 Good. Hello. It is a afternoon or some people at Sunday. Who knows? Guess what, Sarah? What? Look at these numbers. Oh, yeah, I saw that. We reached 30 million. You had to think about it. Don't laugh. Don't laugh. It was like almost a thousand. I was like, no, that's not a thousand. That's 30 million. With almost 10 million DNA test connections. That's pretty darn good, with 894. We're almost up to 900,000 members. I want to say there were like 400, 300,000 when I first started on WikiTree. It's grown. Yeah, it's a lot, a lot, a lot. It's growing faster and faster. Exponentially. That's what I was going to say. That's a math term. It is a math term. Don't do it. I guess I decided not to say it. My word. I'm going to throw something else up here, too. Oh, yeah. Look at 022, April 2022. Connectathon event. So Friday morning at 8 a.m. I think that I will be available. Yeah, there you go. I will be available on Friday's chats, but I won't be for the rest of the weekend because I'm going to be at a conference. I was at the East Coast Genetic Genealogy Conference. The one where you're actually going to basically go? That's the one in South Carolina. Okay, okay. See, Sarah and I keep up with each other on Facebook. That's how we know what each other's doing. So cool. The Connectathon is coming up. Fast and furious. Make those connections less than a month now, pretty much. Yeah, so if you haven't signed up, go over to G2G and get yourself signed up for those. I'm going to zoom ahead so I can catch up with all the latest comments. No, yeah. Greg is doing something. He had, I don't remember. Was it a church or a math thing? I think it was a math thing. Was it a math thing? It's either church or math. Yeah. That's the only reason why Greg would be away from us. And since Sarah has been doing math this morning, I'm going to say it's math. Why isn't Greg here to help me with math? So she was here since. So we have John, Janine, Chris, my mom. Let's see who else. Tommy, Judy. And if there's anybody else, if you want to say hello, hello, Brian. Look, it's Pip. Pip, oh my gosh, Pip. Pip, I was going to email you today just to check in because I haven't seen you on Saturdays and I've been missing you so much. I'm going to be in the upstate of South Carolina and you lot, Pip. I know we usually bring up Pip at least once. I read that. At least once, even whether he's here or not. We'll talk about Pip. And especially when we're talking, you know, there was the, I think it was St. Patrick's Day one, maybe, or I don't know, or the Irish one we were talking about. I don't know. We should bring him up somehow. We saw, my son and I saw a guy who looked like he was going to go and toss a Tabor. He was walking up one of our main streets in a bright purple kilt in short sleeve shirt. He had on the socks and everything. It was cold that day. But I thought of Pip and I was thinking, man, I bet Pip doesn't fill out his kilt quite as well as this gentleman does. I mean, literally, this guy was looking for a telephone pole to toss. He was, he was poof. Have you ever tossed a Tabor Pip? I thought you were going to say have you ever tossed a telephone pole? I said telephone pole so people would know what a Tabor kind of looks like. I guess I'll wait for him to answer. Yeah, we usually, when kilts get brought up, usually Pip also gets brought up by this bright duty. Pip, Pip, Pip sexy kilt pictures always make things fun too. No, he's not going to Tabor toss. No, he's not going to Tabor toss. Tabor, Tabor. See, I'm not even pronouncing it correctly. See, Norman fixed me. Not Tabor, but Tabor. Hey, I'm Irish. Sorry. Yeah. She doesn't know about those things. Morning, Melody. Melody. I can pronounce Memphis. Memphis? Oh, Pip is wearing Patterson blue this morning. I love just that I started watching Outlander. Read the books. Read the books so you get all the nuances. Jelaine, hello, Jelaine. Jelaine, I'm purposefully skipping one of the answers to the week this week just for you because it's not correct. Somebody said their favorite female ancestor was somebody that has an Indigenous person who has been disproven as they didn't exist. So I'm skipping that one, Jelaine. So Eric, question of the week. Why don't we just go ahead and... He says, what about Highlander? Highlander? Oh, he's at, oh, I guess it's different. Another show. Got a lot of thoughts on shows. Oh, yeah, that's true. Outlander is what? Outlander and Highlander. Yeah. You're welcome, Jelaine. The question of the week. I guess I should share my screen or something. Do something right. I heard we have an exciting featured thing for the question of the week, too. Only for you. Question of the week. Who was one of your favorite female ancestors? Do you guys have a female ancestor that's your favorite? There we go. Thank you very much for doing that for me, Sarah. Make sure you go through. Here's the question of the week if you missed it. There we go. Go through and make sure you upvote these as you go. And we've got some cool pictures popping up too. Did Lilian Rosie by any chance, meaning did she rivet planes or put planes together? And that's a good question. She says, I don't