 on today but first Saturday morning live cast. We round up all the news of the week and obviously the holidays were recent so we have some special stuff going on. So I'm gonna just hand it over to Greg. Hey Greg. Hey elf Greg. What's that? Hello elf Greg. Hello how are you? Fine and you. That's good. And how's elf Betsy doing? Excellent, excellent. Happy New Year everyone. Happy New Year yes. And I have my special elves and crime as I just called them in a discord chat last week or yesterday. Kathy and Christine have joined us. Good morning. Because we're going to start off with the the big reveals right from the Secret Santa? That sounds good. Does that sound like a plan? Okay that sounds very good. Sounds very good. Okay well let me just get my self-organized. I want to say I was the first one here this morning just just while you're getting it. Yeah that's right. We don't have to say who got here but Brian's here. Lisa's here. Let's see and they were talking a lot. Hillary. Hey Hillary. Maria Hedberg is here. Chris Berriello is here. Christine Miller. Ray Womsie. Kevin Guy Campbell. Kevin I'm going to be talking about you in just a few minutes. Well not about you per se, but kind of you. Mary Slippie's here. Let's see who. Judy Spetz is here. Diane Spencer. Carr is here. Let's see. You know who hasn't been here in a while is June Butka. June where are you? Is she there? No she's much better. She's doing great. She's doing much better. I could say that. Janine is here. Let's see. Fran Pickett. Sorry. There's so many people here. Caroline Vernon. Did you guys say that you were doing the Secret Santa today? Yeah we did. Jinx is here. Wow. Take it away Greg. Take it away. Okay so my good elf friend Christine put together a Google slideshow so that I would stay on track which you know if you've watched any of these livecasts you know is an issue with me so let me share my screen. Hey Geary. There we go. Okay so I got to say that we did the G2G post and we've had amazing results. We had over 150 wishes came in and people did just wonderful but before we even began we had the first wish came in. Whoopsie. I gotta put it to the right. There we go. The first wish came in and but it didn't come in on the G2G post. It came in by voicemail. Wow. Yes to the elf central hotline. Elf central hotline. That's 1-800-555-1-2-1-2. Something like that. And so let me just read the transcription of the voicemail message. Dear Ricky Tree. I'm a big fan. I love how you keep track of so many of my dear friends that I get to see once a year. I'm wondering if I should set up a nice category and a naughty category but maybe that is a bit much. I have one wish for you this Christmas. Could you get Sarah to return to the Saturday live cast? Love, Santa. Yes, what? Wish granted. Where she is. Where we're here. Well, it's just just Meg's really big. Now it's Meg. Yay, Sarah. Oh, Santa will be so happy, Sarah. I made Santa's wish come true. You did. Oh, that's great. Look at that. People are screaming. Yay. Well, I was literally laughing to myself so hard, Greg's voice of being Santa. Was that Santa or an elf? I don't know. Anyways, there we go. So let's, should we continue on? We're very happy to have you back, Sarah. This is great. So I thought we'd start off with just sort of a montage of all the GGG messages because part of the fun was just watching the GGG messages come in and how people phrase things and requested things and the words that they used. So I put a little montage together. So when you're watching this, think of, you know, those lovely montages you see in films where there's people narrating over top and we're going to do our best. Live cast hosts are going to do our best to do that. So it's going to start, Meg's going to read the first one that appears on this screen and then Betsy's going to jump in and read the next one as it just sort of appeared. It could be a total mess, but it could be fun. We have to do it in a voice like you did it. Oh, you can do whatever voice. You don't have to do a Santa voice. These voices from one reading to the next. Oh, that'll be fun. I'm going to do the profiles of Santa, by the way. Okay. Santa's genealogy, I think that's technically forbidden. Yeah, that's right. I was going to leave that as part of the lead. Okay, Megs, you're ready? Start us off with a bunch of different Santas. Dear Santa, bonjour, Pierre Nioro, and women's stars. Dear Secret Santa Elf. Santa, it's Debbie. Dear Woman Symbol. Dear Weakie Tree Elf. I would like. I'm looking for. If you could find. I need help proving. Can someone help me? I've been good this year. I hope this counts as I wish. Help me, I've fallen and I can't get up. The gravel falls are terrible. Thank you so much. Merci. Milk and cookies. I made some blueberry pie and sherry. Mirrors for Rudolph. A wee dram. I spiced rum. Yeah, there was lots of offers of that. It was very yuletide. Yeah, there we go. Well, so that was sort of, you can sort of see people were all over the map. Some were super serious and some were tempting, trying to get people to answer their wishes and whatnot. So that was great. At the last count, I believe we had 33 wishes that were solved. And of the 150, most of the majority of them were brick walls, and they were hard brick walls, like really difficult because you think about it. These were put together by Weakie Treeers. So, you know, genealogists who have done their best and they've hit a brick wall. And so some of these were really, really difficult. But along with the 33 that were solved, there was an additional 82, I believe, correct me if I'm wrong