 It is Saturday, I guess. That time again. Somebody needs to turn off their sound. Not me. That would be our new guest. Our new guest. Our new oldest guest. What's going on? This is funny. Before a show, there was no feedback. This is funny. We are usually fine. We have Kathy, Jennifer, Jeanine, my mom, Betsy. We are like, look, here's Betsy. Hillary. June. Hi, Kay. That's it so far. Anybody else is lingering in the background? You know what, Sarah, this weekend is mama's day. I was talking about going off and hanging out with some grandbabies tomorrow, playing board games and going to dinner and enjoying her mama's day with some of her grandbabies. So with her grandmama. Greg is going to be the epitome of the question of the week. He's going to have four generations of mitochondrial DNA in his house. That's right. Chris, what are you doing with your mama for tomorrow? Well, we are going to probably go out to dinner for lunch or something. I'll make a breakfast, of course. Will you come up here and be my kid tomorrow? Yeah, sure. What are you doing for your mama tomorrow? Well, we're in different, we're apart. So I already sent her a gift and she loves it. I sent her a little pop-up sunflower bouquet thing. So it won't die, so she can just leave it up forever and she loves it. She's like, I love it. It's so great. I can leave it up all year long. Oh, that's so sweet. And the other thing is you get to spend Saturday with your mama. Exactly. That's the question of the week. All about Ron's. So the question of the week is, have you used mitochondrial DNA to help discover or confirm any ancestors? That's 17 answers. And the first one's a really cool answer. Yes, I have sort of from Eileen Robinson. She says, most of my ancestors were enslaved in Georgia. They were able to find that her roots are from Africa. And the majority of slaves that came to Georgia were from Sierra Leone. And her maternal roots are based in Guinea-Bissau, Sierra Leone, and Liberia. So it's interesting because she's been able to use mitochondrial DNA not to identify really who the woman was here, but to be able to trace her mitochondrial roots back to an origins, which is sometimes what you have to do. You have to work the geography and the known migration patterns. I've had to do that with mine, and I'll show you that in a second. So lots of great answers. But Marion Saruti comes down, and Marion actually answers again below. But she says, wow, Eileen, you've been able to come up with lots more details about your African heritage than I have. And she says that there's a group that's working on a project called DNATestedAfricans.org. So of course, I pulled up that website. I kind of checked it out. It looks very legitimate. It looks like a group of people who are, oops, it looks like a group of people who are working on helping people identify their roots back to Africa. And it's a DNA group project, but it's an autosomal DNA group project. And what I would love to do is get a hold of them and help them start in mitochondrial DNA group project and get them help them out with some WikiTree stuff because WikiTree does great DNA group project work. You put on the lineages and stuff like that onto WikiTree. So it's really interesting. They have a great mission. And it also talks about some royal DNA projects that they were working on and some other stuff. And the fact that they are a non-profit organization, which is another plus, I think, for that. But they're talking about only doing autosomal type testing. And I think that they might embellish it a little bit if they were to do some mitochondrial testing. So Mary and Saruti, thank you so much for that if you're here this morning. That's great. Oh, let's see. Peter Roberts jumps in. Peter Roberts is jumping in with great information about some of the people that he has been able to work with and being able to work some of the relationships showing the mitochondrial line between he or not he, but these two people showing that you can see the relationship and that they both go back to like a curry. But, of course, Peter is also touting mitoidna.org, which is fully integrated with WikiTree. So you can use WikiTree, go to an ancestor's profile, find the DNA tested connections to the right. And if somebody has a mitochondrial DNA test there, you can click on that and compare the actual test results and markers over at mitoidna straight from WikiTree. So it's really cool. So he's talking about that. Edison Williams is jumping in talking about the differences and how it's working over at mitoidna. And he also gives instructions. So there, we're done with mitoidna. So Barry Smith says, yes, I've confirmed my line back to my ninth great grandmother, Hannah, and he has this great page, the journey with mitochondrial DNA. Oh my goodness, look at this. A great page Barry Smith put together. He explains what nuclear DNA is compared to mitochondrial DNA. Great write up. And he goes on and he's, he gives his full story. So nice, nice, nice work for him on that. We had a couple of people who said, no, I have discovered I have a mutation. So what she's talking about is a heteroplasm. And when you have a heteroplasm, which I have, unfortunately, means that you have lots and