 weekly tree years. How is everybody doing? It is our normal, uh, Wednesday live cast where we talk about the weekly tree challenge. Um, so today we have, we're, we're missing, Rob should be here shortly, but to kind of introduce who we have here right now. So there's A-O-N-N-I who are weekly tree team members. Um, then we have Mert over there in the quarter who, uh, we're wrapping up her week this week. And then we have Sarah down here who's the captain for Mert's week. And we have Joan who is the captain for, the co-captain for Rob's week. And then we have Mindy who is the overall coordinator of the weekly tree challenge. So that's who everybody's here and Rob, like I said, will pop in. We'll be doing him at the last 30 minutes. So he'll be here at some point. But for those of you who have probably never, maybe have never watched this before or new to wiki tree or the wiki tree challenge, you're probably wondering what we are doing. What is this? What is this thing called wiki tree? Well, A-O-N has just will gladly tell us all what wiki tree is. I will gladly nothing would make me happier than to tell people right now what wiki tree is. So it's a community of genealogists who are working together to build one single family tree. Unlike a lot of other genealogy sites where you build your tree and I build my tree, and we never ever talk to each other despite sharing several deep ancestors. On wiki tree, when we get to a common ancestor, we get to work together to find information, share sources, resolve discrepancies, add photos, write bios and do all sorts of really cool and fun things. In other words, we collaborate to grow an accurate single family tree that connects all of us. And the best part is it's 100% free. Yay, all of it all the time. No, no trickery. It's always free. That's why we don't have holiday specials because it's always free. It's special all the time. It's special all the time. We're always special. Yeah. So now that you all guys know what wiki tree is, the wiki tree challenge is a special event that we are having. It's our year long, our year long event, which each week we take on a team of wiki treeers takes on a genealogy guest star and takes their tree and makes it more accurate and complete than it is anywhere else. For this, for instance, this week, we've been working on Merth's week. And today we're going to be presenting to her and all of you what we have found. And so that's really exciting. And then also coming up is Rob's week, which we're starting. And this challenge is part of our year of accuracy, where our goal is to improve our accuracy on wiki tree, make more connections and make friends. And I believe we're doing a great job so far. Absolutely. So that is wiki tree and the wiki tree challenge. So now you know, that's wiki tree. And we have a few ways that that we're coordinating and talking with these new friends. We have a spreadsheet where we're marking what profile we're working on. That way, if you have 40, 50 genealogists working on this, you know, you're not tripping over the same profile and doubling research. On the right there, you see the G2G post for Merth's week. We go ahead and we post bounty points in there, which you'll find out more about. Interesting discoveries. If somebody has a question, we post those things in the G2G. So can I ask a question already? Certainly. What is G2G? That is our genealogist to genealogist forum. That's what I thought it was. Yeah, but I wasn't sure. And then thirdly, we have discord and that gets pretty busy because that's our real time chat. So in there, we can say, hey, I need somebody else to take a look at this document. Does it do, you know, does it prove what I think it does? Or, you know, I found a ton of sources for this profile. Does anybody want to write a biography? We need some narrative on here. We do all kinds of things. Sometimes we just cheer each other on and, you know, the talk is fun. It kind of helps keep you motivated. Cool. Real quick, I just want to point out that Bob Dole is here. Hi, Bob. Good day. Good day. So we've been obviously working on Merth's week this week. So we have our top people. And these are our very top producers for the week. We have different ways they can earn points. Now, they get the bounty points if they actually break a brick wall down. So that's 10 points for every new direct ancestor they find. They get one point automatically for any new ancestors added in the nuclear family, which gives you a more complete picture of the family. So you have the children, the siblings. Those points are counted automatically by the system. Our top five this week were Maddie Hardman, Joan Whitaker, Hilary Gadsby, Dieter Lurens, and Cheryl Hess. And they did really good. It was a slow start this week. And things picked up more at the end. But, you know, there was a really good foundation laid this time by Merth. So they had their work cut out for them. We're just looking at the overall stats. Overall stats. And this is where you can see how crazy good they did. Now, total points and these are the includes the bounty points and the regular points. Total points right now are 405 points. It's actually 25 now. Let me refresh. People are still working on it for 25. So that means they've added 65 direct ancestors. Oh my gosh. Right. 