 Hey everybody, we're here, we're excited. As you can see there's me, even the foreign staff, we have Azure joining us. And then down with more is Julie from the team. We're excited to do this new series with you guys. It's sort of a revamp. If you remember last year, we did a few future Fridays. We're just kind of showing off some things you may have missed. Fridays are already busy with videos on WikiTrees, so we decided to do it on Monday, so we needed a new name. So we went with WikiTree Tours because we're showing off stuff on WikiTree. So we're excited to be here today. We're gonna take a little trek through the trees, show you guys some new changes that have been made and just some of the fun stuff that you can be using. Azure, Liza said you look far away. Sorry. She's there. I see her. I'm here, I'm here. Oh, Stanley likes my tie-dye shirt. Thank you. I love tie-dye. So yeah, we'll just jump in it. Azure's gonna be our primary tour guide today. All right. So what we're gonna do first is I've disabled the beta test version of adding profiles so that we'll walk through the old version of adding profiles or the current version of adding profiles, sorry. So I'm just gonna go ahead and click to add it. Person, whoops. Once my design back in again, sorry about that, folks. Ever two weeks. Frederick Wayne, is this a close family member, Azure? No, just a couple of weeks ago. No, just one of the return New Mexico one place study profiles. So I'm just gonna go through and I've already got saved source information here. This is what everybody's used to. One page and then turn the information. So we'll go ahead and add. The child or Orville. So there we go. So nothing really different about that. Now we're gonna go over to- Oh, he's only just a baby. Yeah. Yeah. We'll go over to Orville's brother, Erlin. And oh, sorry. First I need to change my settings. Scroll the way down to your settings at the bottom of the page here. And this is where you'll turn on beta test for creating profiles of a new way. And then click save settings. And then we'll just go back to Garland's page here and add a child to him. All right. So right away you're gonna get the option to create a new profile or connect to an existing profile. And we're creating a new profile today and Valley Pauline Arnold is our person. Cool. And now the birth date. Already we noticed that her middle name is at the top now instead of down at the bottom. Yeah. And it prefilled with the last name at birth from when you click the link to add a child. Right. So- All the data elements right at the front. And then when you click continue, it's going to ask is this the child of his wife? Yes she is. And it actually went through and passed one of the steps. You'll see here at the top the breadcrumbs after you entered the basic data it checked the system to see if there were any matches for that person. So were you- If there were then they would have showed up in a list. Yeah. If there had been- And the list is formatted a little differently. I hope we can show that at some point here, Azure, I don't know what you- Sure. We can do that next. So I'm just gonna, there's two options for entering. You can have what it used to be like with just a box for the source or you can use the advanced option going right to the wiki markup to do the text there, text editing. And I've got this all ready to go here. I'm gonna create this new profile. And when you click to create a new profile it dumps you right into after it's created it dumps you still back into the edit page. So you can make any necessary edits after it's created. So let me grab a, actually, let's see. Well, you're doing not, we'll have Julie answer this question. Okay. Is there a way to create a recently- Oh, are you gonna read it? Go ahead. Go ahead. Oh, please. Is there a way to create a recently created profiles list only for me? Which app, et cetera, can I use? I need this rather than going back through my contributions to pick them out. So there's a couple of ways that you can do that. You can go to your watch list and sort by the last edit date. And that would bring those new profiles up to the top of your list there. You can also go to, make sure I get the name right. The special trusted list changes, I believe. I'm over there now. And if you click on the remove yourself from trusted lists, I'm assuming that's what you wanna do. There will be an option at the top. I'm waiting for mine to load. Hang on a second. There's a big button that says show only recent additions. And if you click that, it will narrow your watch list down to those. And I don't know what the timeframe is. Do you, Aowyn? For that button? It'll narrow it down to the most recent batch, but I don't know how far back it goes. It's probably a week or a month or something like that. It's probably a week. Yeah, that makes sense. But you can just type in special colon trusted list changes or let's see, if you go to your watch list, there's a link at the top that says watch list changes. And that will take you to that page where you can remove yourself from trusted lists and have the big button. So I hope that's helpful. Yep. She said the watch list. And then I noticed that, what's that? She said the watch list is a great idea. Thank you, because she's trying to make corrections. Not necessarily. Oh yeah, I do that all the time. And then GSL had a comment earlier about the middle name field. He or she is probably in a country where they don't have middle names where they combine them all as fore names. And if you go to your, my wiki tree settings and scroll down to the bottom where Azure turned on the beta testing, there's also an option there to ignore the middle name warning. And so then you can put both fore names in the same field and it won't keep bothering you about that. Yeah, that's right