 Welcome to Friday Night Bingo. It is Friday night for me. What about you two? Friday night? Almost. My day is just starting. Well, look who Ewan and I brought along. This time we brought Emma. And Emma, you will know her from the USPH, which is the United States Black Heritage. You know, like to say, happy Black History Month. This is February United States, and this is our Black History Month that we celebrate. And if you were with us earlier, we had Jewish roots, and now we're going to have Black heritage. And so this is a really good heritage day for us here at WikiTree Bingo. And even though it's Bingo, we have a lot of fun. I just want to point out that we are going to be very respective of the heritage as well and learn a lot from Emma. So I guess let's go ahead and get started with your WikiTree page that you have here. And Denise, my co-leader Denise is in the chat. I want to say hi to her. Hi. There we go. She's going to be helping answer questions. That's fabulous. Denise, you get to answer all the questions in the chat. Have fun. Somebody asked her for also, like, the next lottery number two or something like this. Okay, so as we go along, here's what we're going to do. We're going to talk a little bit about the Black Heritage Project. Then we're going to play one round of Bingo. There's two rounds of Bingo for each time when you see us here. And we'll take a break in between, let everybody set up their cards as well. So let's go ahead and start with your page. Love your page. It's very well done. It's very well set up. And I wanted to point out for those of you who maybe weren't here last November, this was a Wiki Day presentation that the project had. And we'll have one this coming November as well. But take time and view it. Watch it. They left it up here so it can be seen by everybody. And as it's rolled down, this is how you get in touch with the project. You'll notice that you've got both Emma and Denise, your leaders here, but you can also join the project by going to the G2G post. Do you have your Discord? Discord separate. So contact them for Discord, I guess, right? We, as soon as they become a member, we'll give them the link to join the Discord server. And I hear that it is a very active and busy Discord. Do you get a lot of answers from those questions that you're going to ask there? Yeah, real-time help when you're working on and whatever you're working on. It really does, because sometimes we don't go back to something if we have something. So I want to point out that you do have fabulous PCs if fabulous project coordinators as well. And you'll notice Elaine, who was the Jewish Roots PC, is also the project coordinator for Heritage Exchange. So she's got her one foot in each camp. And we have Kate is here too. Did I see Katie as well? I saw Kate. I think just Kate who helps run our Notables. Oh my gosh, Kate and Katie are the dynamic duo of our Notables project. Oh, that's awesome. And so as we go through this, let's talk, I know you have your project teams, but let's talk about, do you have Black Heritage? So tell us a little bit about this page, about what we should know if we have Black Heritage. Yeah, so for people who are African American and they're new to WikiTree, this is a welcome page for them to help them understand some specific tools that we have available to them, including stickers and tags, some places where they can get help with their tree and just to answer some basic questions and how to reach out to us. And I think it's, you know, like I said, and I always say this a lot, but I especially say this when it comes to heritage projects that the stickers are fabulous. And I know Emma really wants this, you know, your sticker on the profile because that's how you count how many profiles you have on WikiTree, right? I know, but that's also how we find them. We can use a Lesh's Wonderful WikiTree Plus system to use that sticker to find people in particular areas, people with particular last names. So it's an absolute vital piece of our project. And anytime anyone across WikiTree is working on profiles and they come across some African Americans, they may be enumerated as Black or Mulatto. If they could put that sticker on the profile, that is an enormous, enormous help for us. And Gina, our project coordinator is here too. So how many profiles is on WikiTree? So we, at last count, I haven't checked what's today, Friday, I haven't checked this week, but at last count, we were about 172,000, which that's awesome. It is amazing because when we first started with the sticker in 2020, we just had a handful. And so to beat 170,000 now is extraordinary. So when did you start? So we revamped. So the project started in 2015, but we revamped it completely from the ground up in June 2020. And that's when we started with project teams and we started using the sticker and brought in, you know, all these project coordinators and just really exploded our growth. And so it's really been two and a half years that we've done those 170,000 profiles. So what was your goal for last year? Our last year, our goal was to reach 150,000 profiles and we hit that six weeks early. So this year, our goal is to get to a 250,000 and we're already ahead of schedule. So I mean, WikiTree, I love you so much because it's not just our project doing this. It's all of WikiTree working together to help us. And the incredible collaboration across projects, I could just cry. It makes me so happy to have all the help. Well, it's really fabulous because it's collaborative. I don't know which, you know, part of our global community that your project doesn't touch. I think it touches every single part of the global community. Not just United States. We are working with all sorts of other countries with our project. We touch all different countries and we have project members from other countries who help us. So yeah, we get to collaborate with so many people. It's amazing. So we're getting a lot of love. We're getting a lot of love here. So that's awesome. We have so many collaborators across WikiTree. So, so many people. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you, everybody. Yeah, I definitely think that you will get your goals so fast that you better have backup goals. Maybe half a million. Maybe we need to shoot for half a million. Why not? I'm going to say that was Molly. So guys, keep in mind, as Emma said, there are profiles that are probably in WikiTree of African-Americans that the sticker can go on. So that it's not there. So if you happen to come across some, go ahead and add the sticker. I'm positive. Emma will not mind. Yeah, we keep finding large pockets of older profiles that still need a sticker. Well, that's pretty cool that you find the large pockets, not just the onesie twosies, but you're finding that collection. During the WikiTree challenge this week, we found two pockets of like 50 profiles. Oh, wow. That's awesome. Okay, let's talk. We're going to talk about the Heritage Exchange Portal after the first bingo cart because that one needs its own little space and time. I wanted to just bring up a couple different things. So for Notables, since Emma mentioned it, if you have a particular love of history or a love of a particular topic, help them out with the Notables. I know that this time last year, it was kind of a strange journey for me, but I started because Emma put a list up. We need profiles for these people and my husband happens to be in the Marine Corps, so I picked one of the Marine on the list. I think that got me about 15 Notables going through his entire family last year. So I love working with the USBH and their Notables, and it's fabulous. I mean, the African-Americans, of course, race. You have something for everybody to help you with. The sports first. We have also, if you want to dig a little deeper, you're going to need a little bit of space and time to add some of these. We've got the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing that was in Birmingham. All these are worthy worthy points to join in and help. If you have Notables or if you have any questions, contact them. Ask the help. Join the USBH and tell them specifically what you would also would like to work on. And we're going to have a creation sprint in a couple weeks where we're going to invite all of Wiggy Tree to come help us to create a bunch of Notables to celebrate Black History Month. Oh, that's awesome. I'm telling you, that was one of my favorite events last February doing that. And I just want to point out you've got another PC that's in the chat as well. And she's recovered. So, hey, Elaine, we're glad to see you here. And thank you for joining us on Shabbat. I appreciate that. So again, we already know the African-Americans have a rich, rich history with music. And I imagine there are so many that we could add as well. And Olympians. You know, Wiggy Tree has Olympians. Don't add those. Don't add those. Okay, forget I said that. Well, yeah, thanks for letting us know. We're not so sad. Spoiler alert. Don't add the Olympians. Dress for the people who are here right now. Don't tell anybody else. But the Wiggy Tree Events Committee is putting together a Wiggy Tree Summer Olympics event. Oh, cool. Okay. So we'll put that over to the side then. I mean, you can add Olympians. I'm just kidding. And you heard it first. See, this is what happens when you join Bingo with us. You find out a lot of cool stuff first, right? And I do want to point out this is something that I'm going to find it again. This is something that Denise pointed out, the US Color Troops. That's another something that I worked on. I worked on with the Postal Ladies too. So I love working with USVH and military as well. We need lots of help there because you really need to kind of understand military records and not everybody does. So calling out all help for our military more. That sounds great. So we're going to get you covered. We're going to get you that half million now. We're just going to aim for the stars here. Mary Jackson. So who is ready for some bingo? We'll go ahead and start the bingo. And does everybody have their card up? And let me bring up my call sheet. This is the first bingo card. And last time I was a little late explaining this, let me explain it right off the bat. So what you're going to do when you see the word, you're going to click on your card and that will, you know, imaginary kind of color, dab it computer-wise. You get one card per person. Not like my sister-in-law who has like the 20 at a bingo hall. And you can go vertical, horizontal, diagonal. You get bingo. Who wins bingo? Well, the person who gets bingo first