 how I get up so much for this. Now I know she dances to the little intro music. She jumps in her seat. It's great. Yes, who's here? Me, I'm here. Over there. Isn't that great? Sarah is not here. Which is great. Sarah is enjoying the beach, a Florida beach. I can't tell you where she is, but she's enjoying a beach in Florida somewhere. Nice. I'm a little teeny bit jealous. A teeny bit? A teeny bit. Well, I get to be here with you. Like, how how jealous can I be? You know, and we don't spend as much time as we used to together. I know. We used to do cubicle days. We did. We would sit. Julie and Anne and I would sit with our cameras on and we would work all day long and just chat. Just like we were working at an office in our chemical. Throwing caber airplanes over the top of the cubicle at each other. That was fun. That was. Yep. We've done that in a long time. So let's see. Donna's here. Hey, Donna. And of course, we can't have a live cast be complete without Chris. And let's see. Hillary. It's afternoon for her. Jeanine and Goodson. And Tommy's here. He's a regular. From the Bayou State. Bayou State. Our friend Stephen. Tommy's like, you didn't get Dabo. Dabo did not move. No, no way. Dabo. Football. Oh, Sue from Minnesota. Leslie from Arizona. She's my neighbor. So I'm in New Mexico. Debbie. I'm a check. I want to hear you say it. We got to make fun of somebody pronouncing stuff this morning. I'm a check. I would have said it right though. Yeah, you would have. And June. June is here. Hey, June. Are you baking today, June? What are you baking? Are you cooking? I was, I started baking and then I started keto and then I had to learn different ways to bake things. Kirsten UK. Patricia from Kentucky. And Lynn from Maine. My husband lived in Maine for 20 years. Wow. He probably knew Lynn. Yeah, they probably hung out like together. I'm pretty sure. Yes. Leslie, I baked biscuits in the solar oven yesterday afternoon. First time trying that. That's cool. That's cool. Where was Leslie? Where are you? I don't remember. Did she say? I think so. So, uh, Arizona. That sounds good. Classes. No time to bake. Oh, lobster. Cool. Well, do you have anything, any exciting news? Yeah, yeah. I got accepted to be a speaker at Roots Tech coming up in March, March the, what, 3rd to the 5th? Yay. Yay. And my, sorry, somebody's chatting me like live now. I got accepted to speak at Roots Tech and I had submitted a talk that was WikiTree title and they, they didn't accept that one, but the other one they did accept, but the WikiTree is all over that one. So, yeah, I think they're a little more, if you work it into a presentation about something that's not specifically about the website, they're a little more inclined to take it. So, it's fun. What else do I know? Max is going to be talking about the wonder of blueberries the whole time. I might. You never know. I think you should have blueberry muffins for people. Pie. Blueberry pie. Except it's virtual, so you have to have virtual pie. I could do virtual pie. You could do it. I could be virtual pie. No, Daniel did not get accepted, but that's okay. Daniel is going to be accepted in a couple in a year or two or three. I'm very excited about Daniel Loftus, who's a part of the Hidden Branch. He's a very young genealogist from Ireland, so. Yeah, that Hidden Branch, they're popping up all over the place. I keep seeing them. Yeah. I threw everywhere. Oh, blueberry muffin in the house. Strawberry rhubarb pie. I, you know, that's one pie I don't like. I think rhubarb are tart, and you shouldn't have something tart in a pie. I have to agree with that. Yeah, that's to you. You didn't. Stop messaging Maggs right now. I'm trying to tell them to stop so I can share my screen. So, Aaron, guess what? What, Maggs? We had an incredibly well responded to question of the week. Cool. I'm excited. You know what the question of the week was. I'm going to share my screen now. Let's hope that. Strange surname. No, she's not. She's not. Stop. Okay, go away because I have to. Oh, and then I have no idea. It just popped up. I have to share my screen. I have no idea where this came from. No. Maddie, what are you watching in here every time? I don't do that. I didn't know your indicates fighting. No. It's weird, Maggs. It's really weird. What's the strangest surname you have ever found? Really? Yeah. That's so funny. So the very first one I think is hilarious. John Boren says Orston, perhaps, which means boobs. Here you go, John. Helen M. Lamberton said Lambrotten. That's crazy. That's different. Calmetto. Good year. Strange in a way. The modern surname is Goodyear, but random spellings, all the different kinds of derivatives. Tuck isn't a strange name, but with handwritten census records, it turns into. Yeah, I could see that. I'm not going to go down that road. Baker. I don't know why Baker would be strange. Depending on the world you live in, it's not a common name, but he never wrote the name down. So Ings, I-N-G-S, Ptolemy, and if you want to be a Greek mathematician, Quackenbush. Does that mean there's a duck in the bush going quack, quack, quack, quack, quack. I always thought it was a made up name by the Marx brothers from