here. Yeah. So I'm just gonna go through, I won't click through to actually create the duplicate. I'm just gonna walk through and act like I'm gonna create value again so you all can see what it looks like when there is a duplicate in the system. Or that you're trying to add somebody that already exists, what it looks like. Okay, it's not showing her. I think it takes a bit for the system to recognize. It may even, I think it's faster than overnight now but I think it still takes a little bit to process. Yeah, I think it takes probably half an hour or something like that. So here you can see what that looks like. Other matches? Yeah, other matches. So this person's like got a private profile so you can do a trust-and-list request or you can set as child or set as ridiculous match. So that's what that review matches page looks like. And then we were going to share. See here. The public view link. So on, let me get to it's Garland's profile here. So there's no longer the public view tab. There is now this link off to the side public view. So it's gonna do the same thing that the tab did. It's going to show you whatever elements that are available for that privacy setting that they're set to. Anybody have any questions about that? Public link or the view link? And then go ahead and just show how you can get back to the... Sure, you just click right back on this link at the top there, takes you right back to it. So just back and forth. Cool. All right, so now I just want to share about the problems and questions button that's right here in the profile manager section of the profile there. And this is gonna open up a little popup. Everything's right there for any kind of problems or questions you might need to... Or that you have for this profile. And right here go in and ask a question about this profile in D2G, ask a tech question. It's really, I think it's a great new feature. It's a nice directory. Yep. Yeah. What do you guys think about that? Has anybody taken a look at that yet? I'm curious to know if others have noticed it yet. I wasn't talking to you too, by the way I was talking to those people over there. That's why we didn't answer you. We just did it awkwardly in silence. Do you have to have the other Wikitree add-ons for Chrome? Or for the beta? Not for the problems and questions. These are all these, this is just a base feature. If you want to do the Wikitree extension, browser extension, there are other features that become available if you enable that. But you don't need it for these things that we've just covered. We'll feature the Wikitree browser extension in another one of these Wikitree tours coming soon. That's, there's so much to cover there. Oh, and they're adding to all the time. Yeah. Okay, so we were gonna share next about the Ancestors button. So right here, where it has the parents listed, there's a button for showing ancestors. And what it does is it just kind of pops open a little section at the top of the profile for you to see the ancestors for this person. Okay. That used to be under the Family Tree and Tools tab, but now it's just a button that you can easily click from the profile page. And then for the Descendants button, here's what that looks like. So from the same page profile in where it says that she's a mother, then you can click the Descendants button and it'll list the descendants there. And it's one thing to note, I had somebody ask me about that the other day. If there is only one generation connected in either direction, you won't see those buttons. So for example, if you have a profile that has parents connected, but they don't have grandparents connected, you won't see the Ancestors button because there's really nothing more to show other than what's already there on that page. And same thing goes for Descendants. If your kids do not have kids or the profiles children don't have children, you won't see the Descendants button. Yeah. So talking about that, the change, this is now just says Tree Apps instead of Family Tree and Tools. It now just says Tree Apps. And when you go there, when you first click on that, let me, got to log out of this. So let me do that real quick. So when you first go there, you're gonna need to log in to be able to use the features to view the different options. And it's just here with Tree Login again. Yeah. And you don't have to do that every time, right, Azure? Right, once you've logged in and you've kept, if you keep your browser, browser windows open, then you don't need to keep logging in. It's just that one time that you get logged in. So here's a... Or clear your cookies or something. Right, yeah. So here's a view of the Anantaffle. Is that how you pronounce that? Anantaffle, yeah. Tree App. So it's, I think pretty much exactly what we had before. It's just that you get to it a little bit differently. So that's what that looks like. Yeah, I don't think anything really changed with that one except the location. Yeah. So in the dropdown, then you can, these are all the options of just the different ways you can view the Tree Apps. So the next one we're gonna share is the Ancestor Webs. There we go. There we go. So I have it set so that it'll show where there is so that it's on repeat. And that's where it's showing where there's a, somebody has, you know, ancestors have the same ancestors. What's that called? Pedigree Collapse. Pedigree Collapse, sorry. Had a little pause there in my brain. So that's an option on the page. And the next one that I really love is this couple's dynamic tree. Yeah, this one is really cool. So I have up here, so you can see this person is the center person. And you can see the children and the ancestors. And if you wanna expand, you just click the little plus sign here and you do the minus if you wanna close that out. If there are multiple spouses, this is