 Morning everybody look at Greg's beautiful tie It's my Christmas time spirit Yes, made for me by a home at class many many years ago when I was teaching you you actually made you made that No, no a home at class in the high school. I taught in made it I was part of the fundraiser so I bought it. I'm gonna be impressed that you were sowing Do you know? No, I don't No, I so do not so Not so good morning everybody. I see Hilary's here afternoon for you Betsy Chris Janet hang an orange crush. Gotta love it Listening to Chicago couldn't add for bella. We love that Betsy co has the cutest picture and the photos of the week Picture I saw oh 18 of them trying to I can't remember the which one Cutest it was okay. There were some cute ones. There were some nice ones there. There was there are there's always cute ones Oh, yeah, but that's he always, you know, I we don't know why I don't know why I love her so much I love everybody's but well, you're good that you remember that Well, I was looking at him this morning. So I You know I marry holidays to everybody before we head into the next two weeks I've already Notified wiki tree that I will be at this time next Saturday morning With my family having brunch and getting ready to go into the wild melee of Present openings. So I personally will not be here. No, I have a feeling Greg may be I'll be in the middle of my fourth or fifth mass that I've been playing for it within 24 hours coming home having some Lunch with my family and then napping When are you opening your gifts? We probably will open them in the afternoon when I get back from church. Okay, because in Quebec We have one of our son's family is in Quebec He goes over and he has Christmas in Quebec on Christmas Eve. So Yeah, yeah, so that's fun And then everybody's here Christmas morning all of them. So that's fun The other thing is and Greg just pointed this out to me that seven days after Christmas is New Year's Day Now, I don't know how many of you will actually be awake in the morning on New Year's morning but I probably I don't know what will happen on Christmas on New Year's Day Football will be happening but not at 10 in the morning, but I don't think we're gonna be here So we're gonna be going no I can two weeks and then the third week that the next weekend in January You will see us our bright and beautiful faces back here Unless unless a owner Chris calls me says no You've got to be there on January 1st, and and I don't know what I would look like if I were here So I'm saying we won't be would you be wiki tree orange or wiki tree green? Oh that yeah Yeah Um Let's see Chris says he's gonna be opening presidents and doing a president's That's so funny You would think I would have said senators because yeah, that's right President's gonna be opening presents and doing a call with his brother and his family somewhere Kathy. Oh No, Chris Chris Farrell of just called Chris Whitton a Scrooge Whoo Just done anything to do this. This is I want Christmas, and that's why Hey, John John Kiner And Jean tearing myself away from Louise Penny. Oh my goodness, which one are you reading right now? You don't know who Louise She's a Canadian author who writes mystery thrillers about the town of three pines Quebec Oh And the three pines were planted in the village so that the loyalists coming across would be able to know the safe place That they were safe once they got across the border. It's a mythical place, but people still try and find it It's over between us in Montreal somewhere. Oh, yeah Yeah, I got a Louise Penny book for Christmas I know that Anyway, so yeah, thanks. It's so good to see everybody and right off the bat We can go into our question of the week I know that is that is what everybody wants to To see let's see. What are the genealogical gifts? that you There we go that you have on your wish list That's some interesting answers to that one. Of course the top of the list is the 1890 census and that's for the US and US For me, I think it would be the all of the documents burned up in Ireland in the 1921 fire or whatever that would be a big one for me. Yeah So I would add to this list Finding all of those lost things that was a big theme in today's question of the week a lot of people wanted to know Things that are completely lost to them. So the 1890 census is a good way to start that She says failing that to find out where the heck grandpa Yeah Yeah, that was in 1892 that's from Nan Starjack. Yeah, Claire Pearson says I Would be it would be a wonderful Christmas and or knew your gift for me to find out what became a Bridget Moline Sweeney Born 1819 in Ballin Gary after her husband Coast Guard Daniel Sweeney was drowned So that would be interesting to find out for Claire don't forget to vote up these great questions and Answers when you go through these Vote up some of these answers give these people a little hey, thanks for posting that Three gifts on Kathy never Okay, a subscription to all the paid sites That would work for me To be able to talk to my biological paternal great-grandmother and grandfather for two hours About their parents now. There are other people that said they only wanted an hour. Oh She wants two hours. Yeah, and I'm like You're gonna have that opportunity and you only want one hour or two hours I mean for me, I would want to spend a week with I know. Yeah. Yeah, because an hour goes fast I want them to feed me, you know I want to taste their traditional I want to work the cows or do whatever See to be able to receive as many books about genealogy mysteries as possible Number one on the list are the books by Nathan