 we each are a bit laggy or skippy and we, I rebooted to see if it was me and didn't seem to help. So we checked and in the northeast of the US, there's a big outage somewhere. We also heard somebody saying something about Verizon having issues and whenever a big company like that goes down while they're rebooting their system, it causes weird issues. So if we seem like we're talking and our movements aren't catching up with us, it's okay, it's okay. Things are all right, things are fine. So there you go. We're here, we're fine. Yep. How is it, look at, look who's here. Yes. Yes. Yay. It's me. Hey Sarah. What, what, where have you been? Have you been, have you been pirating? I, I think I was a pirate last weekend. Yeah. I know it was raiding and getting the booty. Raiding and getting booty, the booty. I don't even want to hear about that. La, la, la, la, la, la. That's what pirates call it, the booty. Let's see if I can get this going here. That's Betsy's screen. Where's my screen? There's my screen. Howard here, boy, what a big morning. Everybody's here early. Everybody's talking about the weather. It's chilly places. And I just want to talk about the question of the week. Well, you go for it. I'm going to go for it. So the question of the week is, if you wrote a novel about your family history, what would the title be? Some really good answers. Yes. What would your title be? My title I think it would be like a tale of four families. Yeah, that's a good one. Betsy. Oh. Sarah. Sorry. I knew you were going to ask me sorry. I was not prepared. I'm not prepared either. Don't ask me. I'm not prepared. Mine would be holes. Holes. Then probably get confused with the actual book. Yeah, there was. There was a book in a movie called holes. But it was way different than what I would write. Yes. Question of the week, if you wrote a novel about your family history, what would the title be? Who and where and who in the world did I come from? All that and just how do I get here, Luther Brown? I'd call it stong with no R. That's from Roger Stong. He has a family history that is buckskin breeches. Oh, yeah. Got a link to it there in 1937. Settlement of Iowa. I almost said Ottawa. Uh-oh. Nobody wrote any of this down or retrospect. John Vaskey. I'm probably gonna get through all of these people. And there's only 46 answers, so three pages. Let's see. It was the best of times and the worst of times. Dickens is not in copyright. Leanne, we always watch about those copyrights. Yeah, that's right. Hold my beer and listen to this stick. Are they from Florida? I think Kitty is from out west. Oh, I didn't realize. Oh, it's just said K. That is Kitty. Yeah, I think it's Kitty. It makes sense, Smith. It makes sense. Yeah, let's see. She says, I thought it sounded better than what happened with me. Great Love and Great Lost by Alexis Nelson. That's a good one. Erin Robertson is writing, why can't we sit at the same table a study in grudge holding? And I love Doug McCallum's comment to her is, we must be related. Mine would be, who are we not speaking to this week? What happened in the subtitle of that would be, what happened at the kids table? Yes. A dull light may have shown here maybe. Christina Adams, I gotta do some of these in a Carol Burnett satirical. Oh my God, really? Time machine, historical facts and other stories that led to me Ken Parma. You gotta be kidding. Now, is the title actually with the big surprise face? Is that a part of the title? Or is it Mary D? This is one, for part of my family, The Nine Lives of Charlotte Taylor. I think maybe if I wrote a book, one book it would be The Lost Irish Princess, you know how we have that. We have that story in my married family, but they really do go back to an Irish princess and that Irish princesses, Baron was kicked out in the 1600s and he has a dukey now, he lives in Spain and he's still the leader of the Adocati clan. The Kallit and Chalmers family, South Island Spanish. Now this has to do with Maori ancestors and South Island Spanish used to hide the term, to hide the facts of being part native, which is something people are excited about now, Baron. So I think you can change that. You have changed the name of that title. There you go. Take that and run with it. HUD Flood and Hell and High Water, Lucas Murphy, talking about Mississippi River Flooding. That's a quote from Patsy Klein in the movie, Coal Miner's Daughter. I like this. Where did all the money go? Brian Quest now. Eeking Out of Living on Nova Scotia Seas, Matthew Sullivan. We got a couple of Nova Scotia comments on the name tags here. They didn't have TV. That is so now, and it's such a now- And they survived? Yeah, Jenkins, they didn't have TV. They do, I have one family of ancestors with 19 children. Remember an old friend who's now passed now making the above comment. You know, that babysitter admitted, you put Sophia in front of the TV all the time, Greg, right? No. And feet are PB and J's? Yes, not yet. I think the Fords of the Catawba. Now this is Pip Shepherd, and he's talking about, and I actually know the area he's talking about, and there is a weird thing where people did not in, there's a really big endogenous community in this area. And I kept thinking, what is it that's keeping them apart? Before the Catawba was down for power, the river was not near the barrier for social communications as it is now. I have families who live on both sides and married there across the river neighbors. But the real border between those communities down there was language because a huge group of settlers came down from Germantown in Philadelphia. So they all spoke French and German. How about that? It's interesting. Maybe hand me down, or maybe I seek dead people, Carol Baldwin, you can't make this up by Melanie Countryman. Okay, I put in the cuss word, I admit that. You guys be thinking about the best one. I can't decide which one is the best one of the week. So we need to pick the best, we need to start with the best, so pick the best answer. Catfish and cacti from Eileen Robinson? Why Jamaica? Anonymous or Rodriguez? Why not? Well, except in hurricane season, all roads lead to Haverhill. Okay, we know you have a blog. Yes, yes. If he was here, he'd say you pronounced that wrong. Avril. Is it Haverhill? It's, isn't it Avril? I think so. Oh, okay, well, here's Chris's blog. He's not here to correct this. Oh, no! I thought he was, oh goodness. Oh my goodness, I haven't seen him. Hey Chris, I put your blog up. He'd be so happy. Yeah, he would, and he misses it. Oh wow. Look at the picture of his grandparents, or whoever that is with the broken one. Oops. Funny, but let's see. Let's see. Oh, wait, pronounced so it rhymes with way for real? Haverhill. Oh, it's Haverhill. Haverhill. Haverhill. Look, put it in there. Oh my giddy aunts and uncles. Judith Brooksbank? David White. David White. Or Whit? David Whit, Whit by name, Whitty by nature. Nice. Grandpa Frank's favorite saying. Like, one last name wasn't enough. Oh. Bill Edmunds Gaff Bayless. He has a hyphenated name, I