where you select a different spouse next to that person's name. So if I wanna see, oh, sorry, if I wanna see the spouse that is through my line, I just select that there and it changes the spouse to be that other person. This was George F. Anderson. And then because he had multiple spouses, you can see it has a little down arrow so that you can select a different, his other spouse. And then it has an option down here of a drill down for the children so that you could change who your center person is from here by selecting that little icon of the tree. And because these children had children, you have a plus sign going down the descendants. So this is a really great full-featured option of viewing your tree. One of the things I liked because we're all talking about CC7 numbers and growing all that and I think this is another way where you can kind of see gaps that can be filled. Like with the question mark one over there on the left, that would be a hint of a place you can get a connection. Yeah, yeah. It's a wonderful app. I love it. This is a giant improvement over what just used to be the dynamic tree. They've beefed it up quite a bit to make it much more useful. And I believe when you sign in for the first time the default is that couple's dynamic tree. Nice. Okay, so this is the family group view. It's kind of just a summary of this couple and the children that they had. And it will have a different section for each of the spouses and then list out the children information down below. And if you click the little icon here to the right of the person listed, it will change it so that this page now is for that person. So if I click on that, it's gonna be a family group view for this person. All right. I've always liked using this view to, because usually, yeah, it has their marriage date up there. If you have a person who's married several different times, it's a great way to like look and make sure the kids are connected to the right parents. Yeah. Definitely. Okay, and then this is a cool feature I love, the family timeline. So this is for Lucy Amanda Jones. And so if you scroll down here, it shows her parents kind of as the starting point, their births and then all her siblings. And then I'll start listing out the spouses, their births, when they were born on the timeline and then her children. So it's really a neat feature. We're out. View it, view it. Okay. This is a fun one. Great, Clark. He's so clever. Okay, so we're just gonna play a game. If nobody has any questions about any of the other ones, if we have any questions about any of the other views, throw them in the chat and we'll get them answered. Well, we're keeping watch as best we can. All of this stuff's so fun, I'm not paying great attention to the comments. I know, I'm like, this is so good. Okay, so here it is. I will. Let's see how, let's see if I can do this here. Oh, you picked a big one. Oh, customer skills. Okay, I know. Let's see. Let's all memorize Azure's ancestors. The goal is you can play this a bunch before you go to a family reunion so that when people ask you questions, you can just rattle it right off, right? Exactly. Nope, that was wrong. Oh no. We need some jeopardy music or something behind us. Oh no, I don't think we have. Or a clock ticking. We've got a timer. Oh no, not a timer. Oh no, not a timer. Oh no, not a timer. Stress. Oh, thank you, Eoin. She played a lap track for you, Azure. Okay, we'll do acoustic cinematic. Oh, that's very calming. Counteract the timer mindset. Yay, she did it. Good job. It is a fun way to get to know your ancestors. Yeah. Or anyone's ancestors, you could put in William Shakespeare and learn four generations of William Shakespeare's ancestors. I love that you can put it in there and start from there. Yeah, it's fun. It is fun. She's a president. Play around with the president and see if you can remember everything. So there are lessons. How are you doing over in the chat? Good. Jelena's making lunch. No questions. Yeah, she's making us hungry. Oh my goodness. Rice cakes and spice kippies. Don't you think about it? That sounds good. Oh, country vegetables. When you're six. Which also sounds good. Yes, I know. Oh, Margaret. Yep. The family group sheet has always been one of her favorite sounds like. I use that one a lot too. It's very useful. And hello, Margaret Summit. Good to see you. Good to see you're typing. She said, good to see your faces. I wish we could have all of you in here and converse, but that wouldn't work out very well. Oh, the biofaker isn't still there. I think that's, I think you have to turn on the extension. The extension for that. It's my job today to just remind you what the words are. Apparently. I'm usually the one going, oh, what was that? David wants to know if the charts are printable. That's the wrong one. So, you guys are talking really fast. I think, doesn't, I think he was saying on Saturday that he has not made this one printable yet, right? Yeah, the fan chart isn't, but you can go to the printer friendly view of somebody's family tree. Somebody's family tree. Yeah, and that's ready to go. Doug is asking if anyone uses wiki tree X and this would be a good time to say that wiki tree X is not really being supported anymore. I think it still works for some websites, but it's a little bit touchy. I had to stop using it because I was using it on family search and it doesn't really work very well there anymore, but that's not, it's not being supported anymore. Our developer that created that didn't have time for it anymore, apparently. Is there a way, I use Sorcerer, but I don't do this with it. You can import information with Sorcerer. Is that right? Yes. Or is there one of that, one of the apps that allows you to do that? Yeah, let me do that real quick for you. Let's not get too far off our topics for the