 Everybody, thank you for joining us as we go over the highlights of the challenge week for the Rhode Island Genealogical Society. And I'm hoping everybody can see my screen. Great. Okay. So, for those who may not know. Let me take you over to the help page for the wiki tree challenge. The wiki tree challenges are wiki trees largest ongoing community event. We're volunteers work on the growing the connections for the seven ancestors provided our guest seven days. So it's a full week of us all working together to to grow out those connections. So it starts with this forum post the community forum, where we start people volunteer and we start collaborating after the week starts. We use the G to D post. We have there's a post for each a post answer for each of the ancestors, and for people who are focused on one of the ancestors that can collaborate together on that post answer. And then also we have what's called a free space page. That's all about the challenge. So this is your free space page for the challenge number 18 and I've got the links for everything in the chat. The forum post is also linked here on the space page. We have the page we have the starting profiles, and then further down the page. There's the fun part of the page tells us tells us what you found. This is where people report in all the different information that what they found on for the week. So you can see all the different locations in this section from Armenia to Scotland and 12 different states of the United States. This is what we've worked on profiles for. It's really a lot of fun to, you know, we start in Rhode Island, and very quickly we go way out into the world, all over the place. So that's a lot of fun. The next section is our interesting finds. So as we find interesting stories. We report them here. And as you'll see in the slideshow we're going to share. Next step, we also do what's called a survey and the members vote on the top seven. There's also section on military profiles. So if there are ancestor profiles that get created or get connected to your ancestor profiles. We note them here. So there's some interesting stories that are around the military or different wars that occurred. So you can learn more about about those ancestors there. And if we scroll down just a little bit further there's a section on free space pages. As you can see there's one here that a member created, and it's all about Ephraim Codner and his Rhode Island origins. So it goes really more into depth about it. So that'll be something for members of your society to maybe check out and learn more about what that was all about. And also at the top of the page of this free space page is the Scorsi, if you're interested in that. And you can see all the different members that part took 42 members worked on profiles. They did all different kinds of things. Some people focused on writing biographies, and some people focused on adding more profiles or connections, so all different kinds of work can be done. Some people are more interested in writing the biography or finding sources. There's definitely something for everybody. All right, so next I'm going to go ahead and start the slide show that Aeon has put together for us. So next we're going to go through the ancestor profiles. One of the profiles that we have is for Christina Bannister. Christina was a noted abolitionist, hairdresser and wig maker. You can see her listed as Hair Doctoress. So her profile is really fully fleshed out. You can really read all about her. They did a lot of great work on writing up her profile. So in the occupation sections that they have here, they've really listed out what she's listed at. And I really thought it was interesting that her salons were a popular meeting place for abolitionists. You can see they've got the little tax assessments for Boston for her. It's a really interesting information how they broke it out. So you can see two at the top of the page. We have what's called projects and wiki tree where they're focused on different subjects or maybe locations. So she is part of the U.S. Black Heritage Project. So that's what this box is up here at the top, noting that she's part of U.S. Black History. And we have a great picture of her here too. Great. All right. And the next profile that we'll go through is this Ephraim Codner. So I just want to point out on this profile. That wiki tree is a great place to have your ancestor information because not only can you write out this biography the story of their life, you can have a section, which we have here, you can see here is research notes. You can use this section to work through information from various members or there may be conflict between sources you can kind of outline that here and work together with other members to collaborate and iron out which what the correct way to go is based on those sources. Also here you can see that a member has uploaded a colonial land record. And if we go to that image, you can see that you can attach multiple people to the images. Or even if there is a space page, you can attach a space page. For instance, you could use if you've scanned a will in. You can upload the image and you can attach it to a space page where you've done the transcription. So it's just a way to use the different resources on wiki tree. The next profile is for Easton. I just want to show you here how you can see quickly if somebody is connected to the global tree. Some of these profiles were only had a few connections when the challenge started. So