 Good morning or afternoon or evening depending on where you are. How is everybody doing today? I'm doing good. How are you doing Max? I'm looking to see if anybody's actually it's it's that that old time we have to weigh the the leg. It's not really a leg but a little it is a leg. Your mama is here. I know she is. Your mama's here so it's K-Night and Tommy Buck. It's the afternoon for Hillary. It's cold in the bayou state 33 degrees and really everybody in Texas and down south you guys be safe and warm and wow what a crazy crazy ordeal from that storm and running on. K-Night was unable to find any good news oh any good New York photos for McKinty in my albums. Yeah because next because next week is Thomas McKinty for the Week 2 Challenge. Karen says it's so cool to have your mother as a fan. I would hate to have her in here and she wasn't a fan. She wouldn't be telling us all the bad things you did as a kid but you didn't do bad things as a kid I understand. I'm sure my mom still has my mom has stories of me doing bad things as a kid but no. So and then we have Jory and then Chris Ferriello. So she's working. Karen Lowe says that she's having fun with the US Black Heritage Connectors Challenge in West Virginia. That's an interesting state for information about slavery and what happened during the Civil War. People automatically assume that it was a southern state it wasn't. Yeah because we have some of our since this week is a rest week for the Weki Tree Challenge. We don't have a we don't have a guest star so a lot of people are doing other things to help with the tree. Max is our guest star or I'm your guest here. We're your guest stars so work on our trees please and thank you. Oh yeah let's see my lords need a lot of work. Oh my lords. I have lots of brick walls if anybody wants to work on those. Thanks. I have lots of brick walls too. Come on work on my work on my lords and work on my Comptons and my Chris. There's lots of stuff on my tree that needs work. Apparently Karen's working on Dr. Gates Cousins in West Virginia. Oh cool. Greg says we're both stars. I just thought of the one movie with Tyra Banks where in Lindsay Lohan where she Tyra Banks was a doll and she comes to life and they sing the song you're a star. Sorry never mind I have to stop there. I don't know what movie you're talking about and I'm not sure I want to know. It's a kids movie. We're supposed to have a movie weekend this weekend. We try and catch up on the movies that we have access to before the award show season starts and maybe one of the awards the Golden Globes is Sunday or next Sunday next Sunday so it's like the Super Bowl of movies but I'm not adding that movie whatever the name of it I am not looking up Tyra Banks. It's a cute it's a you know it's back from the 90s like late 90s movie with um so you're telling me it's a classic. No it's not a classic it's a Disney movie isn't it yeah it's Disney so it's a Disney kind of classicy good I don't know whatever. Pip says that he watched your fabulous interview. I mean you're linking the chat I guess you. Oh yeah yeah that was the interview that that they did with me for Cheryl Hudson Passey. They all want to be and they are all like Cheryl Hudson Passey I believe and Laura Wilkinson Hedgecock are two of the people that are coming on to as part of the challenge so um they were asking me all sorts of questions about the wiki tree challenge this year so that was a lot of fun that was a lot of fun it was a lot of fun hearing them talking about the information they've seen about the other people that were done they were excited about Henry Louis Gates so that was a really fun thanks for watching Pip. And my mom is uh talking about another show Bridgerton but you know we don't have to talk about that show because it's too risky I think. It's it's not historically accurate and I don't know historically accurate people shows it's interesting it's it's a different take that's for sure. And then also Janine says thanks for fixing the Anderson line. Anderson Line Mags I guess you helped Janine lay Eileman Goodson. Yeah the um somebody had gone in and done a questionable edit to the profile and um they the profile itself had issues and so I went in and fixed the profile and then reconnected the people talked to the profile managers about how they needed to make sure that they communicated with the person who made the changes because the changes actually might be valid we just don't know because we don't know what kind of research they're making their assumptions on so I got all that straightened up and thanks for for commenting on that Janine thanks for asking me I'm sorry it took so long. Yeah we're all we're all good helpers here on Weekly Tree we'll try to help you if we can. Yeah yeah and the biggest thing is just trying to promote the whole collaboration idea is communication between people who make changes just because somebody made changes to a profile doesn't mean it's inaccurate it just means that if they didn't post why they were making a change that's not a good thing. Yeah collaboration it a beautiful thing. It's a beautiful beautiful thing. Beautiful thing. So does anybody have any any other fun fun things to say in the chat or questions? If not we can move on to another question. What what would we move on to Sarah? Another question I don't know I think there's another question that we have talked about right maybe the maybe question of the week is that it? Hey bada boom bada bing. I was about to be like why is another mags coming into the street? I know that was weird yeah I know it's just it's my screen and I'll make it big there we go. Interesting question of the week um do you have African roots? So I