 Welcome everyone, thank you for joining us as we go over the highlights for the New Mexico Challenge Week. The Wiki Tree Challenge is Wiki Tree's largest ongoing community event where volunteers work on growing the connections for the seven ancestors provided by our guests for seven days. And I want to just share briefly that we have a sweepstakes going on if your society or group would like to enter for a chance to win for Wiki Tree to have you as our guest star for a week. All you have to do is email me at azure at wikitree.com and azure is azure. And we'd love to hear from you. There's a YouTube video out there that's on our YouTube channel, WikiTriers on YouTube. Okay. So now to our highlights. So this week we had seven ancestors and they were John Denver, Manuel Gonzalez-Velejo, Edwin Gaines, Fulnwinder, Thomas Wakefield-Blackburn, Billy the Kid, Pat Garrett, and Lou Wallace. There were a lot of interesting finds that were submitted and a lot of different locations. And actually I did a little report from WikiTree Plus and not even all of the places that we got to within the CC7 for each of the profiles are listed on this list of locations. This list of locations has a lot of locations on it, just not all of them. So I'll show that in a little bit in the slideshow. But even here you can see there are 31 countries and all 50 states of the US. So that was really interesting how far out we went with it. And like I said, there were a lot of interesting finds that were submitted and military profiles that the different challenge participants submitted to the space page where we were tracking all the collaboration and research that was done. During the three weeks that we worked on these profiles on this extended challenge. All right, and so the first profile, of course, is John Denver, notable for being an American singer, songwriter, activist, and humanitarian. His profile's gotten some updates to it, some really great information about his last name, which is Duschendorf. I don't know if I'm pronouncing that right, but somebody has added some information about that last name and lots of great information and the sources on that one. The second profile is Manuel Gonzales Vallejo, and this one was picked from the New Mexico Genealogical Society's journal. They had a two-part over two different journals, a two-part article on this family, the Vallejo family, and the second part contained information about Manuel specifically. So that's where we chose him from, and you'll hear more about him a little bit later too in the interesting finds. There's information in the research notes for this profile that is great to read up on, because there's a lot to this. The third profile that we did is one of two profiles from the Roton, New Mexico, one-place study. This is Edwin Gaines, Full and Winder. It's been great to see his profile really be filled out even more and more and more family added to him. I know I think he started with about nine or eight or nine profiles, and that was over 2000, so that's really great. Thomas Wakefield Blackburn is the second of the two profiles for the Roton, New Mexico, one-place study. And he is notable for composing the song, Ballad of Davey Crockett. And there's some more information about more of his literary works on his profile here. Okay, and the notorious William Henry McCarty, or Billy the Kid, is our next profile. And he was definitely a challenge for us because of, I believe they have it written out in the research notes about his date of birth is in kind of mystery. Nobody's got it complete. And so, you know, confirmed for sure. And so that makes things a little difficult. And then also his, you know, the sources have his father as Patrick McCarty, but we don't have any information on him. So we couldn't go anywhere from there. So, and also his mother, we weren't able to add, we don't know enough about her. And so we weren't able to go any further. I think we actually ended up being able to go out from his siblings. And then his stepfather. So that was one of the challenges of the week was Billy the Kid. And then Pat Garrett, the agent or lawman that is notorious for being the person who killed Billy the Kid. Some really great images and great profile that was written up for him on here. And then the last profile is Lewis Wallace. I think he has the most connections within seven degrees of all these profiles. And so he was the 10th governor of New Mexico and is part of the Billy the Kid, Pat Garrett era. And he was the governor at the time that Billy the Kid was active. He was also the author of Ben Hur. So really great to get to know more about this person. So overall, I just wanted to show it in this way. Here's where we started with all of the different ancestors. So you can see that Pat Garrett had the most when we started at 4,668. And then when we ended, Lou Wallace ended up being the highest CC7 count at 7,108. So this just kind of gives you a breakout. The total increase for each of the ancestors is here because even though this is the amount of profiles that were added, there were connections that made the increase that CC7. So CC7, in case anybody is wondering what that means, it's the connection count within seven degrees of that profile. So John Denver, for instance, would be degree zero. His parents, siblings, spouses, and children would be degree one. And then further away from him, you add a degree for each step away from him. So that's kind of what that looks like. The bounties have been added to the score sheets. I'm just gonna refresh the page so you all can see. We had 71 participants for this three week challenge. And you can see we had a total of 110 bounties that were awarded during the week for this challenge. And we had a total edits almost to 12,000, almost 4,000 profiles edited. So lots of work that was done by all of the members. So really great, great work. Now I just wanna take y'all through the little slideshow