 Julie hi. How are you? I'm good. How are you? Lonely? Lonely? There's nobody here. There's no people here. Now there's two. I saw there are there a couple people at least on to YouTube. I haven't checked Facebook I don't know if they give us account. Do they do we say and we do this like every other Friday? We're like Do we have a count on Facebook? We should check. All right you guys if you're here. Oh, there's Steven. I knew Steven would be here and K. They're already dating profiles. Yay. Awesome. Happy Friday everybody. Linda. Hi Linda Baird-Hanson. Nice that you're here. I was going to mention I'm actually going on a date this Friday right now this tonight with my husband and only 10 other people. What are you guys doing? We're going out to dinner the first time and since the lockdown we're all going to go out to dinner together. Is that why you're dressed in a strappy black thing? No, that's because I was really hot and I didn't want to put on like jeans and stuff. I was just too warm. It's humid here in Illinois. It's just hot here. Yeah, you guys don't get humidity. Not as much. We get some but nothing like what other people get. Is this to find a person to follow? I could see why you would think that Linda. It is not though. No, it's not dating profiles. Go ahead. We'll talk about a little bit. That's fine. No, explain. So Friday date night at Linda if you're familiar with wiki tree. Wiki tree is a genealogy site in case you're new to that too. And we are a collaborative community that works on our genealogy together. And Friday date night is kind of a play on words. We have a bunch of profiles in the database that don't have dates on them. So it makes it really hard to research them and to find the people, to find their relatives that they're connected to. So on Friday date night, we all get together and we date profiles. Not each other. Just profiles. We research profiles and put dates on them. So great. You have an account that's awesome. Hi June and hi Lauren Thompson from Melbourne, Australia. So I hope that explains a little better. We realize that it can be a little confusing because we call it Friday date night and we joke around about that a lot. So it's just kind of a fun fun play on words and we hang out together on discord and help each other or just chat once in a while. People just kind of get busy. Sometimes it gets very quiet on discord. Because they're quietly dating profiles. Yep. So we've been doing this since the first part of November of 2020 of course. It just seemed like a good pandemic sort of thing to do since we're all stuck inside for a while. Hi Lynette. Hi Lynette. Lynette's always here. Steven's always here. We got Lauren Thompson from Melbourne. I saw that. I said hello to her. You didn't hear me, did you? No, I said hello to her. Oh, there you go. And there's John Tyner from John's from Ireland. Yes, I knew he was in the UK. Hi Charles. Nice that you're here. If you guys are not on the discord server for wiki tree, you can. Let me find my banner. I think I have one here. No, I need to edit it. Just talk amongst yourselves and I'll edit this right here. Anyone? Tell them a joke. I have one. Hold on. What? Oh you do? Do I have one? What does a thesaurus eat for breakfast? A synonym roll. Oh man, that was awful. No, it's awesome. That was really bad. It's one of the best pun jokes ever. That is pretty funny. I thought you were going to say alphabets or something, but that's not nearly as funny as a synonym roll. So yeah, that's great. So Charles Platt, there is our our link to our discord help page on wiki tree. And you can pop over there and get the link. When you come into discord, one of us will verify that you are who you say you were. And you can come join us on the friday date night channel over there where we help each other with research or maybe tell jokes. I don't think anybody in there has ever told a joke, have they? I don't think so. We're not funny. Yeah, we are. We'll put Kay on that. Kay, you have to come up with a joke for us on discord, because I know she's on. Bradley Dillon loves this new wiki tree. Yay, we do too. Where are you from, Bradley? Just in general, you don't have to give us two four six self-strank. Main Street. Oh, yes, you should put this in your Wednesday email. It is. I think it was noted in the Wednesday email. I don't know. Oh, there's Deborah. The discord help page. Oh, I don't know. I thought it was mentioned in there a week or so ago. It needs some editing before we promote it. Oh, okay. So it has not been in the Wednesday newsletter. Lancaster, California. Cool. So it's not really Friday date night for you. It's Friday afternoon. Friday afternoon. It's Friday afternoon for me, too. It's only two o'clock here. Yeah, it's three three o'clock here. Not good. It's not Saturday. Saturday morning for some people. So we were talking a little bit about how awesome the