160 nuclear relatives. For all of the people participating, there is a total. And this number, I have to tell you Merth, what people, this number has been going up like literally minutes before the live cast. There are 200 points now. And for profiles edited. Now these are unique profiles edited during the week span. 1034 profiles edited. And then for total edits. So every time somebody makes a contribution, they go out, they add a source, they put something out, they add an image, they do something to a profile. 3874 in a week's time. I mean, is that amazing for a wiki tree and the community working together for a common goal? It's just incredible to watch. And Mindy, what are, how do people get bounty points? What are bounty points? Did we? We did, we did that. They got the bounty points for those, for those brick walls that went down. And also anything that was corrected, right? Well, not, not anything but if a parent were corrected. And Merth, that may not have been on your tree that may have been on our branches. You know, it was perfect. Let me tell you. Now they didn't get things for, say, a correction to a birthday. They got a lot of cheers from, you know, us cheering each other on for finding things like that to fix finding records that possibly you hadn't found, or that the person that worked on the wiki tree branches to begin with hadn't found things like that. They just got the satisfaction of increasing that accuracy. Thank you, Maddie, Joan, Hilary, Dieter, and Cheryl, and everybody else on that. Joan is in here. Good job, Joan. Thank you, Joan. Good job, everyone. I can't even imagine. So this was our starting, well not really our starting point, but, you know, we were working with the great-grandparents, so your eight surnames that we were starting from. And then we can start with Alma Player. Yes. Who is a guy, even though it sounds like a girl's name in the 21st century. Yeah. And Sarah, you want to tell us all about the other Sarah, Captain Sarah. You're amazing. Not Sarah, me. I'm trying to, okay, I'm trying to figure out where I'm at on the outline here. Can you hear me, Plain? Yes. So we first, so we did break down three, three branches of the orange, so we got some new parents there. Yes. We'll start with William Player and Jane Lamb. Is that how you pronounce it, Lamb? Yes. Wow. Yep, those were both new parents added for Charles Player. Wow. And there were actually six people added on the Alma line that were direct ancestors. They're just not all showing on the same screen, but you had Anne Featherby Sowersby, she gained a mother, and that was Elizabeth II, which kind of opened up those lines. Oh, okay. You had Thomas Sowersby and Mary Cocks Sowersby as new parents for John Sowersby. He was born and died in Lincoln Shire, sorry. Yeah. He actually gained six new direct ancestors, so be on him. Yeah. So you'll get to surf around and see what you can find on those. I need Kleenex. This is pretty amazing. It is such a pleasure for us to be able to do this for you. We spend a lot of time helping other people do their research and understand methodologies and documentation and everything, and we don't get to work on our own that much, so this is pretty cool. Okay, Sarah Mason, go ahead. Was there anything else on this? Oh, then we had Elizabeth II, Featherby. Yep. We added the mom. Was there anything on Alma's side, Sarah, that anything that stood out? We did find a lot of new ancestors. Yes. We did have some interesting find. I'm sorry. I lost track of my connection to the spreadsheet that I had on, or not the spreadsheet, but the space page I was going to look at when I was going to look at it from my phone. I lost track of it. I'm sorry, guys. It happened. So we bet. Then we also had a Henry, oh, this one had a lot of new ancestors added, so we weren't able to break down for every line, but we did do like this one had a lot of new. Oh my gosh. Worcester. Yeah. I've never heard of that. I've never heard of that name, but I'm very interested in the hatch because my sister's first husband's mother's name was Hatch, and eventually we all dovetail back there in England, but now that's the first I've heard of Hatch in my line. Wow. Is that another freer like from yeah, who had a lot of freers in their line? I don't know. Two