lots and lots of matches at the one, two, three marker distance or genetic distance, but you don't have any zero matches which I have no zero matches. And that's a real clue that you might have that. And so I answered I am too, but I have been able to do research on my mitochondrial DNA line using family tree DNA is group projects. And because I have Scandinavian origins in my mitochondrial DNA, I started looking at migration pattern. So the migration pattern for Scandinavian DNA is from well Vikings, let's be honest through to the west of Scotland and the north of Ireland, which is where my family origins are. And then those two groups of people traveled to Appalachia which is where my people are. So I can track back those people and I can use the mitochondrial DNA of other people who match me. And I've been actually able to find a woman who lives in the same county as my fifth grade grandmother at the same timeframe with even the same married surname. And I know how sisters often marry brothers, but I haven't been able to, you know, I haven't been able to work that out yet. But so one of the geographic groups to do that work is fun. So Roberta Estes has a great blog. What is a heteroplasmy and why do I care? So you can check that out. If you have a lot of matches in your mitochondrial DNA that are not all heroes, but lots of ones and twos, you may be able to find some information there. So that's a good blog. And here's how you can tell if you have a heteroplasmy. Another result would look like and this is what a result would look like if you have a heteroplasmy. Let's get on down here. You see that Y right there? That indicates that you have that heroplasmy. So you might want to check your results to check that out. Let's go on down. I have a few that are great and I knew about obviously there are a few mutations along the way, but researching in various branches finding an itty bitty needle and a heat paste deck. I have five U5 and U5B genetic starting code and there are a lot of those out there. Yes there are and that's from Elizabeth Karp. She says but oddly my mom may have a slight DNA variant as her numbers are either recorded weird or it's missing. So using her DNA is just a guideline. So I'm wondering if her mama has a heteroplasm as well. Derek Allen says it allowed me to confirm a line back to my third great-grand parents. Just one person who had posted on a Trion ancestry including several people who were also on my tree allowed him to do that. So he was using autosomal DNA as well which is a really good thing to do using that autosomal DNA and you might even have to use the husbands of your great great-grandmothers to work some of that because being able to follow where the husband was you'll be able to see where his wife was as well and maybe find records for them. I wouldn't say it has helped confirm and discover any ancestors for me yet but to the extent that family members have done mitochondrial DNA it's been helpful and it's interesting in smaller ways. My mother's mitochondrial DNA has turned out to be extremely common but the maternal matches can at least be divided and possibly matrilineal versus not matrilineal. Now I'm not really sure about that what was going on maybe she's talking about paternal great-grandmother she's getting a little bit off the path of mitochondrial DNA there. So I'm going to ask Peter Roberts I'm going to ask Peter Roberts if he would be willing to go back and answer each one of these questions and we'll see how that goes. That's good I actually when you heard my phone ringing just a second ago was that him? It was Peter calling me back because I had called him probably at work and I'm at work and oh you know how that goes. Janine I summon look at this man Janine's got my oldest daughter did a 23 me kit and it showed enough mitochondrial DNA to show what Hapla group and that is true any of the mitochondrial DNA test kits will give you a DNA information or why DNA if you're a male but 23 and me and living DNA are the only ones who actually will show you that high defined Hapla group so she's got a Hapla group K1A1B1A and here's the link to her oldest known ancestor for that so let's check that out here's Janine and she if she had a Janine you should go and get a full sequence test I know it's expensive save up for it or look for what they have a great sale going on this weekend at 3DNA because it's Mother's Day you could find one and it would be cool to get you into MitoIDNA there's a MitoIDNA there no that's not a MitoIDNA MitoIDNA that's an ancestry kit if you've done, did she say she's actually done a let's see if she's done a full sequence test then she would have a Janine answer us are you not here this morning she's here have you had a full sequence test Janine if she has then we need to fix that MitoIDNA ID it should be a T that's an ancestry autosomal kit number it looks like anyway so it's cool let's check out her stuff so she's she's done a really good job with this South Carolina to Van Buren Tennessee so more Shockley I know some Shockley from South Carolina Lawrence County Greenville County she says no interesting the answer is no okay we'll talk later Janine there's a cell going on Janine so that's cool it's also