Sue. Oh, Sue's here. Hey, Sue. Let's see. German English, Harless, and it turns into Harless when you change it. Harless. Butcher. Oh, that's bad. And then here's another one, Nipple, that you and John Bourne should get together. Marie Evans said cockroach. Oh, that's... And this is on a death registration. So cockroach, cockroach. Cockroach. And there's another Nipple, breath mints. So mints, just an M-I-N-T-S. Sloppy and belch. Wow. That could be... My kids are not sloppy and they don't belch. That's interesting. And they don't spit on the ground. I told them their whole lives, don't spit on the ground. I walk in that and then I walk in my house. Gross. Gross. Had a colleague that was named Dullab. Hate evil. Hat evil. Intinkal toes. That's from June Butka. Pan Rucker. Pan Rucker? Pan Rucker. Przenzia Arzenhofer. Wow. I would just like to have that name so I could say hi. I'm Przenzia Arzenhofer. Ruggles. Turnip seed. Two good rats and click. Outhouse. Ghost. That is... I would love to have the last name ghost. Ghost. Cawthon. Clapper. Redhead love body. Ruffles. Not ruggles. Redhead love body. Marjorie you said ruffles not ruffles again. Orange lemon. Death. Shit's tight sheet. She's going on again about the ruffles. More ruffles. It did more ruffles. Gwynnebert. Toothacre. Batman. We got some like 70 answers in the holy cow. In the thing. Here's Ilksa had to kill the whole thing. Wow. So fun. And Picklesheimer. Cindy Schneider thought this was the best one. Do you think Picklesheimer is the best one? I think it's good, but I think we try not to do best answers in question of the week. We don't. So should I un-best it? No, I'm going to leave it. Sorry, Cindy. And I was telling Alen this earlier that in back in my earlier days, because I'm years old, we used to play John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt. And this Picklesheimer made me think of that. It was a drinking game. And I guess you can figure out the extent of that. If you had to say John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt, very quickly during drinking, it would go well. Picklesheimer. So and then people start. What I love is she's picking up this really strange name and all of these people say, I knew somebody. I knew somebody. I want to know where these people live that they knew all these people with that surname. Right. Yeah. Cleophas Larson. Cleophas. Now, my grandfather's name was Cleland, which is a very unusual name. And he went by clean. But Cleophas Larson Konstik or Konsto Ola from Eva Eckbold. Hello, Eva. Sprang just thick balm or thick balm. That's kind of and that's from Dieter. Is Dieter here today? I haven't seen Dieter. Let's see. Death. Somebody's already mentioned that. Lampris. It's Greek roots. And I love where they give some of the other spelling derivatives. Yeah. The eyebrow razor, according to Alan Kruitzer, is Lyre, L I A R, which was changed to Lear for obvious reasons. To tell the truth, I think Lyre is a strange name from Marianne Saruti. Chris McNeil has strange. There are quite a few people who posted the word, the surname Strange. Strange for strange surnames. Quirk is a fairly common surname in Ireland. That was Alan's original surname was Quirk. He's so quirky. That's true. Devil Bliss from Jessica Keeney. Genean Isleman. Genean, you can't just say your surname. She's got Isleman. It used to be Iceman. Where was it? The Iceman? Yeah. But we'll let you have it. She also mentions Hog, H-O-G-G. I dated a guy in high school whose last name was Pig. And the family changed their name to their mother's surname, which I thought was just kind of fun. Bacon. Shuffle Bottom. That's me. I have a Shuffle Bottom. I can't sit still in the chair ever. Pork Wine and Donna's Thorpe. Let's see. Pot-a-vine, pot-vine, pot-vine. Interesting. Barron's father? Scottish for father unknown. So that's an interesting Ava picked up on that. But it could be just the word they wrote in because the father was unknown. Here we go. Down here, during the Source of the Thon, the married surname I found for an unsourced female was Dumbbell. Dumbbell. Quattro Bomb, which is a very common name in South Carolina. Guine. Strange. There we go. Strange. Bombardier, which is not an unusual name in Quebec. Chris Ferriolo. But yeah, he thinks it was a mistranslation. Anyway, that's interesting. Bombardier makes planes and trains. Aylin. I'm here twice now. Aylin. I was wondering why you were being so quiet over there. Yeah, my internet went... Now you have to boot yourself. Kick lighter. You missed the best name while you were going. What was it? What was it? I'm not telling you. You suck. What was it? Kick lighter. Now, slaughter. Pages and pages of this stuff. Duck. Wiggly. That's cute. Duck. Claren Bolt. Claren Bolt. It's South African Ava. Ekbo would like that. Spinach. Strange. Pickle, Primrose, Thrift, Underhill, Constable, Hussie, Paras, Skipwith, Stallion, Tipis, Tongue, and Touche. You have to say that four times really fast. I've got Hussies. I knew you would. Of course. Okay. Oh, and I love this one. This is really the best. I'm going to vote that the best. Is that John Strange says, I think I win this round. Did I get booted back to the... See