 Good morning afternoon evening wherever you are in the world. How is everybody doing today? It's uh, good That's around the comments. I can't even see who's there Wow Wow, wow lots of people Yeah, uh, they've been chatting away. I've got a usual crowd Benjamin it's in the middle of the night for Benjamin. I don't know why he's saying morning. I don't know why Morning is I don't know if you knew that did you study that in school how to read a clock? Um, yes I know how to read a clock See that's who in the morning. Yeah, I guess for this morning middle of the night though for most people That's when you're sleeping. It's not Benjamin Yeah, and then we have Tommy and k. Okay, and then my mom my mom Got Nancy and Thomas Conline I remember we discussed this one time how to pronounce this last name But he's he got on the discord. I feel like he's a new he's a new guy on the discord and we have lizzie and Greg And june. Hello, june June says great job mags On you I guess on your um through text up You uh, yeah, I had a fun on chat yesterday with the family history fanatics roots deck recap Oh my gosh pip is here pip has been absent most saturdays. Hi He's been ironing his kilt Oh There's this new show on What is it? Maybe it's hulu. It's called men and kilts and it's where they go on a and I thought of pip when I saw the show Were they running through the woods jumping over stuff? No, they're they're doing like a It's like a documentary not a documentary I guess it is a documentary where they're going around scotland and ireland and like trying the food and the people that's called men and kilts and I thought of pip And we have chris f And I saw I was going to say hi to somebody when you Nancy wilson Oh, there was somebody else that looked new Who where was she? Oh, well barb Saletti from From philly hello barb Then we have um jonathan then we have steve. Hi steve is who's Harris lineage Yeah, how is everyone doing oh, I guess already asked that but Hangs out. I hear I've heard I've heard this it's probably not something we should spread a lot But I hear he hangs out in some of harry's Then we have mio van me. Hello there. That's frank Oh, it's frank. Oh frank Maybe frank yatsik. Maybe yes. Okay. Hello frank. Welcome Maybe you're so good with names You must have a memory like an elephant He was reeling off we were going through we've got something to show you that's fun we were going through some of the stuff and Many knew who everybody was on every slide and everything so I've just looked at that stuff a lot phyllis Gatio, hello from road island. Hello from Ottawa. No Hello And then road island. Oh, yeah, we're gonna set that so today Brits a little bit different your coffee. I'm my coffee my coffee's over there. I've already had two cups I've already had two cups coffee. So today we are doing something a little bit different in our normal saturday mornings As it is roots tech I'm I'm wearing what I normally wear in the roots tech wiki tree booth so as I'm sure all of you know roots tech is virtual this year And since because of the pandemic So they made it virtual instead of everybody going and probably all catching The virus if we were all in that convention center in salt lake city right now that have been Crazy probably terrible. So it was a good idea and it was also really great because they made it free for everybody so it's I have found a whole bunch of cool Cousins, you know on the app and because a lot a lot so it's accessible to a lot more people Right the finder find your relatives tool Greg or yeah, Greg just said kip. I can't find you on the roots tech relatives So I can't find out if you're a cousin Greg. You can find out if hip is a cousin on wiki tree. I'm just saying Just saying yeah, you can also do that on wiki tree go to the source Yeah Go to the source, you know, we are wiki tree so A lot of people have been asking why wiki tree doesn't have a presence this year during roots tech And the real the reason why wiki tree goes to roots tech is so we can have a physical presence So we can all be there together because we are a virtual site, right? We even everybody who works for wiki tree There's no physical location. So it's time for all of us to come together to meet people in person and There wasn't a real since it's virtual and we're virtual already. There wasn't we didn't see You know a need to have Ourself in the expo hall But we and we also have the wiki tree challenge going on as well. So But a lot a lot of moving parts. So that's why we're not in roots tech this year if you are Roots teching in your wiki tree orange or your wiki tree green or your wiki tree yellow or your wiki wiki tree black lake Chris ferrello You can post a picture of yourself wiki training at roots tech And then post it to the wiki tree members group Yeah, so yeah, you can post if you take a picture of yourself and pips says he posted a picture for me in a red kilt I have to go look at that. I did not see that And then we have had in discord, um where some of us have just been sharing what we're watching You know the different roots tech seminars that are really interesting Yeah, i've been i haven't even had a chance. I kind of looked at some But I was overwhelmed at all of the options. I'm surprised that nobody's done a watch party yet, but I haven't seen one Yeah, there have been watch parties. There have been watch parties I was in a party yesterday afternoon with the family history fanatics But I wanted to wanted to slide something in there just really quickly is that I have a presentation scheduled for 11 Am like like the second we finish this I'm in a presentation at roots tech. So if you guys want to hop over