 Hello hello Thank you everybody for showing up here as you can see I've got Claire here with me We are going to be kicking off her week And if you didn't know I know a lot of the team members are already Claire like I said, they're chomping at the bit There's they're already ready to start doing this. I'm excited. I really am very I am humbled beyond all words because over 40 plus years of helping everybody else So it's kind of nice to have someone help me unexpectedly, so I'm grateful Yes, and you do. I mean you've helped so many people I'm going to say really quick what wiki tree is in case we have any new people out there We are a community of genealogists who work together on a single family tree So in other words, we collaborate to grow an accurate and global tree that connects us all and it's free The wiki tree challenge is our year-long event and part of our year of accuracy Where each week we take a guest stars trees their branches and we make it more complete and accurate Hopefully on wiki tree than it is anywhere else So our goal is to improve the accuracy of wiki tree Add more family connections and make more friends and that we have definitely done this year So let's go ahead and I'm going to share this for a minute and we can go ahead and talk to Claire now Claire is she's a lot of things people She's an educator and a leader She is a certified genealogist and she has accreditation for specializes in the areas of England and the US Mountain West region She's the author of the social media guide for ancestral research using web 2.0 strategies She's a technology expert She is a lecturer that has research and lectured on site in the US and the UK She's currently an online family history instructor for BYU Idaho part-time and provider of tech support for ancestral quest She owns timeless genealogies and in other words. She has no free time and all of her time goes towards helping other people So there's nothing wrong with that though. No, is there anything there that we One quick one one quick correction on that list I had to stop teaching at BYU to do my doctorate. So that's an edit that I need to make somewhere But you are making progress on that doctorate Three years into that and I'll be hitting the dissertation once the proposal has been accepted. I'm so psyched about it. I Want to put genealogy into the colleges I That would be awesome. I'm I'm a supporter and you can just add me under your supporter list So what got you interested in genealogy in the first place? Well, my husband actually it's all his fault, you know, he he had when I got married to him He had all these nice big shot on the back of he worked for The government where they sold navigational shots and so they would get rid of the old ones and and bring in the new ones So he took one home and he started creating a tree when we got married. He showed me a street I don't have a tree was that like you know, and so he got me started on it and I wrote home from Australia where I was living and Got a letter from my mother and my aunt and that was really the start of it all So it's just and I never even knew, you know, because my grandparents had passed away before I came on the scene so I got to learn who they were and and so on and so forth. It's just been exciting and Fact for my one of my mother my father's sister for her fiftieth winning anniversary I gave her a beautiful shot and she sat there and just cried because you didn't know him This was all new for us. So it's just been amazing Now if you had to pick one, who would be your favorite ancestor? Um Well, all of my grandparents I've never met so I would have liked to have known them Think I would have liked to have known my grandparents. Um Julie and plant she sounds she sounds like a really nice one and you know, they all sound wonderful But on my mom's side the both sides of the family, they're all passed away before I got to beat them Yeah The plants and the Marat's they're all nice people would have liked to have gotten to know them Yeah, and that's one of the things too that we all you know Hopefully get out of the genealogy research is we bring these people back to life And you know, we really help people finding memories and what was going on in the world around them Get to know them as people and not just a name in a year on a chart. Oh, yeah She's this one. I don't have a picture for I think I mentioned to you She's the one that's really been a mystery. I think I have her If I have some of some of the things that from my mother when my mom passed away, I found some stuff and It's been really Julianne plan. I have her little Book when she was baptized with her From Sherbert, Canada, but you know, it's just they're all just LaVena I never met her because my mom she died in 54. My mom was just 18 years old So, you know, these people are really Real specialty. Yeah Now, what are your most difficult brick walls? I know you mentioned like the big nola line as yeah And I think it goes big nola and then fiola fiol a I think it goes Okay, I had hired someone that did German and because I if you gotta remember that France at one point I was just what Paris is and then all the little areas around it way back then and and so that's one German line I have and then a lot of family members I've only got like the husband and wife and I don't have to fill in the families and the children stuff