guests ago, I think. Oh, okay. It was a Thomas. I think it was Thomas. Yeah. Thomas McKinty did. Okay. I did find what the interesting find in that line was Charles Warner Player was part of the Mormon exodus. Yep. Yes. I'm aware of that because we're still Mormon to this day are part of the family. Yes. He helped build two LDS temples over 27 years, first the historical Navu temple in Iowa, and second the LDS temple in Salt Lake City, Utah. And his father was the principal stones that are at Navu, the original. Oh, nice. The one that they burned. I mean, they didn't burn them, the mobs did. Yeah. But it looks like June, my friend June, is saying that we could be connected on the Hatches and the Wooster. This is just like incredible. Okay. We gave you some more work to do, Mary. I can tell. So Cliff is a new name, huh? Yeah. And the Ode's line. Oh, yeah. I've never worked up the Ode's line because the lady, there was another family member who since passed away, a cousin of my dad, who worked that line. And new records are available. Well, new old records are available. Wow. And it was great that, you know, on that particular line, it was taken back to mid 17th century or before, you know. So it's just incredible that you can still find records and things back in the, you know, 1640s or 50s. Boy, that is incredible. So I have people in, still in Yorkshire, not, but they were married in Hatfield. Okay. You had several of them that were born and died in Hatfield. So that was kind of interesting. Yeah. Yes, Hilary did a lot of work in this area. Who did? Hilary did. I know Hilary was quite active in these profiles. Thank you, Hilary. Thank you probably for the Buckinghamshire people that I didn't know. Yeah. So we have a better father's name. At Robert West. Okay. Well, like Maddie was working on this one, right, Sarah? That's what it looks like from the profile. Wow. So, so Cliff, Eliza Cliff must have been her first marriage or something. If the West was her former name before that, her maiden name, daughter of Robert West. Mm-hmm. That's always a tricky thing with women, isn't it? Yep. Yeah, so she married Johannes, Johannes Cliff. Yeah. And that's why we thought, yeah, it gets very confusing. Mm-hmm. But that's good that you clarified that. Thank you. Yeah. I think that was the one line. I think we had the most brick walls broken. The other ones we had a few here and there. Okay, there's Cousin Alice, now she's related to the West in the same area, I guess. Wow. I was thinking Hilary was doing work in the Hatfield Yorkshire stuff. I might have been mistaken on that one. Well, she is pretty good. Yeah, Alice says, get busy. I'm not that busy, Mark. Turlinden. That's a different name. That isn't particularly English, is it? No, that's that's one that Dieter found, I believe. Oh, yeah. Yeah, look, look at this, because Wilhelmus Brockerman. Yeah. We got the Turlinden line farther back. Dieter, Dieter. Yeah. Yeah, he was busy on that section. Oh, look, who just popped in. Hello, Rob. Hi, Rob. I'm so embarrassed. I'm so sorry for being late. You're going to love, you're going to love it when it's your week coming up. I mean, I just, I am just blown away by what they've shown me so far. I don't know how to pronounce Ginderich words. I don't either. Okay. We just make it, Mark. And if you go all the way back to Bernardo, Turlinden, he had at least eight children. And once again, that comes back into, you know, our researchers taking the time to look at the entire family and see just every record we could possibly find. Wow. Oh, look at all the Brockerman, all the kids of Wilhelmus Brockerman as well. Yeah. It was very fleshed out, this line. So I knew about Brockerman marrying into the right WRIGHT family in Pennsylvania. So I just didn't know over the pond like this. So this is just incredible. It's always nice when we have our overseas Dieter and who worked on this. This is just, thank you, Dieter. This just incredible work. You're going to have to tell me how to pronounce these locations. Yeah, I'm sure we can get him to tell you how to pronounce them. Okay. Charles Weiser. Yep. The Nairdoo Well who ran away with the circus a couple of times in the marriage to his wonderful wife. He's my great grandfather. He's father Myrtle as in dear Myrtle. And his mother, Dolly, was your closest. I think she was your closest brick wall, wasn't she? Yeah. She totally ruins it when I do a fan chart. Well, you don't have to feel bad about that anymore because that's been being worked on and expanded right up until broadcast time for this live cast. So that's another one that Dieter's been contributing to. And he was finding stuff going, wait a minute before you get the slides done. Oh my gosh. We have found the father. Did we find anybody else right before the live