as soon as this is done You can find me by going to the menu going down to speakers and then typing in mags and you'll find me and then click on the Click on the presentation. You won't be able to see it until 11 o'clock It was one of the ones that they held back To get people to to hang out and stay at roots tech So if you want to cover like it up like up up vote me chris f put you in discord yesterday mags. So we watched you there Oh I have my m&m's here in the office. I don't know where they went to maybe in my tummy. Oh, no We and I know mags always talks about wiki tree and her and her presentations. She always ties us in there Oh, no, but that would that didn't look like a good nod She does I do I do wiki tree has been almost every but wiki tree is not in the presentation this morning I don't think because it's not a it's just a basic y primer. So y dna So I guess I didn't really say what we're doing different this Saturday, but we're gonna be talking about the wiki tree challenge because That's what we've been doing And it's roots tech and I feel like we could just have a big summary for people who But I feel like everybody who's watching right now probably it's aware of it But I think it's gonna be a good summary for everybody who watches it Bring in Tell people about this live cast so they can watch it about the wiki tree challenge because the wiki tree challenge Is all year long not like roots tech, which is only weekend even though you can't watch all the sessions for a year You get to see famous people at roots tech and you get to see famous people for a lot longer For a lot more personal stuff right on wiki tree everyone Like we had a dr. Gay's drink and wine on our live cast Yeah And some of the people that are that are viewing this right now weren't in every week So they might know what was going on their week, but they might have missed one of the other weeks Yes so so so So if Whoever is not aware of what? The wiki tree challenge is it's our year long event where each week I was expecting music again No, I don't have music. I'm sorry no music because then I would have to fight with the music and I'd have to talk over the music and Never mind so the wiki tree challenge Our year long event where each week we take on a different genealogy guest star Well for most weeks we have had already a rest week. So we have we'll have some gaps But for the most part every week we have a genealogy guest star and A team of wiki tree years work on it to make it more accurate and complete than it is anywhere else And that's it. Oh, no, my mom is telling me to play the piano right now. I am not going to do that for you You know in your apartment That's right there. Oh, that's fun Uh-oh Don't no, thanks. I'm I'm good. So that is the wiki tree challenge I'm sure some of most of you are kind of aware of The wiki tree challenge, but that's what it is So we're gonna kind of recap All of our guest stars what we found It's exciting lights some other fun stuff but first Now you might think That our challenge is only adding ancestors and adding relatives But there's so many more ways to participate in the challenge. Mindy. Do you want to talk about? Yes, and on top of researching And adding new ancestors We have people that are just interested in writing biographies They take all the sources somebody's added because they don't know the location's records and they write a biography at We have people that have Account paid accounts to get newspaper paper look up obituaries for us We have others that just go around and fix errors and suggestions And some that add the nice profile bling like you see there are pictures and stickers And then we also have we've had several really interesting free space pages created For the guests that shows, um, you know, something specific to them Whether it was the paper mill and the people that worked around Um The family and how many family members were in it this actual the drawing on this was done by Elaine weatherall And her power went out while we were all in the middle of a storm and I had found this picture of a church that The ancestor had gotten married in and all of his children have been baptized in This church was brand new in that old picture. It's all landscaped You can't hardly see the building now and Elaine drew that for judy. So that was really awesome Pretty cool. Yeah, we've had a lot of different We've had a lot of week and two years participate in different ways that We might not have thought would have happened like there's a drawing And just how I mean we knew free space pages were going to happen But the the length that some of our week and two years went into to create Like paper mill one and the engagement one and then creating profiles for people who Maybe you're not direct relatives of this person, but they're creating the everybody who Who attended the engagement party? So it's pretty neat of the lanes that people Our volunteers are going to right and we actually have 10 people that are signed up this week That aren't even adding profiles. They're just doing things like making some edits helping people correct things I think that's really cool. They're not going for the points. They're just Helping out Yeah, that's what wiki tree is about too, you know creating Collaboration Making new wiki tree friends. Yeah And what the challenge is about just improving the overall accuracy On wiki tree. So hey, um, there's a spammer in here Oh, no, I think you can figure it out Hold on. Yeah, they have to go Bye. Bye. Sorry Okay taken care of So our first week We had ajj gobs And if not familiar with ajj is ajj is an author and he wrote i see in this book He wrote so he's