 Welcome to bingo. I have a guest. He's running a little bit late. David Randall is gonna be here shortly But I guess it leaves it up to me to go ahead and announce a big surprise Does anybody have any guesses before we start? I'm just really curious any guesses what this big surprise and big announcement could be I'll give you guys a second and thanks for joining us on Friday bingo. I Don't know about you guys, but we have already been back to school So as everybody else, so what's your guess is everybody? What do you think the big surprise is there's mr. Randall We're letting them guess mr. Randall what the big surprise might be I'm sorry. We're letting them guess what the big surprise my guess Yes, I asked Sandy earlier. What happens if your guest doesn't show up. I know I said now I know why you asked me that I I was on the way home I got stuck behind a train and it was just one thing after another and it's a hundred and six degrees outside here I know it is hot We're laughing earlier because of getting behind school buses went back to school. Oh, yeah Yeah, so I believe well correct me if I'm wrong David and I are both on the events committee I believe that you will find out on Monday your teams for the wiki game I think that's it. I believe so. Yeah, that's that was my understanding. Nobody has any idea Okay, I made a little little quick short. I mean very short video to kind of lead up to this So let me see if I can cue it if you guys are ready for the big Announcement this is pretty big and I don't know of any other Big and scale announcement that I've heard of since I've been on wiki tree. So let's say what you guys think Hey, there you have it So as if David is not busy enough with The sports notables notables Disney US governors David is bringing Completely global that globe in the hand every country will be on wiki tree next week, right? Next next year we are planning this for we this is a work in progress. We're planning this for January 1st But we're bringing it up now because if anybody's interested in working on on the development You know, give me a drop me a note and we've got plenty of room for people that to help out So shall I just go right into explaining what this is? Yes, please So the global project we have we have a global project right now But the global project right now is basically a catch-all for all the projects that That don't fit under, you know another umbrella So we're kind of shifting at the new global project. So this this is kind of unrelated to that So don't get confused between the two the new global project is a Takeoff from our 15 nations tour. We've been trying to figure out what we want to do next year the 15 nations tour is For those that don't know basically every three weeks. We visit another country we focus on 15 notables and try to get them connected and build up their profiles and that's been a lot of fun, but it's a lot of work and I don't think I could do a full another another year, which is what people have asked is if we can do a second year It just it takes a lot of time. I thoroughly enjoy it, but it takes a lot of time It also leaves out a lot of countries because we have There's approximately a hundred and ninety seven. I think countries officially designated in the world That's according to the United Nations. There's a few that are Controversial that may or may not be countries depending on how you define them, but we're looking at about a hundred ninety seven We have approximately two dozen projects representing individual countries that leaves a lot of countries You know leaves out a lot of countries. That's a hundred and seventy something countries that don't have projects So what we are going to do is create a global project and there will be a link to every country in the world If people are interested in creating an actual well Well, let me say this too. This is a little different than a regular project because it's not going to be a project focused on activity as much as Kind of a jumping off page for a hundred ninety seven other projects and Those projects will only be as active as the membership chooses to make them So I will not be on creating activities for all hundred ninety seven projects or countries But if somebody is interested in creating a project for a more obscure country that doesn't already have a project committed to it You'll contact me and we'll get you set up and you can be a one-person team Or if you can find people to join you you can get more people on but in the meantime, each page is going to have a thorough Stationary page that is going to tell you a little bit about its history about its demographics Its religions its languages it'll have links to other sites that have information of ancestry family search have Information we are trying to find the national archives and national libraries for every country and giving you links So far pretty much every country. I've researched as having national archives with information online We will have a list of some notables usually not too many but you know Maybe five to ten famous people that you can link to and and see some of their their You know their profiles So think so I have a lot of information space page right not Not quite a full project page your part but a really super enhanced space page Yeah, exactly And and part of this is also we're trying to expand to a more global Presence across the world and if you're from a country like you know You look at some of the countries been working on with the 15 nations if you're from Egypt and you come on to wiki tree and you see nothing about Egypt anywhere on wiki tree And you know if you're from from the United States and you've got ancestors in Egypt There's nothing for you on wiki tree perhaps. Well now at least there's a spot you can go to and You'll see some of the notables that you can you'll look at some Egyptian family trees You'll see people that you recognize From your from your culture on there You know so there'll be a lot of things you know pretty much anything that we can find across wiki tree and then again If somebody's interested in turning it into an actual project and we've already had people Expressing some interest in I believe the Bahamas and I think it's pronounced puritania You know some of the smaller countries because that's where they from and they're from and they've got an interest And who knows there may be a dozen other people on wiki tree that are also interested that just don't have any place to go so And this is really large. This is a large scale So I want everybody to take a second and think about where you're from where your ancestors from it could even be where you Like to vacation if you go to place vacation something that means you know place that means something to you or a Place that you really want to learn more about and you want to give a commitment to because that's kind of what what we're