have to tell you right off the bat I didn't up upvote it but that's I got to upvote that question. Interesting question because well and something that was pointed out all throughout the answers is that technically the current theory on how we all originated was in West Africa it was in East Africa but that shifted to the West and people picked up on that here recently. There's also been a new theory that's been proposed that that possibly there were early origins also in China but I don't know how accurate that is I've just heard whispers about that but currently the theory that is that is accepted is that we all basically came out of Africa that's where the the proverbial Adam and Eve were so that was a lot of the discussion in the discussions going on um and some people had um kind of interesting round about answers that I never could make hide in their hair of um one of them was nothing but questions so um good on you for trying to get your information out there and hopefully somebody can do that a lot of people talked about how they had Afro Caribbean roots so talking about how somebody said that the majority of people that were brought over from Ghana were brought through the West Indies and I think sometimes the trade routes took some of the ships through the West Indies before they came up the coast which is an interesting thing as well um somebody even said that um their family were the protectors of the Holy Grail um interesting theories and and stuff getting thrown out um I love the uh my direct maternal great great grandmother was a Ugandan royal married to my great grandfather a German aristocrat who left Germany during the war and became a crocodile farmer in Africa what they're gonna say crocodile hunter but no crocodile farmer she said my grandmother was born there as were all her siblings but they were sent to a private school in England so this is tea doubting uh and a lot of people wanted to know more about the crocodile farming how do you and I imagine um I started thinking about that and it would be I guess to get the hides for the leather because crocodile um leather is very expensive and I don't know I know that you can eat crocodile meat but um yes Spencer Wells it's a great story that and um yes that is a great great book thank you Charles um yeah and um the Seven Daughters of Eve is really fascinating as well and a lot of people were talking about their mitochondrial roots their maternal matrilineal roots um and people were giving some of their genetic information like people who'd done tests and so um and even the genographic project from years and years and years ago showed everyone at originated in Africa near present day Ethiopia South Sudan so there were some discussions going on about the original ancestor and where they are in that kind of migration west like I was talking about um and Spencer's book is really really good but there that some of the information in that book has been updated so read that book and understand it Spencer's stuff is very good um very good so Una Greco had um that yes she did have some African stuff she said one of my ancestors was George Robert Mandeville one of a group called the Sons of Africa a late 18th century group of educated Africans in London who worked with the Quakers and William Wilberforce William Wilberforce was a big abolitionist and brought people over to like do tours African Americans or Africans over to do tours so that people would see that slaves aren't slaves slaves are real people kind of thing I believe he was a slave in London and his daughter Elizabeth fell on hard times resulting in her transportation as a convict to Australia can you imagine being a slave being in a free area living your life as a free person then all of a sudden getting shipped off to Australia no offense to Australia in the least but at that time that was not a fun thing to have to do was travel there um so that was really fascinating uh and people were talking about their their any tests um let's see oh yeah okay and here is one I gotta upvote some of these I haven't upvoted them yet um what's that shame yeah I always go through and upvote questions because they're it's important to let people know that you're reading what they do and obviously we read them um what was I getting ready to read there was one the D&A should we have three percent African ancestry and probably from the general Senegal area so three percent African in my research with with clients um I've often found that a three percent African or a three percent of something in somebody's DNA especially if it's a male line it usually goes back to about the 1780s 90s 1800s 1810 so that's if you just want a general thing it's not written in stone stone yes I want to talk about that real quick in just a second tip um DNA shows about three percent my seventh great grandfather is named Edward Mozingo he's identified identified as a free negro indentured slave in 1644 there's a book about our ancestry written by Joe Mozingo titled The Fiddler on Pantico Run that sounds like a good book to read uh it it is suggested that Edward may have been a descendant of the queen of Angola there was another one up there who was um married to uh an African ruler which was really cool lots of Jamaica and Bahama roots um Benin Togo and Nigeria Senegal and the Ivory Coast um see down here again so I know from documentary research this is from Katie Allen or Anne I don't know how to pronounce her name I know from documentary research that my fifth great grandfather mother had two daughters by a man who was said to be half black back around 1790 uh Halifax County Virginia my fourth great grandmother and her sons were all classified as mulatto in the