written a lot of books, but he had one that's called it's all relative and He basically Used wiki tree He mentioned the elf wait What is your puppy makes it's on the bookshelf upstairs Honestly, I didn't even plan it right now. This book is being used because my lamp falls over So I have a pile of books keeping my lamp from falling over on top of me. So that's why I have this book right here Wait, Karen Lowe says she's on page 285. Let's verify that 285 285 Look at them go. I'll so Sarah You're at the you're basically you're in the acknowledgement section. You are in the world You just acknowledged Okay, he has a whole bunch of names. Is that's true. Oh chris witton Look abby glan lucy lavel karen tobo Oh, she says she is on page 285 Oh, sorry, that's her name erin brinn lucy Is this Elizabeth O'Neill land lots of wiki treers I thought karen meant that she is reading it and was on page 285. Her name is on 285. That's why Okay Cool That's who AJ is and AJ was fun. He was a lot of fun and he was so excited. He was the first one So he didn't know what to expect He is a funny man. He really is Very humorous person So we actually I'll hold on I keep Okay, we actually did a lot of work for him. He was pretty excited about it 38 new profiles. We broke down six brick walls And bill Murray is his cousin the guy in the top out there. That's not bill Murray. That's harry flude harry flude Yeah, so we did a lot of work on his tree because he had a lot of Um people from poland, right? Mindy, right? He actually were the captain for AJ, correct? Yes, I was And I learned a lot about researching polish ancestors. So I've actually had to do that with several of our guests now I'm getting better at them Yeah, so that What what do you think was the best find on AJ's tree Mindy as you were the captain That would actually be that we broke the brick walls down on harry flude's line because once That one set a Ancestors went down that line just exploded and you know, we were expecting more on his primary paternal side, but but that's not where it happened It was over on the maternal side. So we were all pleasantly surprised And so that was um AJ six brick walls he gave us I think all of our guest stars have pretty much given us an A plus Yes Yeah, we got an a We're we're acing this test not just an a you got an a plus. Yeah Yeah, we got an a plus. You'd have to redo it. Judy gave us a for effort. Yeah Judy russell, of course she did If she was she she was very improved She said we might get the a plus. She had to finish looking at the profiles first Well, and you know and judy was skeptical coming in and I think that she is now seen how the collaborative process works with wiki tree It's pretty incredible. Yes, it is. It's impressive So next we had cc more And we did she was really excited And if you guys aren't from cc more she she's a dna And she also helps with finding your roots. She's the dna specialist on pbs Um, so we did she was really excited and also her son was really excited about Nikki was great We had both her and her son on at the her wrap up And because she doesn't really have time to work on her tree So she was really excited for us to work on her tree And that week we got the most points that we've gotten out of any single week 33 brick walls we broke wow 756 new profiles 120 were direct ancestors So we did a lot of stuff and I know she had we had I think we found a I don't know if I'm thinking of the right week But maybe not. I'm not I'm just I'm just not going to say it But these are her highlights we have we have a picture over here of one of her ancestors And Do you remember anything significant about that week Mindy? Um, not really just mostly that you know, we were able to explode it so much And then there were things like the um, she had said there wasn't a lot of military in her family branches Whereas some people have a lot so the few things that we did find where she had civil war or Revolutionary people she was really excited about There was one person that had won a won an award and she was like wow I never even knew that and nicky's like looking for the names He was cute. Mm-hmm. Yeah Oh, and then I guess for the last for aj's week juja Was a big help with the swedish profiles Yeah, he was that he was the most valuable player that week. He did awesome That was cc's week Yeah, we got the most the most points that we've broken. We've been doing a great job Yeah And we had johnny and johnny on for those of you who didn't know who johnny is johnny is He's also doing dna stuff in a programmer and he created the website dna painter. I love that super cool site You haven't checked it out before do you check it out? um, so he visited he was on from I think he was in england when he For his live cast so that's why we had to change the times in london. Yes london. Yes So that's who johnny is and we Broke eight brick walls for johnny 90 new 92 new direct ancestors added onto wiki tree so we Started with just up to the great great grand the great grandparents on wiki tree That's kind of where our baseline was and we would we took their publicly accessible tree and We improved it. So we only broke eight brick walls, but on wiki tree. We added 92 direct ancestors and 17 nuclear relatives and there were a lot of polish in this these lines too and Once again amazing to find out that so many of the records are online for there So I think we only had one family line where we could link to an index But we didn't have the actual records, but the rest of the family members We actually found the documents to link to so although a lot of translations were done There are still a lot more that can be done Um, you know, but