Strange? Janine. Did I get booted back? I think you did. I did. I did. Whoop, whoop, whoop, whoop. It took me back to the first page. I was down somewhere on the second page. Yeah, there we go. Claren Bolt, Claren Bolt. There we go. Let's see. Strangeest I found is Hyman Poop. Can you imagine having a surname of Poop? No, I really, I really can't. There's another ghost. Lankreer. I have no idea what that is. And who put a poop with this list on? Oh my goodness. John Fawcett. There's lots of steens or steins there. Makes me thirsty. I need to go get my football beer out. I have a stein. Zeetler adopted from the Murphy's. Stiglowate. Often Namaste for Denver, Colorado. Somebody was named. I told you you could leave if you sneezed one more time. Sweet. I'm out of here. Bye. DeMarcus Lafayette Stafford. Oost. That is a kind of interesting name. Oost for East. Hugabooom. And married a quackenbush. So, hugabooom and quackenbush. I hope she hyphenated. What kind of, I knew somebody whose last name was Wall. And she hyphenated her last name when she got married and her husband's last name was Fly. So she is now Kathy Wall Fly. Wall Fly. Yeah. And I don't know if it's true, but there was somebody in school who knew somebody whose name was Krista. Her middle name was Shanda. And the last name was Lear. Lear. We have one of those here. Really? Yeah. Dockon. Featherkill. Judaman. Hunger Breeler. Or hunkapillar. Ponson. Spaltsreed for Fat Field. A Murgatroid. Heavens to Murgatroid. Grim. Strange ways. Silence Belcher. Silence Belcher. Metcaloe. Yo. Yo. Yo. Strangeman. So there's lots and lots and lots and lots and lots of these great names. Let's see if there was more. Pancake. Somebody wrote down pancake. Cushion. Loudermilks. Jonathan Lovejoy. A friend of mine in college married a true love. Let's see. Cutting Noise. Cutting Noise. That is a very strange name. Those Puritans. Whoo. I have Nimrod as a first name in my family forever. Nimrod. Nice. I have one. It's her first name is if I can remember how she spoke. W-A-Y-T-A-W-H-I-L-E. Wait a while. Oh, wow. And her last name is Makepeace. Wait a while. Makepeace. I have a funny story about somebody wanting to name a road something back when I was an engineer for the DOT. But I can't say it on air. Oh, tell me later. I let them name the road that, but nobody knows that's what the name means. Makepeace. Asquith. Half head. Half head. Beach ball. Beach married a ball. Beach ball. Beach ball. Preserved fish. The strange worm mouth. Bumpus. All right. That's it. That's it. That's a lot. That's a lot. That's a lot. That was good. Stop sharing. Stop. That was fun. Oh, that's fun. It held my notifications because I was screen sharing. Nice. Thank goodness. It's bad enough we had to watch your cage fighting. Yeah, it meant funny. Should we do the profiles of the week? Let's do the profiles of the week. All right. Let me try and do this because I haven't really had to do it before. Okay. Share screen. I think I want to share everything, right? Maybe I don't. Now I do. You might have cage fighting show up in your feed. I might. That would be awkward to you. Nope. Just us. Just forever. All right. So this week we featured Novel Laureates. Mags. They're not in this one, but she knows two. Personally. Novel Laureates. Personally. I know the guy who invented the laser. He's not live anymore. Charles Towns. And one of my pool buddies. I used to play pool Thursday nights with a family and all of our kids played. It was so much fun. And he was a Nobel Laureate as well. Very cool. So the first one is, let's see. Oh, we have two. Let's see. I'll do Alfred Nobel first. Ooh, look at his background. Very cool. That's him. That's him. That's him on a coin, man. Swedish inventor of dynamite. There you go. He was a chemist, engineer, businessman, and philanthropist. Say that again. Philanthropist. And his will, he bequeathed his fortune to a fund that became the Nobel Prize institution. So there you go. He looks like, maybe because I have Halloween on the brain, he looks like right here like that could be a Dracula picture. Oh yeah. The cave and the cape. And he looks a little devilish in that one. Just a little bit. Let's see. Keen interest in engineering, particularly explosives, learning the basic principles from his father. He owed us to being descended on his father's side from the Swedish scientist Olas Redbeck. So there you go. Nobel explosives plant was the site of a massive dynamite manufacturing plant built by him. And then the British dynamite factory. I didn't notice about him. That's cool. He did not want to be remembered as a death dealer who profited from the sale of explosives. So he set aside much of his considerable fortune for the awarding of prizes in the fields of physical science, chemistry, medical science, or physiology, literary work in an ideal direction. So there you go. There's his grave. Pretty cool. Let's see. And then Marie Curie. She was my closest at 17 while she and Albert Mickelson. Yeah. Yeah. I gotta look you up. Look me up. Spell your last name. I'm spelling it wrong. You have to do Ramos 244 if you really want to know. Ah, there we go. Thank you. Because I'm adopted. Really? I know