 Oh Morning everybody Welcome to the Saturday morning house party Sip our coffee and we talk about wiki tree. Okay. She don't actually don't have a coffee. I drink it all already I've got enough here for you, Sarah. I can share Are you are you awake? Uh, how I need another cup maybe I bet you oh, we have Greg Clark. We have Sarah Guess what else guess what else what else what we have a what else Tree Elf is here. I've always wanted to be a what else Decided to come in and and try and get us under control. She said we're out of control and so she needed to come in Everybody because I'm just gonna say good morning to everybody but everybody is here our regulars are here We love seeing you every Saturday morning We think you are so important that you come in and support us and we love being supported So we're gonna start off this morning with our question of the week Well, are we what is that? Oh Betsy doesn't need to start because your arms aren't long enough to conduct from New York City Oh, but I was still gonna make the announcement. Oh, yeah. Oh my gosh because Because I had told the people who I'm going to announce that it was going to happen first beginning So I am still going first I'm stepping away You're not stepping away. Are you really stepping away? I am really stepping away. Oh, okay. Cool. Yeah. Well, no, not cool We'll be sad. Okay. Take it away So good morning, everyone I we are gonna kick today off with a very very exciting announcement We've been talking about the we will rock you events and Rock is an Mags Mags going crazy going Rock stands for random acts of wiki tree kindness And it's an event that will take place three times during the year March June and September March is coming up and what it is is we held nominations to rent to Select five wiki treeers who will get basically the wiki tree challenge treatment They do we also solicited Volunteers researchers who are going to work away on these five wiki treeers Branches for the entire month of March so So do we have a drum roll that we do? Oh, wait That drum roll I was playing that sorry. I got too excited Mags is the official drum roll Okay Yay, okay. So these five wiki treeers were all selected randomly from amongst the nominations The first one is Gil Whitehouse Yes, Gil is a very active member of the England project she co-leads the orphan trail And she here's her family tree And by the way, everybody who was nominated or selected was very very excited So I would be yes, I would try to get my name in there. I don't know how I didn't get lots of Our second person who is going to get rocked is Bart Mollier, oh The Dutch project He is very very active Working on connecting the unconnected in the Dutch pride Really really fantastic work that he's doing Um Yes Thanks for sound effects great. Thanks for Mags. Our third person Wait for it wait for it wait for it Cindy Cooper From the Canadian project You can also see is my 19th cousin once women. Yes, Cindy is a little way Wait, is that nepotism? Cindy is a leader in the Acadian project Also data doctor also has some line lines in Quebec But she specifically asked if if possible if we could help with her maternal German lines so call out to those who are knowledgeable in German areas Number four number four Was the 1944 Gerber baby No, no way really there's there's We have the Gerber baby on wiki tree. Yeah, that is alive and working. Yes Yes, yes Gail has just a really really wonderful Bio on her profile. So I did not know that Gail was a Gerber baby. Look how cute I want to pinch your cheeks. I know I know Among among many other wonderful accomplishments that came after that On wiki tree Gail started the Holocaust project has also been a ranger and member of the profile improvement and unknowns project specifically if possible, she would love help with some of her lines Jewish lines in Hungary, Lithuania, Ukraine It that area Wow, as you might know the boundaries the country boundaries shift over time So it's sort of hard to pinpoint a country sometimes based specifically in the late 1800s is where she's getting stuck Wow Yeah, yep All right, and our fifth person is getting her off and I should Aaron Robertson Who is in the Appalachia, Italy and profile improvement projects? And her big wish is as you can see she is she's so close to 500 connections So close Analyzing we do some Appalachia project. Yes You said Appalachia project. Yes, I get a penny every time I say that As opposed to Appalachia Appalachia Yeah Yes, so she would love just getting boosted over 500 So those are our five lucky people who are going to get rocked in March And for the rest of us it is not too late At all for you to sign up to help with any any of these lines So I believe up. There it is in the chat Through that g2g post and we will get you on the list There you go. Yeah That is so cool, I know and we will have around like a end of the month video To to share what we've discovered at the end So, you know, if we just leave that up the whole time Anyone I mean we can move anyone up that we can Join our live cast and we'll cover you up with What's a lifetime opportunity, yeah, that's right That's your good shoulder Excited for this we will rock you really we're pretty excited about it Um, so how many people have you had and do you have signed up to volunteer already or have people started doing that? We have 46 people signed up Wow, and I was you know, there was a point where I was like Let's just get to 40 and now I'm like, oh come on. Let's just get I bet you're at 50 by the end of the live cat. I hope so That's why you know for more days, you know, it doesn't start till March 1st. So there's still plenty of time, right? So they could be rocking while we're rocking out at roots tech. Yeah, right? We will definitely be rocking out at it roots tech even though Sarah won't be there with mr. Microphone. Hey, baby. I'll be back in a minute to pick you up. I'd be back in a minute Did you guys remember that commercial? No There's a commercial with mr. Microphone. He's in the back of of a convertible He's passing this this group of ladies on the street and he leans out the car and says on mr. Microphone holding the speaker up Hey ladies, I'll be back to pick you up in a minute Okay, so moving right along I'll give the tip of the week now Yes, the tip of the week is all about the anniversaries list There we go Okay, so your anniversary the anniversaries list is something that has been around on wiki tree since 2015 But if you haven't stumbled upon it You go to the my wiki tree menu and it's right at the top. It's right at the top. Yeah, I just I just go right past it I go That's funny So basically what it is it is Organized by date all the birth marriages and dates of everybody in your watchlist So you can see that okay, we are February 25th. Oh look my great uncle was born On today, um, you know him I did not know But if we go here here's his profile um I mean the anniversaries list can be a great way to remind you to Share wiki tree on social media. For instance, um, if I wanted that