asking is Wiki tree is collaborative It's one tree and the tree isn't just Europe. It isn't just United States isn't just Canada or North America I should say it's global So if you have ideas of which countries you might be interested in helping out with This is a really cool way to get your feet wet Into kind of the the workings of wiki tree as well and develop and build and build and build up this page in this country And I want to mention that as we get more global and you start creating these wonderful Biographies and everything then we also get really cool Status on searches as well So that that also helps so if you guys have ideas or you shout out a particular country that you Know that you like the vacation at we're not holding you to any you know firm contract if you mentioned it in chat We're just trying to create the conversation right now because as David said this is a lot David can't do this all in his own. He will never sleep You know Sandy and I did not talk about this beforehand because I got here late If I were to put the link in No, definitely and give people a preview this is a locked profile that I've just unlocked it and If anybody wants to head over there And Mary all those are already on Wiki tree as a matter of fact head over to Portugal soon as being goes over because they're looking for help I'm sorry. David didn't mean to interrupt you. No, that's okay. I'm just trying to figure out how to do the cut and paste here Maybe they didn't cut it Let me see Susan. Let me see if I can get the bingo card up I'm not connected. It says okay. Oh, that's right. I'm on stream here. I'm not on Bingo card number one. Let's try that Okay, there's bingo card. You guys let me know if I got the right one Okay, and there's the link to the free space page and what I would ask people to do is to scroll down to Albania and You can see the first page that we've created Now most of the countries that you see bolded will be Countries that are already linked to profiles, but Albania is one that we've set up. Oh, and let me make sure that's That's unlocked That's one that we've just created that gives you kind of the template that we're using for For each of the the subsequent countries that will be developing But as we said, it's not going to be open next week because About a hundred and fifty more countries to go But hopefully by the end of the year if we don't have it completed by the end of the year We'll open it anyway, and we'll just have some countries that are not You know what a point out if you can drop that in the private chat for me that link And I'll say that again. Can you drop that link in the private chat? And I will link it I can find the private show private chat. Okay Okay, thank you, Joe who sorry about that guys got the right one Okay, let's let me bring this up and give you guys the link. Oh, that's a really cool cool cool looking page. This is really fantastic there you go and Or Set and I will bring it up here for everybody to see So the global page itself is gonna be very simplistic it's just gonna have a link to each country of the world We may redo the order a little bit. We're playing around with that That's cool, it's a great page Yeah, the first page is just going to be basically links You know a little bit about our pro project We may or may not keep those codes. They were more for our use than community but But you can see there in the Caribbean we've got one country with a page the rest of those countries don't have pages yet We do have somebody that and this is what's interesting. We have somebody that has a Bahamas page It's been up for five years. Mm-hmm Peter Roberts. I never knew I never knew about it I don't know if a lot of people do about it, but by putting them all here It'll be one stop shop. You can go here again your your big projects like England and Canada and stuff will be linked here. We're not we're not going to interfere with their projects But we will link them countries that don't have Projects currently will create a page for and again if somebody then wants to come in and create a project It'll all be here ready for you to go and Albania So Albania is the one that I just created so that's the one I'd like people to take a look at it Okay, because that shows you what we're going to be doing with the stationery pages This is like your super enhanced space page. It's yeah, this is not it. This is not an active project It's just the the stationery page that we connect them that we've completed And again if somebody wants to create a Albania project, we can hand this over to you and you can work with your team on You know building it into some activities You know we start with our missions and goals We don't have a management team yet here. We've got a map of the different Subregions of Albania. This is also map. This page is so beautiful. It's well done And these this should be very similar to everybody the bio builders the source or is the data doc the notables Every every country is kind of going to have the same needs. We need profiles We need nice profiles with sources with correct information with bios and All that that talk a little bit about the geography. This is wiki tree or Wikipedia links to each of the the counties in Albania, so if you know where your family is from in Albania you can Find their county here You know, this is minimal information on their history, but it gives you an idea the timeline basically gives you Kind of what the what the country was named during different periods if you're You know grandparents were born there in 1900 It wasn't considered Albania then it was the Ottoman Empire So when did it become Albania? 1913 so the real quick quick Kind of cheat sheet almost to figure that out And people are mentioning the key David said don't pay too much attention to the key, right? They use and the things like that because that might be more for ourselves. We may take that out It tells us which pages are already being managed, which ones aren't etc This is the language the religion We'll have something on the naming constructs. I didn't mention that but some countries have some pretty unusual from a Western standpoint Naming constructs. Oh, and here we're working on the photos But we'll have the current heads of state head current president and prime minister. Sorry about that. I just switched off your page. Sorry Okay, no problem Yeah, we'll have the current president and the prime minister that you can link to if you guys want to get those them connected That would be great. You'll see that most current living Leaders are not connected But this is this is very similar if you attended the bingo prior to this the 15 nation tours or if you participated in the 15 nations were The start of this feels very similar very much the same. So now, you know why David and I kind of group this bingo's together so we could talk about the 15 nations tour Talk a