and types it in the chat, bingo is the first person who wins. So if two people happen to actually have bingo at the same time, whoever's quicker to type it in, that's the winner. And whoever wins, it's a prize. We'll explain that at the time of whoever wins. And if you have any questions about these words, please feel free. Let us know. Question somebody's asking, where do I get a card? Okay, let's get the card up again. Give me one second. This is the first card. There will be two cards. After this one's over, you can close your browser and I'll give you a new one. But here's the first card. Okay, there you go, Bartley. A good point. I did purposely, usually I do not leave a free space, but I thought it was appropriate for you, SBH. So there is a free space in the middle. So you'll already have one that you can dab. And it's the bingo is one row down, one row vertically, horizontally, or diagonally. Okay, so let's talk about probate. Why do you include this word? Probate records give us incredible information, because anytime someone has a will and they own slaves, it will name them by name. And we can go in and create profiles for those people. This one should be obvious. The USBH project. That's why we're here. That's become a known word around Wikitree now when we say USBH. Buffalo soldiers, this is awesome. Civil war. Cohabitation records are a very big resource for us, because slaves weren't allowed to marry. So we had what we're called cohabitation records for people. You know, unless if the husband, the wife, and sometimes even the name of the slave owner, lots of information. This one's probably self-explanatory. If there's a will, you get a lot of information from that. You should dab probate if it's on your card. If we call a name out of one of these words out, you should be dabbing it on your bingo card. So dab away. Another great Tuskegee Airman. Oh, some amazing, amazing Airman. Now, do you have little sub-projects for these? Oh, yes. Like the Buffalo soldiers and the Tuskegee? And we're still working on getting all of our profiles for the Tuskegee Airman created. Have a ways to go. Manumission is when people were freed before the emancipation. So we look for Manumission records. And where would those records be? That's a good question. Different places. It's not always, you know, it's not like there's this big list of Manumission records somewhere that we can go. I was hoping you say there were. Not yet, anyway. Breedsman Bureau after emancipation. This is, it's kind of like court documents in a way. And there will be lots of times when people will have their family listed in these records. And this is going to be a challenge coming up. When's the start? The Whitney Free Challenge. 16th. Is that right, Ewan? Yes. Maybe. Yes. Yes. Yes. 16th. Yay. I know. It's exciting. I'm excited for that one, too. I'm excited for all of them, but it'll be good. We use space pages a lot in our project. It's one of the unique features of WikiTree that makes our work glorious. It really is because it allows you to see so much more than just little bits of text. You can build, like, when just talk about the buffalo soldiers for a second, you can build their lives as a community there. There we go. In legal documents mentioned in Wills. That's awesome. Thank you, Denise. And this freedman is what we call people when they were freed before emancipation. An example use of free spaces or a space page. One example that we use on a regular basis is for slave owners will create a space page when they had more than 10 slaves during their lifetime. And we'll do the list there on the space page and put all the sources and make it a workspace. Ben Juneteenth. Stephen said one, but I have to wait. Oh, yeah. He has to wait. He's already won a prize. Well, he's won before. If you've won within the past six months, you can't win again. And then USCT. Yep. Our US color troops from the Civil War, we're still working on enumerating those lots and lots to go. Oh, there we go. Oh, there we go. All three. Congratulations. Let me tell you what you need to do next. So what you need to do is you're going to... Oh, hold on. No. We had one beforehand. Oh, Susan. It didn't show up? No, she's there. Susan Anderson. I didn't see it before. How weird. Oh, there we go. Susan got it. Sorry, Susan. Oh, Terry Berks is in the chat. Hi, Terry. She's one of the people from the Chicago Augs, the International African-American Society. Okay. Oh, sorry. Audrey, I'm so sorry. Okay. So, Susan, what you're going to do is you're going to email you and you're going to tell her what game you won. You won the bingo on today, the USVH game one. And she will get you the information that you need. Do you know what really want to see the bingo mug again? I'll show it to you. Because I get every... It's a weekly thing. It used to be every bingo, but it's a weekly thing. The bingo mug. I love it. It's my daily mug. I can't live without it now. As a matter of fact, Susan told me that I can go up on Amazon and get those tops for it and make it like a fancier cup so it doesn't spill. So, no, I'm definitely going to do that. So, Audrey, hang tight. There's another game. Don't worry. She covered. Oh, hold it up to the camera. That's it. That is gorgeous. Isn't it? You went and designed it. I love it. So, and I've got the one. I