 You know, our usual wiki tree challenge evening. Oh, and hi, Joan. Hi, Joan. Hi, Joan. So I guess we'll introduce everybody first. So there is myself and Julie, for those of you who don't know, we are wiki tree team members. And over there we have Mindy, who is our overall wiki tree challenge coordinator. And below me, there is Joan, who is the captain or the co-captain for Rob's week. And then we have Dallin, who's right next to Joan. He's our next coming guest. So he'll be on their last half. And next to Dallin, we have Rob, who we're about to reveal some juicy details about. And then we have Emma, who is Dallin's captain. And that's all we got today, yes. And that is it. And for those of you who maybe don't know what wiki tree is, Julie would love to tell us all. I would. Wiki tree. So wiki tree is a community of genealogists, where we work together on one single family tree. So unlike other genealogy sites where you build your tree and I build my tree and we have a common ancestor up here, but we never talk to each other on wiki tree. When we get to that common ancestor, we work together to find sources and information and resolve discrepancies, make the profile look nice. So in other words, we collaborate to grow an accurate single family tree that connects us all. And the best part, my favorite part, wiki tree is free, always and forever. Forever. Forever, forever. So that is wiki tree for maybe those of you who've just popped in, maybe checking us out, maybe here, because you know Rob or you know Dallin or you know somebody and you just wanted to pop in to watch. That is wiki tree. Then the wiki tree challenge, which is what we're doing now is our year long event where each week, a team of wiki treeers takes on a genealogy guest star's tree and make it more accurate and complete than it is anywhere else. For instance, this past week we've been working on Rob and his family tree, an upcoming starting, probably people are already working on it, Dallin, this week, I'm pretty sure there's probably already people working away on his tree. And this challenge is part of our year of accuracy where our goals to improve our overall accuracy on wiki tree, make more connections and more friends. And that is the wiki tree challenge. Okay, and I'll go ahead and tell you what we're doing briefly as far as communications and points. Now for our collaboration, we have a spreadsheet. That way, each person on the team can go ahead and enter which profile they're working on because if you wind up with 40 or 50 people working on the same branches, we don't wanna be tripping over people or doubling research. On the right there, you see the start of a G2G post. We use that for going ahead and posting interesting facts, questions, mostly for bounty points, which you'll hear more about. And the guest can view that also. That's out in the public forum. And last but not least, this one's really important. We rely on Discord. This is our real-time live chat. So if we want a second set of eyes on a record, if we have problems, we use this a lot this week. It was a very challenging week. We can get in there and there's always somebody available. This is a global site. So no matter what time of day or night, there's somebody in there and you can say, hey, can you look at this and see if I've got it right? Or, hey, I added a ton of sources but I'm terrible at writing biographies. Can you get in there? And of course, my favorite always. And I'm gonna try and do this right this week. I say Dieter Leverenz is his last name. Dieter or Frank, this is in German. I don't know what to do. Tell me what the date is. You know, and we have experts for French ancestors, German ancestors, Ukraine, Russia, you name it. We've got a bunch of them. But that Discord gets hopping sometimes. Now, as far as the points go, they get 10 points every time that they break a brick wall down. That's what we call our bounty points. They get one point automatically for each and every direct ancestor they add but also the nuclear family. So any siblings, children. You know, when people are not just doing this for the points and they do a lot of things that don't earn them points but human nature is, you know, you put a little bit of the challenge in there. They have something to shoot for a goal and something to show their progress. People get excited and they just charge forward with it. This was our top five and there he is because there was a lot of German in these branches. There is Dieter and hopefully I said his last name a little bit better this week. Next was Cheryl Smith, Maddie Hardman, Donna Bauman and Ellen Smith. They all did a lot. You figure with that many people working on it, those top five people beat out everybody else. So. Wow. I think there are overall stats not just including the top five but everybody who's been working on the tree, on your tree. And do we want to go ahead and give them the totals for these now, Sarah? No. Or? We can wind as well, we haven't opened. Okay, so total points for our participants is 507. Now if you break that down, they created 47 direct ancestors on your branches, Ron. Wow. Yeah, and then the next number created relatives is where they created those nuclear family members. You know, and it's always better to get a good picture of the overall whole family and look for those hard to find links that you need when