Dillon Goodwin. I'm reading them through the library now Somebody else on the list. Oh, that's the Nathan Dillon Goodwin books as well I'm in the middle of the Sterling affair right now. Are you so good? That was where was that one there? We are near the end, but it's not the last one there there That's the one I'm reading. Yeah, I got to get the whole thing up here I have every book that Nathan Dillon Goodwin has read written. He also has two He has one that's online only on his website That's like a little in between one of our two of the books like the man doesn't have enough to do Writing the books. He's got to write And the other ones is in the the last book Which which was the Foundlings After this book you can go online and play kind of a game Where you you do this or that you answer yes or no and you go one way or another way And you try and and get to the end. Let's see if I can figure out what that means And it's the very beginning is in here like choose your own genealogical adventure. Yeah. Yeah, it is. Um I'll tell you what it says So that we had a couple of people say that they wanted to find Here we go Morton and lockdown want to know what Martin got up during lockdown want to solve a mini case with him Nice didn't have a read of Morton and lockdown an exclusive interactive web base story That you can get on his Nathan dillon goodwin.com website. There's the the first of it Very cool. Yeah, making sure i'm not giving anything away about your age There we go. So if you want to go check that out So that was that was a couple of people asked for Nathan dillon goodwin's I only brought enough that I could hold With two hands. There's way more But if you if you don't know Nathan dillon goodwin's books He's got a series on the morton farrier mysteries And the new ones are on the venator coldcase file. Yes. That was a good one. That was the first one I read actually Yeah, yeah, and then I liked it so much. I wanted to read the second But the second hasn't been written so I thought well, maybe I'll go back and see what else he's done He's writing the second one. I think yeah, I know You know, yeah, I can't wait to see it and I actually sent Nathan a copy of A couple of these things yesterday He and his family are actually in where were they they're on their way to austria to ski And I think they were in france and that he sent me a picture of them at the table having Dinner and I told him I said there people are asking for your books for christmas and he was he was so excited so Um, order those books people Let's see all the nathan dillon good goodwin books. Um, and then a dna test kit for ancestry Uh, oh, I was I was on page one. That was from kathy now. I'll see At the very top of uh, judy adin's list is mayfowr families Through five generations volume 15. So books are definitely on the genealogist list this week To my two first cousins one generation removed would actually send me the family photos that they told me for the passage of years They send in emails Alexis if you had given me their phone number Live on the show for you Alexis we would do that for you. Oh Um, let's see and then big book of answers. Is that a real thing? What's that? Yeah, is that a real thing the big book of answers sources that will answer many questions What was the maiden name of william mccollin's life? Where and when did they marry? M ross has a whole list here Where and when in ireland was michael shawnessy born now You know, we have this group of people on g2g that are integrators So they they like take the information that you find out and they post it Into the profiles that that they belong to So when somebody says I need help finding this information Then somebody will say hey, yeah, I found this information for you the integrators do that So my question is can we get people to actually do the research for some of these for m ross? That would be fun to to go and find her thing and and look look for her Henry lilo Can find his father for her wouldn't that be fun? We could actually be santa. That would be nice Yes, like secret santa's. Yeah, tommy buck. It's tommy in here yet. Uh, oh, I stopped looking I haven't seen him yet Let me just see Scrolling through we have a new member. Cheryl. Hey, Cheryl. Hey, Cheryl. We love having you come in live Yay um We would have a wiki tree secret santa chris organize it man get it going Okay So um family tree dna bundle from tommy buck and a bundle would be big y 700 family finder and a full mitochondrial sequence. I'm all for that uh two witches from dear laurence um A son of my paternal grandfather's youngest brother passed away a few weeks ago and his son found in his Inheritance a lot of original papers old pictures and old family bible I hope to manage to view these documents and copy them accordingly And that's he's made his first contact with that person. Nice. Uh, I have found my granddaughter I have found a granddaughter of a sister of my paternal grandfather and humberg Through my brother who has collected old family documents That's kind of like an aj jacob's thing my brother's first cousin's sister's husband That's a good one deeter. That's right. And he's done a lot of great work on the wiki tree challenges Yes, he has deeter's deeter's a Yeah A monster. He's a challenge monster. That's right. So he'd love this stuff. That'd be perfect for him janine wants dna kits for her grandchildren I have four and all three of my children have done one Have fun. Would that be? Uh, let's see ancestry kits do my dad's from susan pierce and roger strong It's obviously not possible But the opportunity to talk to