there are a couple ways to do it, but Here on his profile under his menu I can just go to share on facebook. Oh, wow And then it takes me right to this page with very very clear instructions You say it gives the the tree that we all love And then you can save it and just post it To your social media and you know get your relatives talking and more interested and engaged um in In what you're doing on wiki tree um What else um you could um Also use it to maybe organize your research um, for instance, um, you could decide that you're going to work on spruce up people's profiles Who have something going on in february? Um, that's one way. I thought I'd do it. Um You if you have living family, you can always send them up you'd be reminded It's their birthday send them a wiki tree e-card. Yeah. Yes um, and this the anniversaries list is also Part of the 15 for 15 challenge Oh, we have a comment. Yes Oh Would love a share to twitter that easily is there not a twitter code or you can just copy that image there sandy and and post it Yeah, you know, I I linked In my my post my g2g post about the today's livecast. I I gave the link to Azure's youtube video on link sharing to social media and she goes through I'm sure twitter's on the list. She shows facebook instagram Um, and twitter a couple of others and I think there she has instructions on that video Yeah, um I suspect that what sandy was asking is if there could be like a pre-made page just like the Oh Pre-made page that sort of sets it up for you. Mm-hmm. I'll like share to twitter for dummies We used to have um share buttons, but they were causing issues with page load times So there were so many complaints about the page load times that those were taken off Um, I think I have that video Well Yeah, can I tell you that's about another thing about family anniversaries. Um in on the discord channel in the um app developers area Sorry There's been some discussion about there was a request someone asked if there's a way of of taking the anniversaries and exporting them to a calendar Like a google your google calendar. Yes, and so there are some developers that are are looking on that brian has uh got a Beta of that and so that might be something that's coming soon to one of the uh tree apps There is an anniversaries tree apps. So that might be where Um, something that's uh people are talking about I can't promise when it'll happen But I think that people are talking about that as a possibility now. My problem is that I haven't done what you suggested about Um, uh orphaning Profiles I've worked on that I don't need any more that aren't actually related to me So my watch list is massive. So I don't even want a calendar of all those thousands of people Right. Yes, then that way I was gonna mention that this looking at your anniversaries list may spur you to do a little spring house cleaning And you could take those non-family members and put them on your extra watch list If you have the wiki tree browser extension That's the link I have up right now is the link to Azure's um share video how to share stuff. Perfect. Thank you. Yeah, that's that's an awesome video. I have that So yeah, Greg, I had somebody add me to their trusted list when I first joined wiki tree Like to their entire trusted list Yes, no Any other ways that people use the anniversaries list Well, you know the e-card you mentioned, um, I've had somebody send me an e-card for my great great great grandfather's birthday So what they did was they found his They found I was related to this guy and they sent me a wiki tree e-card Because it was from the anniversary list Oh Yeah Yeah, so that is my tip of the week and so I am gonna Did you all agree? Yeah, we like puppies around here We do Okay. Oh, I guess now back to question of the week. Wait, wait, wait We're gonna go to puppy of the week Puppy of the week. Yes. Everyone is reaching down to try and outdo fin No, no to compliment fin I think I think kiki already Even though she's not a question of the week is do you have new zealand family? Oh I can't hear you mags you muted How did I do that? I think you you might have did you mean to mute a1 and you muted yourself No, I muted myself because I was coughing a minute ago. Oh, you guys haven't heard anything. I've said for like an hour. So That's okay back to question of the week I was you know, I I thought oh, okay, new zealand I know we have a big crowd because oh, oh, oh, look at that. Look at the puppy. Look at the puppies That is a cute little dog. That is oh my gosh. I want to just Thank you a1 All right question of the week did we question the week we're gonna try question of the week again Oh Max, please refresh your page. Please refresh your page Okay, why's that? Why did I do that? I edited the question Oh, yeah edited. Oh, gotcha. There we go. Thank you Uh question of the week. Do you have new zealand family? Do you Lots of people do apparently I know that we have a really really really active project new zealand project um, we have a very active kiwi crew um, and the the The project has a brand new leader And they're hopefully going to help get things moving a little bit more Uh, I have to say that immediately right in the very first comments Um, we had somebody ask a question and I don't normally talk about the comments. We had somebody Asking a question and then somebody answered it Hello If you're looking for an article, you will get a better picture about the early arrival of new zealand Scandinavians To marisville or if you're like maris gleeson marisville I am sure you will find an interesting reading records regards jack richardson Toranga, new zealand mosquitoes and sawdust by val ber. Thanks jack I love how wiki tree people are so collaborative And uh down here, uh That's a long one. Yeah Graham only has picked this one as the best and i'm not going to override his best pick by picking something that's best This is really an interesting read Um, it really kind of tells the story of all of those people in the new zealand project um, and i'm not going to read the whole thing, but uh The first new zealand arrived at mangan. I don't know if how they pronounce that mangan or mangan arriving in little jim on board the grass mirror in 1855 Uh, but i'm going to say it's mangan because they were french yugano So we're gonna we're going to assume that at that last i in is like shimmy So french yugano Protestants originally from lorraine who have connected through ancestry dna They fled france leaving all they possessed escaped Savage persecution and inhuman terror under catholic louis the 14th Our french patriarch was atm. Am i pronouncing that correctly atm. Yeah atm mangan Who started the first calvin inspired Protestant church with others administering sacraments to his congregation from his house At mo near Paris. So she tells the whole story of how they left they fled. Um I love how they called the new zealand the land of the long white cloud Yeah, that's pretty cool. And the the hobbit movies and lord of the rings were filmed there So you get an idea of the