a lot of them I have some of them. I don't But any of the law any of the lines is just But as many as they you know, whatever there's there I it's been so long since I've really taken a good good look But they're all Special as you know the suicide lines I know goes into coochie COUC why someone told me but I never had a chance to check into it, you know Yeah, and so as it when you're doing stuff for so many other people, you don't really have a chance to pursue too much Yeah, you really never do. I know and then by the time you do get back to it You're like, oh my goodness now. I got to reread all my notes I Just like I have a file Says files full folders for all the surnames and I was really very religious about that until I started helping everybody else And then you and then you run out of time then you run out of time. Yep. Yeah So how did you first discover wiki trees? wiki tree Okay, so I teach a lot of classes on how to do genealogy go figure And one of the classes I teach is a beginning class on genealogy and I talk about all the different resources, it's a really fabulous class in And so I wanted to find some of the websites that people could use that were reliable Trustworthy and didn't cost a nominal leg because there's so many people out there that can't afford anything but they want to find out their family and I was working at the family history library in Utah and someone said why don't you try check out wiki tree and So I ended up checking it out uploaded a tree in 2009 that from every class that I've taught that your places Your site has been promoted Well, we certainly appreciated the more the merrier here. And yeah, that is the great thing You know is is not only do you have this platform? That's really wonderful to collaborate in It isn't costing anything. So, no, it's just a fabulous a website It has a lot of pluses to it That others don't have and people I found them to be I mean, I would get I mean I've sent emails To people where I found something that would help me with researching for a client or even myself And everyone has responded back which is really unusual So I was just tickle-picking. It's just a great website And now what do you hope to get most out of the challenge? You know, I know some people want focus on brick wall Some people just want stories or tidbits of information. You know, what is it? You're hoping to see, you know What what people find will be probably brand new to me. I'm just grateful for anything they find because Like I said, I've had to leave my tree when someone's giving me something. I've taken a few minutes when I've had To add stuff, but whatever they find will be a plus because it's something that I couldn't do and so what if they find stories They find pictures Anything is welcome everything because that's what it takes a community really does take community If we're helping one another, that's why I believe in collaboration Ancestral Quest has a collaboration feature. They're the only ones. I know family search You can sort of collaborate, but I just like to collaborate with people. I know in this case We're doing a special thing But I think what's nice is you can share it with it with your family Yes, and so anything that anyone does or adds is well appreciated Okay, do we have any questions from our viewers? Except for Greg talking about being a grandpa. I Can't hear anything. That's all right Okay, we'll give them a minute and see if they have anything what else do you have to share with us? Well, that might help them. Well, Francis trapped but Francis David plant. We've not been able to find his death I've been trying to find his death. I reached out to a friend of mine who does French Canadian, but he hasn't been able to get to the library because he works till five in the library cold of the five So he's one that I haven't been able to find his death date But there's others there's missing dates like I have some stuff, but I don't have all the stuff and so this there's a lot It's a big I mean you could I'm sure you have a big tree too Now, you know, I know one of the the other nice things is we have the like how is this person related to me on wiki tree? It's really oh, I love that somebody Isn't it awesome? It really helps us find cousins and now we've got even more little widgets and features on the site that show People who they're living cousins are or you know, otherwise So do you think not not using wiki tree in other ways you have found cousins that you didn't know about before you start researching Oh, no In fact, I did add one thing for DNA and I've got more but I wasn't I was struggling with how to add it And so perhaps the the understanding of how to use it better might be a little bit helpful for people Okay, what is your take on people claiming French Canadian women were really indigenous Hmm. I know one's ever asked me that because most of the French ones come from French The women came from France so they weren't indigenous they were just working women in fact when the King's daughters were actually Rallied up so to speak there They were given a dowry to their family and for them because they knew that once the the girls left the area They weren't coming to come back and so they were brought into so they wanted rugged women that could stand the wilderness and and so And they did they really did they had a hard life Yeah, so I wouldn't