think it comes in different kinds. I got the one that's that's all the dark black color. You designed it? You did it? Yeah, I keep doing it. You're amazing. That's so cool. I know. I love it. So, that's one of the options that you can have for winning. And we're going to play another bingo game. What I'm going to do, though, is I'm going to put up the bingo card now so everybody can get ready. But then we're going to go back to Emma. And Emma's going to talk to us about something that's a little bit more serious than what we've been talking about. We're going to talk about the portal, the Heritage Portal. So, let me get the bingo card up for everybody. And then let's bring up the portal. So, the Heritage Exchange Portal was designed to, if someone has a question about how to document slavery, they can come to this page, look at the list of questions, and then click on that one to find the help page to answer what they're specifically looking for. And Heritage Exchange is basically a collaboration between descendants of slave owners and descendants of those who have enslaved ancestors, and it's a sharing of information. So, if you have an ancestor who owns slaves and they have a will and they have names, then we would love for you to turn those into family profiles on wiki tree so that we can eventually create a family tree for those people. And so, this, oh, we have some new videos. Thank you, Aowyn, for getting those posted. And we need to get those posted on here. I don't think they're on our Heritage Exchange Portal yet. They're not, but they're fabulous. They're very, it was really cool to watch them and see, you know, how you guys are structuring it and what you're doing. We're gonna, we have a couple more getting ready to come out so that, because this, this is the most complicated thing we do in our project is Heritage Exchange. And so, the videos would really be helpful to give step-by-step instructions on how to handle these difficult situations across. Let me ask you questions. So, if I've seen the video and I still am nervous about doing this work, but I feel like it really needs to be part of it, what would you recommend to me if I have an ancestor that was a slave owner? I've got his profile created in wiki tree. So, what should I do next? So, of course, get the sources on his profile so that anybody can look at those and use them. If there's just a few people to list the names from that will on the profile, put the Heritage Exchange category. It's USBH Heritage Exchange and that will signal our team to come to know that there's something brand new to come look at. And we do, we look at every single one of those. Thank you to Shirley Gilbert who processes a lot of those. And then if you want to do more, like you want to go beyond your ancestor or you have some people have multiple ancestors and they have a lot to do and they need more help, they can come send us a message and we've got lots of people standing by who love to give them one-on-one help. Oh, that's fabulous because I can imagine this to me this is such an important heritage topic to go through and I would like to respect it and do right by it and if I felt nervous and I feel like a lot might be too nervous to dig into this this deep in fear that they might mess something up or not have something right so it's great to know that you've got a lot of team members who are willing to jump in and mentor. And I also want people not to be afraid because you really almost can't mess it up especially if you put that USBH Heritage Exchange category on there it's we use that on purpose so that our team can come check and make sure all the parts that need to be there are there and the last name is what it should be. So yeah, don't be afraid. It's better for you to get the information out there and not worry about it being perfect at the start. We'll help you get it to the right shape. That's really, I think that's really the big thing here is get it in and you guys can help kind of make it look right, get it like you said into the right shape and then you will know how to do it from that point on. Yeah, yeah. And be able to do it. Now what happens if I have a slave, a list of slaves, do how many do I need to have to create their own page for that slave owner? You mean a separate space page? Yes. We have a rule of thumb that we use as 10 so if it's more than 10 we take that information off the slave owner's profile and we do it on a space page because we need more room and it's going to take away too much of the person's profile. And that's one of our next videos that's getting ready to come out is how to create that space page and what goes on there. And then let me bring up too because this is I think the link that you were talking about or one of them that these are the ones that are actually linked that have. And so what linked means is they're connected to their descendants. We have some terminology that we use. It doesn't mean they're connected to the tree yet but they're linked. Okay and this one is really big. What happens if I need help kind of like an adoption angel almost but I need a USBH angel to help me find my own enslaved ancestors. Yeah and unfortunately we're not at the point where we have a team who's able to do that on a wide scale yet. We can you know, thank you Gina. That's the