those documents are linked to every one of those profiles. So Yes, sarah the other sarah who was the captain for johnny's week She told me that for her the most impressive thing was it's the last little point there um, johnny's eighth great grandfather john hofkins was lived his He witnessed most of the 1600s He lived to 88 years old and his parents were actually two of the brick walls that we broke through out of the eight so To our that team captain that was the most impressive one. So Super cool did great johnny was really impressed too. I everybody's been really impressed with us Does work because wiki tree is awesome. What can I say? Yeah, and I have to give a shout out to um, you know to frank yachtsick and um deeter luerans They have just been amazingly helpful with the german and the depression lines, you know And then we have had other wiki treeers too that are doing some of the translations and helping out But those two have just been consistently really helpful with those lines The power of wiki tree. We have all the countries Yes, because all of our different projects and the international just While we are we definitely started off more, you know, american United States centric. We've definitely been branching out and we have a lot. We have a lot of people from You know england and you know a europe and even have people in australia and other places around the worlds. We're just growing in Our international becoming more international and then a lesh just popped in speaking of international a lesh is in slavania So we had jen baldwin jen she works for find my past and She doesn't she didn't really have much time to work on her tree As well. So she was also excited that we were working on her tree We broke down 18 brick walls for jen added A total of 212 profiles where 69 were direct ancestors and 143 relatives awesome And here again, we have sweden and and german in those lines. So Mm-hmm And then there was a she had told us when we started She wanted to find out more about one of her relatives john Horatio lorenz Where she thought he was a silversmith, but we found out through a lot of Research and and conversations mm-hmm that he was a The word is cord wainer wainer for shoemaker Learned something new every day cord wainer was shoemaker back in the day It's always fun to see the different names of what occupations were Earlier on that now they've changed And they do have a really interesting roots tech seminar on that the occupations If you're watching the roots tech stuff. Look it up. It's really neat that shows some of the stuff It mentions cord wainers, but there was actually a couple. I didn't know so mm-hmm That was for jen Jen Baldwin and we have oops the next we had Dr. Gates Henry lewis gates jr. On and that was that was a big week That was just because of for those of you who don't know maybe most of you know Dr. Gates and he's the host of finding your roots The show on pbs. Uh, so we got him on Which was pretty exciting And we worked on his tree And we we found a lot of stuff and he was Very surprised with everything We broke nine brick walls for dr. Gates We added 22 ancestors direct ancestors and 83 nuclear relatives But we added a total of 633 profiles just expanding sideways Because that was emma's goal the captain for that week since um for african-american Ancestry and history for genealogy. She was branch. She was going sideways more than up, you know So she was kind of expanding the whole And this is the one this was the week that eat venhow did the marvelous work on the piedmont paper mill Mm-hmm and adding profiles for people that worked at the mill Mm-hmm. Yeah, so that was this was a really Good week. Uh, we we'd had a lot of people improving The biographies on the profiles adding little graphics and for one of his ancestors who which one was it that was the Oh, was it sarah redmond? No the one the That one word That he liked a lot. We'll see it later, but yeah, he was He was impressed. We did a really good job on his on his tree That was a good week Yeah, and little details that he was excited about like the ancestor that have the first She was the first black person to have a a bank account in that county. He was like, oh, I didn't know that Dane gates the estimable There we go. That's the person like that's the link Everything thank you karin And then just last week well not last week, but the Last full week of the wiki tree challenge. We had judy russell who Is a legal is the legal genealogist the The legal genealogist she was Not to say skeptical, but you know, she she was skeptical. She said she was She said she was very skeptical Skeptical, but now I can't say it now that you it's not laps. They're not estimable But she didn't think the collaboration would really work and she didn't think she was going to buy into it, but Oh, there's the m&m But by the end of the week and when she saw what we did she said, okay She was she was starting to buy it. Maybe not a hundred percent, but you see. Oh, yeah, just wanted to mention What nancy said so for dr. Gates this week He was so excited about all that we found he actually brought his wife into the room to see what we found Now she's not on camera because she don't want to be on camera, but he brought her to watch everything that we found which Says a lot. I think Karen says she was both estimable and skeptical But we we did a good job on well judy because judy Does research her genealogy consistently so we knew we weren't going to necessarily find Break any brick walls while we did break one brick wall But our goal was to improve The mistakes that were on wiki tree already That she had pointed out. So we were we cleaned