just want to point that out. That's funny, like one last name wasn't it? My novel would be titled, In Search of the Wandering Soul, this is the actual title of my novel. So look up Mickey Bean. Ooh. It didn't link us to it, but there's a Mickey Bean novel out there. Living with Dead People in Ross. I think we all do that every day. Some of us a little more than others. Marriage is up. I think this is supposed to be optional. Yes. I think, Derek Allen, but let's call it optional. Apparently everybody was over at the other stream that was made. Remember there was two for February 4th? There was two streams? Yeah, that's what I was talking about. Yeah, there was two for February 4th. Oh no. Uh-oh. Do I need to start over? We've been looking through the answers of the week. We talked about the fact that there's a little bit of a glitch somewhere and the internet of the world. And so there might be some laggy or twitchy or stuff going on, so you'll see it. Go back and watch the first five minute on the record. Yeah, that's right. You'll get to get all of it. The question of the week is if you wrote a novel about your family, what would the title be? And you guys are trying to figure out, and I'll ask once we're done, do you think which one was the best answer? Okay, the modern Janissary is looking for his ancestors. Okay, I had to look that up. Yeah. And that is an original fighter for the Ottoman Sultan's household troops in the first modern standing army in Europe. So it's an elite infantry. So I looked that up. Legacy of love and faith, Nelda Spires. That's nice. I have already written a document about my sisters and my ancestry. The guano connection. Does anybody know what guano is? It's droppings from a weaned creature. Yeah, bats, birds. Apparently, this is a huge story. Oh, not just bats. There can't be too many married couples who first met because of bird droppings, but that is what happened to our great-grandparents, George Jonas and Jane Ellen Payne. On his farm, Samuel used a lot of guano, which he frequently bought from a guano importer, Richard Algernon Payne in Liverpool. Samuel's son, George met Richard's daughter, Jane, and poof, there you go. Cute, George. Everybody's here now that's supposed to be here. Are they all here? Oh, even Chris. Chris, you missed it. Chris, you missed it. We showed your blog. Yeah. We mispronounced your city name. Sorry. Yeah, and we talked about April. So Rod Corkham says, a lot to catch the titles here. I started one with a couple of prelim chapters, so far not sure if we'll ever get finished. The title would be the Descendants of William Corcoran and a History of Our Family. Oh, I was doing my taxes yesterday. So the book, Montbillard Immigration of 1752, his family is well-detailed in this book. So check it out there. I'm sure he already knows that, Rod. Tracing the Footsteps, a Journey of a Southern Family from North Carolina to Georgia to Alabama to Arkansas, Jim Honey. That's a pretty good one because that is how things flowed, except there has to be a flow to North Carolina. Did they come down from the northern states as the children, they had so many children and the younger children left because there was no land for them? Or did they come straight from the borderlands? Down the rabbit hole, Kathy Webster? I like this one a lot. Itchy feet. Itchy Freeman. Itchy feet. That would be annoying, but yeah. Downwardly, upwardly, horizontally mobile, Fran Blankenship. Yes, I'm reading all of these. Without a trace from Deborah Campbell, I'd go with Raiders of the Lost Archive. Rob Neff. That's a pretty good one. Remember, you gotta wait. I do love Indiana Jones. I do love that. I'll be able to vote. I would call my book, Nobody Comes from One Family, Pat Miller. I agree with that. I thought of the name I would pick. I thought of the name for my book. Would you? Nobody Comes from One Family? No, I'm saying that I finally thought of the name that I would name my book. What would that be, Sarah? What were the chances? That's a good one. That's a good one. So you can vote for Chris or for Betsy and, who's Chris? Betsy and Sarah and Greg, their titles as well, if you'd like. Acquilted coal miners of Cape Breton, the Highlanders who dubbed Deep for Living. I believe this appears to be a book that has already been published or written by one Brian Nash, how we got here, Genealogy. Check that out. He has a, no, that's not a link. That's just underlined. Don't know, is it a real book or, that's his title. So that's a good one. Coal miners, Desolation, Desperation and Destruction, Donna Adams. That's a real happy read. Uplifting, novel equal fiction, right? So if I wrote one, I'd call it Eden's Womb. Peter Wetzel, interesting concept of a community going out into the world from here, establishing a new colony and he goes back to Adam and Eve that were present day earth. Wow. That was a quick one. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Tony Boone. Love to know what that was about. Yeah? Was that a shotgun way? What happens in Las Vegas stays in place. Oh, I forgot to upvote these. Or maybe they came on after, no, I'm only on paper. Just 53 minutes, so that's the last time. I'm working on it. You trying to rush me, Greg? No, no, no. It's karma. The quote, the thing was posted 53 minutes ago. That's why you didn't vote it. You were already doing that. I'm being silly, Greg. Don't get defensive, man. I'm not defensive. I pick on you every week for time. I have so many different things I could write about, I guess. One would be fascinating to research and write about would be my Quaker family from Pennsylvania that migrated to Georgia, North Carolina, then on to Kentucky and Ohio and Indiana and helped build those false bottomed wagons to aid in the underground railroad, undercover buggy. I like that one. Audrey Martin, oh, she's in here. She's in the chat today. I like that one, undercover buggy. I think Audrey was the first one here this morning. She was. Yeah. I don't like it. Nine o'clock was here when I got here this morning. Confusion worst confounded from Gunnison to Gullison. All right, I can understand that title. Oh, I am on page three. That was it. That was it. Okay, and I have mine finally. I would call mine, drawn to water. That's drawing water, but drawn to water. Drawn to water, yeah. Very nice. Anybody wanna know why? Yeah, why? Just because I think in many of my lines, they live by a river, they crossed the ocean maybe more than once. And my mother has a big draw to the sea and ships. So I grew up around ships a lot. So. Sorry, I didn't mean to cover your fifth step while you were talking Betsy, but yeah, we see that you were on the other channel. We lost Sarah to the other channel for a while too. You know, if she had to stay out of there, she could have hosted both. I know. That's right. I know, just in me and everybody else, it was lost. My book title would be, how many notables can I find in happiness? So let's do this. By the end of the live cast, go through and check the titles that you like and pick