 okay guys how are you guys sorry slight delay slight delay a couple uh little clicks on my part that went kind of wacko here but thank you for joining us for the bingo and guess who we brought we brought today elaine with the jewish roots project how you doing elaine good thank you thanks for having me we're really excited because you have really been going into the project i'd say probably what the last couple weeks and looking at it researching it cleaning it up a little bit and making it all grown up i'm trying i just started and i i gave my children new toys so that they would not come in they're still talking to me trying so hard um but um yes i have project coordinator as of a couple months ago and mainly i've just been adding new categories trying to find who all we have on wiki tree that's not well documented and um luckily people in the project and outside the project have been using the categories needs more sources needs gravestone transcription i really like that one i saw that the gravestones are typically in hebrew and english and the hebrew usually has the name of the father so if i can read that then that really helps with the genealogy so and i can use that category i can imagine that you probably need a little help with the project too yes please we're bringing it back into full fledge so any of you that have an interest or heritage of the jewish roots definitely join in and i will say that i uh am the team lead for the province of georgia and one of the first settlers well actually the first settlers of savannah were jews and it was a large ship that we are still working on trying to add profiles to and i'm just fascinated by their journeys their histories so i i know that that with jewish roots you have such a varied amount of ways that people came to america or came to different countries within europe because of the wars so i think that it's important to understand that for jewish roots it's it's not just the holocaust but i imagine you do a lot of work with that there's there's some good stories out there as well so much that happened before that like that's yeah in which people forget about historical programs and i can tell you i've been fascinated i'll show you a little bit later on because elaine and i were talking about it probably about a month ago about one of the diaries that came out from one of the pastors will not ship and to see their handwriting and to see the weathered look and to get a story a rural story from the source is kind of interesting to us yeah i love the page you've made yeah i know and um i just posted the first bingo card so if you guys want to bring up your bingo card we're gonna get ready in a second and thank goodness elaine's here because i don't know if we could pronounce some of the words i won't guess i'll be right now hi elaine i will tell you you're not the first you're not gonna be the last so let's it's all the time with my black heritage meetings and it's a big deal because it's like just us it's not on youtube forever and ever anyway well usually we may when and i have our pups with us so we all have our kids we just can't well let me bring up let's bring up the screen and let's talk a little bit about the jewish words project when did you become pc um maybe about three months ago i've been a member for longer and i've been interested for a long time and worked with the project but i never actually signed the gg to join um and i know that you're working on the page too she's spiffing it up she's adding some more data some good research as well with the page but what's really about this is it matches a lot of what wiki tree projects are and here's where you can find out how to join the project you can find out contact elaine right here or bob bob's part of the project too and add interest it adds jewish roots to your tags on wiki tree as well and then every time there's something on g2g or something mentioned then you'll have that access to you and you'll see it right away what i want to do though is get right into some interesting stories so i believe this is one of bob's ancestors possibly is ita and i love look at the pictures and this is such a well documented profile for jewish roots as well you can see where jewish immigrants to america we were talking about the categories and also the cemetery and the jewish roots so i guess my question for you elaine is for jewish roots what does that mean does that mean if i have ancestors far removed i have jewish roots and also if i am jewish i have jewish roots that's a great question lots of people have talked about for that for hundreds of years for the purpose of wiki tree just use your best use your what do you call it use your common sense use your use your best guess if you are jewish obviously then you know you could use the sticker or category you don't have to use a sticker just a second i cannot believe well i think that's true don't you think everyone for most of our stickers too is common sense and i guess this is probably a good time to mention just because we might have a million stickers available wiki tree doesn't mean every profile needs every sticker possible sometimes in this case i like it that it just has this one because it showcases what's important to the profile manager yeah for sure yeah for on your own profiles use as many as you want but when it's ancestors you know just the really significant ones i would say you just just like you were asking about how far back or whatever i would say just discovered you had one percent on ashkenazi jewish on ancestry and you have no idea like i mean well