synthesises until 1815 and then in 1851 my third great grandfather and his brothers went to court to be declared white and that's how they were listed going forward and a lot of people did that when they saw the whole civil war issue coming on people were trying to get themselves deemed something uh DNA testing has confirmed this as both my grandfather's and aunt's show uh two to three percent West African heritage um but her DNA doesn't but she's six generations removed and you may not show it but your kid may show it that's interesting too um let's see jessica key answered that question with there are quite a few court cases regarding establishing someone's race early in american courts the one for roba coffee vickers in 18 then concerned whether roba the daughter of a mulatto half black half white man father and a white mother was herself mulatto and she married a white man in the court case was determined if her marriage was valid it was ruled it was so there's lots of other stuff going on about whether or not your marriage is is correct or not if you'd married someone of another race way back when horrible things that went on in the world you know uh marion randall says i do i'm porto rican and have the typical DNA breakdown of roughly 60 european 20 native american and 20 african my african roots come by way of my dad and his paternal grandmother her mother was a slave at school that's um carol you should pick her up that was marion randall you may already know her um see recent studies show that one percent of all scots belong to e1 b1 b of north african origin that includes me born in scotland that's from william watson when he's active in the dna project so there's lots and lots of great answers lots of interesting stories lots of kind of crazy wild stories too um in there but um go through and read through the stuff it's really good and make sure you vote up for all of their answers you know pip your comment a few minutes ago about having to having no african ancestry i'm in the same situation you are and i was having a conversation with somebody uh over the last week that i would i would be skewered if i was to be on after watching the feral williams episode with henry louis date because i have absolutely no um interesting dna in my family it's boring and every single part of my family had slave owners um and it this slave ownership in the very in the mountains was a lot different because it was subsistence subsistence farmers who had a couple of slaves around who helped with a farm and did stuff like that it wasn't like the huge plantation where the overseers were beating people constantly and all of that stuff i'm not saying that good things happened with any form of slavery was just a different kind but if if henry louis gate were to do my family line he would find that i had slavery in every possible limb on my tree as slave owners or or enslavers but he would also find that there is this guy that's not in my direct line but he's like a first cousin four times removed from way back when who was an anti-amolitionist he was very vocal wrote lots of papers he he traveled around the country trying to keep people from ending slavery which is they would henry louis gates would hang me by my toes and and yell that at me if he would it's not a it's not a happy story that ferrell williams in henry louis gates um show last week said a really profound thing and i want to get the exact quote i keep needing to go back and watch it again was that even though these kinds of things happened in his past whether it be slavery or whether it be an enslaver or whatever a rape or whatever what his ancestors did they did because they were living in the times you know they were living in the times and we were talking about people changing trying to change their rates so that they their marriage wouldn't be nullified or whatever and what happened in my ancestors past does not inform in any way the way i live today and i think that our black heritage project on wiki tree as well as the way that we do the enslaved or the enslaver categories being able to identify the people in my family who were enslavers gives the people who are looking for their ancestors on the land that my family may have owned or they may have enslaved them that gives them the ability to find their their family so i think it's really important to not say this never happened in my family say yes this happened in my family and these are the records that i've been able to find and i hope to goodness you find what you're looking for now somebody contacted me a while back about that crazy anti abolitionist fellow in my family and wanted to know if i knew anything about the slaves on uh this plantation in liberty georgia and at the time i didn't didn't realize i knew that this guy was in my family but i didn't connect him with that that plantation well the plantations didn't do well but i said no i don't know anything about it i didn't i don't know anything about it and so now i want to go back and this has been years and years and years and years ago i want to go back and find her and say i know a little bit about him now what can i help you with but at the time i had no idea it's interesting yeah a lot of people were commenting while you were talking mags um janine said that some of my mother's ancestors owned slaves um and they're african americans my area that are kin to me because some of my ancestors having children with african americans and and usually in janine i don't mean to throw this at you but usually that wasn't a very good thing that how that happened your ancestors having children with yeah son-in-law had a documented african ancestry it's been an eye-opener for me that's