know exactly what job function she had at Grumman. My dad said she built planes. I suppose a general Rosie the Riveter represented any woman performing a traditional male manufacturing role in the country's defense back then. So I actually went. I've got her profile to pull up. Nice profile. Now either her husband was incredibly tall or she was incredibly short. I'm going to say he was tall because look at how tall he is on that picture right there. Lots of siblings and lots of great DNA stuff over there on the left, but check out the picture. Love it. This is me all winter long. I want to wear short. So I roll up my pants. Isn't that funny? I don't do that outside normally, but in the house. Great pictures. And then she's got the obituary set off. Is this a part of our regular styles and standards, Sarah? I think it's something people do. I don't think it's one of the like standard ones, but it's advanced. It's an advanced code. So she's got a cool biography set off and then she's got some of the people, the children kind of and has a little write up for them on each profile and some sources down there. And here's that cool picture of her son or her husband. I'm not sure about that anyway. So cool. Love the picture with the rolled up pants. Let's go back. Oh, let's see. Barring my mother and grandmother. I would say my great grandmother Elizabeth Catherine Smith was a strong woman. 14 children. Whoo. I'm very proud of what little she had. Now did we go to her? Yes. Check out this picture. Look at that hat. There you go. That looks like a very, very proud middle six woman. And I like the way that they've put the pictures here in the middle. Since the pictures over on the right hand side used to be small, like more like thumbnail size. And since they've made them bigger, I don't put them in the middle anymore. I just say you can see them to write, but I do like seeing them in the middle. So later years and death, lots of nice stuff on this profile. Very well done. Look at this picture. Look at her hair. Little looped on her. Yeah, you would think she was a movie star. But if this yeah, this is really a heartwarming story. The answer is that I've always loved dearly is my maternal grandmother's younger sister, my great aunt, Nora Long. She was beautiful both inside and outside. In 1966, she quit her job in California, cooking at a monastery to care for her, my terminally ill mother, her sister. She lived in my room in Oklahoma City for several months. So I would not have to drop out of college. Alexis Nelson. Wow. How cool is that? So this is a 29 fit picture. What a great ancestor to lift up today. Nice. That is a great story, Alexis. I'm going to cry. Are you crying, Sarah? No, I'm not. Not crying. What is going on here? Uh oh. Uh oh. I would have to say my mother, Sarah Cleaver Gamalero. Why did I think, why did I not know that you have Cleavers in your family as in Beaver Cleaver? Do you even know who I'm talking about, Sarah? No. The TV show Leave It to Beaver. The family name was Cleaver. So Joanna Collis. Okay. So here we go. I had to find her. Check out that wedding photo. Except it's just the thumbnail. I can't actually go because it's privacy protected. Yeah. Because she is recently dead, 1980s. That's 30, 40 years ago. Come on. Let's open up that profile, people. Okay. William Strunk Cleaver. I love the Cleaver family. Got Joanna's DNA and Sarah's DNA over on the right. Not much of a biography written up, but look at that beautiful wedding dress. All right. So going on. Now, hands down, my favorite is Christina Brown, Nicole McNichol. I have not yet written her profile, but you can get a whiff of that in her husband, William McNichol. Christina, more than anyone else who established the family. She was born in Scotland, totally uneducated. Her husband came to the US in 1858. Christina and the children and her sister, Janet, followed in 1859. She learned to read and write, helping her children with their homework. That's cool. Her husband died in 1873 digging a basement for the house and their homestead in Kansas. The following year was the great grasshopper plague in Kansas and on and on. Wow. So there's a book, Joanna Stratton, Pioneer Woman, Voices from Kansas Frontier. This book does not mention Christina by name, but it tells something like her story. So that's pretty cool. This is a great picture. This is the oldest picture that Trevor has of a female in his family, Sarah Mariah Maxey, my fifth great-grandmother, born 1822, died 1894. I don't know very much about her life. I've found her in census records, but I've found a copy of her obituary and a very, very short paper trail, but a photo. And it's the oldest female. It's incredible to see the face of someone I've never met. Yeah. And I love family resemblances. You can look at somebody and actually, if I look at my knees, I see my brother in her face, that kind of thing. So Joyce never existed. We're going to skip that one. Tell me, Buck, Mary Polly Hornberger. Did I put her up? Let me see. Mary Polly Hornberger Kemper. Not a lot of stuff on the profile, but still a nice nice nod to her from Tommy Buck. She gave birth to a son, Elias, as