 Welcome, welcome. David and I are here for the first Friday in April. I forgot how cool our introduction was I know we kind of stole it from your notables wiki tree So how's everybody doing everybody excited for bingo Friday we bring a different theme to you I know that we have a couple new people David that are in our chat. So I'm just gonna go over just very briefly the Basics of bingo. So first Friday of every month, we have bingo There'll be two bingo cards given for this particular hour and I've already posted it If you want to scroll back you can find it and I'll give it to you again in a few minutes but I want to thank you guys for joining us as we go through a different topic so each bingo we have a Different topic a different notable then we try to bring some history into it as well show off their profiles in wiki tree Some profiles have very high cc7 and some have zero and some are not even connected So our goal here is to show off what a profile can look like and then hopefully you guys will kind of look at it add a Biography to it try and get it connected to the tree try and get higher cc7 for example on it and that we do Focus first bingo card Almost always on one person and then the second bingo card is a little bit bigger topic And I will let everybody know too that I get this question a lot Do you guys need a topic and David and I have worked all the topics out for the rest of the year? And we've put them on the Friday night bingo page. It's kind of a code though. Isn't it David? Yeah, some you know even a little a Little sneaky with some of your terminology But but I would I would amend what you said that even though we do have our our topics work out We can always use more ideas for other projects that we work on So if you've got a topic that you'd like to see something done with Definitely, let us know and we can figure out where we can put it Doesn't necessarily have to be for bingo. No, but it could be pop-ups you you you do pop-ups all the time You do all pop-ups. That's what I said. I love doing the pop-ups, but I do run out of ideas at times. So Keep them coming. It it seems like everybody's busy. Um, so David Or you're at in Texas pretty warm Yeah, it's in the low 80s here. I think everybody's gonna be jealous because I was reading the chat And there are quite a few people that are dealing with snow still. Yeah, I'm hoping it's gonna stay We're we're right in the path of the eclipse up for Monday, but now they're saying we make it loud So we'll see but we're gonna be total darkness That's right. You will be won't you? Yeah, so that's gonna be cool You'll have to let us know how it went and share pictures. So I am putting I'm sorry That is Reese. He's in the background. I just put the first bingo card up for those of you that are new What you want to do is kind of get ready if you have a second device or a second screen or a different tab Go ahead and bring that bingo card up We're gonna talk about the topic though for this bingo and who we're gonna focus on for the first card Then we'll do the bingo game the first bingo card. So David, this is your topic this month topic and I will give everybody a little bit of Hence about this topic too if it's our American cousin but Lincoln is Lincoln American cousin are you guys a cousin to Lincoln and I will post his profile in just a minute, but date started this project in 22 2022 so tell us a little bit about it. This was actually the very first project. I started when I was I'm still fairly new on on wiki tree and It is our American cousin our American cousin was the play that Abraham Lincoln was watching on the evening that he was assassinated and What this project? Covers is the cast and crew and orchestra That was performing that night. So we have identified through various sources all of the actors that were participating that evening all of the crew members that were on the Ford's Ford's theater team and A good number of the orchestra. There is no master list of orchestra out there, but we've through various sources You know been able to pull pull the names of some so the goal of the project is to Just as Sandy was saying earlier to connect all of these individuals The big tree get their cc sevens up, but then beyond beyond that we really my hope is to Really make these profiles shine these are these individuals are The vast majority of them are not considered notable as far as wiki tree standards go they do not have Wikipedia pages, but they were Well, many of them were very popular in their time and they had You know a really A really amazing experience that they that they went through some of them It destroyed their lives, but it wasn't like some of them never recovered from from witnessing what they saw What a lot of people don't realize perhaps is as soon as the assassin assassination happened The theater was shut down and the actors were all basically held in custody as suspects and some of them were held up to a couple months so You know talk about a traumatic experience being Accused of participating in the assassination of the president With it and I will tell you guys I you know as I used to live in this area I was raised in this area. So some of the names that you hear I'm very familiar with because we drove by their farms their houses all the time We it just was second nature does but if you have lived in the Washington DC area been the Ford's theater Is it beautiful this beautiful old-time theaters with the velvet curtains in the boxes? It's just beautiful It's not a huge arena So when David starts talking about these people and also Lincoln being shot Think of yourself some one of those beautiful old-time theaters that are wooden they have the stage in front of you The the velvet curtains everybody's dressed for the event because this was after the civil war You know we're sitting there winding it down from civil war people are starting to come out I kind of equated a little bit to covet how we're starting to come out of covet and see They wanted to be dressed in their best The actors were back. They were acting the the orchestra