cool it's always good to broaden your horizons and and to be more inclusive more inclusive yeah and we did have some people pop in like hello ruth from and then m jordan hey ruth hey m boy you popped in on an interesting question of the week but yeah it's good it's good to talk about it it's important to talk about all that stuff you know like you said it happened we can't hide it history is part of it doesn't inform how i live mm-hmm i love that i want to go back and get feral lambs exact quote because he put it so succinctly and it was what pip shed said that he spends time what was his quote go back up and find that again uh pip which one let's see i'm pretty sure dna that i have no african roots uh what i am dealing with is the ownership of africans by my ancestors and it's it's not it's not that you're dealing with what they did it's what you can do to help other people do better by what your family didn't do does that make sense like if you find records make sure that you put that in slaver or slaveholder slave owner in south carolina category up so yes that is cool karen love because you have emma leading the project and we're having the connectors um that challenge this month and it is black history month mm-hmm so yeah it is a great question of the week so i guess we can move on to i guess i guess i guess our profiles of the week this week we were featuring because with the recent death of mary wilson who passed away on the eighth i believe of february last earlier this month um we featured a whole bunch of other motown artists this week and for those of you who don't know i wanted to say what motown is so there's so you have motown it's also it's a recording recording studio album but it's also a music style as well kind of like a rhythm and blues music so that's kind of what motown is for those who you don't know and then obviously the american record label owned by universal music group hey i just want to point out that your mom's correcting you the ninth thank you well that was a one day off and my mom looked at some of the proof i had my mom look at the profiles of the week this week so she was on it she was browsing on a wiki tree because my mom doesn't have a account but sometimes i'll have her look at stuff which is great because wiki tree is so open and accessible for people yes even if you don't have an account everything you're able to access is still free yep that's great so mary wilson uh she was the founding member of the supreme's she also um was the best charting female group in us chart history and the best motown act of 1960s as well and well i don't know it says on the eighth year do we have a typo i don't know oh my gosh she has the same birthday as me oh my gosh we're birthday twins you must be related because we have the same birthday wow that's cool that didn't i guess i well i looked at these beforehand i didn't notice the we have the same birthday so the question is is she put on well she did she die on the eighth of the ninth who is right and who is wrong i don't what's on the profile it says the eighth can't you see it i am sharing the screen right yeah yeah sometimes on wednesday i thought i was sharing the screen and i was like yeah you see you guys and i wasn't sharing the screen i did that in my interview this week yeah actually i was meant i was looking to see who i was closest related to which i already know in that list of people it's judy rossel but she's not a motown person um marvin gay and debbie dean are my closest i think debbie dean was my closest to him was and i had to show my mom saying that i was right because you know you always want to promote one your mother so i show it did you already show it and i missed it oh i did already show it yes i did so mary wilson has the same birthday as me both pisces so now you guys know that my birthday is coming up there you go so that is mary wilson died on this past week doesn't say at least on here how she how she died but she was 76 i don't know what's biggest so next up we have debbie dean um she had she went by multiple names before she recorded with motown pennie smith here and debbie stevens and she was actually the first white female solo recording artist um kind of a big deal i think that's pretty cool and then she had her first single at motown was don't let him shop around and it read barely reached the billboard's hot 100 charge and then um and then it says so she heard some of her songs become a northern soul favorite the why i am loving you and that is a music and dance-based movement um that became popular in england so but it's pretty cool first white female solo recording artist and she changed her name a lot obviously that's our other one i am closest to debbie dean as well and i'm all kind of connected to them the same kind of like the same beginning line i kind of i was kind of looking at that earlier so next we have marvin gay uh we all we all know you probably all are familiar with marvin gay i love marvin gay let's get it on and um hey received a grammy award for his sexual healing album and but he actually passed away i don't know many of you know this but actually he was murdered by his father marvin gay senior so that's kind of after they got into a fight because i don't know the whole story behind that but they were arguing and then his dad shot him in his house so that's kind of sad and debbie dean and marvin gay come to me through my same line yeah i have all of them start off kind of the same through my lewis side kind of that way i don't know if because i know we've been making lots of connections and making more connections this past month so i don't know if some of my connections have changed that'd be interesting