an unwed single parent in 1845. So for nearly 40 years, she had been the focus of me and my cousin's research to find out who the father was. If a DNA test had been available in 1845, the expected father would not have been able to deny that he was the father. That's an interesting commentary. So have you used genetic genealogy to try and track that down, Tommy? Have you found people in your family tree? You don't know who they are, and you're like, maybe that's them? Here, let's see. Great picture intrigued by my second great-grandmother, Charity Hovey Booth. She's one of Mark Weinheimer's brick walls. Another great picture. We love having pictures. And I am so sorry, Brian. Again, not able to show your wonderful answer this week, and it was very cute. You can head over to it, turn your volume up really high, because the volume is not up loud enough to play it. It's a very, very cute, wonderful answer to the question of the week from Brian Nash. Let's see. Not a direct answer, but first cousin several times removed, Elizabeth Griscombe, aka Betsy Ross from John Griscombe, born into a family of early Connecticut residents, Deborah Lathrop Avery Gardner Putnam wasn't Anne's ancestors, but she's found her especially interesting since she discovered her. So even if you don't have a favorite ancestor, she can find one in a different family and claim her. Sounds like fun, Anne. Doug Laidlow loved them all, but I'm married to somebody else. This list now have been replaced. I'm unable to say who is my closest on the list. My favorite female was Joan of Arc. All right, cool. Naomi Warren. It's hard to pick just one. As I research these women, I tend to love them all. Lately, I'm enamored with my great, great grandmother, Mary Gonic Krawik, who integrated here with her family, 11 years old from Galicia, Polish Austria, and established a branch of my paternal line about an hour away from where I live now. I could only imagine how frightening and exciting it must have been to pack up and sail off to a whole new place as a preteen, 11 year old. Pretty cool. Lots more great answers all throughout here if you want to go through. Make sure you click them off and check them off. I'm going to end this today with Bob Allen's one tough lady, Jane Jean Turk Allen, photogram of the wife of Robert David Allen, Jr., a Revolutionary War soldier and farmer from Augusta County, Virginia. She bore 11 children. In the late 1790s, she migrated with her entire family to Kentucky Wilderness and homesteaded in Cumberland County, Kentucky. In an era of extreme hardship, she held her family together and pioneered the westward American expansion. Jane never married and lived to the ripe age of 97. Her grave is in Allen's Creek, Cumberland County. Lots more great answers. Go out and check the question of the week. And I'm going to hand it over to Sarah. Yes, because Greg is not here, I had to use the profiles this week. And they're very, I think the profiles are pretty exciting this week. If you're not aware, let me go ahead and start sharing my screen. But they just found a few weeks ago, Ernest Shackleton's boat from 1915 in Antarctica. So he is featured along with some other polar explorers. Hold on. You're going to share your screen there, Sarah? Yes, hold on. I'm working on it. I'm working on it. I thought I was going to get to give you back your gift to me. So which polar explorer are you most closely connected to? Because of Ernest Shackleton's ship that earned it. Wow. The endurance was found. So I actually have a little clip of the ship that the video that they took to show real briefly, which I think is really cool. So Ernest Shackleton, the boss for 1874 in Ireland, and he went, he died in January 5, 1922 when his, I thought he had died on the boat, but I guess not. Didn't he like march out or didn't he and a couple other people leave and then come back? Not sure, but he has a very well done, but I don't know a lot about him, but so he has a bunch of books separately. Shackleton's book style that he wrote 1919. Okay, so let me show you guys the little snippet of the endurance of the ship they found. It's crazy. It's been over 100 years since this ship went missing. And it's beautiful. Well, it's not beautiful, but it's, it's, it's like it, it's from the day it got caught in the ice. Oh, they explain why it still looks that way, because there's no parasites in that sea. No, but no urchins are eating it. That's pretty cool. That's pretty darn cool. Hey, Sarah. Yes. I just got a note from Greg just now saying, oh, remember, I won't be at the live cast this morning. I'm at an Ontario math. He's mathing. Math. It was math, I guess, right? Math. So there we go. So that's our, our featured profile. Look at him as a kid with the, that's cute. Okay. Your mama says no, Shackleton saved his crew. I thought that he left and came back and got them. Yeah. So next we have also just to forewarn everybody. Some of these names are going to be really hard to pronounce. So, Rowald Amundsen, born in 1872, I believe in Norway, if I'm guessing that correctly. Norwegian, yes, like it's right there, little sticker. Thank you. And died in 1928 in the Barents