cast? Or just George? We did find, I had them written down. Dieter found a couple last minute again. It was on the... Was it Yaki or was it to find the wife? It was farther back. See if I can bring my outline up again. George is one of six that I had thought could possibly be the father of Dolly. But those early census only have tick marks for the ages. And I never went farther than that. But at least I eliminated all the other people named Yaki that were head of household in those early or pre-1850s census. Oh, wow. Wow. And then we got... We got the... Lach? Lach? Yes, that's what... Okay. And then... Becker. So Anna Becker found her parents. So if they're there in 1710 and they're German and they're in Ulster, I'm wondering if they're Palantines. I don't know. We'll find out. Yeah, I want to pull some books. Mark's like, just let me go research now. Yeah. Dieter was working on this one too. So thank you. Yeah, it does say they were Palantine migrant there. Okay. Yeah. So they'll be on the Semendinger list, I'm sure Dieter. Yeah. I'm sure there's more info in the bio with the sources and all that. Yeah. With what he found. Okay. Okay, cool. Thank you. So then the Yaki. Oh, Kaz and Russ. I don't know if he's... I don't think he's out there. He knows how hard I've worked on this. Philip Weiser served in the French and Indian War. Oh. Yeah. And we have a whole bunch of other of your military ancestors coming up too, but this one you wanted to share. So Russ is here. Oh Russ, you're here? Russ, I'm crying. You know that. Oh. Yeah, no sleep for me tonight. It's going to be up all night searching. Don Carter's going to be picking which new branch you want to look at, Mer. It's going to be hard. I can tell. Now, this one intrigues me because William Henry Phillips is a very common name in the area. And so I would be really curious to find out about the potential new parents there. Yeah. So they're marked uncertain. So there was a lot of chatter in the discord, right Sarah? They were going on about this, these parents. And the G2G thread that you'll be able to see. There's some lively discussion. Yeah. Yeah. I'm very intrigued with that. And sometimes he was called William Henry A Phillips, but his wife made a distinction in his pension file. Right. That he was known as William Henry Phillips in business, but that he sometimes went with the initial A, which you have absolutely no idea what that means. Maybe it could be an indicator of the mother's maiden name. Who knows? I know. Or just a wild card. I know. Just wanted to distinguish himself. So you pick the letter. Like Harry S for nothing Truman. Yeah. This is. Yeah. Wow. Okay. And Martha from Virginia. That's a logical migration. Okay. Then we have all of your military surface ancestors. Higgins. I told her Higgins. I know of Aaron. I do not know William guest from and I'm the only one who calls him guest from and because my great grandmother told my mother on the telephone in 1951 that his middle name was guessed for his mother maiden name. I wondered about Admiral Terry's relationship. Wow. And William guest was interesting. I thought because he fought against cousins. Oh, definitely. He was a loyalist and he fought against and Nathaniel and Richard were brothers. Yeah. Both of them died in the same battle, the battle of Kings Mountain. And then when that happened right around that same time, William fled back to England and he stayed there until the revolution was over. So, you know, my gosh, all types of personalities. Yeah. I knew about a major Joseph guest. I think he was the one that was probably at Valley Forge because the rest and I saw where that was. Wow. And then I noticed that we have Colonel Johannes height who was also in the French Indian War. Do you think that they those two people who were in the French Indian War like kind of knew each other or maybe they the other the other one who was on the I honestly don't know about that. I do know that Conrad Weiser was a colonel during the French and Indian War and he had a high profile because the interface so much with the Pennsylvania government, the colonial government. And so I don't know. I got a lot to learn. Well, I know we also fixed a lot of while we they were brick walls are broken. We also wrote a lot of biographies, fix a lot of mistakes, errors and just sourced a lot of profiles. Um, was there anything that you wanted? Oh, we have we have the brick wall chart showing all of the brick walls broken. But Borland Richard Kiss that you're talking about. Um, he helped. He was a surveyor that helped helped to lay out the city of Baltimore. If you and I own even a square inch of Calvert Street and the wharf, we'd be multi gazillionaires. Yeah. Yeah. They only Christopher Giss and his wife, Edith Cromwell, only had one child Richard