i mean i guess you could put the category if you wanted because you're actively searching for it but it would be like i would not go between you and the person in like the 1500s and then put a category for all of them because like they have no clue um where you might be online or something yeah so just yeah use your common sense we don't have a written rule and we've not had any problems with it this does bring up something else i know that this is bingo and we have fun with bingo we have a lot of fun with it and um we anyone who i have talked before that we we kind of use the bingo as a vehicle to learn more about the projects and today we do have two heritage product projects we have the jewish roots and then the united states black heritage so we do want to be respectful we know that bingo is fun so what we're we're doing is is in a respectful way trying to showcase the project and have a little bit of fun along the way with it i just want to point out something else that's really interesting on this particular profile you'll notice the family war i love anytime i see family war or family stories or anything on her profile i instantly my eyes go straight to it and i find that fascinating to see so this was kind of interesting because it said that um that she escaped and was only 16 when a priest guided her through swamps to get across the border into latvia and on to a ship bound for america i mean i just thought that was was fascinating story to read and he's well documented with the census and it's amazing that he has these beautiful photos too to show i wanted to quickly go to two different communities that you have and elaine could you tell us a little bit about the alliance colony in new jersey sure i was working on that a couple years ago so my memory is not really fresh on that but basically um baron de herstfeld who was in europe maybe in france at the time was um gathering funding for lots of jews to leave europe and to go start farming colonies in us and canada are south america different places um so with some of that funding they were able to start these farming communities and a lot of them lasted for decades some of them had more trouble than others like just getting used to the new um agriculture like they actually had some schools in your house so they could learn how to farm if they didn't know how before um so yeah this particular one there's still a community group that um is kind of reviving it um not not not in the way it was before but just keeping its memory alive and i believe doing some gardens that kind of thing um and yes this was for one of our oh dear right i've blanked on which guest it was this one of our wikich we challenge guest it could be jake mark mark cuban no it wasn't that one because i know you have a lot of cuban this was one of the longer time ago ones in any case they have um deep connections put this um sun infeld colony um oh wait sun infeld was canada this this is alliance anyway um but yeah i had no idea about any of this and still only started with this wiki tree challenge guest so yeah what's interesting if you notice there are there's a listed name and there are some links here and there are some that don't have links so guess what this is where the jewish roots project would love to have some help to help add these um profiles to wiki tree complete profiles get them connected to the tree as well in that way we can complete this one alliance colony and get a full picture of who was there and this was i i think you said around 1882 is when it started on the page here so that's pretty amazing we have some really good records from the united states around that time frame that they could definitely help okay then let's move on to the song fell colony could you tell us a little bit about this one because this one is in canada yes um it is on the flat plains super cold super windy definitely very challenging to do farming on it but there's still at the bottom i think i have a link to a survivor um or say survivor that's well it was cold but it wasn't that cold i guess anyway um he's he's in his mid 90s now and he lived there for decades um and he moved to he moved to a town more recently um but he and his mother kept his um farm for a long time um yeah i can't remember his surname right now um this one felt man i just i just can't remember he passed away but yeah no it's certainly not no i have i don't believe i've made a profile for the living man and if i did it you couldn't see it because he's not going to sit up to have an open profile um did they all come from hungry around the all-street hungry area definitely the definitely the four original people all came from there um there may have been some who came from other areas but um one of those agricultural schools was in um that that glucia hungry where that fell man guy came from um so four men all came together um and then brought families and more people later on um um yeah so they got their training there first and um i wish i had reviewed this ahead of time this is one of our um this i made this page a couple years ago this is one of our fabulous wikichu challenge guests in current sometimes jewish roots participant lewis castler's family and um he has helped me so much with everything i can't even tell you um but yeah one of the i've got and i i know i have more research with some of these people will be able to complete this maybe a little faster than the the new jersey one i haven't done as much research on that um but it's lewis yeah lewis knows a number oh yeah lewis castler that's his um grandfather i think um anyway