 Are we live? We're live but the music's not playing for me. Oh no! The music. I thought we'd have to play our own music. Why would it be boring if we didn't have technical issues? Oh yes, well, yeah. Well I could have played a little something here. Anyway, I'm in my piano room. As you can tell. Hey, you guys, everybody's here. There's some great comments going on in the room. Welcome to the Saturday morning live casts. Morning. My computer is moving so slowly. Am I frozen? I'm not frozen. No, you're not frozen. You're good. Okay, good. So I can't see the comments at the moment but they were going like, there you go. Who was the first one here? Let's see. It was Lynette Jester. You win the wiki tree Saturday live cast first on the scene, winky button for the morning. Judy's here. People are talking about going back to sleep Lynette. I hope you're still up. Brian tried to get here first but he didn't but that's okay. Hillary snowing up in Wells, I hear. Let's see. Lisa, hey Lisa, do you have snow? I've got snow. Can you see my snow behind me? You're coming to get you Betsy? No, no. Life in the big city. The chat before the show this morning was all about the Connect-a-thon coming up the second weekend of January. People were talking about the teens there on. Audrey Martin's here. Susie Carter is here. It's snowing in Minnesota again. Let's see. Mary Sleppy's here. Donna Gerber, Dee Dee, Hillary King. She's here. She's here. The walker just walked in. Yes. She likes my scarf. The snow is melting. Yeah. It's milder here. And I guess the temperature just dropped because the snow that's hanging off the roof behind me. You can see the snow hanging off the roof there. It's not dripping anymore. So I guess the temperature just dropped. It's been hovering right at 32. I should show you my view. There we go. Gorgeous. All right. Good morning, Greg. Over to you. Quick. Over to me. Okay. Yes. Yeah, we're going to, we're switching things up today. We're switching things up. Yeah. I have to play for a funeral. So I have to leave by a quarter after to get into town to church to do that. So I'm going to take the question of the week, which is so totally appropriate because the question of the week is all right. What genealogy gifts are on your wish list? And that goes so nicely with the secret Santa challenge and secret Santa elves that was officially open last week. So if you want to be a secret Santa elf, or you want to put a wish on the secret Santa wish list, there's still time to do that because we're, we've got one more week still for registration for those things. Because this week, the wiki tree challenge is the Mariah Carey challenge. And I'm sure Meg's going to talk a bit about that at the end. So if you want to be doing some, some challenge work, it's the Mariah Carey one for this week, but the secret Santa one starts officially next week. So we will not have a regular wiki tree live cast this time next week. We're taking December 24th off. However, I'm using that time 10 o'clock Eastern standard time to next week to have our official kickoff with all of the else. So anyone who signed up as an elf and as of now we have 78 elves signed up and I believe 88 wishes registered. So that's very exciting. And we still have another week for more people to sign up. So please sign up and help out because there's lots of wishes. And the question of the week, there's even more wishes. So let's have a look at those. So the first one is from Tommy Buck. He wishes that Santa would drop off some family tree, tree DNA tests. Interesting. Not just regular autosomeral tests. He's looking for the big Y and the mitochondrial DNA. So he's looking for to extend his paternal line with the big Y or his maternal line with the mitochondrial MT DNA. And I love the fact that for wiki tree, he wishes for an event template. So for those who are non programmers, what that means would be a place where you could put in events that aren't the birth, marriage, death, but other events like baptisms or other life events so that you can sort of populate, sort of flesh out, you know, flesh out a profile more. And there's been lots of discussion about that. Definitely some pros from programmers and app developers, but also some cons in terms of the complexity of the database and stuff and all that information can be put in bios anyways, but anyways, nice wish Tommy. I know there's people on your side of what that as well, but anyways, fun and standard place names. Well, isn't that every genealogies genealogists wish? We have a wish from the, from the peanut gallery. Yes. She wants a mentor of her own and a partridge in a pear tree. Oh, I love it. That's great. A partridge in the pear tree. That's fantastic. Yeah, that's great. Chris Ferriolo actually did a G to G pose with the 12 days of wiki myths. That was really clever. Yeah. Pat Credit says, I can't be the only one on wiki tree with a brick wall that I wish was solved. Who are the Prussian born parents of my maternal great-grandfather Charles Hofer? That's an excellent wish. And Pat, I would suggest if you really want that solved, one place you could do is you could take that wish and put it over on the G to G post for wishes accepted that was opened up last week. And if I had more than one screen, I would put the link to that in the chat, but maybe Megs can, or Betsy can find that and do that for us. But, so, because that's the place where we're collecting all of the wishes that the L's are going to be working on. Now, if we solve all of those problems, then we might look at these, these wishes here, but I can't guarantee it. And in fact, I should say that even though your wishes is on that other list, I can't guarantee that we'll actually get to all of them and solve them. I can guarantee that they'll all be considered and people will try. The L's will try their best over the two weeks of the Secret Santa Challenge to do as much as they can. But, so, I