clouds there. Anyway, they go through the whole story about how the family ended up Uh fleeing Paris and running and then ending up Finally in the land of the long clouds. So, um, that's crazy cool. Probably shouldn't put your uh Email in there Janice Hobbs, but that's a great story. So Graham only picked that as the best go over and check that out We have a lot of Stuff. Um, the robin lozier is very very active I do try to add new zealand notables whenever I read about anyone interesting She's got a profile a list on her profile and she's Everybody wanted to to brag about how long they'd been in new zealand. It was like, you know, who's been there the longest Four generations five generations. I don't think that we have anybody that said they'd been there for six generations I think that the first couple of ships arrived in the 1840s like 1841 1840 um and people were talking about um fiano make michael who is actually the Project coordinator for the new zealand project was talking about um How uh, she's been doing amazing the little kiwi crew has been doing amazing work on new zealand profiles On their portion of the great big old shared tree And this week they're working on a program called pass Passengers which aired on tv down down under And so they're working on that so they they have great little Projects that they have many projects that are going on. So if you're interested in the new zealand project Jump in to that project um Let's see and then graham only who was the one who Selected that first answer is the best. I'm a fifth generation With closer links to family in the uk, but he's a kiwi a fifth generation. So we have a fifth. We have a sixth So let's see if we can get a sixth in there um Various profiles that ended up in new zealand, but the closest ones were my three brothers who all emigrated to From ireland whilst he had gone to canada Do do do do I had to get canada in there and somehow this morning wait So her grandfather's three brothers Went from ireland to new zealand while her grandfather was away in canada visiting relatives. Yep And then then she says i'd like to visit it someday. So i'm assuming the it is new zealand not canada Right So that's albrewer and make sure you vote up these these answers because We got to make sure these people get some love um, I love this My family hail from dunedin timaru and ocklin four to six generations. They're six That's not is that six generations? Yeah, well one of them has to be six generations Well, it actually could be back further because there are rumors of maori ancestry And if you aren't familiar with new zealand the maori are the indigenous tribes Of new zealand the original peoples And everybody wants to be connected to the maori I also think that that uh, alon picked this question the week so that I would have to try and pronounce some of the stuff I'm just saying I always I always say things about alon in here in the morning. Did you just come in to hear what I was going to say about you? Oh, let's go on down. Uh, my first immigrant family Arrived in january 1840 to the shores of what would become peton or petone Among first of the wakefield sailors from kent to new zealand over the next 40 years the rest of my family came from scotland in ireland Sometimes via the nearby connies and now what is now called australia So cool down under new zealanders Uh, that's from the first page Let me jump over to this page Eric wettington says No But I have a mate who's a kiwi. I keep mentioning wiki tree to him But he says he has a bunch of family info that he needs to sort and should join But he never does at least not yet. Give us his phone number, eric We'll call him live on the show Unless he's in new zealand then just give us your phone information and we'll call him from your phone All right, and I love this I love wiki connections. I'm in iowa in the united states And thanks to the connections and the work done by others found at okay. Here you go. Anyone Aotiroa connection. Oh god You got it Aotiroa Yeah, see And then there's Hoheppany Teowakku Cooper You got that you're gonna do it Hoipene Teowakku Cooper Very nice You make me sick Imagine the health Very good Oh, so anyway, so loving the wiki tree connections getting those connections because wiki tree is all about great connections It's hop on over to the next page Love love on those Half of my family tree has been in new zealand since the 1840s. I'm arriving on the first boat to sail from the uk Though the second will arrive after a difficult voyage in 1841 One of my multiple great uncles was born on the beach at Paton Shortly after they arrived according to the family bible although the first child was credited with being Born on the ship At anchor in the bay of the islands my great uncle is repeated to be the first born actually born On using the soil so the first white Northern european people um Let's see my father born ronald charles eames Watford uk emigrated around 1950. So this is a later arrival. I lost track of him From then on except for a family visit back to the uk in 1960 61 So he reportedly died in new zealand in 1969. He was a baker by trade working at holiday resorts Butelands, I don't want to say buttlands Butelands hailing island He was the name changer and womanizer And supposedly had a wife kathy in new zealand. Uh-oh It's extremely likely that he may have fathered children in new zealand under a different name Oh, my So if you know anything Yeah, sounds like a dna surprise and that was the other thing. Let's hop on over to the next page Which is I have many dna cousins in new zealand What a segway. Oh, what a segway. That was so good So, um, and they all like baking They all like baking and they have the name evans Um, at least her name wasn't baker. No Oh, so DNA cousins so a lot of people were talking during these great answers about New zealand connections being dna connections and and discovering dna Discovering family from new zealand through their dna work. And then I love this I grew up and still live in new zealand and they give all of the information on their Family the germans. Isn't that cool? That's shine kelly So that is the question of the week I wonder if she's related to ned kelly Like that. Isn't that an infamous like New zealand He's all one of those bottles of wine, isn't he? Yeah. Yeah The what is it those what are those called convicts? Yeah, yeah, something like that. Yeah So that's it That's the question of the week. Thank you so very much. I I appreciated She says a1 but uh Somebody said a1. I don't know. I think sarah did over there I was saying that june was saying she had dna matches to new zealand, but has no idea How they're related Maybe you have a you have a long lost uncle who was also a womanizer Who named evans who was a baker? Maybe who knows I missed one mags. Oh, no, john. I missed one. Oh She probably was I mean, I'm sure she we didn't go through all 70 says it. No, I don't think we did this day I'll look to see where it is. I'm assuming. I guess he wants you to find his What's to find his comment