my oldest paternal ancestor for an hour again Yeah, why only an hour? Why just an hour? Why limit it? I want to live with them for a week They just don't want to be too greedy. They thought maybe they'll give me an hour. Do you think I'm greedy? No, no No, it's just I think they're thinking that I don't know Uh, the mayflower society acceptance would be nice We agree june So you've you've uh Send all your stuff and haven't heard yet or are you in the process? Virginia fields wants a scanner and organizer fairy to visit So that she could wake christmas morning and find that all of her scan stacks are Done are done like the shoemaker's elves, right? Yeah, I don't have a scan stack. I have a scan room This whole office is full of stuff I could scan Whoo, that's why I love the scanathon because it actually made me scan some stuff Let's see to find out what happened to my paternal grandfather, william benningfield After he was released from san quentin in 1949 I'm glad to hear he was released and then he didn't find swim Oh, san quentin's the other one Uh, find my Mother find the mother my maternal great great grandfather Robert bull really people let's see if we can do a christmas miracle for for these people leave on Uh, let's see. I know this is a frivolous answer from dot dunlap But every year since I've been doing genealogy. I asked my two brilliant sons for a time machine Why why have brilliant children if they can't do that for you exactly? Yeah What's up with that? That's the point Uh, my grandfather great great great my great great grandfather's origins. I'm a 16 I want to know where charles w how comes from these people are giving us information go to their I'll click back until you find charles now. Let's see if we can get some answers for these people i'm putting out A saturday morning challenge. We're not gonna be bags wiki challenge No, no saturday morning challenge christmas challenge. There we go We'll be back in three weeks and you look we'll come back to this and see if we anybody found anything Sounds very cool. Uh, three wishes from pr That I could find out my grandfather That I could find out where my dad's grandfather went And with whom he left his son Oh And that my younger brother would take a dna test to help solve the two issues above that's a good one Uh, and here's another one for nathan dylan good one the five books the latest five books And that's what I actually did. I actually have the latest five books out here So yeah, because there's like 10 all together, isn't there now? Yeah, but I think she wants the mysteries and this is the uh That's the venator one the chester creek murder. Yes. Yeah It goes I have them all in order I'm so obsessed with compulsive like that So I read them on ebook. So you have them on ebook. Yeah, I do I Oh, there's something about holding a book Smelling it you can get high Oh, yeah smell of a book Get high on life um, let's see Having worked my tree since 73 my southern wall has been a paternal great-grandfather Two years ago. I discovered a probable name from a small newspaper clipping from 1864 where my great-grandmother Had summoned him for child maintenance Uh, I thought the wall was down apparently there's no trace of him after that day. The name stated was thomas Bueller Boer Boer I'm thinking ferris bueller's day off. Yeah, I know 1864 clipping you wonder wonder wonder if maybe he was Enlisted somewhere and didn't make it through the war There's somebody didn't work very well. Yeah, let's do this christmas challenge Let's do this christmas challenge 19 of the 1776 some of these we can't physically do like the 1890 census. Yeah Uh, somebody wants the Blaine that injures book Or is that um, that's the other one. That's um, oh diane's is it? Yeah, no not diane's that's um Oh now I gotta fix this I gotta fix this I gotta look it up It is um, we'll take a moment here while we do a Here we go. It and I know who okay. There we are debbie parker wane I'm sorry debbie. I know who you are and I know that you wrote this great book. I have it Apologies Debbie parker wane's book And time that was another big one and the question of the week was time Time to do all the research that has yet to be done Time to go back and ask the questions of the people who have died And who had the answers to the questions. I didn't ask in the stories. I didn't retain If you have an older generation in your family that you need to talk to talk to them That's my christmas gift to you While you're while you're hanging out at the table get a piece of paper and pencil And write down what they're saying. Yeah Yeah, yeah Do it or recorded that if they don't mind having the you know, just put on the recording app and just say tell me some stories My sister recorded my grandparents in 1983 and sent that recording to my brother and I 20 years after they passed Oh, wow Yeah, oh my gosh and hearing hear their voice again Yeah, but the weirdest thing is their house. She did it at their house And when you leaned on their kitchen table, it squeaked And you can hear my grandfather leaning on the kitchen table and you can hear the table speaking And the regulator clock on the wall in the stairwell. You can hear it clicking Oh, it's just wonderful to be just just took you right back. Hey, it did took me that was my time machine So that's the question of the week Very cool. That is yeah Uh, Janine says that she does audiobooks. Mm-hmm How about a brick wall christmas challenge channel and discord kathy go for it That sounds excellent go for it and I will keep track of stuff Right and chris apparently when I was talking about