Sea. He was a Norwegian explorer. He lived the Antarctic expedition of 1910 to 1912, which was the first expedition to reach the South Pole in 1911. In 1926, him and 15 other men in the Airship North became the first explorers verified to have reached the North Pole. He was the first person to go to the North and the South Pole. That's pretty cool. What an achievement. He never married though. He did adopt a Siberian child, Kakonita Amundsen. Amundsen? Oh, and they didn't really say, I guess he got lost at sea. I'm assuming since he died. I think you're doing a great job because I'm not laughing at you. So you're doing very well. Thank you. Next we have Bitis Johansen Bering or Ivan Ivanovich Bering, 1681 from Denmark and died in 1741 in Russia. Let's see. He was a Danish cartographer and explorer in Russian service and officer in the Russian Navy. And this was all taken from Wikipedia. Let's see. He was his work in the later stages of the Great Norwegian War, was dominated by littering, littering duties. So if you want to read this, maybe somebody can work on his profile, get the quota stuff from Wikipedia away. Okay. Let's see. Next Admiral Richard Evelyn Bird II, born in Virginia in 1888, died in Massachusetts in 1957. Apparently he's a descendant of Pocahontas. He has the Medal of Honor. He's the Legion of Merit, the Navy Cross, Navy Distinguished Service Medal, and the Distinguished Flying Cross. So he attended the University of Virginia, later entered the U.S. Naval Academy. A gymnastics injury forced him to retire from the Navy, but World War I opened a door for him to re-enter into the Navy's aviation branch. They let him and his copilot and expedition to Greenland. And in 1926, they led another expedition to the North Pole, which was riddled with issues. And then President Calvin Coolidge is the word, both men with the Medal of Honor. And if you guys don't know, the Medal of Honor is a pretty high award for somebody to get. It was a big deal. So apparently he died in asleep on March 11, 1957. So then we have, oh no, it's in French. Where's Greg when we need him? John Baptiste Charcot. If I said that right, born in 1867 in France, and died in 1936 at sea and whatever this says. I'm not even gonna try. Let's see if there's any, oh look, there's an English part. Let's see. He was the French Rugby Union champion in 1896. And he was also a double silver medalist in the sailing at the 1900 Summer Olympics. Between August 22, 1903 and March 4, 1905, he led the first French Antarctic expedition, which wintered on Wendell Island. And his missions is a scientific success. He also participated in World War One and was rewarded with the British and French Croque de Guerre, and another citation for his war services. He continued exploration missions after the war and did so until his death. He died at sea and his body was found and buried in Paris. Next we have Henry Larson. Good channel mind going for that middle name. No, as Bajorne, as Bajorne. Oh no, this profile does not have a profile manager. Oh no. So he was born in 1899 in Norway and died in 1964 in Canada. When he was married to his wife, his occupation was listed as Sergeant Royal Canadian Mounted Police. On his death certificate, his occupation was listed as Superintendent Retired. And then there's a little bit of probably the same biography in Norwegian. So I'm assuming it's Norwegian. So this profile needs a little bit of love and a profile manager. If anybody wants to claim that. Now we have Nils Adolf-Erik Nordenskild. Girled. Where are you people from this, these people? Chris, you know when it's answered. Yes, you're closest to bird, by the way, Sarah. Oh yeah, that's cool. So we're in 1832 in Suomi. Helsinki. I don't know, I like that name. And then in 1901 in Sweden, maybe. I don't know what the translation of that is. So he was an arctic explorer most famous for leading the expedition that made the first complete journey through the northeast passage. He was born to Finland, Swedish aristocrats. Nils Gustaf and Margarita Sofia. He studied geology and mineralogy at the University of Helsinki and received his doctorate in 1855. So should he have a doctor here maybe? I don't know, I don't know how that works. Is it a PMP or an MD? Hmm. And then from 1858 and on Adolf participated in or led 10 arctic expeditions culminating in the crossing of the northeast passage. And he died from a heart failure. Okay, and then we have Captain Lawrence Edward Grace Oates or Titus Soldier, two different nicknames. Born in 1880 in England and died in 1912 in Antarctica, I guess on an expedition, I guess people find out. Let's see. Trying to check out his death. Yeah, that's what I'm trying to do. Well, apparently he was, Oates spent his 21st birthday in Aberdeen recovering from his wound. Hold on, let me go up a little bit. So apparently he was ambushed and they found cover in a riverbed and he was shot. Shattered in Antarctica. Yeah, I don't know if this is, but this is what's here shattered his left femur. And then he spent his 21st. Well, I don't think he died that young, did he? No. No, he did not. So then his bullet was removed in the bone set. So, you