say they were indigenous at all unless now. I do have eight generations back on My mom's side one line that married into the alf the Algonquin Nation in the Abinac tribe and so that one would be she would be indigenous, but other than that no Right any notorious. I don't know If you buy some that's a whole lot with me. I'll tell you what Claire if there are we'll find them There's no perfect people right We all have those hidden secrets Yeah, we all we all have those skeletons that are dancing in the closet waiting to come out I know and so this apparently Danielle sees that my Okay. Yes, apparently it is and I don't know I don't he could have been and see I don't know anything else when you go into Tangway in true and all it says is it says from Germany in in German or in French rather So that's all I know. So, you know more just about what I know right now Yes, I do. I don't know which ones I would love to do. I know they have a society that For those women, which I think is really cool Yes, a lot of them go back to noble nobility when I was told when you go into Tang way And drew and it'll tell you the Paragon soldiers There's a lot of my soldiers and some of them are From nobility, but I don't know which ones because I haven't had a chance to do that someone I used to go around when I was in Rhode Island and We were promoting to coming use the family history center because I was a director and I had my tree out in this guy Walked up to me and he said, you know, you're descendant of William of Orange and I don't know so I know that much But where I don't know That'll give these guys something else to look for. Yeah, yeah, Chris up is pointing out That's another one of our cool toys as we have a locator app that tells you how many you have so If you want to know how to use some of these tools I know how to use those to do you have any videos and stuff on how to use them We do have some and you know over and above that once we get done with your week We'd be more than what you know willing to show you And the reason I'm asking is so that when I'm asked to give another class I can add in the features and promote it even more That would be great benefit to you and I can write up and I'll do a blog article on the page too That'll be great. Okay. Well, I think I am going to Bring my somebody else said oh Billy says I'd love to learn the features too. There is so much on wiki-tree, you know Trying to figure out how to add the DNA stuff and I think you have to only add it one at a time or something It was just and I found it very difficult to do Yeah, you know and once you've been working on it for a while I mean it pretty much seems like you know you can do it in your sleep, but there's still always something I learn new stuff how to do something on wiki-tree all the time and we all learn from each other So that's another I'm great thing. Oh and Willardine is pointing out. Yes. We are starting features Friday Which where they'll pick one feature wiki-tree. I believe they're gonna do it every other Friday Oh, that would be wonderful, and they'll show it to people and Talk about how to use the different features. So that's also something to look forward to And I see Hillary is I know Hillary Gadsby From she's from Wales. I actually got to meet her once. It was kind of cool. She's a sweet sweet sweet. She is a sweetheart. Yes Okay, so here we're gonna talk a little bit about our collaboration and team members that are watching don't go running off now We'll need you for your comments and help me in a few minutes On the left is our spreadsheet. Yeah, you don't have to use a spreadsheet We would really like you to so that if you're working on a profile two other people aren't working on the Same profile not knowing that you are so go ahead and put your name on there or message somebody They'll put your name on there and that way we can keep things straight We've been running, you know anywhere from 25 to 35 people during a week's time Working so we don't yeah, so we don't want to work all on the same profile Now on the right is our G2G forum posts, which is our genealogist to genealogist forum Where we go in and we have this post that's made just for Claire for this week So that people can announce brick walls ask questions or put interesting comments on there. That's wonderful Yeah, and then thirdly we have discord and I'm gonna talk a little bit more about that tonight after we go over the scoring just because things are gonna change a little bit and And we do rely on it a lot especially for this challenge and more and more so for the projects It's really been helpful. So we have our live chat here saying as we are a global site We have people from all over the world that use this Yes, I know and it's amazing and Claire. There's always somebody talking in there So, you know, I can get up at four o'clock in the morning and go Oh, well, I woke up early might as well look and there's a whole conversation going by, you know Cuz somebody in England, it's not four o'clock in the morning. There's no they but I for hours, you know doing stuff We have people in Japan and the Netherlands and Germany. I mean just all over So it's really awesome. And you know, we all learn from each other like I said, we all have yeah we all have different skill sets and discord has just been really amazing for us to You know help each other out ask for