to to see so next on our list we have albert finney now a lot of people were like albert finney what he's an actor right but he did have uh he did release a motown record in 1970s in the late 70s yeah 1976 77 mm-hmm it was actually called it was actually called albert finney's album uh he died a few years ago in 2019 but he saw but he probably is better known as for his acting career he was an annie the orient express he also played scrooge um so he yeah albert finney that's our next because he did a lot of singing in his acting career so he then he released then we have the king of pop michael jackson probably more familiar with michael jackson all of us so he started off at a young age and with his family with his siblings and jackson five and then he moved on he you know he married um elvis pressley's daughter and and then he died oh oh wow it's been over 10 years that's kind of crazy to think about that's been over 10 years since he's passed away michael jackson king of pop next on our list tina marie she he was actually godmother to marvin gay's daughter and um while she is best known for her her song love girl she also recorded the rock influence track lead me on for the soundtrack of top gun pretty cool pretty cool we have any comments in the chat max about stuff um karen lo says she's 13 degrees from debbie dean and michael jackson because her daughter is a pressley dissent that i never knew that about your mini me your mom says that marvin gay is uh did great true romantic music uh some people are singing um ruth henman is singing stop in the name of love em jordan says there's a fantastic video about motile town hits bill available here on youtube oh marvin gay i was trying to put your mom's two two questions together um and then somebody says what are we doing for roots tech we'll talk about that later well we will okay we got a plan stand yeah got a plan stand can we have one more profile and i'm not sure who my mom was talking about who he wrote all the lyrics for his album gay marvin gay okay okay i wasn't sure who i figured that out okay and then the last one we have is bobby darin born walden robert castotto of a Italian dissent i would assume from that last name he was a singer songwriter multi-instrumentalist impressionist and actor um he performed jazz pop rock and roll folk swing and country music so we have another elvis pressley uh connection jenny um says that she's 18 degrees from michael jackson because of lisa marie yeah my connection to michael jackson was through the pressley as well now i gotta go look finney wrote all the lyrics for his album elbert finney wrote all the lyrics for his album not marvin gay maybe marvin gay did but at least elbert finney for that album he wrote all of his lyrics it's pretty cool so bobby darin he found out in the eight in the 60s shortly before he passed away that his who he thought was his sister was actually his mother and his mother was actually his grandmother so that's a always an interesting thing to find out and it was late in his life that he found this out so wait 30 40 50 was in his 30s and he passed away fairly young so and yeah so those are our profiles of the week we also have in our connection finder the two or two past guest stars so judy russell and dr gates so i am 26 degrees from dr gates let's see how that does through you know through my dad obviously the 26 degrees from dr gates let's see about judy russell i'm 20 degrees from judy russell oh my gosh i'm i'm i'm oh no i thought i thought this was all green just kidding oh no second i thought it was pure green i was like oh it's for the new for the new people who are joining us if you're all of your information in the connection finder not the relationship trail but connection finder if all of its green that means it's a real live blood connection yeah and then you can and then you can actually click here if you well you can this just shows you the closest connection but they might actually be related to you if you wanted to search through a common ancestor or if you wanted to search through maybe a paternal or maternal line instead let's see if no we're not i'm not related to uh judy russell but i'm 17 from judy and mine goes green yellow green yellow green yellow green mine was just mine just changed color twice so mine changed color twice more than you yours only changed colors once right yeah it went from green to yellow to green yeah mine went green to yellow to green to yellow and this is my closest connection debbie dean through my lewis hutchson hutchson rab line when i'm through the press lees as well back to michael jackson mm-hmm yeah so i think that's that's probably how about the jackson family tree but it would be hard to swing our connections away from the press lee side with their well-known southern roots mm-hmm yeah i think a lot of people are probably connected to michael jackson more through his wife than any other way uh karen says she's 13 degrees from debbie dean i love it when the it scrolls right when you're reading it um 13 degrees from debbie dean i'm actually direct i'm actually related to debbie dean let's see how hold on let's see how related we are related hold on find it do it faster 19 cousins twice removed from debbie dean through my dad's side we're both descendants of donald mcdonald not ronald big i was gonna say was he in a cartoon from stotland the lord of aisles i am the 20th great granddaughter of donald mcdonald if all of the everything is how it's you know there might be but according to this the 20th great granddaughter donald mcdonald that's one to say donald mcdonald donald mcdonald okay i'm dead sorry i hear great things for charity ronald mcdonald mcdonald mcdonald