was there They were having a good time because just think about it. The president was coming to and you wanted your best so I want to get everybody in that mindset And then David's going to take us on a trip. Yeah, and you do have to remember that this was 1865 it was a different world back then And going to the theater wasn't what it is today It was you know, they didn't have movies. They didn't have television. So going to the theater was Something that the masses did it wasn't like people going to Broadway now that you got to pay You know $300 for a ticket This was something that Both the upper and lower classes were able to participate in And the theaters as they worked back then They had what what they called A stock company So they had a team of actors and crew members that worked at the theater and put on different plays rather than Bringing in a new cast every time a play was was performed They had the same people performing over and over and sometimes they would at the last minute They'd say, you know tonight instead of doing play a we're going to do play b instead And they'd switch it up cast members would take different roles Sometimes the crew if somebody was sick one of the crew members would step in And play the role And then what they had were the big stars that would come in and today our focus is going to be on laura keen She was the headliner the night that lincoln was assassinated And i'm going to tell a little bit about her story And then we'll talk about what happened the night of the assassination itself But laura keen She was born in 1821. I believe i'm going to try that date, right? um No, i'm sorry 1826. She was originally born mary frances moss. She Was from a fairly well-to-do family. They had some pretty pretty significant connections But she was born in england And she married at age 18. She had two children Her husband was the deput of the duke of wellington So he was a man of some Some esteem he Was also though apparently had some criminal tendencies. We don't know exactly what he did But we do know that at some point he was arrested and he was shipped off to australia And that was the end of that marriage So she's now left with two children and no money But she has an aunt who was a fairly famous actress at the time and her aunt said come on over to my theater And i'll put you on stage and we'll make you a little cash Well, she was a hit You know people people loved loved her and she happened to Be seen by an american theater owner Who said come with me i'll take you to america and we'll make you a star And so she hopped on a ship and sailed to america She changed her name. I were to laura keen because back then it was um It was not seen as being appropriate to be a single An unmarried woman with children and performing on stage So she kind of had two separate lives. She was married francis moss the mother and Probably i'm gonna i'm gonna guess she claimed to be a widow rather than the wife of a of a convict but Her mother took care of the kids and then she went off as laura keen and and did her acting She went to the united states She became Again, she was a hit right from the very beginning She performed for about a year to rave reviews and then she decided that there wasn't enough Of a future in acting even as a star you only make as much money as your your manager is going to give you so uh, she went off and became her own manager And opened up her own theater in new york city. I'm sorry not in new york. She she was in new york city She moved to baltimore and opened up her theater in baltimore and she managed it she um Hired all the cast and crew She picked the scripts that were going to be played and very often she starred in the shows as well So she basically did everything and she became very Very successful as a theater manager She is considered to have been one of the most powerful theater owners of that era And definitely the most powerful female theater owners or worse of others, but she was She was definitely at the top there so, um She she wasn't though content with managing this the small theater so she Decided to do some traveling And she traveled to california performed in san francisco and a few cities on the west coast Then she went to australia where she performed Um came back to california performed some more went back to australia performed some more now I know that one of my One of my main reasons I haven't been to australia ever is because I hate flying and to be on a on a Spent a full day on a on an airplane is more than I think I can handle Um, I can't imagine in 1865 traveling back and forth between california and australia multiple times um I have no idea what you know, what that must have been like um We hear about the immigrants that come over and the the trials and tribulations they go through but she was doing it for pleasure um anyway, so um when in california the second time she met edwin booth that was the um the brother of john wilk's booth who we all know of what he became infamous for but um his brother was an even bigger After than he was his father was before them and um And then his brother and there were actually some other family members that were also Very big in the theater circus circuit um So she went to um that she went to australia with edwin booths a second time um, they had a falling out but that was her um Their connection her connection to the booth family initially was having toured with um john wilk's booth's brother There's a lot of interesting coincidences Um, maybe not so much coincidences, but you see how it how it's a very small world the theater circuit at that time that um many of the people that uh, we've run into in the story um New booths not just as a fellow actor, but even as a um As a personal friend and some of them actually grew up with the booth family There were some people that were on stage that night that actually were childhood friends of john wilk's booth so, um, this is kind of a strange um Connection group of connections we have so um anyway, so she went to australia. She came back from australia Went