category right there. We want that on all brand new profiles for enslaved ancestors and slave owners so that our team knows that there's something new to look at. Unfortunately we're not at the point yet. We're still kind of in the baby stage of even though we have more than 30,000 profiles now for enslaved ancestors that's still pretty small. And so we and and we have a couple hundred plantations that are fully fleshed out. Thank you Michelle who runs that team. So we can people can ask in G to G that's the best use and use the black heritage tag and ask the question and we'll try to help as much as we can. We do have some people who are experts in some of these locations and might be able to help but it's hit and miss right now. G to G is your best place to ask for help like that. And then let's go ahead and touch on your one of your other categories that is pretty important. I think we covered most of it but for this one the United States of America slavery is kind of two parts. Is it in owners and slaves? We have two different streams and we do it by counties. So we're categorizing slave owners by the county where they own slaves and the same for those who are enslaved. And those categories are priceless to us. It helps us group people who are enslaved together. It helps us connect people together faster. I can imagine because you know trying to connect everybody is a challenge. It might be a challenge to get profiles into wiki tree but probably your biggest challenge is what happens if I have a list of slaves from a census but I have only you know their age and you know their their description pretty much is why I call it. I don't have a name. Yeah we can't create profiles for those people. We have to do additional work in order to identify their names before we can create profiles. And that's why the space pages are extraordinary for us. We can do that work there. So would I then at that point would I still if I had a lot say 20 would I create the space page and just list them exactly as the census records do? Yep exactly from those slave schedules. We have all sorts of pages with those lists. And we're starting to match those up to names so it's it's working. And this surprised me California. That really surprised me for slave owners. I don't know why. I think that we typically think of them more on the east coast south. But so I always like to point out that even though you might not have African American heritage does not mean you can't work in this project. You might come from California or have California. This one happens to come from San Diego this profile. So San Diego County. So maybe you researched that particular county. There's a reason for you to jump in. And as we mentioned there's the Buffalo soldiers for example there's a region reason to jump in for the US color troops and the military. There's always going to end the notable. So there's always reasons to jump into a wiki tree project. And I know everybody has loads of time to add another project. We just started state teams last year. We currently have I think about seven will eventually have a team for every single state. So and that's enumerating people across time. It's not just during the slavery era. So there's definitely something for everyone. Well explain that in comments. So it's not just during the slavery. So it's after the slavery a period after emancipation after the Civil War. We create profiles across all time history in the United States of America because we in order to connect in slave dancers to their descendants we have to have the people in between. So we need we need lots of people creating those everyday profiles from you know when they come across census records or whatever documents that they're working on. You know I think that's a really good point. I want to just mention it again with what Emma just said for them to find some of these unknowns that are listed in census and then we have the descendants we you need to go probably from you know closer to our time backwards. Yeah to try and get it. So that's a really interesting. Okay. And then what see Susan said that California had native slaves. Is there a separate project for these so we collaborate with the Native American project as much as possible because we do cross has quite a lot and we use the same categorization system for Native American slaves as for the U.S. Black heritage slaves. And I do believe that correct me if I'm wrong but I do believe Jalene that you were part of the Native. Jalene and I talk a lot. We need to talk more because so many questions come up about mixed heritage and and how to handle that and Native Americans who had Black slaves and there's a lot of cross connecting going on. Okay and then well I'll give you a funny from Steven. So Steven wanted to tell you it looks like you have a graduation hat. Because of why the facts are behind you. We've got to have the big charts and the big whiteboards are ungeology or else we don't survive. We just don't survive at all. So and this is interesting. So Terry found one of his ancestors wills that gave a name an age of 84 in slaves. That's amazing. That's a treasure trove. So did they and they had the name so Terry how's that space page going? There we go. So PC for the Native Americans. So not a sub project for Native Americans are asleep but we can