the one you think is the best. I think that I'm gonna go with the, what was the boogie? My boogie? The boogie, the false bottom boogie? Oh, yes. Second, last one. The undercover boogie. Undercover boogie. That's my favorite so far. I do like Volkswagen's boogies, so I'm a vote for that. Well, my spouse talks about the bug that they had as a child and it had holes in the floor and they used to have to hold their feet up when they'd go through puddles. Oh. You live in Ottawa, you live in heavy salt. Staber says, I think I'd call mine crazy quilt. That's a good one. That's neat. Because it's some odd connection my family's made. And also my grandmother was a quilter. GSL says we were cheated. They were cheated out of their time. Oh, no, I'm pretending that's really a title. Yeah, that's right. It could be. Yeah, that's gonna be a title, okay. I'm looking to see if anybody else had a, no, I don't see any more. Oh, let's see. I like, you're supposed to make something happen. I am, yeah. Okay. What are we supposed to do? What do we make it happen? They want extra time at the end. And I'm like, you guys can just rewind. Greg will make that happen. Right. Greg always makes that happen and we love it. I would be how many notables you can find when we were cheated, let me see. Looking to see if there are any others. We were cheaters might describe some family. What really happened in Vegas, that's from Chris. Yeah. Yeah, we want a whole lot of fun before you people got here. That's a good one. I don't live above it. I like the itchy feet one. Yeah. I like itchy feet. Those are my two favorite itchy feet and undercover buggy. Because the undercover buggy is really cool. I mean, it's like a double entendre. Yeah, very nice. Well, so is itchy feet. Okay. Well, we'll talk about it. Yeah, I hope we lost our guys. Before I do the calendar, the math at the end, you guys come up with your idea for which is the best. Yeah. So we have a vote for itchy feet and for undercover buggy. Greg. We have some, we have some notables this week. No. And how many are we related to? We'll see. So the profiles of the week are all about Australia because we just finished the Wiki Tree Challenge on Australia. And so which Australian notable are you most closely connected to? And I'm cousins with a few of them. But you know what, I can't remember which one of those is the actual. Or Wix is no way. It's Herbert Ramsey is your closest. Oh, okay. Herbert Ramsey and Oliver Hege are your closest. Are mine, okay. They're the same. Sarah, let's see what Sarah's is. Sarah's closest would be, ooh, Errol Flynn. Adrian Hazelton. Oh no. To name this segment, the born identity. That's right. Let's see, Betsy Poe is closest to Banjo Peterson. That's kind of ironic, isn't it? Yeah, it's Banjo. How many of them are your closest? Hosea, oh, no. Yeah. And mine is, I didn't even look at mine. I am 18 from Wachong Tart. Oh. I gotta look and see who that is. He's a team merchant and philanthropist. Originally born in China, yeah. We'll go to him. Yeah, very cool. How am I closest to this fella? Well, that's interesting. I have nothing interesting in my family. All of a sudden I find one. That's pretty darn cool. My guess is through his wife. My guess would be to, yeah, no, his daughter. Oh. Yeah, probably. Interesting. It goes up through my key family, through the cults, the Drennins, the Meldrums. So it must be his wife, I guess. Yeah, interesting. All right, go ahead, Greg. Let's do that. There we go. So continuing with the theme of mapping out our people. So I've got a little map here. The red dots are for the birth of some, one of the profile people and the blue dots are for the death. And if you zoom in, the map will redraw itself and it'll put more dots in more specific locations. But the cool thing is, this week I didn't use Google Maps, I used Wikitree Plus to create the map. Wow. Yes. Now, I've actually been trying to use Wikitree Plus the last few weeks, but it kept crashing. And so this week was an episode of Ask a Lesh, anything about Wikitree Plus, which I host once a month with him on Wednesday mornings, the first Wednesday of every month. So Wednesday, February 1st at nine o'clock Eastern time, we did a session and I had this question for him and when he tried it, it crashed again. So I didn't ask him that question live on the livecast because I didn't want to crash and not actually have the answer. So afterwards, I would say we solved or we found the problem but really I watched while a Lesh problem solved and found where the, what was happening and then he's solved it within a few hours for sure where they're after. So now it works and at the end of this, if you're interested, I will go through the specifics on how I actually created the map and, but anyway, so that's where people come from. So interestingly, it's generally the, like obviously the more populated regions of Australia. So Sydney and New South Wales, Victoria, we have, I think it was Errol Flynn, but I'll find, I'm pretty sure it was Errol Flynn who was born in Hobart in Tasmania and someone from Perth, doesn't look like any of these profiles came from the Northern part Queensland or Northern territory, which is interesting. But the really, if you zoom right out to get to the whole world, you can see some of them were actually born outside and then moved to Australia and then a few of them were born in Australia and moved somewhere outside. And if I go to the layers down into the person layer and click on migration, you'll actually see the arrows of where, how people moved about, which is kind of cool. And there's, I would suspect, though I didn't do this with the other ones, that there's more of these migration arrows with this set of profiles from Australia than with say the previous one for Scotland. There was some people who moved out of Scotland or into Scotland with the Scottish ones last week, but the majority stayed within that area. But here, a good chunk of them were migrating one way or the other. So that's kind of cool, I thought. Great, could this be embedded either, well, into a free space page or a profile page? I mean, the map, once you create it? That's an excellent question. I don't know the answer to it. When you first create the map from, you actually create a query in Wikitree Plus and then from that query, which is up here, you click the link to take you to the map. So that initial link there is a link. So you could copy that link address probably and put it somewhere, put it on a profile page. I don't know, but the image, if you can save the image, yeah, you could save the image and then add that to your photo gallery. Right, right. Oh, those would be two ways of doing that. So that's kind of cool. Okay, well, let's get talking about some of these people. So James Bourne, The Bourne Connection. James Bourne, Bourne in 1774, County Antrim in Ireland. And his claim to fame was that he was a criminal. One of those that was, he was convicted and then shipped off to Australia. He was convicted in 1801 and later married