Giss. So cool. All right. So this is my and this is mostly up to date. Once again, people were adding right up to the last minute. We had several people going, Can't we just have another week with her branches? Please give us another. I'm like, No, we can't do that. Sorry. But this has most of them. So everywhere you see those red bees, those dots, those are brick walls that are broken down. And so you can kind of see it. Definitely a lot of them were clustered over on the paternal side, but there were those two, you know, hanging in there over on the right. So that's incredible. Now, my dad did most of the research on his side. And I did most of the research on my mother's side, but I had different resources than my dad had. He had to do the old IGI work, you know, second, third hand information. Yeah. And wow, that's pretty amazing. Now, the yellow spots mean what? Available brick walls. Okay. So, you know, a lot of this that's typed on there. Once again, our base where we start working out from is improving wiki tree from your great grandparents, but we also do look at your comparison tree where you keep your primary tree. So all of those type names were names that you already had on your branches. Yeah. So the yellow spaces are where each one did ended on your primary tree. And those were places we focused on to break brick walls down. Wow. Wow. And the bees were the brick walls we broke, right? Yep. Yep. So just the stone walls down. Wow. So how many brick walls did we break in total for Mert? 20? 20? 20. 20. I can't even believe that. That's just awesome. Yeah, what have I been doing? I mean, Catherine last week, what have you been doing sitting on your dock? But, you know, not only do, I mean, you said it, you said it, well, we never work on our own trees. We just don't. I don't know when the last time was I worked on my own. You know, so not only do we have each other to kind of keep, keep us going and keep us motivated, you know, but we all have different skill sets. So we have everything from family historians to professional genealogists, you know, and we have the locations covered. This is a global site. So, you know, if we need to find out what a German location is, then we can holler at Dieter or Frank or Jelena, you know, we have our people we know we can go to and we'll get an answer back right away. It makes a lot of difference. Collaborative genealogy. Can you imagine collaborating, cooperating, helping each other? What a thought. Wow, awesome. I'm just blown away. Thank you. Thank you. I can't say thank you enough. And, and when we get done with this on Wacky Wednesday, we're definitely going to go in there and look at my tree. That's what we'll do tonight. Yeah, I want to go see some of those sources because it's just amazing stuff. Astonishing stuff. Yeah, we don't have enough time. We don't have enough time in the half an hour to show everything of everything. So I get that brick walls, but yeah, I get it. Thank you. Thank you for cleaning up things for me, too, because I recognize I was one of those early adopters with a jet calm until the biography part looked pretty messy. Yeah. Thank you so much. This is just amazing work and I appreciate it so much. Well, thank you for letting us work on your tree, Mert. It was such an honor to let us. I'm sure everybody loved just diving in and doing that. Did we have any questions in the chat while we were going on the work? Not really. They just love, they love Mert and they love collaboration and they love lucky trees, so that about sums it up. That's a good way to put it all. Yes, a bit of this. I can't, my fingers don't go that way anymore. It's all good. Yes, I agree. So unless Sarah, you have anything to add or Mert, you have any additional comments or questions for us about anything? We'll probably go into Rob. Start Rob's. Go take it away, Rob. So Rob. Bye. Rob. We'll guess we'll go to hit Rob. Who is Rob? Who am I? Anyone who is Rob? Let me tell you, I'm going to tell you everything you ever needed to know about Rob more than I'm going to tell you right now in two minutes. So Rob has been working with DNA and genealogy tools since 2011. He is a co-founder of DNA adoptions. If you're not familiar with them, their mission is to teach and guide people who are searching for their biological roots, to use DNA in combination with traditional genealogy techniques, and then they also have specialized adoption search techniques that they teach there. So they have classes so you can learn how to use those together and search out for your biological families, which is awesome. I'm adopted so I love it. He's the creator and founder of DNAJEDCOM. That goal with that is to reduce the human involvement in extracting, measuring the data to provide software for solutions for DNA matching