 everybody welcome to the wiki tree live cast and our Wednesday reveal we have Claire here that's on the site next to me and we just put in just a really really intense week of research on hers and then of course Maureen Taylor is our upcoming week we'll be working on her branches this week and so she's below me here and I know we're all excited to get started here and see what's going on so first I'm just going to give a quick thing on what wiki tree is in case you don't know and you're new here wiki tree is a community of genealogists who are working together on a single family tree in other words we collaborate to grow an accurate global tree that connects us all and it's free the wiki tree challenge is our year long event and part of our year of accuracy where each week a team of wiki tree years takes on a genealogy guestarst tree and we collaborate to make it more complete and more accurate than anywhere else our goal is to improve the accuracy on wiki tree add more family connections and make more friends and we definitely have done that and I wish the captain could have been here Claire for your week but I think she's probably just so exhausted at this point everybody just went went nuts this week working on this and did an incredible job and every time I think I can't be you know more impressed with the work that people do then they do something like this so I did pray for you guys I did yeah and I and I will point out which I usually do at some point each week you know what we consider our brick wall isn't necessarily your brick wall so you know if we're working on certain lines for what we call a brick wall it's the first ancestor we got to that wasn't on the tree that we started with as a basic tree and after we get done with the reveal and and show you the discoveries that we found you'll see what I mean about how much that that grew this week and then every ancestor beyond that of course is just icing on the cake so you know it's you may just not have gotten back to that ancestor yet or you know you may have the information on your computer and we can't see it so but people worked especially hard and really really did an incredible job this week so we are going to go ahead and start out with LZR Breeson and he happens oh Omar happens to be on the same MT DNA line as two of our members oh yeah and actually the same as Karen loves grandfather now she's one of our wiki tree challenge captain so if you ever want to talk to her about that she's she's readily available and wiki trees DNA tools of course allow us to find information about these ancient lines without even having to recruit so then to go above and beyond that and recruit those cousins you know to add to all of the paper trails that you all have on those ancestors is just incredible and you'll see in a minute another profile that really had some great DNA information showing and let's go ahead and go into that first line now Joseph Vignola feel however which way it's spelled in the different records they really did want to break that that brick wall down for you and they couldn't you know one thing I do like about wiki tree though is the ability to leave research notes and to format a lot on a profile so we can put documents on there we can put a lot of narrative I personally like to put narrative you know where we pull everything we can out of the records so that that person is a person again and also have those research notes so you know the research log is basically built into the profiles and you will see that on some of the ones that were especially tough that we either broke the brick wall or didn't either way so that you know what they looked at but with him they said that his surname was actually not of Hungarian origin and he was likely a dissent of one of the many nationalities who assisted in ending the Ottoman occupation of Hungary so of his six children two of them Joseph and John Baptiste are known to have married a native woman and one of them Guillaume most likely married a Matisse woman now Guillaume's branch of the family became known as violin so it's not the vignola at all huh and yeah that was that was an interesting I don't have any of this all I have is just his name so that's more than I had before and we did try you know you see the documents here and this is actually a document that he had to sign we we do try and put some of the documents on the profiles but on the profiles where you don't see them if the document is accessible and not copyright protected they'll they can be on the profile if they are copyright protectably still linked to them so you can go to those documents and actually see the information that we got out of them so those will all be in the sources section now on his there was a notorial act between the notary jaqueline and he made a donation to his wife Madeline Prue in 1783 and he gave his origin as Hungarian there his nativity and he said he was age 29 so he did definitely get a better set on his age and the act is a mutual donation between the spouses and so we may not have broken down that brick wall but on those particular lines there are now 32 ancestors beyond generation eight that are new 32 of them those are all brand new ancestors I didn't have before that is cool and then still on this slide now sometimes you know and we talked about how you know you find all these neat little tidbits about people and sometimes just the little details that you find are interesting to read about so here we have Robert who migrated from France to Quebec in 1666 he was living with his wife and two children a year later he also had seven cattle and 15 arpents which is parcel size of land so he was growing after he migrated there and then in 1681 he had eight children living with him his oldest son was a carpenter and he also had one gun six horned beasts and 20 arpents of land so you know it's just fun to find those things that are a little bit different than what you would see in records of another country you definitely would not see that the US census no and now on the Marie Susie line it was really really fun to see all the connections made and you'll see what I what I mean once you actually get to do that deep dive out there and look Claire but once they made the connections to those older ancestors some of these lines what just went way back now we have yeah we have Pierre Julian 410 which is your seventh great grandfather and that uh on the left is of course just taking the steps to get back to him he was born in 1669 he married Marie Gertrude Houdon in 1697 and the image of their marriage is actually on their profiles so their actual marriage document now Pierre yeah Pierre