mendy. Yes. Mendy was a big help for me. Okay, so I'm new to Greeters. I just joined. Tell me what happened next. Usually what we try to do is just set up a time where we can actually talk to each other while we're going through the training process together. It helps if it's by video and you're sharing, you know, you're looking at the Greeters pages at the same time. And we go through all the steps that were involved in that. So it's not just we're sending you emails back and forth. We're actually talking to you and showing you how to do things. It was going to be gradually let you, in the new training session, have to do to work on that stuff. Yes, Ruth, it is. It is very hands-on. So it is really not a difficult process. Being online with a trainer where you can see them and share their time on the same page at the same time, showing what's going on is the way that we do this. Very hands-on is correct. Very visual, very hands-on, and not as difficult as you think. So how long is a training? We usually train last probably about three sessions, and then we do one where you're doing your own greeting with the trainer watching in the background to make sure things are good. And then we pretty much get your wings and fly out of the nest and you go for it. But you're never on your own. You never owe by yourself. You can always get help anytime you need it. I think this is one of the great things to do about weekly training. When you're in a project, that there is always somebody to help. Yes, there is. There always is. And so you have a basic training program. We have a great basic training program, but your training can continue with contact with other greeters. And you put a message out to somebody on a greeter online who knows, checks their mail regularly or has it pop up. You'll always get help. That's the thing. And so this is what you see when you get your basic things that we go over. How long does it take to become a greeter, would you say, in general? Well, it depends on how quickly you can schedule your training sessions. We have one new greeter who could only do training at certain specific times because they're in school and they have a job. And so you have to work around those kinds of schedules. So sometimes it may take a few weeks, but if you've got the time and the trainer has the time, you'll get to your training quicker. It's the same basic material, but you don't have to rush to get through it. You can take as much time as you need. Well, that's a good point too. So if you have the time and technical, then you can go ahead and get through it very quickly. Sorry about the echo, guys. And if you need more time, that's okay too. Yes, it is. If you don't feel comfortable getting through the first part of the training process, you can ask for more time. It's not, you've got to do this and we'll cut you loose. The training continues on even after you start your own greeting. You will learn on your own and you will learn from other greeters. That thing is that you have to take care of certain things. Something you first want to ask about greeters is if I'm in a different language than English. If I'm in a different language than English. If you're a new member, you mean somebody joining us? Yeah, what are greeters? We have access to people who have language skills that can help with that. I think what a lot of us do, we use Google Translate, which isn't always the best, but it still is good enough. And we'll translate their messages out and see what they're asking about. And if we need help with someone whose language is not the greeters' personal language or knowledge of that language, we can ask. Sometimes there are other greeters who can help as they know about languages. But we also have people on Wikipedia do about their services as language people who can do that. It translates. I think Google would be great. It seems like it's going to work. I think, too, it would be great if we had more people with languages and approaches to join. Yes. I'll tell you what was difficult was when we get new people to type in Cyrillic to some of you. And so that's a little more difficult because it's hard for the ground people to do that. On the other hand, we do have people who have long people languages. And most of the people who are joining with the language that somebody on Wikipedia is going to do. Okay. You guys ready for another video? Let's go. Let me bring that up. Let me bring that screen up. Steven, on the high of the dollar, how's she at this time? I don't know. I don't think we've been talking to her this much yet. In six months, you can win again. You get a matching pair of modes. Okay. Let's bring up the bingo. And I agree. This is what this is talking about. Okay. Let's see if we can get through this with that. And again, if you're playing Arizona, vertically diagonal to win bingo, and ever types bingo, bingo, bingo. Or just bingo. In the chat is the part that you want to play. Do not close down your bingo cards until you make sure somebody has bingo. Okay. So, Pip, I'm going to let you talk about it. Julie is our go-to person on the next level above David and myself as co-leaders of the project. And she helps us out tremendously. Orphan profile, sometimes people will post a little genealogy nugget on an orphan profile, and we have a message for that. To tell them that nobody's going to respond to the usual thing. So there's even a sample message