give me a hint. What page was it all? Oh man, you want to are you going back to it or no? Go ahead. Peter. Peter. Who are you? The profiles of the week this week are From the deck uva and freedman bureau friday wiki tree seven by seven challenge So, you know that this year the wiki tree challenges are taking different groups ancestry groups or genealogy groups and most recent one To coincide with black history month is the deck uva and freedman bureau friday So in case you don't know what that stands for Deck uva is the descendants of enslaved communities at the university of virginia and So this is a group that They're they're modest as at all or they're a subtitle Model byline reclaim honor and repair So, uh, they're doing great work. Um tracking down And the enslaved People who were enslaved and finding their ancestors and the descendants and following them So they've got a great web page here that talks about their project and And on association with that there is a facebook page for finding the enslaved laborers at uva which Is also is the connection from the freedman bureau friday wiki group Um, and so I've got to say before we go into any of these profiles I've got to give a shout out to the the people who worked on these and the um the black heritage Users group on wiki tree. You've done amazing amazing work. Um, it's important work And it's it's great work that you've done these these profiles Are are wonderful the ones that we're going to pro we're going to highlight today and um And it's important that these people who didn't have a voice Finally have a voice and and some history added to that and and very challenging to define some of these records and some of these connections because Many times they they weren't counted in the early censuses and It's trying to difficult to uh to get to that so That's sort of my overall impression when I went through all of this. I thought that's um that I needed to start start off by prefacing that um and mags always knows how everyone's connected but I It occurred to me that I could just find that by going to my own profile and with this latest um With the latest plugin if you go to the bottom of your profile That actually sorts the people who are connected to you in order so it's easy for me to read this now It basically took away mags job I'm sorry, but for but I also wanted to point out that sandy who's in our chat Is my closest one of my closest connections. So hey sandy I don't know we're cousins. I think we are cousins probably. She's my closest connection to Well that and my own So who who else is how is how is sarah and a win and you know, I haven't got aowing up yet I gotta get better. I gotta get betsy was uh betsy's closer to dolly berms Mm-hmm. Let me find aowing real quick. Let me see you have to go you have to go to ramos 244 If you want to actually know That's so weird to see your name that way. Oh, sorry oops Well, you know, I have any categories for me to do a quick jump. Oh Girlfriend you got some close links You're 19 degrees from blanche bruce 19 degrees from sandy paddock Um closer You're 21 degrees from armenta tubman 22 degrees from turner malone 19 degrees from ellen craft ellen cornet That's crazy. You've got lots of good matches there Yeah, I think dolly burns was the closest Don't um Yeah dolly burns and sarah sandy paddock and Blanche bruce Oh wait 16 From ellen craft 16 Wow, let me look at that and that's through Your daddy It's always been my dad And where's joe mama today? She said she was gonna go grocery shopping and then pop in after but we'll see what that means. We'll see. Yeah We'll see that's where we are on her list nowadays So the first profile of the week is blanche calso bruce Who was born the first of march? So his birthday is coming up 1841 he's not with us to celebrate his birthday Unfortunately, um, he passed away on st patrick's day. So maybe that was a celebration. Maybe not. I don't know age 57 a little young um So he is a part of the us black history And part of the us black heritage project um His claim um His claim to fame is he is the only former slave who was actually elected as a u.s senator And the first african-american to complete a full senate term Um, I believe he was the second african-american to be elected to the senate But the first only one who was a former slave Um, and it was until I think it was in the 70s. It says later on in the profile that um He was ousted as the at about up until the 70s. He was the only uh, american african-american to complete a full term in the senate Uh, but he was born into slavery on the first of march 1841 in farmville prince edward county, virginia youngest of 11 children of pauli bruce an african-american woman who served as a domestic slave And his father pettus perkinson was a white virginia planter and he was her and slaver Um previously pauli been enslaved by perkinson's father-in-law memuel bruce And then This profile it's I mean like many of these profiles it goes into a lot of detail So this uh, this particular one there was a lot of details about growing up talking about The the lineage He'd been assumed that his heir was the father of blanche and several of his siblings He grew up uh, he had an interesting um childhood because he was uh, because he was The son of the slip of us. He was a son of a slave and a slave owner um, his ha he had a half brother um, who was um a white half brother because his is uh, father's wife um Water white mistress, I guess uh had a son so he and his white half brother uh played together and He received instruction from the same tutors. So he was educated and so didn't he didn't um Didn't live the harsh realities of life of the fields of field slaves um And then he escaped slavery during the war went to kansas When his white half brother enlisted in the uh in the war And then he eventually came back and he was elected to the legislature of mississippi then to the u.s. Senate um And there he was a second african-american to serve in the upper house and the first one to complete the term um And then it can goes on and continues about uh, the rest of his career and stuff He died as young at 57 um as a result of diabetes Uh, at which point there was no cure for it at that point or remedy until Until insulin was discovered Um, so that's the first one Next we have dolly burns, uh born dolly, uh Epps No, yeah dolly epps um, she was born about 1830 in louisiana According to the louisiana freedman's bureau field office records. Her owner was richard lynch and the freedman's bureau, um those records are um now that they've become available online um been a real uh field day for And source for many of these profiles Wonderful work that was done um and now made available On family search, uh, I know and it's free or certainly when it was announced a couple years ago It was free on ancestry. I suspect it's still free there, but I have to double check that. Um Uh, so when she was enumerated she was 42 and she was uh living at uh in st. Mary's parish louisiana um And her her biography is fairly short because