there, Christine, with the most accurate number of additional wishes where research notes were added. And so that's really important because that gives the profile writers and the people who make them the wishes more clues to go on. So if there's a way to get through those additional notes will be helpful. And sadly, there were some wishes where we just couldn't make any headway. And we did our best and we apologize for that. But let's celebrate the ones that did get solved. So we're just going through them in chronological order of the ones that got solved. So here's the first wish. And it was from Lisa, who's in the chat with us. And she wants, she wanted to help sorting out parents of her second great-grandfather. She's got DNA results and she doesn't know how to analyze the data and she would like somehow. Well, the ELF team has come through and we have a solution for you. We have arranged a free lunch time or virtual consultation with the world-renowned DNA expert, the amazing Mags the Marvelous Gaulden for a free consultation. Mags the Marvelous? That's a little illiterate. Mags the Magnificent. Oh, Mag the Magnificent. Well, she's Magnificent as well as Marvelous. So, Lisa, you and I need to talk and we can set up a virtual talk. We can talk on the phone. We can meet for coffee and I'll buy you a coffee. We can do anything you like. We can do lunch. So after the talk, we'll get together and figure out how to do this and we can talk about your DNA project. So there you go. Excellent. Super. Next, we have, so some of these, we're gonna, some of these I'm going to go by quickly and others we're gonna spend a little more time on just to highlight because we don't want to take up the whole time. But there's one where the request was for a, to find someone in the census and there it was with the details that were given. This one was solved. This was a wish by Maria was asking for help with, again, it was DNA help and she actually granted me access to her DNA matches. So we, I didn't, we haven't got the solution exactly to the specific problem of Peterson and Odleburg. But what I was able to do is look, starting, this is what her family tree looked like when we started off and she has a few DNA confirmations, but I was able to find a bunch more. And so we have DNA confirmations for a good chunk of her ancestors. And we're also, there's also some leads for some of the ones that are further out. So thank you very much Maria for trusting me with that and I hope you enjoy this. And I have some leads for some of the other ones. Many of these ones were done with third cousins or second cousins once removed. And so those you can do with a simple DNA confirmation. The ones that are further out, we need to use triangulation. And this actually was, is a misconception that some of the wishers had and elves that just when you look at a profile and you see down the side, you see this person has a percentage that could be a DNA match. Those are only percentages and probabilities. Those aren't guaranteed matches. So just because someone could be related by DNA listed on the side, that just means that they took a DNA test and according to WikiTree, they are in the pattern where they could have inherited DNA. But when you get as far back as third, fourth grandfathers, grandparents, because DNA is random, at that point, there's no guarantee. So what you need to do to do a full, a true DNA confirmation at that point is to compare and triangulate with other descendants from the same person and match chromosome segments. But that's really technical, but I just wanted to mention it because it was a misconception that came up during the challenge. And I thought I would just see it now and we can revisit another time. But anyways, moving on. Next year, it's going to be all DNA confirmation. Oh, no. I can tell you, Kathy, do you want to talk about this one? Okay. Yeah, this one is looking for a birth record for San Pedro Meda. And I have some experience with this because this is one where the person, a WikiTree, or needs to actually be the Family History Center or the actual library in order to be able to access the collection and go image by image. I personally was hoping to try and get this done in the past couple of days, but I just wasn't able to get it done. So, Greg, do you want to kind of show why it is solved? Well, it is solved because there is a WikiTreeer who has agreed, an Italian in law, a WikiTree volunteer has agreed to spend at least one hour in his local library that he just happened to get to become a Family History affiliate. So, help is on the way, Chris. He's like, wait, what? Yeah. So, I will be spending time looking through all the 1810s to find the record. Here's one where we were missing a marriage and a death record has been found. So, that's kind of cool. Love how the death records have so much cool information like myocarditis and all that. Yeah, there was a story on that one, a family story that Joseph had died working for Westinghouse, I think it was. So, somebody found this one. It's the closest thing that they could find, so we sort of presumed that it's him. They lost him after 1923. Right. I had an uncle that I lost, and WikiTree helped me find him. We had a couple of lost and missing family wishes. That's cool. That is cool. Yeah. Yeah. That is cool. So, here's one where, again, this is one of the ones looking for DNA confirmation, and the ELF did find a whole bunch of information in the biography. So, that would be helpful for putting that case forward. Nice. Here's an example of one where new members were added. So, to highlight that, I