 I know what she's unfortunately we got the word out a little late this time and that was my fault so I'll take full responsibility for that. We always do. We'll get better next year. We'll be prepared. Usually I get it out sooner. We'll have it all down pat by then. Oh, there we go. Todd tighter and Pat Branson are joining us. Awesome. Glad you guys are here. Welcome. Yes, so we have an important subject to talk about today. We do. We're really excited about the wiki tree symposium and wiki tree day second annual 15 year anniversary. What could go wrong. Hi, Ross. Hi, Ross. It's going to be really great. So Julie's going to run us her outline and then we're going to tell you about stuff and it's going to be good. And if you have any questions, please ask because we'd love to answer them. We do. We love questions. We do when we when we can answer them, right. Well, our first answer for a question that you haven't asked yet is how would you register for wiki tree day? And what's the deadline? And that's on you. I think Azure can show us, but the deadline is really like the night before. To clarify, anybody can watch these. You do not have to be registered to watch the videos and participate in that way. You do have to be registered if you want to be eligible for some door prizes and to receive updates and things like that. It's an appropriate time for me to ask what kind of cool door prizes do we have? Well, they're mostly wiki tree ones. I don't know if you know that we have a lot of really, really cool stuff in our store. And there's aprons. There's shower curtains. There's my apron. I have it. Walmart jacket. Azure showed me her weekend or tote that she got and it is huge. Wow. It's awesome. Perfect for roots tech. Absolutely. Or any genealogical excursion that you might be going on. That's fantastic. So registration is not necessary. Everybody can view. But if you want an opportunity to win some of our cool wiki tree blind, go ahead and register. And there's a link on the help page, right? Yes. There's a link on the help page. And I'm going to drop it into the chat here also. Okay, great. It'll just have been up to the short little form that you fill in and then you're registered. And so if you decide to attend wiki tree day, got anything to stick on the on your profile? I think there's a sticker right in the category is a sticker. And it's right here on the help wiki tree day page has the markup there. So if I just highlight this on the page and you can either right click and click copy or do control C. And then I'm, I already have my profile page open here and another tab. And I'm just going to put that right below paste that right below the biography line. So if you right click and click paste, it just paste that right in there. So now I'm just going to put categories categorization and then do a full save on that. And you can then go over to the wiki tree day category that is linked here on the help page. And you can see how you're connected to everybody else who's attending. Yeah, I love that. Azure's mom is my closest cousin. That's amazing. That's cool. That would be Francis, right? Yeah, we're tied. We're tied. We're tied with being connected to Francis. To Azure. Oh, to Azure. 16 generations. Isn't that weird? It's such a small world. And I love that feature so much. I love it. It's one of my favorites. It's easy to get lost in there. Pull down some rabbit holes. How am I connected? Oh, rabbit holes. They're more like black holes for me. They just be right in. And if you're a member of wiki tree, you still have time you can join. It's totally free. And just start adding in your family until you get connected. And once you're connected to the Google tree, then my connections will work for you. Right. Yep. We hope that we get a lot of people that will decide to join as the day rolls around. It just makes everything a lot more fun. So we've got a number of speakers and panels and talks lined up. A own or Azure, whoever's going to do this, who, you know, can you tell us what our roster looks like? No. We didn't want to talk about that. So there's two, there's kind of two different parts to this. One is the wiki tree symposium, which is November 2nd to the 4th. And then one is wiki tree day itself, which is November 5th. So the symposium, we just have this really awesome lineup of all these great speakers. Azure can click on the schedule. There. You can see we have it broken down by day. But Thomas McCante, if you like listening to him, he's giving several, several talks. We've got an author, John Mancini. He's talking about immigrant secrets with his ancestors. There's a couple of DNA ones. There's some Irish ones. There's one with Connie Davis talking about her free space page for sharing letters. Breathing new life into your boring ancestors. There's more Thomas. AJ Jacobs, if you remember him best selling author, he comes and chats with us often. So we're doing something with him. Let's see. The 1890 census, how to get around it. Sandy. Can you mention the DNA chef while we're there? Yeah, Melia Alexander, the DNA chef. We're doing one with her. David L. Lambert is going to be that should be an interesting one verifying descent from Salem's accused witches. There's one about ancestral planting memory keepers, a tour of gravestone symbolism. Keeping your family history safe. There's so many. We have a New Zealand one in the early hours of our morning, but it's their evening. There's a lady coming to talk about ancestry travel. There's ones about social media and how to share there. There's one about military. There's one about pension records and using those in your research. So there's a lot. You've got such a broad range of topics this year. Yeah, it's pretty exciting. We've got Alina Kuda is going to talk about Jewish roots, which will be great. And I, it, it just kept expanding. So we're