Mary Atkins. Now the interesting thing, now this is interesting or a good thing that it was done by the people who created this profile was right at the very top of the biography says, basically this is not these other two guys who get confused with him often. So there's a Byrne and another Byrne whose names are often written as James Bourne. Like, so the last name Morse, of course, right? You know, they have similar names and they're often confused with them. But this is not him. This is the James Bourne who was convicted in 1801 and married Mary Atkins, not these other guys. That can go back to the question of the week. Nice segue there, Greg, that one of the titles was, why so many names? Okay, thank you, Byrne. Thank you, Megs. I suspect there'll be lots of other titles that we can weave into these profiles. So you just go ahead and add those footnotes. Okay. So he was convicted, 1801 sentenced to seven years in Australia, but what's interesting is in the profile, it was never found the exact crime that he was convicted of or why he was sent there. There was a theory, so this was in 1801. In 1798, there was an Irish rebellion in parts of Ireland and there's a theory that he may have been a political prisoner or he was sent away for political reasons. Excuse me again, very Greg, excuse me. There have been quite a few comments and commentary in the chat from some Australian viewers who are saying, we are not all convicts. They were not all convicts. They're kind of getting a little proud of their heritage. So tread gently there and the comment, it doesn't say that he was convicted. No. So just letting you know, we love Australia. Yeah, we do. We do. I am surprised Steve Irwin is not. It says here he was. And not Steve Irwin. Oh gosh, don't say that. Okay, I'm just reading the profile says that James was convicted. Maybe they were talking about Steve Irwin because that's what they've been talking about him over here. So maybe that, maybe I'm confused. Oh my gosh, I'm gonna just keep quiet. Okay, no, definitely not all, not all people who moved to Australia were. He was just one of some. Anyways, okay, sorry. I will try and be cognizant and more careful in my language. Do not mean to offend anyone. Anyways, the profile is really well, really well written. The Hercules was the ship that he was on. One of the most violent transportation voyages there was. There was even a mutiny on the ship. Half the conflict died before they even got to Australia. So it sounds like it's just a horrendous thing. The captain was actually convicted of manslaughter and the mutineers were acquitted basically they were justified for mutiny. I'm looking to see if Mary Atkins is in the chat today. I'm noticing that he married Mary Atkins. Yes, yeah. That's interesting, eh? Yeah, and then when he was died in 1852, that was registered under the name Burns, B-Y-R-N-E-S which is probably why there is the confusion of those other two names. So, and then in the research notes, it talks a bit about some of the things that was confused or there's some debates about and there's more details about the three that were completed. So, and then details about why he was sent to Australia. Yeah, some of the crimes that you read about that some of these people committed. Very petty. They stole a button? Yeah. Yeah. Like it was, yeah, it was very- It's like, okay, we're a little overcrowded. We're gonna send you all the way. Oh, we have some British home children. We're gonna send them away too, you know. Yeah, yeah, very suspect. Jose Easton, born sixth of March in Connecticut but moved and lived in Australia in the end. So, he was a stage actor. He was a comedian, musical virtuoso and considered the prince of the banjoists. There's a picture of him right there, playing the banjo. One of the original Georgia minstrels. So, he was first to an unknown woman some time before arriving in Australia in 1876. So, he moved to Australia in 1876. So, that first woman had a warrant issued for financial support. Prior to his trip to New Zealand in 79, the marriage was supposed to be dissolved around 1880. So, interesting, this guy decided to re-market himself, reinvent himself and came up with a different background for him. So, instead of being born in Connecticut, he decided he would make it a little more flowery or whatever. Jose Easton, a tall, well-built, colored man of African descent, 27 years old, was born the 18th of June in Louisiana on the estate of a wealthy sugar planter. And then goes on, but he was at five years old, at tender age. He was ruthlessly snatched from his mother's arms. He's never again seen her nor even have a faint recollection of her features. So, he did a little bit of making up things there, inventing, none of these invented facts correctly reflect his true childhood. But, anyways, he grew up and he was teaching banjo and then passed away in Australia in 1899. But, he was an entertainer, so, and a stage actor. Musical virtuoso. Is he the one that was closest to you, Betsy, the musician? Yes, he was. And here we have Errol Flynn, who is my cousin? 23, 23, three times removed. So, he's not super close, but he was the one who was born in Tasmania, in Hobart, Tasmania. Screen legend, Australian American actor known for his romantic swashbuckling roles and harrowing roles. I love his movies. Yes? I probably still do love his movies. I don't know if I've actually ever seen one of his movies. Oh my goodness. Yeah. Isn't there a funny story about him after he died, somebody like stole his corpse? Oh. Isn't there a funny story? Is that him? That sounds vaguely familiar. I don't know the details of it, but that sounds interesting. So, he was the only son and the eldest child of his parents, Theodore Flynn and Lily Young. In 1932, he played the part of Fletcher Christian in the film, In the Wake of the Bounty. Now, Fletcher Christian was the first mate on the bounty. The bounty, remember Captain Bly was the captain and the mutiny against him because of his treatment. Really interesting fact, and someone actually put a comment at the bottom of the profile, so that's what led me to discover this. Fletcher Christian was actually his relative. Was actually his fourth great grandfather. Wow. His own, his fourth great grandfather in the film. Did he know that that was the question? Well, that's an interesting question, whether he knew that or not, but I thought, how wild is that? And then there's the Fletcher Christian profile is really well done. So, with the, with the painting. He himself had kind of a sad end to his life, poor Fletcher. I mean, he lived in Tahiti, so that's not bad, but he didn't survive as long as one would hope after that. But anyways, I thought that was kind of a neat thing. But then he went on, he went to England. He acted a bit for the Northampton Company there and then signed a contract with Warner Brothers. And then he eventually made it to Hollywood and did lots of films. The Adventures of Robin Hood, Charge of the Light Brigade, and the other ones to list here. So which one