up a lot of profiles We fixed errors We wrote biographies and this was the week where look the drawing that Alain did that Alain did That's impressive Isn't that beautiful did she do it by candlelight if she lost her power? Whatever light she had in her house. I don't know and little kids running around I'm gonna say that she was walking through the snow 10 miles while she was sketching this uphill uphill So so yeah, so we had the The drawing and then we also had that one free space page of the engagement party created for judy's week So while we couldn't necessarily we didn't break a lot of brick walls, but we did make Add color to her tree add color to her profiles And we did wind up adding more family members as far as the nuclear family members children That she didn't have on her own tree and but people were very very careful and slow and Collaborated to make sure that all of those people were the records were sound forum But you know she was She was impressed with us. They overall their focus on accuracy And everything so I we we we basically turned her we Yeah, she said she's gonna have to become more More active on wiki tree now because she's got all these branches to look at Yeah, that's fun And so then we after judy's week we had a rest week So it was just a time for breather for our wiki tree because I know some of them didn't really sleep Or just so much research in their brain. They just needed a moment of rest But then we started with thomas kenti this week Unfortunately, he couldn't be on wednesday for our interview, but yeah, he'll be on for the wrap-up We don't want to give too much away because that's the whole point of next wednesday, but we can kind of Talk a little bit about what we found well at least Well, how we're doing how are we doing so far mendy for thomas's week? Just a general and and we have a lot of people collaborating which is nice You know his tree is really scattered So where some people are only out to maybe their third great grandparents or they take one line really far out His some of them are close some of them are far, you know It's just really hard for some of them to pick where to start at So, you know, we've had little groups forming where they try and work on the same families same nuclear family and It's been good Yeah, yeah, we're so we're We're finding we're yet. We're working our way out working our way out Yes, and our the people on I think Is the next slide what I think it is. Yes. So our How to collaborate so since right now we're working on thomas's tree. We have different ways for The our wiki tree years to collaborate together to not You know step on toes or chat and break to solve problems together like they did with the silversmith for jen's week You know that's one hiding in discord And one of the things about the collaboration, you know, because it's not like when You're working with one or two people on a project This is big, you know, this is large scale. So you wind up getting 40 50 people working on somebody's tree It's really really critical that people learn to use the tools that we put out there So please go to the spreadsheet put the profile that you're going to work on And then take it back down when you're done for the day You don't get to own the profile for two days. Take it down when you're done for the day You know But also look and make sure somebody else hasn't claimed it and like I said his tree is so spread out You really just need to click through the branches and you'll find some place to work that nobody's working And it's also not just To not step on toes, but also to not waste the effort, you know Well, if there are two people or three people working on the same person, you know when That might be Time better spent doing somebody else Right. Exactly. So it's just a way for us to make sure You know, we're working as sufficiently as we can so we have the spreadsheet And then we have the g2g post, right? What's the g2g post for that one is you can go ahead and look at the Branches for the eight great grandparents But the biggest thing that we want you to do with that is put those bounty points down Now you get 10 points for every brick while you break down so For the first time in each line So if you find a new set of parents for somebody shout it out to the world in the g2g, you know Hey, I found the parents of so and so so we can make sure you get those bounty points counted And also these go to the yes, so we don't want this to be You know a little chatter or you know, hey, please don't do that remember that this is for the guest of you and You know look at again and again if they want to Um, but do put those exciting finds if you find something really interesting you can post it there also You don't have to just post it in discord Mm-hmm. And then Karen says that you know, she had she experienced a where she says she stomped on a favorite We could treat her by not minding the spreadsheet And it's also to not overwrite someone's wonderful research. So just kind of also be mindful when you're Maybe somebody else that already worked on that profile And then someone else comes in just make sure you're not Rewriting and changing everything in the biography because everybody has different ways of writing a biography and doing the formatting So just being mindful of the research and work that the person before you did So I think that's very important So everybody people are you know at first a couple other people like benjamin didn't you know He said he didn't figure out how everything worked on cc's week, but Now he knows what to do now. He knows how to use all these tools that we have provided And we also have what we've been