you've got all of the kids, all of the siblings, everybody on there. So those nuclear family members are important. You know, which means that they added 237 ancestors and then additional ancestors, like if you go out to the sister and her husband and their kids, those were added also. Now the bounty points, this is where that comes in with the 10 points per brick wall. So total was 270 points. So you're gonna get to find out who those 27 brick walls were that went down. There were 957 unique profiles edited. And then total edits from our participants was 3,712 in one week. I mean, that's the power of Wiki Tree. Wow. It's incredible to watch. I guess my page is slow by a few at 3,705, but that's beside the point. Over 3,000, almost 4,000 total edits on your ancestors' relatives. Yeah, I know I was getting a lot of messages. It's like, this profile update, the profile update was like, okay. Don't look at us, I don't wanna see it. We were trying to jump in there for you and have the team members do some of those merges so you didn't have to worry about them, but. So I guess we can go on in and start showing you who we found, what we found. All kinds of goodies. What we started with, based off your, each great-grandparent, people were working those lines. So the first one, Wharton Line. Joan, do you want this or do you want me to take it? She's got no sound, she's still muted. Joan, you're muted. Joan, yeah. There we go. I'm sorry. We went to hear your lovely voice. All right. This line was quite a challenge, really. We, I think, somewhere on that line, we disconnected somebody's wife. And then further up, there was a wife, what a wrong name, I think. And that's the one showing on this screen, yeah. Yeah, it's on, yeah. So Henrietta Shirley Worthen. She was a spurling and she turned into a Shirley. Yeah, yeah, I was trying to get it. But we didn't get to the bottom of when the name changed. I think we need perhaps a few more records and sources that we found to confirm exactly when the name changed. Yeah, that we go so fast. Do you want to tell them about the shipbuilders, Joan? Oh, yeah. We disconnected some wrong relatives. We'd already started working on the family shipbuilders. I forgot what the name was now. But they had a shipbuilding business across in America. And they'd come across from Bristol. And we'd all grew up in England, tracking them down in Bristol. And the family became quite interesting. And I think some of the England members are going to continue working on that. Because they were trying to get to some shipbuilders in London as well. But unfortunately, they're not a military. Oh, I feel like I have some connection to Bristol. So when you were talking about shipbuilders in Bristol, I'm like, yeah, that's gotta be new. You know, and they say a lot of what we're doing right now, and it really is, it's crowdsourcing. We're crowdsourcing these profiles. But it also organically develops these little think tanks. And that's what we kept winding up was little groups of these think tanks. You know, when you hit a brick wall and you look at it so many times and you still can't get anything, it's time to get several people together and try and disprove it. And at one point, you know, Joan and I were talking and we're lying in, how many people are we gonna disconnect from this tree here? Because we have the most disconnections on these branches and that's not anything on you, Rob. That's us also either adding people in and having to remove them or they were wrong on wiki tree and they weren't matching your tree. And we had to look at whether that was right or not and disconnect if we had to. So we had a lot of that this week. And we have... Those were just as important. Yes. Any negative evidence, any of those disconnections, every one of those means that, you know, you're one step closer to finding who you really need to find. Right. We have James Shorb, which was on which line? Louisa Tool Line. Okay. And he also had a correction. I don't think that one got marked in green. The orange ones are new ancestors, if you see those boxes. Yeah, he had a correction done and he had parents added Johannes Kasper Shorb and Catherine Fricker Shorb. There were several Shorb families and this was another one of those areas that was very challenging. It turned out that there were two families in Pennsylvania with almost all the same names. So you had the husband, you had almost all their kids were named the same. They were living in the same location and it basically came down to finding records that didn't have one of those one or two children, you know, that were different, really, really careful research and a group of people working on these. And they got it all straightened out though. It was fun to watch. Yeah, Shorb is a very big name in this area. So I can imagine what you went through. And the interesting thing about a lot of people in this area is like they came into this area, they moved to this area and then they settled in this area. So it's like you were always in this area. So that's awesome. Obviously then we had Dieter find the German ancestors from Germany across the pond. Yeah, that goes back pretty deep. That's awesome. Then we have some more German ancestors found. That's my grandmother's line, Welty. Right, and that one's another correction. That one is marked. The green box is the corrected person. The