 Hello Friday date nighters. I see Jamie's here. Hi Jamie. And I saw that several people were waiting on YouTube. Everybody chime in and let us know who's here to visit. We're happy to have you here. Katie came to join me this Friday because anyone couldn't make it. So we're going to hang out with Katie today. This is my first time attending. It is your first time for Friday date night. Thank you for keeping me company. We have Emily B. Yes, she's in the office it sounds like. That has to be a little odd. There's Deborah Outland. Hi Deb. Down in Kentucky. She must be Mindy's neighbor. And June is always here. Oh yeah. That's fantastic. Yes, June is a regular action. We have about, seems like we get about a couple dozen people on Friday date nights. It's kind of at a weird time in the U.S. Because we're trying to accommodate the East Coast and hey, and there's Steve. Steve could come in here too if he felt like it. Yes, it's during nap time. That's why I've never been here. I'm taking a nap. Well thank you for sacrificing your nap time for us. We appreciate it. It's pretty of a day to snap. It is here too. It's like 70 degrees and sunny. It's perfect here. Perfect. There's LaMaira. Thanks for coming LaMaira. We've got a good crew here today. We don't really have a whole lot to report. I have a couple things to talk about. We made another milestone on our stats. Oh, you guys keep stats. We keep stats. You have not looked at my free space page, Katie. No. Oh my gosh. Yes, we keep stats. I probably need to roll some of them off because it's getting a little long. Oh Margaret says it's breakfast time for her. She must be down in maybe Australia. I'm sure she'll tell us. And there's Tommy. Tommy always comes. Thanks for being here, you guys. It's more fun when there's somebody to talk to. Yes. Give everybody a few more minutes to roll in and then we'll look at the stats real quick. It's because I like spreadsheets. I totally understand. I know you do. Spreadsheets and you said you were going to be playing with a DNA painter today. I am. Yes. You want to tell us a little bit about that while we're waiting? I don't know a lot about it. DNA painter. Well, gosh, you put me on the spot. I'm sorry. You don't have to. It's fun. I like basically you look, say your second cousin, you know, you have a common ancestral couple. So you can be pretty sure that that little chunk of DNA is passed down from one of those two people. Right. So you put the information on a chromosome map. Okay. Anyway, so as you paint more and more matches that you know, if you have an unknown match, you can say, well, I think they're maternal side based on matches. And then you can say, they look like they match the barn side of things. So that can help narrow down your search. Okay. That's cool. So it's see that's that's right up my alley. I love all the visual tools that me to make it pretty clear that what you're doing. Apparently, Steve says, I'm good at putting people on the spot. I'm very sorry. It's my nature. Yeah, we got Thomas Caneline is here. He is very involved in our challenge usually on on the our wiki tree challenge. Oh, and so so I'm not going to say this name right. Salome Vandenberg is in South Africa. Wow. Thanks you. Thanks for coming in. I'm sure I did not say your name right. And I'm very sorry. I'm terrible. Salome, maybe she can give us a phonetic pronunciation of it so I can do it right next time. Oh, Deborah likes DNA painter. I'm blanking wait the the guy that started DNA painter started or was a challenge guest and I'm completely Johnny Pearl. Thank you. I would just his name just left my brain. You met him at Roots Tech. I did and I met him during the challenge too. So yeah, that's kind of frustrating when that it's I'm going to call that a senior moment. He's nice. He gave me a DNA painter tote bag. Oh, wow, cool. I love stuff like that. Not that I've had anywhere to take it, but I know like for where did we go since we got back from Roots Tech last time. That was like the last shebang. Yeah, I remember sitting in the airport because my my flight was delayed. So I sat there for hours and then they finally sent us to a hotel. So there I am. I thought about this later. This was the end of February. And I was sitting in, you know, the waiting area in the airport with all of these people crammed together. Yeah, I saw a couple of people wearing masks when we were flying back. But yeah, about it. Little did we know where we'd be a year later. Maybe next year we'll all get to go again though. That would be a lot of fun. Yeah, it would. Well, I think we can talk stats now. We've got several people who have joined in. We've got who else came in. Well, it's everybody that's already here just talking. They love DNA painter. It's a lot of fun. It is. They've done a demo of it before on Saturday mornings, right? When Sarah does a live cast, pretty sure they have. I'm never