of these was your favorite, Megs? I think that, I don't remember the name of it, but it was, let me look. It was probably, I don't think they have it listed there. If I went on Wikipedia, it's one where he is, of course, a pirate and he's swashbuckling and he's saving the damsel, but those were all of those movies. But there was one particular one that I really liked. But I don't remember the name of it. Okay. So he passed away. He was only 50 years old, which is very sad. We're very young. Reading that he died of a blood clot, that he had a massage to try and relax his legs. And the guy after the massage, he says, I feel better. The guy walked out of the room, came back 20 minutes later and he was unresponsive. So I'm assuming there was a blood clot going on. That's too bad. But here's your can con, your Canadian content for this week. He died in Canada, in Vancouver, DC. So he made it, Australia, England, US, Canada. He's hit lots of the world. And next is Jesse May Hill. Got her George Thomas Hill and Clarice Halliday. Okay, we have a clarification from Aaron. He says that Errol Flynn did the ceiling. It was Drew Barrymore's granddad and John Barrymore. I knew that there was some story in there. Yeah. Swashbuckler and Corpse Thief. Yes. Yeah. Okay. Okay, so. Okay, go ahead. Sorry. So there we go. Thanks. Thank you. In the description of the live casts in the weekly newsletter, it said that it's like a Saturday house party. House party, yeah, that's right. Casual house party. Casual house party, there we go. And I meant to wear my house coat today. That's right. So Jess Hill is famous because she researched convicted women in Australia. Her research known as Jesses Girls is held in the Society of Australian Genealogists Archive Collection. So she was born in 1915 in Western Australia and yeah, did all this research. There were, so she died in 1995 at the age of eight. So the profile actually goes through and actually talks a bit about her research and what she found that that was, I thought that was really well done for this profile. Really nice. That it started out as a penal, Australia was started as a penal colony and what I couldn't believe or what I did not realize the numbers over 24,000, almost 25,000, at least, well it says at least 24,960 convict women were transported to Australia and between nine and 10,000 of those women were forced to work in one of 12 convict female factories. So that's just, that's horrible. So it's, I mean, important work that she did, profiling that and digging into that and and that is that commentary there, the contemporary Australia for all this multicultural vikati remains haunted by the monocultural ghost of its transported convicts. So that goes to some of the commentary that was going in there. That's very interesting. Yeah, another quote that she had was that Australian history has been erased time and again. The convicts were related as free settlers instead of stating the facts that the country was one giant prison. Nice. Yeah. Nice to have that pointed out. Yeah, yeah. Adelaide Liza Ironside born in 1831 in Sydney, New South Wales, part of the Australian colonies. You know, in the research I didn't find when was the date that Australia became its own country? I should know that. I feel I should know that, but I do not. But hopefully someone in the chat will tell me that. Obviously it was after 1831. It says her father was reported as being an old colonist. Oh no, that's good, never mind. No, a commission agent. Yep. Yeah. His father was, she was the only child that survived past infancy of this marriage. So that's kind of sad. Oh yeah, there it is. Old colonists dying in 1866. So Adelaide Liza. January 1st, 1901, Greg. Oh, January 1st, New Year's Day. Nice. Federation Day. Oh, that makes sense. So Adelaide was educated by her mother and showed a young literary ability and with prose and verse. And then she wanted to study painting. So she went to, she moved to Rome in Italy and studied painting there. Unfortunately, she died of tuberculosis when she was in Rome. And in 1867, and then was interred back in London, London, England. So, and I opened up her, this is one of the paintings that she had done, The Marriage at Cana in Galilee. It's beautiful. Yeah. Very nice. So she was the first woman artist and the first one to study abroad, I believe, is one of the things that said, yeah. And then we have Andrew Barton Patterson, another cousin, distant cousin, 21st cousin, six times removed, who was a major eventually. And he, another banjo, banjo appears twice in our profiles this week. Oh. Yeah. I skipped ahead in his profile. What's that? I said, I skipped ahead in his profile, sorry. So he was a Bush poet, better known as banjo. So banjo was his, basically his pen name that he used. Author, journalist, war correspondent, horseman, like he's done lots of stuff. He grew up on a property, Narambala, near this country of, small country town of Orange in New South Wales. And he basically went back and forth as a young kid from the farm into, in Sydney. So he lived back and forth. When he was, I think it was said here, when he was, yeah, when he was seven years old, the family moved to the farm. And he always had a great fondness for horses, which was an inspiration for the, for balance later in life. As soon as he was able to ride, he and his siblings were sent to a Bush school in Benelong, and he stayed there until he was 10 years old. And then, then went to Sydney Grammar School. So he was sort of in the city where he stayed with his grandmother and then back and forth between the country and the city, basically. Quit school at 16, I believe, and became a solicitor. And, but while he was still doing that, he began publishing poetry under the name V in the Banjo, and then he just used the Banjo because his favorite horse was called Banjo. Isn't that neat? But he was the one who wrote Walsing Matilda. No, that's what I was like, oh, yeah. Isn't that wild? This is, I mean, for me, that's his claim to fame, the Walsing Matilda. Wonderful tune. Mm-hmm. Because he was imagining, because he could picture the Swagman sitting around the campfire waiting for the Billy to boil when he was young boy. Now, I'm not sure what the Billy is referring to here, to boil, but I'm guessing it's some game that was caught and, but not, is it like a kangaroo, some type of rabbit? Some type of rabbit? It's a metal container used for boiling water, making tea or cooking over a fire. Oh, it's just the container. Oh, it's not an animal. Yeah, I was afraid it was gonna be. I know. Some cute, lovable animal, but no it's not. The Aussies in our chat here are probably wondering what we're doing here. Sorry, we're destroying the whole thing. But anyways, he also wrote the book The Man from Snowy River. Now, is that the book that the movie was based on? You know, there was a movie in the 70s, The Man from Snowy River. I kind of remember that growing up, watching that. I don't know if it was a Disney film or something, but. But through his, anyways, it's