work on that right? I think she backpedaled when I did. Oh she did. I'm so sorry she was quick. We're using the same categorization. That's interesting. So in in Appalachia for example we have the Malungians who have the share. So is that what California enslaved was a combination of Native American and African American? I have a feeling the one that's enumerated in California probably was brought from somewhere else to California but they were laws are funky during different time periods so maybe they were still considered enslaved. That's a really good point too. The different laws in different states different territories before some of them were states. That's a very good point. The laws kept changing like no you're free when you come to this state and then later it was like no you're not free when you come to a free state. So it's sometimes it's hard to keep up with you know who's free when. And I wanted to bring up another particular category because again if you're a history buff and if you're if you're doing genealogy you you are a history buff in one way or another. So this is South Carolina's category under the USBH and there's something a little bit for everyone but I wanted to know if you I I thought there were some questions about the slave narratives. So should we use them? Should we trust them? Do we believe the slave narratives that were given? We we have a team that's actually going through all the slave narratives and creating profiles and you're right it can be iffy and that's why we try to bring in as many other sources as we can. Sometimes we can't find other sources but we still are creating profiles. Okay so we should still use those. Should we put them in as a source on our profiles? Yeah I mean certainly you can. Okay and is everybody ready for the second bingo game? We'll go ahead and get this started and then after this I know that we have a couple questions so we can also answer some questions. You guys have Emma here so now is the time to ask her questions about this project because it's quite larger than what we can fit in in this time space. It's got a lot. You've got tons of project coordinators in the chat so they can answer anything for you. And that's great. And Denise. Okay so let's bring up your second bingo card. One of our notables. The Jordan Truth. Everybody should know that name. I know I was just thinking that. That was probably one of my first and actually WB Du Bois was probably one of the first that I learned in elementary school and along with Harriet Tubman. Yeah you know cards are a very big source for us because they list lots of family members on them. We can get a lot of genealogy from them. This is taking me back to a lot of my history classes. I hope that it's refreshing everybody else's as well. In obituary that makes a lot of sense. Yeah same with you know the same story as with bingo cards. Well this is kind of interesting because John's in Ireland. We are you know we are talking about the United States so this is kind of interesting. And then I just want to point out you guys should be dabbing and don't forget same rules of bingo apply. Whoever types bingo first in this time I promise to be better at it. Loving versus Virginia. An incredible case where before 1967 it was not legal for people from different races to marry. And this case made it legal. Hallelujah. And then a fairly interesting movie came out about it too not long ago. So it helps visualize their issues their problems that they went through. And the Little Rock Nine are the kids who helped integrate. I can't remember which school in Alabama. Vice president if you don't know who that is. I'm a bingo rock. We got an issue. If you're in the United States and don't know your president and vice president we had a problem. And I will tell you I live just outside of Atlanta come to Atlanta see the King Center. You will love it. It's awesome. DNA. This is interesting. We got a bingo already fast. Okay. Mark did you win already. I want to say thank you. Mark let me know. Did you did Mark win already. I think so. No. He'll let us know. We have a backup. If not Jelaine's next. Jelaine wants that mug. I don't wear it. I love the mug. I'm going to come play bingo more often. I know. I keep asking. I think it's the best seller out of the whole store. Mark says he's not won before. Okay Mark. Congratulations. And I will say this too. Mark is on team Virginia as well. And we posted the Freeman's Freerow challenge in team Virginia. And I think we got a couple more people signed up for that. We get you challenged from that too. So it's always good to keep in touch with your Thon challenge teams because they really help out during the wait. I don't understand. I think she meant I want the mug. Yeah. So congratulations Mark. And what you're going to do is you're going to email everyone and you're going to tell her that you won the bingo for the second card on the USBH. And she will get you all the information you need. If you know now you need you want the mug just tell her just tell her that you want the mug that Sandy has and she'll hook you up. No. So I do have have a couple of questions for you myself. So what would you say as genealogists we should focus on for USBH and thinking about more of the slave owners in enslaved. How should we get started if we want