last name was really close. It was Eichelbert and it should have been Eichelberger. And once that change got made, you can see in that orange box, all of those ancestors are brand new. So all of those are. And it was just that couple of letters on the name that broke through that brick wall. This one was, she was the wife of Bernard Welty. She wound up with 12 other ancestors on that line. You had, oh, this was fun. I don't know if you knew anything about Johannes Welty. He was an American revolutionary patriot. He died at the age, this was neat. He died at the age of 98. His father died at the age of 94. All of the children in this family died 88 or years old or older. They averaged 95 year old lifespan. The oldest one was the daughter, Elizabeth, who died at the age of 103. So you got some longevity hanging out on some of them branches. They actually wrote a newspaper article. They wrote several of them. I'm going back to the Eichelberger branch. I've been doing some work on that today. And just this evening, I found a profile already on WikiTree that I've connected to the Philly Eichelberger, I believe, too, as his father. There's three more generations. But unfortunately, it's an old jet come and it's only sourcing and sorting out. So it needs a lot of work to confirm that the last three generations on WikiTree is correct. Wow. Can we have another one Welty? Welty. Right. And that's the one that had the professional or amateur musicians. That was the musical section of the family, I guess. She had sisters Cecilia, Genevieve, Mary, Rosalie. They were church organists. Brother William played a horn in a band that was led by his son, Robert. And then you also gained new people on that though. There was Mary's maternal great-grandmother, the wife of Joseph Hughes, was found to be another correction, Mary Buchanan, instead of Lucy Unknown. So Lucy became Mary and Joseph gained new parents. That's very back, very far. You're gonna have a lot to look through. It'll be fun to look through later. You all know where to go first. So Peter gained a Peter. Right, and this one, this was really fun too. We always try and find some sort of fun, or it develops naturally, honestly, space page or something. And it turned out that you had a number of ancestors that went to this church, the Basilica of the Sacred Heart of Jesus. And so the parents got married, all the children got baptized, people died and were buried there. And there's an actual video, I think that one's linked on this one space page, of when they went to take down this really old, it was like a hundred year old painting, beautiful painting. And they went to take it down to have it cleaned and restored and to redo the church. And they found a mural underneath it that nobody even knew was there. It's just, oh yeah, it's just amazing. And the church is beautiful inside. And not only is there a space page with a history and it has some of the families, not all of them, linked on that profile. When you go to look at it, you'll see them. But one of our ladies, Elaine Weatherall, she's not only a good researcher, there you go. She did that drawing for you of the Basilica, so. So I've seen that Basilica many times. I think that's where my mom and dad got married, because that's where my mom's church was growing up, I think. Oh, that's really cool. But at least, so see this on YouTube and correct me later, but yes, I've seen this beautiful, beautiful church. So yeah, Elaine drew this, she draws for us sometimes for the challenge, which is great. That is a great picture, thank you so much. And then the space page, like we were showing there, and they had everybody who was christened, buried, linked on here, so married. Yeah, and it was interesting because one of the immigrants that was buried there, he actually, if you look up the records, the first time I saw it, I thought, oh, this has got to be wrong. It said he immigrated in 1817, but really what the fact was is he was just so low-key, he wasn't in the papers and making a lot of records, and it was back before we had all the censuses and whatnot, and they were going by the first really valid record they could find, which was his burial. He died in 1817. So his immigration date is 1817 because they don't know when he actually came over. They just know that he did. That's awesome. And we just wanted to show also this very well-written biography for Ida Elizabeth Fung. Ida Cecilia Elizabeth Hawkinsmith, and it was never totally decided how she wound up with two first names and a nickname, but we're thinking of first name, her confirmation, you know, her baptized devotional name, and then maybe just a nickname, because at first it was thought they may not be the same person, but when you really do a deep dive into the records, that was all definitely her. So she was around for the term. And a lot of my ancestors seemed to like to have different names, what I've noticed. Change it up on you, make it real difficult. Even my own name. They didn't go by their real first names. Most of them went by their middle names. It's... Yeah, I see that in some families. I remember seeing a DNA kit come in, a match come in one time, and it was for Charles, and I'm like, who the heck is this? Oh, that's right, this is my Uncle Pat. That's funny. New father? Yeah, we had the mother, but not the father. Yeah, we kind of wondered about