fun to jump off and see people that's a nice profile without very much information available still a nice profile I would add Janine I would add her add a little section here for DNA and write up your what you just wrote up in the G to G question I would post that on that profile as well they're going to see a little bit more than just your haplogroup they'll see the reason why you have your haplogroup and that it was from 23 and me cool let's go down so Lorraine Keith no it's not helped no I've already traced my maternal line back about 6th generation which is great none of my mitochondrial DNA matches share common answer with cester with me or they did not include their family trees on family tree DNA so I have no way of knowing okay I have that situation as well and when I see somebody that doesn't have any information on family tree DNA if they've listed their earliest known ancestor I'd run with that I get their earliest known ancestor and I add them to wiki tree and I work the line back a few generations not back to the tester because I don't have a right to do that but I work the line the matrilineal line back based on their earliest known ancestor and I researched the earliest known ancestor I try and find their children I find their family and I work them that way if I have somebody who's just has a single name and they don't have any information up I do a little stalking maybe I check them out to see if they have a tree at ancestry and if they have a tree at ancestry a body boom body being you've got what you're looking for so yeah there's other ways around it if you don't find any information and Norine's no lean says she doesn't understand the system like I said I'm going to ask Peter if he wants to go and answer all these questions I'm surprised Edison didn't because Edison's really good comment by well yeah but it's only up there with answering Peter he wasn't actually trying to help anybody was it a random comment yeah let's see Stu Bloom says I knew that my great grandmother had given birth to a secret son four months after she married my great grandfather the son never lived with my parents his parents and as far as I know my grandmother never knew that she had an older brother although as she did know I'm sure she would have kept her mother secret I had the birth record for the son so I knew the date in the place of birth but it gave no name through an ancestry.com DNA test I found a second cousin who was a descendant of the son was able to construct a decent bio of him and thus complete my great grandparents family so he kind of did you know what I've been talking about skeletons in the closet always come out yeah yeah they do so that's basically the question of the week and we're gonna switch things up this week Sarah's gonna do the photos next so that our guys here can run with may the forth be with you so yeah wise choice yeah really fast yes let's see so the photo theme this week is tradition so let's see let's look at well of course it doesn't why are you being dumb are you talking to me yes and to have a preview of our I guess we're doing the entire screen because I can't select oh well yes speaking of oh your mother says some fighting words there for us yeah my mom was always going to be a star trek fan over yeah and here I'm using a doctor who mug instead of a star wars I know the TARDIS okay so the theme is tradition so let's let's take a look make it so so go quick you know as long as you need Sarah don't make it so I keep telling you this is a star wars theme I'm gonna go all out today alright there doctor who short pants cool I wonder what people are like taking as you know they think of tradition and they're uploading these photos I wonder what's going through their mind that looks like a communion that looks like he's going to a communion or something yeah so it's a tradition to wear short pants yeah back then kids wore short pants though they were like in their teens yeah oh that's a good tradition there nice where is Brian this week I saw him he's in there a pipe band in Ontario oh cool that's a cool tradition does anybody know how to play the pipes no but every Santa Claus parade every candidate parade always has at least one or two of those all in the st patty's day parade and I can when I'm riding my bike I go down by the barracks down your parliament and there's always this guy who's a piper for the barracks who practices standing out on the canal wow he's adorable to dress up like a sailor and pose with some rocks are those two brothers do you think I don't know let's see oh it's the same person William Henry Thompson between 1904 1908 and go on to be an officer in the RN and RCN so the same guy just the same tradition same kind of photo was taken RCN Royal Canadian Navy I tried really hard to find a tradition photo for me I couldn't find anything I love that picture Janine it's her mom I know Janine and Betsy Cal have the best pictures and free quality pictures good job Grand Canyon Alexis usually has good photos too but she's never on the livecast so we can talk about them with her but we do talk about her a lot visit to Santa Claus that's a tradition definitely at Macy's Macy's Santa I have a picture like that of me with Santa at the