date additions are that you guys have made and how it might help with the connectathon that's coming up in July. So if you think about it, when you're doing connecting, you're looking for existing profiles that have the right dates and locations and good sources and everything. So if you have put good dates on a profile, they're going to show up in a search a lot easier. So we're hoping that that helps with the connectathon and I bet by the time July is over, we're definitely going to cross 25 000 profiles having been dated. We might in through July. I don't know. You think we could hit 30 000? We could do it. We're almost at 23 now. No, I take that back. We crossed 23. We're over 23 000. We're at 23 326. It happened. It could. I know there are a lot of people who really like working on this kind of stuff. So that's great. Bye June. She's leaving already and hi Tommy. John's dog got clips today. Oh, yeah? I'm not sure if that means one thing or the other thing. I was thinking the same thing. His nails clipped or something else perhaps clipped. Did he get his hair cut or she? We'll wait. So we'll wait. Yeah, we're just going to sit here and wait. So Bradley started working on wiki tree coming from Ancestry. It's quite different on wiki tree, but that's awesome. We're great to have you. We're great. Yeah, we're happy to have you. It's definitely Friday afternoon here. John's dog will be 14 on Monday. Hey. She had her coat and nails trimmed. That's nice. My doggies are sleeping this afternoon. They're all hot and tired from our walk. Molly. Molly's back there. So Lynette's been working on, I assume AR is Arkansas Unsourced Suggestions and Harvesting 4,300 data lines of Jedmatch. Wow. Wow. That's a lot. We are great. Yes, we are. Here, Lynette gets the quote of the day. So I know some of you are new to our date night thing. Got any questions? We're not here to line you up with anybody. We are not matchmakers. Although I know a lot of wiki chairs, so if you're lonely, I might know a match. That's true. We do know a lot of wiki chairs. What else do we have to talk about, Aowyn? Do you want to talk about the connectathon that's coming up next month? Not particularly. Why not? Why? Because there are people out here who don't know what it is. It is. And it's fun. A fun event. It's one of our more popular events and it is adding people to wiki trees. So basically you're not creating new people that, how can I say this? You're not just creating new people. You're creating people that are attached to people that already exist on wiki tree. So you're helping us grow the connections. Now she's sleeping in the laundry room. You're a weird dog. Maybe it's cooler in there. Is it cooler? Do you want to come say hi? Come here. So Linda says, what kind of dates? Any date on a profile? Well, Linda, we have a free space page. Let me see if I have that up here too. I don't. I'll try and talk and do this at the same time. They're a free space page for Friday date night. And it has instructions on finding profiles that don't have dates. And I'm putting the URL up here right now. So hang on just a second. Typing and talking at the same time. It's hard for me. There we go. So if you go to that URL, that is our free space page where we describe how to find profiles that don't have dates. How to look for dates. What to do if you can't find them. And if you go on to our discord server, you'll have plenty of people out there that if you get stuck and you're not quite sure what to do, they can help you with that. I am probably not going to be here for very long today because I have to go on a real date. With my husband, of course. So that'll be fun. And there's Molly. Oh, she really wants to participate right now. Apparently. She's like, do you have a date for me? Where's my date, mom? Where's mine? I see it right there. It's my treats right there. Yeah, I can't have them. So John wants to know, where does Connectathon start? Do we build backwards in time or forwards in time from profiles already on WikiTree? Yes. Yeah, basically if there's a profile on WikiTree, you can add in any direction. As long as you're adding family to a profile already exists, then you're good to go. Let me show you guys something. I'll share my screen and I'll go show you how to find unconnected profiles. Let's see. Chrome tab. We'll go there. Okay, can you see it? Or do I need to? Can you add it? Let me know when you're ready. Go for it. Okay, so if you were talking about the Connectathon today instead of Friday date night, but here's the free space page I was talking about before. And you'll find the schedule. How to find profiles without dates. And some other ways to find profiles without dates. What to do when you find a profile. There's this is a decision tree here that will help you figure out what to do. And more hints and tips. We have a sticker that you can put on your profile that looks