day, though. Sorry. It's exciting, I know and we wanna talk about everything, but like for the sake of a little bit. Cover that at some point. Yeah, just to the new level, though. I don't know what I would do without the Sorcerer app. Man, I love it. That's a great app. Not use it all the time. I have to turn mine back on. I have sugar and pains. I disabled it all, so I have to turn it back on now. Or re-add it because I took it off. So when I went through this walkthrough with y'all, I didn't show that all there. I wanted to show you the basic part of it. But yeah. We have some very clever members that have been creating all these fantastic apps for us. My gosh, they're amazing. Yeah, so just really briefly, once you have Sorcerer enabled, you can go to it up here and then just click save person data. And then if you go to add a new person, you just say set fields from person data. And it sets it all up for you. That's my new thing for today. I haven't used that before. Yeah. And then also when you go into the fields where it tells you where you wanna add this information. Oh, it didn't work that time for some reason. Might just be because I need to refresh, but it will load up a narrative. Oh, okay, cool. I'll play with that. Based on the parents that are attached to them in this profile. Mm-hmm. Cool. Yeah. So that's all we had for today for sharing because anybody have any other questions? Do you two like the beta version of adding profiles better? Or do you like the beta one? Yep. You know what? I very much, yeah. But once I just gave it some time to work through adding some profiles. Yeah, I really love it now. I love having the different screens that it goes through. And if you have that, when you browse and enable another feature that's great, is it on that page where it shows you possible matches, you can filter out for location, which is wonderful. Oh, yeah, I'd forgotten about that, yeah. Jelaine is asking when the beta will go live for real, and I don't think we have a date yet. We don't, we're still too late to be back. We're still too late to be back for members, and then our tech peeps are still tweaking and so we don't have a specific. But anybody, it's available to everybody by just turning that beta switch on in your settings page right here. So here's a question for the chat people. Next month, I think we had talked about doing challenges for the WikiTree tours, like going through the different challenges and how you can participate, which we can still do. But it seems like maybe there would be a little more interest if we did like the WikiTree browser extension and maybe some of the apps. So you can tell us in the chat if you have a preference and we'll consider that when we're planning the stuff out. We're flexible. We're here for you guys, really. So we wanna talk about what you wanna hear about. Yeah, that's what's all about. So Jelaine says extension and apps. We can rearrange that, not a problem. Shall we give them a preview of some of the topics we've got on the agenda? Can you share it with us? Yeah, so next month we were talking about challenges, but it looks like that might change. Yeah, do you remember some of the other stuff? Because I don't have that pulled up. I've got it. We were gonna talk about the CC7, the connection finder and my connections. And of course the browser extension, which sounds like we might move that up. We're gonna talk about G2G and the different features in there and using tags and et cetera. Merging categories, stickers and templates, an overview of the different apps and we'll take a deeper dive into some of the more complicated apps like BioCheck and Sourcer. We're gonna talk about projects too and how to create one and what they're for. And Wikimarkup. We had talked about doing Wikimarkup at some point, but that's not a, that you have to be on a side because it's not gonna take that long to go over that. I do that too. Good to go. Good to go. Well, I think extensions and apps win for March. It looks like overview of projects is one. G2G, a couple of people. D says she's too shy and going to ask in G2G. We'll help you get over that. It's one of the best tools Wikitree has really. Yeah. Easy. Yeah, we can talk about Discord at some point. Oh yeah, good idea, Bill. That was just something we threw in a few years ago, but it's actually turned out to be quite helpful for a lot of things. I'll add that to our list. And you can always go to this space page, Wikitree Tours, that's linked in the G2G post for this broadcast and make a comment. If there's something you would like to see, there's a big comment on the space page. David said if you'd love to hear more about categories and stickers, he finds them confusing and unsure how to get the most value out of them. I hear ya. Yep. And there's a lot of different stickers for different things. Like I know, I don't even know how the stickers we have. Yeah. There's, yeah, I always go to the category, the stickers category, to look for what I'm trying to find. This is exactly what I have. Do I have it actually a link on my navigational page for stickers? Right here. Oh, good idea. Yeah. This is because it's like, yeah. I wanted to mention to... Oh, sorry, go ahead. No, go ahead. I was just saying I wanted to mention to Doug, he was talking about Wikitree X. And I think, Doug, what you'll find is a lot of the features that were there are now in this source or browser extension. So that would be pretty equivalent to what you were using before. It probably works a little more solidly now. Jolene asked, what's the status of the academy? If you don't know yet, we're starting something called the Wikitree Academy. And it's this cool thing we're developing where basically you can go and take courses and learn about Wikitree. It's brand new. I don't have a lot of courses yet. There's