Toronto Eaton Centre which is the Canadian version of Macy's basically or it was before we shut down Baseball at Greensbridge Baseball good springtime tradition wow that's a good picture I want to watch the league of their own he had a T-ball look at the guy on the far left it's on a stick that's not just a bat yes T-ball that's okay good balancing on the back though 1930 yeah I've achieved who we befriended when we lived in New Mexico wearing his traditional turquoise beads that's nice that's it for the on the that are uploaded to the space page but let's take a look at the GTG Post see if there's anything else or any stories attached to them here's this one 1925 photo of my father wearing short pants my grandmother has written on the back of this photo that he was age seven it was vision at the time for only older boys to wear long pants so if you're a young boy you wear short pants I guess they had a whole bunch of conversations oh look this is actually funny my mom my grandfather and everything has photos of him who looks like a girl because he has longer hair and a dress skirt yeah dresses was the norm in earlier age yeah I have pictures of my granddad in a dress look at this one this is cool my grandfather Mike Baskie senior getting ready to take my dad Mike Baskie jr. on his first hunting trip this would have been the mid 1950s fathers have been taking their sons hunting for thousands of years and our family was no bit different grandpa used to be hunting with those exact guns put those pants feet up any higher jeez don't judge their high waisted pants he's probably practical yes probably yeah tradition means college football obviously this isn't a photo of football it's from my father Don Miller's first photo album he was attending Queen's University in Kingston Ontario and in the fall of 1939 the Queen's Gales football team were hosting the McGill Redmond and they changed their name in 2019 to the Redbirds a pipe band marching through the streets of Kingston was part of the festivities and dad took this photo and it's this is something that makes the national news every years this game because there are so much partying that goes on in Kingston during that weekend and then somebody commented about the car in the photo a 34 Buick McLaughlin John Thompson he said he guessed it because the automobile being in Canada he calculated that it was that and it was right it's a rare one a lot of commenting back and forth on these this week nice we didn't see this one blows the photo of the wedding between my grandmother and my grandfather as their families were they followed traditional Coptic Orthodox Christian ceremony in this picture and Obuna their priest is blessing Morcos as he chants prayers blessing my grandparents marriage nice Egypt huh cool well they were Coptic Egyptians I don't know if it took place in Egypt we have a big Coptic continuity here they were born in Egypt they were born in Egypt and then came to New Jersey does it say where they were married unknown so close apparently they initially moved to nursing home in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania and transferred to New Jersey I guess they lived in Pennsylvania so they might have gotten married in Pennsylvania last year neat and this one that we saw traditional dress for a portrait a sailor and he would go to fulfill his destiny and I saw Victoria BC so it definitely was the Royal Canadian Navy as you suggested the Royal Canadian Navy you know Greg I don't know if it's you and I but we certainly have lots of good Canadian content I was just thinking that it's all Sarah Sarah's bringing in the Canadian content I'm just reading what I see it's already there because not many people remember May baskets and my own memory of this tradition is quite foggy this I remember from my childhood on May day we would make a basket full of flowers hang it on the neighbor's door, ring the doorbell and run away so ding dong ditch but a nicer ding dong ditch so if you have a lot of questions did we make a lot of baskets? how did we make the baskets? well it looks like we took some construction paper put some flowers on it and put another door in it there's some comments so John Vaskey who posted a photo earlier group in north central Illinois in the 70s we would make the baskets and put sticks of gum in the baskets with wildflowers and hang them on the door of the person you had a crush on let's be considered fun in cornfield country county, cornfield county we didn't see this one another sailor kind of theme, sailor suit to be photographed in this attire then a Janine's mom 1966 I think she said so the baseball one we saw oh Vetsy we can't see them the banjo Southern Appalachia, the tradition of handing down information on the banjo ballads on the banjo when I want to see a banjo I keep thinking of rainbow connection that's it guys that is all except for Vetsy, is there a link behind these images there for Vetsy? if you click the link is there at least a oh it's small because it's an unlisted page Vetsy we're going to be shifting to a galaxy far far away oh I have to go get coffee before you start so apparently I have to re-give permission for screen sharing screen share yes why does it do this? because