had 11 siblings and then 13 children of his own and each one of those children has a birth marriage and death record linked if it was available and yeah there were a lot of large families in your branches let me tell you there was a lot of them it was fun and beyond this now everybody of course in orange is ninth generation or later those are all new plus there's 33 more ancestors beyond those that you can't even see that's amazing yeah my mind just don't just just know that my my father was one of 17 so so yeah so you still are having those uh I know I was talking to some of the other night I was like it looks like I'm working on my dad's side of the tree my dad's side's like that you know if they only have seven kids you're like okay who died the wife or the husband because I got to find another marriage now yeah that's beautiful and so here is where I was talking about and of course on the left is just still the names but down there that seventh great-grandfather Pierre 410 on his profile when you look Claire you're going to see all of those people that have taken DNA and added their kit numbers to wiki tree and so those are all actually possible cousins just off one ancestor that you can compare your DNA to now and you know and see what the the matches and further prove those lines a lot you have some really heavy DNA tested cousins so really fun to find when you get out there you know and instead of like okay I won't say the site with the trees and the leaves but instead of there where you have to go look at DNA separately and you know and see who your possible cousins are and then you're like oh they don't have a tree I can't you know I wonder who we match to know this is individually done on on each of your ancestors your DNA shows up on all your ancestors other people that have taken kit shows up on the direct line only and this way when you get to those outer ones um you know or even closer you can see who the people are that are also showing up as a possible match to that person so really amazing tool now here was um on marine quarantine another one of my one of my brick walls and this one uh Greg Clark worked on Savon Bernard and this is your sixth great-grandfather of course and he's I don't know if you know he suffered tragedy early in life now his first wife was Marie Francois Boyry and she actually drowned with four other people just a few months after their marriage they were newlyweds um which is just incredibly sad and they said that they went ahead and just buried them all in the same grave site the next day you know which I mean that's that's a logical thing to do yeah but and it was just bad weather I mean it was just a freak tragic you know accident but he married a second time and that's your direct ancestor to Marie Forney her parents were both deceased when they married but her brother and several brother-in-laws attended the wet wedding now they lived a long and presumably loving life with both dying within a day of each other which you know you hear about but it really just like settles in when you when you see it with one of your own within a day less than a day apart they died and so they were both buried on the 31st of December in 1758 and they said that they had many neighbors and friends attended the funeral they had a lot of friends and family and they had been married for 23 years wow yeah that's just that's incredible I love finding those you know those those bits that really help you feel like you know someone now here we have someone on the plant line and this one was a marriage that was a little bit unusual this is Pierre Bissonette's second marriage and it was annulled when they found out that he left a wife behind in France and you know sometimes those naughty ones are the only reasons we find extra records but it did turn out that they found out about the wife back in France and so they wound up annulling the second marriage and then he did actually wind up marrying a third and final time after they finally decided his first wife was really dead he was allowed to marry so he you know he married the third wife and they had a long marriage and you know and yeah it's just interesting though that all that happened and there are now 24 new direct ancestors passed that's a lot of ancestors yeah and and these are directly listed you know we still we get in there and we want to do the whole family approach we add all the kids you know you see the siblings if we're having a hard time with a brick wall we might build out a little bit laterally just to see you know if we can find out who these witnesses are to the marriages and whatnot but yeah definitely some big families and a lot this one was huge this one was massive and because there were such established lines already on wiki tree and you know some of our jet comps came from a long time ago that are still on there back in the day yeah and so some of them you know you may come across the occasional profile that that hasn't been completed since it was first uploaded but for a large part those those much older ones projects have taken them under their wing and you know and they'll develop them fully and so if you can get out far enough to where you start connecting to these lines it just rockets you and that's what the ruel vine did now marie anastasi role had a an odd little uh happening with a marriage in her family too now her sister was marie delphine plant who married their maternal uncle pierre aniseem gosselin so dispensation was obtained for the first to second degree of consecuity yeah yeah it really is you know and it makes you wonder what the circumstances were that they went ahead and dispensed that and allowed them to marry it had to have been something a little bit drastic i would think i would but yeah yeah but once these were connected um this one actually added hundreds and i mean hundreds of direct ancestors behind it and there's so many that go back you know back to the um 15 16th century now there's one like robert um sarah bruce comrancy he was your 17th great grandfather oh and he was born in 1400 in france so cool that is awesome they are so fun that you just get lost you just want to go back you know and read through all the profiles oh wow and you know here is what i'm talking about there's so many ancestors you don't even know who to look at first right and um you know there's some like zachery claustier which you see on the left he is one of those that the projects have taken on so they've done a lot of work on him he has a beautiful profile um you know he has pictures he has a lot of nice narrative he was a carpenter by profession and one of the interesting things in his life