know, story of that. And then 12 years later, however, he was one of five who set out with Captain Rock. He did still die pretty young at 30 something on an expedition to reach the South Pole. They arrived at their destination on January 16, 1912, only to find out that the Norwegian Roald Amundsen had been there before him. So one we saw. I saw some blip about that this week, like on the, on the return journey Oates old war wounds. So the one we saw, we said about before caused him increasing problems until he was unable to pull his sleigh. Realizing he would drag on the group March 17, his birthday, he stumbled out of the tent, never to be seen again. As it happened, his sacrifice made a little difference for his companions were in such a weakened state to they eventually succumbed to the appalling conditions. Yeah. So his old war wound gave him issues. And yeah, that's sad though. He was trying to sacrifice himself for the better of the group, but it did not help. So next we have John Rymill from Australia for 1905 and 1968. I don't know if he has siblings, spouse or children, but none are listed. He was educated at the Melbourne Church of England Grammar School and later the Royal Geographical Society in London, London where he studied surveying and navigation. He also took flying lessons and courses at the Scott Polar Research Institute in Cambridge. These were to prepare himself for his adventurous life as an aviator and explorer in Canada, Greenland, the most famously the Antarctic. He served in the Royal Australian Naval Volunteer Reserve in World War II as a sublieutenant and he died in Adelaide, South Australia in 1968 in the result of a car accident. He had a few months earlier. We have two more of Robert Scott's, Robert Falcon Scott Scott of the Antarctic he was called. Great Scott! Born in 1868 in England and died 1912 in Antarctica. So also seems to have died on expedition. He was English Royal Navy officer and explorer who led two expeditions to the Antarctic regions, the Discovery Expedition and the ill-fated Terra Nova Expedition. So the second one he led a party of five which reached the South Pole, South Pole on January 17, 1912. The same thing to find out it had been there. I guess he was on the same one as the one before because it seems to be similar. On their journey Scott's party discovered plant fossils, proving Antarctica was once forested and joined to other continents. Which is really important to find out. At a distance of 150 miles from their base camp and 11 miles from the next depot, Scott and his companions died from a combination of exhaustion, starvation, extreme cold. So apparently he became celebrated British hero status reflected by the many permanent memorials erected across the nation. And our last one, Martin Snellen, 1840 in the Netherlands and 1907 also in the Netherlands. Kind of a short it would be cool if he was the one who beat everybody else to the poles if he was the last one. So apparently he was a I don't know if that was HBS teacher and Delft he worked for the meteorological institute in Utrecht as an assistant director. In the capacity became the leader of the first three Dutch Arctic expeditions in 1882 to 1883. Not a very not much on his biography so if anybody also wants to expand on him a little bit. And that's all of our our ticket explorers. Pretty cool interesting stuff. And pretty cool the fact that you know it also was sparked by the finding of a ship from 100 years ago. Yes, awesome. Okay now your mom says your mom says Sarah we're close to Snellen. I think she's asking are we close to Snellen? Let me look. Where did it go? I lost your profile. I'll let you know in a minute Joanne. Okay I guess it's time for photos. Let's see let's see let's see hold on I lost my page. Let me go back. I wasn't ready. I didn't have these open. 30 degrees to Snellen through your dad. Yeah usually through my dad. You're closer through bird. Okay let's see. Oh I want to before we open I want to look at this one first. Looking at cherry blossoms. I love cherry blossoms. Oh look at that. That's a cute one. The theme is spring so it fits. Okay. Theme of spring. So let's look at all these spring themed photos. So we have the Nelson family on Easter Sunday. Thanks to Alexis Nelson. She always gives us good photos. Truly. I miss Betsy Coze photos. I wish that's true. Yeah me too. Give her a Saturday gig and come back with her photos. So we have Ruth at Essendon photo was taken in 1952 in England. Lucy Willows. Lucy Willows DJ. In Canada 1954. I don't think I've ever seen that before. That kind of thing because you will those before. I don't think so. Just in Canada. I think they're south. Maybe they don't do well in the heat. But look we saw this one. Yeah they opened it. Well that's a pretty photo. I love mountains. Though I don't live near any mountains. That's a nice photo. Who did that? John Thompson. Look at this. It's all horsey bunny. I feel like it's more of a pony. Yeah definitely a pony. Look at them. That poor pony is probably like wild three. Yeah but all three of those little fellows wouldn't add up to a human. Yeah I know. But this should be featured on the