help getting a record or you know, just cheering people on and keeping them motivated Now we do use the scoring system even though it's not all about the points It gives us a way to like keep track of where we are and it helps motivate And so we have two ways to earn those now We have the big points, which are the bounty points and that's 10 points each For the first new ancestor you get on each line. That was not on the primary tree And I am gonna where my team members there was a slight change on who those Brickwall points are gonna be this week. So make sure you tune into the room after the live cast The rest of the points are individual points for each Member of the nuclear family. So that would be siblings or children that are added. It's one point each and Since clairs tree is so extensive There is gonna be a ton of points for that for people that are doing that and not focusing on the brick walls There's gonna be a lot of people to add So at the end of the week, we usually go through and we pick we see who our most valuable player is our MVP So obviously we didn't have a score because we didn't have a guess this week But these are some of our captains who just do an amazing job keeping all the you know Balls juggling and keeping everything taken care of so and we usually do have our top five list Who has gotten the highest score during that week? Now we're gonna talk a little bit more in depth about discord and the reason We're doing this right now is for one to encourage the people that haven't tried discord Some people just don't know what it is some people tried it a long time ago and it was still just a gaming platform and It's really improved. So, you know, I've been using it for years now. I really love it I like it better than you know, when we just had Skype and some of the other vocal sites to use and pretty much we're just using it for text chat But it's not like the old days where the little boxes popped up for each person you talk to you know And yet all the little windows I'm chatting. These are just it's a room It's a chat room or what is called a discord channel? And so there is no cost to use discord. You do have to sign up for a free account Once you're signed up and verified you can use it later on so you can sign up now Nobody's gonna come out and go. Why aren't you chatting on this? You know when you get ready to use it You can use it. It's not a big deal To get that free account. It's there and you aren't required to use discord ever for Collaborating with wiki tree bill. Let me tell you it is a fabulous tool and I really highly recommend that people check it out At least try it, you know to see what's going on So now when you first get into our wiki tree server, you'll see four of those channels We have guest chat wiki tree verification announcements and rules The verification room shows you how you need to change your nickname to include your wiki ID because that's how we verify you We make sure that you have that wiki ID in there and it doesn't have to be your name like my nickname is Mindy Silva 1055 my first name in my wiki ID if you want it to be silly Sally, but Silva 1055 as long as you got that wiki ID in there and the nickname is an offensive You can put it how you want it to be. We just need to have that in there. We cannot verify you Now once you are verified We'll give you a wiki tree or roll and you will also see general chat as well as the introduction So go ahead and introduce yourself. Say hi. Hey, I'm here people. This is how long I've been doing genealogy Whatever you want to say ask some questions if you want give it a couple of minutes and then the other channels will show up Depending on what badges you have so for every project you have joined you have a badge And it will go ahead and give you access to those So, you know, if you've got data doctors if you've got, you know, a military war project those rooms are going to show up And here's where you can see that once you've done that you have several new channels So just go ahead and yeah, just go you just click on one You look to see what people are talking about if you want to you can join in If you don't want to you don't have to but it's a great way if you're working on a project and you go I'm not quite sure how we do this or How do I get this sticker to work right for military war and you can just jump in and ask And people are so friendly. There's always somebody in there to answer And if you think there's maybe one of the rooms that you should be in Just type but aren't type the at team For help and one of the team members will come and help you Now for thawne teams the channel that shows up since we don't get a badge for whichever team we're on When we do our marathons like the source of thawne The channel that shows up for you will be the team you last participated with So if you're on my spreadsheet from the source of thawne for You know, um little team on the prairie Then that's what's going to show up. But if you go, oh, wait, I want to be team roses this time Don't worry about it because as soon as you sign up for the next thawne Which will be the connect a thawne in january Then that you'll see team roses show up in that list of channels Now as far as using discord on the left you can see where I've downloaded the software and I've got, you know Just a floating window there over my browser I can move