a very interesting, good read this profile, really well done. But he met, he met Rudyard Kibling, who was like the foremost English poet at the time. And they were friends, not rivals, which is kind of nice. He also became a journalist. He was a war correspondent in the Boer War. In the First World War, he went and was, he was gonna volunteer, but then he ended up getting connected as the, he became a chauffeur for Lady Rachel Dudley in the volunteer hospital. So he ended up working there. He got wounded, he was promoted to major during that at the end of the war. And anyways, he had a very interesting life. Passed away of a heart attack, 5th of February, 1941, at age 76. Lots of cool photos and stuff added to this as well. So this is really well done profile. Yeah. Herbert John Rumsey. He was the, whose birthday it is today, or, you know, he was born today. He's not around to celebrate because he was born in 1866, but happy, related birthday. Reverse-River birthday. I think it's still a person's birthday, even if they've passed. Yes, okay, good. Yeah. He also says about, so it doesn't seem like they're sure. Oh, okay, well, birthday-ish. No, Reverse-River was movies were loosely based on Banjo's works. Oh, okay, that's good to know. So, yeah, and he was, he's famous because he was the first president of the Society of Australian Genealogists. Oh. Very cool. Yes. And he asked- Show us your mug. What's that? That's a show us your mug. You show your mug. Australia. Woo-hoo. Yay. Yeah. And we should thank the Society of Australian Genealogists who helped out with the Wiki Tree Challenge, but they also took part in our Wiki Tree Connectathon in January. They did. You know, adding our whole team. So, excellent work. Ruby Charlotte, Margaret Hunter, born in River Murray in 1955, passed away just in 2010 at age 54, way too young. She was a McGarran Jerry, Barngarla, and the John Chantara. So, an Aboriginal, she used music to champion the rights of other Aboriginal women and children. Fifth child of Jeffrey Hunter and Irene Richards. Three years old when her mother died of pneumonia. Very sad. But she was a musician and Indigenous Australian has the sticker there. I hope I didn't put it. Very colorful. Yes. Very colorful, yeah. So, she had a very difficult life and the profile goes through that. But her music career took off. She married Archie, what's the last name? Tucker, I think? Roach. Sorry? Archibald Roach. Roach. Oh, there it is, Archibald Roach. Oh, Margaret Tucker, that's where I saw the name Tucker. Archibald Roach, and he sang one of her songs and then she, that gave her a recording contract and then took that off. But they still, even after they became successful, they still gave back to the community and toured. But she died of a heart attack at only age 55. Wow. Inducted posthumously into the National Indigenous Music Awards Hall of Fame. Kuang Tart. Also known as May Tart. And there's a note at the very bottom of this profile about naming conventions that in the Chinese, you say the last name first and then the first name. And I'm not sure because of that, which is, which is which here? I'm guessing the- Tart. Kuang is- Kuang. Is Kuang the first name? No, I think Tart is, right? I don't know. Also known as Tart. I don't know. Oh, well, you know what? One, if we go to edit, we'll find out, right? So the first name would have been the May part, the moi. And the last name is, oh, current last name is- Kuang Tart. Tart. Okay. Well, I'm still confused then. I'm sorry. I apologize for that confusion. Well, anyways, Kuang Tart was born in China. And then he moved to a place 65 miles from Canton. He was an entrepreneur from Plans and Resonati merchants. So he moved at the age of nine to Australia with his uncle and eventually made his fortune in the gold fields. And he became a member of the Odd Fellows. And then at the meeting where they inducted him as a member, he invited them all back to his place for supper. And he says, we're in the, after Apple's just was done to the supper and which songs and given by several members in the meeting broke up at an early hour the next morning. He set up a network of tea shops and dining rooms, the Kuang Tart and company around Sydney. And he built his own home in Gallup House. Beking was a Freemason, married Margaret Scarlett. And that's probably who your connection is through, I'm guessing, Megs. Yep. And they had six children. And a statue is erected in his name. And then the last one is Dora Wicks, who was born on 1901 in West Maitland, New South Wales. Had 10 siblings. And other sources, that's all it says. She's died at 72. Where are the other details? Other resources. In the research notes, there's sources relating to Dora's mother and siblings. Oh, this is your life. Yeah, she looks like somebody that you just sit down and talk to her. Yeah. Very interesting. Yeah. So regarding to the administration, I did not click that link to read this. So I don't know anything more about her details. But maybe I will take this moment to just talk about one of the things that changes that happened last week that we didn't talk about. And that was the addition of the tree apps, right? I'm just gonna refresh this page so it looks more like the traditional page there. So if you go to the tree apps, click on that, you'll get the list of tree apps. And what it does is it, so when I click on it, it opened up to the fan chart because that's the most recent one that I've used. If it's the first time you've gone into tree apps, the default one is the dynamic tree, which is this one here, where you click on a plus sign and it expands and whatnot. But if you prefer a different one, like the fan chart, for example, and you click on that, then the next time you go to someone else's page, it puts a cookie on your machine. So it will remember that and it'll open up the fan chart the next time. But if you want the old style one, you can click on the link here that says basic tree. And it'll open up. Or the other thing is. Or the manifestor is straight from the profile. Yes. Yeah, a lot of people were saying, oh my gosh, where did the one that hasn't gone anywhere just go? Yeah, it's actually easier to find. So let me just jump over to someone else's. You don't have to go through the tree apps. But if you hit the tree apps and you don't know how to get back, that's why I wanted to show that one first because that's where people are freaking out. But the ancestors button, and it's either on the side if you've changed where your profile is or if you, or it's right here. You click up the ancestors and it pops it up, right? There, and then it's got all the old goodness that was there with all the other links and stuff. And? And? One more person that got added. What's that? Oh, there you go, right there. The problems and questions? Yeah. So, and I haven't looked through this one a lot, but that's if you have, if there are issues that need to be resolved, right? Right, if there's a privacy issue where you can add a request to take down, you can send a