secret santa chris already had that idea and he Cursed me for stealing his ideas. So chris, you know, there is a delay Oh, yeah, okay. That means you probably had it first Okay Well between chris and kathy they can run that discord channel and I think yeah, everyone else joining in that would be great Well, because this is the last week of the of the 2021 wiki tree challenges Yeah, as of wednesday all of those wiki tree challengers will be unemployed. So here we go I'm gonna add this to the stream real quick James tanner is our the final one He is a blogger and an author and uh, so That's the next one. So tune in wednesday night to check out james tanner Or are they working on james already? Wait a second. Yes, they are Yeah, so check in on wednesday night to see the end of it and then the first one for Next uh is for let's see Here we go jimmy wales. Is anybody on here know who jimmy wales is? Oh, sorry I just anybody anybody come on give us some answers here. Anybody know who this this fella is Well, wait, I don't know. What's that? Does hillary know? I don't know if hillary knows because of wales Oh because of wales that's funny It's and and she lives up near where will and kate lived Oh, yeah, not far Oh Great creator of wikipedia. He is our first challenge person for this coming year. So there you go. I'm going to take that down Kathy kath hillary janet aisles and kathy navva were right on top of that one two and three and your prize for guessing that is uh In three weeks you get to hang out with craig and I again It's not hard Oh, wait, will you be around in three weeks craig? I think I will or will sarah be back. Well, we don't we don't know the answers to these questions I'll be here. You'll be okay. Good someone will be here mags and mystery guest mystery host. All right Great It's Would you like me to share my screen and we talk about the profiles of the week? That sounds like something we might do. We might do. Okay. Just just saying Okay, then let me share this screen here Hey, did I do that or did you do that? You did that I did that. I figured it out. Yay You figured out your mystery powers Ma'am mystery powers. There we go Okay, so now this was a very educational week for me because the topic was us senators and being a canadian citizen and never having studied us government In detail, there was a lot of things I did not know But the main profile of the week was senator bob dole and I have heard of senator bob dole and He just passed away just recently right and that's The december 5th Yeah, and uh, he was a from from from what I gathered from the news What I knew going in was that he was a well respected um, well loved uh in many circles, uh, politician and uh, military man war hero um And that was sort of the that's what I knew But all the many other details I didn't but he was born in uh, july 22nd 1923 in russell, kansas Where he passed away as well in russell, kansas um, son of doran ray dole and bena marie telbit What is kind of neat, um, I didn't realize that but it looks like all all of the senators uh politicians have this at the top The outline of how they served and what they served. So he was a u.s. Representative as well as a senator Um from 61 to 68 and then 69 to 96 a nice little palindrome there at 69 turning into 96 um And You know, I'll be making those connections whenever I find them He was a high school athlete Um, and he again he served in world war two. He did an amazing number of missions I think it was 150 or something like that. It was um Uh Or am I thinking of a different? Anyway, see got married in new hampshire in 1948 attorney politician and then um Vice president vice president presidential nominee And ran for the republican president presidential nominee, but didn't Uh, he wasn't he didn't become the He didn't run in the actual election so That's what I gathered about him Kansas nice profile good work on the profile people Yeah, nice And then the next one Edward Brooks So I learned something That I asked mags about before we started the live cast and I'm just going to throw it out there So if you look at um, Edward Brooks who was born in 1919 in Washington, DC Son of Edward William Brooks jr. So this is Edward William Brooks. The third is the senator His father would have been the second or junior. So presumably Edward's grandfather would have been the original Edward William Brooks Um, and his mother was Helen C. Selden um He died in 2015 so looking at so He was almost he made it to almost a hundred. So he would have been in his um, his 96th year When he passed away. So that was very impressive. I look at the banner. I love that there's somebody in here that can do math early on I love mathing like mathing is great. Yes um So looking at his banner, he served as a senator from 67 to 79 for massachusetts Um, and I hadn't noticed this on bob dole's uh banner But this one and many of the other ones that we'll get to Say that he's a class two senator And so I was confused by that and so I'm wondering how many people know what um, what they mean by a class two senator We'll ask that question. I I did not know But it makes sense to me now that I know Yes, what is the class system for senators? Yes There you go. We'll look at those answers and no you can't google it just The answer comes up if you google it, but I'm wondering how many people actually knew Before you googled it that there were classes It's interesting. Yeah, so greg and I just had this whole conversation before that's right Yeah, so do you want me to wait while they while they answer? I guess so. Yeah, because we'll be seeing it on others