we've got put together for you. So we went to New Mexico for the three weeks. And as you can see, we really were almost everywhere. We were in every continent. So we really made tracks. This is kind of a different view of it. It's kind of like a heat map for the locations of where we were, the different countries. Really had a lot of coverage. It was really exciting. Interestingly enough, the closest connection and degrees. One thing we were looking at, or we're interested to see is if there was what the connection was between the three, Pat Garrett, Lou Wallace and Billy the Kid. But the closest one in between Pat Garrett and Thomas Blackburn. So that was really interesting, 11 degrees. And that's the closest for the whole challenge. And then we have two connections within 13 degrees. It's a lot closer. So we have Lou Wallace with Edwin Fohlenweider and Lou Wallace with Thomas Blackburn, both of the Roton, New Mexico, one place study profiles. And then 14 degrees, there were three connections all with Lou Wallace again. He seems to be the one that really had a lot of closer connections. So he was 14 degrees from Billy the Kid and Pat Garrett. So I thought that was interesting. And then John Denver, he's 14 degrees from John Denver. So very interesting. So for John Denver's profile, this is where we started. We had 248 connections at the beginning. And now we are at 810. Love to see the difference between the one and at the beginning and then at the end, it's just such a big jump there. So lots of places for John Denver that we went in Russia, Europe, even into Africa in South America. So just really very interesting. So interesting to see. You really can't say that you wouldn't be able to do a challenge for somebody born in New Mexico, right? Cause you end up in Russia or Kazakhstan. So you could be anywhere. Here's a close up view of Europe and Russia areas. And here's the U.S. for John Denver. Okay, here's Manwell's. This is, he started out with quite a few. Let me bring up what he started out at. Let's see. So he started with 3,205 and we added 1,090. So he, well, no, we added 375, so but the increase for the, over, you know, with the connections added 1,090 within the seven degrees. So good jump there. And here are the locations for profiles within seven degrees. Migration map. That's what this is basically showing. The birth is in the red dots and then the death is in the blue dots. So, and then the arrows go from birth to death. So you can see where people maybe started in America and ended up in Brazil or wherever. So it's really interesting to see how that, where everybody went. Here's a close up. A lot of Spain and Portugal on this one, some France and Italy and some Greece. It's really interesting. And then the majority of the profiles within seven degrees for Manwell was in middle America, South middle America, and then going down to Southern America, Mexico, Cuba, Puerto Rico. So Manwell, it was one of our interesting finds himself. He was a Maestro de Heridor. I'm not sure if I'm pronouncing that correctly, but he's a master farrier. So farrier is a specialist in equine hoof care, including the trimming and balancing of horses hooves. So he was also able to train others in the, in this trade because of being a master of it. I thought that was really interesting. And that was what was found on the survey. Everybody voted that one up. So the next ancestor is Edwin Gaines, full and winder. Here's a close up. Let's see, that's a five, eight dots. So he had eight connections at the beginning. And here's where we ended up. Just massive increase for him. Just awesome to see we added 545 profiles by the number of connections increased by 2005. In the last couple of years, we had a number of connections increased by 2005. In the three weeks. So wonderful to see that. And Edwin is one of the profiles that got us almost into every state of the US just by himself. This is kind of interesting. To see the coverage there. I just love seeing these maps. Such a great tool to have. And here's the US. Close up for him. So here are the interesting finds for the full and winder line. One of them is a Rola Augustus, full and wider sale to the Isthmus of Panama. In 1908. And he joined the ranks of more than 40,000 workers. We're employed to build the Panama canal. So they just list out how much he made per year. So they just list out how much he made per month. And sometimes he made a little bit more because he was promoted to form and conductor. And they shared about. That. 50, 5,609 workers were killed during the construction. Of the Panama canal. And that it opened in 1914 after 10 years of construction. So that was really interesting. Sharing some pictures here from. The Wikipedia page. And the next one for interesting find for this line. William Julius Citron was an inventor. And he was granted several patents. For rather strange devices. Like a tonsural apparatus to apply lather to the face of a person. And also to provide means whereby the face may be dried and powdered. And also to provide means. And also to provide means. Steam or heated water delivered into contact with the, with the face of a person or a carriage for seating spectators. Mounted on revolving revolving supports. They give an impression of rolling vehicles or traveling motion at rapid speed. So a lot, lots of different ones. And I've actually, I found one. One of his patents in a book. I think it was a patent item. That was really interesting. All right. And on the same line again, full and wonder. James E. Caldwell attended Northwestern University and achieved prominence during his college years in Chicago. As a leader of a Dixieland band. A jazz band called Jimmy Caldwell's Jazz gestures. And this is actually a picture of them. His band at various times featured such jazz greats as Benny Caldwell. He was active in the Lullanette Valley jazz society in the Oregon city jazz society. I thought that was