talking about discord Which basically live time Chat live action live action chat And that's and that's great because you know, you can say oh, hey Once again, I don't have a newspapers.com subscription Can somebody tell me if this person has an obituary or you know, you can say hey I think I have the sources right to prove this person's parents. I need a second or third set of eyes You know or even hey, I put a ton of sources on so-and-so's profile But I don't want to write about biography as anybody got some time You know, there's there's just a lot of things going on And you want to cheer people on when they find something or you know, you just want to help keep each other motivated And once again, although, you know accuracy is our biggest point for the year You do also want to make new friends And and I've seen that a lot where people are working together that weren't before this. Yeah, and discord Like mendee said I feel it because since a lot of wiki tree It's either emails like the take a bit or g2g posts, but discord kind of makes us feel more like a family And then also just looking at the discord because it's what it says there. Judy actually wrote a blog post about us and how our Work made her realize the mistake she made from her own research Which you know also kind of Says a lot right the all the different guys we have on Way to go maddie hardman Maddie hardman was the one Yeah, if we have When you have more eyes on a tree in collaboration It it just improves your genealogy altogether I was mags leaving by mags She because she has a presentation at 11 so I she's dipping out So Next month we have five guest stars For a march So wednesday we will have we'll be starting katharine's week So we have katharine wilson we have Well, she she does she created one of those facebook groups for like a collection of I don't think I'm saying this right, but she just created a whole bunch of links together on genealogy resources And then on facebook so she's big on facebook And then we have pat richley erickson. I know she's really excited if you don't know she's a dear myrtle That that's one rob Mags is good friends with a rob because he he's part of my oh she popped back in Good timing mags I'm listening to you guys in the background while i'm getting set up Oh, okay. So rob is kind of robbing. You are good friends with him So he's part of my to y dna and also dna jetcom And dna adoption he found the founders of dna adoption Mm-hmm, and then we have dalin quass Who oh man. I've just blinked on him indy Okay, well Sorry, what'd you say I said you could skip the ellen tomson while somebody finds you the info Yes, but I just wanted to mention real quick that picture of dalin quass Actually is cropped right next to him is chris witton In that picture yeah dalin quass is a we relate and he also has gen gophers dot com Okay, for some reason I wanted to say find my past or something, but I knew that probably because of we relate Yeah, yeah, it wasn't right. It wasn't right and we have ellen tomson gennings His the family history hound right that's I said that right. Yes. Okay. I always they get confused between people They're all it's all I'm wishing to get in my brain So I know all these people are really excited Um like pat and ellen. I know on twitter. They're they've already retweeted our stuff. They're really excited about it At least on the internet. They're excited But I know every single guest star has been excited about it They have and they've been appreciative which has been great. Yeah, and then actually pat. She actually did a A video about the wiki2 challenge last month So if you wanted to check that out So, okay, that's our march lineup, but we and just stay tuned for april May june got lots more goodies to come promise you I promise lots of goodies. So So far since we kind of just talked about each guest star individually You want to talk about our progress so far though? Mindy? How what we've been Yeah, these are our totals for overall Not including not including thomas. We didn't really adjust the numbers for thomas Well, he's not because he's not his week isn't done. So he's he's not in our totals But for the prior weeks, we've created 360 ancestors 823 nuclear relatives have been created. We've had seven guest stars 171 wiki tree years at one time or another during this year so far working and 3485 profiles edited which is just incredible Yeah, and that those all those profiles edited don't include all of the Side work that people have done, you know the free space pages, you know the drawings and just you know also chatting on discord So a lot more has gone into it just Besides these numbers that we see Right and this week alone. We have I was telling sarah earlier We have 10 people that have helped out this week that aren't even getting points But they're up on the score sheet because they edited so they're just helping other people out Or fixing things for them And it's just really excited to see these numbers. We're only We're not even finished with the second month. This is Six weeks of stats. Well, we're I included in the guest stars thomas, but this is six weeks of stats We added 360 ancestors now, that's not the brick walls. I feel like brick walls Are different big brick walls. No, did I do that math right? It's something probably around there Yeah, I mean, can you imagine what we're going to have done by the end of the year? How Much more complete wiki tree is going to be and we're accurate You know, we know how many more people will be connected to each other now just because we are adding the Nuclear family and sometimes we're branching out, you know, laterally Even though we're not