starting actually Thursday evening this year. Yeah, so many, so many interesting speakers. So, a little bit of everything. Lisa has a question for you. Are there any overlapping talks this year? I think we're going to talk about the symposium. There are not. That's one at a time. And during there will be an on demand section with videos that are just there for you to go and watch. So if whatever's happening at the time, maybe as in your cup of tea, you could always go and pick something from the on demand section to watch. We'll talk about that in a bit. And then Roz said she can't remember if she registered. I forgot about it. I could, I might have done that. Yeah. If they click on the registration link, it tells them. If they want to, it asked them if they want to update their registration information. So you'll, okay. Okay, cool. And the only reason why I know that's cause mom registered and she had forgotten and she clicked on it again. And oh, it says, do you want to update your information? No. In Roz's case. In Roz's case, you did register. Great. So you're also there's been something going on every day for the last what week? Hold on week for you guys have. Oh, I'm sorry. I thought you were done. No, we got to talk about wiki tree day. Oh, there's so many things. So many things. I'll just sit back and drink my coffee. You know when you're done. Well, this will be Sunday, November 5th. This day, there will be three different streams going on. One of them is a main stage. One of them is all about projects. So I think we have 18 projects that are doing either pre recorded or live little presentations about their projects. And then great Clark. I'm sure familiar with him from many things on wiki tree, but he's organizing this third stream, which is all going to be like apps and extensions and kind of the tech side of wiki tree. So there'll be some presentations on some of the different apps. There'll be a wrap up for October fest. And I know Greg is going to talk about some of his apps. So that will also be going on at the very beginning of the day. Like we'll do a little kickoff. And then we're doing a special get to know the wiki tree team. I don't think we've ever done anything like that before. So most of us will be there. Just to kind of tell a little bit about what we do and to answer some questions and just to let you guys get to know, not me, because everybody knows way too much about me. But everybody else. No, it's you two a one. That's going to be the first thing and then it'll school off into these other things but we have a couple games throughout the day that we can do. There'll be some prizes with those there's bingo we have some live word searches. If you're new to wiki tree Betsy co is doing a new member q&a that would be good to go to the three of us are doing an ab season wiki tree so we'll go through the alphabet and try and introduce different things you may or may not be aware of. At 115 Eastern, that day we're going to have a little toast to wiki tree. So we'll do that live and can join in to watch that bring a cup with your favorite drink of some sort in a beverage beverage. Water apple juice. Dr pepper. Mine will probably be Dr pepper. And we're going to do a little toast and then share a little bit about just what we're grateful for wiki tree so can watch that. On that day we're doing a genealogy and artificial intelligence discussion panel. Thomas McCantee Steve little who's like one of the front runners for AI in the genealogy field, and drew Smith are going to join for that and so we'll be chatting and asking some questions about that. If you're not aware of this yet we actually have put together a wiki tree cookbook that will reveal on that day. No cooking demos this time. No cooking demos this time. Couple more games there's another bingo and another wiki word search that you can play. If you've been following along at all with the 15 nations global tour this year. Every three weeks David and his crew have hit a different country and worked really hard to connect notables and just add as much to the trees they can for that country in those three weeks and it's been pretty amazing. What they've been able to do so he is going to talk about that and just kind of summarize everything they've accomplished and probably talk about the global project that is stemming from that and will continue on into 20. Well I almost said 2016. 2016. And then at the very end that day. Greg will have some stats for us wiki tree stats and we'll kind of wrap it up and I'll be wiki tree today. So exciting a lot. Yeah, it's going to be fun. Yeah. Yeah, awesome great stuff. Big times for 15th anniversary. Yay wiki tree. It's hard to believe. It's hard to believe isn't it. It is weird to think about. So you guys have been doing a daily countdown correct. Yes. Yes, you're having a drawing during that. Yes, every day we pose a question and then do a drawing on everybody's responses from the days previous. The question from that day so I'm going to put that into the chat the link for today's broadcast which is going to be at 1040 or sorry 1245. So it's right after this if you guys want to click on the link and go there afterwards that'd be great. About a half an hour. Yeah. Yeah, we have one more question for you from Pat. Is everything going to be recorded? Yes, so everything from the wiki tree symposium will be recorded after every talk it'll be added into the on demand section so if you've missed it you can go and grab it there if you want. All of those will stay up for 30 days. After the symposium ends, and then everything that's on wiki tree day will be up there forever. Awesome. Wonderful. So we're having something else on November the first should I play the little drum roll so you can tell us what it is. Yes, do a drum roll. Oh okay wait I got to come back over here then. Wait! We love the