it around I can minimize it. I can do whatever Or on the right you can see where I just went ahead and bookmarked it And I'm just using it in my browser. I don't have to have the downloaded software It's just like going to another site and visiting I can just keep discord open in one of the tabs so I can flip back and you know, look at that And then if you do have a lot of different projects, which you know, a number of us do You can use either control k for the PCs or command k for a mac and that allows you to quickly switch between rooms You know, so if you're in military and warren talking and you're like, oh no I wanted to remember to ask that thing in pgm. You can just do the control k And it'll allow you to really quickly find that pgm room instead of having to scroll through all the stuff on the left Now here are some optional features these not everybody's using definitely like I said, we're primarily using it I think the the text chat for most of us So if you're looking for a little one-on-one training though, or you just want to chat with a wiki friend Using the voice channels. You're not giving out your phone number or anything else You just click on the room you jump in there If there's several other people you guys can talk and still keep typing, you know and doing your work And you can hear each other chat Or you know, again some little one-on-one training. They can help you Work out what you're doing So the other thing you can do Is use a voice feature Which is why you're using in that voice room. You can go ahead and share your screen like i'm doing here and um You can say hey, I want to show you how to do this I'm going to show you how to make this sticker work With this thing and you can sit there and do it and the other people in the room can see what you are working on That's great I know it's it really So i'm excited to learn about it Yeah, it's really fabulous. We just and like I said with the challenge we use it so much I mean, we just really do it's you know, it's not our only means of communication, obviously But it's way better to have live chat than to you know, put a message in the forum and wait for somebody to go Look in the forum and see what it is. I know So another optional feature is if you already are using Spotify premium This is a great way to share a music playlist now We do this um my team does during the thongs So, you know, we'll all tell sandy and she's my co-captain Which song is we want to put on the list and she'll put songs from all of us on the list And then we're all kind of listening to it together, you know while we While we do our marathon, so it's a lot of fun and we kind of get to see You know what other people like to listen to I like it. That's cool. That's cool Yeah Now one of the other things is um, if you don't like the glare of too much white on the screen and I use this I I leave it white for my screenshot usually, but I actually prefer it dark So you can go ahead and go into appearance And you can say I want this to be um To be dark instead and that's what it does. So it puts the dark background with the light Color text and for me that's easier on my eyes You know if I'm going to be on the computer all day that one's a lot easier for me and Really the best thing to do is just play around and try all the settings and look at what there is You know because you can't break it. I mean, it's not going to go anywhere Bookmark it go in and just play snoop around in the rooms once, you know, you get all the rooms or Channels as they're called on discord You know slip into the different channels and see what people are talking about and it really just is a lot of fun and then the last thing I'm going to show you is some quick little tips on Ways that you can make the The words different styles so just like on you know when we're working on a profile And you can use the asterisk or whatever you can either do the word with the asterisk Or with an underscore on each side and it automatically makes it italics If you do two asterisks, it's bold Three is bold italics Two underscores on each side underlines it So just really quick ways once you get used to using them if you want to you make a little word block You just put the back tick on each side and it'll make that little box around it So like if you're quoting somebody and you don't want it to just go in with the rest of your sentence You can do that But once again, just play around with it Have some fun with it a lot of people use dark mode. Yeah Oh wait, here's greg. I didn't realize there was a non dark mode It's it's that glaring white I use um when I do the The presentations greg I really and then I change it back like the second I'm done doing my screenshot. So So and definitely you too claire if you if you want to play around in it and then you come up with any questions I will check it out, but I do I don't like the dark mode for some reason I don't know why I've tried it, but I've gone back every time Yeah This it's really cool to have another another resource, you know instead of hangouts or something else. I mean, this is much better I think I know and I really like it too And you know, honestly the interface is more like what people are used to on social media now You know, we go on facebook and we can hit like or you know thumbs up Things like that you couldn't do that on hangout if you put a typo in there