little bit about the wiki tree games that are coming up But also talk about this launch of wiki tree truly truly becoming global it, you know, I guess before the thought is let's get our our You know background in our dirt per se Let's get that strong and then start planting trees and we're planting these trees now by going globally I'm thrilled with this. This is so exciting That we are going to become more and more global We're going to get more different individuals and cultures to talk to a wiki tree But also if you're researching bringing in More cultures and more people in those locations around the world It just helps everybody and they can ask us questions A lot of people came to united states or canada or europe and it just creates this fabulous Genealogical community for fruit. This is just amazing. This, you know, it's just amazing Yeah, and I'm the kind of person not just with wiki tree, but in life in general I get kind of tired of being told It's coming soon. Yeah, hold on. It'll be here I'm more the type that prefers to go all out just get everything up there And then we'll let people decide what they want to use and don't use So if nobody ever looks at the albania page or five years later Somebody wants to come along and fix it up. It'll be there waiting for them in the meantime. It's it's You know, it doesn't require active management or anything so they can sit here as long as it needs to But when somebody does want it, it's going to be here. This is amazing how much work you put into this I mean, I'm just fascinated by these photos and by these people when I want to know more about them So I cannot wait for people to jump in If people that are already on wiki tree new wiki treeers, I just cannot wait for people to jump in so It'll be the big problem though is how do we name these people? And that's name them. Yeah. So will there be instructions on how to input the names in the data fields? So so if you previously was before you were scrolling down there was a section called naming conventions and that's where we'll put in If there are some right there, it's very small here But it talks about you know So I can read this in albania the complete name usually consists of a given name The given name of the individual's father, which is seldom Included except in official documents and a family name or surname most commonly patrilineal They are invariably given in the western name order or given name followed by family name So if you're working on albanian, that'll be that'll become clear Pretty quickly to you and once you figure it out then all the other albanians will fall into place And I know that because that's what we do with our 15 nation store We look at a name and and we are completely dumbfounded But once we figure out the patterns and stuff and oh, that's not so difficult after all And because they generally follow the same pattern for all You know all albanians or most albanians will follow the same pattern It becomes pretty simple. You move over to the country next door and it's all turned around and backwards But as long as you stay in albania You'll you'll you'll be fine Now joku has a question Are there any plans to add some of the things that are on these pages timeline notables etc to existing projects that don't have these things And if they are a full wedge Project one wiki tree with a project number. That's kind of up to the project themselves It'll be up to the project themselves. So we will offer our our services and guidance to anybody that wants it some of the smaller ones um And there are a couple national projects out there that I imagine most people have not even heard about including myself But there are a couple that have asked if they can um if we can help them out and creating You know fixing up their web pages So they will follow our patterns Some of the bigger ones like um, and we haven't spoken any of them. So i'm not speaking for them But say australia canada united kingdom that have their their Their full blown projects going You may not want to make a number of changes and that's fine Um, but they're welcome to if they if they you know would like to that's And they can pick and choose if they see something they like Um, but we are not going to impose anything on anybody else if if somebody's already got a project going Again, we'll provide a link to their project But other than that it's up to them and this is exactly why This is one of the major reasons why the timeline is cool But the boundary changes and for those of you that were here When um, we had the poland project on bingo two weeks ago three or maybe four weeks ago As maggie one of the project leaders said for the poland project poland wasn't even a poland Known as poland for a couple years. So that's why the the projects that you see now existing the countries They they are already fleshed out and filled out and ready the way that their project wants them to be for these that have not started yet and Let's say that I wanted to pick up modovia And I didn't know where to start. I wouldn't know what should be on the page. What shouldn't be on the page That's where david with this project will come in and say sandy Here's kind of a template that you can use and let's start with that so that's kind of These pages are going to be very rudimentary. I'm certainly not an expert on every one of these countries. So Um, I may get some things wrong Um, but but because I'm aware that I don't know everything I keep it pretty basic What I put on there So I don't get into areas that Or if I start to read something it's like this doesn't make sense to me Well, I'm just not going to go there. I'll put up something basic and and When somebody comes along wants to create an actual project You can fix up whatever needs to be fixed up. You can add things you can take off things If the timeline is too simplistic or at least something out Go ahead and fix that this is up to the you know Just just as if you would if you went to a an individual profile And you said well, you know this this doesn't tell the whole story Well, we'll go in there and tell the rest of the story or this information is incorrect. Okay. Well, we've got procedures for correcting it. So We want you to yeah, we want you to embrace this we're encouraging people to take over You know don't um Don't feel like well, you know, well, David's already got all these countries covered So I guess we don't need to step in because no that's not the case This is this is really a way to try to encourage other people to come in and Pick up on areas that they're interested because I know there's a lot of people That would love to do stuff like this. They just don't know where to get started or to start with a blank page is overwhelming Um, so, you know, there's a lot of reasons that we're doing this, but that's a big part of it I see a place for a lesh too. We'll have to get him I was