one there that's geared towards new members, but anybody can go and try it out and take it. I think there's one there now for projects about the project. And basically it's there. We just are looking for people to help develop the courses and the more people come and help develop courses, the more courses will help. So I know there's people interested in creating them for a lot of different topics. So hopefully before too long, we'll have a nice little academy. There's a space page for the Sorcerer if you want to check that out, Doug. I think it's just, it's Space Wikitree Sorcerer, isn't it? Yep, that's a great extension. I've become dependent on it. All right, and you had, how? Deal, it was just commenting about the watch list. But Julie was talking about the watch list for the basketball, she appreciated that. Dogs, oh, Julie's dogs are barking. Her husband just came home, I think. Just to share a little bit of her life with you. It's all about the dogs here, yeah. Tyrenda mentioned that G2G is frustrating when she doesn't get an answer. And I think one of the things that people forget to do out there, and this isn't the problem, let me know. You have to make sure you get the right tags on your post, because then that alerts people from the different projects that can help you. So if you're not tagging your posts, sometimes people just won't see them. And yeah, that is why Discord is nice because it is an option because it's kind of like a live chat. But it is nice also, G2G's good for maybe covering more official things so that everybody in the community has access to that, because not everybody's on Discord. So it's something to think about. Right. When you're asking a question. And D asked if there's a solid list of post tags, and we'll get deeper into this, only covered G2G as a topic. But yes, if you look at the top of any G2G page, let me go look at one now so I don't tell you the wrong thing. There should be a tab there for tags. And that will give you the most used tags. So like the top number one tag is wonderful wiki tree ears. I love that, that's awesome. I know. I always use when I'm looking for a particular tag, I'll use control F on this page on my keyboard to type in, to search the page for whatever tag I'm looking for. Unfortunately, and we've asked about this before, we can't get the G2G is a separate piece of software from wiki tree. So it's almost like a third party. It's not almost like it is the third party software. And so we can't really modify it very well. So we can't get an alphabetical list of the tags, unfortunately. That's something I've always wanted into this. We do have a space page that lists a lot of the tags, but I don't know if it's still up to date. I'll have to see if I can find it. And that's a lot of readers project but kind of looks after that, right? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, there are a couple of them that we'll go through and kind of retag if they see a tag that could be added or something's missing or some people are really creative with their tags. Sometimes we just try to fix those so that, like we were saying for a trend of, you know, having the right tags helps people see. Yeah. Yeah. If you start typing a tag, like for a project or something, you'll get, it should show a little prompt at the bottom to give you some ideas of what will work. Yeah. Am I right about that? I don't do that very often. Yeah, I'll give you suggestions. Yeah, as soon as you type in the question, it'll, it pops up some. Pops up with the options. Yeah. And I'm just sharing the, Oh, sorry. Go ahead and answer. Who does the answering turret does a question about where do you get discord? So there's a help page for discord. So it's just help, pull in discord. And that, and it tells you how to, how to go about getting that set up. And Steven Tamazowicz was asking about a zoom port. And no, we don't have a, we don't have a live zoom going most of the time. I will say after, maybe after wiki tree day, there were some people who asked if we could have something like that, maybe like once a month on a Saturday or something and just have a zoom be open, which we talked about at the time and then it just got lost in the shuffle. So if that's something that people are interested in, we can certainly, certainly do that. I think it would be cool. Yeah, you do. Nice to see people's faces and chat and especially when you're trying to collaborate, it helps when you know the other person is a person. Definitely. So we'll, we'll, we'll be back with another wiki tree tours on, I think it would be March 20th. Time flies. After Roots Tech. Yes. Gotta make it through Roots Tech. Here, I have to put a plug in for Friday, date night zoom. It's not a secret. Every other Friday, we have Friday, date night. That's my little baby. I love that. I love the people that come join and help us date profile. So look for that in G2G2. It'll pop up every other week. And that's this. And, and I think so. Yes. It is. Thank you for reminding me. Despite it. I have it on my calendar. I just haven't got the stats updated or anything. Roots Tech is on Margaret's birthday. Oh, happy birthday Margaret. All right. Well, I think we'll wrap it up for today. But we will be back in a month. And there's plenty of other stuff happening between now and then you can check G2G. There's the what's happening in February post. There's what's happening in March post. So you can get links to things there and just make sure you're not missing all of the fun and exciting and educational, entertaining stuff that we're doing. Yep. So much. Great to see you all coming. Yes, thank you. I'm glad everybody popped in. Tell it, tell your friends to come next month. Tell your friends and like the video, please. Please. Thank you. Bye everybody. Yes, please. It helps us. Bye.