Greg schooled me on on us About that There's a lot. I don't know but that that little piece of I did learn so, you know, it was a learning experience Um, so he was He became the first What's that? It's a short but sweet It is short, but he was the first african-american popularly elected to the united states senate Um, so when it says popularly elected I Does I imagine that means that he there may have been a previous African-american who was appointed I I'm not sure. Um, I I think that after the civil war that there may have been some Um, and I don't know about how the election I don't know what the election statuses were for some of the people that were in Right after but I don't know. I don't understand that. I don't know about appointments and things like that. Yeah But a nice first Yes, very nice first. Yeah And buried in arlington national cemetery Bob dole. Yeah, I know that pops up a lot. There's a number of our profiles of the week people are Buried there so Um, do we have any we don't have any guesses yet about what a class? No No, shall I enlighten them? Yeah, go ahead. Okay, so I found out that a senator's term is six years And many of you would think okay. That's common knowledge. Well, it wasn't exactly common knowledge up here in canada, um I would have guessed four. I would have been wrong is six But in the in your constitution and at one point they decided that senators because they're six years They're appointed for six years. Every state has two senators You wouldn't want a state to have two senators Reelected go up for reelection in the same year. So They established they divided the senators into three and three three batches So three classes like three grade three classes in school. Um, it's not like upper class lower class It's just class one two and three and so a third of those senators Get elected in one year and then two years later another class gets elected and another two years. So, um What did I just tell you a class two was the most recent election where the class two senators? and so in 2022 when you have yet another election coming up for senators and other officials um, the class three senators will be elected. So That's how it works And donald lindgren says that the senators used to be selected by state governors Yeah, I didn't know that So there may have been previous african-american senators But this was but um, edward was the first one elected or nice Nice, very cool So next Margaret chase four teeth cousins four times removed Very cool Margaret madeline chase smith Born in skull hegan Somerset, main She looks like a senator. Yes, I actually Found a youtube video that pronounced skull hegan for me. So I could I could pronounce it properly I'm impressed And did you know that skull hegan is in the middle of main? It's not on the coast. So it is a um Landlocked What's it's landlocked and uh, it's uh, it's got a paper. I believe it has a mill and there was a whole youtube documentary about um You know the difficulties in some of these inner Inner, um, not inner cities cities inside, you know that are Where industries are are failing and whatnot and nice. Well, not nice, but No, yeah, judy stutz says that upon establishment establishment of a us state That the senators and representatives were selected Right That's a good one and there's a criteria for that And if they're when the 51st state if you get to 51 states Then because currently class 1 has 33 class 2 is 33 and class 3 has 34 senators So if you get a 51st state, then you'll have 34 and each so it'll be nice and even so it'll be very symmetrical Yep Um anyways back to margaret um Born in 1897 died in 1995 So look at she was in her 98th year Wow And that's pretty amazing. She was on Face the nation with elinor roosevelt Wow Very cool um, I let uh She married clad smith and she I believe if I recall correctly Um, she worked as an executive assistant to her husband and then when he passed away She became She took his seat that happens a lot. Yeah um Yeah It was here on the uh Yeah, here it is after serving three years smith her husband suffered a heart attack the day before his death in 1940 He asked his constituents to elect his wife as his successor Wow That's and then she became and then she went on to went on to greatness Um, she has there's a great quote in here um Yes, I love this She apparently she also had a fine wit in 1952 when asked what she would do if she woke up in the white house She replied I go straight to mrs. Truman and apologize and then Isn't that great that is great Yeah And then I go home I thought that is where the door hit me on the way out Oh And kudos to the the wiki tree profiler for putting that in there because that is so cool That is cool Anyways, where'd it go? That quote alone makes me like this person. Yes The next one you're gonna have fun with Oh, yes. Yes. Yes. Okay John Noel detrayer Or are also known as detour because he lived in tour at one point The son of Jean-Baptiste honoré detrayer and jane katrine de goffrey So he was born in New Orleans, Louisiana, but his parents came from from France And look at New Orleans at that point was part of new france So new france being all of the french all of the french colonies in The americas at that time because at that point in 1759 um All of what is now known as cobalt and I guess even parts of ontario We're part of canada new france. So when you like when when we are Intentional about putting the right locations and how's that how they were called? Um, you can't just say new france to me in cobalt. You have to say which province of new france So we're in Anyways, I