a very cool. I spent a lot of years growing up in Oregon city, Oregon. So. All right. Thomas Wakefield Blackburn is the next ancestor we'll talk about. So at the beginning, he had no connections. It was just him all by himself. Unconnected to the tree. And this is where we are now. So starting with one, we added 416 profiles. So. By the end of the three weeks, he had gained 2,645 connections. So that's really something else. And here is the migration map for profiles within seven degrees of Blackburn. Again, this one's all over the US. Here's a close up of Europe. Where they were active in Europe for this. Profiles within seven degrees of him. And here's the US. You can see there's profiles in Canada and Guatemala. So all over. One of the interesting finds that we had for. The challenge was on his lines. So when the news of the sudden death of James Andrew link, working as a train conductor in Guatemala came to his brother. It was initially reported he had died in a train crash. But the truth about his death emerged only two weeks later. And so he was able to get out of the train. And so the link did not meet his death and railroad wreck, but was stabbed by an infuriated passenger of his train. Who became enraged when he disarmed him of a revolver. The passenger who had been drinking heavily. Became noisy and drew a revolver threatening other passengers on the coach. Link took the gun away from him and went into the next car. Upon his return, he was able to get out of the train. So he was able to get back and stabbed him through the shoulder. Almost to the heart. So it's really sad. Okay. And of course, Billy, the kid. The next profile. This is where he started. With 52 profiles within seven degrees. And now he is here. At 558 profiles within seven degrees. So we added 217 profiles. By 506 profiles. And here's his. Map of migration for profiles within seven degrees. Majority is in the US and Europe looks like. Here's the drill down. Of course, there would be a lot more in Ireland and. UK, if we knew. More about his parents. I'm sure we would have had quite a few more dots on the map here. And here's the drill down for the US for him. And Pat Garrett is our next profile. We'll talk about. Here's where he started at 4,668. He was the highest one. When we started. And we added. 435 profiles increasing his connections by almost 1,800. And here's. Again, this one's all over the place, Africa. Asia. Australia, New Zealand, all over the place. We really went all over the map of these profiles. It was great to see. Here's the drill down for Europe. And the US. And Lou Wallace is our last profile. Again, he started out at 2,750. We added 400 profiles for him. But we increased his connections by adding those 400. We connected to a lot of other profiles that were already on wiki tree. So his CC seven. Increased by 4,358. By doing all those connections. So that's awesome. Here it is the difference. Wow. And here is his migration map. For the profiles within seven degrees. Another one where it's almost completely covering. The US, but also the UK area on the map. So here's the drill down. And then here's the US. Really Scotland. England. Ireland. All over. And then here's the US. All right. And so here's another interesting find that was submitted. And that one on the survey that we did. This house originally built in 1857 in Springfield, Illinois. And that's the first house ever built in. And now it's the house and judge of the second saying, a man saying them on County court from 1852 to 1858, 1856. And his wife, Jemima Gray. Later served as a recovery center for prostitutes and then as a school for African-American children. The city of Springfield issued a demolition permit in 2013. But the Springfield project, ownership of the property and had the demolition permit lifted. The Taylor House will serve as a heritage community center. That's really cool. Another interesting find, I think this is the last one, is John Test, Wallace Maternal Grandfather, ran at Gristmill. And so this picture is what at Gristmill. As he ground the corn for grain, he read law books. In 1812, he was granted a license to practice law. Six years later in 1818, he was elected judge of the third Indiana Circuit Court, serving from 1816 to 1819. And in 1822, he was elected to Congress as a Democratic Republican in the newly created Indiana Third District and served three non-consecutive terms in the House of Representatives. And then one of his daughters, Mary Hall, and DeWallis's aunt, Mary James Rariden, who also served two terms in Congress as a representative for Indiana. It's kind of interesting all the connections that happen. And all right, well, I just wanted to say thank you to all the wonderful WikiTreaters that helped out during the challenge. It was an extended challenge due to stricter circumstances. But we really had a lot of fun and really appreciate all the work that was done by all of the WikiTree members. And that is it for the highlights for this Challenge Week for New Mexico. Does anybody have any questions or want to see anything? You guys good? Did you fall asleep on me? I'm good. It's just like you, I love seeing the little circle chart of where they've started at and then how full it can be at the end of a challenge. Yeah, it's amazing. Or if they're connected to the other six people that are on the challenge, at what level are they connected? And yeah, I find that all so interesting, especially people from all over, right? Because Billy Kidd was from New York and he's connected to Lou Wallace by 14 degrees. It's like that's really interesting to me how they're all connected. Anyway, yeah. Well, there's some that you don't even think they would be connected. But somehow they are because of ancestors that traveled, whether it was because they were forced to or because they wanted to. Yeah. Yeah. All right. Well, I'll go ahead and I think I'm going to stop the recording. I'll edit it down.