i'm quick okay so oh and no no i just got an earworm from greg clark he said old mcdonald oh he is an old mcdonald from the 1300s man yeah no i don't hear ronald mcdonald and think time to eat sorry he was the lord of the island he never knew the distinction between the green and the yellow on the connection finders so he just learned something new he learned something new and greg pertaining to a conversation we had earlier this week i have an old template that i wrote and i need to share that with you what do you mean a template for what i'm not going to tell you because it's a secret he's working on a new app and i think i have a template that may help him with that out okay so now it is time for i think maybe our favorite part of the saturday can we guess what it is the time to go that's our friend mindy where's mindy yeah maybe he's been hanging out with us so much and then all of a sudden she's not here what's up with that sarah oh no she said she was gonna not come on today because since we don't really have since we don't have it's a rest week yeah it's a rest week so she's take she deserves a rest too she's been working very hard mindy is kind of what happens in the back around the magic when wiki tree people jump into big projects it is all consuming mindy's still around if you she's awake right now so if you send her message she will answer but she's probably watching you don't want to put on her face you don't want to put on it you're probably cringing right now what kind of stories can we tell about mindy right now no i'm just kidding we're gonna talk about the wiki tree presentations and everything else about roots tech in just a minute so let's do the photos first so our theme is really fun i guess we're at the end of winter i think it's almost spring it's almost i don't know we'll have snow on the ground till may well at least the seasons wise unless you're in australia then this doesn't apply to you but we are kind of northwestern hemisphere centric around here yeah so we have this one marietta marvin kansas 1946 i wonder what time of year this is like what in kansas do you think this would be december january she's wearing a mink coat it looks like a mink fancy well then it looks look they're related the marvins how cute they probably their their mom was like okay stand on this bridge i'm gonna take a photo of each of you you know i never thought in my life that i would go outside in boots like he has them completely undone on the ankles but this year i've started doing that when i run outside isn't that funny i guess because you're only out there for a little bit well no like i get in the car i drive places i go in i'm like why am i not doing up my boots maybe i'm getting old and it's hard to lean over maybe i like this one this one looks fun they made an igloo and posing in front of it i wish it was bigger show the bigger photo my next neighbors have an igloo they made an igloo this do they always have it or they just made it like for this season this is the second year that they've been in that house and this is the first year they've done an igloo look at this photo oh my gosh that's adorable these feeding the little are they did he say reindeer deer uh oh i would have fun or it feels reindeer but deer is fun that's so cute little baby deer that's my favorite photo i think my favorite photo of all time i don't know there's not even i think i just think it's cute there's not even a puppy in it i know but baby deer are cute oh this one's pretty cute too oh that's you're screaming at their mom who's taking the photo of them and their snowman cute they did that pretty custom look they've got arms defined i wonder what they used for the um the eyes and the nose i want to guess that that's charcoal from a drill like maybe the coal that they got as their gifts from santa well and it looks like they were you know they probably got lots of coal it looks like he has a little it looks like he made him a little bun he looks like has a little he's got a little hair thing on his head and arms you don't see one of my neighbors does a snowman every year that has a big handlebar mustache hmm that's fun a little kitty playing the snow looks like his eyes are closed it's a bright sunny day in colorado in november 1952 you have to have good lines to sleep here because if it's a full moon and it's a snowy night the sun reflects off of the snow that's on the ground or the moon does and the snow and the clouds and the snow that's falling and it's like it's it's beautiful sunny day outside it's weird sorry so here is uh people ice ice skating in tennessee so cute i'd be i'm not i don't know i guess i haven't had much opportunity to ice skate so i'm not very good at it i would have been to ice rinks in miami but if i were actually skated on real ice no that's a lie i did once in new york i did skate on real ice but i went very poorly well if you have to leave before we cover the the roots tech stuff don't worry show up here next saturday and you'll find out oh i wonder do you think they were just kind of sweeping the snow out of the way looks like they have some brooms sweeping some snow i don't know maybe it's fun to guess what they're doing in photos sometimes oh and i was looking the windows for people i didn't look that well maybe look in this one is there anybody over there yeah oh my gosh that's crazy that's that's just spooky in and of itself it looks like the house has a face you see the eyes and the nose over here all right i do like that one that's cute another ice skating one oh my goodness it's a kitty cat in the snow okay this is my favorite one now that's it rain night says that there was a swamp behind the house where they ice