can't guarantee any of them will be solved, but we're going to try. So, and it'll be fun. We'll have fun in doing it. Jonathan, time and organized space in my house to store physical memories and catalog them correctly. Oh, that's a good one. I'm willing to entertain the offer of a new house from a Secret Santa Elf. Oh, yeah. Keep wishing for that one. I don't know if that's going to come true. I'd love to confirm the father of my paternal second great grandfather, Leo. It's an Armstrong somewhere in South finding Wisconsin. Good wish there, Steve. I wonder, did you already add that on the other list? But excellent. Here's a neat one from Lori. I wish I had a Secret Santa Elf that was fluent in the Czech language that could help me find relatives from Bohemia. Neat. And then part one and two of the American migration roots. Nice. Credits to Scotland's people. So that's a website that has gathered a whole pile of information for people from Scotland. It is a paid site or you have to pay for credits to get access to some of the records, though a bunch of the information is on the open side. So that's what Brian. Hey, Brian, you're in the chat today. I know. So he was plans tends to dig deeper into the family members pre arrival into Canada. He's also working on a side project where he's investigating a mystery where a whole township of Scots were cleared and then boarded on a ship, but never heard from again. The ship didn't sink. Hmm. Is there a. That's a whole story. That is very cool. That would be. He's speaking of. He's speaking of the Highland clearances. Right. The Highland clearance. But that's a crazy cool story. Is there a book about it, Brian? Yeah, I would read that. Maybe they ended up some other. Australia, New Zealand. Yeah. I think they're the ones in that have the crazy down East accent here in. Yeah. The new fees. Oh, no. So Ken's wish. I have two that will never be answered unless Elon Musk throws billions of dollars and time machine to go back and see what really happened. And a teleporter to go to the place to check out local document holdings. Thousands of miles away bypassing airports. Those are nice wishes. Yeah. I'd love to have more resources about my folk ancestors there from La Carlota, Spain, and I can't move there. That's Daniel. Tammy says I would love to know the final resting place of my three times great grandmother, Antis Canada joiner. She was born in 1835. Bradford County, Pennsylvania. Is that Pennsylvania? Yes. And married Oliver Bennett joiner. Uh-huh. And then she gets a little more details there. Sounds like a good wish for the elves to look at. An ancestor DNA test. More records uploaded from Napoli. And the ability to figure out what my ancestors' records say in Italian, Hebrew, Russian, Polish, and Yiddish. That's from Jennifer. So some of those languages, deep L, which is one of the things I showed you a couple weeks ago, and Google translate can translate. I don't know about Yiddish. Do they do Yiddish? Anyway. I could go. My next tornado would do it for you. Yeah. The other language is for sure, but that's interesting. Newspaper.com for me and DNA tests for my ancestors' records. I'm going to go. It's very short and sweet. Pam is an elf. And I think she's also made a wish. So that's, I recognize. Virginia fields asked for one item that's only wishes to finally solve my butter lineages, butters lineage in England and Scotland. And that research is my Christmas present from my husband this year. I sent the information to a recommended researcher and she will tackle it in mid next year. I'm going to give you that brick wall for you. That would be neat. I'd love to have a membership to PRDH for the Quebec ancestors. And this is from Lisa Gervais. At a crystal ball and some new sources in order to break down some of the brick walls in Ireland and more information on a Hessian soldier, Friedrich Christian Knapp, who settled in Quebec and eventually moved to Ontario. And a DNA mystery. I'm from Suzanne, but oh, I feel her pain. Time with 400 people pulling me in a thousand different directions at the same time. I was under the impression that life slowed down in retirement. I was hoping it apparently is busier than a house full of two year olds. I don't even have time to even breathe these days. Sorry, Suzanne. That's kind of my experience too with retirement, but for me at least the thousand different directions, most of them are ones that I enjoy doing or said yes to. So the trick is to know which ones to say no to. I haven't mastered that one. Yeah, Sophia is done. That is an absolute yes. Yeah, that's that was a definitely absolute yes. And so that is making me put a bunch of other things on the back burner and go slower at stuff. I finally got around to doing some fan chart work this week. But anyways, that's another story. Your subscription ancestry says Ken Hess. Thank you secret saying it else for this opportunity says Beverly grow. I would really love a year subscription to find my past and any information on Edward Clark. I don't have any Edwards in my adopted family tree so I can't help you there. I have a Hugh Clark as his father but this may not be correct. Dear Santa. What? I was just I'm sorry I'm lagging obviously but I was just answering that no you probably don't have her Edward Clark. No, I don't. So Lisa Lisa middle step says dear Santa, since you are magic, I would like the 1890 US census which I believe is mostly gone right and online index fully searchable database of the collective records from all the French archives departmental and use your time traveling powers to let my German ancestors know that naming their sons the same five given names just in a different order and then being whimsical and inconsistent about which names and what order they're used on each and every government document they encounter in life makes untangling them when they inevitably get completed a near impossible task. Yeah, that