you didn't know that. I never talk about it all the time. It's not showing me. There we go. Ah, you're 21 from Marie Curie and it goes through your mama. My mama. Your mama. Sweet. She's my closest one. Chris thought that the fella that the Alfred Nobel looked like Bella Legosi. Yeah, Dracula. So Marie Curie, Polish-French physicist and chemist who conducted pioneering research on radioactivity, the first woman to win an Nobel Prize, and the only woman to win in two fields. And she's also the only person who has won the award in multiple sciences. So I'm happy to be 21 degrees from her. That's pretty cool. Daughter of, I'm not even going to try. Wladzla Sklodowski. I think you did great. And Bronislaw Boguska. Youngest of five children. Her mother died when she was about 11. And then, let's see, they had two kids who wrote a biography of her. That's pretty cool. Then she died due to leukemia caused by radiation. Of course. These are great pictures of her too. Quite a woman. Back then, they like did crazy, scary things that we would never even think about. Like, oh, here's some uranium. I'm going to grab it with my hand and put it over here. Yeah, no problem. She resides in a stone tomb. And her tomb glows. I'm sorry, that's not true. It doesn't, but it is kind of amusing. Okay, John Northrop, noble prize for chemistry for work with enzymes, proteins and viruses. He looks very dapper. Descended from the Milford Northrop's. His fifth great-grandfather was Joseph Northrop, who was part of the great period to migration. His ancestors were influential and accomplished men, including Reverend Thomas Hopper, Reverend Jonathan Edwards, President of Princeton, and the founder of the American Sugar Refining Company. So there you go. Oh, his father was killed in a laboratory explosion two weeks before he was born. That's a rough. Wow. He had two children, John, who was an oceanographer, and then a daughter, Alice, who married noble laureate Frederick Robbins. Gotta keep all those nobles in the family, you know. It's true. We don't want to let them get free. Sir Lawrence Bragg, noble prize in physics for work on crystal structures by means of X-ray from South Australia, which is cool. You are 27 from him. They're your mom. 27. From South Australia. That's cool. Let's see. His mother died when he was seven. He was raised by an uncle. Won scholarships to the local grammar school and to King Williams College, where he became head of the school and then won an exhibition to Trinity College. Very popular, apparently. Played tennis and golf and let's see. Married. Oh, he made friends with Sir Charles Todd and then married his daughter. She was a water colorist, and so Bragg took up painting and they did exhibitions together. So I guess he was also kind of an artist. He joined in the attack upon the structures of proteins, hemoglobin and myoglobin. So there you go. William Bragg. Gertie. Gertie. Gertie, radnance, quarry, noble prize in physiology and medicine for the discovery of the mechanism by which glycogen is broken down in muscle tissue, interlactic acid, and then re-synthesized in the body and stored as a source of energy known as the quarry cycle. You know what, Aon, I think I would like you to read every possible scientific journal to me. You do it so well. Just listening to your voice. It's kind of Leanne Cooper. Leanne Cooper's voice doing the intro to Wiki Tree is like so nice, but you got a voiceover job maybe coming. Sweet. You know what's funny about that is last week I watched the Friday date night video that Julie and I did. Yep. And I guess I haven't watched myself on video and I couldn't, like the voice I could hear, it didn't, it's so different from how I sound to me. So it's funny that you would say something. That is funny. Gertie. Huh? I just, I'm just saying it's, it's funny how how you, you don't want to hear yourself talk. No, because it was a lot higher pitch than I think I sound and I know it was weird. All right, back to the Nobel laureates. Gertie. Gertie Corey, she looks nice. You are 24 degrees from her through your mama. My mama, it's always going to be through my mama. Oh, let's see. A Czech American biochemist, she was the third woman and first American woman to win a Nobel Prize in science, to win a Nobel Prize in science, I think it says that twice, and the first woman to be awarded the Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine. She was born in Prague. Gertie was not a nickname, but she was named after an Austrian worship. What? Yes, that's what it says. Why do that to your child? No. I mean, Gertie kind of sounds like a female name, or I would have thought it was Yeah, Gertrude. That's what I think. It's not an Austrian worship. No, in Austria, they don't even have any worship. I know. Why do they have a worship? Oh, okay. Let's see. Yeah, they came to Europe in 1922. Her and her husband, they published things together and separately. She had difficulty you search securing research positions and the one she obtained provided me your pay. I bet her husband insisted on continuing their collaboration, though he was discouraged from doing so by the institutions that employed him. So good husband. Let's see. Yeah, there you go. They're both designated a national historic chemical landmark in recognition of their work in clarifying carbohydrate metabolism. So carbohydrates and metabolism sounds like the keto diet. It does. She probably laid like some groundwork for that, maybe. And she was skinny. She was skinny. Not fair. I know. What the heck? Probably because she studied about carbohydrate metabolism. She knew what to eat. Savante Arhenius. Let me go with that. Artemis, I think. See Arhenius. And people thought it was just Sarah. No, it's me too. It's everybody. Nobody could pronounce some of this stuff. It's true. Wait, you're not. That's not you. Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. You are 35 degrees through your mama. So Nobel Prize in chemistry in recognition of the extraordinary services he has rendered to the advancement of chemistry by his electrolytic theory of dissociation. Got it? Got it. Kick it. Are we going to be tested on this stuff at the end? Yes, you are. There's Svante. He was a scientist in the fields of physics, chemical kinetics, and physical chemistry. In 1884, doctoral thesis, he proposed that chemical reactions and solution are reactions between ions, even in the absence of electrical current. I can't stop laughing, listening to you. But the continuation of his work would lead him to being awarded the Nobel Prize. He was the first to calculate the effect of atmospheric carbon dioxide increases on global temperature, which is the greenhouse effect. Interesting. And what year was that? That was like 1910. 1890s. His theory developed in 1896 forms the basis of our understanding of how carbon dioxide emissions cause global warming. He was the first Swedish recipient of a Nobel Prize. Yay, Svante. Svante. Okay, this will be a fun one. Bjorn Stearn Bjornsson. Oh, that's not bad. Nobel Prize in literature as a tribute to his noble, magnificent, and versatile poetry, which has always been distinguished by the freshness of its inspiration and the rare purity of its spirit. You're 29 degrees from him. Do my mama? Do your mama? Look, he looks... He's got some hair and some mutton chops going on. Look at those eyebrows and the mutton chops. Yeah, I guess we don't... I couldn't tell if those were real or if the eyebrows were attached to those glasses. It's kind of like the Mark's brother thing you can buy. It does kind of look like that. Yeah, born in Norway, died in France. There you go. Albert Mickelsen, Nobel Prize in physics. Oh, he discovered the speed of light. Oh, 5,000 light. Oh, I know that number and I can't even... Oh, I know. I can't say it. Remember, we have this ant that I said, what's the speed of light? And she just blurted it out and I've never forgotten that. Until today. Until now. So he was born in Prussia. He did electromagnetism and optical physics and then discovered the speed of light. You're 16 from him. Through you, mama. Cool. He had six kids, two different wives and then passed away the day before my birthday in California. And that's a significant day. It is very significant to me. He's also my closest at 17. Nice. Guglielmo Marconi. What? Who? Guglielmo. It's not a Guglielmo doll. No. Not surprisingly. He's Italian. Really? Weird, right? You are 23 from him. Cool. Italian inventor and electrical engineer known for his pioneering work on long-distance radio transmission, development of Marconi's law, and a radio telegraph system. He's credited as the inventor of the radio and shared the 1909 Nobel Prize in Physics with Carl Ferdinand de Braun in recognition of their contributions to the development of wireless telegraphy. Yeah. That's cool. Think about it. We probably wouldn't even have TVs if he hadn't done what he did. Right? Yeah. It's like the Romans knew how to make concrete. And then after they left the world, the Romans, we all forgot how to make concrete. We had to reinvent it again like a thousand years later. Yep. He was 20 years old when he embarked on the study of the work of Heinrich Hertz. So there you go. Chris, good job. Always wiki-tring. Gotta add him to the Italian Notables list. Do it. Do it. He was described as a quiet, reserved person who recognized a spiritual force outside and above himself. He preferred to trust his own intuition rather than to accept to originally the limitations of his own plans, which might have been imposed by the science of his day. Will you read some, just go find some some philosopher and read it to me for a while? Yeah. Let me get through the Nobel laureates first. Pearl S. Buck, Nobel Prize in Literature. Speaking of unusual last names. Buck or Sidenstricker? Buck. Sidenstricker. I like her name. Pearl Comfort. So she was born in West Virginia. Daughter of missionaries. Oh, so she spent most of her life before 19th or in China. She left China to go to a women's college in Virginia. Graduated in 1914 as an under-elected undergraduate member of the Phi Beta Kappa Honor Society and as a member of the Kappa Delta Sorority and then went back to China. Three days after my birthday, she married John Lossing Buck, who was an agricultural expert living in China. I love how you can turn everything to be about you. Right? Yeah. Her novel