private message to the profile manager, mistaken or missing content. You can, it shows you different ways you could address that. Trusted list requests is now underneath there as well and the unresponsive profile manager request. A lot of people were saying, what happened to that? It's in this button underneath the problems and questions and matches and merges in other questions. So, if you've got a question or bugs, you can ask a question, it'll take you to GDG and auto format that information for you. But as well, if you're having a discussion with them, this person and you're not getting along or things are not going right or you notice that this person is adding 15,000 profiles with those sources kind of thing down at the very bottom of that page, you can click on problem with members and it will automatically put that number for their profile in before it would automatically put in wiki tree one or whatever it was, but you had to fill it in. You don't have to do that if you use that. So, yeah, this is another. Easy views. Yeah, easy views, yeah, good stuff, yeah. And there are a few other things that are in other places. So, the DNA connections are under the different, under that menu and other things, but that's about all I have to say for today. You sure about that? I think so. I think I've gone through all the profiles. Sarah. Sarah. I guess we have a few minutes to look at the photos real quick. Let's share my screen. I wasn't ready yet. Okay, okay. So, it took me a little bit to find this, but you know, you have your main page for the 12 months of photos. So, and all the way at the bottom here, you have the different things that are gonna be, so I'm gonna go through the last few of grandparents and we'll look at Homes, the new one for February real quick. Got 28 images in total for the month of January. So, we'll look at the last page. I guess last eight. Yes. Sarah, you don't have to rush. They're really slow, Sarah. They've missed you so much, they would just wanna hear your voice. I know. I know that there's seen all the photos from other months, from other weeks. Yeah, that's right. These are the last ones. Actually, we only did the photos last week, so. Right, we saved it up. Okay. But some people got inspired and snuck in a few more. Yeah, so it's now a monthly photo thing. Yes. I guess we should have talked about this before the live cast. Well, I know we talked about it in January, so. Yeah, that's right. Because instead of weekly photo themes, there's now monthly photo themes. And yeah, so last month, January was grandparents and this new month is Homes. So we have, we'll just go through these. This last page of eight. Maybe we'll see animals, I don't know. There was one, there was a cat last time. Yeah, there was a cat. We couldn't decide, we needed your expertise. This gives me like a grease vibe. Yes. They were a great Christmas. I love that. Yeah. And there they are. Decades later. Oh, the same people. Yeah, the same people. Oh, I didn't even realize that. Oh, that is beautiful. Yes. With their grand baby, I guess. Oh. That's a pretty dress. Isn't that gorgeous? New Year's Eve party. I have a picture like that with my grandfather was his hat askew, just like that. I had a very short tie. Oh yeah. I know. Well, you don't want to get stuck in machinery. So, crack truth. No, no. That is too bad there's tape across that one, but that's a cute picture too. Yeah. At least it's the book. I could probably be edited out. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, yeah, the tape there, yeah. Somebody just said that is my grandparents. Donna's all in. Oh, Donna, nice. What one was it? Which one's? This one, I assume. Hazel Taylor. Charles and Hazel Taylor. The Trini Trini family. She looks like a nice grandma. Yeah. Boy, I'd tell you what. Can you imagine the hugs you'd get from her? Oh, yeah. Oh, good hugs. Those are the last eight on. Nice. The grandparents page. And then we have on home, we only have three so far. So. Okay. Maybe there'll be a dog in one of these photos. That's a nice craftsman style home. Poor. And Max likes to look to see if there's any people in windows. I know, I'm looking. Peep and tongue. For ghosts. That's an interesting, little triangle there above the porch. Yeah. I've seen those before. That doesn't look like craftsman style, that little dormer thing. Driftwood Cab in 1945. The family in front of it. And. Home from work. I guess you get little, this little gets a porch a little bit. Yeah. Home from work. So guys, go to your, go to this page and upload some photos of homes of your grandparents and your family. And we'll take a look at those that you upload next week. Excellent. I want to upload a photo of my parents home, but I get in trouble when I upload stuff about them because they don't like to be uploaded about. Isn't that mean? Oh. I think that's mean. Yeah. Gonna save a posterity. Yeah. Well. Well. Is it time for tip of the week? It looks like it's time for tip of the week. I think so. Which is, are you watching your watch list? Ooh. So the watch list, then let me, let me just make this go here and make it bigger. Your watch list is all your profiles that you are a profile manager of or where you are on the trusted list. And the easiest way to get to it is just under my wiki tree. And there it is. You can see that I have a very, very tiny watch list. Wow. 200, only 264. It is recommended that you not have more than 5,000. So I'm not in any danger yet. I only have 5% of that. The reason for that is anything over 5,000 is going to tax the wiki tree system and you're not gonna be able to do certain things, including ironically run some auto things that would help you reduce the size of your watch list. So you wanna keep an eye on it, make sure it's not too big. Also, if you're interested in doing pre-1500 certification at some point, you do wanna keep your watch list small because the certification panel looks at everything on your watch list to see if you keep good profiles, I guess. So that was, someone passed that along to me when I was doing my tartan trail training. So it's very, very useful. I usually keep it sorted by name but you also can sort it by birth date and if I wanna reverse that, I can go like that. And for those of you who are doing 15 for 15, there is one of the missions that's to improve 15 of your oldest, the ones you have edited longest to go. So that's where this is very helpful. Sort by edit date and you can see, yeah, I got really active around December of 2020, so. I wanna point out that the first one that you added was Niagara Falls, Welland, Ontario. That's right, that's right. Nice. I'm proud Canadian roots, yeah. Excellent. Absolutely. So it's amazing once you get sort of knowledgeable with WikiTree and then you go back to those earlier profiles, you sort of like think, oh my goodness, what was I doing? So I definitely, I'm gonna use this sort feature to go ahead and work on that mission. Now, what do you do if you are over 5,000 or get, it's just unmanageable. There is a way