 Hi there, Darren. How are you? I'm good. That's good. See, Finnegan's nice and cosy there. Finnegan is very nice and cosy, yes. Yes, someone suggested I should do a Finnegan Cam, so that's what I'm trying to do this time. Look at him there. Oh, he's just lazy. He's just hanging out. Yes, if you saw the eight o'clock, he had his own little cheater doing it. I've got snowflake here as well. Oh, there's snowflake. Nice. Yeah, he'll probably move off and find a place to sit. Where's your towel? Hey, Julie. Hey, Julie. I can't seem to get here on time. I'm sorry. Hi, everybody. Hey, at least you got five minutes late this time. No, I cut it down by four minutes. There you go. Nice. That's great. I see Finnegan has his own presence there now. I love that. Yeah, he does. Now, if I'm getting feedback from the speaker, then let me know and I'll turn off his camera. But there we go. Yes. So we've got lots of people. Wow, up to 60 people already in the chat. So hello, everyone who's watching us live and everyone who's watching us after the fact. Hello to you as well. We've got Brian and Christine and Lisa and D and Judith and Ruth. Oh, your dogs. Judy and, and Mark, Steven, and Karen, another Steven, another Greg. Oh, Greg from Team Italy. Another Greg. There's two Gregs on Team Italy this year. Julie Bartamas. Hello, Judy. Judith and John. Maggie. Danita. Robin. Beata. Joy. Caroline. Margaret. She was an elf. Nancy, actually a bunch of elves here. Sandy. Darren, of course. Darren, you're in two places at once, Darren. Yeah. You're here and you're in the chat. Yeah. And star and Audrey and Mary. And Kirby and Maggie and Robin and Deb and tree climber. And Lesh is here. Stacy. Steven, other Steven, Steven with a V. Melanie, Kirsten, Judy, MJ, Rich, Nancy. And I think that's just how Judy. So many names. So many names. So many names. And you know what? They are making so many contributions. To our profile or to our wicking tree this year. And today in this connect upon this weekend that the secret word is contributions. Yay. So all you have to do to win a prize is to type the word contributions and you have to spell it right. Has to be plural. Has to be an S on the end. And then at some. Count. Count. I'd say math. Math counts and showing your work counts too. But you know, we're not testing your math. To win a prize. But we do have to. Now it doesn't matter whether it's cap all caps or lower or a lowercase that so that doesn't matter. But you do have to put all the right letters in the right order. And that s on the end is important as well. So there we go. So add that. And I'll be great. Thank you. I have increased my score by 50%. I'm now up to six. Count them six whole profile. Nice. Yes. Yeah. I've fallen into this whole. This. It's not a it's not a branch that I had hoped for. So I don't have didn't do any of the. Haven't done any of the background work. But of course I wanted, you know, you just get into it. And you just can't get out. And but anyway, I do understand that. Yeah. But I want to get at least a birth and a marriage record. Finding the death record is harder. But you know, if I can at least get the birth. Yeah. For each of those. And I did it. And then I discovered that the last one I added just before I went online to prep for this. I actually found the father of the person I'd just added. So that was very exciting. And then I look. And I see there's already a profile for the. One I just spent half an hour creating. But it's going to. To a different husband. So I'm thinking they've actually because. Her name is first name is Marie. And this one is Marie Josephine. And all of her sisters are Marie something. Marie something else. So I'm thinking the one who they've put as. You know, who preexisting. I think it was one of the different other sisters. Oh yeah, that could that could be. Yeah. But that. Yeah. So it's going to it was going to take me longer than the two minutes. I had given myself before prepping before going live. So. I'll have to investigate that after. I'm going to try really hard to do some. When we're done here. I still haven't been able to add any yet. So okay. You've been doing all the discord stuff, right. Yeah. That and a few other questions here and there. Not a big deal. I mean, the three nuts are doing great. But I just haven't had a chance to contribute yet. It's nice to be able to do some. Yeah. Darren, how have you been doing? I've been doing good. I actually managed to. Increase someone else's CC seven. Let's see. When I connected to his grandfather. CC seven was 948. CC seven was 948. And currently it's at 1209. Wow. Yeah. So what did you say the starting number was? 948. And now is it. 1209. Wow. That's amazing. Good for you. You must have found a little island of people. Or did you add all the profiles? I think. Let's see. Let's see. I think it was. The. This profile managers. Grandfather's sister. I'd already created. And I was creating the rest of the family. And. There's a profile for this person. All right, let's connect it. Look. And it's his wife. Grandfather. I looked at the profile manager. And then. Put a. Put a note down and said, oh. Let's check on it a bit later. See how