for this kind of situation. I do get that. This one involves trying to get as many people in as many different times as we possibly can to cover all the open slots that there are. So it depends on what times when you're in. That's why we like having Kathy in California. We love having her greeting because she can greet legacy lovers. We also check to see what kind of comments are going on when a guest member posts a comment. We check that comment. Sometimes we find some pretty nasty ones. How dare you? What makes you think you know all about this family? You need to take this down right now and delete it. We get some of those comments. And when we do, we flag them and tell the reason for the flag. Most comments though are really kind of helpful. We can let those go. We don't have to comment that they're commenting. We just look to see what there's now. Well, I appreciate that you're looking at those comments because I've seen some. Yeah. And they're based on the other places that are not sourced. Yes. Correct. Yep. That happens a lot. If you really want, let me tell you something. The reason that, you know, people get frustrated. Well, people have been on Wicked Tree forever. They're not doing anything. We need to get rid of them. Well, that's not true. And the reason I put Chris W up here, Chris Witton, is this. Sometimes I will come across a new person who has a guest who has upgraded after like 10 or 12 years. And Chris Witton has actually been one of the greeters back in the day. Chris was actually a greeter too. That's amazing. Yep. I've had that happen about twice. But you know what's really cool about that is that, you know, the head guy, the top guy is, we'll do it all. Yes. I'm sure if he has that at all, he knows the whole thing. So this could be a great, he likes Chris. Be a greeter. Well, this happens occasionally. Mostly it happens with guest account. How far on did they delete? And then sometimes we will have actually people who have upgraded to family members status to have gotten the family member message, standard message that we send to them and they'll delete your account. It will show up on our feed that they deleted it. If we catch it soon enough, otherwise we don't see it at all. But that happens occasionally. People will join and out we go. We did have links to tutorial pages. A lot of those that were developed very early on in WikiTree by a lot of the greeters and we use, sometimes we use it. People ask for help, not just the standard how to, but actually, what can I do here? And these two Torah pages are a boon to us. We use those two Torah pages. There are some people who work extremely long shifts. And my longest, I think the longest shift they ever did was like a seven hour shift. I just had the time and I just filled in all the open slots on a day. My longest shift right now is scheduled is three hours. Sometimes if I come in, wake up early enough on a Monday morning and I don't, I'm ready to get to work. I'll sign in an hour early into a four hour shift from eight to 12 Eastern. And most of them are shorter than that. Tuesday nights are three hours shift. The Monday night is the Sunday night. Monday night is the night of two hours shift. So keep in mind that, you know, Pip, David, Pam, PC, I know the other readers have gone here, Ruth, Kathy, they're all picking up additional shifts. And they're volunteers as well. And we're trying to look their own through just like all of us are doing and involved in different aspects of wiki tree. So again, many hands make light work. So if you guys can take an hour away from, you know, Pip and David, both be fabulous. I actually get to work on my own genealogy. That can be a problem. I want you to know when I'm doing 14 hours a week that I sometimes don't get to do any personal genealogy because I've already done 14 hours. And I actually do have another life. Look at that. We read. You have a wife. You're poor wife. The wiki tree with, with, um, privacy issues. We get questions about privacy issues a lot. When people see this will, um, yep, that's probably Cheryl. Anything we can do to help these readers. They don't want to move on our shifts. They're volunteering for us guys. Yeah. So people will ask questions about how private is stuff going to be, um, you know, we'll let people be able to see. We tell them that any living people are automatically anonymized. You can't see those profiles. Um, and so that's one of the things we asked. Yeah. Bubba that this. Occasionally for David and I, when we are unsure how I handle particular situation, we bump it up. And it's usually Julie. Who will come to the rescue. And so that's what that means. That's awesome. So see that everybody on wiki tree sometimes needs another eye, another opinion of board type. Yeah. Is it? Don't be nervous. We do a lot of things. Thank you. David. David. David is not only a leader. And of the readers project and a greeter is also a leader in the integrators project. And he's also a mentor, which takes most of his time. I believe it is many, many hours doing that. And so you just don't have. You guys just don't know how important David. It's not that if we often that wiki tree would shut down, but he's very important. So we thank a lot of people for the things they do. The upload of jet con. We thank you. If they add a DNA test, we thank them for that. We want that kind of positive thing going out to them early on when they