was actually due to his father now he migrated to canada in 1634 with his father who was a master carpenter and then they brought his wife and four of their children over a year later now he had signed a contract with his robert gifford for three years you know of servitude in exchange for half the land that he cleared so he would clear robert giffords land and then he would get half and then you know he'd get food and and board in the meantime and then he'd get two cows as long as robert had at least four cows the contract said he got two of them and then if he built a house for robert he got an additional amount of parcels at the end of the contract well something happened at the end and so zachary senior actually finished out his servitude but he failed to complete all of his obligations and so it actually wound up in the courts and you know they have some of that transcribed or attached and it it drug out until 1646 when they actually found you know on behalf of robert gifford now zachary junior lived to the age of 87 his wife died three years later and they had they had raised six children with all but one of them reaching the age of adulthood so back in that time in the rugged wilderness you know it's just amazing now here we have pictures i know there's some fun ones in there um seraphim rule and i was really hoping that we could find some pictures that were actually his carriages but we couldn't um but these are actually from the location like where he was about so you know it could be and for the right timeline he was your second great-granduncle so not a direct one but he was born in 1847 in quebec now he married his wife in new hampshire so i'm not sure what the story is behind that one but he was back in quebec by 1881 when he was living there with sophie and their eight children so small family only eight yes and seraphim was a carriage manufacturer so he actually opened a wheel right in carriage making shop when he moved to massachusetts and he had that shop there for 20 years and you know he died in 1920 in massachusetts he was well respected um a lot of people you know knew about him and his work there so that was just kind of fascinating that's fascinating it's fascinating and something to follow through on if you ever want to you know i know it's definitely something to follow through this would make some good stories for for my kids for christmas brisa yeah there's and i'm thinking you know there's some great ones now children um for mary's great-grandmother sister adeline rule moved from with her husband from st charles to bellachos to fall river massachusetts and in the obituary of her husband jean-baptiste leblanc it says he was regarded as a pioneer of the french colony in this city so you know it was kind of fun we didn't have as many the obituaries and what not that we normally would um find since we were all focused on on quebec here but they were still the team members were still able to find some of them and it's always nice to know that they were well regarded any it is it is a good feeling to know that oh my goodness or deadline whoo now this one erin littlefield the seventh great-grandfather of yours was taken by native americans and they really don't make it sound like it was a bad thing but i mean if you think about it you know you have to really give them kudos for growing up to be a strong person along with his mother and two of his sisters to canada it says he was nine years old but some of the accounts of this actually say he was six or seven years old so just depending on you know who was guessing at his age now they said that um you know when they would take these these children like this they could they figured they could get really good rewards for him so they would take them off and they would turn them over to the people that were interested in and you know turning them to their their motive religion and what not and yeah but you know he just moved on from it he was later baptized in quebec as pierre augustine littlefield where he married and settled and you know he just led a normal life so he was grounded letters if administration for his father moses is a state in 1727 you know meaning that his family most have all been reunited at some point so yeah yeah a really cool research for for a for a client who's from the family's from canada buck so that's kind of cool cool okay let's see who we have next now here is on the throw line yeah this was fun he was a broom manufacturer and they actually found several i don't know if you've seen any of them articles uh you'll see the notes on his profile about it he ran a saloon in pawtucket road island where he sometimes skirted those liquor laws was he hanging out with your kin maureen i'm i'm thinking claire and i have some lines that overlap i don't think so too and he actually did have a tragic death though he died from injury sustained when he fell into the store cellar they said his funeral was the largest in the french community at the time attracting more people than they could even accommodate in the church there were 43 carriages in his funeral procession and if i remember correctly his sons were the ones that bore his casket but um yeah and but there's some interesting tidbits about how you know they found him with alcohol that wasn't supposed to be there or you know he turned his liquor license over to somebody else but then they got in trouble too and so a lot of friends for a good reason i guess yeah i'm thinking he was real happy with a lot of people there he was keeping them happy now his his card in the u.s naturalization petition state that he was born in canada in 1830 he entered the united states in november 1876 in vermont and was naturalized as a u.s citizen in the circuit court at providence on the 8th of december 1888 and we had a much more distant one on that line and they had john lucas schmitt which was your fifth great-grandfather and while his grandparents were not found and they looked they looked so hard too but that name is so common you know and then without having like a very specific area it was hard but they did find out that he was an officer deroy so he was a king's officer and that he was acting as an officier deroy during the american revolution and he was taken prisoner in 1775 with 20 other officers and in 1795 he actually received what equaled 50 gold coins as a pension for his service to this country yeah that's really neat wow they did fabulous lot they did fabulous work that's all i gotta say these guys were just i'm telling you they were on fire this week they were just on fire they just kept finding stuff you know and then Cheryl get them really motivated