 Hello Friday date nighters. Hello. Look who Aowyn brought us her date. I brought my date, Molly. She's a good date. She's a sweetie. So happy Friday everybody. We have five people watching so far because Friday date night is in the middle of the afternoon. Well we have Kathy and Tommy so we're good. We do. Yes. Our regulars. We've got a couple of our regulars here. Who else is here? Speak up. I know you're watching. There's Kay. I knew Kay would be here. Oh my hair is doing a weird thing. Come on you guys. There's three more of you. Say hello. Don't be shy. We know you're there. Did we get our one down vote? Shout out to that person. I haven't looked. Debra from Kentucky and Isabel. Yeah. Isabel's here. Debra Slate, VJB signing in from a rainy Pennsylvania and we have Dagmar. Now Dagmar. I don't think Dagmar's been here before, right? I don't know. That is a sort of name that would be in my distant family. So that's cool. Welcome. And Catherine is back and John Tyler is here. Some of you guys are staying up late, aren't you? Profiles are like potato chips. It's so true. It's very easy to fall down the improvement rabbit hole when you start working on this stuff. Slate, VJB, I don't know who you are. Who are you? Yeah. Give us your first name. You know, if you don't want to share your whole name, that's okay. Or if Slate is your last name. There's Steven and I keep getting little discord sounds coming up here too. Oh hi Molly. Hi. Yes, Isabel is always up late. I think she's a night owl. I understand why you think that she's a cat but she's actually a dog. She's about the size of a big cat, right? Yeah. She's so cute. And there's Robin. Yay. Robin. She's like something's happening. Just sit here and watch people. She can't hear anybody either. Look ahead. She's like, my mom talks to me all the time. Yeah. There's Leah or Leah. Is it Leah? Should I say Leah or Leah? I don't speak French. Ask Isabel. Where's Steven? Steven is there. Oh look, we're up to 19 now and we got one upvote on Facebook. Thanks guys. Thanks Facebook watcher. Oh boy, we're so exciting. We're just, we haven't even done anything yet. See and look how exciting we are. Oh June is dating photographs from her mother-in-law's house. Oh good for you. Names and dates. They're so rare on photographs and it's Leah. So I'm still butchering it I'm sure. Leah. I'm always so excited when they turn over a photo and there's something on the back. Me too. I have eight. One, two, three, four, five. Well I have five in here and three in the other room. Bins of pictures and stuff from my dad. I don't, I think there's probably a dozen of them, dozen pictures with something on the back. I know. I wonder if you know the like the face facial recognition on the photo photography like like Apple has iPhoto or what used to be called iPhoto. I'm wondering if I scan them in if it'll help me recognize people. It might. It's worth a try. Worth a shot. Yeah oh wait Robin said did we lose you or should I start over? We're still here. I hope they can see us. Are we still here? I hope so. If not we're having a nice chat. We're having a good chat. There's no, yeah I don't see any more. Can someone else say something in the chat so we know if we're still here. Oh it's her. I had a weird thing happen this morning boy. Discord just I could see notifications coming in but I couldn't load the messages and I couldn't reply to anybody and then Gmail stopped working and and then poof it was back so that was nice. So I don't know if anybody of you know anybody. I don't know if any of you know in G2G Ben Molesworth was asking for some interesting stories that we could include in our Friday date nights because we usually keep this pretty short. We come in, we chat, we answer questions, share stats and then we're out of here and and that's okay too. I mean we like to let you guys just come in and say hi and and then get to work but Ben was thinking and I agree it would be kind of fun to have some stories to tell from some of the research that you're doing for the for date night. If you find some cool, I know I fall down the rabbit holes. I know I'm not the only one. You find an interesting family and you start digging around and all these stories pop up and let's hear them. That would be cool. Or if there's other stuff you want us to talk about you can let us know. Yeah yeah absolutely. Let's see what do we got going on here. Found a different spelling on the back of some picks and turned out to be another spelling for the last name. Well that's convenient. June is finding many photos of the same with different notes on the back. So that's cool. Oh we froze. But we don't know if it was us or Deborah. Oh and Mojavelin, Jester that's. Lynette. I know who that is. Lynette. What? Lynette. Thank you. Hi Lynette. I probably said the first name wrong there too. To answer Stephen's question, more people chat on YouTube than on Facebook. So if you want to be in the chat with people, YouTube is definitely better. Definitely. We see a lot more people over there. She looks very very happy and relaxed right now. She's not bubbly. She's really not at the moment. I'm sure she has her bubbly moment so. Yep when there's a treat in ball time. And you're very excited. Mojavelin. Did I say it right that time? She spelled it for me. So I get it now. So shall we talk some stats and then I have something else I wanted to throw in. Okay. Hey. You want to? I haven't shared my screen. Yeah. Should I share my screen? Okay. Maybe. Okay. Here we go. Look at that. I do not have this week's stats. I'm very sorry but I can probably get them up here really quick and tell you what they are. But we broke 20,000 two weeks ago. Look at that. 20,683. So let me go pull up and see what the total is for this past week because I know you guys are out there pecking away even when we're not doing stuff. Oh my gosh. I know you can't see this. 21,869. Wow. I know. Oh I didn't add that. So these numbers are for two weeks ago but