do stuff like that. And I'll mention now, since we're talking about this as a. For those of you that love high contribution counts. You're thinking a lot of people. A lot of people, this one is the contribution counts up. Just true. I'll tell you that. I have 2100 plus contributions this month. I will bet you that problem doesn't have to be. I'm not sure. But I'm still. I'm still. I'm still. I'm not sure. I'm still. I'm still. I'm still. that probably 1,900 of them are contributions to posting comments on You will never you will if you're a greater it will be very difficult for you to not make your 1,000 Contribution Club Goal each month, and I haven't missed one since my first year there She's a greeter brand new She's working She's also One of the rock it is Yes, in the cat Why the Saturday roundup tomorrow you'll learn more about what people want for airing and her tree and rock So again, I talk about this a lot the power wiki Readers every project Goodness that tiny echo has gotten so much more. Thank you guys for For putting up with that So what we need to know In a nutshell I can say everything That I've said in in general can be distilled down into this wiki-treaters are some of those wonderful people Not just they do a great job. They're actually really Wonderful people who are willing to help who are always encouraging It's almost like a family when we have a nickname for ourselves to call ourselves the greatest gang This is something that we're better than you also we treat but I'm telling you that it's Courage to each other we laugh about stuff that comes up sometimes, you know It is just It is a it is an essential project to wiki through this has been going on from greeting has been going on for a long time And I enjoy wiki treats until 2018 April and then by that fall David Selman is looking into the apology the breeders I've been greeting I'll also And how much time you don't have on your personal tree Similar project your co-leader Don't do very much with the same cherry project Well, I mentioned it because No good The projects that gets to most Might be that one. So I just want to mention How great Because it's so important I know that a couple projects To face And we try to recruit and without In the reason why I think this is important somebody And It was a missing link So that person just came in I Don't know By the way But they So they came in that way, so I just want to thank you for all the work The readers do you guys are doing so much extra weight And I really really Appreciate you all you wiki traders who are watching now or we'll be watching later I want to tell you that David and I appreciate you more than you know An essential service So spread the news That's all they're asking for one hour week and spread the news John is asked where do you sign up and John you can go to the wiki tree project page And there's a link to the g2g question that we'll show you Answer that you may not get in right away because we're still working through training people Several people already on that question And let me post up the page real quick There you go. It's just like every part of the wiki tree There's a box in the middle of the project page. It's just all I do and it leads to it. Yeah Sorry Carol You know join us in a couple hours I I can tell you that I appreciate John a lot as well in the Rangers group And john I know the graders group would love to have you because they do compliment each other those two projects very much compliment each other I'm just so pleased to see so many people from the Appalachian project As readers that's just great because the Appalachian project's a great project too Maybe if you know you're a favorite Appalachian, so that's part of the reason As if you're watching you too you're a favorite Anyone too who also sometimes will help us out Thank you a1 for being there for us when julie is uh busy doing other stuff. You're always on tap for that We appreciate that I want to thank all the breeders More than you know how much I'm gonna appreciate you And they asked If on the bingo space page, I try to update it with one Each each um bingo so you can check there. I'm so glad we agreed because there are a lot of similar topics here So tonight I should say tonight where I'm at. So at six o'clock Eastern which I believe I had Irish John teach me in England that is U2 UTC plus one now that you're on daylight saving time So um later on We'll we'll have the adoption angels and we're going to kind of carry through this reader Topic that we had with when I joined if I have an adoption name In a birth name, we're going to kind of carry that through and I hope that Kathy Novick can join us too because I know that she helps readers and adoption angels with It Anybody you ask actually with the adoption questions that go on So definitely come back tonight to kind of carry A little bit of today's conversation on with Emma from adoption angels and you will be amazed At some of the discoveries they have made for free again. We can see is great and it's definitely definitely a Interesting project as much as this one Thanks guys for putting up with the technical We have a mouse or gremlin or something in the lungs, but I appreciate it. Thanks so much for joining us That's always a good time to have Great being with you again Yeah, you're gonna have to join in a couple more projects so we can have you on video Okay, bye guys. See you later