show you the ones that were added, and then there was even more, that six other children, which, of course, don't show up on that initial page. There are some who went nuts in adding additional family members, and we'll come to one of those really shortly. Went nuts. Take it easy on the cookies, Santa. You have to get nuts on the bottom of their stocking. Nuts and oranges. Yeah, walnuts. Yeah. In the shell, and why didn't they also give us a nutcracker in the, yeah. That's right, yeah. I love taking snippets from the original documents to highlight some of the ones here. So, fellow ELFs, feel free to jump in. Yeah, I liked this wish 60. ELF Linda found Margaret mentioned on the probate record of her maternal grandfather, John Finney, and she noted that in that record, it said that all of Elizabeth's full siblings were mentioned. So, John Finney and his deceased wife, Elizabeth Betsy Cannon, are definitely Margaret's grandparents. That was good. I'm gonna get my noise makers. Okay. Here's where the ELF Pilla found a baptism record. Ramon. That one. Pilla was her own elf. Oh, great. She solved it. She solved it. She posted her wish and then solved it on her own. Oh, man. That's right. These other ELFs are not working fast enough. You have to do something. You do it yourself. You can make sure you solve it before we start it. That's funny. Good work, Pilla. Okay. And this is one where, oh, Elf Hillary did this one. She found the birth registration on, is this Find My Past? Or, well, in the GRO, the General Records Office, and ordered it and, what did she order? No, she ordered a will and has sent that up to, so that's above and beyond Call of Duty. Way to go, Hillary. Oh, this one, I'm not sure. Okay. So, we left that note on here. I'm supposed to take that off because I looked at this this morning and the question was, this person couldn't access browsers and didn't have access to sites. So, two ELFs, Elf Goodula and Elf Mindy helped out by expanding and adding sources to many of this Steve's ancestors. So, that was very well appreciated, I'm sure. Okay. Do one of you two want to talk about this one? Or, shall I? Oh, this was the Australian one. Yes. Oh my goodness. There were so many hours spent on this, so much conversation, so much back and forth, so many records. So much collaboration, I believe. So much collaboration. Yeah. Yes. It was really well done. So, kudos to those ELFs. Elf Celia and Elf Judy. Yeah. So, they did prove that Amy Shakespeare was in fact born Amy Alice and then they corrected her LNAB. And they added extensive research notes. Yes. Extensive with a capital X. They went on and on, added additional questions, additional resources. I mean, at one point I thought the Discord chat was being renamed to the Celia and Judy chat. They were just collaborating like it was incredible. So, yeah. Like it was New Year's Day. Yes, that's right. Yeah. And they were talking about Shakespeare and I, but it was not this Shakespeare, not that Shakespeare. No, it was Shakespeare. No, that's not true. Oh man. It seemed like, yeah, and it seemed like every time I went to go check Discord, that's all I was seeing in there was Shakespeare. It's like. The literature course here, what? Yeah. Yeah. So, that was very impressive. Okay. Stubbornness brick walls. Well, Elf Kat Ryan found the parents. This one here. Elf Junya Nehouse found two wives and mother, added some more people. You can see I've circled the ones that were added. Yeah. I think there was some conflation on that one. So, the wives had to be found. And then, I think the profile manager had three children, but then they found the Elf had more children after that. So, added profiles for everybody. Very well done. Yeah. Here's another one where the Elf Jinx, who I think is in the chat. Oh, there she is. She solved this using Scotland's people. And there's the details for the death certificate. Can I just say to Jinx, Jinx, you're allowed to go to bed now. I was on Discord. There was Jinx working on another profile. I just honestly, I'm so grateful. Thank you so much. Okay. Who wants to talk about this one? Because this one needs huge... I think Betsy should talk about this one. Well, I think, well, first of all, let us just preamble this with Betsy is a rock star and is amazing. Thank you. It's a very sad little wish come in for one of our careers who was, got the idea to maybe work on her uncle's family tree, her uncle's in hospice, and they don't know how long that he's going to be around for, which was very sad. But she wants to see if she can find any sort of living family. Now, we know we don't work on living family, so I put it out there to see what we could do. And Elf Betsy just took the ball and ran away with it. So, thank you so much, Elf Betsy, and we're getting in contact with this wishy and she will be pleasantly surprised before. Wishy? Yes. It was a really, really interesting set of families. Yeah. So, Betsy created not one, not two, but 28 different profiles, I believe. Right? That's right. I started, I thought, oh, well, you know, the wiki tree logo, that has a bunch of like balls, like Christmas tree balls, so I'll just start numbering them. I had to, I ran out. I had to go down the trunk and into the ground to get the 28. That's how much work Betsy did. And then she created a free space page, but of course it's private because it talks about living profiles. So, that's all I can show you of this free space page is the title. That's some virtual hugs. Yes, virtual hugs from Elf Betsy. Merry Christmas. Yeah. Kathy, you want to talk about this one? Yeah, this one, I know