homepage. Okay you think that's the photo of the week? Let's see what it's chosen. I would choose this one. Just because I had the pony in it. Unless there's another one. Unless there's another photo that'll top this one. But I don't know. That one's pretty good. Oh storm. It's like a storm in April. The title says 2011 but the photo says 2010. So I'm not sure quite what to believe. Janine. Let us know. Was the was the camera an year too early maybe? Oh look how cute they're finding eggs. The pony still wins though. I'm sorry. I have one like that of my mom tip. Finding eggs? No the pony. The people on the pony. Oh remember we're a little bit laggy on some of the comments. Oh I can't. This is a cute one. Looks like another Easter Sunday kind of thing. I've been starting to learn. So I got back into Duolingo if you guys are familiar. So yeah obviously doing Spanish but also I've been kind of doing German. So I don't know but I don't know what this word means. I know this is and. That's and. Working on my German. I like this one. Look at all the flowers and the onions. Valerian. I thought that looked familiar. Spring. Mm-hmm. I started. I started the garden. Frigiat means spring. That makes sense that it means a spring. Spring 1944. Mm-hmm. I guess I haven't gotten that far with my with my Duolingo yet. Let's get into the seasons. Eastern Minnesota. Wow. You think it would be not snowing. Eastern time. Nearly all of the snow has melted from our yard. It has all melted. Nearly all. Nearly. Yeah all the snow has melted here too. Yeah I bet down in Tallahassee. Spring. Spring. All the daffodils. Narcissus. Narcissus flowers. How pretty. And how adorable she is. I know. Pony still wins so. It's got a Janine Isleman photo too. Is it? I go up. Scroll up just here. Wait which one? No Lloyd Wright. It was Lloyd Wright. Oh okay. Family at Briana's preschool graduation. Oh that's cute. The Netherlands. This? Yes. Well I'm assuming it is. It says Oregon. Oh it says Oregon. Oh that's cool. I was looking at pictures yesterday of the tulip fields in the Netherlands and they are crazy cool. I would love to see. We have a big tulip festival here every year because the people of the Netherlands sent us tulips after World War II. Oh look it's colorized. I guess so yeah. That is all the photos guys. Oh that's not good. I know. Let's look at the hold on. Let's look at the G2G post. See if there's any stories or more photos. I love having Pip around. Oh look at those tulips. Oh look this one we didn't see. Spring meeting. They're beating. They're beating their rug with whatever. What are those things called? Did anybody know what those? Rooms. No the thing he's holding to beat the rug. Well she's got a broom in her hand. Yes he has a broom. Yes but he has the stick. Thank you Mag. Thank you. It's like a like it almost looks like fan-shaped almost and like has holes in it. Maybe somebody will know what it is. It's a rub beater. Well that's what I'm calling it but there has to be a better name. We love you mom. So in the spring of 1954 we took a tribe into rural Quebec looking for roadside pussy willows. The branches of the willows have silvery velvet like catkins which appear before the leaves develop. My mother Evelyn Miller wanted a centerpiece for the dining room table. My father Don Miller wanted to drive in the country. It was all a big adventure to little me. There were pictures of dad took of mom and me rubbaging in the thicket of willows. This is my favorite of my mother's beaming face when she got her bouquet. Nice. A nice story to go along with the photo. 1950 Easter photo. Pip says that he remembers his grandparents feeding the rugs in the spring but he tried not to be around when that activity was happening. I still don't know what they're called. So your mom says it's either a carpet beater or a rug beater. You guys are thinking on the same wavelength this morning. Thank you. I mean she is my mom for a reason. Yeah really. So spring is here, overcast, not too promising. I have to go back to the 9th of March when spring was here and the air and Kathy and I are on the dyke road which doubles as the trans-Canada trail. Nice. Oh my gosh that's my favorite one. My grandfather Harold and his brothers Gerald and Bernard on the back of a horse in spring of 1962. Someone was walking down their street asking if anyone wanted to have their picture taken with the horse. Why don't people do that now? I want to take a picture with them. Okay this is what Janine says. The photo was taken April of 2011. The image says 2010 but the digital camera was off the ear. Oh it was taken at my mother's house in Quebec, white country, Tennessee. She had a doctor's appointment that morning. I saw a storm coming in so I was hesitant. I was hesitant about going so I was looking out of the siding glass door when I saw a tree fall and a second tree fall and I was relieved that we were safe. Easter I can't. It says also it says it was probably taken Easter of 1944. It was very warm that day. I just want me to like how this sentence is half in German and a half in English. Yes I was reading that. The time with my mother. Yeah, my name, what's that? What