back to baltimore after the falling out with booth. She went to baltimore. She opened up her own theater She had a theater built at the time The average uh theatrical show ran for about um about 12 shows So where we have shows today that run for years sometimes On average when you when you produce a show back, then you could expect about About 12 performances the first show she put on um, I believe had i mean did my numbers correct here? um I believe it was 50 performances. I don't have the notes here But um the first show she was called the elves. I have no idea what it was about other than i'm guessing elves um And she ran that show for 50 shows She then ran um her next show ran um for six weeks And uh that show actually had a scene Where the hero was stranded on an island surrounded by an ocean And at one point he dives off the the island into the ocean So how they created an ocean on stage? I'm not sure but that must have been a fascinating thing to see is again Remembering that it's um 1865 not 2024 Um, and then her third show ran for um 253 performances So that just shows you how successful she was as a producer And um a theater manager to go from an average of 12 shows up to 253 of the same show Um, then she got um this idea. She was aware of a show that was performing in or had been produced in um in england called our american cousin And it was written by tom taylor who was a prolific theatrical writer and he um His show flopped it was a dramatic performance about an a man that comes from america um in order to collect inheritance from his wealthy British uncle and he comes to america and basically uh, the just is that um, he's some sort of a buffoon as the british thought of americans back then and um he um He ultimately Comes out comes out as kind of the hero of the show But the idea is this american buffoon can't speak proper english all of that Um trying to collect his inheritance. She sees the show Or hears of the show reads the show and she thinks it's actually funny So she comes she actually buys the rights to the show And turns it into a comedy And when she performs the show, it's a huge hit becomes the biggest hit of the era That's performing um at her theater in baltimore. She then takes it on the road and Ends up in um in washington dc In washington dc. They're going to do a handful of performances. The president is not originally intending to come She's not the star of the show. She's the biggest name in the show, but she's not the star They the owner of the theater she's at she's at ford's theater the owner of the theater is john ford He is um, he leaves town because it's not a big deal He leaves town he goes down to virginia, which is a big mistake on his part, which we'll talk about momentarily, but um, he's off in virginia and They really he leaves his brothers in charge. He has two brothers are both in their young 20s He leaves the two of them in charge of the theater well, they realize that um friday is good friday And they're not expecting a lot of people, but they have this idea What if we invite the president if the president comes to the theater? We'll we'll sell the house out so they send an invitation over to the white house The president doesn't want to go he Is exhausted the civil war ended five days earlier so he's just come out of You know a A major ordeal that he's been dealing with and his wife says let's go to the theater That's not at all something that he's um, he's looking forward to but he had reached he needs a night out So they invite the grants general grant and and mrs. Grant to go with them um, but mrs. Grant Does not like mrs. Lincoln so she um Makes up an excuse and they get out of going to the theater and instead At the lincoln's apparently actually contacted several people who turned them all down Which is just amazing that if the president of the united states asked you to the theater that you would say no But um, they had trouble finding somebody to go but they finally found a young um, a young soldier that was part of the white house team And he and his fiance went with them. So the four of them went to the theater and um Laura keen Well, let me see what Before we go on how how close are we to wanting to do the bingo card? I would say we should do it because I I already know the second bingo card as well If we want to give away too much, right? So let's do the let's do the bingo card before we move into the second the second part And then uh, when we talk about throwing the bingo, let me go ahead and give everybody the rules for bingo real quick so For bingo once you get the card up on your screen You're going to click on the word that we call out just like any kind of other bingo except We use words instead of numbers click on it. You need to get either diagonally vertically or horizontally To win the first person who typed bingo in the chat is the winner so Five of you might have won at bingo have bingo at the same time But whoever's quick drawl and can type the fastest That's who gets the prize the prize is a mug from wiki tree And you can only win once every six months and that's you or anybody in your family as well Let me just go ahead and that just kind of shows you the Horizontal vertically and diagonally to get there is a free space in the middle Feel free to click that now give that a test if you happen to click a box by accident You're like oops didn't mean do that just click on it again and that will take care of that Let's go ahead. Let me bring up the bingo the very first bingo card that we have here And just remember unit you guys know but for those of you who are new Feel free to yell at me put it in caps bingo bingo bingo because once um, I started kind of talking about bingo It's fun. We talked about the different Topics that we have coming up then let me bring this up And Let's get going I was going to say a couple people have posted here at least ann has posted and this was true that um She went to australia and looked for her as but that was um Early on not when she was touring but she had an earlier trip where she did go to australia