to do this all as a bulk process. So you don't have to go one at a time. So maybe could we throw this link up for everybody? Thank you. So this is a really helpful page. I'm not gonna go through it myself, but I'll take you almost there. So if I want to remove myself, there's a couple of levels here. If you wanna remove yourself as the profile manager, but just stay on the trusted list, then you could do that or you might be able, you might wanna remove yourself completely. So I'll pick the first option and then you can see it gives me all my profiles. One thing that's kind of cool is like Alonso Black, the whole Black family that family is not related to me, but I was working on a project with them about nine months ago. So if I decide I don't wanna have them on my watch list anymore, I can go like that and automatically get everybody who's related to them and then do that as a group. Susan Anderson has a question for you. It says, is there a way to find your oldest edits as opposed to the oldest edits on your watch list? That would be your contributions and going back 6,000 pages to your very first contribution. I think they're changing the URL to backtrack it faster. I think probably that's what I would do, what Mags just said, although I would wanna escalash that. I see Greg is already programming a little tool to be able to find your oldest edits. Azure says WikiTree Plus. Yeah. I think that's the way. That's probably it, yeah. So I'm gonna get out of here, I'm gonna deselect and then there's one more thing that I wanna show you about watch lists, which is that WikiTree has not just watch lists, but if you have the WikiTree browser extension, you can have an extra watch list. So, yes, I've been working on John Philip Sousa, band master, and as you can see, he's managed by the Notables Project. Can I see that? We're seeing Remove Co 31. Oh, sorry. We don't wanna Remove Co 31. We do not wanna Remove Co 31. There you go. I see pillows in my ear as I speak. Okay, do you all see him? Yep. There he is, John Philip Sousa. So he's managed by the Notables Project, but it's an open profile, so I'm okay to work on it. But I wanna keep a closer eye on it, so you can see up here, if you have the WikiTree browser extension, you will have these buttons here. Now the binoculars would show my extra watch list, which I don't have anything on it right now, but I'm going to add Sousa to this watch list, which is just this plus button. Oh. Okay, now if I go to my extra watch list, there he is. John Philip Sousa. Yay. That's fun. Wow. So, tip of the week. My extreme cold warning has ended, but it's only like minus 25 now. I just got buzzed at that end. So it's longer extreme cold, it's just very cold. Just very cold, just very cold. Does anybody have, do you like itchy feet? Do you like undercover buggy? What was your favorite question of the week? So think about that. I'm gonna go through, put your poster answers up here, and I'll go through our calendar for the week. Let's see, we've got the social media page, if you wanna check that out from the ambassador's team. And also if you wanna share some of this, tell people about the live fast. So you've got, you can go a week of February 5th, which is the week that's upcoming, as you're actually updated this so that we would have the updated link this time. Thank you for that. Betsy. So question of the week, link, link, link. You can go to Facebook, Twitter, if you can just go straight to it. One name study Tuesday, one place study Wednesday, project showcase on Thursday. The connection finder on Friday, this week is Friday date night. That's looking for those profiles that don't have dates. And you can have a date with Julie. She doesn't dress up or bring campaigning, but you know, it's a nice date night with Julie. And some other people show up. Meet our members, comes out on Saturday. And look at that, the live cast is highlighted in green. And like I said, in the wiki tree news, it was listed as, oh, peeky, peeky, peeky. It was listed as a casual house party. So like I said, I need to find it. Somebody said I needed to find an orange house coat. And then our 12 photos, our homes, and then there's the 52 Ancestor Challenge. There's also, Aowyn did this week. Thank you, Aowyn. She listens to us, doesn't she? She's such a good elf. What's happening around wiki tree? So it's a pen post on the very first age pen at the top. You see the check mark there? What's happening around in February? So here are some great things. So ask Alesh on February 1st. I've heard that Greg might hang out there sometime. Yep. New member Q and A with Betsy Coe on February 2nd. And tomorrow. Yep, the weekly challenge. Oh, yeah. And tomorrow. So I'm a week behind here. So the weekend chat, that's today. The roundup, that's today. Sourcing sprints going on today. New member with Betsy Coe tomorrow. Friday night, date night to 10. So here's one that wasn't here. The Global Nations Tour, 15 Nations Global Tour, Argentina wrap up. The wiki tree challenge for the week of 16th through the 23rd is the Freedmen's Bureau. So go and check this out. And not only that, she's got the February challenges listed and other gone going events, the 15 for 15 mission, Communiteers community event, and we will rock you nomination if you want to know about that. So here you go. Other great things. Thank you so much, everyone. That is great. And there's a Google calendar that you can subscribe to. I subscribe to it, but I have so much stuff on my calendar that I sometimes lose that stuff. So I'm very, very thankful that this is all in a concise view and I can share it with you. Oh, and Hilary Gabb-Speed says, she's joining Betsy Coe. Wow, nice. Yay. Excellent. So that's what's going on around the tree. And here are, there's a new system for creating profiles, version two from Chris. And we went over the changes to family trees and profile tabs, the wiki tree challenge society of one place studies. And the number four is the freedman viewer that we mentioned before. So that is it. Do we have any votes for what would be the best profile, the best answer for the question of the week? Nobody said anything. Nobody said you people are fired. Greg, what's your vote? I liked Raiders of the Lost Archive. I thought that was cool. Sarah, do you have a vote? I thought we were just choosing between two, the undercover buggy and itchy feet. No, you can choose anything you want. Well, I'm doing undercover buggy because. Betsy Coe's is itchy feet and mine's undercover buggy. So we're gonna go with undercover buggy. You gotta find it. And I'll vote it. Where was it? There we go. Best of the week. There we go. We won it this week. Yay, Audrey. For your win, you get to come back next week and see us again. That's right. That's the way the week it's been here at WikiTree. And we will see you. Anybody have anything else to add? No, that's it. All right. So we will see you next week at same time, same place, you know, you know how to find us now. Same God channel. Hey everyone. Have a great weekend.