of the you know, just a few of those official records Just um, but there's a section here for slave owners And you'll see that in a number of these profiles as well and then Another great thing that the the project people have done when they've worked on these profiles adding research notes because As you can imagine with when there's a shortage of records There's sometimes there's stories family stories that may or may not have been proven yet with sources Um, or there's some conflicting information So the putting that information in the research notes is very important and helpful for uh future wiki treers and uh descendants I love research notes. Oh Yes They are wonderful Yeah, actually in the uh christmas challenge, um No one broke through the brick wall. Um, I had put my name in right at the sort of the last minute But someone added some really great research notes to the the profile of the person I was looking for or I was trying to get beyond so that's appreciated So that was that that was a present in itself um Back to the profiles of the week though. Um ellen barrett cornet um Uh was born into slavery in 1842 Migrated to arkansas prior to in 1861 um Many of the slaves that wound up in arkansas had been sold by family and friends due to profit punishment bankruptcy gambling debts or master's death or a myriad of other reasons um So that's kind of interesting in fact one thing I really like about this profile which I've seen in some but not um And not so much in other ones for this week, but I really like how it takes I mean it takes the facts we know for example that she was born into slavery in 1842 and moved to arkansas But then expands on that and gives sort of the background or that like the cultural background or the geographical in this case um The rationale for moving from one place to another What was happening in society at that time? Um and sort of gives you gives you a bigger picture of what's going on So it sort of fleshes out those little the little nuggets of information We have we know for sure with some of the other backgrounds. So it it flows nicely as a story and and um Yeah, it's a good reading sun. Jeff was born in arkansas um Just south of uh, the pulse provide room board for uh, so a little rock here Uh arkansas was fully restored to the united states, right because they had seceded during and were part of the confederacy um They became the second confederate state to gain readmission Of course my first question was then what was the first state? But I didn't look that up in time, but maybe I'm just gonna guess it was not south carolina Someone in the chat will probably know right away who the first state was to gain readmission um, but anyways, uh So the and then the profile goes on talks about her life Um, she was in 1910. She was a widowed mother living in the household of her son um Five or eight children in 1900 five or eight children were still living So and she died in 1915 again, there's not a section here on her enslavement and uh slave owners and then family notes Um, I've seen this in a couple of these profiles. There are quote There are paragraphs that were written by descendants and there's a note on these Please do not edit because these are quotes directly from the descendants. So we want to honor These and leave them as as they are Um, I'm excited about this opportunity my third great grandmother ellen barrett is an indicative of what a black women faced at a critical point in the reconstruction of this country Our family passed down stories about her life to remind us of our resilience and how hard our family fought to stay together And that goes on with some more details and stuff. So That's really neat and then The research notes continue on them about about the story and whatnot so Very cool great profile Yeah, yeah, all of these were well done like Picked uh, well well picked well done research and everything. Yeah, so very impressive Oh sandy Tennessee was the first there we go, of course sandy would know right South Karen and I was the first to leave you So that's why you figured it wasn't the first. Yeah. Yeah, they were the first shots in the in the whole thing On fort sumpter. Yeah This was my closest that's an interesting story I did not mention how I was close to a lot of these people. This is my closest at 14 degrees And this woman and barack obama and I share Family together in this line. So no, it's a really close cousin of mine. Isn't that amazing? That is amazing through the welburn family This is cool. So ellen um was born into slavery and um, so was her husband um, but they They had an unusual and daring attempt They escaped slavery because she masqueraded as a white male slave owner And william was accompanying her because she was pretending she he was her slave There are more reasons why I should be close to her So their escape was successful and became well known. Yeah, so she was born into slavery 1826 to a mixed race slave And I'll her and her wealthy plant own plant her owner So her mother was already mixed race and her father was white So that would that would explain her lighter complexion You know saying that she's mixed race is probably better to say she was the product of some nastiness Just no. Well, I know Yeah, so I mean it was it was not uh, it wouldn't nothing easy about any of this, but she married william craft And her her own slave owner I guess had had a half interest But she passed herself off as a white male planter. So not only she changed her race and her gender to pull this off um in appearances And he traveled as her personal servant and they escaped by train and steamboat arriving in philadelphia on christmas day Well, that's a nice christmas present They made it to boston where they were living And they became they'd been married as slaves in georgia, but they again officially married in in boston But because there were prominent fuges uh fugitives And there was a fugitive slave act. Yes, I guess would re enslave them if they were caught They escaped to liverpool england Live there had had their raised their children there Um lived there for almost two decades and in england in 1810 outlawed returning slaves in 1810 and I learned that on that show I've been watching that show called enslave with samuel l jackson last night. I watched it Nice 10 that happened in the they didn't outlaw slavery, but The returning of them. Yeah, so so going to england was a safe harbor for them And so they stayed there, but then they did eventually come back to the states and uh settled back in south carolina Who knew yeah, and she passed away in 1891, but what an amazing story very yeah rose fortune uh born in 1774 in philadelphia um Had two husbands uh passed away at the age of 89 in anapolis royal novus kosher in Well, what would be canada it wasn't canada yet in 64 because canada didn't come into a nation until 67, but I wonder if she was a loyalist What's that? I wonder if she was a loyalist um I know I think she escaped, uh Well, she escaped during the revolutionary war Well anything anything to