skated lots of people build little ice skating rinks in their back yards here for the little people and every neighborhood has an ice skating rink at the community center we hope look they they have a free space page for family cats that's a great idea look look at all those cats look at all look look at all these cats guys i'm just sneezing myself here there's 14 images i'm getting sidetracked but there's 14 images of cats on this free space page i think we should all take just a moment to appreciate that how many photos they took of their cats look like crazy fur color yeah somebody i know has one that's calico and half the face is black and half the face is that kind of beigey color okay we took a quick segue into this these cats oh look it's in a tree your mama says that my aunt in Pennsylvania had a small pond where they skated so did your mom did you know your mom ice skated i yeah i believe that because you know she is from she spent time in the okay i did was up here was was there another one on this page that was yeah okay so the cat one we looked at some cats and then this one they're all bundled up in the snow that kind of looks like my front walkway except the snow is a bit deeper i was looking outside today in the snow i have a window that's about four feet off the ground and the snow is almost up to the window so that was our last photo of the week and then we also looked at some not photos a week of pets i think that was great if there had been puppies i would have been happy i i'm sorry i'm sure next time i will find a puppy three space page so we can look at it okay so we'll talk about while we don't have a genealogy guest star this week for the wiki tree challenge and for those of you who are not aware what the wiki tree challenge is is our year-long event where each week we take on for most weeks we take on a genealogy guest star and we work them on it's a big it's a big what oh she went away where we try to make their tree more accurate and complete you're not looking at me i'm doing a fighting oh no i'm not looking to see me but you well so what were you doing you're fighting you were taking them on like you were in a oh boxing match there you go who said getting hurt and everyone so this past week we on Wednesday we had Judy Russell on as we gave a wrap up for her week and she came on she was a great skeptic of yeah collaborative online treats yeah but we she was actually admitted on Wednesday that we have almost totally converted her almost totally converted her what kind of that's so decisive i'm a very decisive person very decisive speaking person so she she was very impressed with what we did and she actually wrote a new blog post about the wiki tree challenge because we had a volunteer who showed her a mistake that she had made not that and there was a typo on the newspaper for one of the obituaries so when our volunteer went to go look for that obituary on that date she couldn't find it and so Judy was like why this is correct i know i found this obituary but apparently the couple of pages on the newspaper had the wrong date on it while the overall newspaper like the beginning pages had the right date so that that's kind of what she talks about in her blog post it was actually maddie hardman who found who commented saying that she couldn't find it and prompted Judy to go on this mission so and then we were talking about on wednesday how it's always good to have a fresh set of eyes on your tree which is why our collaborative tree is so important um and she said that we're she also had another good quote that we are filling a need and because what we're doing is so wonderful and great and she says we're filling a need in the genealogy world that's so cool because she really she's a person who who is a lot of black and white it's either this or it's that and it there's like a neologist yeah yeah she's very very specific about how things should should be and to hear her say that she really appreciates wiki tree now after being a skeptic it's it's fun it's fun it's great this challenge is doing such great things from wiki tree yeah we we we even we've impressed every single genealogy genealogy guest star right now while we only broke down one of Judy's walls because she actively research research researches her why are you laughing i'm laughing because you know how barbara walters or henry louis gates will make their their guests break down and cry when you said we've only broken down one i was thinking who did you make cry it looked like dr gates was dr gates was pretty emotional and his he was yes we almost made him cry almost and judy seemed very she was very impressed and we've made we've impressed everybody so far so i'm excited for the future and to talk about the future since everybody's asking me asking us about roots tech we aren't doing anything official with roots tech but we are going to be doing some special stuff for roots tech to kind of promote wiki tree more and the wiki tree challenge i don't want to give everything away just yet but next week we're going to be on saturday instead of what we normally do it's going to be more geared towards what showing what we found for the wiki tree challenge so far promoting the wiki tree challenge it'll be more set presentation so we'll talk about that and anybody if you guys want to promote wiki tree during roots tech because a lot of people more so than ever because since this is a virtual event a lot of people are going to be on the computers online yes looking at stuff so if we're promoting wiki tree during this weekend yes a wiki tree challenge i think it'll be very beneficial and 11 o'clock i might have to leave early because my roots tech presentation is at 