it improves and. There you go. That's fabulous. He hasn't been on for a couple of years. So hopefully this. I'm doing the edits. And that might bring him back. That's great. That is great. I'm going to try to work on. Do I want to work on my own family? We always. You know, you always say you're going to. And then. I don't know. Maybe I'll just work on Illinois. Well. Should we do some stats? Yes, please. Okay, so I'm thinking that is. Four o'clock. Where are we here? We go. Now I'm going to turn off the fin. Cam for a bit. There we go. And since it's four o'clock and four is a perfect square. That we're going to go through and. Do the largest perfect square from each team. So. So smoking. There we go. Smoking steaks. At. The one. Okay. Morgana is the only one. Okay. Morgana is the only one from smoking steaks. So she's not person number one. And one is a perfect square. So. Morgana with five profiles. Banyan tree also. Valme has won is the only one. So she. Valme is the perfect square with five profiles as well. Musty dusties. There's the pre 1500. Team right. Musty. And the captain. The captain. The captain. He's not Richard. Devlin has 15. Wow. That's very impressive. One is a perfect square. To is not so Don Marie the captain. Don Marie gets the kudos for team. Massachusetts 17 profiles created. In the south of a shiners for is a perfect square. So Russ. With two profiles gets the kudos there. And then four profiles for Julian. And then the little team on the prairie, in fourth position is Gurney G. Thompson Jr. with one profile, which is also one of the perfect squares, so nice there. Team Lachheim, fourth position is Elaine Martson with 13 profiles. Team Austria, Viata in first position has a perfect square with 109 profiles, nice super Ozzie Genies, nine is a perfect square and the ninth position belongs to Sue Perar with one. And then Twisted Thistles, ninth position again is Don J. Britz with six. The Irish Chantet in ninth position is John Tiner who's here joining us. Hi John, how are you doing? And he has got two profiles done so far. Wizards of Oz, ooh, one shy of four squared people participating. So the three squared person is Lee Chester who has seven profiles added. The Nor'easters have 19 people participating right now, so four squared is 16, so Joy M. Beer with three profiles created gets the shout out. The Western Red Cedars shout out goes to Barbara Amid with two profiles created. On the Southern Cross Stars, ninth position is Vicki E. Hennecker also known as Lovell and she has two squared profiles done of four. The Kiwi Crew in ninth position is Michelle Miller and she has six profiles done. Is this your team, Darren? No. No, I'm in the crew now, but I do support the Kiwi Crew and all the other staff too. Okay, all the good branch. All good, all good folks. Team Virginia, Mindy's in first place, way to go Mindy there, but the largest perfect square is ninth position which is Mary A. Gilkerson who has three squared. She has three squared, nine profiles created, so that's very nice. Next we have the Globetrotters and the Globetrotters. The fourth position, two squared, is David Randall, the captain with 13. Then we have the Toddlin-Tortises large team and they have 25 people participating and the five squared position is 25 and that's Jacques Speekermans. I'm not sure if I've pronounced that right, the Toddlin-Tortises and he has one profile and one is perfect square as well. Team Mid-Atlantic U.S. has 23 people and four squared position is Anna F. West with six profiles. Nordic Noir, the 16th position belongs to Karen E. Gunn with three profiles. Cornbread Ketchers has one shy of four squared number of people participating so we'll have to go three squared people. So the ninth position belongs to Sheila Tidwell and she has 13 profiles added. The Flying Dutchman in ninth position is Charles Hensgen with nine three squared profiles. Very nice. Team Italy. I am not in last place. There's another Greg. We have two Gregs on the team so welcome other Greg. Greg Eskandron is an 11th position. That's not a perfect square but I just thought I'd say hi anyways. But the ninth position belongs to Courtney R. Simonece from Italy. Team Italy and she has seven profiles. She's nudge me out by one and Captain Chris is up there with 20 profiles. Nice one Chris. South African Springbox. Four people and two squared is four and that's Susanna Hendrina Elisa de Boone with four or two squared profile done. Very nice. 16th position which is a perfect square is Richard O'Cheek from the Southern Supersweepers and Richard has three squared profiles done. Nine profiles added. The Canadian Connectors the other team that has my hurt but not my allegiance for this connect-a-thon sorry next time. MM Ross is in 25th position. Five squared position and has one profile added. You're just off to the races there. Keep on going. Then ninth position for Team Missouri J.L. Benefiel with 15, one shy four squared. Splendid Spruces number nine on that team is Mary L. Kohler as one of those words with five profiles. The legacy heirs in 25th position which is five squared. Jacqueline Dobson has one profile added. Tree Nuts in the 16th position