It was there forever. You couldn't go edit your post out You know with discord you can do that you can fix your typo. So it's correct You can do the little it has a little smiling on the right. You can react to other people's Things so you can put a smiley or i'm laughing really hard or the crying thing You know, it's got a little emojis. So it kind of feels more like what we're used to modern day looks like it too It looks like it's much more user friendly too okay, so See if we have any other questions. Um, Lynette, I don't know what qlink is I think I've tried just about all the others And definitely Oh, yeah, he says uh, greg says I love the ability to at symbol to send messages to somebody And yeah, so, you know, and one of the things I didn't cover in here, which was really important I think though is you know, if you're busy on something or you know, you're at work And you don't want to be notified in a room and somebody gets really chatty in the challenge room You can just go up to the little bell at the top and click on it and it'll quit notifying you every time somebody talks Yeah, and so But what what can happen is somebody can still say and yes, I do this during dinner because otherwise my computer dings non-stop They can still go at mendy the at sign and mendy But you know and it'll show you my name you can click on or at team And we'll that will go ahead and notify us. So, you know, then I'll go. Oh, this was actually something really important I need to answer this question And then the other thing you can do is when you really can't have anything in discord Notifying you at all and I do this during the live cast you guys have all seen it I put up the do not disturb status status You don't want to leave that up all the time really because it's it's like a collaboration tool But once again, you know, if you're at work or you're working on a dissertation Claire And you don't want anybody, you know, ding in your computer a whole bunch You can just go down and click on the lower left and Where your picture is and you can change that status to the do not disturb because That you don't want pop-ups and everything while you're trying to write a paper that just is not It's not good and it's it's really super easy to It's really super easy to use and change it. Stephen says yep, saw the red mark This is called wiki tree life which which platform are you using stream yard? I never heard of it Stream yard. Yes. Um, we just went to stream yard. I think like a year and a half ago But but it's been good, you know, and it's it's close enough to to what everything else is using We've had some really good quality with it, too It seems to be a little bit. I like the format. It's a lot nicer than some of the others Yeah, and it's really easy to use I think we've really really enjoyed it. So um I think I know now that we're done doing wiki classes unless anybody wants to learn anything else You may have to put it on the list for next week. I don't know Then I'm gonna check out where would we find the videos and things on how to do things Where are they in your on your website? Well, there's several places you can go if you go on to the main website Just wiki tree dot com On I think midway down on the left. There is a link to How to do the basics and that will show you some really good basics on wiki tree And then if you go up to the upper right menu or the help menu is There's all kinds of help listed So it just depends on what you're looking for and you know, they're actually working We're working on putting together some um updated help videos and so You know these walkthrough some people just really need the the visual help Sometimes you just can't put what you need to you know on a help page if you're just typing it So um, yeah, we are trying to get those those videos updated and we'll have more of them coming out And I think the feature fridays is also going to help a lot That's great because I think that like I mean I do I learned both ways I can I can do the you know reading of it, but the a little bit of visual makes Makes the heck a lot easier Yeah, that's how I am. Um, I do when I was doing a lot of mentoring and greeting I was making my own walkthroughs. I was taking screenshots for everything so that you could actually see what I did I would take them as I was walking through it And so, you know, so I could use it for other people Okay, so I think we're done. Let me take down this. Is there anything else you need? I think we're set once again. Now you're going to get those notifications this week Claire. Um, just ignore them I'll make sure everything's okay for any way I know I won't have to worry about you peeking, huh? Some of the guests have had a really hard time not peeking, but um No, I'm not peeking. I got no time to peek Yeah, you get you get that paper written and I want to thank everybody that's participating during Claire's week I know you guys are all anxious Uh, Cheryl's asking quickly. We can use photos. Yes Whatever we have and a number of the ones that are on find a grave can also be used and so, um Yeah, so we definitely want to make these profiles look as good as we can So everybody before you go make sure you like the video Subscribe if you haven't already to receive alerts and you can check us out and find more information on wikitree.com All right till next week Yep, take care. Thank you