also going to say earlier we were talking, you know I said this is going to take me till january part of the reason for that is every time I I start to research a country And you were talking about the different notables They are so fascinating. It should take me a few hours winds have taken a couple days because I'm reading all these biographies and And they're fascinating photos. They are when I'm you know, I'm doing out early Albanian history I didn't know anything about this stuff. And it's just it's fascinating um And um, this is a good example. So everything you see here in the united kingdom David didn't touch David didn't create David didn't modify didn't do anything. The only thing he did is say, hey, you're already existing Here's the link so we can keep all the countries just linked on one page So there there's not you're not creating a duplicate space page for england or scottland I'm just providing links in that way and that's why I did these codes the t and the s It tells us that we may you know, we may not leave that there, but that tells us that You know, somebody else is already working on these pages Um, but also this way if you come there We don't want to leave off those pages because if you come to this page We want you to have every country to choose from and not have to go somewhere else to find You know a country that you're looking for so, um And this is right. Did Emma work on on a lot of these like northern Africa? I mean so Emma does Africa and she has pages. I have not been in touch with Emma on this topic What I need to ask her is She's she's got these pages kind of under development So, um, whether she wants to continue developing those or wants us to help out We haven't discussed that yet. So we'll see you So we enticed anybody is anybody thinking looking at some of these countries and thinking I think I might want to work on something. I love Nancy's comment I should just pick a country at random if you're a history buff You really love like like David said with Albania It's it's just really cool. I picked Albania because it was at the top of the list alphabetically and I just I had to start somewhere and again, it was fascinating. It's like I never would have thought to Read up on anything about Albania, but um It amazed me. I'm looking at the Middle East. There's so much rich culture here And I'm looking that these don't have pages yet not just surprised But at the same time I'm thrilled because I know that they will I know that we'll we'll get wiki triggers either existing new wiki triggers come in and just embrace the country page Yeah, now would you like to see another interesting country? Yes, um Why don't we go to andora? Which is the second one I worked on So that's down and we may change this order around. This is more for my use, but if you go to europe And it's under microstates right there under microstates So there's another little interesting country. Andora is a tiny tiny country I don't know how many andorans we have on wiki trade But we can get them A number of even smaller entities I know but the pages are beautiful. They're they're really colorful. They really show that like this map shows the different territories I love the maps with the flag Imprinted over at the very top there. Yeah, each country and those are all available on wiki wiki commons So if we go down, um To some of our notables here it's an interesting history So let me tell you that so andora andora has 78 000 people I think right now is their population In 1900 their population was 5 000 They were they were a tiny tiny country This is amazing. And again, I always say if you're a history buff, this is fantastic to get into yeah now for those that don't know andora is in between france and spain and they don't have their own um Leader they have like a congress, but they have two princes the president of france and um the um The bishop of urgal. I think it's pronounced urgel And that goes back to medieval times when the The king of france and the bishop of urgal split the country And um the king of france has now been replaced by the president of france But they have two co heads of state that are both from one from spain and one from france um this individual here um Pretended to be a uh a russian aristocrat. I think russian but an aristocrat Came in and declared himself king of andora and brought some papers that made an official which were forged And for a short time he served as king of of andora Because he tricked the andorian people into thinking that he was He was scared and officially been proclaimed king and he's a pretenders This is the type of things though that we've learned as you step out of your own little area Of knowledge base or if you step into a new country Think of this as travel history travel as you go through It does everybody have their bingo cards Uh, steven you're you got misa. Um, and I agree with Uh, mary, this is going to be really invaluable and useful for dna And I would love to see those african nations kind of built out as well That's the first thing I thought of when we were talking about dna And you know what? I'm willing to bet we talked about being on um Moving up the ladder on google I would imagine that down the road once we get this up if you google and doring genealogy Wikipedia is going to come up at the top Because you're not going to find a letter at a lot of other sites. That's a good point And I would say that for 150 of our countries probably That's a good point If you if you google swedish genealogy, you're going to get all kinds of hits um German genealogy, etc If you ever try to buy a book on your on um your culture if you're swedish german english, you're fine if you're um luxembourgian if you're You know any african asian south american country You're you're probably going to be out of luck That's a good point and we will get higher hits So making tree will be the place to go if you're looking for global genealogy I love this now everybody knows that I stay in my own little section most of the time But I love to I call it mental traveler I think that's what they call it when you go when you explore and um, I do want to recommend somebody to take The next step with this for you. So When we go to mars moons, we're going to let steven take this over And you're and the other steven who likes star or star For us very old so that we we've got um, you know, we're on our 15th anniversary, but for our 21st 5th anniversary I wouldn't be surprised if we've got to Come up with a new Boone page if not a mars page that would be cool. Okay guys bingo so horizontal diagonal vertical Click on the um little spot as we call the name we'll go through this pretty quick This one's pretty pretty easy to go through these bingos are is not a free space On this I don't think on the other one either and the first person who yells bingo at me is the winner If you won in the past six