I've kind of seen that it has been a brick wall for a very long time and thanks to our wonderful Elves, I don't remember which one worked on this, especially when it involves family folklore, especially in a different country. And it can be hard to find records and stuff. And so this one was definitely has been a hard one for Sandy and her husband. And thanks to our wonderful Elves, it was... Elf Margaret Johnson is what you thought was in my notes. Yeah, it was solved. And I know that there was... I was sent a message thanking the Elves that they wanted to make sure that the Elves that worked on it are very, very thankful for solving this wish. And there are the addition. Nice work. Yeah. So at least five from the nuclear family there, and then more in the extended. Yeah. Nice. Very impressive. Yeah. Neat. Now, this is a neat one. This is a new member to WikiTree and wanted help with the Russian roots. So Elf Judith created a profile for his mother and several siblings. So that's a nice start for a new WikiTree member getting a leg up on the Russian records, which are always hard to find and edit sources and bios. Wonderful. Thank you Elf Judith. Okay. Elf Maria Lentholm worked very hard on this wish. I love the first line. Oh, what's that? I love the first line. Oh, I haven't written to you on donkey. Oh, I've been very good this year. Yeah. I was really impressed with this one because looking for somebody with a similarly named first name and surname. Yes. It was, I was really impressed with the work on this one. And it's her person. Her person. Yes. Her person. Wow. And a kind of person per person. And apparently there was a lot of per's and persons and per persons. So I think my eyes would have been crossed after about five minutes. Like Smith and the Americas or England. Yeah. I was looking for John Johnson. Oh, yeah. Really? Well, I can tell you from that just brief dive into Maria's DNA matches and then looking at her family tree. Oh, I have so much respect for people who live in countries where you're following the patronymics and it goes from a large daughter to Sven Svenson and to like it just, it just dives and deeps. And how do you keep track of anyone? And oh my goodness. Incredible. Great work. And then, and then again, additional research notes too. Okay. So this is one of mine. So this was a cool one. This was a cool one because so what they know is that Joseph Nelson Lafave was born in Canada, probably Santa Antoine Quebec, though the notes actually spelled it Saint Antoine Antoine, but they figured that probably was close to Santa Antoine, which they were right. And all they knew was the mother's maiden name was Muir, they thought. But they couldn't find any record of him. And not only was his origin sort of cloudy where he where he when he had eventually died, they haven't actually nailed down the desert if you either. So it was a quite a big mystery. But luckily with my with my new new found experience with Quebecois records in French, I figured that Lafave is probably an Americanization of the French last name Lafay, which is spelled L E F B V R E. But if you write it out, and you just pronounce it the way it looks like it's written, then you get you get la febra or la febra. Or in this case, and if you leave out the B, which sometimes people do, then it would sound close to Lafave. So I did a bunch of research on the phase. And luckily there was only one combination of a Lafay marrying a Muir that was in the right timeframe. They had a Joseph who was born just a couple years before the their estimated birth. So I nailed down the parents. And from having no parents, no family at all, I now have been able to go extend the back to basically the founding of Quebec and to the original Lafay that came from France. That's amazing, great. That is amazing. Well, now I can't take all the credit. I can take the credit for the parents and grandparents that I had with the parents I added. And the grandparents here. And I think from the great, greats on were already there. So I just had to play connect the dot. And you do that pretty well. I understand. I can connect that really well. And then there's a couple places here where again, there's some more connecting of the dots to do. But I had to at one point, I had to say, okay, you know, I'll just make notes. And I'll let the profile, the profile person play the other connects. But I gave specific details of who to connect and how to connect. And the mother whose last name was Muir was in fact, Elizabeth Muir. And her father William was a Miller, and worked on one of the senaries in Quebec, just outside of Montreal, I believe. So he was probably Scottish, I think, and came over to work and was hired to come over to work with the senaries. But I have his marriage contract. And he actually it was interesting. He the marriage contract was done by a French lawyer and was all in French. And then later that day, there's an English marriage record from a Presbyterian church in Montreal, where he actually got married. So I guess they covered the best of both worlds, just to make sure they were well and truly married in both official languages. So let's see. Nope, I didn't mean to do that. I hit there. My cursor is on the wrong thing. And just because I love when I do that, I know, I know. I had a little map of the first yellow, if you zoomed in, or if you could look on the profile of the parents where I've added these these extra notes is where Joseph Nelson Lefebvre was born. He Nelson was not his middle name. He didn't have a middle name when he's getting it was just Joseph Lefebvre. And the