would be good. You're at 1014 there Greg. I know. I have several wishes. I have several wishes some probably never be solved but I thought I'd list them and Jeanine has listed them there a bunch of brick walls. Now for the wishes accepted we're only taking one wish per wishy just so our elves can spread the joy around as many people as possible but good for you to be hopeful there. An African ancestry test from Greg Slade, I have enough brick walls I could open a brickyard. I love that comment and the final one or at least it was the final one before from Donna Gerber I would really love to receive a special genealogy gift this Christmas without finding it where my great-grandfather James is born was keeping my fingers and toes crossed and would also love to have a genealogy mentor that was Audrey who you just mentioned. So that's it for me and if you want to have a Santa secret Santa elf work with you check out the link at the bottom of the page please. There you go. I'm sorry for the lag. Greg you have a great day Merry Christmas and we'll see you January we'll see you New Year's Eve party. Yes. Don't forget your champagne, your noisemaker we're a funny hat. Funny hats. I'll try to find all of those things. I'll see you and elves I will see you this time next week. Okay. Bye Greg. So if anybody is interested in doing the Santa elf please jump over to that link and do it. I am lagging like crazy here so I'm just going to keep talking so it doesn't sound really weird and I'm going to go over and add my screen and guess what I'm going to do and I'm going to do it but so fast you know how did that stop let's share it went completely away all the way away let's try this again oh I don't even oh okay there we go share screen this is so fun it's so fun to do it on a laptop there we go there we go there we go what big business magnet are you most closely related to that's what we want to know people Mark Cuban Jacob Abst John Jacob Astor Andrew Carnegie Catherine Graham Ingvar Comrade JP Morgan Dave Thomas that's the guy that created Wendy's and he's an adoptee so that's kind of an interesting thing to QN for us Toyota Sakichi or should I say Sakichi Toyota I don't know yet we'll find out when we go to that page Werner von Siemens and Madame CJ Walker so let's check out Mark Cuban that was last week's challenge and he's not in our list or is he supposed to be the first person see it's my first time doing it let's check it out Mark Cuban let's see what they did let's see how nice a job these people did on this one of the profile so he's got two stickers here are two actually project boxes Wiki Tree Challenge and Mark Cuban is notable Mark Cuban is an American billionaire entrepreneur every time I say the word billionaire this morning drink your coffee or whatever you have television personality media proprietor whose net worth is an estimated 4.8 billion dollars according to Forbes boy by billionaire standards he's way back in the line in me compared to Elon there's a new guy who's the richest man in the world just this week Mark Cuban born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 1958 so he's our age meaning my age Chabonisky Cuban an automotive bill upholsterer and Shirley Feldman Cuban who had many occupations his ethnicity or it's origins it's not ethnicity it's origins ethnicity is a construct it's origins it's where he was at the time his tribe moved through that area he's Ashkenazi which is the group of Jewish people who settled in mainly Europe so that's the Ashkenazi we learned that a couple of of the live casts a few weeks ago so his first business at age 12 selling garbage bags to pay for an expensive pair of shoes interesting he went Pittsburgh instead of a senior high school year of high school he married Tiffany Stewart in Barbados choosing to keep the event private they have several children he's been a shark it doesn't mention anything about the fact that he owns an NBA team right doesn't he own an NBA team anyway I guess if you want to know more about him you can go check out his Wikipedia page so you're gonna have to be patient with me because I only have one screen so that was that Max you are 20 degrees away from Mark Cuban do you think I can call him and ask for a loan for Christmas well maybe maybe show him the fan chart the connection finder yeah maybe that'll work so John Jacob Astor did not go down on the Titanic but I think one of his descendants did 1763 1848 he was born in Waldorf Kurtzplatz Heiliges Romanish right so the Holy Roman Empire which was part of Germany he is the son of John Jacob Astor Johann and Maria Magdalena of Fort Felder Astor he died in New York City in 1848 it was a businessman merchant fur trader investor who was the first prominent member of the Astor family and the first multi-millionaire in the United States his ancestor JJ Astor the fourth who died on the Titanic there you go I knew that there was an Astor that was on the Titanic John Jacob was born in Waldorf son of a butcher moved to England as a teenager and worked as a musical instrument manufacturer that should be something interesting to Greg and to Betsy came to the US in 1789 creator of the first trust in America the first trust in America bank he built fur trading empire that extended to the Great Lakes region and Canada and later extended into the American West and Pacific Coast the American Fur Company if you've ever heard of it their main purpose was to organize the trapping industry to capitalize on the monetary gain this would produce their main competitor was the Hudson's Bay Company which is still going strong although they're not doing fur trapping anymore the Hudson's Bay Company was established business with trading posts and enjoyed good relationships with the indigenous populations and trading so that's interesting beaver pelts and information pretty good profile with a nice picture of the fella he's got the notable sticker there