get away from Whether she was a royalist or not But um, she was the first female police officer in north america because she patrolled the docks of anapolis royal Which is in no novus kosher um wow immigrated when she was uh 10 years old to anapolis valley um She was born into slavery in virginia and then they escaped to new york city her family um And moved to canada to novus kosher in uh when she was 10 She started her own business hauling lug cart carting luggage and a wheelbarrow between the ferry docks and nearby homes Um, and then she became entrusted with safeguarding that property and maintaining order on the wars and warehouses of anapolis royal Is acting as the town's waterfront police officer? Don't touch that luggage. Don't touch that luggage. I mean if you look at the watercolor ever, I wouldn't argue with her No, she she was a force to be reckoned with. No. Yeah I mean just the posture. She's got there. Yes. That's right. Yeah, but sadly she was buried in an unmarked grave um But then a marker was added afterwards in her honor And and I have to say if you've ever read um the book of negroes It's a fictional account of some of these stories But living in novus kosher was not easy Not easy in the least. It wasn't running away to No, yeah. No, it was hard Good honor Yeah Uh, next we have myles haney born in 1830 in tennessee um And he was born into slavery in 1830. Yeah passed away in 1880 when his name appears on the federal census in jackson, Nevada, arkansas um Neither he nor his wife who was born in slavery in mississippi knew where their parents were from and that said Their daughter was also living with them at that time And then we have some family notes based on oral tradition myles and his family were owned by haney and satyr white families We know that wilburne haney son of george luke haney and mary bicker haney married martha and satyr white daughter of tomas satyr white and nary pounds satyr white in 1849 So we have some possible families there, but they don't have a any official documentation yet So we've got some information there in the under possible slave owners um again the satyr satyr white and haney names come up So there's some some places there where um future wiki treers or descendants can go to continue the the research um but i'm You know depending on the number of records, uh, I wonder dna is the um might be The way to go in terms of trying to find some some more hints too. So yep, I agree with that. Yeah Jefferson logan born 1836 in missouri um to moses or mazy logan Also born in katucky after his birth his father was able to buy his own freedom his wife's freedom and one son's freedom And at the start of the civil war He gave his three children that were still enslaved $100 each and counseled them to loan it out with interest so that they would be able to buy their own freedom eventually um in 1862 jefferson along with two other men escaped to iowa um So his father had some financial sense to him there um And gave a bunch of those uh um He married uh, he married in in iowa mary haze. They had two sons um He married in 72 his wife died in 75 and Jefferson did not remarry. I wonder if she died as a result of childbirth or shortly thereafter um Yeah, the clarence was born in 75 Yeah, that's a good guess there Yeah, that's sad I joined his brother He returned to iowa became a prominent businessman So that financial Know-how that his father had obviously rubbed off on him He was a treasurer of the iowa state bystander in african-american newspaper when it began publishing Uh by close attention to business infrugality. He has been successful in securing considerable very valuable property Which requires his time looking after it Um, he in 1904 he was the wealthiest black man in damoyne Isn't that very cool He's listed as a freedom seeker in the iowa freedom trail project Hey, and there's a research note from a son the funeral of a son so very neat Turner robert malone the first Uh was born around january in 1844 He was the son of john williams and aliza kelly born as a slavery on the plantation the missus lynch rowell Who is the sister of tom lynch? Near alexandria city in virginia Somewhere between 38 and 44 Uh when he was only six weeks old Um, missus lynch rowell sold turner his mother aliza and two brothers to bill malone So imagine having to pick up and leave and move to a whole new Well picking up and moving moving to a new place with a newborn is hard enough But when you're enslaved it like that's just at least they sold them all together Well Two, uh, I don't know it says a mother and two brothers if those are the only maybe the whole family went. Um But not not necessarily right no No, I was going to get excited that that had happened. Yeah. Yeah He enlisted in company g of the colored infantry in 1864 and he fought under the name buck malone Buck was a nickname that was used by his former slave owner Um after the war ended he started using the name turner arm alone, but r doesn't stand for an initial It's just the last letter of his first name Like but it sounds important. It does sound important. Yes Having an initial makes it sound so much more official. Um applied for a pension And it was granted one. There's details there down in the research notes The family oral history says that he was enslaved near alexandria enslaved with his mother nancy When turner was one they were sold near floyd georgia I I want to hope there were they were stayed they stayed together. Yeah. Yeah This this is a note from when he was in the war His regiment went without provisions for four days during the war He found some fresh meat to eat but the meat gave him diarrhea And then the diarrhea was treated by drinking a mixture of oil and turpentine And this caused his kidneys to hemorrhage After that his kidney on the left side caused him pain When turner was discharged. He caught smallpox from someone in the camp In two days after he came home. He was bedridden He was remain in isolation six to eight weeks and received very poor care I mean amazing. He survived that at all But he did and had three children And there is there's was found in the freightman's bureau again that source of records and stuff. So And then there's lots of other details there, but um Very very interesting profile Ned Mason Now this one i'm not sure so he was born in 1903. So he himself was not enslaved. So i'm And it is a very short profile. So i'm wondering did I if I clicked on the wrong link or But he's part of the us black heritage project migrated from north carolina to pennsylvania Son of reberta bellfield mary ella huff and i in 1967 So, um I wonder if it's his parents That we should be talking about I wonder. Yeah, I went up there No, not her parent not his parents either Yeah, because she was born 86 that's still after Yeah Anyways, interesting though. Yeah. Yeah, then we have alice wells um Born about 1865 in georgia. You skipped you skipped one No, i'm saving her for last. Ah, so good for you But thanks for tonight on me because you know, I could have easily missed