months, you cannot win again. So genie dot com. Why is this so so Before we go into the specifics This card is based a lot on our 15 nations global tour And the reason it is is because a lot of the tools that we use in the 15 nations global tour are going to be used on our Global project. So um, if you're going to be doing international research in countries that don't have A real solid Resources available This is what this card is going to be a little bit more focused on so genie.com It's another website that should be com as opposed to dash com genie.com And there are a family Tree website People go on there and they post their family trees the thing that I've discovered about it. I'm only recently discovering this There's a real strong positive and a real strong negative here the thing that's really positive about it a vast number of our obscure Notables on the 15 nations tour have family trees posted on genie.com our Our egyptian Notables are hasian notables. They have very detailed Trees the thing is genie.com does not ask people to put sources So we've got elaborate family trees that have Very limited value to us because they have no sources telling us where people got the information However, they do post um Contact information for the people that have put the information on that hosted trees and we've had a really good success rate Of people getting back to us and telling us where they got their sources And even people who have come and joined wiki tree in order to put their trees on wiki tree Well, that's that's a good part, but I will caution everybody Look at your project reliable sources page almost every project has it and they do not recommend genie I will double check. I do not believe genie. You can use it Yeah, they have they just don't do sourcing. So you have no idea where the information came But for this type of information or if you've got a family tree where you're you're struggling with It's a way to contact people that might have I do not use the trees blindly now Or any of the others you don't use an orange source family tree from online But it's a good place to get some some some clues and make some contacts Kenya so these are just countries that we visited. Kenya was one that we visited. We visited Haiti Haiti was a little bit easier than Kenya because a lot of Haitians have come to the United States and made contacts Malaysia we did surprisingly well with The language is different. The alphabet is not in roman or latin Letters, so that was a challenge But a lot of the malaysians have histories that are written Cameroon an african country A lot of french connections So once we were able to make those connections to France We were able to make some breaks Ukraine was the most difficult of the countries we've been to not because of the war because things are online But because they used to be a soviet country and the soviets kept everything private. They did not publish Family histories of their notables, etc. You were notable for your accomplishments Not for who your family was, etc. So it was very difficult to make. I think we only made one connection in Ukraine And I think that I think that was an individual who lived prior to the soviet takeover So bio writing we talked about this a little bit back We have a lot of different things that we need people to do So if you're not interested in researching kenyan genealogy or that overwhelms you We'll get some information of and you then write the bio A lot of our guys are really into making those connections. They're not so Um Fond of going back and writing the stories. So if you're good at bio writing We can really use your help We get a lot of with all of the notables we get we get the bios up there and they get them connected And there's no story to go along with them. And that's kind of sad because you see the beautiful pictures You see the their portraits and you see their sources you want to know about them. You really do Yeah, yeah Estonia was one of the countries we just recently went to we're in syria right now and estonia was the previous Country and we did really well in estonia Estonia was also a soviet Country, but they kept a lot of independence. So It was different than ukraine. You'd think some of these countries would be very similar in their proximity in that but um Estonia was much easier than ukraine Connections that's the big thing that everybody that everybody goes for is are they connected and um, I love making connections, but I wish people would go back and finish the profiles once they made the connections Instead of connecting and going you'll see some really big not just with the the global tours in that but with the notables You know, we've got Milton burrell up there right now zero zero information about him. Oh really, you know, yeah, um He's he's not connected. He's um You know, he's just kind of sitting out there by himself and so Anybody watching Yeah, I run into that all the time these really big names Um and nothing nothing about them Um egypt, um egypt was an interesting one. We found um, I think it was four of our 15 egyptians died Falling out of hotel windows That seems to be a thing in egypt Um Especially if you're involved with the government. Oh my if you are involved with the government and you get invited to a meeting on the 10th floor Don't go um That's they actually have a name for it and I couldn't tell you what it is But there's a name for falling out of a hotel window in egypt. Um It's just a thing that happens three Three is the number of countries we have left that actually should be four because we have a country coming up Um, we're on 12 No, I'm sorry. It is three with with syria right now We have um syria is number 12 So we have three more countries left to go after syria and no matter how much we bribe them with biscuits He will not tell us what the three are look I will not tell you what but I will tell you you've got three More countries to visit for the 15 nation tour So if you're interested in if you're intrigued and maybe helping out with one of these global countries Join the 15 nation tour. You've got three countries left join it very mentoring very fun very interesting You will be fascinated by zero experience. It's a surprise to everyone My members that have been with me from the very beginning, which was january 2nd Have no idea where we're going next week. Um, they don't know anything about the notables We all go in blindly together So you'll be right on the same level as the rest of us and if again if you feel overwhelmed with doing the research You can do some proofreading. You can help us find photos. You can Help format our sources File writing there's all there's all kinds of stuff that needs to be done But again, you need no experience and we've got three more countries. That's 12 weeks Well, we've got two weeks left For this one in the nine weeks for those three countries and then