that one, but I guess she must have been mentioned somewhere, because we didn't have him, but that's okay. Anthony Small was the one that was added. He was born in Pennsylvania, moved to Virginia, where he served in the United States Civil War on the Union side. He and Margaret had 10 children. This resulted in 53 new ancestors for Anna's line. The oldest being Johannes Eck, who was born about 1500, most likely in Germany. And it kind of needs some sources further out, that week goes so fast, and we always go, oh, I'm gonna get back to this one, and we wind up doing it after the week's up, if we can, because there's just so much to do. And then, yeah, then I found the flag for the unit he was in, and they were called the Lancaster Rifles, so that flag is also on his profile. Also. And I was trying to, you might be able to do some more research, but I tried to research that regiment, and found a little bit, but maybe you can do some more research on it. Yeah, I'm definitely looking forward to actually diving deep into this. I bet. And this just was a little bit fun. One of the things we try and do is bring these ancestors back to life. And we do, all of us, we have another site that we use, maybe not just Wicked Tree, but you just kind of see the details and the records listed and stuff like that. We have the space on Wicked Tree to go ahead and write out a narrative and put pictures in and try and really look at what the records tell us about a family. And this one was just one that struck my fancy. The fact that he migrated and wound up, Johannes Heiler wound up in paradise, Pennsylvania. And I could just imagine him sitting there writing back to his family in Germany and saying, hey, things are wonderful here in paradise. And he did well. I mean, as far as what the records show, he did really well. He and his wife had eight known children. Like most of his neighbors, he was not a slave owner. There weren't that many of them. He lived to the age of 66 and he was actually buried with the other pioneers, the first cemetery in Conus Wego, Pennsylvania. So he was considered one of the first settlers, early settlers. We have a cousin, a new cousin that showed up for you, Rob. Oh. Through the shore blind. It's a cousin. Yes. Awesome. Take a DNA test yet. I did see a couple of my cousins pop on because I mentioned to them that this was going to be going on today. So it's nice to have it much more deep. And we have Johan and Magdalena, new parents for Mainrad Mueller. Yes, Mainrad was a little bit of fun. I'm not sure about the Mainrad or Mainrod. I'm not sure how you'd pronounce that. But of course, the Mueller became an Americanized Miller. So, but he gained Johan Mueller as a father and Magdalena Mustman as a mother. Unfortunately, for the records that are online, they're either not indexed yet and online available or she wasn't using her married name because for the area that they're in, other people, we've had good luck with finding, you know, all the children and whatnot. And it was a little bit harder to look for these guys because there were a lot of Johans and Magdalenas and she was not putting that Mustman on hardly anything. So, yeah. And then here, new parents for Anastasia Deans. This one was kind of fun also. She gained new parents, Sebastiana Deans and Anastasia Werneth Deans. They have 13 children. Can we show the profile, or that works right there? They had 13 children and unfortunately, you know, this happened in that area. It was fairly common at the time I've been told. And 13 children, only three of whom lived long enough to be to marry. So, the three that you see in blue, they actually grew to adulthood and married but she just kept having those children and they just kept dying. So I just can't imagine dealing with that kind of tragedy, you know, and still getting up every day and facing your day, trying to help on the farm and raise the other kids and, yeah. Wow, that's sad. And you kind of look at stuff like this and you're like, wow, if my ancestor would have been the ones that didn't, you know, maybe didn't make it, you know, wouldn't be here today. You know, kind of think about stuff like that sometimes when you're looking at. And that's, things like this really put things much more alive and what they've been through and stuff. And I know my mom, my grandparents, so my dad's side had like, I think he had like 10 or 12 siblings. I can't remember it all to stop my hand sitting out there. I know how much, but it's amazing how many children people used to have back then. Oh. We disconnected and fixed some stuff on this line. Yes, this was the many wives of Albert. Not really. He married twice, but at first it was really difficult. This was another chat. We had a number of them this week. Another very challenging, which is fun though, area. He, it was thought initially, tradition said, he married a Mary Eve. Well, what happened is he married a Mary Catherine and then a Mary Elizabeth. And they were both huff-naggles and they were definitely totally separate people. So Albert had seven children with Mary Catherine, including your direct ancestor Margaret that married a Biskar. And his wife died, his first wife died in 1892 after the seventh child was born. And I wonder if that has anything to do with it, I don't know. And then he remarried less than a year later because of course now he has