sound effects. There's a short one. Oh there now. Did you hear the little symbol? So we're going to have a discord party the evening or yeah for us the day before. November 1st on a Wednesday. Wednesday November 1st probably 4pm to 8pm Eastern. I'll do an announcement in G2G4 but that's probably it will be but we'll have a discord party so everybody can come and chat and there's a voice chat in there. If you attended last time a bunch of people got in the voice chat and had a good time in there. There's all the different channels you can chat in. So we'll we'll host a little get together. That was a lot of fun last year. Yeah it was. And that's on the main wiki tree server. Yeah that's the main the regular wiki tree server. Hope to see you all there. There is a wiki tree day and symposium discord server. So that's a fun place to go chat about. Not for people to chat during during presentations and I'm dropping that in the in the chat too. Yes if you want to join that server you can too. It's a good place to go live while everything's happening you guys can show comments and. Yeah that's questions. Oh let's see and then after well that's the first we'll have the party then we'll have the kickoff on Thursday night. Friday we'll have some speakers. Saturday speakers. Saturday what's up. No going. I was saying Saturday is not Saturday is actually wiki tree day right. No Sunday no. No Sunday I've got to get my date straight in my head. And then also on Saturday though we're having a research party party. Is that going to run all day. So basically what those are is we have some different countries and the Jewish roots project that are hosting to our research parties. Like Italy research to our Germany research and those will be in zoom so during those two hours if you have like a German brick wall or you have a question about German German research. You can hop into zoom and talk to people from the project you can try and help answer questions or try and help you break your brick wall. That's fantastic. We'll have a schedule they'll be a schedule up for those. Right those are mostly on but they'll run most of the day on Saturday. Okay. Cool we already talked about the discord channel but I'll just plug it again and if you go to help colon discord that discord help page you can learn if you're not on discord already that will get you in there you can find the link to get into our server will get you verified. You'll find. A general chat where people will talk about what they're researching ask questions whatever and you'll also find channels for any projects you might be involved in. So that's a really good way to connect with other wiki tree years. Let's see. Anyone. Well and Azure you guys already explained wiki tree day that's that's our next topic. Do you want to talk more about ourselves. No we are way ahead. I think we covered it great. We wanted to make sure that Azure could get out of here and go do her kickoff on time or I mean her countdown on time. So does anybody have any questions about the upcoming weekend of November the really the first because that's what we're having our discord party. Yeah. Are there any speakers or presentations you're like most excited about. Love to hear it. How are you going to navigate the time change in the middle of it in the United States. I'm going to save you the time change. Yeah me too. And hope that when we wake up the next day everybody is on schedule. Yeah. We're going to gain an hour so at least there's that. Yeah that's true. I'm going to sleep. Oh look at that Azure. That's awesome. You can go out and get all your 15th anniversary bling. I love the pint glasses. Yeah. Those pint glasses are nice. I got a few of those. Yeah they're heavy duty. They're good. The mugs are awesome. Here I have an apron. It's not the wiki tree day apron. It's got a really big heart on it. It's got our big logo heart on it. I'll be using that for peeling potatoes this Thanksgiving. Because I'm really messy when I peel potatoes. And we have this too. Oh nice. It's not the wiki tree day one. But this is the, yeah it's the wiki game. Is it just lined, regular lined? Yeah it's just regular notebook. So little personal note here. I keep a notebook next to me by my computer. And I keep my to-do lists on there. My work and my personal. And this is the perfect size for that. Yeah that's awesome. Yeah. Love checking stuff off on my lists. Awesome. Anything else you guys have to add for the upcoming bonanza? I don't think so. I think that pretty much covered it. It covered everything. It's gonna be fun. Yeah it will. We have almost 1500 people registered. Wow. That's crazy. Yeah. Can you tell how many are members and how many are people just coming to check us out? It's similar to last year. That's about two thirds are members and a third are not members. But some of those two thirds are new. Like they're really new to wiki tree. Yeah. That's great. It's a great way to get involved in the community. Because wiki tree is very unique and that our community is so active and so connected. Yeah. That if you are ever having trouble with anything just ask and somebody's gonna help you. It's real true. We've just got such a great great community here. I love all of our wiki treeers. Yeah definitely. I keep saying I need to make myself a shirt that says I heart wiki treeers. Nice. When you get in with yours will you make one for me too? Yeah. Me too? Yeah. Now we've got Alan's. We're adding to her to-do list. Yeah. Yeah here. Just take mine. Well cool. Well you guys got right quiet in the chat. They did. Everything you said must have made great sense. All right. Well I think we can wrap things up here then. We hope to see you. What is that? Two weeks? Three weeks. What countdown day are we on? We are on 17. 17 days. Wow. It's coming up. It is. Yeah. We'll see you all there. Bye. Have a great week.