is that? Queen Anne's lace. Huh? Queen Anne's lace isn't it? Oh. Did she's picking? No this is Valerian. See I don't know anything about flowers. It also says it here but it helps. Wait, wait, wait. She's holding Valerian root. She's looking at Queen Anne's lace. It says winter grown turnips and blooming Valerian. I believe that's what the caption says. I don't know anything. I don't know either. Okay so this is spring in northern Minnesota. Picture was taken on Easter. This is me digging a trench in the dirt ditch in the road ditch. My uncle claimed the snow was eight feet deep there and I didn't believe him so I took a trench to the bottom and it was only six feet. Then he claimed I wasn't the deepest part. I should have been digging a few feet away. Of course not. So that's six feet of snow. Goodness gracious. Oh look what kind of flower is this? That looks like a daffodil. Is it a daffodil? I don't know. What a daffodil. I think it has less petals. Maybe that's not a daffodil but there is a bee in there. Is it a crocus? It could be a crocus. Oh I missed it. Nope that's not the plant. Looking upper. Oh those are purple. I could have a different color. Those are the first ones that are off in my yard is the purple crocus. I want to let you know that your mother googled carpet beater and carpet beater is a house cutting tool used to beat carpets in order to shake dust and dirt out of them. It was a common use until the vacuum cleaner became widely available or affordable. Well I thought I would have a more technical name then. Jelaine agrees with me. A crocus. It could be a white crocus. Among the heartbreakers of spring in western Oregon are the daffodils and their relatives that are starting to bloom here. The one caption said they were something else but I guess they are daffodils. Narcissus. Yeah start blooming in late February or early March. My older sisters examining the Narcissus flowers blooming along the back of their home. Narcissus. Yes you people. Well they're the same. Narcissus and daffodil are the same. Ah if you are curious about where we get all the information for our Saturday update of what's been going on in the tree this week check out the homepage just wikitree.com and you will see that we are going through some of the information that we have up like profile of the week and the wiki tree challenge we've got a wiki tree challenge coming up challenge seven is Elizabeth Grayson from Highlander somebody was mentioning Highlander earlier um so Elizabeth Grayson let's see former Miss America actress known for her roles in Highlander coherence and many other tv series and movies to register simply post an answer below not a comment this week we'll officially start on oh and of course I don't get to see that but anyway so that's what the next week is so you can check that out and let's see the member of the week was Ken Spratlin and last week's was Deborah Downs so you can always go and check it out and see see they haven't uploaded this they haven't updated this in a while no they have not so we need to let them know that the horse the bunny the horsey bunny um pony horsey bunny pony needs to be posted with the three boys riding on it I agree the horsey bunny pony I'm always surprised do you ever check the top 25 names that people have been working on I'm always surprised when Smith is not the first one I guess some people just need a break from Smith sometimes really break the Smiths so Nieland is the the the biggest one and Sabin Sabin or Sabin so Brown and Smith and Johnson that makes sense yeah heck I wonder what uh country that last name is from let's check it out egg genealogy germany bodin vertenberg germany that makes sense okay hence a lot of pennsylvania too i wonder if i'm related to any of the x that makes sense burps pennsylvania hey that's where my family's from oh you might want to check out the egg family the egg who else is there taylor mitches salmon russles o'neill guess where the o'neill's are from thompson wilson harland pooler baker jacob's robinson crowl don williams adams and alan who's been working on my alans ebony's your alan they're four mags is alans only mags only i have alans no none of my alans this might be my alans my alans are from that's funny okay formally alan that's interesting that they have abigal adrian formally alan so they have this this lady whose surname was adrian or alan they have her in the adrian name study i don't normally do that do you put the i don't yeah i don't put the if they're married in no but that's interesting that that that we did here we go so we see that this this woman is a part of the adrian name study so if we go down here to the categories we're going to see that she is in the adrium name study but her surname is alan so that might be something to think about when you're doing wiki tree work so oh and here we go back to the uh oh my alans were in lauren south carolina pit and um virginia they could have been in mecklenburg yeah um back to uh robert scott was a leader of the expedition to the pole with oats that from john tiner and your mom read scott so supportive with science need should we look to see if there were any