and he's got some fairly close DNA cousins that's pretty good that's nice let's go on to the next one let's see Andrew Carnegie ever heard of Carnegie Hall that would be this family or the Carnegie Mellon Institute I'm a 14 cousins Betsy you don't have to find it it's popping up because I have the browser extension yeah I have the weekly extension on so oh through my Stuart line so that's fun 14th cousin four times removed Andrew Carnegie he was the son of William Carnegie and Margaret Morrison he was born in Dunn Firm line 5 Scotland to Margaret Morrison Carnegie and William Carnegie and he died in Lenox Berkshire, Massachusetts in 1919 Scottish American industrialist who led the enormous expansion of the American steel industry in the late 19th century highest profile philanthropist of his era and he had given away almost 90% amounting to in 1919 $350 million of his fortune for charities and foundations by the time of his death and those charities a lot of them are still going like the Carnegie Mellon foundation so he started out his work I always love layering so Mark Cuban started out selling garbage bags to get a pair of shoes Carnegie started as a telegrapher in the 1860s and had investments in railroad and railroad sleeping cars bridges and oil Derrick's well he certainly picked the good places to put his money and then he created US Steel Corporation he created US Steel Corporation interesting so he was devoted the remainder of his life to large scale philanthropy and we have colleges and museums and libraries and everything that is associated with this great family he was buried in sleepy hollow cemetery in sleepy hollow New York now is that the famous sleepy hollow I want to know look at that Targon Tarton a comment on that it's beautiful I was trying to see which which clan it is where's Pip Pip get someone he's got some good pictures and he's got a why DNA tester that's listed on here I wonder why because that surname is not matching that at all Donald McDonald Del's that's interesting somebody needs to check into that because Andrew Carnegie's surname is Carnegie unless he changed his surname at some point fascinating that he's got a person that's a why DNA match who is not the same unless Donald McDonald Del's was a part of an NPE thing going on sorry I won't do too much on the DNA moving on to Catherine Graham how far am I so 1025 I got like 30 seconds left now I'm just kidding sorry I didn't mention the time okay Ingvar Theodor Comprom 1926 to 2018 is he Ikea is this Ikea yes okay so if you ever been Ikea you can thank Ingvar for that he was born in 1926 in Sweden see how I skipped over pronouncing all of that stuff good job his parents were Franz and Bertha Nielsen Nielsen's a very common name and he died 27th of January 2018 and as far as I've heard he lived a very frugal life I don't know how to put that so he's a notable and let's see that's known for founding Ikea and if you hear some of the commercials here it's Ikea multinational company specializing in home furnishings he started in business at the early age of 5 selling matches he sold matches that's crazy I love seeing what they did to start but 5, 5 years old then went on to expand into sailing fish Christmas tree decoration he had a lot of seeds ballpoint pens and at 17 at his uncle's home he founded Ikea at the time it was a mail order business and quickly grew into brick and mortar stores yeah so for Christmas send me all of your wood pieces and I'll pretend you're giving me an Ikea thing and I can pretend for Christmas yes an e cryptic piece of paper with a diagram yeah with a diagram a few Swedish words on there yes all in Swedish Eganvar was married twice and had 4 children one of whom was adopted, yay glad for that he has a wikipedia page as well as cbc which is the Canadian broadcast company news interview he's got a national post interview so you can go and check him out let's see if he has no DNA testers to show yet but there's a post about him in GDG if you want to check that out as well matches he was making matches let's see what JP Borgham did as a child to become who he was and upvote those answers I have six cousins four times removed maybe I can call them I need some Ikea for Christmas John Peerport Morgan 1837 to 1913 born in Hartford, Connecticut married twice first time to Amelia Serja second time to Francis Louise Tracy he died in 1913 in Rome Italy he's got the great little notable sticker on his page and some good pictures quite the walrus mustache American financier and banker Wall Street in the Gilded Age instrumental in the foundation of several prominent corporations including US Steel, International Harvester and General Electric he also had other interests in Etna Western Union Pullman car company and 21 railroads hmm he's been called by Adrian Muldridge America's greatest banker so Hartford, Connecticut focused on math and history in German and French as father felt there was a great value in those subjects I imagine it did help him with deals with his company if he was doing deals overseas attended high school in Boston in mathematics and then attended the University of Göttingen in Germany thinking that should have been allowed upon it let's see he worked for his father and he was able to take over the family business leading him to become one of the most influential financiers in the world so as a kid he worked for his family's business I worked at my family business both of them as a kid and I am not a billionaire just saying just putting that out there Highland Orange New York City sons Jesusson, John, Juliet and Ann that's interesting whoever put together this profile kind of put the information in the census record just kind of into a formula unless they had the WikiTree which one is it the plus? No, not the plus but the WikiTree there's sources that Greg actually wrote sources extension it will actually write these sources up for you and that looks