getting points for it. We're adding those additional people so that we can hopefully help more people connect So it's not about the points. It's about The wiki tree and improving I like to do the rainbow whenever I talk about wiki tree and collaborate So next so I we created we kind of grab snippets from each of the weeks From our guest stars and we create a little video And so just I'll put it full screen and I'll play it Your sound is not coming through Here I'll start it over again. Sorry. That's probably because it's my volume No Don't do this We heard Sarah The fact that you were willing to say that your focus was on accuracy Makes me feel better about the whole thing So I That's easy sign, but uh that was so fun and fascinating and you guys Did an extraordinary job. So any plus we're incredibly appreciative I love that you added some of the photos I had online Um, I think that I love family photos That's next to DNA. It's my favorite thing in genealogy. So thank you for going the extra mile and adding all of that And really beautiful. I'm really cool. I feel like I'm on planning your route. I think that's quite excellent. Thank you very much Yes, I didn't I didn't really know what to expect. You said I knew that you were you were going to be Probably able to get into the tree, which is obviously amazing But I wasn't honestly necessarily expecting to record So that's really cool. I have a tree that I cannot share That isn't behind a paywall We're thrilled that you're so thrilled You guys are offering uh to the world. So so thank you very much for allowing me to be a part of it and invited me to participate It's pretty incredible Thank you for joining I mean it's easy to say that isn't very honest Other people are either doing something you'd love to be actually doing But things are unblown away by the passion and the creativity and the research That's it. They were look they were all so happy with us. Yeah, they were Now my volume is way too loud It's for the video. I needed to turn it up Okay, let's see here next. No, I don't want to play it again. Stop it Okay So if you guys want I can I mean you guys can watch all of these videos Throw all on youtube and facebook if you did I can post that those snippets I can post it on facebook and Other social media so you guys can watch it But we're planning on grabbing clips like that for each week. So I think it's just kind of sums up What we're doing and how appreciative there are and just how amazing we are, right? So yeah And so kind of coming back to roots tech Every year at roots tech we usually Create a wall of orange like mag said And we take a picture So if you are doing roots tech stuff if you have wiki tree gear Or if you even if you don't like pip said he posted a picture of him In his kill, you know, if you're doing roots tech stuff wiki tree stuff this week Share a photo with us and share it on facebook twitter Instagram or I also made a g2g post with the free space page And let's post pictures of us like we would while we can't be together physically we can still be together virtually and let's take a picture With our orange or a green or blue or red or whatever color And then maybe we can make a collage of a beautiful virtual roots tech of wiki tree I think that'd be great. So Let's do that I'm gonna watch all of you. I expect every single one of you who's watching right now to post a picture If not, I'll come after you Chris already know posted a picture Thank you, Chris. He was the first one that I saw to post a picture So let's do it. Let's create our virtual wall of orange Please Or green or green. So Kelly has a good question Is there a significance to the orange? It's just the color wiki tree has adopted as its color Well, it's one of the colors in the logo If you look at the wiki tree tree or any of the logos that wiki tree uses orange is the color in aon and Tammy osmar mice We're thinking how can we make us stand out? And they ordered these construction color The the burnt orange is kind of the orange on the logo And they ordered these construction grade bright orange and boy Boy, can you tell when a wiki tree is coming? They they did it. Mm-hmm. Yeah, and it's just uh now at the booth We're all when we're at roots tech. We wear orange Now some of us if you see some of the photo, I'm wearing my blue american munch shirt, but At least at some point. We're all wearing orange But three orange day when I speak at a conference Uh somewhere else in the world. I always have a wiki tree orange day And so the people that are at the conference And I all get together and our orange and take pictures. So That's fun too. Mm-hmm Yes, so post your pictures And just so you guys know we do have a place where you can get your own wiki tree gear if you don't already have wiki tree gear We have a store. It's my favorite place to look at if you guys have seen some of the the thong chats I sometimes I want 20 minutes looking at the store with you guys live it was Yeah, yeah, you wanted a tapestry for your apartment wall. I haven't yet done that. No, I keep I want it I'm thinking about getting a bumper sticker. I want to get american mutt bumper sticker There are stickers on the store So I wanted american put it on my car And that's the store. I put it at the bottom there if you guys Maybe if you already have a gear you want more gear You can get any color you want pretty much. We have mugs towels Bags sweaters Everything so if you want your own wiki tree gear if you don't already have because we usually sell shirts at roots tech So Our big selling lady is right there standing next to a lash Yeah, she wants her daughter Yeah, I wasn't a competition with her