they weren't connected to the tree. So a quick way you can tell if somebody's connected is if you scroll down to the bottom of the profile, you can see right here it says that Easton is 15 degrees from our profiles of the week. Sandra Day O'Connor, 21 degrees from Jane Birken. So that's a quick way to just check to see if they're connected to the tree. You can also check your connection to this person at the bottom here. Next profile, I was really interested in this one, Mary Elizabeth Laravie. She is the called the queen of baseball. So she made history as the first female player to play against major league players in 1922. So I thought that was very interesting. And they did a great job working of her profile. Another great read. The next profile is for Charles Henry short. In Charles profile, you can see he's been added to what we call a category. If you scroll down to the bottom of the page again for his profile through the sources, memories and comments matches emerges down here at the bottom. You can see there's a category, the different categories, and one of the categories is for weavers. If you look up that category, you can see different if they're sub categories which there are here. We can also see that there are 360 ancestor profiles that are part of this category. And one thing you can do in any category, which is one of my favorite things about wiki tree is you can go here and click this my connections button. If you click that, it will show you any weavers in the category that you have connections to. So this first box shows you your ancestors and cousins that are categorized as weavers, and then any that are just connections through marriage. So that was one of the things that drew me to wiki tree was being able to check your connections everybody wants to connect to that global family tree. And Samuel is our next ancestor, he's the father of American industrial revolution. Wiki Trees did a wonderful job on this profile. It's really well written biography with images in the biography, just really great example of how that can be formatted out to look really great. And the last profile ancestor profile is for Walter Norris Williams on Walter's profile. I just want to turn on the wiki tree browser extension just to kind of highlight that briefly. It's a browser extension and it just allows you to dial in how you want to view or use wiki tree. So I'm going to turn that on. And I'm going to refresh the page. And right away, you see here at the top, the 17 degrees. So right away with a glance we can tell he's connected to the tree, and he's 17 degrees away from me, because I'm logged in. So that's a lot of fun. So I go back over to one of the other profiles really quickly. Open up. Yeah, so Easton Cole, open up Easton Cole's profile, you can also see, in addition to being 14 degrees away he's my sixth cousin six times removed. And the relationship is through. If there are multiple ways are connected to them. Then it shows you all those if you open that up. So that's just a really one of the few ways. I mean there are many options within the wiki tree browser extension, those are just a few little highlights of that extension. All right, so we're going to go back to the slide show. So wiki treeers did a great job adding families to these ancestors and for some getting them connected to the tree. The largest increase was 2278 profiles are now within seven degrees of Easton Cole, and the total increase in connections for the week was 4638. So that's really exciting. The closest connection between the seven ancestors was between Ephraim and Easton, they're within 11 degrees from each other and you can see here what where that, how that works out. So you can use son and his son and his life. So you can follow the relationship path using the connection to me option, or you can put in a put in if you do connection to me then you can put in somebody else's profile ID to check between two different profiles besides Okay, and then Charles short is 20 degrees away from Ephraim and Samuel Slater both. This is just showing the relationship path for Ephraim and Charles and then here's Charles and Samuel Slater. And we found this really interesting Ephraim was 14 degrees away from Samuel Slater 16 degrees away from Walter Williams 18 degrees away from Kushiana banister. So they're all pretty closely connected actually. Okay, so this is what I was talking about earlier the top seven interesting finds that were voted on by the wiki tree challenge participants. So Hannah Slater is Samuel's wife, and she is among the first American women to receive a pattern for thread. She used a hand spinning wheel to spin it spin cotton into thread and it turned out to be stronger than linen thread which I thought was really interesting my mom's a seamstress. It's interesting to me. And of course Samuel father American Industrial Revolution, he pioneered the American textile industry. And Jackson Andrew Jackson is quoted as saying I understand I understand you have taught us how to spin. So I'm going to talk to you about the tubers I thought this was very interesting to you. He was convicted of having milk in his possession that contained less than 12% solids and less than 3.25 milk, milk, milk fats. I didn't know that was a crime. So that was really interesting. James how is the next one. This one is about the brothers. They did a voyage. They completed it. They were expected home very soon, but they wrecked off the coast of Cape Cod that same year. And all lives were lost. So