like what they may have used because they look pretty the same but better than just saying he appeared in the 1875 census so there you go and I can tell if it was Greg's extension by looking at the yep nice got lots of great information there another picture oh my god he's holding a knife easy he's holding a knife that must be a steel bladed knife that is a knife JP JP Morgan so he is yes there's nothing no further detail on the photo I'm looking I don't see anything that's great but all you know it must be a stainless steel knife blade that's all I can think it was he looks pretty scary in the picture I would not mess with him no not with a man with a walrus oh he's got some good ooh he's got a mitochondrial oh wait wait Mags Judy was saying she thinks it's a chair arm and I'm looking at it again look at it again oh you're so right yes good call Judy like a knife Judy good eye oh but you know we like drama you're looking at serial murder novel I am reading a serial murder novel I'm reading Nathan Dillon Goodwin's gotta look at it to tell you the sawtooth slayer yeah no yeah obviously I'm out in the cottage again so we doggie let's see I jumped over Catherine Graham I don't know why Catherine Graham Meyer I'm 22 degrees from her there's no connection dang she was born in New York City she married Phillip Leslie Graham and died in Boise, Idaho she's a notable because she's the owner and publisher of the Washington Post company Catherine Graham was one of the world's most powerful women she led her business to financial success becoming the first female CEO of a Fortune 500 company and she was instrumental in some political stuff back in the 70s and the 80s she pushed forward with publishing some crazy work by her writers that a lot of companies wouldn't have published because they were afraid of political backlash but she kind of stood up to the establishment and said no this is going on and we need to know about it and she is a presidential Medal of Honor Medal of Freedom winner Medal of Honor Freedom winner let's see she went to Vassar College to the University of Chicago she worked in San Francisco it's and then married her fella in 1940 she assumed management of the Washington Post newspaper in the late 40s and led the post for more than two decades under her leadership the post published numerous landmark articles including the Pentagon Papers which detailed the full extent of U.S. involvement in Indochina back to the late 1940s the post later published articles that exposed Watergate break in Nixons resignation and she was the first female to head a Fortune 500 company that at 1940 to take over that business and run it successfully for 60 years is just incredible she published her memoir so if you want to read that you can do that she's mentioned on a memorial in Oak Hill Cemetery Washington District, Columbia with the date death date of the 17th of July 2001 in 2002 she was presented posthumously with the Presidential Medal of Freedom and inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame that's cool listing the census records so they kind of did things differently on this profile they took all of the census information and created a section for it and put that information in there instead of trying to include that into the bio which is kind of fun you think about doing that every now and then if you have a ton of census records instead of just saying oh she was here that's a good way of doing it and here's our sources nice work nice work lots of good sources she also has a wikipedia page wikimedia wikipedia page and no DNA matches I'd just like to see if there are DNA matches well John jump on up to John D. Rockefeller he's my closest 14 no way yes through his wife and then it goes all one color and then I have like I'm like the connect the relationship with me is like cousins several times removed how many cousins let's see it is seventh cousin four times removed wow I think you could call I think you should go up to New York and see if you can find somebody John Davidson Davidson not Davidson Davidson Rockefeller senior 1839 Richford Tioga New York married Celeste Laura Celeste Spelman Rockefeller he died in 1937 in Ormond Beach, Florida Volusia, Florida look at him in his top hat over to Ronnie John Rockefeller senior is the ancestor of US president vice president so he's also a grandfather of Nelson Rockefeller friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship John D. Rockefeller oh cool how they have this one set up his personality okay so John D. Rockefeller senior was known for being a very serious man but around personal friends and family they knew him as being a funny guy with a great sense of humor Rockefeller knew that in his line of work all serious and playful acts have positive and negative reactions and he knew how to handle this very well that's interesting okay influence one of the main influences in life was the Baptist preacher was to make as much money as possible and then to give away as much money as possible and then philanthropy business was a big part but philanthropy was also a big part sorry big snow blob just fell on the roof start will be he passed away in Ormond Beach I like the way they did that that information I wonder where they got this information from though his personality did they get that from a book did they hear that in an interview I would like to know where the source is for the information about personality let's see that's great yeah I think about that often with people like Rockefeller where there's so much information available you could research for a year and how do you condense it down to a wiki tree profile so I really like what they did sort of hitting the highlights yeah I do too they've got the find a grave and then they have the Rockefeller archive center virtual family tree listed be interesting to find out more information about the personality influence philanthropy sections to