family progressively move farther and farther south. And you can see the last place they lived in Canada was where his 21 year old older brother passed away in Santa Antoine de la Bay. And then it's a short hop, skip, and a jump to cross the border into New York state where he eventually got married and spent the rest of his life. So that was a very cool one. So thank you for giving me that challenge. Okay, I liked this one. Okay. I was truly hard on this one. I don't know how he did it. But he had to follow this guy who was in the military, as he just bounced around the world, being posted different places, because he was from England. So he was abroad. And then they would have children everywhere that they went. Look at all those children. And then they had children in England, and I learned, and then they had children in, they had a son in Toronto in 1863. And I just like, that was one of the more impressive ones. I thought that was, wow, it was really cool. Sorry, Louise Nicholson has a question about how you created the map on the map on the previous ones. You might want to check with her later. Okay, sure. Sorry, go ahead. No. And so yeah, this wish was definitely solved. And there was a ton of work. And again, my thanks go out to everybody on the English team who did just an amazing job. Hillary and Francesca and Roy and everybody. So much hard work. And thank you. Our thanks go out to these great elves who did all this wonderful work. I love that the live cast is responsible for getting this kicked off a couple of years ago. And I love that Kathy and Christine kind of took it over and Greg and you guys have run with it. Thank you so much. Yes. You're welcome. So this one, so this one, Elf Kathy Evans may not have found, may not have solved the wish and found out who the parents were, but she did flesh out some of the children and added a very fulsome biography to the wish. So that's fulsome. Yes. So that was well done. Marta didn't deem find the birth record, but interestingly, it wasn't listed under Augustus. It was listed just under justice, I believe. And that's a little fuzzy. I can't read that now. So I don't know if it was, I don't know how it happened, but I mean, we come across that all the time where you get baptized as one thing and then your name gets changed a little bit later. That's right. He was known all along as Augustus, but he was baptized as justice. So Elf Celia Marsh found some records and added some research notes, toddied up the profile. I like the start of this one. This is really a long shot. Yeah. And I mean, a lot of us recognize that, you know, our own brick walls are brick walls for a reason. So yeah. Yeah. So carrot for Rudolph in the kitchen. I know that is cool. So this one did find a record of Thomas being mentioned in the will as an Aaron's father's will. And there's, so there's a marriage record and then there's the will is the, in the big gray on the one at the top. And she found a sibling as well. And then it looks like the mother passed away while the children were really little. So I don't know that we'll ever find her name. That's sad. I'm amazed at how neat this handwriting is in these two documents. Right? Yeah. Like, that's nothing like a lot of the priest writing I'm used to seeing. 44. Yeah, script. Yeah. A lot of the script back then was just gorgeous. Yeah. Yeah. So Elf Mindy was able to help find a baptism for this person. And his parents were named on the record. Elf Mindy did a lot of work on this one. Oh, huge kudos. Yeah. I can't believe where she found time. I was just thinking that she's, you know, she has to organize the current wiki tree challenge, which is going on right now, which is Ontario ancestors. I know we've all abandoned the Elves. She stole some of her Elves. Those last couple of days, we didn't have as many Elves working as we, but anyways, and I, but she's done so much. She's gone through so many of these wishes, adding research notes and stuff. So Mindy, huge thanks to you. Yeah, Mindy, here, wait. You get a double chicken. Okay. So this is wish number 136 and it's blank. Uh-oh. It's not really blank though because it's a wish. It's my wish. It's my wish. And what do we find? We found a person and we found details. Yay. Exciting. Yes. And it names Father and Mother. There you go. Very nice. Very cool. I couldn't find the actual original record for this one. It was just, this is one of those ones that was, had the index to transcript. I didn't do this wish. I was just, when I was creating the image for the thing. So yeah, and I have kept my promise. I haven't looked at anybody in my family tree for two weeks. Oh, good. So after this, I'm definitely literally, you haven't, you haven't, do you live with your family and you still haven't looked with them? Look at them. I know you looked at your dog. That's a whole different couple of fish. That's great, yeah. Oh, this is a neat one. So this one we're looking for a death record and Elf Marta did find the death record in an index, but what was also really helpful is she, in the research note, she gave specific instructions on how to get a copy of that. Now, unfortunately, there's a fee involved, but she got details there. So that's useful, helpful. Because I think there's a lot like this on Ancestry where there's an index, but to get to the, the more, the meat you have to actually cough up the fee and I guess that's common in with the GRO in England. I tried looking in some of the New York papers, I couldn't find any reference to him at all. So good job on that one. Yeah. And I like when research notes give that additional