again and they go oh we got to go find some more you know she's like i don't know you guys are almost up to this record now and they'd be like oh we got to beat that record okay they found so much stuff it just is crazy incredible um they broke all our records this year so we had a um albaric thorough which is of course a paternal great-grandfather so not that far out but one of the team members was researching the fact that he was employed by Lorraine Mills in Pawtucket for 23 years as a loom fixer you know which is is not a common occupation he was also well known and highly regarded now his brothers George and Charles were majors in two of the french ceremonial militia organizations in the city and when he died there there was a military style funeral attended by about a thousand people a thousand can you imagine and several of your ancestral family members were active in these social and charitable organizations in new england so once again gives you really more insight into who your ancestors were definitely a lot of new england blood there right where i'm i'm convinced that your family knew my family i'm convinced we've known each other so long i'm sure there's a link well by the time we get done with marines week we'll probably be able to tell you that'll be fabulous oh here's my my indian ones yes i'm my mother's side she's my eight i have an eighth great grandmother that's indian yeah and the researchers that looked at that said um you know she may have been part of north america back to time immemorial you know before we became anything and and just the indigenous people were here and likely is related to lewis hebert who was part of the attempted settlement uh port royale in 1606 now he permanently settled into canada upon arriving in 1617 he was the first apothecary to settle and practice in north america and he was the king's attorney so you know if you want somebody else big to tie into that gives you another avenue or research is finding that that connection because we just frankly we never have enough time in a week you know we're like oh we're gonna get all this done and then at the end of the week we're like no we can't you know it's from the algonquin tribe algonquin nation in the avanaki tribe so adding to that information with this that's fabulous i love the symbol too i've never had that yeah there's some really cool stuff on the profile when you get a chance to look at it yeah and by the way we all do this we do the um you know cousin matches and so we we we have this whole list going i'll send it to you and we're done but we have this whole list going on who's six cousin twice removed and who's twelve cousins and that's fabulous especially the people that have the phil phil deroy stuff already in their lines definitely had a lot of common ancestors now one of the things that we also did notice along the way uh was twins appearing here and there and there and not just on one line you know where you usually see it just coming down on one ancestral line so this was a lot of fun and these are actually only ones that were marked as twins meaning that you know well for one thing that they're the only direct twins that are marked that way so you still have a lot of other family that might be you know a great uncle or something like that in the family line that might have twins but we only looked at who the direct ones were and not all of them are marked you know not everybody knew to put them in the category as a twin but this was just kind of fun to find so you know we had Joseph Guillaume named after his maternal grandfather he was born in 1727 his twin was still born but mentioned in the baptismal record and he's your fifth great grandfather on the marie line another one of course on the marie louise rouelle you know that line she was born in 1735 with her twin marie jennivieve we have Jean-Baptiste Boudreaux your sixth great-grandfather who was born in 1683 in Port Royale with his twin Claude jennivieve lemelin another sixth great-grandmother on the Audet line was born in San Loren in 1694 with her twin Francois and Rue Lowe eighth great-grandmother on the Limoges line born in 1662 with her twin Guillaume so there we have a male and female and then pierre testu de tilly an eighth great-grandfather was born in 1635 in Panzel France with his twin Marie that's amazing my mother's um she has a set of us that were twins oh wow that's great so that was amazing yeah so there are twins in the family here and there and my I have cousins of twins first cousins yeah and I think if you like I said if you start looking back through the aunts and uncles and cousins that you know are connected to your branches on wiki tree you'll probably find a lot more probably well yeah now here of course we were looking at at oh yeah somebody said I had the kinks and kings daughters that's cool I've been trying to find those for a while yeah Chris f chris fariello was keeping us updated during the week okay she's connected to this many now now and at the start of it when they were looking and that's another one of the cool wiki tree gadgets that we have tools at our resource is that we can go ahead and look at you know Magna Carta we can say oh how many people do we have that are fielderoy that we actually match um different things you know you can say us presidents how many of them am I related to now the fielder was of course approximately 800 young french women who immigrated to new france between 1663 and 1673 and they were designed it was designed to boost new france's population both by encouraging the male colonizers to settle there and by promoting marriage and so basically if you have ancestors in that area then you're going to trace back to some of this fielder while just look chris that kept telling us but when you when he started counting how many you were connected to it was 77 and now at the end of the week checking the last time i checked with him it was 91 wow that's a lot yeah i i didn't even know i had one one i guess that's cool now you've got 91 to look at you i'm looking forward to that oh 20c too uh what's that yeah she's um your 20th cousin twice removed well that's cool angie is seven seven seven that's cool i know we had uh here yeah we have several litter sixth cousins wow that's wonderful claire we're seventh cousins somebody wrote in the comments oh well we were related all this years we just never knew i'm gonna have to watch next week now to find out how we're related we'll have to do a special slide just for that the genealogists who are related to each other the carrigan regiment yep yes and of course that was a unit that was formed by merging two other regiments