um, so it's still a lot of time to jump in And you don't need to know the language either. You could just you don't need to know the language No, we don't know the language. You don't need to know the language Argentina argentina was interesting. They speaking of knowing the language We had about four or five members from argentina join in that's the only country That i've had um large-scale participation from the country itself And they were able to show us how to access argentina records and um their archives And um from that by learning how to find argentina's archives I learned how to find the archives for our others our other countries. So that was a really helpful experience for me sourcing again. We need We need sourcing done formatting our sources. Here's another thing with the research and we talked about this in our earlier bingo We start out for example, I had a king of malaysia And he married an english woman They divorced he went to school in england as a kid as a tea as a college student Married a young english girl. She did not want to move back to malaysia So she they divorced and she married a Man from oklahoma. So we wound up doing most of our research on this malaysian King in oklahoma. That's so you think you think you don't know malaysia. That's fine We need help in oklahoma. So and that happens time and time again I often wonder if this I often wonder if this family in oklahoma has any idea they're related to the king of malaysia, but um That would be so so you never know where you're gonna end up Um, we had one of the first president of panama When he was thrown out of office his wife went into excel in france and later moved in north carolina And so his family's all in north carolina. That's where we wound up doing all of our research And that was in one generation. I was his wife. That wasn't even you know Generations down the road. That was that first generation. We're in north carolina And I wanted to say congrats to chris for winning bingo and this is really kind of a fun story too I literally just emailed with chris. Not long ago. I want to say about an hour or two not even two ago Um talking about wiki tree games and talking about bingo. So congratulations chris. This is an awesome one for you And contact a one is she will let you know How to win your prize. It's up to 30 dollars on a wiki tree branded I didn't show everybody really the mug last time like I normally do But I do need to tell you that the limited edition 15th anniversary t-shirts are also On the store that you can get from your prize win at bingo I've dropped the next card in the chat as well So david How long do you think this will take? To build out this is not going to be a month it'll be done This is not going to probably even be six months. It's going to go at its I guess natural pace Yeah, um You know it all depends on the circumstances of life if You know if I get helpers it'll go faster if not I take it You know step by step. I don't have a problem opening it up in january If it's only half done and we just let people know that it's you know a work in progress I Work on it when I can Sometimes when it's 110 degrees outside, I've got lots of time to do it When the weather cools when the weather cools down for a day, I may not I'm maybe out running errands. I've got a number of other projects as you mentioned that I'm working on um, unfortunately, they all seem to come due on the same day. So that Tends to we tend to schedule for the first of the month. So Um, and and usually it's not the the first of the month when I um When I post it that everything is crazy or up to then it's it's the days afterwards when everybody's asking questions and You know, so, you know, it just it just depends on and like I said, I I think Oh, I can do this in an afternoon and then I get on those, you know, just like the rabbit holes we do and everything else Yeah, um, you know, I start to read about these You know notables and about the history and I don't I don't want to go on to the next country until I'm Until I'm satisfied. So But I hope to have it up. Well, it will be open on january 1st um So anybody plans for new year's day And if we entice anybody to kind of look at a country or at least kind of see do we have ancestors? Some of your ancestors out there that you're looking at maybe a country to help them out as well That's I think that's going to be where the natural organic growth is those that have the ancestors in some of these countries will Start to um, kind of build out and contact you as well And like you said, if we can get the countries and if you want to work on a country Like let me let me say I want to work on a particular country And I just want to add a couple notables because that's what I feel comfortable with because I know that all the information is probably there Uh, at that point, can I say okay? I I've worked the notables a lot of notables Can I give that page back to you to kind of manage for the next person to come in that wants to take it over? Yeah, and and I also want to emphasize This is not a notables project. We use the notables to entice people to come over. Um, but Um, you don't have to come on and work on on notables. You can work on your own family You can work on we're also working. Um, you know, we we have some people that keep um Track of Unconnected families and we're going to put those links up there. So we'll have the the largest Unconnected families say Luxembourg That are on wikitry and you can connect them, but you can work on your own family and what what I see it Where I see it attracting people is My family's from Luxembourg. I don't know anyone else from Luxembourg. Can we get a group together? Where we can share notes and we can help each other out with our own family trees Again, you know, we've got a handful of countries that You know are always covered by every genealogic side and you find the books and the books or etc, but there's um You know a lot of countries around the world that just don't get um You know If I've got family from You know from a from a country that um first off isn't european Because that's just about every country that's not european. You're gonna have some some struggles with But even within europe smaller countries eastern european countries You know, you'll get even even say the the nordic states you'll find books on Scandinavian genealogy, but they throw all four countries in together as if they're one You know, you're not going to find a book on Danish genealogy You're going to have to buy a book on swedish norwegian and danish genealogy to bring it back. So, um, so it's just a way to to create with your smaller groups of of Members they're they're out there um And bring the members in to wiki tree because like I said, I don't know how many of you have gone to G to g from a pro finances profile saying help Can you translate this document or can you help me