very sad there. Judge Thomas stir fees are next one. A judge and a poet. So during the US Civil War he was a frequent contributor to papers and it is said his pen was powerful and support of the Union cause. He published also the village picnic and other poems, a collection of poems capturing the beauty and charm of rural life in the mid 19th century. All right. So these next three finds were just ones that you and I had picked out and wanted to share. These are within seven degrees. The first one here is Ruth Slater. And actually we wanted to kind of show about the her and her four sisters. They were very interested had very interesting lives. If you look at her profile. This excerpt that is written out. It was very interesting it says these women except perhaps Ruth were not intellectuals in the modern sense, but they knew history, the classic authors knew something about contemporary trends in music, art and the literature. And most important, they placed a high value on mental activity. I just thought this they have their lives are very interesting. Unfortunately, Ruth's term to drugs, and she remained addicted to cocaine cocaine for the rest of her life. But they all had really very interesting lives. Catherine Slater. Unfortunately died of Brides disease. But again very, very interesting women. Check out that I think there may be a space page in the works about these five sisters. All right, the next one we wanted to point out is Nelson Rockefeller. So, Nelson, this is this is another one of the seven interesting finds. Nelson Rockefeller was born on. In 1908, and he was the vice president under Gerald Ford 49th governor of New York. So we go to his profile is Rockefeller 101 can read more about him. You can see there. All the information about him and there's lots of good pictures. Okay, and the next. This is more about the sisters. These are the four sisters, Ruth Georgia Lydia and hope and Catherine. The next interesting find that, and I wanted to point out was Joseph Stanton, General Stanton. He's seven degrees from F from Codner. He was a soldier in a politician. Let me go ahead and open up his profile here for you. And he has, there's a, they have his home is listed on the national register. It's shown there. And he had partook in the French and Indian war and this revolutionary war. He's a day our Patriot ancestor. And we'll see here there's a section on legacy. So the SS Joseph Stanton is a Liberty ship built in the United States during World War two it was named after him. And then there's a memorial marker on us route one in Charleston, Rhode Island. And there's also general Stanton in in Charleston, Rhode Island. Just very interesting gentleman. Hugh Cole is one that we wanted to point out as well. So he is Easton Cole's fourth great grandfather. He held positions related to the land and highway management involved in numerous legal proceedings. And his home was burned during King Phillips war. So if we go to his profile here. They have a rock marking the old well at the coal house site. And that's pictured here on the side. They've done a really great job of this profile outlining his life and everything about about him. And again just pointing out the research notes section that they've utilized here. And this is what I was talking about earlier that this is, you know, making a statement that there are many publications with accounts about the relationship with King Philip, but no historical records were found to authenticate them. So this is a good way to make your case and make sure it's available for other members to see kind of explaining maybe why something wasn't used or some other point that needs to be collaborated on. All right. So, thank you to everybody who contributed to this week of collaborating on the seven ancestors. I wanted to open it up. Patrick is here with us and young Kathy's here. And I just wanted to point out that we have. He has a bounty points he got 90 bounty points. And Patrick did an awesome job as well. He's right there at the top with 228 profiles added for the short line. So we have some members that just did a lot of work. There were a total of 229 bounty points that were awarded so please, if anybody would like to share. Patrick, I know you started to share earlier about what you were working on. If you want to go ahead and kind of expand a little bit about that now that we're recording it'll be preserved for posterity. It's funny that the person who was chosen for the contest shared the same name as my wife, just kind of a coincidence and I didn't know that going into it that I was working on profiles related to them. Oh, that's awesome. Yeah. That was one of short great granddaughters that had proposed that we we follow them, and then her name was Daniel Danny Graham, or her maiden name and my wife's married name is Danny Graham. So that was just a coincidence. That is. That's great. Does anybody else have anything to share or would, does anybody have any questions. Well, if everybody is ready to close up I guess we're going to close up a little bit early. All right, thank you very much for focusing on the Rhode Island genealogical society. Yeah we had a lot of fun and again the links for everything is are in the chat, and we will be posting the video the highlight video out on our channel. And it will be going out on all forms of social media, so that everybody can get the link for it. All right, well thank you everyone for joining and hope everybody has a great evening. Thank you, but happy new year.