these seven children in his household and nobody to take care of him. And then he had four more children with the second wife, Mary Elizabeth. So there were days of intense research just on this one family, particularly by one of our team members, trying to make sure that all of the records were sorted out correctly. And it just, yeah, it really did a good job. We had another disconnection on that line, mostly because of the name changes. So, wow. I think those were, this shows all of your brick walls busted. So every one of those dots, you'll get a link to the actual chart so you can download it Robin and zoom in and see it up close. That'll give you the, yeah, you can't see it on this one but every one of the yellow spots was an available brick wall. That was something one of our team members could concentrate on. Everywhere there's a dot in it, like you can kind of see in the blow up, that's where our team members broke down a brick wall. So I think they did pretty good and you kind of see in clusters, you know, where some of them were all working together and taking part of the mother's branches and then kind of splitting it off so everybody wasn't on the same one. And then the rest of it was just really spread out. It was a lot of fun. Not at all fun. Thank you so much. And we can, oh, the before and after charts that Greg put this together. Yeah, Greg is awesome with those. Nine generations before. And then we have nine generations after. So pretty much kind of the chart that we showed before that Mindy put together. And then we have an 11 generation chart after. Which is kind of hard to see, but... Yeah, you'd have to kind of zoom in and then just scoot you around. Yeah. Yeah. Wow. Really, you picked up a lot of people out there. A lot of family members. I can't wait to look at that. How many brick walls did we end up breaking Mindy? How many did you say? We wound up with 27 brick walls down. That's awesome. Thank you all so much. That's like, I can't... I'm, I can't say what to say, but I'm just so excited to go out there and look at all of that. I mean, I appreciate so much what you've all done. Thank you. Well, it was our honor to work through your branches, Rob. So thank you for letting us go out there and just charge at them. Thank you. Did you take a nap beforehand so you can stay up late and do research? I did. Look at everything. I'm more of an early person, so I'll probably be popping up at five o'clock tomorrow morning looking at it. Well, do we have any final questions for Rob? Rob, do you have any final questions or comments or do we get an A plus? Definitely an A plus, one hundred and five percent. Thank you all. Well, we thank you, Rob, for letting us, you know, work on your tree. I know everybody had a great time. I know I dabbled a bit in your tree, you know, on a couple profiles, so it's fun. It's great work. And real quick, Sarah, I did forget to do a shout out for Emma Macbeth, of course, who's so generously donated her time and was actually able to do DNA confirmations out to second great grandparents. So we love to be able to give that kind of a special addition. Yes, I know Emma and I were talking. I was giving her access to kits and stuff like that. And it was really neat because I did go pop out there and we looked out at the second generation and saying, all that DNA confirmations out there, it was pretty neat. And I didn't give you all the DNA that I had, but. Yours was the first tree. I've been able to do the whole thing. Like there's usually a couple missing ancestors. We don't have enough DNA for. So that was really exciting. I've been recruiting people and trying to get the folks. And I was actually surprised how many of my first cousins were taking DNA kits, tests and stuff like that. And so it was really pretty cool. Awesome. Well, thank you everyone for working on Rob's tree. Thank you, Rob. Thank you, Joan and Janet and Mindy and Emma. Thank you everybody. Thank you all so much. So we have revealed to Rob what we found for him. So now we will go into Dallin. We'll talk about him and then we'll just get that started. So who is Dallin, Julie? Who is he? Well, Dallin is a very familiar. Dallin Quass is a very familiar name in the genealogy community. The organizations and websites he's involved with include names that we all know like FamilySearch where he worked for a few years as their CTO. He's also the founder of Roots Finder and he created Genealogy Gophers. And we relate, he is the founder of another website called ourroots.org, which is an innovative solution that helps to meet the needs of the challenges that family history societies face when they put their content online. And besides that, I hear he's just an all around nice guy. And I just want to mention this photo we have, the person right next to him is Chris Whitton. From a very long time ago, I guess. A little orange sliver. Yeah, the orange sliver of Chris's sleep. Yeah, that's Chris. I can verify that. Yep. So Dallin, would you like to add anything on we pretty much cover who you are? Anything you want to add? I think you did a great job. Thank you very much for the kind words. I guess we can now go into, let's ask you some questions. Oh, Chris says Rob and Dallin are both all like that. So Dallin, what got you interested in genealogy? Well, so I'm a techie person and my parents are really, really into