is Connie L. Wright with three profiles. Northwest Terriers in 16th position with 11 profiles is Bonnie M. Day and Team Roses and 16th position also. Suzanne R. Low with eight profiles. Germany Genies 16th position which is a perfect square. Raymond L. Johnson who has done six profiles and 36th. I think this is the first time we've hit 36th as a perfect square in terms of the number of positions and that's David Weinberg and he has three profiles and that is for the Mighty Oaks and then the is this the yeah Appalachia. Oh they fixed the spelling. It is Appalachia. Appalachia Roots has over 40 people 42 people holy moly and the perfect highest perfect square and that number is 36. So in 36th position is S. Esper with six profiles added and that is wonderful. So all the all the people I called in their position was the largest perfect square in that team in terms of the position number and many of those some had only one some had two profiles some had low numbers of profiles but one of the reasons I like to choose them stats like that is because every single profile counts every little piece of work that you do on the on the tree. I mean it's amazing the people who are you know have prepped for weeks and have you know are working from you know have just their systems in places and they're up in the hundreds already like look at this the top team here the first the first 11 people are all over 100 already which is impressive and that's kudos to them but every every little bit so if you're in single digits like I am still don't don't despair because all of that work is very important because we're all we're all working together to improve the tree. Yeah well I do the connecting challenge all the time and it's amazing the amount of times I find a profile that connects the domain tree and it's been created during a connect us on so all these profiles that we're creating that's matter how many we're in the village you make it can be that quick that helps to connect throughout or how helps a person find more of their family already online so it all all helps it all helps so updating as of this moment in time we have oh you know what if I done if I was just it was just a second earlier look at the number total number it was 16 462 if I done it one second early and it was one four six four six one I would have a perfect palindrome oh oh great that that hurts that hurts look what a beautiful number that would have been oh it'll still happen I just know it I know we just passed a perfect palindrome now let's see look at the Appalachia roots number if I get it for the when one more profile it'll be 2992 and that'll be a palindrome come on no yes at all now watch it jump to five or something like that it's not refreshing it's not giving me a new number oh well anyways that is an amazing number so shall we do the draw for the contribution okay we have oh we have 62 entries excellent all right that is excellent so if you haven't already typed the word contributions and I'm not sure why you wouldn't have because it's still scrolling across the bottom of the screen but if you haven't typed it type it now I'm going to go go go I'm going to count down to 10 nine eight seven six five four three two one too late okay does it win because he's not okay here we go trying to find out how to get on to discord great this is great from great from t middley that's families the other great from t middley way to go great congratulations that's fantastic excellent that is very exciting way to go and while we're giving prizes oh what were you going to say Julie I was saying what does he win he wins not a new car it's not a new car does he get to pick a mug or a t-shirt or is it one or yeah I think so he gets to pick a mug or a t-shirt and Aowyn will contact him after the fact I believe that's how that's going to work I don't think he needs to contact her it should go on the spreadsheet we're putting your name on a spreadsheet when someone points them to the right spreadsheet she will put that name on that spreadsheet on said spreadsheet I'll go see if I can find it right now and while we're in the mood to give things away the winner winner chicken dinner random draw person is jillian okay look from the mighty oaks because we're giving away two things we the type it in draw and then just the random draw from someone who's so if you know jillian let her know that she's also in line for a mug or t-shirt and they'll be contacted let me write those down because I don't see that they have that set up in this spreadsheet yet they might be doing it differently I I have not been participating with the prep for this so right luckily we know we can always go back and watch yes exactly and who was in a second oh there she is jillian k look okay what even has her her wikitree id so congratulations to everyone there okay say a lot of people on the chat saying that they should change the name to greg so they know that they can win oh change the name to greg that's great well darin actually see I had actually typed in what I was I was I was going to make the secret word fin um here let's put fin back on screen there's my finnigan cam again um he's not he's not very excited