to find him to get a divorce And it's not clear whether she didn't find him or she found him and he refused the divorce But she did not get the divorce. Um, they were married until he died Which was 1860 Okay, let's go ahead and start. Okay, so married todd lincoln That's going to be a ran lincoln's wife and as david kind of mentioned earlier that some people declined And you mentioned because specifically because of married todd lincoln. She was a challenging person. She was not easy She was extremely emotional. She would lash out at you as well. She would cut you to the bone She was not an easy person and to go And have a good time with her was just something that wasn't done. I'll just leave it like that and um I'm going to mention that she at at one point um Later in her life Was placed in an in an insane asylum by her son robert todd lincoln um Much of that was directly related i'm sure to having Witness her Her husband getting shot in the head right as they watch as they're watching the play But um, that's an important piece that'll come up. You'll see a pattern here um, and we talked about um general and mrs. Grant Uh declined the invitation. They said they were going out of town um So they did not they otherwise they would have been sitting in the booth as well And who knows what the future of the of the country would have would have um It would have definitely changed the american history. So boston corbett so um Just one second. I want to make sure I got this one correctly um Yeah, so boston corbett um, he was the he was the soldier that actually shot john wilk's booth. So john wilk's booth got um chased into a um a barn basically and um He was uh surrounded and boston corbett is the individual who Actually assassinated him now the thing that's interesting with boston corbett and again i with mary todd lincoln. I said um attention to the pattern he um After after this incident he got a job working as a Basically a security guard at the kentucky state legislature and at some point he uh went a little bit crazy and he wound up holding holding the entire legislature hostage and um Ended up in an insane asylum Um, look it. Yeah, he's got two to go. So Henry rathbone. He was this. He was the young man that attended the the um show with the lincoln's He struggled with booth. Um was slashed in the arm Before booth jumped up out of the box and onto the stage and ran out the back door um, henry rathborn and his wife or his fiance Eventually married But henry rathborn went crazy and tried to kill his wife And ended up in an insane asylum See a pattern. Are we are we seeing the pattern here? Kristen's two to go as well. So samuel arnold samuel arnold. Um, now he was one of the um conspirators And I have not researched the conspirators specifically um, so I don't have a lot of information on samuel arnold. No other than he was one of the um the individuals that was ultimately convicted of conspiring to Kill the president Well, we've got a couple people that are really really close I'm gonna pause real quick too and let everybody know because I'll forget if I don't say this For those of you that that are new or watching this It might not know when we are done with this the page is that we create The page I should say propingo that we create david turns into a pop-up So everybody that he's talking about we would love to have your help as we said writing of the biographies Flesh knows out or giving some more sources connecting adding adding family. There's a connectathon coming up Good opportunity take some of these Yeah, and as I mentioned before some of these people are um, they're not notable So you're not going to find their biographies well written anywhere else on the internet My goal is to get these their biographies all put into one place um, kind of be the premiere location on look at on wiki tree to um You know to learn about these people tom taylor. We mentioned as the author of our american cousin. He was a british playwright And looks like we have a little bit of a horse race going on john and ann have won to go But just because it could be a tricky one that they're waiting on So there's still hope for everybody to win it bingo. So john ford as we know John ford um ran the theater Um, he went to virginia on a trip um and was not present when the assassination happened I mentioned that um going to virginia was probably a mistake because um the war had just ended virginia was the capital of the um confederacy was in richmond and um To be visiting to own the theater where the assassination happened and just happened to be visiting the capital of the confederacy when it happened Uh didn't look too good for him and he was arrested and held for quite a while as a potential conspirator And i'll mention too now that in some of you maybe have already Watched this maybe david and we're talking about it beforehand There's a movie robert redford directed called the conspirator with robin right really really interesting to um See a little bit about that and i mentioned it is uh, it's also on um some free Streaming us out there, but i mentioned it because we might not get to her name So officer parker this one's a good one. So officer john parker was a police officer Washington dc police officer and he was put in charge of guarding lincoln's booth but once the play started he decided that um he wasn't needed till the end so he went across the street and got a beer and Booth was able to enter the um Enter the v booth I'm unobstructed because the police officer in charge was At the bar across the street having having a drink. So he was um He was having a good time and I imagine that You're never going to get over that. Well, you know what though he had been um Charge with their election of duty numerous times previously imagine that and not only did he not get fired But he was later put on the white house detail and put in charge of protecting mary todd lincoln and she threw a fit When he showed up that the man that that Let her husband die is now being put in charge of protecting her He did later on get fired um for um