that year to see who could get the longest named tag. Oh, yeah, that's right I lost obviously I think she doubled hers over and back over her head I know it's because she had more time to Frolick around the expo hall Frolick Frolick Yes But I think I think that was the year that ellya and I broke into kirstie gray's Cabinet she had at her booth with all of all of their ribbons and we loaded her down I was I think that's how she won. Yeah, she Even though you were my roommate Yeah, mag's roommate, but I mean You know Till I can I can be okay with the 10 year old well ellya's older now Well 13 I don't know. I know she's all she's almost there. I'm missing allio this year. She's 13 I remember when her birthday happened And all I always tries to teach me how to speak Slovenian It's her mission So we have one more slide because of roots tech and with the wiki tree challenge We're actually having a raffle now. This is geared toward new members on wiki tree because we want more people we want people to see what we can do and People who are already on wiki tree know how great it is, but we want to reach out To more people so we are having a raffle That if you join wiki tree Get up to your great-grandparents Have less than 100 contributions Have a publicly accessible tree somewhere else that we can compare to You can be entered to win a spot For a team of wiki tree years to work on your tree and break down those brick walls for you. Can I enter? I've already been told no one I know But people spread the word tell your friends if you haven't been able to talk to uh talk Friends and family into joining wiki tree now's the time to to get out there and give another Does it count if my mom joins? No You can't join That's Alash answered. He said We missed you Alash tell Mira and If you if you have any friends in the genealogy community or just friends who might be interested in family Research tell them about this challenge There isn't a set Dead dead date due date like an end date for this raffle yet So all you have to do is do what's there and then just comment on one of the I have it on facebook Instagram and twitter the raffle It's not a wiki tree because obviously it's for new wiki tree years So it's not going to be on wiki tree, but just kind of post comment with your new wiki id And then you're entered to win a raffle So if you Know anyone Please let them know because I think it'd be fun to get people interested in wiki tree And the root stick is time to do it. So that's why I thought there's raffle during root stick. Let's do it Deadline due date dead day. I guess that's why I said dead date Deadline plus due date I was just trying to figure out why you were trying to kill it Today is my mom's birthday. I have to I have to give a shout out mom Even though she doesn't show up joe. You're a much better mom than my mom I'm almost supposed to my birthday. She told everybody who might win my birthday was It's next saturday So I'll be here on my birthday next week with you guys Special hats I'll I'll maybe I'll go out and get a birthday hat just for the occasion so Oh, that's it surprise me. Yeah, that was really yeah, I clicked the wrong one. It was shocking So that Is all and unless anybody has any questions you know those the wiki tree challenge and Kind of in two months so far Maybe I know I saw somebody in the chat saying that maybe we should have like judy on again after she's looked at everything to kind of give another opinion, maybe we can have What alum genealogy star alumni day? There you go. Yeah, that would be fun. It'll probably be difficult But that would be fun to do as a grand finale a lot would just have like a bunch of people I don't think we can even have that many but we can get some yeah, that'd be pretty cool. An alumni day I'll put it. I'll put it on the docket. It'll be on my to-do on the docket Using lots of words today's guys frolic docket death Uh estimable est well that I forgot that word so that's one for the other one skeptical skeptical Fun fun finding words with sarah Fun finding and also pronunciation with sarah every saturday 10 a.m. Eastern time I I love hanging out with you and having fun with you sarah every every week every saturday morning I've enjoyed having you in mindy this yeah mindy's But mindy's been joining on saturdays for the wiki tree challenge So That is that is all guys Thank you for joining. You can always visit us at wikitree.com if you don't already You mean you probably all spend your lives there already like we do So we don't do anything else And yeah, oh I get an a plus today. Thank you karen. I get an a plus today Oh a is for effort That's what makes english lesson So we will we will head off for the morning or evening or afternoon Or really early morning for benjamin I'm wearing my wiki tree for my presentation. You just guys notice that there's three minutes four seconds left Yeah, so if you're if you're don't have anything to do at 11 Go watch mags. I have to go help one of my friends move right after this Yeah, that's not fun. No, but We will see you on wednesday. We'll be wrapping up thomas's week starting kathryn wilson's week Should be great find out what we've discovered for thomas and hopefully he will have an orange mohawk On wednesday instead of blue instead of blue of some kind of color And then next saturday For my birthday, I expect I expect so many viewers next saturday just because it's my birthday Right y'all better be here and invite your friends It's gonna be a birthday party for sarah next saturday, okay Mags is gonna sing happy birthday. I fully expect to be some happy birthday. I can sing it as maryland munro Okay, until next time my friends