up for that. No, I'm always off walking. That's my dog walking time. So I usually, you know, chime in or watch it later. I don't get to do it very often. I always seem to be sleeping when the... Well, Katie, you nap in the afternoon and you're sleeping. I'm just kidding. Katie has a young person in her house. What's that? I said I stay up till 3 a.m. I know. You're a night owl. You can do the midnight things during the thongs and be so perky. And we very much appreciate that. I know I do because I'm not perky. Oh, let's see. We've got some more people. Oh, Carol's here. Hi, Carol. Hi, Victoria. Carol helps me with Rangers. She's awesome. And Victoria from South Carolina. Great. Glad you guys are here. Well, let's just do a quick look at stats. And I have something to say about a change that was made for entering date. So we'll add this. And I know it's kind of hard to see that I'm going to go zoom in a little bit. You guys, look what we did last month or in the last week. We crossed 17,000. So the week before a whole... You'll see the ones in green are actually green is bad on this chart. So that means that we lost ground, but it's usually because a bunch of private profiles have been opened up and then Alessia's report can pick them up if they are opened up for work. Like we discovered that their dates are okay to be open or if they don't have any dates, then sometimes we open them just because then people can work on them and find out whether or not they should actually be private. So that's what happened the week before, but we crossed 17,000. I'm sorry to say that that's kind of a drop in the bucket. So is that 364 number the total? Yeah, for the 233 and 134 suggestions, that's the total for those two. So yeah, we have over 500,000 that we're trying to work on. It's slow going. I mean, everybody knows that it's not an easy thing to do and I always am tickled by the people that come over to Discord and like, I found one. I do read the Discord channel. Yes, we've seen you participate there. We appreciate you being there too. You know, I see Robin's here. Hi, Robin. Glad you're here. Robin is here every Friday date night. We appreciate that. She has always helped it on the Discord channel and participating in the conversation, so that's cool. So here's the thing that I learned yesterday. Okay. We get to be bigger. The Jamie can chime in about this. If she's still listening, I know she's in the chat. But there was a change made to a while back to prevent creating a profile with zero dates or no dates, of course. Yeah. And so that was kind of messing people up, because then when you'd go to make an edit, but you didn't have a date yet, you couldn't save the profile. Oh, yeah. Remember? Were you caught by that one? Somebody on the genealogy server was, yeah. So they did a little adjustment so that an existing profile without dates can now be saved without dates, if you absolutely have to. I see. I still don't want you to. Yeah. But I know that sometimes that's just, you don't really have a choice. And so that'll make it a little bit easier. If you run across one, you can tell they're still living. And you don't have any idea what the date is. You can't have anything to estimate from or whatever. You can still add the category, the wiki tree admin category, and save it and not get caught by leaving the dates blank. That's good. Thank you, James. Yes. But you still can't create a profile without dates. So we're still preventing that. That will help from, to prevent new ones from happening, at least. Yes. I think we have our share. We do. Undated profiles already. We need to keep chipping away. If I would be able to take the time to go out and clear out the wiki tree admin category, then that would get rid of like 260 of them. Well, Julie, you know what you're doing. I know. Jamie says, yeah, we did, we did that change so that people could do research notes in the profile. Yeah, which is helpful. Yeah. So we're happy for that. Thank you, Jamie. We're one of my, my G2G scouts. I'll call her. She emailed me yesterday. Did you, did you see this? I guess I did. But yeah, so that's cool. So, so what are you doing this weekend? Katie, anything fun? I know you were hunting turtles today. We were hunting turtles. Probably just go to the park. Enjoy the weather. You know, painter probably. Yeah. That's your two o'clock in the morning thing, right? Mm-hmm. I'll probably be doing that in my free time for the rest of the weekend. Yeah. Oh, look, we got a question about what Discord is. Oh, who's that? Carol. Oh, Carol. Yes, Carol. I got to get you on Discord, Carol. We have a live chat vehicle. We'll call it. It's just a piece of software and we can all go in and chat with each other, give each other help when we need it or give help. And we have the wiki tree server set up over there. And you can get, if you come in there, you have to get verified. It's a very