I didn't get a chance to update the spreadsheet this week. But we're almost at 22,000. So I know it's not lightning fast. I know but you guys are making so much progress. No. And just think about what happens when you add a date to a profile. You know it just kind of opens up. Exactly. People know it's their person. Yeah. And I know you know when you're adding dates I'm sure you're probably adding locations too. So it just makes everybody's life easier when you're starting to look for duplicates and it's just a wonderful thing you guys are doing. Lynette says only three million more to go. No. Not that many but yes there are a lot. But we've turned off the faucet so there's not as many coming into the bucket as they were before. Which is really good. Yes. Every once in a while we get a batch of profiles where we find that they've got a higher, I can't talk today, privacy setting than what should be on them and so we'll open them up and then we get a whole other batch but it just comes in little bits and pieces. It's not like a big blob of them. So cool. Yes. And category tags. And K just reminded me the other thing I wanted to talk about. Let me take that out and go get this. K put together a cool little project that she's been promoting called the GEDCOM review and improve profiles or GRIP. So I don't know if all of you have heard about this but it kind of ties in very nicely with Friday date night because basically what you're doing is improving profiles and she has a number of items here that you can use for advice or how to find profiles to work on. Can you see this? Did I forgot to share it again? No you need to share. There we go. And she has a spreadsheet. K I am not good. I have not been out on your free space page much so I'm going to get a little bit lost. Let's get it explained. There's a checklist for the profile which is where you're at right now. You can click on any of those things and it'll give you detailed instructions on how to do them. And I believe she links back to Friday date night which is cool because we also have instructions. She's got some tips and tricks and there is a link out here for a spreadsheet. Correct. Yep there's a spreadsheet where you can put what you're working on. Yep which I could also pull up but I don't have it open at the moment. And there's a sticker. Of course we always need stickers. So can you guys see, hang on a second, you can't see the URL on my screen. Tell you what. That's basically the title. Yeah I'll throw that URL into the discord channel so you guys can go and click on that and it'd be fun for us all to collaborate on these efforts together. It would. Because we would like to focus everybody on doing a like when you're working on stuff like this do a whole profile approach. 650 improved. Yes that's awesome. That's in like 11 days. Yeah I know it's crazy isn't it? It's just pretty awesome. So it helps us take a whole profile approach to cleaning up these profiles that came in through JEDCOMS a long time ago. A lot of them have basically nothing. They might have a name and a date. They might not have a date but they have connections to family so. They tend to have nothing or they have a whole lot of stuff. Mm-hmm and yes what Steve says. I do have a fan. It's blowing my hair because it's right here because it's like 100 degrees here today. Yes. Wind in the hair it's very important. I could use, can you send some of that over here? It's very humid here right now. There we go. Sorry. Good thing we're not dorks. It takes a lot of effort for us to be normal. So true. So true. Anyway let's see guys what else? Does anybody have any questions? Anybody? Oh there Linda put the the grip free space page link into the into discord. If you guys need to get into discord if you're not there I think everybody I've seen here so far is in there except maybe Lynette message me on on wiki tree and I'll get you in here. What I'll say Owen what is happening? 57 and raining in northern California. It's 25 Celsius in John's house in Ireland and humid in 33% where Steven was which I forgot where that is. Steven is on the west coast if I recall the northwest. I think Oregon or Washington. He's gonna tell it might be Seattle even. I think it might be right. Yeah 79 that sounds awesome. It's one million degrees here with 150% humidity in Illinois. I don't have the humidity thinking this I can't. Yeah makes all the difference. We did get some rain today barely and now the sun is out again and it's just drying it all up so I'm gonna have to go water my flowers again. Lyn if you go to help discord like help colon discord explains how to join. Yes I keep forgetting that you put that up. Steve I am not in Texas it just feels like Texas and we don't have a river nearby to go floating in so that would be fun right now. All right got anything else? I don't. You guys want to go out and get to dating? Let's do it. Okay let's we've wasted 15 minutes. 15 minutes. What if you find stories tell me message me with them or I don't know where yeah just message me from my profile. You guys most of you know where to find me. Yeah our discord would be fine give me a link. Let me know and we'll see if we can get them out here when we talk next time in. Are we doing this in two weeks? We are. It's the 25th. I keep thinking that we're closer to the connect-a-thon when we are. Nope so three more date nights until connect-a-thon. Registration will start next Wednesday for that. Yay all right you guys have a fabulous weekend thank you for coming by and we will see you for date night in two weeks but Sarah will be here tomorrow with her weekly update and on Wednesday we'll get to find out how our challenge guest Yvette Hoytink is doing or how the challenge people are doing. They have been busy and we'll get to meet the next guest star who is the winner of our Roots Tech contest so she's very excited. That'll be fun I can't wait. All right you guys we're going to sign off and we'll see you on discord. Bye!