digress We're getting a canadian civic lesson now That's right. So there was parts of new france that were down in louisiana as well New orleans and at the same time the u.s. Claimed it all the way up too. So that was oh, they did Yes, fog hence the the issue um So he uh januel was um What was interest so he started off his political career as a speaker for the Orleans or leans territorial house. So this would be for before louisiana became a state He was the speaker Now i'm wondering if If what I don't know is like I know there was a lot of French french speakers in louisiana. Um, partly because of the akkadian um Diaspora and that's where a lot of the akkadians were shipped to or escaped to to stay safe um But was it a mix of english and french or would they have it was a mix of english and french only because of the Locality, but it was a french territory It was a french tariff. Yeah so until They got bamboozled Oh So it would have been uh, he would have been called. Uh, it would have been called or leon then that's how you would have pronounced it instead of orleans And now it's pronounced Orleans new orleans new orleans. Oh, yeah. Yeah, I don't know the I don't can't do the draw It's fun to hear though. Um Served during the war of 1812 And then he was one of the I believe he was one of the first senators when the louisiana became a state And he had lots of babies Yes, 14 14 that is crazy Um, yeah So, uh, very interesting who's next who is next, uh, ever Son of yohan fridrich dirksen and ontia alce comrade dirksen Born in illinois In 1896 Died in washington dc in 1969 oh again the palindrome 96 69 Very cool. It means you live a long life if you're a senator. Yeah Yeah uh He was a senator for 18 years so three terms in illinois and He had an identical twin brother, which is very cool. His father died when he was only 10 Um, then his mother ran the household Left high school before left school before high school, but continued Oh, his brother left before high school before finishing but ever continued And then he worked in a corn refining company joined the u.s. Army which took him to south carolina And then in 27 began his political career Where he ran for a seat on the pecan city council I always want to say peaking when I see that but I guess it's not he was at fort jackson the same time as my grandfather was at Fort jackson. Oh I wonder I have to look and see if they were in the same unit Wouldn't that be cool that'd be cool. Mm-hmm. All right Okay You are hitting your microphone and it is hurting my ears. Oh, no, what is that? I wonder is that when I click? I don't know That is okay. I'll try not to You did mention that before so Maybe I will have to put earbuds in 11th cousin eight times removed Okay Okay, so steven arnold douglas born 1913 and brandon vermont Um died in 1861 in chicago. So this uh, so he died younger than many of our other senators that we profiled Um, what I found interesting about him Okay, he was a democratic senator and he's famous for debating uh, abraham Lincoln So he was around during that time Um was elected to the house of representatives 1836 to 1840 so before he became a senator Um, he was a mason Uh Changed his spelling from douglas with two s's to douglas with one s So I found that interest I find that interesting personally because douglas is my biological last name And the original douglas spelling in ireland was two s's and some of the douglas is kept the two s's but My I think it was my grandfather changed to dropped one of the s's and so My biological father only had one s in his last name Paul galloway wants to know what's the subject this morning paul senators. We don't know what the subject is We we're just we're actually reviewing the stuff that has happened over the last week and we're talking about We're going to be looking at profiles For us senators right now. Those are the people being identified because bob dole died last week And we did the question of the week and then we're going to move on Very shortly, I hope pictures of the week Okay, I'll move this around um so With this senator the thing that um jumped out because the lincoln connection There was one thing here about the he initially endorsed the dread scott decision So I had to do some reading up on that because I had I'd heard the nerve I'd heard the phrase dread scott before but I didn't know what it referred to And I knew it had something to do with politics and african-americans So I when I read up on it. It is um, it is not good And uh, it was basically what is the A slave that had resided in a state or us territory For a certain amount of time Yeah, it never becomes citizens. That's right because Yeah, there was a the supreme court There was a one of the supreme court justices and said this was the worst um The worst um decision we have ever made um biggest black black eye um So he initially endorsed that but obviously reversed his decision because then he was uh pro union And when the civil war broke out he rallied his supporters to the union cause And I had a typhoid fever not john tiner doesn't have a question. He has a comment You know, he lives in ireland, right? Yes, he does and his he's aunt's his aunt's married name is douglas with 1s Oh, interesting. Let you know Yeah, thank you. Well, so my my douglas is go back to ireland, but I searched on um this profile and his Go as far um go back to the 1600s um in england So I don't think we're actually connected Uh Oh, yeah, so it is the clicking. Okay. Um Yeah, oh, yeah, that would do it. John glenn is my 16th cousin two times removed. Are you guys related to any of these