like that. And what's going on? I can't see you. Did you drop the dog? No, she jumped, but she took my head so there. And here's our stats. This is everything we've done since the beginning of November. So, but for the Connectathon, when we get ready to do that, you can go, Alesh will have reports for you too, but you can always find Unconnected Profiles by going to the Find menu. And Unconnected Profiles. And it will bring up, wait, I didn't click on Unsource, did I? Apparently you did. Apparently. So if you want to find Unsource Profiles, that's how you do it. That's right. So here's Unconnected People throughout the whole tree. It's a very long, this will be a very long list, or if you'd rather work on ones that you're more familiar with, you go to my wiki tree and your watch list. Don't look at how big my watch list is right now. I'm busy with somebody else's family. And there will be a button here for Unconnected. You can click that. And these are the families on my watch list, or the profiles on my watch list that are not yet connected to the big tree. So that's a good place to start. And I wanted to show a little helpful hint here too. I'll bring this up. When you're looking for profiles to add dates to, a lot of times I find them when I'm searching for duplicates. So I'll go up here and I will go to the Profile ID menu and then I go down and I search for matches. And if you'll notice, we're almost always going to get profiles that don't have dates on them. So that's a really good way to help because this is very demonstrates very well that when you add dates to profile, it's going to help everybody because it'll make it a lot easier to search for duplicates then. A lot easier to find them. For sure. So I hope that was helpful for somebody. I'm sure it was. And Holly wants to know if there's an event for merging profiles and there is not. And there's kind of a reason for that. Aya, do you want to talk about that or you want me to? Mostly it's because merging is something that should have a lot of consideration with it. It's not something that we want to encourage people to rush and do and to hurry through because once you merge a profile, it's not that easy to unmerge it. Like you really can't unmerge it. You have to rebuild. And so we don't really do challenges around merging. Right. Good point. Did you have a different one? Because we don't want people to hurry. Huh? Did you have a different one? Do I have a different one? Nope. That's exactly what I would have said. It's not something that should be rushed through. They need to be researched to make sure you've got the right match. Anything should really be rushed through but it's just really hard. Like it's easy to restore a profile. It's easy to change a date. It's not easy to unmerge, fix a bad hierarchy. Right. Right. Exactly. And Kay brought up a point. She's been working on a challenge called the Grip Challenge. It stands for... Oh, I'm never going to get this right. Judcom Review Improvement... And Improve Profiles. And Improve Profiles. So she's been... I don't... Kay, I'm sorry but I have not had time to get into your grip stuff lately. So I'm terrible at navigating it. But there's a spreadsheet that she has set up and we have it pinned in the Discord channel for Friday, date night. And you can go out there and find profiles that were created from Judcom. And these are all Judcoms that were uploaded years and years ago when we didn't really have many restrictions on them. So they might not have dates. They might not have locations. Some of them, the families were disconnected when they were imported. So it's a really good way to go and improve the tree by working on those Judcom created profiles from a long time ago. So that's always a good thing to do too. And there's plenty of those that don't have dates. So we have all kinds of ways to get to profiles without dates. Oh, and we enlightened John. He didn't know what the grip stood for. So we kind of been trying to work on those two things together because it's fun. I think I'm getting a lot of noise. Are you hearing that? No. Oh, that's weird. Well, I'm almost done anyway. Did you have anything else to add? You know, I don't. Well, we will wrap it up unless somebody pops a question in there real quick because we want to let you guys get out and start having fun. Start dating. Yeah, start dating. Please show up on Discord. We have a we have a good time over there and you'll get your questions answered. So we hope we can find you over there and help you get started. Oh, Bradley. Yes, I didn't see you pop up. I saw notifications. So we'll get you squared away as soon as we get done here. All right, everybody, have a fantastic weekend. Thank you for stopping in. Please thumbs up our video if you feel like it. We're happy to have you here and we will see you guys on Discord in two weeks for the next Friday date night. Bye. Bye.