in 1659 so way back there now they were led by the new governor danielle de remy and the lieutenant general um there were approximately 1200 of these men from three different locations that arrived in new france in the middle of 1665 and all of those listed on that slide claire are ancestors of yours and so that was you know a really strong showing of military presence now here is what we started with uh we were talking about this a little bit before we went live and you know what we had is we went out from the eighth generation now of course anything ninth and back we were excited about and beyond that was icing on the cake but our people just kept going so we had some people that focused on those closer lines we had people that were really um experienced in the cobec records that went back and looked at those and you know all those little dots you see along there are brick walls or ancestors they found now it should actually be higher this week we did have i'll give a little bit of hands kudos to danielle liard she worked but she didn't work actually within the challenge she just thought it'd be fun to help out and so you know her and a few other people were just working for the fun of it or it would even been bigger but but this gives people an idea of what we started with as far as wiki tree relatives so this is what was on your branches claire on wiki tree when we started and of course that's a nine generation chart and this isn't your primary tree so we didn't expect to see a lot on there you know but you already had a couple of branches that people had grown out because you had mutual ancestors and so that was our starting point and just the amount of work once again that people did within the team this week was incredible it just was amazing and so this is what your nine generations on wiki tree looks like now i mean they just broke every record that we had for this entire year and kept going now on the left of course is that big null line that we couldn't get through on the top there up in the middle now that was one that was uh they were trying to get through nicole adam spent a lot of time leaving notes and trying to look that up and and she thinks that that marie lamey uh might have been illegitimate just because of the fact that she wasn't using a surname in any of her records you know the kids and whatnot and so she left you some pretty detailed notes about what uh who her parents could possibly be and you know what she looked at and what the very variation is in the records and then on the very right where we had gene deguy and i'll tell you what we didn't even realize that we have this this fold out filled out until today and so yeah one of our our top uh experts went out there and he was like oh i gotta see if i can fill these in or not and so that little white slot on the right is actually filled now like he just found yeah he just found the the parents in time i i didn't even have time to update my chart and so that's you know that's your nine generations and then i'm gonna show you something even more incredible and i never do this i never pull a 10 generation because nine is already really impressive and i'm already really jealous of your nine generation fan chart because mine looks nothing like that and that's your 10 oh my gosh that is amazing right that is just i mean it's beyond words you just look at that and you're like wow i mean just and again wow you know and people are making jokes this week about how you know their spouses were forgetting what they look like and um you know how they promise that they you know slow it down a little bit when the week was over with that everybody got so caught up in getting this stuff done and finding this information they just fabulous yeah they just blew everything right out of the water and i think well let's see we'll go ahead and do just a little bit about the collaboration and then i'll show you who our top scores were uh you know they definitely need to be acknowledged oh for sure and okay so now collaboration is key during the challenge and that's what wiki tree's all about anyways we collaborate so one of the ways we do this during a challenge week is we use this spreadsheet like you see on the left and when you get you know 25 it can be 35 45 people you had more than 33 people working this week Claire on your branches so and some of them just i mean there was stuff going on around the clock it was amazing but when you get that many people it's really easy to step on somebody's work or you know you wind up researching the same person so we try and encourage people to list which profile they're working on and that way we can all kind of spread out and go different ways and not step on anybody's toes now on the right is the g2g forum and that's our post our genealogist to genealogist forum and that's where you'll see um the eight great grandparents that we start from and we go beyond that because we don't work any closer than the great grandparents right and you'll see the more people sometimes listed hey this is what i'm working on sometimes they said oh i got a brick wall honestly i'm i'm gonna be honest with you here by the end of the week they weren't even listed in their bounty points it was all going on in discord and they were just like oh i almost felt oh i found the marriage of this one and they're so excited and everybody's cheering and they never made it out to the the g2g to post it so i just i just mark their points down we just moved on but you'll you'll see where some people were definitely chatting in there and people like danielle that weren't participating in the discord part of it that had decided to go ahead and post in the forum which is fine you know as long as we're all collaborating that's what matters and here is where i was talking about if you haven't used discord as a communications platform you've got to try it out now of course it used to be a gaming platform and it isn't now it's opened up to some be so much more and they're so much more stable and reliable now and you know with our site being global we have people on around literally around the clock oh yeah when i'm sleeping then you know england's getting up or we have people in australia we have people just everywhere you know there's always somebody that's up doing something and so this makes it nice that they can jump in and automatically see what people were working on last or talking about last you know we can say hey i need the translation for this or hey you know who has a subscription to this site i really want this obituary or this record and you know we all get to pull our resources and you know and sometimes that we have