I gave it permission last week this doesn't look like you Greg it seems like it just has to be wait wait wait wait did you show everybody your new t-shirt Greg? they probably saw it maybe they saw it okay wait a second I have to do a little modeling shoot here oh yeah boom okay when I try this I may be off for a second I'll be right back okay it's gonna be Chris and I for a minute well Greg Greg fixes his screen sharing and if it's yeah Vetsy if it's attached to your mom's profile and she is living yes that's why some listed and you could probably see them because you have access to that page but nobody else does I know the green I have the I have the orange one I have the orange shirt come on right now I need to get one right now next page we'll just have to vamp all right yeah look Greg's back look at that we can't hear you Greg not really back back yet you're just kind of in the there you go we have six to ten new Jedi warriors come on guys Jedi nights wait seriously guys work with me work with me people and of course so I'm not to keep everybody in suspense but our profile theme of the week is probably people have guessed Star Wars let's see if I can share the screen talking about I did restart chrome okay you know let's try something different here Greg is having technical difficulties yeah let's try let's see no it is stupid I've never seen that happen before it loses permissions and I don't know why I'll try it one more time I was just looking at the I'm a Trekkie too and a Star Wars fan crossing your screens that's the problem Janine there are two of Mark Hamill's siblings wow that's pretty cool but not in Mark Hamill himself Russia's with fame see you later so I was looking at our homepage and I see the WikiTree challenge it says Elon Musk and I was like we're going to have Elon Musk on but no they're just researching him I got a little excited he's getting a big name that's a big big name why does it say Elon Musk because they're going to be researching him next week for the WikiTree challenge but he's not coming on no that's been a rude he should come on come on Elon Musk you could probably hear me this gets streamed on Twitter he's a big part of Twitter now okay let's see if it works now we may run long today which is why we always last it was a good idea oh look there's screen okay so now let's make it a right screen there we go open up you probably saw a million icons didn't you well you're not sharing sharing yet there we go that's my home go down to the profile of the week which is Sir Alec Guinness because we're all about the Star Wars stars Star Wars which Star Wars star are you most closely connected to it took a while to get here Sir Alec Guinness Obi Wan Kenobi so yes our first one is Alec Guinness born Alec Guinness DeCuff British actor notable for many roles but most famous for his Obi Wan Kenobi role of course in Star Wars but before that he actually won an Academy Award for his role on the bridge on the River Kwai which is one of my favorite movies it is an excellent movie yes so you should if you haven't seen that movie like there's like some movies from the 40s and 50s don't hold up over time but this is definitely one that does I mean there's some really good ones from that era but this is a good one well going back to his origin born on April 2nd 1914 to his paternity wasn't questioned on his birth certificate it only put his name Alec Guinness and then his mother's last name DeCuff but the father's name was Blank and then there's details in the profile about the search for his paternity and some theories and stuff about that he tried to get into acting at first he was denied or was told that he wasn't good enough but after he actually made a connection with Sir John Gilgood well he wasn't Sir John Gilgood at the time and he became a mentor and after that things were the Bridge in the River Kwai which earned him an Oscar but he also did amazing work in Lawrence of Arabia and Dr. Shavago but of course it's his role as Obi-Wan that gained him notoriety that last to this day and also some success though apparently he wasn't as proud of that as some of the other Star Wars actors what we're going to do in this profile so I've just given you the profile of the actor the live person and there's a lovely Wikipedia profile for Sir Alec Guinness I'm now going to turn it over to my colleague here, Chris who's going to give you the characters genealogy or bio or... Okay well let's just start with Obi-Wan well I'm looking at wokipedia.com and it says here that Obi-Wan Kenobi also known as Obi-Wan Kenobi was a legendary Force-sensitive Jedi male Jedi master so it's not a Jedi household during the final years of the Republic era he was born on the planet Stu John 55 years before the original Star Wars movie he was Force-sensitive and therefore invested into the Jedi Order as a child raised in the Jedi temple and went Coruscant and I think we're going to get more of his background on the Disney Plus show Obi-Wan Obi-Wan Kenobi so we'll probably get more of his family history there because it's not really much about his family history on this profile it's just all about his role in the movies and that's about it Obi-Wan unfortunately for now so what's Obi-Wan