The Good Earth was the best-selling fiction book in the US in 1931 and in 1932 and she won the Pulitzer Prize in 1932. And then in 38 she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature for her rich and truly epic descriptions of peasant life in China and for her biographical masterpieces. Have you ever read that? I don't know if I have or not. I probably did. Like a long time ago? Yeah. Her grave marker is inscribed with Chinese characters representing the name Pearl Sidenstricker. Nice. That's cool. St. Clair Lewis. Nobel Prize in Literature for his vigorous and graphic art of description and his ability to create with wit and humor and new types of characters. I read lots of him. Yeah. There he is. You're 21 from him. Cool. See, his mother also died when he was young. He was only six. He started reading at a very young age and often kept a diary next to him. He was tall, thin and had a lot of acne. Lewis didn't have the looks to impress girls in his school is what this biography says. He often ran away from his house and wanted to become a drummer boy for the Spanish-American War. Who wants to do that? St. Clair Lewis apparently. Yeah. So he moved from job to job searching for something to write for publication and to skateboard and married his first wife who was an editor at Vogue magazine. They had a son named Wells Lewis named after HG Wells. So there you go. Here are some of his quotes. Advertising is a valuable economic factor because it is the cheapest way of selling goods, particularly if the goods are worthless. That's a good one. Just read the rest of them. Go on. What is love? It is the morning and the evening star. He who has seen one cathedral ten times has seen something. He who has seen ten cathedrals once has seen but little. I think he overused the cathedral analogy. Maybe. And he who has spent half an hour in each of a hundred cathedrals has seen nothing at all. So there you go. There you go. St. Clair Lewis. Do you think Sarah is watching us? If Sarah is at a beach in Florida, she better not be watching us. She better be at a beach doing beachy things. Roger Sperry. Split brain research. Chris, this is right up your alley, Fariello. Sorry, I couldn't help myself. An American neuropsychologist, neurobiologist and no Bologna. When the 1981 Nobel Prize in physiology and medicine. For his discoveries on split brains. Oh, here you go, Max. I'll read you this sentence. Essentially, Sperry and his students showed that if the two hemispheres of the brain are separated by severing the corpus callusum, the large band of fibers that connects them, the transfer of information between the hemispheres ceases and the coexistence in the same individual of two functionally different brains can be demonstrated. That's crazy cool. That's like removing your Siamese twin. Yeah. The discovery of the duality of consciousness revealed in the split brain experiments opened whole new fields of brain research. Now you know. And last but not least, George Beedle, Nobel Prize in medicine and physiology for his work in genetics. So sounds like somebody I would like. Beedle. Beedle. Beedle. Hey, Beedle. He was educated at the Wahoo High School. Of course. And might have became a farmer himself if one of his teachers at school had not directed his mind towards science. You're 20 from him. I'm dying to know what their mascot is. What's the name of the high school? Wahoo in Nebraska somewhere. Wahoo. Oh, because it's Wahoo in Nebraska is where I was born. There you go. Wahoo. Yeah, his discoveries contributed one of the basic concepts of modern genetics. And then he died of Alzheimer's. Oh, I'm not going to say what their mascot is. Why? Because it's Native American. Oh, that's cool though. Nebraska makes sense. Yep. There's just feathers. I can't tell. I'm sure they have an interesting person dress up something at games. Probably. That's cool. That's cool. We got to see some cool people. Cool people. Yeah. Should we do photos now? Are you tired of me talking? No, I love, I love listening to you. Tell me more about science though. All right. So this week's theme for 52 weeks of photos was costumes because, you know, we're coming up on Halloween. And so this is John and Evans on their wedding day. I guess that's a costume. They look happy. They do look happy. I like her flowers. Father Patrick Russell. That's not a costume. That's not a costume. That's probably actually what he wore for. That's a uniform. That's like, is that like a military? No, it's a Catholic. It's Catholic. Oh, yeah. Father. Yeah. Reverend. It's got a nice smile. Yep. But not a costume. Here we go. Here we go. No. Jinx. This is a family reunion from 2003. That looks like your family reunion, Aylin. I know, except we're not in costumes. Out in the west. At Estes Park, Colorado, Saloon. There you go. Estes Park. That's fun. I want to meet this family. Where are they? Really? Can you tell me when your next family reunion is? I want to go. Magazine, I'll be there. Would you wear a petticoats? Sure. Why not? Carolyn and Jeff, bride and groom on Halloween. That's cute. That's adorable. Oh, whoa. Zoom. They're cute. He's got the control button and the up arrow. It'll zoom