simple process. But Carol, send me an email and I'll get you in there. And Katie has, has a big server that she demonstrates to the genealogy server on Discord. How many members do you have there now? Like 1,600 people. Oh, wow, that's awesome. So I like the wiki tree server. We're talking about wiki tree stuff. And then you can come talk about other stuff on the genealogy server. Like if you have a transcription request. Yes. Or you need some help with another speaker where you have members everywhere. Yes, you're very international. I know that. Yeah. And sometimes if you're on the wiki tree server or if you're on the genealogy server, you'll get a little notification if you've added wiki tree to your profile because somebody needs help with wiki tree. Yes. We do, we actually do send a lot of people over to wiki tree because we extoll the benefits of wiki tree over there. Excellent. We appreciate that. That's a good thing. Oh, we have Janine here too. And Janine in here before I think for Friday date night. I get my live cast mixed up. I can never remember where I saw people. I was with St. Julie. There's a title right up here. I... But I can't remember, you know, the middle of the night ones. Oh, here. Jamie says wiki tree discord was inspired by your server. Yep. I think probably before I was in charge, but... Well, yeah, because I joined that server before wiki tree had their server up and running. It was a baby server. Yeah. Because Jamie set it up. It's a great miracle for doing genealogy together, I think. It is. We use it a lot for the wiki tree challenge. Everybody that's working on the challenge comes together over there and they can share notes or say, hey, I'm working on this. I see you're working on that. I found this record and you might want this or ask somebody to do a translation or whatever. It's just been extremely helpful for the challenge and it's a lot of fun. I'm sure. I'm not on the challenge server, but it sounds like fun. Yeah, it's a separate... We did keep that separate from the wiki tree server so we could have lots more channels. And roles and stuff. I'm sure. Kathy wants to know if they can join your server and you definitely can join her server. Yeah. Just go out on Discord. I was going to bring it up. I'll send you the link. Okay. You can search for it too on Discord, right? Yes, that's new. That's pretty recent. Okay. If you're already on the wiki tree server, go to server discovery or explore public servers type in genealogy and we're on there. Okay. Or Julie, I sent you the link. Where did you put it? In private chat. Oh, okay. Oh, and my headset's about to die. Uh-oh. I'm going to just post that in the comments here because you did not do it as HTTP, so... I didn't. There. That's how you get to... That's how you get to Katie's Discord server. So it's a fun place to be to. There's a lot going on there. It's very busy. Yes. So go ahead. Tommy, ask how many wiki tree servers are there? And then we have the main one. We have the challenge one. We have two... The challenge one and the main one are the primary ones. I think there might be one or two projects that have their own. There's the England project has their own because they're huge. Categorization. I think so, but they've... I think they've mostly moved their chat over to the main server. I'm not absolutely positive. Yeah, we have a couple of other ones that had to... that were already set up when we started really blossoming the wiki tree server. So some of the projects have moved over to the main server. The Nordics have a server, too. Ah, cool. Okay. I didn't know you guys had your own. That's cool. I could come practice my Swedish over there, Thomas. Julie, you need to go into the Nordic channel on my server because they just talk Swedish the whole time. I can only talk about colors and food and animals. I'm sure they would love to have you. Oh, I'm sure. They would probably think it would be very entertaining. I'm sure that that would be very entertaining. Yeah. I'm pretty rudimentary. Steve says... Oh, thanks, Steve. Yeah. If you're doing great migration. Yeah. Challenges. Oh, the challenge? I assume you mean, Steve? I would think. Yeah. Because the challenges we have a category for on the main wiki tree server. So like our challenge teams, like for the thongs, I'll have their channel over there. And so during the thong, you can come and hang out with your team over here, which is a lot of fun. Our tree nuts used to have our own server, but we moved to the main wiki tree server. We did. I was sad to lose our mains, our server because it was cute. Our little icon was a little squirrel. Yeah. You were adorable. Yeah. So yeah, I kind of miss that, but it's still fun. It's great to hang out with your team during a thong. During a thong. That's a lot of fun. Everybody gets a little silly. Definitely. Definitely. Yes. Thomas wants to know if you have any