information about, you know, how to go that next step sort of thing. So that's pretty helpful. Okay. Elf Francesca took this wish and ran with it. I mean, really ran because she took from one person and this is someone who is new to English sources. So she needed help with Rebecca. And went back to not only her parents, but her paternal grandparents, and then six, six children as well. So that really built out that family tree. So that's very nice. Thanks, Elf Francesca. And there was also an Aunt Mary, which I couldn't get on this display and four other siblings. So there's other siblings there too. And I think Francesca is new to the English project as well. And she was working with Charlie and Roy, I think. And yeah, again, anybody who works at English stuff just amazes me because I've looked, I've given up. Oh, look who's wish this is. This is mine. Oh, no, it's mine. Yes. So Elf Kelly found a link to several pictures and some details on where to find them. And I've got a note here. Due to copyright, I can't show them on. But you've got a link to where to get them from. Look surprised. Oh, I make static about this because being adopted, I can't use DNA at all to go through your adoptive of those lines. And my grandfather died when I was like a year and a half old. So I never knew him and never had any information. And it just kind of that my Erbach line was just never talked about. So everything that I have is stuff that I've been finding. Nice. Very cool. Very cool. So I'm very grateful for this. Yeah. Thank you for that. Elf Susan set up a free space page to work out the parentage of Anne Monty. Um, so this was obviously one where it took a lot of research. So not just a little section of research notes on a profile, but a whole page and listed a whole pile of possibilities there. So a lot of work there. Thank you. This was one where as the mom was divorced from her, from the father of Anne, and then remarried. So in the first census record that she shows up in, she has her stepfather's last name. So that really confuses the issue, doesn't it? Yeah. Okay. And there, look, is there more possible, more census information, more information? Like it just goes on. She did an amazing job. So we just have one last wish to show you. There's another one after this, but go ahead. There's another one after this? Yeah. Okay. Okay. So this one is from James. Dear Santa, on one hand, I've been very good. So can I have the results of my possibly paternal sister's DNA results? Uh, I can't really do that for you, James. Sorry. But on the other hand, for the bad hand, the weather here in North Wales is subarctic and we are expecting power outages. So for the bad hand, can I get a stocking full of coal for the fireplace? Yeah. I leave it to your discretion, but there'll be a wee dram, a 20-year-old single malt Scotch whisk in the table, James. I think James was talking, because Pip was talking about a wee dram earlier. Yes. Yes. I have a glen libret 12 here. Well, we can't do anything about the DNA results, but we can give you a lump of coal. So we have a wish voucher that's sending your way. We will mail a free lump of coal delivered to your doorstep. All you need to do is contact me with your mailing address. And $500 for shipping and handling. It may be a lump of coal in the form of a bag of briquettes, but it'll be a lump of coal. One way or the other. There you go. Look at Hillary's comment. What's Hillary's comment? Not so cold here now. Not so cold here now warm for the time of year. So I had a wish. You had a wish. And my wish was that WikiTree would get a brand new humongous DNA group project added. And guess what? We did. You did. Yeah. So the Campbell DNA group project came over this week. And Kevin, who is one of the people working on the Campbell DNA group project, who wrote FTDNA, actually worked on this page and got it all set up with the everything, all the information, showing the goals, the types of DNA tests who can test gives lots of great information. But it also talks about some of the time scales and all the results and gives links off to the charts of information for the project, of which if I scroll down here to group number 30, and I go down here to Enos Campbell. Let me see how far down I can go here. Enos Leander Campbell is one of my ancestors. So the Campbell DNA group project has been added to WikiTree. And I am so excited. It is a humongous project with lots of people. And so that was my wish. And I got it. So thanks. Excellent. That's great. Fantastic. Wow. So I just wanted to thank all of the elves who did an amazing job. And in the slides, we just went through the ones that were solved. But again, there's three times that many where research was done. And they may not have broken through the brick walls, but they chipped away at it or whatever. And they spent hours and hours and hours working on it. It's just so impressive. And thank you for all. And I'd also like to thank everybody who ordered certificates, death certificates, ordered wills, went out of the way to get records for the wishes. Thank you, guys. Thank you to Hillary. Thank you, Betsy. Thank you, everybody. Yeah. Excellent. Thank you. Thank you. And thank you all for leading us. Oh, well, it was fun. I couldn't have done it without these two helping me out. I could have done it without Mr. Concatenate over there. Yes. She learned new spreadsheet terminology. Concatenation. Yes. It was fun. That's so exciting. So next year, we'll do it again with you guys. Well, we've got the spreadsheets. We've got the Google slides. We've got the free space pages. If someone