from results and to determine relationships from that data and from family trees for additional metrics and comparisons that aren't available to the user right now. I borrowed it actually. I'll give credit here. It's pretty much word for word from the DNAJEDCOM website. Oh, who are we? Well, there you go. He's the designer of the site, right? Yeah. I've forgotten what's on that site. He's also an adopter and brick wall advocate, so he should love this challenge. He's part of the MITO-Y DNA team, and he's a Facebook admin for many groups that are related to DNA, so if you're on Facebook and you're into DNA, you've probably seen him out there more than once. And that's Rob. That's Rob. Do you have anything you want to add, Rob, or did we pretty much cover everything there? I think you pretty much did it. I got involved in this because of my wife who was adopted, so that's how I got started with this at all. You'll see that my family tree is kind of one-sided. My dad's sister-in-law was a worked at a library, and so she was able to actually build out the trees, and she actually was able to get books and stuff like that, so that's how that half of the tree kind of got built out a little bit more on my dad's bad side. Most of the rest of the sites have been kind of played with and stuff like that, so I'm embarrassed at how simplistic it is and how very little sources we have, as you say, let the sources decide. I'm anxious to see what you all come up with. Yeah, so yeah, we will definitely add many, many sources to your tree. So I guess maybe you answered the question, but what got you interested in genetic genealogy? Was it through your wife and her being adopted? So it was literally through my wife. My wife's mom, her adopted mom, but her mom asked me one time, hey, can you help her find, you know, computers, can you help her find her biological mother? And I'm like, what does that have to do with that? But lo and behold, she actually knew more than I did. That really has a lot to do with that, so yeah, that's exactly how I got into this. That and my aunt, who's a librarian, got me loving and enjoying. She actually had this little briefcase with all bunch of different printouts and stuff like that, showing everything about genealogy. So that's how those two things kind of got me heavily involved. Now, who is your favorite ancestor that you've found so far? My favorite actually is Peter Funk, and that's because he's the most interesting one. We didn't know him at one point, and he was the one, we found a marriage record at Adams County, and that broke through, one break through, and we found that there was a Peter and a Sarah. What just so happened, my brother just had twins, and he had them and already named them. It was named Peter and Sarah. No way. That's so cool. What a coincidence. And we found them after that fact. So plus the fact that Peter is my biggest brick wall, the bad part about that one was my mom always thought she was pure German. We found out that Sarah was actually colonial American, and so my mom was actually kind of upset with me for that at one point, because we used to say she was pure-bread German. My dad was pure-bread much, so that t-shirt, the Wicked Tree t-shirt, about mutts is perfect. Peter and Sarah. Yep. Oh, Prussia, maybe we can get our experts. Oh, Peter was looking for Prussian ones. Oh, there you go, Dieter. If you're watching this, we got it. This man is really interesting, because if you look at his death certificate, he died. He was born according to his death certificate in January 1st, 1840. But if you look at earlier censuses, it's around 1845, and one of the censuses actually says December of 1844. So this guy is pure, I don't want to say pure evil, but it's like he hit. How did he get here, and how did he go through all these things? And the most interesting thing is my mom remembers, and for a lot of the women, it's like you probably know, my mom remembers asking her grandfather, who would have been his son, how did your dad get here? And her grandfather said, he just got here, that's all you need to know. And of course, being a good little girl, she shut up and didn't say anything more. And today's actually my mom's birthday. So it's very fitting that today was the day that we started all this up. So I'm very excited. Happy birthday to your mom. Happy birthday. So you kind of told us a few interesting stories, but do you have any other interesting stories to share about your family or any of your ancestors? So the other interesting one is, so my last name is Wharton. And if you kind of go back up through the trees, you see there's a Wharton. I do actually have a DNA match for a Joseph Wharton that is Wharton, W-A-T-H-E-M. And the rumors are that the Whartons split from the Whartons based on religion. One