dereliction of duty But apparently they way to guard the president wasn't enough to lose his job And he was assassinated that was just wasn't enough. Well, so darin can gradually oh darin got it So you are going to email a went and let her know that you won the bingo for the first Friday in april and she will get you all the information you need. That's really cool. So congratulations And it's really cool because I know that darin does a lot of connecting and and when we started this hour I snuck a little peek at a comment that he wrote that says I need a new project to work going. So here you go So congrats on that as well Okay, so let's talk about our american cousin a little bit as well If memory serves me right you read a book about this or was it an article? There is a book called um Backstage at the lincoln assassination and um They do tell the story of of the actors Uh, they and and many of the the crew as far as um What their role was in the um That that night doesn't go into as much about their life stories But it does talk about what happened behind the scenes that night It's it's a very important part of the story because again, most of these actors Were friends and acquaintances of john wilkes booth. So when you have a play going on Well, let me add another piece there too. This also took place in washington dc right on the border of of um maryland baltimore is not far away the states um Around washington dc that area They were right on the border of the confederacy and the union. So you had people from both sides And um, you know where if you were up far up north in new england You probably were a unionist if you were down in You know, south carolina georgia that area. You're probably a confederate, but if you're in baltimore Nobody nobody knew necessarily which side you were supporting. We had people um, leaving both ways so when you have this play going on and It turns out that it's an actor Who is familiar with the rest of the cast and crew has been to the theater before He gets in past security, etc Immediately the suspicions start going. How did he get in? Who opened the door for him? you know what What role did each of these? Cast members crew members, etc. I have even the owners as I said john John ford was held for several months in custody while they investigated him It turns out in the end there was only one crew member that was arrested Um and convicted of of participating and he was that was um Edward Spangler he was um He was a crew member who was somewhat Developmentally delayed I guess might be the right wording for it. So the question Today is did he really? Did he really participate or not or was he just not? Mentally equipped to defend himself and they're looking for scapegoat So whether or not what he was accused of was holding booths horse and when booths Came out the back door jumped on his horse and took off Edward Spangler was holding the horse But whether or not he knew that there was going to be an assassination Is a is a huge question Your friend asked you to hold their horse for him. It doesn't mean you're necessarily participating in the act So and I just want to address a comment in the chat I was john who's now welsh john to me Um, is that where a star spangled banner came from? No, that was something completely different That was from frances scott key. He was in baltimore and um, he was very near as a matter of fact Where the bridge just went down in baltimore looking out over the water somebody else earlier in the chat wanted to know the prices so the price of admission for orchestra was one dollar it it you know at that time one dollar was Substantial money for a lot of people in the dress circle was 75 cents and the family circle 25 But if you wanted a private box, it was eight and ten dollars for the private box So and and so as you can see from that range of prices 25 cents up to ten dollars The theater was Something that everybody could enjoy um And think about that because right now You're how many of us are going to be able to be in the same place as a Leader of a country to watch a play and pay a small fee To be amongst the crowd where the leader of your particular country is I don't think many of us will get that opportunity now because of security and things like that Well and and fort's theater and a little interesting tidbit They didn't have a presidential box. I'm going to have you go back to that picture above in just a moment, but um They didn't have a presidential box and one of um John Ford's brothers ran home and got a rocking chair from his wife And put it in the booth and that's the chair that Lincoln sat in there was later a court battle because The government seized the chair And the family sued and said it's our chair. We want our chair back They gave um, it was actually the widow of of the of the brother that got the chair back And she later sold it by coincidence to henry ford Of um automotive fame, but he has no connection to the Ford family But the the chair that Lincoln was assassinated in is now in the henry ford museum um Just because he happened to have the money to purchase it um this What you're looking at here. This is our american chasm polka. This is my own personal connection to the assassination here um This is a piece of sheet music. I actually um own a copy of this piece of sheet music And the reason for that is because it was printed by my great great grandfather My great great grandfather was a lithographer And one of the things that he was most known for was printing up sheet music for pianos and orchestras And for all the theaters and this is the music that the orchestra played um the night of the um the night of the assassination now um Sheet music back then was a lot like um Would people collect records and an album covers? Sheet music was collectible when when the latest play came out when the latest song came out People ran out and bought the sheet music and they would have um You know a box at home or you know sometimes we put them in the in the bench of the chair but all of the the latest hits and um This is kind of the