well this would be great too so uh you know i'll talk a little bit about we're not really going to go into jewish dna right this time because that's a topic that we could be here for days and days but i know that when we scheduled this i had a lot of people ping me wanting to know a little bit more because in their dna it shows some jewish heritage mostly what it shows at least my ancestry that i see is the askanasi so could you tell us the differences between the classification i believe there's askanasi and one or two other ones yeah so far it would be the main one people talk about there's a there there's a third one um which i would not do well on the pronunciation um but yeah those are those are the main two and ashkenazi would be mainly from eastern europe um so a pale of settlement um including germany so they would mostly miss them would be originally in germany back in prior to year one thousand and then kept moving eastward some state others kept moving eastward um probably y'all can hear that doorbell huh no no thank goodness okay okay and then sephardic that would be spanish so from spain and portugal so they originated from there and then there were a few small expulsions before 1492 but 1492 was the really big one um so then they scattered um from there so now in the u.s and well everywhere in canada argentina all those places um they have a mix of both ashkenazi and sephardic jews but uh worldwide i think it's like 80 ashkenazi ish um and then um about 20 sephardic and there's like there's a newer term for middle eastern jews who stayed in israel like that whole time but there weren't very many and it's a newer term and i cannot remember it and i'm sorry um i didn't think about that but that would make sense that there is a separate and a third section and before we start bingo i do want to ask you one question um fridays are as special to the jewish religion because one of the words is shabbat or shabbos depending on um which um culture a little language yiddish or huber that you're using um so the jewish day begins or it's sundown to sundown so the beginning of the new day this evening will be at about six thirty years i'm not sure um there are a lot of times that you can follow for your particular area but um anyway that's the day of rest you know you read bible one two three four five six seven days seven day rest um so depending on your particular stream of judeism there might be um might do certain things not do certain things a lot of people get a synagogue some people do no work whatsoever there's a whole there's a whole um pounds and pounds of literature on what's work and what to do and not do but anyway um yes shabbat is special and people go um on a sun a friday evening service and then also a saturday morning service sometimes so that's great well we appreciate you joining us then on shabbat all right sure well let's go to the seven p.m. thing i don't know let's go ahead and play bingo everybody has more bingo cards up now we're gonna rely on you away uh yes i even put it's okay that was i mentioned that that was the um expulsion of uh 14 shoes here that um spain kicked all the juice out and then they had to find homes and oh oh yes even huh i had this can you see the 1492 on here anyway it's a super and special year in the end time period because the 1000 to 1492 that's when things started to change anyway um okay so there were we should get faster hunt judo so that's um the southern part of israel like north north part old kingdom would be israel and then southern parts judo that's where jewish came from okay that's i didn't know that now i'm so used to seeing people chatting on the side but i don't have that here as the guest i just think so uh diaspora i i suppose it could be a word that applies to a lot of cultures but jewish diaspora would be jew scattering from first from the homeland levant middle east then to um then to roam up to germany up to over there up to up to the paleo settling all that diaspora scattering we sometimes also hear that with the cubanots not as much but sometimes because they stole for scheme so this would be a really great project for the group to take on there are tens of thousands there are stones that are placed in europe outside of the place that the jew last lived before they were sent to the places so there are i think they're oh i don't know i have to look they're probably like 20 000 but i don't understand like that and they're adding more all the time so they take a little stone out of the street because all these places are cobblestone and then they add a new stone and they engrave their name their date their address and occasionally some family members um well that's amazing so a really interesting project using a list of those that did not survive and they are actually taking a cobblestone from the street in engraving uh yeah i mean they might be adding a new cobblestone but they got an old cobblestone put in a new one right by the house they used to live in that's no that's amazing i had uh it's just not the dog escaped i i don't even know you're fine you're fine it means stumbling stone oh it means stumbling stone and i meant to email you like a list with the key for all the words if my dog really escaped i feel like i should go get her your dog front row and i feel like he's making this up okay cryptid jew is someone who hides their judaism like they were told that they had to convert to catholicism or whatever and maybe outwardly they go do some things but really they stay home and they still do spot i am going up i feel like i should go see go check