group was Protestant, and one group was Catholic. And they kind of split and they changed their names because of that. So I do know George Wharton. I'm pretty clear with him. The steps beyond that kind of get a little more wishy-washy. It doesn't seem like there's any locations on some of these, so we've got some. Yeah, they end up in Frederick, Frederick Maryland kind of things. I did get excited at one point. I thought I found where John Francis Wharton had been, Wharton Wharton had been buried. And it was actually a, the name of that cemetery was literally right beside where I worked. So I literally spent a day looking for it. But evidently, they moved the cemetery at one point. So I never did find his where he was actually buried. And then of course, since it is Irish, I do have no tool. And that one's actually very fun because it's a Richard O'Toole. He passed away in a boating accident. And there's actually a poem about him in a boating accident. And it sounds like it was outside of Dublin, Dublin, Ireland. But we believe he lived in Wicklow, County Wicklow. And I've been to the place. And the frustrating part is I have a distant cousin who supposedly has the paperwork on where he was born. But I don't know. I can't get that some information. He won't give me that piece of paper. Oh no. Give him the paper. I have to reach out to him again. It is St. Patrick's Day. Yes. I had to bring up the Irish and then Rob, when did you when did you first discover wiki tree? Um, I can't remember who it was that introduced me, but it was a long time ago. It was back when you could actually upload jet jet cons. And I uploaded mine and it became a mess. I'm sorry. I know people have been cleaning it up and I did the same thing. Yep. So I've been doing a lot a lot of that. So it was a long, long time ago. It was before DNA stuff even came out, I think. I can't remember when it was, but it was so long ago that I don't even remember. I just remember talking to Chris and Mags at one point and saying, Oh yeah, I think I might have the count out there and went out there. There it was. There it was. So what are your biggest or your current brick walls besides the ones that you've already kind of told us about the funk and I think Peter and Richard are really the two biggest ones. The my mom's side because they're so they're relatively recent. German are brick walls, but I don't know how those those are like they literally came from Germany. So how they could be figured out. I'm not really sure. So you're looking at that like Neil L. R. Stewart, Huffin, Huffin-Nagle, those areas. And then what do you hope to see in participating in this challenge? What do you want to get out of it the most? Honestly, I want to be less embarrassed about the sources and making sure that they're clean and well sourced. At one point I threw, I literally threw my tree away and started rebuilding it with only with sources. And then it got to the point where it's like, I can't find that. I can't find, but I know that's the person. So I've got to put some more things back in there and stuff. So I built this tree probably three or four times and it's always hard to wait for that source and getting that exact source material and stuff like that. So that's that's kind of the exciting thing is not to feel like a cheating genealogist anymore. You know, you're not the only one we've invited that has said that. There's been, there's been, I was actually surprised at how many have said like, I am my tree's mess, horrible, I'm embarrassed. So it's not just you. Yeah. Yeah, we have, I mean, that's the whole point of the challenge is to improve the tree and people who may have not heard of wiki tree, you have kind of dabbled in it to kind of get them interested. And to, you know, like for you, Rob, you kind of were in and Mer, we're kind of in at the beginning of wiki tree or early on. And now we're working on your tree some more and getting you more connected. That's the whole, the whole goal connecting and making friends. Absolutely. I definitely have and from the ashamed genealogist point of view as well, Rob, because you know, we just don't get time. We're working still. So yeah, there's a point where I knew my wife Sue's tree so well. And I knew all of her relatives and distant relatives because I built that tree up so many different ways and up and down and all over. I just knew it like the back of my hand. And she used to say, Hey, Rob, how about blah blah blah? And I finally got to the point where it's like, I started concentrating a little bit more on my own and forgot some of her things. And she's like, hold on a minute, but you're supposed to know all these things. We can only take pictures. I think somebody asked for pictures and I'm like, I don't think I have any pictures, but I