Kenobi's show on Disney Plus that's right yeah there's a new show series coming up isn't it yeah okay so the next one is Kenny Baker Kenneth George Baker and you may not recognize from his profile picture there who he plays in Star Wars but turns out he is the actor who was inside the R2-D2 suit that's known for it. That would have been hot that would have been hot and it talks about in the profile another well written profile here how he had to spend eight hours inside that suit so that would have been really hard talks about how he was born in 1934 in Birmingham England and his parents unfortunately divorced when he was young but both did remarry he met his wife and he met his future wife after she saw him on a talk show and then she wrote him a letter saying that she was a dwarf as well and they would later meet and married and they had two children neither of which inherited their dwarfism primarily a performer as he preferred to call it and did a number of things a very nice well, meaty well written profile here and played other characters not just R2-D2 but fidget and the time bandits did a couple cons and stuff, conventions and anyways passed away at 82 so it's a nice long life so over to you Chris what can you tell us about R2-D2 well we came to service as in the employee of Queen Amadella of Naboo during the waiting years of the ecologic republic often accompanied by C-3PO and many adventures through of the home wars, he was constructed I don't really say where he was constructed but he was one of several astromech droids on Queen Amadella's Naboo's Royal Starship during the invasion of Naboo basically his brothers were all picked off one by one and he was the only one who survived so that gave him some notoriety and you could say that R2-D2 was the ultimate badass because he saved everybody time and time again and never really said anything in English next we have Olin who the actor is Mortimer Brown who lived to his long age there, born in 1916 in Cambridge, Massachusetts and passed away almost made it to 90, if he just lived a few more months it would be 90 in LA in 2006 American actor performed on the stage but came well known as Uncle Olin so Uncle to Luke Skywalker Philip he was a short and sweet biography here so that gives you a little more time to expand about Uncle Olin Chris Olin according to the Star Wars Wikipedia Olin was born to the kind-hearted moisture farmer, Klee Kleglar I am sure the Star Wars is going to be on my case with the pronunciation and I don't get to care and his wife Ica to on the bustling core world when I could die at the father and son travel to Klee's homeworld, the desert plain of Tatooie where they lived on the large family homestead near the township of Angerhead where Luke would later want to go pick up some power converters as a young man large had strong ambitions in who he wanted to become and he just ended up being a moisture farmer he was also later known as the wife of, not the wife, Shimi Skywalker Luke's mom, not Luke's mom, Anakin's mom, sorry anyway he just wasn't moisture farmer he yeah so how is he, how is he the uncle well like I said he was married how's he the final look here Luke's parents, Luke's parents were Darth Vader right who was Anakin yes and Queen Amidala no, no, no, no he was the step-brother of Anakin Skywalker when Klee married Anakin's mother oh okay when Shimi was killed and Klee passed away soon after and they just made a moisture farm together in the desert Tatooie probably one of the most famous of all next is Carrie Fisher, Carrie Francis she's my closest is she? and your closest Greg and my closest thank you you're so good Megs you keep track of who's closest to me Chris Cerielo is closest Chris you're gonna hate this but you're the closest to John Williams only that's fine that's fine he's got great music that's right yeah I wish I wanted to be closer to the musician Carrie Francis Fisher she lived to age 60 born on 21st of October 1956 in Beverly Hills and died two days after Christmas in 2016 in Los Angeles she died on my birthday oh no well that's a very poor birthday present I must say to lose Princess Leia but she did have a good long life she had longer with us she was known as Hollywood royalty because both her parents were very well known actors Eddie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds Debbie Reynolds Fisher, both entertainers and her stepmother was Elizabeth Taylor I mean you can't get anymore really it's incredible what I didn't know is that she married Paul Simon for a year I guess it didn't last that long but that's pretty cool too and then she did have a long-term relationship and a daughter carried on acting her first role was in shampoo I've never seen a movie shampoo but I've heard I know there's a movie called shampoo is it like a hair dressing movie? I was wondering is it like hair but just you know maybe it's a sequel to hair Meg you're not even commenting on her oh well but of course her big break came in 1970 wow that long ago 77 in Star Wars and she continued her role she battled mental illness and wrote a semi-autobiography book postcards from the edge she had a difficult life in some respects but she fought with it and dealt with it and supported