Norwegians on your server. I'm going to say yes. Yeah, we do. I'm always very excited when Norwegians join. Are you? Yeah. My husband has a pretty recent Norway ancestry. So. Oh. Okay. So my sound is going to go weird here any moment because I just, I lady just said to recharge my headset. I knew that was going to happen. I know you were wearing one. I know it's, it's here. Hiding in my hair. Let's see. Hi, Stephen. Stephen popped in. Oh, hi, Stephen. Yeah. Thomas likes to practice his Norse. Probably find someone. And I'm sure that people do dominate though. Yeah. I'm sure that, like me, when Thomas is watching the challenge videos and they call anybody named Ole, all he's sitting there yelling at the screen. I think Scott Fisher corrected them the other night. So that was okay. That's good to know. Actually, because I didn't know how that name was for now. Yeah, Ole. Yeah. And I know that because my, one of my uncles went by Ole. His name was not Olaf. His name was Gunnar. But for some reason, I think because their, their last name was Olsen, they just nicknamed, all the Americans nicknamed him Ole. I found, I found one that I feel like his first name was just Ole. There are, yeah, because it comes from Olaf, I believe is a, it's a nickname for Olaf. But I could be wrong about that. Thomas can probably change it. It was like in the patronymic for their kids were Ole something. Yeah. Well, maybe it is just a standard, or given name then. Ole. Yeah. There's Katie Hernandez. Welcome, Katie. Another Katie. Yeah. It's always great if people are talking about the other Katie and the wiki tree server and like me. No. Yeah. We don't know which one's the primary Katie. Do we have a primary Katie? We both have to share that title. Nah, we're all pretty much on an even keel there, aren't we? Oh, she had to submit her final. Oh, good for you. Okay. What else is happening? Found lots of different people. Lived in one of my great, great grandma's house. Oh, they had, oh, so I'm guessing Stephen Tomaszowitz, that they outlined that in a, in a newspaper article maybe. They've done a great, great grandma's house. Maybe rented one couple. Oh, that's fun. That's always fun to find lists of people like that and you start recognizing the names for them. Or for me, if I pull up a census listing where all of my father's ancestors were in Indiana, it's like all of the names are familiar on there and all the surnames. Yeah. They're all out there each other. Yeah. Everybody is related. Yeah. Makes me want to create profiles for the whole page. One place study. I know. I should do that because there's a big book. I have a book that's like this thick for my dad's side and it's several family lines that all came. Some of them came from Germany or Switzerland over to the United States and they all married each other. They came to Philadelphia and North Carolina and then they moved to Indiana. Some of them went to Iowa and some of them came up to Illinois. So it's kind of fun to trace all those. It wasn't a newspaper article. Oh, police reports. It was a store in a barbershop and found a murder out. Oh, my gosh. That's always exciting. I found, what was I working on the other day? I found somebody with a bunch of newspaper articles and a guy had, I think he had actually married somebody in one location or became engaged to somebody in one location and he went back to New York where his wife lived and he murdered her. Oh, no. Yeah. This is all in the newspaper. So this was back in the early 1900s and I can't even remember the name. I just remember what happened. I was horrified. So it was the guy, the guy had the same name as somebody that I was researching but it was not the same guy. Okay. So I was kind of relieved for that. Yeah. It still happened, though. It did still happen. Yeah. There's Taa Paplanis and I recognize her, I'm going to say her name. Sounds like a her name, doesn't it? Yeah, she got her fine, her unconnected profile connected. Nice. That's always a lot of fun. Well, I think we can probably wind down here before my headset dies. Yeah. And everybody can go start dating. Julie, we can go talk DNA painter first. We can do that, too. And then we can go to Friday night. Yeah, that would be fun. Sounds good. Sounds good. Well, everybody, thank you so much for coming in. Don't forget that tomorrow morning, Sarah's got her Saturday morning live cast. So that'll be a lot of fun. And she'll be giving a quick update on the challenge for the week. They don't share too much because they don't want to give away any surprises that they found. But they'll talk about that a little bit. And you can chime in then. And otherwise, we'll see you for Friday. So thanks for coming, everybody. I'm going to log off and we'll see you over on Discord. And if you don't know how to get there, go find me on Wikiterrain and send me a message. And I'll get you in. Thanks for coming, Katie. Bye.