he's bored by this I should have shown him the squirrel that was at my house oh yeah that's right I was going to make the secret fin f-i-n-n so that would be much easier to type but obviously contributions wasn't that hard to type because we got over we had 62 so Casey came to say hi to him there we go everyone's had their pets on snowflake was here yeah she thinks it's time to eat class to sleep again probably a good idea to just let sleeping cats lie right yeah you don't want to get them too riled up um so what do people say in the chat I haven't been paying any attention to the chat while I was um I have I've been I'm my focus right now ability to focus is not good so I haven't been I'll I'll stage back through here I think food blueberry oatmeal and jalapeño popcorn um someone was talking about snow there we go oh oh yeah it's national popcorn day that that's probably right yes yeah I think my wife that she loves her popcorn you go popcorn me too so it must be world popcorn day because neither of you are or none of us are in the same country so yeah that's that's one of my stacks that I've got that's a good snack I need somebody oh and other people are telling where their pets are john thank you cat no feedback oh good thanks john I was worried because I'm I can hear just a little bit of a sound out of my camera the fin cam even though I've turned the sound off all the way like I've turned it down to zero the app seems to bypass the the setting and gives some sound so it's it's not muted so I don't know they're always listening to us they're always listening to us that's right and uh let's see oh Kathy has a a PSA public service announcement that the UK United Kingdom didn't exist until 1801 for England Scotland the whales in northern Ireland wasn't around until 1922 thank you for that announcement Kathy yeah and contributions contributions there we go oh here's comes some more chocolate chocolate in the popcorn ooh that's nice cheese crackers with peanut butter hmm yeah I don't think I've tried cheese with peanut butter before I should cheese crackers you have those little cheese crackers with the peanut butter oh that's right the little Ritz crackers had she had yeah well yeah there's some other kind too but I I don't need stuff like that anymore yeah funny saying one appellations side biscuits sorry I don't want to sleep oh yeah we haven't heard biscuits once where's the best no say sandy see that sandy sandy was here I didn't see her say biscuits did she say biscuits uh yeah yeah she did and then she said of course I fixed the spell now they're saying fighting there we go there are the biscuits oh and the table is still connecting that's great of course sandy said it yes Darren us tree nuts need to come up with a with a team yell cashews or something I don't know well sometimes people write in we go peanuts we're just being like I said earlier squirrel there's there's Fibonacci there's Fibonacci thanks Lisa excellent yeah well that's great um do you guys have anything else you want to remind people about or now we're going now we're going now we're going macadamia very nice jody likes squirrel maybe that will be our team our team yell because you know one should have a team logo or team there's a squirrel one word logo isn't it yes yeah for now we could change it what would team italy's be chris what would our one word think that we'd yell out lasagna pasta pasta ah yes pasta be yeah it has to be nice and short and sweet easy to say two syllables is good just like biscuits you know pasta everyone loves pasta but anyways Fibonacci with stripes oh Fibonacci with stripes with oh yes they do yes I agree with Karen oh yeah mathematical blankets that's right someone had sent me a picture um I think it was vicki of a Fibonacci clock which was very cool I think I've seen that before is it square it's square like elongated yeah and yeah because of those the Fibonacci sequence if you do it with perfect squares they sort of they it just sort of spirals out and the way you read it is that because the numbers are uh one one two three five eight depending on the number if it's like if it's one of those numbers then just that square is highlighted but say it was nine then it would highlight the the one and the eight and you'd add them together to get nine and then there's different colors so the one color code is for the hour and the other color code is for the minutes so it would do it once you figure out what time it is it's five minutes later and you just start over again I don't think you could use it for seconds because that would just be too wild to try and keep track of that but yeah so I thought that was great all right that is awesome there's a challenge for all the teams come up with a a name a team yell a team yell yeah team yell I see something like we have Poutine Poutine's good oh for the french fry team french fries team french fries yeah that'd be there all right you guys come back in four out three and a half hours yeah three and a half hours tell us what your team yell is and thanks for hanging out with us for for now and get back to connecting add some more profiles and keep up the great work see y'all bye