great causes and she came back and reprised her role in the latest trilogy she died because of a heart attack after a flight home from London it's sort of bittersweet I think her mother passed away the very next day and the two of them shared the same funeral service I can't hear you Megs you're muted they were best friends and they lived next door to each other which says a lot about Carrie Fisher considering her childhood yes they were like two peas in a pod so she died of a heart attack and her mother died of a broken heart yes I believe so that's my personal opinion that was the first thing I thought of too Chris take us into the role of fantasy no problem away from reality let's go back to the galaxy far far away shall we more than 19 years before the first Star Wars movie as Leia Amadella Skywalker she was the daughter of Anakin Skywalker and Senator Padme Amadella of Naboo her birth occurred in the aftermath of the Clone Wars and the Republic reorganized into the Galactic Empire with her mother's death and childbirth and her father's fall to the dark side of the force Leia and her twin brother Luke Skywalker were separated in order to keep them hidden from Darth Sidious and Darth Vader as the adopted daughter of a politician known as Bale Organa Leia eventually succeeded Bale by representing their homeworld and the Imperial Senate though secretly she supported the rebellion during the Galactic Civil War however Alderaan was destroyed along with his inhabited royal family by the Empire's first Death Star in the aftermath of the Battle of Endor she married Carillion smuggler Han Solo and learned the Jedi arts as her brother and gave birth to their son Ben Solo her personal and political life suffered in the years that followed with Ben turning to the dark side like his grandfather before him adopting the persona of Kylo Ren and the Galactic Senate sideline Organa's career adopting a military bank of generals she led the resistance during the Cold War and sought to make amends with Ben despite her efforts the first order succeeded in destroying the New Republic and Organa's husband died at the hands of their restrained son Organa continued to lead the resistance during the war and sacrificed herself at the end to save everybody Spoilers Spoiler alert, yes Better stop If she had her own eye shape or two would she never really used I haven't seen the last movie Chris, you've ruined it You want to see the last movie, come on We're gonna have to see this one My mom's leaving I don't know if the Star Wars mom said Yeah Okay Harrison Ford Now some of these are gonna be really quick because their profiles are so slim because they're slim That makes me sad that Harrison Ford has such a small I know, like he's done so much Because he's still living And where's the Okay I'll move this over So his parents, John William Ford and Dorothy Nittleman are listed here and they've both passed away So we could, you know, we've got his parents We know he was born in the 40s but I'm sure if we went to the Wikipedia article it would show more details about him But yeah, he's done so many things not only as a Han Solo but of course Indiana Jones The fugitive, he's really good in that I thought Blade Runner too, yes Blade Runner, right? Yeah, so Force One Yes, yes, good stuff, yeah So that would be a neat one to add more to But anyways, over to you Chris Try to just summarize the profile Because especially The history is like There's nine movies worth of history So let's see it Han Solo was originally known as Han until he was given the surname Solo by Imperial recruitment officers He was basically a cadet for the Imperial Academy He ditched them, became a smuggler and ended up on Tatooie where he owed notorious gangsters jobbing to hide some money So he met up with Luke and Obi-Wan and they all saved the galaxy together That brief enough? Wow, it's funny Greg is doing a Chris but you usually do to Greg I know, I know Greg had to do that It hurts, it hurts It hurts me I don't know Let's start with Solo I know, I know Oh, so I feel bad But look at this We're only far down the list There's just six more That's okay, we've had it up So you can go long Yeah, that's good Mark Hamill, okay Chris could go on for an hour on Mark Hamill alone But of course most famous for Luke Skywalker and the Star Wars movies He's done lots of other stuff He's done a lot of voice acting and he's played the Joker right? He played a character He played a Joker-like villain in the Flash series Yeah, Trickster Trickster, yeah So he's done a lot of acting a lot of voice acting and Spider-Man the Animated series Yeah, and even we were talking about this before the show even made a few appearances on the Big Bang Theory Yeah Performed the wedding I need to edit that profile He's done lots of stuff so his profile should be a little more meaty than it is I think it's just the ones who are still living because we just recently opened up profiles I think that's why they're biographies are smaller Yeah And Wiki WikiTree like to open up a profile when a person is still living there must be a way to do that an official protocol Basically if they have a Wikipedia page usually it's okay for them to be open That's the criteria? I think