people? Everybody's showing me So john glenn very famous as an astronaut and then went into politics as well And then his daughter just went up on blue origin Oh, I didn't know that. Yeah Yeah, and then he went to went into space again And at that point when he went into space the second time He was the at that point. He was the oldest person to be in space But now since then Uh Uh did william shatner 92 Yeah, I think so because he returned to space in 98. He was born in 21 So he would have only been 77 up So william shatner beat him But at the time he had the record It's it's like all these olympic records for a time You're the one on the top and then someone beats you wasn't there a lady on william shatner's flight though that was Higher, I think so I'd have to look and see I'm gonna look that up Senator daniel ken Inouye From hawaii william shatner Um Some of hyator taro inouye and kame inouye inouye. He doesn't have the little um template on his No, that's interesting I didn't notice that before I mean the the profile is very nice and how it's laid out Mm-hmm Did military service and then served as a senator from 63 to 2012 The first person to hold that position from hawaii. So again another wow hawaii became From 1963 to 2012 that is a long time to be in a job. It is a long time. Yeah and he was um a number of people when he passed away in 20 um in 2012 a number of high-profile people talked at his um Under him president obama and presidents obama and clinton vice president bryden speaker of the house um And his body was lain in state in washington as well as back in hawaii. Nice. So he was obviously well respected Next guy is john p jones john p jones I am not familiar with him. He's from nevada Okay And i'm not related to him Okay, born in herfordshire england and died in los angeles 1829 Served and set to 70 from 73 to nine to 1903 So 30 years wow Okay, went to california in the gold rush Now this is an interesting profile because The first it's sort of the same information twice, but there's no dividing there Um, the one it just says he went to he went to the california in the gold rush and the second one It's said he went to it said basically he went to california for the gold rush But he came from ohio up to the great lakes to the welling canal Sailed around the world basically. Yeah, like that seems like a really There's must have must have been an easier way to do that and it would you how much longer would it have been It probably would have been a lot safer to go that route than to go across the territories. Really? Yeah, I guess John glenn is from june book because Area hey steven to mass wits There we go So the last two um, i'm just going to show them quickly um Are ones that people are probably more familiar with ted kennedy um brother of president john f kennedy and um Famous politician Even us canadians know about him, but his biography is very very short. Um It has a there's an art a link to an article on wikipedia and then the biographical From the congress which gives all the the details of his postings and uh appointments So there's lots of information there, but none of it is actually on wikitree and since he's actually passed away that surprises me like Probably need to do some work on him yeah, so and then rand Whose first name actually is randall randall howard paul Was his name. He was born with but he is um Everyone else connected to him as privates. So they're still living and uh, he himself is still living So that doesn't surprise me that his profile is Uh fairly short as well He though is from the area where the tornado struck last week In kentucky Oh, I see. Okay. There we go Okay Over to you for the You want me to do i gotcha 100% Look at this alexis nelson Oh nice photos of the week are um christmas or the holidays. So any holiday And the very first one is uh alexis nelson with her um Granddaughter clary's Isn't that just great and look at that christmas scene Wow, that's great Then uh, let's scroll on down here Sister visiting santa and this is from robin shawls They don't look very happy. Oh, no about visiting santa The robin actually looks a little scared. Yeah, yeah, they're pretty young They are young There's a really cute one down down a ways And I can't wait for oh look at that. Oh, that's very excited to be decorating the tree Pat miller. I think that is pat In 1953 pat is helping with the tinsel maybe Mm-hmm. I don't know if I could do my fingers that way the way. Yeah, really and that's so fun. She's so excited Yeah, she loves everybody Oh, let's go down. This is a really cool one. I have participated for three years So I hope i'm not reusing this photo. We don't mind that at all Uh, this is my grandma. Oma M. Allison rammel My great-uncle's harley francis allison and dale amelia allison Look at that place nice Wow That is a wood stove behind them. That is kind of dangerous, isn't it? Yeah, but it doesn't look like it's connected to a stove pipe or anything So it's just now Those were often built in france and kebek. My family actually has one of these stoves. Uh, and they're gorgeous They're usually ceramic and enameled and they're gorgeous. So that's a really beautiful picture billy sims And look at the old car Nice. Yeah Great Oh, let's roll it on down. This is a my mother-in-law My baby the baby is my husband And this is in toronto And that's from mary and ross or m ross These are cute. My grandmother. Mina was father christmas in and about presents I think she makes a good santa That's from janet gun I love that series of pictures and how you how you got that posted as a series very neat Yeah