people that just come in and go hey oh i saw your guys the scores great job you're doing great you know and cheerlead and hey that's just as important because it takes a village you know yeah it does take a village to do this and that's why like amorean said another set of eyes is just the greatest thing it really is it really is a gift and i know you know we miss it we definitely miss it when it's not there also the top five wow i know and so here are our top five and while it's not all about the points the point system does help keep people motivated and it helps us kind of gauge you know where we're at what we're doing and so we give points two ways we give bounty points which is our large one ten points for the first ancestor on each line that's found that was not on the primary tree that they started with and then they get individual points oh they were loving this claire they get individual points for everyone that's a nuclear relative within a generation so you know they find these families and they're like well they had 12 kids with his first wife and four of the second wife and they're like score there's their 16 points right there that's better than bounty points you know so yeah it was just that's great and those can add up really fast and i'll tell you it may have changed i'll tell you in a minute we look at the actual scores but i know greg uh love boy they're one of our top performers and one of our experts this week he added last time i checked a 97 nuclear relics oh my gosh that's a lot of people i know i know i couldn't do it if i sat down on a week and tried you know i talked to pat and she was telling me it took her four weeks to go through just half of the stuff and she said she's only just recently finished some of them between other things but she said she spent four weeks and you broke so many walls it was amazing yeah it takes a long time to finally get in there and that's not even researching that's just looking through what we did yeah because we've pulled together so many people to work on this and so here is our top five we had the powerhouses we had greg and rake rock in the house of course they kind of went back and forth in first place greg clark won at the end he made it one top one one position but i'll tell you it was close and then we had nicole adams was in a very strong third she did some amazing work this week sharyl your captain actually was right up there in the points too did a really incredible job and karen low um snuck kind of snuck on up in there with the bounding points that she found and you know but each and every person that worked on this was just did an incredible job and all of it helps you know and we do all the people i know and we do keep a disc or sheet now some of this isn't helping you know as far as like getting the bounty points for the um oh thank you greg yeah they kept me busy they kept me really busy with the tracking but you know here's a few other things that we track and it just kind of helps let people know you know where we are during the week so the first column that you see are the total points and that's everything they got us actual points bounty and nuclear relatives combined and so here's where you see those top five people and their tremendous scores and then our record breaking total of 1325 points in a week wow now create excuse me creative ancestors the number is unusually low on your week and that's because there were a lot of floating profiles out there and the families just weren't put together now if our team members go oh i see that his father is you know i found the baptism record these are his parents names and they find those profiles out floating or out attached to somebody else and they connect them it's the same thing as if they created it so yeah it is so yeah so they still got the bounty points for it yeah but it makes the created ancestors look at really unusual and i know um chris f came in the room the other day and he's in discord room and he's like um i got to ask because how do you have all these points but you've only made one profile and i was like yeah you don't even want to know you don't even want to know it's actually harder the way they did it you know because if they were creating it fresh they could make it perfect from the start but they have to go find these other profiles and then clean up somebody else's notes and then add sources yep you know that prove it it's a lot of work and i know i know i've pulled some apart from from family search it's a nightmare it's yeah it really is sometimes just that cleanup and it really it makes wiki tree in those part of your branches look amazing now um they've done so much so the next column that we have is the creative relatives now that's those nuclear relatives so siblings or children and 391 of those were created this week oh wow oh and it looks like the other Greg kept going because he's up to 103 103 nuclear relatives go Greg go Greg and Greg you guys are rock stars and then our bounty points of course that's the 10 points for each uh the first direct ancestor we get to now if they find 12 other direct ancestors pass that that's still amazing but we don't give them the points for that they just get one point each if they if they make it beyond them and so these are all just for the brick wall what we call the brick wall ancestors a record breaking 920 points so 92 direct ancestors and it's actually higher than that because of the people like Danielle that didn't sign up for the challenge and didn't want to um you know be in the totals she was actually finding some of those brick wall ancestors too and so it really should have been high it's just amazing they just blew me out of the water I could not believe it now profiles edited and so this is unique profiles that's a lot of editing that Greg did oh wow yeah kudos Greg and the two Greg's wow I know they're amazing um the total for the entire week was 1179 and now contributions we we our system naturally keeps track of contributions so every time we go in and add a date um add a source change something that needs fixing write some narrative that's counted as a contribution when we hit the save button and gives us one contribution and over this week's time with the 31 plus people that we're working on your branches 3191 contributions were made wow that's a lot I know can you that is amazing it's going to take me four months at least maybe five I know I was trying to like scam and I couldn't even get through all the names that's wonderful that's just wonderful oh Stephen saying that he didn't get to do as many transcription rank plus now you know when we talked about how we all kind of