more photos on the photos for what where you well you took over the stream for a little bit sorry here i can go away there you're back well i put you back and you put yourself off yeah well i'll try to put myself that wasn't sure if there's anything else that would you just saw sarah and i have a fight that was the fight that was the extent of it that was it there we have to really wasn't anything else oh they also have hot air balloon rides and steam tractors that looks like fun i'm actually going to oregon in two weeks going to portland clackamas are you riding or flying flying it's a work trip oh really yes because we have a facility yeah we have a facility in portland and i'm going there to train and learn so there's some stuff going on there's a there's a great um there's a great little mini um kind of thrown together here let me share my screen again uh history for ukraine if you want to go and watch what's going on here there's a kind of quickly put together wonderful um history for ukraine um sorry about that uh little marathon going on and really kind of cool people are showing up like uh the princess diana's uncle has shown up and he's speaking so it's uh history for ukraine event and they're they're people have donated talks and other stuff and nadalina pithers is the one who did it so it's uh all the money raised is going to support the british red cross work in ukraine so you can check that out um since we're doing stuff let's see jenine just made a very important announcement that i think everybody's really excited about oh really the 1950 census it is coming out next so basically next live stream maybe we can i don't know i don't know you can talk about the 1950 census that is uh fun so there's another conference coming out soon the east coast genetic genealogy conference april 23rd 24th it's uh all virtual you can come and watch that i'm speaking as well there's your name max there it is right there um so yeah check out some of the stuff uh that's online and available uh there's another conference in san diego that's a live and in person one the ig for ig g4 uh don't know what else but there's lots of stuff going on it's that time of year yes indeed it is spring it is spring spring is sprung in april the first we will all be watching are you gonna actually go on and look for stuff in the 1950 census on april things i think i think with the first few days we're gonna have to actually like stay away and let the really crazy people like pip said he always stayed away from his parents or his family when they were beating the rugs that's kind of like that with me i'm not gonna go and hang out while they're doing the the first day of the census 1950 do you think that um family search website will be just shut down from all the people going or i know i know they have to be if they're not preparing for it they're silly oh no i'm sure they are i'm sure they are they're they're probably gonna crash at least once or twice you think you know you don't think they have enough bandwidth i know they're having like an event where like the first four or five days people are gonna be like transcribing pretty much indexing yeah indexing here we go that was the word i was looking for yeah so bye joe i'm gonna wait till after it's all indexed and then i'm gonna search well and can you says that there's a project to help index in 1956 on wiki tree let's look for that yes sarah is looking for that okay 1950 census i'm playing elevator music for you while she's okay let's share my screen okay so is it this one oh there we go is it this one it's made people have made a few posts about it let's see oh look well there's anyone interested oh look here there's i found it thank you thank you oh what a cool graphic it looks yeah it looks like it reminds me of the Jetson yeah the wiki tree 1950 census indexers group nice oh and you can put what um you know area you're gonna be focusing on so if you're interested come here and see do you can you post that in the comments and i'll post it on the there we go there's the link for that thank you for letting us know yes janine i'm sure there's a whole bunch of you know you can do it on is it say they're doing it on um family search or hold on let me see huh i want i guess the indexing on family search and representing we treat the same time there you go because it says family search there so so it's a team of wiki treeers who are actually indexing the census on family search i would love to hear more about that um janine well are you signed up who's on the cat uh yeah janine thank you john tiner and i just want to say that your mom said i do know my flowers before i know i saw that yeah and john says a narcissist is a daffodil yeah i didn't know that learn something new every day we are not oh there's no way you're not indexing and what a we are validating the 1950 census there's some confusion she says about the 1950 project they're not indexing they are validating huh okay thank you very much for clearing that up we look forward to hearing more about it hey sarah yes i've got the music if you've got the button okay i guess we'll see you all next time we will see you next time