it slowly. She looks like I did. I don't know. Baby. It's weird. Cowgirl Christmas. Do you ever look at people because you're adopted? Do you ever look at people that you think look like you and think, oh, wow, is that my sister? I did a lot before I met my biological family, but I don't really look like a lot of them either. It's weird. I guess it's just the weird mix I get from my birth father and mother combined. I look a lot like my maternal grandfather and his mom, but otherwise, I've met cousins and aunts, and then half of them were blonde. It's weird. They all look like you, eh? Yeah, because I'm blonde. Because you're blonde. Totally blonde. WikiTree's blonde elf. Yeah, that's me. This little girl is adorable. Isn't she? I can't figure out what the costume is, though. They said it's a cowgirl Christmas, so I'm thinking it's like a little cowgirl radio. Like, seated down in her skirt, it's got the like, what do you call that, fringe? Yep. Oh, yeah. Okay, I see it now. Why went too far? Give me a favor, A1. Hide the sharing bar there. Nope. Thank you. Ooh. Shasta, the daughter of Janine, who I believe is in her chat. That's... Bye, Azz. Thanks for coming in. Azure's going to make breakfast for us all. Oh, thanks, Azure. That's a cool one. Well, that's Janine. That's your daughter. That's your daughter. How cool. Janine and I are related. Nice. Lytton's Halloween happiness. So we got a pirate, for sure. A devil, pirate and musketeer? Maybe. Or a witch, because they have a broom. Ooh. Oh, it's a witch. A witch, a pirate and a little devil. Do you know the first time anyone appeared in costume for Halloween was in Vancouver, British Columbia? I did not know that. There you go. That's a little insignificant trivia for you. First Halloween costume. She does not look happy. The pumpkin does. The pumpkin looks static. I like the curtains. And I bet her mother made her next costume out of those. Not a happy Halloween camper. I got a smile here. Oh, she says I had to smile. She's the bride. That's a good one. Somebody did makeup. Good makeup job. Who posted that? Yeah, it's a good one. You can go on. Deborah Campbell. Oh, okay, good. She says she missed the photo of the week post. June, do you have a good costume you wanted to post? A witch and I can't quite tell. Any guesses? No. Yeah, I don't know. But the witch is cool. So is the house. The house is really cool. I would love to see if there's people in the windows looking out. Doesn't get any bigger, does it? No. June says that she has a picture of her in costume on her profile page. That's another good one. I guess that she went as a 17th century aristocrat. That's adorable. That is so cute. So cute. Oh, this is probably her too. Look. Oh, she's the troll from Trolls. Yes. That is adorable. And look at that very happy pumpkin. Oh, a peacock. That's a good one. A peacock costume. That's awesome. Watch out, people. Another cute little kid. Do you remember the face masks? Like the plastic face masks? Yeah. That we used to wear. Yeah. Probably has chemicals and stuff. What's surprising? We're all lucky to be alive. Oh, that's a cool robot. Check that out. Is that a pig? I cannot tell. Grandpa Andrew with the grandchildren. Is he in costume or no, no. I think that's just him. That's just him. Cute. Oh, that's a good one. George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Minna Wright in the colonial era. That's good. And Halloween in the 1960s. It's a weather warning. Do you have storms coming? I don't know. I'm not going to stop the show and look at my. All right. Let's see if there's anything. Oh, wow. Oh, wow. Spiders. A plague mask. Wow. My son's went to a Halloween party as spy versus spy. Spy versus spy. We're not very convenient. So the next time they went to a party, they put the colliders on their heads and went and salt and pepper. Well, it's funny. I guess my grandmother, Barbara Port graduated from college at the height of the Great Depression. So she couldn't find a regular job. She convinced a local mill, Pequaw Mills, to let her do the publicity for them. This picture is her dressed as Priscilla Pequaw. Pequaw? I don't know. Oh yeah. Her husband's uncle. Here we go. Here's his story. Father Pat, as his nieces and nephews called him, entered the Jesuit novitiate in 1935 and was ordained a priest in 1948. He spent many years as a missionary in various places in Asia where he founded a vocational center for training and employment of refugees. Nice. And as later years, he founded and directed Operation Help. Oh, the cute little girl is Pat Miller. Yay. Little girl. Cute. Do you see I have something cued up? Do you? Yes, I do. I don't because I'm not looking at that. Oh, yeah, we'll show that in a second. I just gave it away because I'm screen sharing and I switch screens, so. But I was fast. Trick or treaters. Oh, yeah. Well, it was Bill Sims that had that family reunion. We got to call Bill and find out when the next one is. Bill, let us know. Carolyn decided to be dressed as a bride and talked her little brother into being the groom. My great nieces and nephews are talking about marrying each other. They're like two and three and four years old. It's so cute. So cute. My