break this brick wall down? And this would give you global Options is the more people that we bring in. Let me go ahead and bring up the bingo card Same thing guys, uh, if you've won in the past six months, you can't win this time You got to wait till your six-month anniversary vertical horizontal diagonally hit the mouse click the mouse and we'll go through this one Pretty quick and if you guys have any so this so this is a little different This card is going to be focused more on the global project And we're going to talk about, um, you know, some of the different regions of the world That's what this card is about. So western africa western africa is where a lot of african-americans will have their roots That's where the slave trade was the biggest So there there's um, I I had a list of the countries here But um turkey the reason I put turkey here turkey is one of the anomalies It is an asian country by The majority of it is in asia it spreads into europe a little bit But it is part of nato. It is part of the european new union. So, um, it kind of fits both the europe and the You know asian criteria there the slavic nations um That's basically what we would refer to as eastern europe if you look at the list of slavic nations. There's um a dozen or so of them But it's basically what was, um, communist eastern europe Polynesia so, um, we talk about We talk about, um, the, um The pacific islands australian new zealand often they call it um oceana um But there's actually three sets of islands in um in the south They're not so well the south pacific but polynesia is um one of groups of the groups of island um South america, we all know where that is. Um Now south america and mexico this ties right in Mexico is north america, but when we're grouping countries Mexico is much more Um is what we would consider it latin america Even though it is part of the north american continent. So trying to figure out how to divide these up um You know, there's a very different culture between canada and united states and mexico So to bulk them together as opposed to putting mexico with its southern neighbors You know the continents don't always Don't always aren't necessarily the best way to divide things up. So that's one of the things we're kind of playing with Northern africa is um the desert portion of africa. So it goes from egypt on over to sudan and um You got um libya up there All those desert countries that are along the mediterranean um south asia So south asia would be um, no i've got to check this one out because i But i believe south asia is what we would consider um india Um that section Um and india was on the 15 nation tour India was on the on the 15 nation tour. Yes um Now the united kingdom is um another interesting one because um, it's Most of most of the resources considerate north europe as opposed to western europe. So it's up there with scandinavia um It combines um really Four countries scotland england wales and um northern ireland um They're very independent in their own ways. They've got very different um histories And yet they're all united right now as a as a single kingdom. So, um You know gives us a little bit of a central asia. Do you know where central asia is? Can you name any countries from central asia? This is a hard one Or unless somebody's really good Anybody got an answer what'd you say mongolia? Uh, you're you're really pretty close. It's it's the stands. It's It's not afghanistan, but um kazakhstan turkmanistan is bekistan All of those that's a great way to remember the stands the stands now You got afghanistan and pakistan that are a little bit um on the border there But those are all the stan countries that um We don't learn a lot about those in in the us at least Central america, you know very similar to to south america in a lot of ways, but also as its own Its own history A lot of smaller countries there. So the nordic nations. This is one that always kind of um Intraves me that they're always lumped together in genealogical books and resources. You've got um Nordic which I believe is different than scandinavian and I'm just learning about this but um Nordic being the swedish Um, I don't know if eric is still in the chat. He is our swedish finnish nordic Researcher that I always reach out to when I try to find out. So that's a good question scandinavian nordic Yeah, um, I just heard something earlier that they were that they're not the same definition So I have to look that up and you've got finland, um, which was more eastern russian You've got scandinavia and I'm sorry. I'm sweden and norway Which have shared some history. You've got denmark down below and then you've got iceland all the way off in the in the sea that are all kind of You know kind of lumped together, but they're very different in their in their histories The micro nations. So these european micro nations are these tiny ones like andora that has 70 plus thousand people You've got um vatican city. You've got, um Um, um, monaco um, lichens steen lichenstein, um You know, there's I believe six countries in in europe that are considered micro nations There's a few other across the world and mostly island nations in the in the pacific You know other other places But um, they're tiny nations, but they've got they've got some rich histories Melanesia I mentioned polynesia. Melanesia is another set of islands in the pacific So eastern africa, um, we were there we went to kenya there um eastern africa has much closer ties to um, the middle east As well as some european countries Okay, we got susan who is one bingo Okay, we're a little confused Mike did not win bingo this time susan won bingo I think he you know, okay, so mike thought that that Mark or joku won. Okay, so susan you are the true winner of bingo Okay, so susan congratulations We've got bingo. We're so confused of it. Okay, sorry guys. We got it straight Um, let me go ahead and get you the information You're going to email aowyn And she's going to give you the information and I will also drop that I think I have that here If anybody's curious what these prizes are and What people are choosing from it's the wiki tree store Yeah, there it is So susan if you want to take a sneak peek you can take a sneak peek as well And don't forget the 15th anniversary t-shirts are there as well. So congratulations susan on the win David what should we know what's our next steps? Okay, so between now and January if anybody wants to jump in so our our pages that showed you and dora and we showed you, um Uh, what was the first one albania? Um Those are templates so we can cut and paste those onto a blank free space page and then insert all the information for the next country Um, that makes it easier. Those are the more pages. I do the easier it gets Um as long as again, I don't stop to read My history and my my biographies and throw myself down But if anybody wants to come in and help out if