the soundtrack To the our american cousin now our american cousin was not a musical um But there was an introduction And that comes in as important as well because The orchestra was not present. This is why we don't know who the orchestra was they came in and they did a song And then they left and then they waited till the play was over and they were supposed to come back and play a second song Um, but for most of the time they were not present at the theater So that's why it's hard to get a list of names as to who was actually there and not From from the orchestra standpoint And I put in the chat a link to this page as well Highly encourage you guys to check it out when you have more time. Look at the pictures bring them up on your own screen We don't have a lot of time to go through each and every one of these people that are listed But david has them listed really nicely and also tells you if you see the sea that means they're connected to the big tree So we we have the management. We've talked about a lot of these people as as well as we've gone through the bingo this hour At the cast and david's also let us know What role they played in this particular play And the orchestra That we're going through Management cast crew and orchestra And and you'll see there there are some that are red that means we need a profile for them So there's something for everybody here to work on and after this bingo is done david will post a g to g Kind of mentioning this if you're in the connectors project We also post it there to give the connectors an opportunity to work on The connectors project is a really fun project people are always looking for something different Sometimes we want to get out of our own little way ancestor world and look at different things and if this type of event in our american history or in actors or orchestra or you know, just management of entertainment Interest you then take a look at this page and go through and I've also put the bingo card up the second bingo card so feel free To bring that card up too. So david we've got time to look at about two of them Which one so let's do henry hawk to begin with It's the third one william henry harry hawk and um henry hawk or harry hawk is I guess he went by um He's important because he was the only person on stage the moment the assassination happened and He was um, this was deliberate on the part of booth. He was um A comedic a comedic actor. He was fairly well known in the in the theatrical circles. Um But he read a line and I'm going to read you the line But this line was considered so hilarious at the time that booths deliberately scheduled this moment to um fire the gun because he knew the laughter of the crowd would be so loud that um, It wouldn't be as easily Noticed and the line is so he's um, so he is um Having a dispute with the um Grand old lady of the of the of the show the um elderly helen muzzi was her name and she played Let's see. Do I have her name here? Um, no, I don't have the character's name, but she played kind of a snooty old um of um Um, you know british woman and he was the um Uh kind of dorky american cousin and he said Don't know the man don't know the manners of good society Well, I guess I know enough to turn you inside out old gal. You suck. Dologizing old man trap now I have not yet been able to find out what sucked. Dologizing means And at the time that was considered um an extremely hilarious word And just as planned the audience um began roaring in laughter the president broke into laughter and um and then the gun shot was fired and um All this area broke loose at that point But that was that was the line and um again, it was very deliberate on goose part that that's when he fired the weapon And then which other one would you like us to see? Let's take a look at Well, we can look at um How about um down towards the bottom you should have jenny gore lay and it's interesting you mentioned her because um I don't know is she Carol you'll have to let me know Carol mentioned Maggie Or Maggie's the sister Maggie's the sister so carol mentioned that so so Maggie um so Father and two sisters were all in this play together. So we had um Thomas Corley is the father. He was a well-known actor And um his two daughters jenny and Maggie were aspiring actresses um Maggie died young. She died probably two years later. I think she was about 22 when she died um, jenny went on to be um a fairly successful actress Kind of a socialite. I believe if I remember if I've got my story correct Um, but if you'll scroll down the reason I wanted to show this one um You'll notice Oh, I see jetcom That's what I was just going to say. We've got a jetcom here and um, these are the kinds of things working the notables project We get a lot of um very famous people whose biographies are um either jetcoms or worse than that um cut and paste from wikipedia um And more frequently than that just blank And so I really do encourage people if you've got any kind of writing ability or enjoy writing So not just focus on the cc7s and the connections. We've got lots of people to do that and that's wonderful But we have very few people that actually um Get in there and write write good bios now. You'll see on the on many of these We've got some really really amazing bios already written, but about half of these people um We either have nothing or we've got jetcoms or we've got And we call this jetcom junk. So if you're new to genealogy or new to wiki tree, we call this jetcom junk and There are programs that will help you do this agc Is a extension that can mount that will help you with this. I tend to use Ian's auto bio from the wbe the wiki tree browser extension There's an auto bio that I tend to use that just to kind of clean it up and it will clean it up as well So you've got a couple different ways because once you get rid of this what we call jetcom junk Then what's left is usually things that you can work with and Kind of clean up a little bit But as you go through some of this is confusing it doesn't make a lot of sense What what is this like all these numbers and