vote for the picture of the week is the girl, the last picture, the ghost bride. I think that's the best one so far. It's pretty stellar. Except for the family. This is made with real peacock feathers. No way. That's what it says. All right, cool. Ida Lerner wore a costume when she married John Evans because wedding gowns were hard to get due to post-war shortages and rationing. That's interesting. What's the costume? That's pretty, though. It is. My mom made her own clothes, most of mine, and all of our costumes growing up. This is one of my favorites. That's cool. Oh, Liz, that's cool. I like it. The little wizard's coat. Yep. The person in that picture is so proud of their costume. I know. They look very happy to be in it. Halloween night after trick-or-treating, we went to the grandparents' house and got our Hershey bars and a dollar. Were you allowed to eat your candy the night you got it? We were allowed to have some, but we couldn't just eat however much we wanted to. I'm gonna show mine. Okay, go ahead. This is my Halloween costume for a wiki tree Halloween. Oh, no. Molly! Come here. That's me, y'all. That was Maddox that year. Hey, what are you doing? Come here. I'll show you to the people. You know, Sarah always looks for dogs and puppies and animals. Come here. Aon's puppy just had a bath and a cut. Oh my goodness! He can't hear me. She can't hear me. She can't. That's okay. You got that right. Thank you, Lynette, for knowing that that was Marilyn and not Mae West. All right. We have puppy. We did. Thank you so much for joining me today, Aon. You're still welcome. Do you want a quick challenge update? Oh, yes. Do you have one? I do. So, this week we're doing Irene Cornish, who I don't know if you guys remember, but she had a news story go viral about her because they found in a thrift store, one of the workers was looking at the back of a photo and found this marriage certificate. It happened to be near where Connie Knox lives, so she saw the article about it and decided to research and see if they could find like a descendant of, you know, to give this marriage certificate to. So, Connie did it. She found this woman, Irene Cornish, and the story was picked up by like national news. Like it was all over Fox and all over the place. And so, she said in her interview that she really didn't know anything about her family, like beyond now what Connie had found for her, which is at her great-grandparents. And so, we invited her to come and be a challenge participant. That's interesting. So that we could maybe give her some more info on her family history. So, that's who they've been working on this week. And they've got a lot of Irish brick walls, apparently, that they're working on breaking down. But they have broken down brick walls, and they've got stories and stuff, so it should be a really fun reveal. What about Feature Friday? Feature Friday, the first one will be November 5th, I think. And hello. What is Feature Friday? Oh, so we're starting a new live cast series. We're calling it Feature Friday. And it's going to be where we show off like some features and different aspects of wiki tree that people want to learn how to use better or may not know exist at all. And it'll be really fun. So the first one is going to be an overview of all the apps. And then Max says bye. And then two weeks. So it'll be on every other Friday, as our plan, in between Friday, date night. So every Friday, you can watch me and Julie Babble. But the first one's going to be an overview of apps. And then the second one, we're having Rob Pavey. Come on. Oh, yeah. He's going to talk about his two extensions, the AGC one that cleans up the JETCOM stuff on profiles, and his Sorcerer, the Sorcerer one. So will you be reading information, technical information about this stuff? I could do that for you. I just, I just, I have to listen. Yeah. So we're starting that. And then I think in December, we haven't really announced this yet, but we're going to also try and throw in and ask me anything live cast. And I think we're going to try and do that maybe once every other months, every month or so. The first one will just be general wiki tree. Like people can just ask general wiki tree questions and we'll try and answer them. We'll collect some beforehand and then we'll take questions from the chat too. And then in January, we're going to do an ask me anything about DNA. And you can probably guess who's going to come help answer those questions. It's not that way. It's that way. It's Max. So that should be fun too. We're excited. I'm excited. I always love talking DNA. What time will that happen on Fridays? Typically, they'll be at 4pm Eastern time, but I think the one with Rob, we had to adjust a little bit and I think it's at 2pm Eastern time. And the ask me anything's are going to be at 12pm Eastern. That's what we're shooting for 12pm Eastern. Those will be on different days. Like they won't have a set day. It'll just kind of depend on who we're having and when they're available. Yay. Well, thank you for being here. And thank you for proving that it's not just Sarah with the pronunciations. You're welcome. Happy to help. Bye everybody. Have a good week.