to research? If like you want to make that a focus for your work. I think the best thing to do is join the project because we'll take you through the path and we'll hold your hand and we'll teach you the process and then you can go off and running and do a lot of that work. If you are someone who just you come across these names when you're working and you want to make sure they get enumerated there's two things you can do you can either go to the portal and learn the process or you can send us the names because you're not sure that you want to do that work. We have an email address at the bottom of our home page where people can send us those documents and we'll process. And you'll do it. So if there's somebody who comes across it and they're like this is not something I focus on I don't know if I have the bandwidth to really do it so they can send them to you but if it's something that somebody comes across and they are like well I'm curious I'm interested Emma's just given everybody a couple different ways you can dive in and go ahead and start working on it and they'll have one of their team members help you out or you can watch the video go all the way through the video series because they are awesome they really do help you a lot and then that will get you through. And don't be afraid to ask questions in G2G I love that over the last couple years I've been seeing more and more people asking questions about this work in G2G and we if you put the black heritage tag someone from our team will come along and answer that question for you. And I think that's really important too because you do have several members of your team working so the chances of you getting a hit answer fairly quick is really good. It's like five minutes. So what she's saying is don't leave the edit screen of the profile keep it open and go back to G2G and find your answer so you can go back and continue editing as you go. We have amazing people in our project who yeah they're quick to help. Oh and I thank you thank you Denise this is very very important too that you could do you guys have your own path your own trail as well. So that what should I do if I want to join but I want to I want to go through your path first. The path is required for joining the project we take everyone through it and eventually we're going to now the wiki tree academy is getting up and running we're going to eventually have our whole path on there so you don't even have to join the project if you want to learn the steps you can go through that whole thing on the academy but that's not yet but that's coming. What's your path like now what does it entail? We have two paths one is for profile improvement and we just want to make sure everybody understands regular wiki tree standards and how to use the sticker and categories and then we have a second one that's called heritage exchange and we'll walk through through how to work with slave owner profiles how to create the profiles for enslaved ancestors how to do space pages all of that and Melanie was asking a question of where do we need the most help I I think like everywhere like seriously. So we've almost picked your favorite topic if if you like music maybe start with notables of music if you like military start with some of the the black color the color troops that we have if you want to dig really deep into historic records I know that um right after the excuse me revolutionary war you can really find some documents and some census there if you want to dig in there so um or and I think this might be a really good opportunity too I keep mentioning it the wiki tree challenge is wiki all throughout wiki tree and wiki tree has a large challenge where everybody joins in and helps each other and maybe you know the the Freedmen's Bureau might be the way to get started for you if you like challenges and kind of the thorns that might be a way for you to get started too I just feel like again your project is global even though we're talking about usph it is a global project it is a global project we touch so many countries in our work and another thing too is we have monthly sprints either once or twice a month that are open to all all wiki tree and we post those in g2g so if you want to just help for a little bit you can come along and help us out with those fun things I wish I had more time in the day I wish I had like 80 hours in a day just to do this work because I know right so I think what it was saying is come come aboard join me I think doing the path is an excellent idea as well because then you feel more comfortable I think people really want to respect the heritage and they don't want to they don't want to mess anything up and they're really good about doing really nice profiles and I do want to I did forget and I do want to show one profile one notable profile here this is one of my favorite movies I was actually fairly lucky and got to see a preview before it came out of you've seen the movie Hidden Figures and Mary Jackson from the movie so if you've seen the movie there she is that is her that's kind of cool to me and but we were talking about categories and the usb h is really really good I noticed your guys are really good about putting categories on profiles and it's really important because this also tells a story so if you look if she has a category of