the source? It's kind of messy Yeah, and if you look at this right here what you're showing look at all these sources And i'm not sure what they're sourcing since there's nothing written into the bio So without all this information, why don't we get some of that actually written into in the narrative? And there's there's you know, I'm up to 23 25 sources here. So the they're two of them that are 1900 There's a lot of duplications auto bio. Here we go. There's another one that saved 1900 Yeah, my favorite that really does nothing is just says hey, it's over there at that other place But it doesn't link to a profile anything like that. That's why I said use a agc look it up Under the extensions for wiki tree if you don't know what it is reach out to to us or anybody if you're in a project guarantee you They know what it is And also the wbe the wiki tree browser extension is what I use quite often the auto bio And then down below you see okay now we're getting into something that I can read and make sense But before that I had a lot of um check on junk. So you'll see the little dots and Up to 27 that was counted Inline sources that some of them are just duplicates and if you're like me I get great joy of going into a profile like this and cleaning it up and making it look pretty if you're not into Biographies and you don't feel comfortable doing biographies, but you're you're really organized in like to clean up things Maybe you've got a little ocd. Maybe, you know, you'd like to be a little Recondo type thing with the bios then feel free go in and clean it up and let somebody else work the bio But any work you do with these we appreciate it because we want to learn about these people We when you go to the profile, it's got beautiful pictures. David. So let's have a beautiful bio along with it The thing I I've enjoyed about this particular group of of notable. Well, I say notables is that they're not Technically notables. They don't meet the required other that there's about a half dozen Perhaps that do meet the requirements for wiki wiki trees notability. The rest of them are not you're not going to find their biographies written on um on wikipedia and you're um Not going to find much even if you google their name. You're not going to find a whole lot So to write these bios we have to do just like we do with our own family members. We've got to go to Vital records and census records and military records And their occupations where they lived and I always tell people if you don't have a lot for a biography Then you can always go back and say where did they live? Well, they lived in edinburgh So you can give some details about edinburgh around the time frame that they were born anything to just give the reader Something interesting and it's also accurate. Okay. We're running a little bit late. We've got the second bingo card though I hope everybody has it up as well And let me see if I can find it over here So our second card is going to focus on on the cast of the play um, so all of these individuals will be cast members and I'll try to give you a little bit of Trivia about each one as we go through them. Okay guys if you're ready I'm not going to show the rules again. Just remember our horizontally vertically diagonally and the first one that yells bingo I noticed a couple people had bingo last time so the first person that yells bingo Is the winner and feel free don't feel bad about yelling it at me and I love steven's comment four to go So that what does that mean? That means click that free space So william henry, which is talking about william henry. Oh he was the um The lead that was on stage at the moment that lincoln was assassinated. So that's His claim to fame thomas reybold he was the The house manager so ford left his two brothers in charge As as in places owner, but um, the house manager was thomas reybold So he was theoretically in charge of the auditorium at the time And l johnson i've included him because we do not know who l johnson was And I have a belief And when I say we I mean nobody knows um, if you read the historical records and stuff there is no, um Consensus as to who this individual was but I believe that the answer is out there as little information Is there going to have as l johnson in baltimore? I bet if somebody was willing to look through The census records for the l johnson's to see who might have been connected to a theater um, you know rule out who couldn't have been um I bet the answer is out there somewhere whether or not we'll ever find it. I don't know but I I'm optimistic and thank you to um you guys for helping each other out in the chat I appreciate that so george parker. So george parkhurst. Um parkhurst Was um a young actor. He was 24 years old and he is the only one that really had a career Um a career that took off afterwards most of them Once they were associated with the assassination their their careers were over but he had a long theatrical career after Afterwards big bamboo. We've got a bingo. Well, that was fast Yeah, we got a bingo. So congratulations carol. That's kind of cool too that you have bingo because you were talking so much about Maybe being related to some of these that are in here. So i'm gonna Give you the same information you're gonna reach out to a1 And let her know that you won bingo on the first friday of april She'll get in touch with you with all the information just so everybody knows this year all year long for bingo the prize is a mug There's many choices too. We added so many bits. Oh not bingo Oh no not bingo I'm gonna wait and see if carol tells me not bingo one more time Okay Did ever okay everybody ready if you everybody keep the cards. I hope yeah if you want We'll try and recreate the card as well There we go. Thank you carol So I know that we have um So we had parkhurst L johnson thomas rable Henry harry hawk I think that was it right? Yep. That should be it. Okay, and then william j fergusson is the next one William j fergusson um william j fergusson was the um Was also very successful. Um, he was um According to all the records