got a whole bunch of pictures on suicide and I built her trees. You're building all these other trees and you think about those things, but you don't think about it on your own. So do we have any questions for Rob that are in the chat or Joan, do you have any questions for Rob about anything? Or Rob, do you have any questions for us? Any questions in general? Sarah, do you have any questions for Sarah? Mindy, do you have any questions for Mert? I question myself all the time. I have a question about my new Instant Pot. Does that qualify? I have a question about one of my ACLs. I'm sure I will have before the week. So as we start looking at things, I'm sure lots of the questions I'll be mailing. And I'm sure our captains are allowed to contact you, Rob, with any questions throughout the week? Yep. So my rob.warthen at dnhedcom.com is probably the better one because I watched that one. That's not the one on my account, but I'll try and make sure I pay attention to both of them. And then we do have somebody, one of our team members, Emma Macbeth. She's been doing the DNA confirmations. So if you would like those on your profiles, which is really nice to have, you can work with Joan and she can get you all hooked up there. Yeah, Emma's already hooked to the DNA. Good. Yeah, that's another one of those embarrassingly. I do have my mom at least DNA connected, though. There you go. It's a start. Yep. And I got my dad's brothers on there, so I just have to figure out how do you tie that through. I know people are talking about cats in the chat right now. Cats and Instant Pots. Yep. Air Fryers. Although then I've said what is your toughest tree questions to answer, but I'm not entirely sure what she's going for there. And Sarah, one of you. Which Sarah, we both have cats. Well, both of you share the name of your cats then. Go ahead. Mine is Kiki. The first one who was on here is Scootaloo and Nugget just cruise. The other Sarah has two cats and I have one cat. Next week, I'll bring up my dogs. All right, we have four of them. Are they all big dogs or small dogs? Three big ones, German Shepherd and English Mastiff, Burleys, Mountain Poodle, and then a Chihuahua. That's so funny. So from this to that. Do they all get along well? Generally, yep. That's good. So do we have any other questions for anybody ever about WikiTree? Anybody has any questions for somebody else or not? They're on to other things. Yeah, they're talking about Pina on the chat. We're not even going to talk. We're not even going to discuss that. Does that always get brought up? Spring Clean-a-thon. Oh, yeah. Spring Clean-a-thon's coming up next month. We'll be cleaning even more of the tree during the Spring Clean-a-thon. So that'll be fun. So I want to thank everybody for joining us. Mert and Rob, thank you so much. Mert, we had such a great time working on your tree, and Rob, I'm sure everybody's, they were chatting earlier in the week about your tree, so they're already on it. They're probably already working. They probably already have a brick wall broken, I'm sure. I don't doubt it. I'll be amazed if they do, because I've been hitting some of these brick walls, so it'll be interesting. They've been on fire today. Can you share the link to Wacky Wednesday? So if anybody wants to come look at my tree with me, I can't post because I'm not a manager on your YouTube channel. So YouTube doesn't let us post links at all. Oh, yeah. Facebook we can, but yeah, YouTube doesn't like links. And we can post it in the forum. Yeah, we can. Yeah, we can have the link there, but Wacky Wednesday with Mert in 10 minutes. There she goes. There it is. So write that down real quick. Write it down really fast. WN underscore C1. Wow. You can also find it on the Genia Webinars calendar and in the Deer Myrtle Group. Or you can just pause the video when it's done and it's right there. True. Yeah, because she's the manager of the YouTube channel, she was able to post it, and it came through Clickaball. Yeah, Poppy and Pace, two of my besties. Yep. Thank you so much. Because it's going to be fun to go look. I'll probably cry. Oh, dear. Yeah, I don't know where it is. Oh, thank you. Thank you again so much. It's just an incredible time. Rob, I'm so looking forward to hearing about the breakthroughs for you this coming week. I can't wait. Yep. Again, thank you for everybody who's watching. Thank you for all of our wonderful WikiTrees who have participated or just are watching. Thank you to everybody. Just thank you. You can check us out at wikitree.com and check out Mert on Wacky Wednesday in about 10 minutes. Okay. And that is all. And that's a wrap. Don't forget to check us out on Saturday at 10 a.m. Eastern Time, Daylight Savings Time, because now's Daylight Savings Time. I was so... Die, Drew. Bye, everyone.