for the Notables project to get that sticker they have to be a page and already have stuff out there and the interweb as well Do you have to be a member of the Notables team to be able to edit their page or once they're open anyone can edit Probably it's to be part of the Notables project or like how Scott he's on the page too but he's the leader of the Notables Sorry, I just took that little detour because I opened up the door Sarah Jory Jordan just came in Jory if you're confused we have gone to the stars So tell us a little bit about Luke Skywalker And one sentence or less Well I'll do it Okay basically it's Luke's biography only he stayed on the desert planet and suffered because he was in a desert planet with two sons and he's still looking for those power converters so yeah That's it Wow Wow I think people know more about Luke's video Wait there's one more thing He hung out with a Muppet So yeah that was that With a Muppet There we go Look at this So this is This is the Wikipedia Greg, Greg Asked him to be brief I know You're asking me to be brief I just noticed Look at this hair color They're so specific with blonde, later gray and white These are Really specific Those fandom pages always do that Very specific You might have to pick one or two next We have to do James Earl Jones How could we not American actor career span more than 60 years won multiple awards in entertainment Emmys, Grammys, Oscars, Tony, Golden Globes Known for his distinctive basso profondo voice and that's the job of voicing the Star Wars innovator Born on January 17th in Arcobutla Tiny community in northwestern Mississippi son of an actor Robert Earl Jones and Ruth Connolly teacher in a maid He didn't get to know his father until he was an adult But then he and his mother joined the great African-American migration and moved up north in the case to Michigan and in the college he joined the reserve officer's training corps and became a second lieutenant married and there we go and he became Darth Vader and then he became Darth Vader I loved him in fields of dreams too Yeah He was also good at Mufasa Right, yes Mufasa My favorite Big Bang Theory episode is when Sheldon runs into him and just asks if he can sit down and talk and they end up spending the entire weekend together It's the sweetest, most wonderful Big Bang Theory ever I have to go watch that again Yeah Okay, tell us a little bit about Darth Vader Well, he started life as Anakin Skywalker and, you know, he didn't like sand, it was coarse, irritating and got everywhere He was a child of the force His mother, it was like a macular conception She just like somehow got pregnant by the force itself and it was said that he was supposed to bring bounds to the force So Qui-Gon Jinn and Obi-Wan trained they were going to train him Then Qui-Gon Jinn died and he so Obi-Wan ended up training him and after the Clone Wars finally the Clone Wars, he turned to the dark side of the force because Palpatine was like, hey, you know what, the Jedi you don't know what they're talking about you want to join us So he also married me on a dollar he had two twins and a bunch of family drama later he died I mean, that's the ultimate you know, it's an old spoiler Yeah, that's right and then he died but he also became a force ghost and the galaxy would save the end and the galaxy would save the end he also the fact that Anakin is Darth Vader's also a spoiler but it's still an old spoiler for the old spoiler at this point I think we could forgive it Hey Chris, your mom needs you Roll him away Roll him away I just got a memo So we also also on the profiles of the week which I recommend people check out because they are well written George Lucas Peter Mehue who played Chewbacca David Prowse who was the physical actor who played Darth Vader and then John Williams who was also the composer of the wonderful music behind Star Wars and lots of music spanning many, many galaxies and many stories and many franchises and I if I could pick I would have picked to be closest related to him but Chris apparently got that prize and so when I talk about Chewbacca's we can talk about Wookiee Life Day come on Wookiee Life Day I do recommend checking out Peter Mehue and David Prowse reading their profiles because they're both well written and they give some neat background into the actors who played that you don't see them because they're covered with their makeup and their costumes and stuff so it's kind of neat to sort of see the person behind the mask so I want to mention that this week Elon Musk or next week Elon Musk he's not supposed to be on like in person so Sarah was saying before the broadcast hey we're talking about Elon Musk you can hear me come on be on our Wookiee Tree Challenge come on anybody who knows Elon Musk let him know we want him to be on we're going to be checking out his family lines so that's coming up wow I'd be impressed if anybody knew Elon Musk here yeah well I think everybody on the planet knows who Elon Musk is is but know him personally connections we'll see you next week right yeah I won't be here unless we can meet on our trust day we did a great job today by the way Chris I don't know we may have to fire Greg and hire you you're much briefer sorry well