see if there's some sourcing that might be added for that that would be great I like the way they did this profile though yeah I did let's see there's some pictures here Tory Ford I guess they're out golfing so that's fun there's kind of a walrus mustache going on too that was very popular at the time I like those let's go to the next one let's see Dave Thomas Wendy's Dave Thomas he was born in 1932 Atlantic City New Jersey doesn't show his spouse or any other information because he's recently passed away living in Fort Lauderdale at the age of 69 he was born to a single mother David Dave Thomas was adopted as a six-week-old baby by Rex Thomas in Aliva Sinclair of Kalamazoo, Michigan family unit was short-lived as his adopted mother died of rheumatic fever when he was five so travel became a big part of his life as his adopted father moved from town to town looking for work among the few constants in his early life were the summers he spent with his grandmother, many Sinclair on her farm in Michigan nice he was credited with providing him with a sense of security and teaching him the value of an honest day's work after the death of his adopted mother and two stepmothers he traveled a lot with his father again the same stuff there moved to Fort Wayne again refused to leave and dropping out of school in 10th grade and going to work full-time and there he is holding you know I'm like out in the middle of the woods and I cannot run out and grab a Wendy's burger now this is rude to me I'm just saying Thomas served in the army during the Korean War as the manager of the Enlisted Men's Club so that's how he figured out how to serve people that's cool Fort Wayne found his former boss at the Hobby House restaurant owned some of the first franchises of budding Kentucky Fried Chicken Chain he offered them the opportunity in Columbus Ohio to turn around the restaurants which were failing so he started out working for the Colonel that's fun um huh 35 year old Thomas sold the franchises back to headquarters for 1.5 million so I guess he made them a profitable turn so he opened his own restaurant in Columbus that named it for his 8 year old daughter and this is in 1969 Wendy's became known for a square ground beef burgers that hang over the bun made with the customer's choice of toppings and everybody remember the little old lady going where's the beef in those commercials way back in the day was that Wendy's yes I remember it was one of the most successful commercial offerings of all time where's the beef so he became an advocate for children especially those that were hard to place let's see despite his own child up hood he made up for lost time by starting a family he had five children that's pretty cool there's a couple of pictures here of him and that's obviously taken on the same day or unless he wore the same tie and shirt for each one of his things and I'm hungry now I want a Wendy's burger somebody have a drone you can send it to me by drone it'll be a long flight let's see and they've got some good sources down here too and there's also section a lot of people don't know about the see also section because that's really something that was automatically added to older profiles back in the day but it works out well but I don't put first like primary sources like a marriage record stuff I don't put that in the see also if somebody has a fine of grave I'll put that in the see also or if somebody has a family history that's not published I'll put that in the see also that's something where you would just put the two equal signs and see also and just yeah it's another title heading I think it's three it would be three underneath the sources as the main that's an old one so somebody might want to go and rearrange this so that the wikipedia and the wiki data were in the see also section and the fine of grave I would put in the see also section but the rest of the stuff looks like primary stuff that's a nice profile for a very recently deceased man nice do I think no DNA do we have anything no DNA carrier yet I wonder if he ever found out who his family was who was a real birth not real, birth family were yeah and his daughter was named Wendy she took over the business and I have to say we have a news caster here in Canada who was the lead anchor and editor for one of the biggest networks here CTV and she was kind of booted out last year and it was right after she let her hair go from brown to natural grey stunning she's a gorgeous woman and very intelligent and she just like she was but people were up in arms that Bell Media had fired this woman apparently because she had a ladder hair go grey and Wendy's here in Canada changed the picture of Wendy's they changed her from a redhead to a grey haired person that's I think that was just perfect so Toyota 1045 I gotta hurry oh yeah they intended this for Greg really they intended this for Greg I'm assuming this guy yeah he was born in what'd you say no no I'm looking at it myself yeah I think his first name is well no I can't read no the characters but I think based on the comma that his first name was Sakiti and the family name would be Sakichi first name was Sakichi and the last name was Toyota I don't know yeah it's hard to say because that is the tradition for yes for that so he was Fuji district and can you figure out what he started with his last name no actually what I did I went to edit so I could look at the data field so it says Toyota is other last names that's interesting so his father was a carpenter and his mother was Mori younger brothers he was an inventor of businessmen and he founded a group of businesses that became Toyota a corporation known worldwide primarily as an automobile manufacturer it's a interesting very well written company no DNA people good photograph and I like that his information is in his native language I really do but I also like that there is a biography written in English that I can read for