have our own special skills in our own resources and Stevens usually one of our people that uh that he does our will transcriptions he's amazing at it he'll sit there and transcribe a four page well he's just got the most patient you know and so that is a lot of patience I get tired of doing those things yeah I'll do an abstract I'm like be quest to the wives these children um you know but that's one of the things that we can just call out and discord and go hey Stephen are you around because I have a will for this person and he's like you know oh yay okay I'll do that and he's really great now this week of course we didn't have a lot of wills because that's not something we found with the Quebec records but I know that Maureen has got some branches he'll be really excited to find and it's just fun having those different resources and let's go back off of this okay and so so Claire do you feel like we at least met your expectations oh gosh you went far exceeded my expectations do I get a copy of that stuff at all you do and I'm going to I'm going to send you all kinds of goodies tonight you wait and see I've done some of the documents for you um the rest of them you'll be like I said they'll be linked on the profiles you'll be able to pull them off and you know put them in your own records if you want to I'll have the spreadsheet that shows where the bounding points were assigned at and then is the fan charts at the various various steps and all kinds of stuff oh that's awesome that's awesome I'm full I'm beyond gratitude and very humbled to be honest with you I'm just amazed uh just would love to send out a personal thank you to everyone that participated I mean it means a lot to me because I over the years since gosh since the 80s when I first started I'm all you know I just did my own and then all of a sudden someone said can you do this can you do that and that was the end of my work so it's just been a labor of love for other people so this is very much appreciated well it was it was certainly our honor and our pleasure and you know we have so much fun giving this gift to people as it's like we get to give Christmas presents I know I feel like it's Christmas I feel like it's we are like each week we're like surprise I love it I love it thank you so much to everybody and uh like I said I'd like to write a personal note to every single person we're just wonderful you're amazing yeah Cheryl says she's handing off the captain hat to Christine who will be the captain this week so thank you Cheryl for all your work and Karen Lowe and everybody just wow and then there's I've noticed that there was a DNA connection with Karen so that's even more so just amazing what you guys said is just I'm just grateful and I'm glad that Maureen's gonna have the same opportunity for them to break some of her brick walls that's great yeah we got some people that are already taking notes and looking looking forward to it so all right well do I leave and you speak to Maureen or it's up to you Claire you can I'm gonna go ahead and talk to Maureen a little bit you can stay or you can duck out and peek at your tree if you want that's up to you I'm gonna do that and um I'm gonna wish Maureen and and then maybe I can you can send me a link and I can watch next week when you do hers that would be wonderful I will I would definitely do that I think that I would love to see the connections okay great you take care thank you for every thank you from everybody my cousin but my cousin okay then there I am there we are now for anybody that doesn't know Maureen is the photo detective and they probably already recognize that title more than anything else right Maureen or yeah definitely one of the biggest things and pulling out of your information it says you are a frequent speaker on photo identification your experience in photograph preservation which is oh so important with not destroying those those archives you speak about family history a historical and genealogical societies museums conferences and many other locations you've authored several books and hundreds of articles you've been featured in prestigious newspapers and magazines such as the wall street journal better homes and gardens new york times you've appeared on the view and the today show and just so much more there's just so much more going on so did I miss anything that was really important and in her free time she doesn't have free time they never do the the ones that that wind up trying to help anybody else you never get back to your own tree and yeah and you don't have free time so okay we're going to go through a few of our standard questions now what actually got you interested in genealogy you know I'm not really sure but I know I was interested as I think I was nine because I can remember writing on a piece of paper I only knew one of my grandparents my father's mother is the only one that was still living when I was growing up and I kept asking her about her family and I had this little piece of paper and I was trying to write it down I was like what's your father's name what's your you know grandpa she's like my family is so boring I'm not going to talk about it why don't we talk about your grandfather's family and of course you know how that goes yeah nothing could be further from the truth of being boring they never I don't know I mean we didn't talk a lot about family history uh but I was always interested in history even as a little kid so now who is your favorite ancestor if you had to pick one I don't know if I can pick one but I can say I'm not sure they're my favorite because they're so troublesome but I can say that I'm really fascinated by a lot of the characters on my father's side of the family you know if I had to pick someone that I admire it would be my great a great grandmother and she had such hardships that I think about her life when everything gets tough and I think as she made it I can do it yeah yeah yeah nothing's as hard as what they went through nothing no now when did you first discover wiki tree just a couple of years ago but I have to say and and I'm sorry I I just like didn't get the concept I was like what is wiki tree and how does this work and then you know I I'm busy so I hadn't had the chance to really focus on it but seeing all of the challenges that you've been doing this year really piqued my interest and so I started poking around a little bit saying what is this all about yeah yeah you guys are amazing like amazing we do try and have a lot of fun with it you know here and there where we can and of course to us research it's fun it's it's not the work it's that's our fun time and some people you know when