genealogy. They've been doing it since before I was born. And my wife is really into genealogy. I haven't done that much genealogy. Just a little bit has kind of rubbed off through osmosis. But I like creating software for genealogy. So yeah, for me, what got me into genealogy I love the difficult problems. This isn't just kind of let's create a little iPhone app or let's create yet another contact manager. These are some really challenging unsolved problems after 30 years they're still unsolved. That's pretty cool. Hopefully we can solve some of your problems then. Yeah, if you can solve some of my genealogy problems. Of course. Okay, so what you have researched, who is your favorite ancestor? You know, I have to say it was my grandfather on my mother's side, Spencer Sprakes. Just a tough old coop and a farmer from South Dakota and just a super hard worker. And I didn't have a whole lot to say but just was a really good example for me growing up. Ruben Sprakes, you say? Yeah, Ruben Spencer, Ruben Sprakes right there in the blue. Got your tree all. So what, do you have any interesting stories about any of your ancestors that you'd like to share about your family that you found? Um, so my mother told me a story once about, I think it was her grandmother. Her grandmother got pregnant from a fellow who then this was in South Dakota and he took off and went to Oregon and she followed after him and made him marry her. I just thought she would travel all the way across the country. That's awesome. It's amazing. I love that so much. That is pretty funny. I think most of my ancestors, you know, they're just farmers, not a whole lot. No famous people that I've ever, I've ever found. Farmers are pretty important though. They are. Mindy, wanna do the next question? No, so when did you first discover Wickey Tree? Chris and I were talking about Wickey Tree way, way back. So I had developed, we relate. So back when I was CTO of Family Search, this was back when they were not trying to go after a Wickey-based tree back 20 years ago. And I thought that it was worth doing a Wickey-based tree. So I did we relate. And Chris, you know, as you know, started up Wickey Tree about the same time. And I am just in awe of Chris's ability to bring a community together. You know, it's not easy to do that. And he is a genius at it. So Chris and I have known each other and I've respected Chris for, I don't know, years and years. I think the feelings mutual. Yeah, I would say so. Chris created a wonderful site that we all use daily. So with what research, what are your current brick walls that you would want to bust through? Yeah. So, on my mother's side, those Norwegians, they kept changing their name at the drop of a hat. And we've had some struggles there. I remember my mom going to the Family History Library and saying, I spent a week there and I found one person. And this was, I think she did it to encourage me to be more family history myself, but it did not have that effect. So the Hoosier family, for sure, would be interesting to get to know more about. And then we have some specialists in that field, no weekend, so we might be able to help you out with that. Oh, look, Thomas. Go ahead. Thomas Kenlines, he says, yep, I'm up. I'll put him to work this week. Go ahead, Thomas. Yeah, we should have several people that can. And so after watching all of the nice things that we discovered for Rob, what do you hope to get, what do you hope to get the most out of this challenge? What is it you want to see happen? I am amazed at how much you've done in a week. It's incredible. If you didn't have that much, so to have the number of brick walls for me, that would be awesome. And the part that's even more amazing is the details, even in the ones that I had, and the details that they went into documenting that, because I was just like, I just threw something up, threw something up. There's so much details, because I'm sitting here looking at all the details. Right? He's not making it to bed on time, guys. Rob didn't even think we'd break any brick walls. And look at us, we got over 20. Good job. That's incredible. So yeah, if you could break some brick walls, that would be really cool. I love the, like Rob says, the history that you've been able to kind of wrap around the people. I really don't know a whole lot about my own sister's history. That's one of those specialties, I think, here on WikiTree is a lot of our members take a deep dive down that rabbit hole, and they find out everything they can about a family. It's just, it's amazing. Yeah, it's really interesting. We had one that I had forgotten to mention on Rob's side, but there was somebody who, and you're gonna, I'm gonna let you find this person on your own, there was somebody, and when his wife passed, there weren't any coffins. These were some of our early settlers. And so they took a tree, and they hollowed it out. They hollowed out a log, and they made a coffin for her, and that's what she was buried in. It's actually in the history of that county and that town. And then eventually, yeah, eventually, he wound up buying a farm to settle permanently on, and for the one that was large enough for the rest of the family to still be around him. And he had her relocated, actually, in a coffin at a burial site. So, but the whole log thing was intriguing to us. We're gonna have to go searching for