today I would love to have been here when Greg did this one that would have been fun I like the picture yeah distinguished Bernard von Siemens he was born in Hanover Germany in 1816 he married Matilda Emma and then he married Antony Sophie he died in 1892 in Berlin 1892 in the Deutsche Reich so he's part of the Germany project he had lamb chops and a big mustache got an interesting picture there interesting biography I like when the biography is really long that it gets broken up into different sections so that I can find things quickly there's a German Private Baum his English was early years, private life and professional life so we're going to jump down to the English see he's got the notable stuff so he was ennobled in 1888 so he got von added to his name so it was Werner von Siemens after he was ennobled if you didn't realize that with Germans that's how that works von if you do get ennobled Mecklenburg school for a long time by his grandmother and his father he was an officer candidate and posted to Berlin he studied engineering and he received an extensive scientific education private life professional life and he was patented he owned that patent and he was involved in defending keel so he was in the army he worked he helped promote his advancements of the ABC telegraph that was Charles Wheaton's work in 1848 the company built the first underground telegraph line between Berlin and Frankfurt in the beginning of the 1850s Russia commissioned the company to build their first state run telegraph lines because of that the company branch in St. Petersburg was open and a few years later the branch in the United Kingdom the Russian branch was led by Carl Heinrich Siemens von Siemens and the British Carl Wilhelm Siemens in the United Kingdom the first supplier of Siemens was founded so if you didn't know who Siemens was he had communications and electronics company that makes things and if you go to a football stadium you will see a lot of the Siemens work in that so that's a nice profile written in German and in English and he's got Wikipedia as well if you want to go check him out and back to his picture with the lamb chops and hopefully this will be the last one and I need to get off here CJ Walker see the second so Breedlove Walker Delta Madison, Louisiana, United States she was married to Moses McWilliams John H. Davis Charles Joseph Walker she is a member of the Black Heritage Project if you aren't aware or you haven't checked out the U.S. Black Heritage Project lately do that Emma is doing amazing work with that project and getting things done so Madam CJ Walker if you see the ad over the right preparations if you want beauty of complexion and loveliness of hair tried Madam CJ Walker's world renowned toilet preparations now toilet would be toilet from Louisiana she's a businesswoman entrepreneur breast-doned for it helped hair growth her self-care products engineer empire made her the first self-made female millionaires and gave her the means to become an activist and philanthropist who helped thousands so and this is somebody who was born in the Delta it was born as a black woman who became a huge millionaire I just that's just incredible at the 14 she married early and had a child then she married again and then again to a newspaper man she started her company in Denver with a product for hair growth she marketed as revealed to her in a dream with the help of her husband and daughter for a year and a half she sold her products door to door demonstrations and finally by mail order she did so well she opened a training school in Pittsburgh and then moved her operations from Denver to a new industrial complex so that's great she's got a great profile here with great sources don't sit down and wait for opportunities to come you have to get up and make them that's her quote I love it that's great and that is the profiles of the week over to you madam sure yeah I'll just I'll just put one PS on the conversation about Toyota is this is a great example of with Asian surnames you just have to go by the characters and so some people were saying in the chat oh it's just a different spelling absolutely like a great example of that is the Chinese name Li so you might see people over here L E E or L I but if you ask what is the character for your name it would be identical oh wow so it's just you that's why you absolutely have to go by the characters because the English transliteration I mean there's there's multiple ways you could go thank you yeah if you guys don't remember don't forget to upvote this video for us Lisa Treves thank you very much for reminding us of that and Angie says that Madame CJ is a favorite historical figure I like her a lot too I do too what gumption I'm gonna grow your hair ladies all right all right I'm gonna go to and we don't have a time limit so you do as long as you need okay all right because the theme for the photos this week is Christmas and we have some we have animals we have children oh where's you might want to make your screen full screen as well yeah um wait a minute how do I what does it look like oh oh I see I'm not a Mac person but gosh for windows we've got a little box it says I think there's a control in well okay that didn't that didn't work I'm having a moment you're so right Santa will be able to find me except I won't unfortunately I won't be here unless I could talk the rest of my family to come up and that would be fun I've been actually daydreaming about that all right I'm still not I'm still not let me look it up real quick while you just go ahead and I'll tell you in a second thank you yeah the weird thing is I did it in proceeding weeks and I'm having I'm having a moment okay press and hold the option key while you click the green button in the top left corner of an app window oh wait a minute yes press command in all right yeah how does that look oh better okay thank you man hey hey nothing but a thing it's