that's something that people Would like to do that's fine There's no commitment if you come in and do one and that's it or if you want to do one every couple weeks So, you know in and out and you know, it's fine anything that People want to do is is great and if not, um, you know, that's okay too. We'll get it done. But um In the meantime also if you are interested in setting up and taking over one of the projects We can get you in place before january 1st So we can get you, um Onto the page get you some ideas. So what would a project entail it would be? Number one just a place to go and chat with people that have similar interests If you want to do a g2g challenge or You know just a post that says hey, you know share your stories or whatever, you know, it doesn't have to be You know on notables related we talk a lot about that because notables are what get people interested if I said, um Can you come help us with Elvis Presley's profile? I'm going to get a hundred people Can you help me with my grandmother's profile? I'm not going to give any hit. So, um, they're both equally important but Um to stir up interest. That's why we use the notables. Um And that's both on wiki tree and if we're going into social media, etc um Yeah, we do get a lot of people say why can't we just do normal everyday people? It's like because nobody nobody signs up when we do that um But um, yeah, these are not about connecting notables if you want to connect notables And that's where your focus have fun and come do that But you know, it's it's really about whatever you want to make it um, so if you are from Um, algeria and you want to come in and sign up to meet other people from algeria We may or may not have others that want to join. That's you know, we just have to wait and see in the meantime You know, you can share resources you can You know, whatever you want it to be it's your project and we're here to help and guide you But we'll we'll leave it up to you as we do the managers of all our other projects It's up to you to figure out what direction you want to take it and um And if you just want to come in and sign up and wait to see what other people do That's fine too, but you don't have to wait to january 1st to let us know and we'll get you we'll get you started on that So it's kind of because everybody's getting a sneak peek So if you're looking at this now and there's I don't know Maybe there's a country that will be very very popular You're getting a sneak peek and you're getting an opportunity to jump in on this and all you guys do Is just reach out to david if you find something that you want to participate with Yeah, and if you've got a branch of your ancestry that just isn't one of those countries that are covered By other sources Again, african asians latin american or one of the many smaller countries in europe that gets overlooked You know, this is the place to we'll see where it goes We've never done anything like this. So we don't make any promises, but um, I think you know, if the information's there It'll it'll it'll take care of itself over time. I think so. We're all in this together We're all in this and just as we are now asking for help or asking to connect or to source or to buy a Or to join a project even just a project. We're all in this together. So let's grow it Let's grow this tree. Let's make it a global project completely all the way around And that's what we kind of showed with the globe at the beginning David, thank you so much for joining me. We're both fingers I took a lot of your day out from Doing I appreciate it. I think the only thing that we need to mention left is that the wiki tree games are coming up If you've already registered, I do believe they The registration is closed. But if you want to sneak in you can always try Contacting a one that would be my guess. Um a one at wiki tree dot com and see if you can sneak in For those of you that are doing the wiki tree games. This is brand new as well This is something that we're going to start off with in it's of like three days It's a mini connectathon a mini source of thon And then you'll be randomly put With anybody that signed up So you're not going to be in your particular thon team that you're used to this You'll get a name a team name that matches the name of a tree And you will be randomly put into that group In that third day David and I and and a few others spent a very very long saturday a couple months ago creating olympic profiles Olympian profiles, I should say You're going to get assigned olympians and your team does what you want with them So it's kind of similar to what we're talking about with the global This is kind of a way to just kind of dive in and see what it's like working in different countries In working with people wiki traders from different companies. I I'm excited. This is going to be a really interesting Fun time that weekend in anytime you have like a little connectathon or a little source of thon I'm always in those are fun too well, and if you're interested in sports notables That's true having a big announcement at the end of the wiki tree games about a sports project That's coming up and we'll be announcing that at the closing ceremonies And that will be really exciting So you don't want oh and I need to point out with the wiki tree games for those again that are signed up There will be hangouts like at the thon. It'll be the same every four hours I do want to let everybody know You will not have a tracker. You will not know Let me let me rephrase that you will have a tracker for the source of thon You will not have a score sheet So no one will know their score at all throughout the weekend and guess what those of us that are hosting on the hangouts We won't know either So it'll be really really fun and you'll know that at the closing ceremonies as david just mentioned for another Big announcement coming up for the sports notables. So pretty cool times coming up on wiki tree Everybody's back to school kids back to school. Hopefully the heat will die down a little bit And we'll settle in the wiki tree for the fall And I think that's about it. David. Do you have anything else? No, thank you everybody for for joining us and I enjoyed it And definitely thank you. I appreciate you guys coming and hanging out with us for bingo And if you're watching this after the fact, I really appreciate that you came after the fact So if you're here live or if you're here after the fact, please click the like button That really helps wiki tree out and we will see you Let me say one one quick thing. We do not have a g2g post about the global project And we don't have a free space page up yet. So if you want to if you have any questions or concerns Contact me directly. Just send me an email and I can help you out because we don't really have a public place to To put those requests at this point Sounds good. Everybody have a great weekend Bye