this mess this up She was born 1865 probably the daughter Probably the daughter of henry worman again You know, there's not There's not all the records that you'd hope to have But henry left when he died in 1871 in laurence county georgia. He left in his will he left his daughter alice Spelled al l is Which is how you pronounce how you'd spell it if you were just trying to do it phonetically, right? um Left her her mother's chest a spinning wheel the kitchen table and other household furniture I thought isn't that interesting? A spinning like I mean specifically a spinning wheel. So that must have been important to to him or his or her mother probably um And the fact that he had her mother's chest, but there's no name for the mother that was anywhere on the record You know, that's kind of sad that we're missing that little piece of information Well, you would want to you would want to think that maybe one of the kids ruthi ida winnie florally Ivory oh how fun how to spell that. Yeah. Yeah, but you would think that maybe one of the kids was named for her right, yeah, so that would be good, but um, I mean sometimes and even when in the early senses right when even when um The slaves were included. Sometimes they were just tick marks in some of them, right? Right, right So um Just their ages or yeah, so it's heartbreaking. She was married at 16 to win wells um, but just the piece uh It looks like someone stopped midway in this I went I edited the I went to edit mode to see well Maybe the rest of the paragraph was cut off because of a formatting break, but no it just ends with w there What what what what their their wedding was What? Um, anyways, they had nine children. Um and uh Interesting so in one one of the sent the 19 1910 census She'd reported that she had 12 children 10 of them living so I guess the two of them passed away young And uh, there we go. She died After 1910 so she was in the 1910 census I don't I wonder if that means they haven't found her in the 20 or any of the later censuses yet so um And then the final one is the only the only profile the only person I actually knew of I'd heard of before Um, but most people probably have heard of Harriet Tubman She has great connections to canada as well, dude. Exactly. In fact, there is a church that's just Uh, about 10 minutes south of arelia where I live Or the area where I um that was that was part of where some of the um People from the Underground Railway settled so There's a close uh a close geographic connection Uh to where I am right now But of course Harriet Tubman iconic figure in the history of us civil rights Renowned abolitionists and conductor of the famed Underground Railway railroad Her birth name was Araminta Ross Or minty and she was born into slavery around 1822 on Anthony Thompson's plantation in Dorchester County, Maryland Now I knew of Harriet Tubman Well, I didn't realize it was Maryland and I didn't realize that Maryland had had slavery I thought it was too far north Right below it the the some of the biggest battles were just across the line In Pennsylvania like Gettysburg is right at Maryland. Ah, yeah I didn't put the I I always thought, you know much deeper south, right? I didn't didn't realize that Maryland was um So, um, she was the fifth of nine children the right smack dad in the middle of the family Um, her parents had married around 1808. Um, and this is kind of neat. They're well neat Ish their respectives and slavers had married so the They're the owner of the of her mother and the owner of her father Married each other and then that brought them together. So they got um, they got married So There's a small little sliver silver lining there The family was together. Yeah Um, at the time her father was enslaved By Thompson, her mother was enslaved by Mary Patterson Brodes um And Mary passed away leaving right her children enslaved by the minor son Edward under Anthony Thompson's guardianship This allowed the family to stay together. So there we go. They stayed together for a while. Um, but then uh, they They did they did start getting separated. Um, at one point She was struck in the head with a heavy weight or a stone and the effects of this injury included headaches and seizures Which plagued Harriet for the rest of her life Eventually several of her sisters were sold. So that's very sad um Harriet married in 1840. She married a local free black man John Tubman for her last name her new or the last name that we know her by comes from Um, and that's when she started using the word her name Harriet instead of Araminta or minty um She they She escaped with a couple of her brothers, but then they came back, but she didn't stay for long She did escape herself in 1849 to Philadelphia And then there she worked saved her money and she repeatedly returned to Maryland to rescue others from slavery And one of the nicknames that they've given her is moses because she Brought her people to freedom. Just like there's a there's a movie that came out two years ago called Harriet And it really documents. She actually led a revolt of slaves and ended up Getting these people and and getting them on ships right underneath the noses Of the Confederacy. So that I mean, it's crazy My my profile, you know the the extension for wiki tree Yeah, that's that she's my 16th cousin five times removed But it also says that she is my 20th great-grandmother twice. It shows two different routes that she's my great-grandmother Wow That's amazing. Wow That's amazing. Yeah, so after the Fugitive Slave Act the one that we talked about in the previous profile She moved to st. Catherine's in Ontario. Whoo. There's a there's a canada connection Um and stayed there for eight years Um and brought many people across to st. Catherine's and and she was an abolitionist and preaching abolitionism in canada a lot And in england, correct? I believe I think so. Yeah Yeah, and she served with the union army during the civil war Scout nurse cook and spy A spy a spy But it wasn't because of a spy because she was a nurse that she actually got a pension out of the deal The nurse was I guess legit the one you can put down on the official forms um And then eventually did move back to to new york and there's a nice picture of her So there she's there on the left and there's her husband sitting down and and uh other family there's uh borders and um Uh children from neighbors and this is her great niece. I think it is Nice. Oh, there we go Well done, and then there's more details. You know nice picture here of her Um, anyways these profiles were all amazing and the whole the us black history black heritage project is Emma mcbeth has done such an incredible job with that. It's fantastic. Just a great job Huzzah To you for that that's that's great. Emma. Yeah Okay Sarah, I know it's really late, but do you want to talk about any of the pictures that we have up? There's there's two from last week and one i'm real excited about because it Oh, no, it must have a yama in it That would That would no But a uh some kind of animal. Oh, okay. Okay. Am I sharing