they're working their day job and that is a relaxing time they go home and they and they wiki tree but it's been a lot of fun doing the challenge and you know even other than that more more quietly is the projects that we have you know where you can go and participate and have people that you can talk to you about the records you find or don't find or whatever really an amazing community so what are your current like your biggest brick walls oh man you guys have your work cut out for you really seriously my mom's side of the family not so much I mean you know it's french canadian so the records are good but I do before we get into sort of the brick walls on my dad's side the sort of thing on my mom's side is a guy way back in the supposedly he immigrated circa 1780 his name is Charles McDuff supposedly he was with the brunswick regiment maybe he came over during the revolution maybe not I mean I don't have a whole lot I know he moves to Quebec from limerick Ireland and I have one generation in in limerick but I just can't figure that little piece out like why does he come and does he come with a regiment yeah on my dad's side it's it's it's it's tough you know there's hold on I made a list there's there's Sarah Jane Taylor oh my goodness born about 1841 in Rhode Island claimed under marriage record that her parents were William and Lydia I can't find it anywhere I don't know I don't expect a whole lot I mean I just really love the fact that you asked me to do this challenge and that I get another set of eyes to look at it there's John and Hannah Priest from New Hampshire total dead end uh with them I have a line sort of sketched into my ancestry family tree but I have no idea if it's really true I haven't been able to prove it or disprove it at this point um James Wilson what a colorful character he is born 1837 in Connecticut supposedly the son of Lewis and Laura of Connecticut Connecticut records are terrible but uh I keep looking for him uh it's he's a fascinating character like oh my goodness I've done so much research on him but one of the really cool stories that came out of him and his life is they have a kid and then they don't get married for a whole year so it's like she ran away with him he's in the Navy they have a kid then they get married so they don't get married in Charlestown Massachusetts where they're living they get married in Salem Massachusetts and on the same day I was really digging around this summer and the same day her sister takes a boat from New Bedford I guess and the two sisters get married in Salem mass oh wow it's the weirdest little thing ever um well maybe that's what she was waiting for though was I I have no idea uh but he was he was a character for sure she did not have an easy life um with him yeah he was colorful I'm still working he was testified in a divorce case and I'm still waiting for those papers to come I've been waiting six months and I cannot wait another second uh so those are my you know those are my major ones and you know you can look at any line and you can find a dead end um my mom's side you know supposedly there's a French royal from the Fee De Roy I've only found one of those but if there's that many I've got to have more uh I don't know uh it took me forever and ever and ever to find the birth place of my great grandmother on my father's side and it turns out that even though they were living in Pawtucket Rhode Island she was buried in Portsmouth New Hampshire and because they lived there for like a minute yeah uh and they bought this huge cemetery plot there's like room for like 13 graves up there and there's five people buried so it's like well they had plans but I don't know there's a lot of blood of dead ends there anything anything guys anything I saw a message in the chat that somebody said oh I'm afraid I'm gonna disappoint Maureen you know I can't be disappointed that the disappointment just isn't part of it this is so exciting to see what you might do and um and what you might find maybe you'll find nothing on my father's side but you're bound to find things on my mother's side guaranteed it's French and I know you said um you don't have a lot of pictures but if there are pictures where we can use them yes yes I don't have yeah that's my big secret don't tell anyone although here we are publicly I'm the photo detective and I have hardly any family photographs um which is why I love everyone else's and I don't know who Helene Dupour is but I guess I will find out no no Thomas it's um but you can use whatever there is in the tree I don't have much but if you need something else you know who to call yeah let me know the captain will definitely reach out to you if anybody has any questions um you know you already know that you don't get to peek during the week no I'm not going to peek although you did tell me I was related to Helene Dupour so I might have to watch and then you know you'll get some email notifications that say like oh you need to complete this merge two profiles together whatever else just ignore them because we the paid staff will go ahead and we'll take care of those for you just so we can get the week completed and keep it as smooth as possible so um don't worry about any notifications other guests have just gone ahead and have filtered them to go in a folder or something so that they you know aren't tempted to reason see who we're working on um but you know if you think anything else that you have a question about or wanted to point out you can also reach back out to either me or your captain Christine and we will look into it yeah they want you know access to a couple of the uh time I use timelines when I do research so if anyone wants access to a particular um timeline on one of these brick walls I'm it's in a google drive folder I can share it with you yeah so just contact Christine if that's something you're interested in and she'll make sure it gets done well I think we are about to wrap it up unless you had any other questions marina no I'm just I'm just amazed at what you all do and it's a wonderful community I can't wait to see what you find it is great and we are honored to be able to work on your branches you know it's only been select people we've been able to feature this year and it has just been so much fun so much incredible fun and I want to thank everybody out there that helped work on cleristry and that will be working on Maureen's tree this week and thank you to the people watching or else we wouldn't be here you can you can check us out on wikitree.com for more information go ahead and like the video and subscribe if you want to receive alerts and so I think we are done for the evening