11 o'clock on next saturday what are you presenting i'm doing a dna learning basics for y dna it's called simply why it's just a oh i saw i saw that i saw a tutorial about why dna and why it's important to genealogy yes yeah i was looking at enough roots tech is free so i encourage everybody at anybody even if you don't or met particular interested in genealogy i mean it's free and you have access to all of the webinars for a year i believe i was looking at resources yesterday there's 300 and something people registered 300 and something thousand people registered yeah that's a lot of people and they're also still having the feature where you can see who you're connected to who also registered on roots tech yeah if you have the family tree app from family search it's free and it goes on your phone you uh when you log into it at the very top it says find relatives at roots tech you can't put on that there is no other golden at roots tech i'm the only one there's only two other calluses at roots tech so far there's only three of us yeah it's it's fun being a person with a strange surname which also makes family history more fun because it's easier to find stuff but it's it's kind of interesting because i know especially from where my dad's family is from there are so many people with the callus last name but i guess they're not doing this stuff online yet you know they're probably still are they cuban or callus callus virginia virginia i don't know i don't know why either i always thought that callus was a south american name no my my mother's maiden name no that's italian so i don't i don't know you're probably thinking of what is the callus is it english yes technically the root name itself is a french port but a lot of it yeah so cool i see i have to change my whole i guess it was the other name that you used to have yes that's that was it the other name that i used to have yep yep so yeah not too many gamelaro either my mother's maiden name because it's italian and i haven't really seen it around i'm the only one working on gamelaro online at least and also callus i'm kind of only the singular researcher on wiki tree actively so it's always but sometimes i'll get you know cousin bates sometimes they'll get people they're like oh hey see that you've been researching but then they kind of drift away but still cool to have those initial all there are fortunately for me there are are several golden researchers on wiki tree list shift led is one she's a distant cousin and um darling at the hill and there's another person that that works that's so that's unusual for me and that's fun that's one of the things that makes wiki trees so great is that you meet other people who have the same interests and i can't imagine that i would be much of anywhere in the world and find other people interested in researching my galdens mm-hmm wiki tree dagmer thor's daughter says she has no nobody else but that name but she's the only one with this full name dagmar thor's daughter and greg says um from his adopted one and one from his biological because he found two new third cousins he's never heard of before that's exciting so maybe we'll all find some new cousins this weekend since roots tech is free so a lot more people are able to access it you know and they're not you know because usually you'd have to physically go to salt lake city and i know it's all virtual and free i'd have to say though that i am going to miss miss miss miss wearing orange for days and days and days yeah roaming with you i know we mags are roomies and be able to hang out for the week with all of my wiki tree friends in the wiki tree food yeah that is one of the highlights of my years and it's it's so fun and to be able to see in person wiki treeers walk up we have a big big banner that everybody signs with their wiki tree id so it's fun to see that all covered up with people at the end of roots tech it's so fun yeah it is fun and hopefully next year no the godderns are not related to my galdens we are a unique little group of people i think it might be well i don't know she's still trying to figure that out it's an ongoing mission yeah well i get unless anybody has any questions we will see you on wednesday where we will be interviewing thomas mckinty because we are starting his week and if you don't know thomas mckinty you should show up for this he is one of the most colorful personalities in the genealogy world very colorful especially his hair i'm gonna say i wonder if he'll have it done in orange for next week i should send him a note hey you need to do an orange hair yeah maybe if we if we push him maybe i'll send him a note right now okay hey do your hair in orange yeah so but also i mean he don't want to be out too much so maybe he'll change it so next wednesday thomas mckinty will start his week i know people are even though it's a rest week people are already excited and they're already planning on what they're gonna do and somebody already said was it it was it um karen i karen said she's already working on the mckinty's was it karen i think so i know she's she's working on that i know there's greek orthodox in there i know that yeah he he put his stuff he put his stuff on wiki tree early on he even put judy rust he made judy rustle's profile on wiki tree way back before you know you couldn't put living it was more difficult than letting people on wiki tree but besides that so we'll see you on wednesday next saturday keep a lookout on social media for our you know for our roots tech stuff like i said we're not doing anything officially roots tech but we are promoting wiki tree so help us do that so we can until next time my friends thank you everybody goodbye i love saturday