else wants to do it, that's fine. But, you know, we've got the structure. No, we'll leave it in your hands, Elf Greg. Santa, Santa Greg. Getting lots of nice comments in the thank yous. Let's see. GiftedMe. Janine says that somebody gifted her court records for the Calvin Logston trial. A project I've been working on that is really cool. That's nice. Yeah. Well done, everybody. So what you want to do for the next few minutes? We might have to cut some segments for the rest of this. Sorry. What do we want? What do we want to do next? Well, look, the already dreaming of WIC. We really sidetracked this, haven't we? Sorry. Kogan looking for ancestors says Secret Santa Challenge was a lot of fun. Great work, Elf. Yeah. I at least want to make a comment because right before the live cast, we were talking about the photo challenge, that the 52 photo challenge has been kind of pushed to the side, but we thought nothing else had been started yet. But as, you know, people were talking about the Elf thing, they actually create a new project called the 12 month photo project. And there actually is a free space page. And this month's challenge is grandparents. Let's do it. Let's do it. We can, we can do it at the end of the month, the photos, or we can look at them every week or something, see what's been updated. But there is a new challenge monthly. So just let me know. Let's look at it. It's 48 tills. I mean, it's 48 paths. So there is, is there a tag that people should follow so that they can, So I, I might, we might want to tell Deere to also tag photos because when I was looking just at photos tag, it wasn't there. It's under 12 photos though and challenges that tag. So it's called 12 photos. That's how I found it. You want to throw it up there? Yeah, I can't throw it up there. So let me share my screen real quick. Hold on. Oh, this is, this is new. Okay, so streaming or change how, hold on, streaming or change how they were doing. Okay. So this is Deeders post at the end of the year about stopping the 52 photos challenge and asking people for suggestions on, you know, I think I want to do a 12 month photo and people were giving him suggestions and all of that. So, and then I found this, the first month. Blow it up there a bit, Sarah. Oh, we can zoom in a little bit. There you go. Yeah, good. Okay. And then here is the free space page. And we have five photos so far and the theme is grandparents. So I won't go through all of them so we can talk about other stuff, but we can at least look at these first. Are you checking to see if there are any animals? If there are some animals, but no, it does not look like it. Not so far yet. Somebody put, you have, you have three weeks to upload. So, yep, that's that. And we can, it's kind of exciting because it gets people more time to flesh out that, I think that flesh out that free space page, add more photos in that theme. So that is a new photo theme for this year. All right. I was wishing that, and it means so much have, have a firmly connected family to the ancestor. That's cool. And Lisa, yes, go ahead and add that photo. The other thing that we had going on was we do have profiles of the week, which were the cheers people. Yes, I can share my screen again show that we all think we have time to go through all of them, but we can at least look at who they were, who they are. Oh man. So we have some of the main cast characters, and then some people who made one appearance, and then the, the one who did the composing of the, the songs, and stuff, first cheers. So I didn't realize Ted Danson was on cheers. Like, I mean, like I didn't like like, I know Ted Danson from stuff more of now that he does. And I was like, oh, he was in cheers. Like I didn't make that connection in my head at first. So, and then we also, cheers was chosen because Christy Alley was passed away last month. So that's why I think she was 71, I think, from what I remember. So that's why the cheers theme was chosen this week, unfortunately. Yes, yes, they were. And Frazier. And then Dr. Simon Finch. And, um, yeah. So cheers. Cheers. Cheers. Woody Harrelson. Some of these people I don't know, like Craig Sefa on the score composer. Yeah, he's, he composed some other stuff. I actually looked that up too. He composed a whole bunch of, I mean, it's a really, it's a really catchy tune that he, he did. Like it was so recognizable. Yeah. He, he did the score for the Last Star Fighter Nightmare on Elm Street 4. Wow. Legend of Billy Mane. He did the score for that. Time stalkers. I'm trying to see if I, Corvette Summer, Mission of the Shark, I don't know, Twilds the Knight. So I guess some smaller things. Yeah. But he did, he did quite a few, but I guess cheers was his best known one, I can imagine. I bet you that would got most bucks from that one problem. So if you are connected to the cheers people, I kind of, I pulled up everybody's connections. My closest would be Kirstie Alley or Kristie, yeah, Kirstie Alley and Woody Harrelson, of course. Sarah is closest to Kirstie Alley and Woody Harrelson because she and I are related somewhere close. Greg Clark's closest of those is, let's see, Kirstie Alley, wait, no, Tiff O'Neill. I don't know, and Markey Ross, wait, oh, okay. And then Betsy Koh, I didn't have time to grab our guest hosts this morning. Let's see, Kirstie Gray and Shelly Long, are you close? Wait, Markey Ross, there you go. We have a question from Mary Sleppy wanting to know how many group projects, how many DNA group projects have been moved to WikiTree? The problem isn't that they are being moved somewhere is when the GDPR came about, the