Here's an easter picture with uh, joys fander bogart My sons did not go to see santa's clause sit on his lap or order their presents instead. They went to see the easter bunny Of course, that's fun This is a cute. This is the picture. I think this should be the photo of the week. I'm gonna help me vote this Um, I was born 11th of january 1946 in victoria bc and vaguely remember Pulling at my harness now you see the harness Yes, if you're a parent and you ever had a kid who was a wild child You wanted one of these harnesses and he actually says Um, I I remember vaguely pulling at my harness on the city sidewalk trying to go my own way That is just so cute. I love that picture. That is great and and he's pointing he's like get me away from these Yeah, that's right So that's john thompson. I love that. That's my my choice for pick of the week A great photo of christmas around 1985 in the living room of my parents house. That's from deeter lorence nice look at the the upholstery and the all of that gold That house was decorated in 1970 72 73 Uh, and here is a picture of janine. Hello janine Oh Look at look at the mess they're making with all of that wrapping paper Just look at that So uh janine and the two oldest children in 1984 That is a great picture as well. Very cool. Uh, santa. I remember sitting with santa in 1954 with my sister monarch marcia Uh in the frederick and nelson store in seattle and that's from gary navis That's a cute picture Okay, don't get freaked out by this I it took me a minute to figure out what this is This is a room in an ice Um nice hotel ice hotel and yuka's javi Uh, and but it doesn't say actually where Yeah, it's in sweden or So that's from jillian look you would have to Really have lots of covers for me to sleep. Yeah It looks beautiful. It doesn't mean yeah And how do you how do you keep the snow from getting down in the the furry? Stuff that's cool. Yeah Oh, my mother shelly cumby you're you're in big trouble My mother for years hid this photo because it wasn't of her best song Oh, no And let's see, uh, here's one from accrues Thanksgiving in florida for mary and seruti. There's a lighthouse there The parents the grown-ups table. Oh the grown-ups table. Yes. Yeah Oh the late fifties. Okay. I was wondering when that was taken As to having port, you know, it looks it's so well done like so well lit I almost thought it's like a sitcom recreation You know, and I thought is that is that elford hitchcock at the head of the table there and Well, you know, I'm always looking for reflections in windows or people looking out of windows I'm thinking that if you could get this camera this picture this picture and look hard enough There's a corner unit. I bet you could see who's taking the photograph in that In the reflection of the doors there Let's see my parents. They're home in norwich england 1961 and that's from christine frost How about that and that's her cousin? And here's a cute picture don't know for sure if this is a studio portrait was taken around christmas the holiday But the backdrop certainly suggests that time of year right gray and arthur mclean about 1890 So cute. Yeah. Now. So those are guys, right? Yeah, little boys I remember on a previous one you talked about that they used to do that, right? Yeah, they used to the boys used to get dressed in dresses my grandfather pictures of my grandfather in dresses When he was little and that was 19, you know, 12 or so 1967 my brother mic and me what a mess we have created looks a lot cleaner than janine's house just Yeah, I was looking that too and I thought that doesn't look messy. No debor campbell And look at this. Oh, I love that. That's eco Betsy you have the best photographs off. Okay So did they have that bell around your neck to to warn them because you were sneaking around trying to figure out what santa was doing Betsy Christmas is awesome. Yes, it is Betsy. That's great. And here is a one from kathy navva My uncle tiki so she used to brag that her uncle was santa That's her uncle tiki. Isn't that great with her youngest daughter Let's see and there's just one more or two more. This is uh christmas 1950s with kathy navva. That's your parents And I think that's the last one Whoo, we made it we barely Sorry, I went on I you know, I love that you're going the deep dive into these Well, especially the topic this week is when I didn't know much about it all And some of the names I sort of knew a little bit about I'd heard of but you know, I probably wasted too much time talking about Nathan, I love that. So, you know, I can't complain Ha ha ha so um and Are you trying to scare the children chris? Oh, no, kathy santa is gonna steal you. Oh, no Uh, and he also did say norman rockwell christmas. Yeah. Yes, that's true Yeah, I love looking at all of your pictures and your your stuff Have a great, uh holiday season if you celebrate, um, if you've just finished your celebration I hope it was great Greg I will send you lots of lots and lots of good thoughts on christmas day because I know you are going to be very busy I know And then the next day is a sunday. So again, yeah, it's not even take boxing day off. I have to go back to church again Math competitions are often musicians as well Music is like math Yeah, so have a good holiday season We will see you not this weekend not Next weekend, but the weekend after that. We'll see you next year. We'll see you next year We will Have a great great time and let me see if I can find something to play us out of here. Okay What should we play out of here? Um Here we'll just do this one. You guys have a good good holiday