been a rough week as azures here she says it's the little green dot in the upper left of the browser window okay so how does this look size good that's great great okay so let's see who I have to remember who this is from this these two photos are from Mark wineheimer and the first one is from his paternal grandparents a Christmas celebration in buffalo New York and then we have I love those those dresses and then his maternal grandparents at Grand Island and there's just there's a lot of really wonderful detail in in this photo someone was coming in the comments was talking about the engraving the little verse that's on the mantle of the knickknacks just the expressions on people's faces the furniture people were commenting about really great this is from Alexis Nelson and I think this is these are pictures from her husband's family when they were little children so we've got a little boy getting a trumpet and there was debate about opening Christmas gifts in your pajamas or or dressed and then somebody said well this was Christmas that year was a Sunday so they must have gone to church beforehand and then headed over to their grandparents Max are you there I'm here okay it was so silent I'm reading in Thomas Stephen Tomasiewicz says they have that three tiered table yes this one right here yeah I had a sudden fear I was just talking to myself Chris Ferriero says he has a new blog and he's got some Christmas picks up for that so you guys can check that out this is Pat Miller telling Santa what she wants I wanna I'd like a white Christmas please a great beard on this Santa and this is I think John Vasky and he, John is the baby and that is his great grandfather looks like what December 65 yep yep what a cutie what a cute little baby yeah now this is an extremely cool one this was France 1917 wow we have a cat for Sarah this gentleman in the middle oh my goodness yes I wonder if the picture was folded at one point yeah it does look like this this seam along the middle was the man seated on the right is John Mason who later married my grandfather sister's Irene this Joyce Fanderboker yeah they didn't have children but Uncle John was often always Santa Claus at church Christmas parties nice yeah bye Jory bye Jory let's see okay this image is a scan of the cover of a program for the musical white Christmas 2010 in which I played the Bing Crosby character from the movie Bob Wallace alright there we go oh fun yes who put this up again Mark Williams that's fun I love how they put them in a snow globe in the city community college yes 2010 that's nice yeah that's nice I love that movie okay let's see this is John Thompson John Thompson pointing I want to go back to my mom she's right there I want to go back to her yeah someone was saying he was pointing the way to his house but I think you're right give me back to mom and then I snuck this in last night right before I went to sleep this is my my grandmother and my mom I think it must have been a little tree in her bedroom and my mom loves bears so she's got a Santa bear and some other sort of bear so that was Christmas probably about 1945 then we do have a few on the other page let me this is where I always have trouble okay start percent share screen I love that we get to look at these great pictures and that there was a cat for Sarah yes there's been a deer I haven't seen the deer but there's deer tracks right along the waters right below the cottage but I haven't seen the deer yet yesterday I noticed there were tracks coming off the ice on the lake onto the beach here underneath here and I'm wondering it must have been a water beast because the tracks go one way out into the lake and into the water so the ice is not very thick you wouldn't want to actually be walking on this ice and definitely no snowmobiles on this ice yet so literally nobody's going to be messing bothering me for a few days yet if I could only talk my family into coming up grab a turkey grab the fixings and come on let's have our holiday here there you go Betsy okay thanks alright so there were just a few this one I really loved someone did sort of like a family tree arrangement of all their family photos a Christmas tree of ancestors and a wish for my Wiki Tree family how cool yeah and it almost the way it makes it look is yeah like descendants yeah that's so cool and the frames the frames are beautiful who did that I don't know who did that if we look hard enough we can see the reflection in the window whoops I know I really have a problem when I go full screen that's okay they're coming back to get you again what's the guys in the little white coats that's right 2004 did I show my view to everybody I can do that again ooh I got it unplugged to do it there we go see filling in that space now I have to cross over to the other window pretty good view hey yeah it is nice I actually came up because there was a storm moving in I came up to be here before the storm and then I've been here for the two days the storm has been going on it's supposed to be over tonight so there's still snow coming supposedly got it good I can't even show you how deep it is it's deep enough that I have to shovel my way out of the cottage up to the snow to the woodpile so oh yeah John do you remember that way well I'm I'm trapped that's okay we can wrap this up right now I can hear you but I'm trapped on that picture that's okay happy holidays everybody have a great holiday whatever you celebrate Hanukkah starting Kwanzaa is coming up and obviously Christmas as well we will be here not on the 24th we are not going to be here on Christmas Eve because there's other stuff going on like you know family but we will be here so bring your funny hat your noise maker your champagne there will be games and other things afoot for the live cast on New Year's Eve so come on and we'll see you then and let me get the information up here and I'll play it out we'll see you guys on New Year's Eve