now, this is what I love about doing genealogy With historical figures According to all the records. He was 19 years old um I believe he was 15 Um, what I say the records according to all the written published documentation Everybody says he was a 19 year old kid But going through the census records and and other documents that I've been able to find I think he was closer to 15 um I've done this. I've been able to do this with a couple different historical events where I've actually found documentation that contradicted what you found in museums and encyclopedias, etc and um I think that's kind of a thrilling experience to realize you know more than what um what the experts do but um He actually lived long enough to appear in silent films. So he had a long career as well joseph sesford He was the ticket agent. He was the one selling tickets in the in the front of the theater at the time Sorry guys. I have a little bit of um puppy jealousy issue going on. Um john h johnny evans He was um he and his wife were both in the in the show. He was only um Let's see how we'll go see he was well. He was 30, but he died um in december of that year He did not live long after After the event he'd gone to um I want to say he went oh he went to um pennsylvania and worked in the mines and um again only lived a a few years or a few months after the assassination um now portland has He was a friend of booths And he was sick that night He was supposed to be in the play but he was sick But they were going to have a special song that they were going to sing for the president afterwards a quartet And he was for that quartet. So he decided he could do the quartet, but he wasn't going to do the play Um and actually ferguson, I believe was the one that filled in for him ferguson wasn't supposed to be in the play um Well that led to suspicions if you're sick, why did you happen to show up? The night that booth was assassinated the president. So he got all kinds of um suspicion centering around him And we have a bingo so um As you all know, I like to call john my little brother and irish john, but for uh this month He is welsh john Because he has a lot of welsh ancestors. So congratulations john and john you're going to do the same things Excuse me. Just a second. I've got two Little jealous puppies. Okay. Um, you're going to email a went and let her know that you won The second bingo on the april bingo. So congratulations Again, it's a mug a lot of good choices out there if you're on the thawne team There's a lot of good thawne team mugs I could tell you that i'm a little bit jealous of david's because david has a spirit animal on your thawne team Which is kind of cool. Yeah, I don't know that mug here, but Hey carol, that's all right. It made it made, uh bingo kind of fun. So I want also Get a global mug. I know I love that one. Um I want to also mention that for those of you that are watching after the fact Thanks for coming and watching this even though, you know that the game has already been played And next month I want to let you know We're not I i'm not going to promise anything because david and I are working really hard on this so next month Is a big surprise that we're working on There was special guest and if we can uh get these special guests in our bingo For next month It will be the bingo of all bingos. I think david don't you I mean we would Get them. Yeah, yeah, we would have pulled off something I haven't said no let's put it that way It so you definitely do not want to miss it and then real quick I do want to mention so and thank you for being here. This is an's first time here In and goes what's a blank team? So a thon team and what i'm talking about is the connectathon if you go to uh gtg There's at the top it says do you know? Um the connectathon and what team do you want to be Beyond and it's going to be The second weekend in april So it's it's going to start next friday As actually and sign ups you must sign up before midnight wednesday And you pick a team so she's on Team new so there you go and and if you want to be on a big team sandi's team got first place last year our last um And they want to be on a tiny team my team got first place for the tiny teams And I will say that that that way it makes it so everybody can participate So for the larger team um at blacha one for the middle team Germany genie's one and then for the smaller team The the globetrotters david's team one so there is opportunity to play also don't forget the hangouts david and I will Of course be on the midnight madness. That's the only hangouts that i'm doing is the midnight ones I don't know david if you're doing more I think i have one other but mostly the the midnight shows And I will let you know do not miss the midnight Madness ones because we have a blast We have questions that we need answers to and we need help from you guys So it's a lot of fun. I love that you guys are telling us to what teams you're you're going to be on because that's important That you call out your team so everybody knows what you're doing and again Let me make one quick point about this list of cast members too because it's come up several of these cast members were um from england ireland and scotland So if you got interested in those countries, um There's a connection, you know, it's a good point because the play is called our american cousin, but this is Full of glow but it's a british play They pull the rubber up and do not miss Next bingo because if we pull it off you guys will have a blast you guys And even if we don't it'll still be fun. It will but if we pull it off We expect you guys to ask questions too. So it'll be interesting to see Um, it's going to be there because as you know david and i keep it a mystery go to the friday night bingo page for more information We have the entire year planned out And you can guess and see what we're going to do. I think that's it for us david I'm i'm old vacation and i'm actually coming back home just for the thon so I will uh, it you just got back from earth. So we will see everybody at the hangouts All right Bye guys