it now. So, Dallin, we're gonna have to, we're gonna be challenged now, because we're gonna have to find something really good for you, too. We have a question from the chat. So, ancestral places, there are a lot of crosses in and sprigs in the Midwest, and I grew up in the Midwest, so I've been there, I have never been back to Germany, I've never been to Norway, I've been to England, but on business, so I've never had a chance to look to see where people live there. Do we have any, and Emma's your captain. Emma, do you have any questions for Dallin? Do we have any more questions in the chat? You guys have already asked the questions I would ask, so. I'm excited. I didn't have any more from the chat at this point, but there's a lot of chatter going on out there with talking about how farmers are the salt of the earth, and I think we all have, you know, a lot of farmers in our history. All of my ancestors in the United States are in the Midwest, too, Dallin, so I completely get where you're coming from. Okay, Kay, it looks like there's just a question that popped up from- No. Do you have pictures you'll be able to share with us over the week? I do, yes, I have- Terrific. Not as many, I mean, my wife has hundreds of pictures. I have, you know, a couple dozen, so I feel bad because she has all these, but I know I do not speak. I do. I do. But you knew what it meant? Yeah. He was just checking. Susan wants to know where Quass comes from. Is that like an evolved Norwegian name? Well, no, the Norwegian is my mom's side. Quass is a German name. There is a town in Germany, like Winterstorch, that we think is kind of the ancestral village around there, but Quass is a roasted barley drink. And I was in Lithuania last year and at a restaurant and they serve Quass. And so that's pretty cool. I think that's where it came from. That's fantastic. It tastes terrible, but- But the names are good, so it doesn't matter. That's great. Yeah, and Maggie- Somebody was, Nancy was asking where you went to college, if you're from the Midwest, she might have a connection there, I don't know. Well, so I'm a member of the Church of Jesus Christ, of Latter-day Saints. And so I went to college at Brigham University and then got my PhD at Stanford. So I kind of moved out West. And most of the time I've stuck out here, although for about seven years, when my kids were in high school, we decided to move back to Minnesota so that they'd get to know their grandparents better. Oh, wow. And then they all moved back out here and started having grandchildren. And so we picked up and followed them. That's great. They're still talking about your last name in the chat. They look good. And sour beer, it says. There's also beet kvass. Beet kvass. I make beet kvass. And you get to know it. Is it good? Is it better than barley kvass? I've never had barley kvass. And you can make kvass out of any vegetables or fruit. If you like beets, it's good. Yeah. Okay. I mean, I like beets, but a lot of people don't. I like borscht. So you might like it. You might like it. Have you found that that other spelling of kvass, the kvass going back far enough? Have you gone back that far from seeing that name kind of change or? Well, no. Okay, so the family legend is that there were two brothers that came over from Germany. And one of them was Q-U-A-S-S, and the other one was Q-U-A-A-S. And no one's really certain which one was the original spelling. Okay. So that would be. That's interesting. Yeah. They both could have been. Yeah. Because they just didn't spell very well back then. Yeah. True, true. So do we have any other questions or comments, reactions? There's a lot of kvass conversation going on. Yes. Besides that. Anything else? Daly, do you have any questions for us? About anything you're concerned? During the week, how should I make myself available? Well, I'm sure Emma will probably be in contact with you if she has any questions. And you could probably just stay in touch with her. There's also Mindy, if for some reason Emma becomes unavailable, she's the coordinator. But yeah, that's pretty much how you'd make yourself available. I'm sure, do you already have, I guess you've exchanged emails, I'm not sure. And don't peek too much because it'll ruin the surprise of the week. Try and stop. Rob's like, yeah, I already tried that, didn't work. It worked pretty well. I was surprised with the things that you wrote, so that was great. Yes. So we look forward to working on your tree, Dalyne. And I'm sure we will have lots of wonderful discoveries next Wednesday, same time, same place. And then don't forget, on Saturday, 10 a.m. Eastern Daylight Time, EDT. We have our weekly live cast. This week we'll kind of be covering a little bit of the Wiki Tree Challenge. We'll be going over how to do bios and sources that, since we're so focused on the year of accuracy, it's a good deep dive into that. And then like I said, next Wednesday. And unless anybody else has any other questions or comments, we'll probably head off for the evening. I know it's way past Jones Bedtime. And we thank everybody, thank Rob, thank you, Dalyne. Thank you everybody watching. Just thank you to everybody. Don't forget, you can check us out at wikitree.com if you haven't already. So with that, we will say goodbye. Bye, everyone. Thank you, thank you all. Bye. Let me find the button. Oops, bye everybody.