nasa human computer she has a category of engineers she's congressional gold medal honoree um you know she went to Hampton University so just right off the bat this tells her story along with her smiling face which I love I just I love seeing the connection and then um that's the name of the building after all her sororities mentioned there sororities are a very big deal oh that very much is and I will let you know that um explain to us because this is something that we don't see a lot in wiki tree this little tag that is genetic this genetically defined genealogically defined so our goal is to have our goal is to have all our profiles genealogically defined that that's the ultimate goal but right now we're just working on our goals that means we have a source for every single attached um family member that proves that it's accurate all right cool and I want to also point out your two there's for those of you that aren't familiar with notables this is the notable sticker which I tend to automatically put on a notable if you need help with notables please reach out to any project you're a part of because um they can explain notables too and when you see this here this is actually the tag where the project is saying that they will help manage the particular notable but it also means this point is kind of to me what I like to call super notable they are really recognizable they're important to the project and we try to recognize what I call more local notables too because they kind of get left off the map a lot for you as black heritage um so our one of our goals is not just to create the profiles but to highlight people and bring them into the light and remind people about um you know and remind Americans about these amazing people and this one like I said this this one is just a really nice profile I could go through so many of them but this profile has been done so nicely and sourced within that's what it means it does amazing work so it's it's really really it's a really nice put together yep gene yeah yeah yeah okay so do you guys have any questions before we let you go to enjoy your Friday night one person asked once they fill out the volunteer form to join the project what do they do and we kind of have a there's a waiting list for the past so you won't start the path right away but you know you can get started in the project you can ask questions in the google group or in the discord channel and we'll help you get started and I do know that also your cemeteries you have a very large cemetery network yes Denise oversees that and it's growing explosively right now so exciting we keep cheering because we just we keep calling you know accumulating more and more cemetery categories and entire families are buried together we're able to piece together families because of those cemeteries and see that's like you said that's all part of the puzzle so you you have some census records and you document the descendants the closer to to this time frame helps connect you've got some slave narratives you've got some you've got some wills I should say and cemeteries and that helps you kind of age date as well I imagine if if you will if you can whole families because if you have somebody in the census that doesn't quite match up to date then somebody could reach out to you guys and say I think based on the cemetery records in the will that this might be that person and that's what we do we put the records side by side by side by side and that's why those space pages are so valuable is we can put those all those records side by side in those space pages thank you Gillian Gillian you're wonderful Gillian has been wonderful to work with we have a lot of questions about mixed heritage and Native American people who have Native American and Black heritage and how do we handle that and she's been a wonderful resource and again we're talking collaboration between projects oh my gosh yes we and you know how many project leaders of other projects are now members of our project well phenomenal um and yeah because we love you we love and we love everybody else who's helping us out scott um of the notables has been fabulous helping us get set up with a lot of the notables project that's another project that you touch in and in the military and war so that's the great thing that wiki tree does and I hope everybody sees that well so as we sit here with the bingo not only do we learn about the projects but you learn how if you're already on notables guess what you can help out usbh as well or if you're already on usbh you could probably help out the military and war as well as go through so that's pretty cool and thanks i appreciate you being here and thank you all all your dreams and your pcs you you guys did awesome the one thing i did want to see is um is eddie in the chat i didn't know if eddie it's his birthday today i think i saw on the weekend chat i i thought it was eddie king yeah today's birthday i think that's what i saw in the weekend chat so we're gonna wish him happy birthday so i see him hopefully watch this video happy birthday okay guys event i think that's a wrap we'll see you guys in two weeks everybody make sure to go to see julia friday night date night next friday and then we'll see you in two weeks and thanks imma i appreciate doing our project yes please do bye everybody