it? Always my roomy There okay, so this is one of them. This is one only two got uploaded since last week Uh, so we have this one I think that's kind of cute the I think he's a tire. He's yeah, it looks like a tire I'm wondering if it's a tractor tire like it's look at the oh, it's a model t-tire A what model t-tire. Oh, does it say that? No, it doesn't say that I just recognize it Magical snow things 1918 My next store the next door neighbor to my grandmother had a really big penchant for automobiles He had Rolls Royces He had old model t's. He had all sorts of stuff and that looks like a model t-tire Okay, and this is in indiana michigan city Okay, and then the next photo It's wonderful Oh, there's a doggie two little puppies. No way Oh Look at that a spaniel and a black Black retriever Anybody and that's picked in the windows. I'm looking in the windows, too This is a pretty house too. Look the guy looks like he's ever he looks like a guy here Where is this from I don't know I was excited about the dog that didn't look um england and Oxfordshire oxford sure. Yes and Kathleen Thompson uploaded this one. She has a lot of photos so Um gsl says that I missed the homes last week. You may have but don't worry Emma Not Emma. This is the last one of the month though. So yeah, I know Okay, there was only a couple there. I mean look at that photos I think only two were from last week. Is that from last week? And then I think This one was also from last week Mm-hmm 100 year old Japanese re-erected in Ingham There's an Ingham little news article So Oh brisketing from japan to brisketing Cool Yep, and then that was it. I was just excited about the dog one but And and uh maren's really interested in the garden rather than the dog I thought the person holding the dog looked like Walt Disney But probably not if he was in england maybe related maybe it was the hat and you know the little mustache Oh, let me get myself in order here. Um, we got stuff coming up Get myself together So I've already been on the social media. Let's go with that Uh the social media. So we're going to the week of sunday february 26, which is tomorrow I have a talk with the halton peel Ontario genealogist society, uh for african For black history month going to be talking about an african canadian family history mystery If you're interested you can check out the halton peel ontario genealogical society for that For wiki tree. We've got stuff coming up next week. What's going to happen next week people? Roots tech Elf elf actually wears elf ears at roots tech. I just say really, you know We're gonna help cost you Like for years for years Chris wanted mags to be a tree Like as a tree The wiki tree Like five foot two Yeah Five five. Thank you Aowan is I keep calling her little elf because I'm making fun Aowan is a giant of a person. She is very tall Like really tall. So Aowan is what I always joke about her being little because I do think of her as a little elf running around the tree Getting stuff done, but in stature. She's quite tall. So she would be a much better tree chris Um She would be a hard no on that one Hard no, yes So we're gonna be at roots tech next week. So we will still be doing the live cast but Beware because it's our live cast. We are going to do it at the regular time mountain standard time for us So 10 a.m. For us, which would be What 10 here 10 11 12 12 p.m. Here 12 noon So catch us at noon. So Yeah There was a tree at roots tech hillary is correct. Oh my gosh, and he was fantastic and we were like we can never be that good It was the dinosaurs Dinosaurs will be back this year. I don't share the guy the tree didn't come last year So what we've got coming up this week coming up. We've got one place studies wednesday One name study tuesday We've got project showcase showing up in g to g post wiki tree live cast Of course, it's uh 12 noon next week What is wiki tree how to use wiki tree? I believe that would be betsy coze No, that's uh, she's been sharing conny knocks to the Oh, cool big thing about using wiki tree. So we've been sharing little chapters from that Nice connection finder on friday Uh, no bingo friday or there is bingo. I'm a third there. Yeah, there's bingo friday. Um, keep scrolling Wait 17 get in the middle of march No, no, that's see that's throwing me off Uh, march third friday night bingo Yes, there's also gonna be bingo at during root stack in there a1 Yeah, we're doing bingo at the booth bingo at the booth and and Greg and I may do and betsy if betsy's there may do play-by-plays Yes, a1 pulling out the cards. She's getting ready to read another another number. What will that be? um Meet our members on the fourth Then the third the sound around around up again live cast from root stack homes for the photos We wrap that up today. So what's the next month's uh photo of the week? Theme do you know yet anyone? I don't I don't do that one anymore Oh, okay. Meg you scroll back. You you didn't mention that. We're actually going to be live casting every day from roots tech Yes, we are we're and I think that's in that that calendar as well Yes, we're going to be live casting from roots tech. So you see 430 noon, but these are all mountain standard time The the theme is sport sport For the photos. Oh Look there Thank you, sarah Oh, and really quickly. Let me go back up here jump over to g2g really fast Go to questions and will we see you at roots tech? We hope we do if you are at roots tech come by and say hi and jump into a picture with us We're doing that at 10 55 on friday 10 55 am on friday. We're gonna do a big picture So where your orange come and and take a picture with us then um Let's see what's happening around. I love you alin by the way. This is great I know I've got it. I've got to get the march one going. It has just a couple things on it. So So dan oh no, we don't have anything yet for march. So but Oh So we're the last thing this time. So she's got to get it cranked out for next week, but we've got social Scroll down. I started it like keep going. There's a see also for march No, go back up To the bottom of the original post And they're the comment for the original post all the comments. Yeah So right there see also march. So I started march Oh, yeah, there you go. I started march I need a lot of help sometimes Oh, look march 5th new member q&a with vetsy co and friday night me go the 31st. So there you go It's nations tour argentina 15 for 15 mission. How many people are doing 15 50 and we've got those coming up So that's it So that's that's the week that was the week that we was anyone's any special words a1 No I'm glad to be here. You guys are awesome and there's all there's so much great stuff happening around wiki tree. It's exciting It's fun and it's fun to be able to hang out on saturdays and talk about this And it's so much fun to have a special guest and to have our regulars like sarah and betsy and greg We we have a good time on saturdays wear your house toad bring your coffee bring your irish coffee Guys if you guys are great All right, we will see you Next