website World Families got shut down because they didn't have the way of updating it. So it just disappeared. So there isn't really a place for group projects unless the group project managers go out and purchase web space and server time and create a website or their own. So WikiTree is a great way to do that. And I'm just looking through the categories list, Mary and Sleppy, and there are over 20 group projects that have realized that WikiTree is a great place to put their group projects. So there's the answer to that question for you. Let's see, there's a couple of people who are posting. So Brian says that he's 17 from Kelsey Grammar. Hillary Gadsby's closest was 21. So we got five more minutes left. I can tell you that the majority of the question of the week answers are Christian answers. I can pop that up here. There was an interesting couple like the Swink Felters. Don't forget to up both these when you go check out the question of the week. The question of the week was, what religions do you have in your ancestry? And so Catholics, Quakers, Mennonite, Evangelical, Christians, Muslims, we had Hindus, we had Mormons, we had Shrink Felters. Shrink Felters. Yeah, Shrink Felters. And Betsy pointed out a non-conformist, Presbyterians, you know, Christian, lots of Christian stuff, had somebody comment that based on how many answers were Christian that we really need to work on opening up WikiTree to more people worldwide. So we have more people who have other religions. We get that. And Betsy mentioned to me this morning that was, oh look, Brian Nash, Roman Catholic, there we go, we know all about, is this it? No. No, someone posted in the G2G that I put up about today's live cast instead of responding to. Oh, gotcha, gotcha, gotcha. I won't post that. But they were talking about the fact that they didn't realize that they were involved, that their family was involved in the AME church, the American Methodist Episcopal Church, or the African Methodist Episcopal Church in the United States, which was a huge movement from former slaves and people who were enslaved. So that was an interesting commentary. So there's lots of great information about all sorts of different religions, not just Christian religions, but there aren't a lot of others than Christian religions, which does absolutely point to the fact that Wiki Tree is growing. We're getting even more worldwide, we're already worldwide, as people mentioned Hindu, people mentioned Muslim, people mentioned other religions other than Christianity. So keep those questions and answers coming for the question of the week each week. And there is the, what religions did your ancestors practice? I did. Check this out. Okay. I know that I have a lot of Irish going on. So I checked to see what my earliest known Irish ancestor, who was supposedly Nile of the Nine Hostages, might have practiced. Now this looks like a very Christian representation of him, though he lived contemporaneously with St. Patrick. He probably didn't become a Christian, but I don't know about that. But as an Irish man, he would have been practicing, where did I find it? Ah, let's go back. Let's go back. Oh, I lost it. Oh, no. To the Irish practiced, here we go. The angel, Celtic polytheism, which meant that they were pagan, they looked at a lot of different gods as their gods. And it's, if there's an Irish word for it to a something something, and I lost that page, but that's okay. English, nobody wrote Druid. No Druids? No Druids. Druids. So there we go. So we're coming down to the last few seconds. I can tell you that we have lots of great things in coming up in the next week. The Wikitrude Challenge 2 is for the Society of Australian Genealogists. That's coming up. The first challenge this week is started to help Ontario ancestors, which is near and dear to several of our hearts. Catherine Lake Hogan, I think, has been facilitating that. Thank you, Catherine Lake Hogan. There is a question from Chris Whitten wanting to know if anybody has been working on creating new profiles using the new system. Have you heard of Wikitrude Academy? Steve Harris has got that. Check that out. And of course, the Connectathon is next weekend. When was the cutoff date for registering for that? Was that Wednesday? It's probably this Wednesday coming up. I almost missed it. Registration Wednesday, January 11th, yeah. So obviously a lot of people have already registered. Let's see. 603 answers. Wow. So at least 603. So far, look at the first one on the list here, Kathy Nava. Pretty keen. Thank you. Thank you very much. Now I'm not going to say your name. Oh my God. Fearville. Fearville. Come on. I'm just going to say Fearville O. The last name intimidates me. Oh, go ahead. Go ahead, Sarah. No. Yeah, come on. Thank you very much. I can't even, I don't even know Hayden Nucket Knight. And you know that in Irish it probably is just, no, I'm just kidding. That was very rude. Very sorry. Get yourself started on the Connectathon. And that is the end of our live cast. Unless anybody else has something to say. I'll just, I'll just add that we have a wiki tree basic zoom tomorrow at 11 a.m. Eastern time. You can get the zoom link. I'm going to put it in the, there's the G2G post where you can get the zoom link. And we won't be here next week. Right. Because we will be doing the Connectathon all weekend. So yay. Thank you so much for all you great elves, Greg and Christine and Kathy, you guys and everybody else, Minnie and everybody else that worked. That was so great. It was so great to have a Secret Santa live cast. We will see you in two weeks. See ya. Bye.