about this dog situation yeah okay so sorry no no no and this gives me a chance because i totally forgot to mention how to win bingo um so again with how to win bingo is you can um go up or down the horizontal diagonal two right i think we do diagonal two hi and the first person who gets bingo has to actually type the word bingo in the chat and they will get the prize there is one small catch if you have won in the past six months you are not eligible for a prize we see you so you're not eligible for a prize so again to give bingo horizontally vertically diagonally and you must be the first to type the word bingo into the chat and you cannot have won within the past six months i like this here's comes there we go thank you for your fight i cannot believe it the problem is they said that they they honey you can sit here with me if you want okay you want to sit read with me just don't close the door you can sit read the words with me honey we'll we'll go on to the next one take a breath you're okay i'm so sorry no you're okay you're five um so is levant southern uh levant is western asia along the Mediterranean so israel jordan all that shabbat shawas i already said that one i would be today starting about six or so and it lasts for 25 hours um oh that's part of the lunar solar thing lunar solar thing and also i think it's also just to make doubly sure that you don't accidentally do work on shabbats if you had extra time on then you're really sure about it or at least that's what i thought you put down your phone you put down your cell phones and in everything in case there's that completely depends on your particular form of Judaism if you're sometimes orthodox might even use a phone to look at something that eh probably not um but yeah there's there's a whole variety of practices yes per book that would be in memory book um specifically um after the holocaust a number of people who survived wrote down um everything about their prior village their village might be destroyed so that is a memory book and that's something that genealogists anybody can look at and find yes now i mean there are a ton that are sitting on shelves that haven't been translated but also there are there are ongoing translation projects for tons of them you can find them on jewish jinn and a few other websites so some of them are they might be in Hebrew Yiddish other languages but um but uh you can read them they are being translated you can word search them for your families um very valid 5783 that is the current year um county uh it's a traditional jewish year counting from year zero like whenever the world was created it's kind of a calculation um and you know i wonder when well anyway yeah that's the current year it starts it uh it'll be 5784 starting in like that september october whenever russia shawna is this year for um that would be um verse five books in moses or more expansively it could be the chinak which would be include the writings and um the prophets so katubing and um okay torah yes that's it mushy mushy um so i wanted to put the mushy because you'll see that sometimes um and and and on gravestones or on documents moses is what we say in english but you'll often see mushy um as well because that's what is in Hebrew it's like an m an sh sound and a sound max max how about you sit and tell me okay how about you sit and tell me some of the words you can help me okay you can okay that one's moses okay how about you help me this question shawna new year um and it's um since uh this will be another word but it runs on luna solar so it's not always the same day every year but generally september october and that's the new year you blow the shafar that would be the ramps horn um okay well then go take it go help you that's you are a daughter and son you know you might find this to be funny and you might think that i'm not telling the truth but i almost miss my kid being around eight years old right now because he was super cool but now he's just a moody college students okay okay so that's maybe one of the hardest ones i put on there that you couldn't guess if i had to leave box tax um this would also be known as a kosher tax so in eastern europe they had um um juice had to pay extra taxes so they might pay an extra tax on the meat or a candle tax for example for it just the news had to do that like the christians didn't i can only imagine i asked i asked for good vibes for a variety of people i should have asked for prayers that would have been a much better idea about the kid's situation i almost got a babysitter but i'm in a new city in a short-term rental house anyway yeah so and sometimes at the kosher uh at places they would have a literal box then that's where they'd stick the tax but those are good because they have genealogical records and oh well that's great i didn't know okay we talked a little bit about lasi so we'll go on is anybody close with bingo let's see that and then this one kind of seemed like a Spanish or Italian word to me oh i thought i was on mute i'm so sorry um yes so max just exit um i'm sorry no i just don't even know okay um a converse that yes that is that is Spanish and that is someone who converts um to Catholicism but they are still ethnically Jewish oh and they might even go back to Judaism at some point so yes converse of meaning converted okay it sounds like i need to help i they got to be making this up a kid with a knife or something like hang on okay well it looks like three of you need one i will keep going can you say oh no i was gonna see if he could say this word i don't think he thinks we can see him i'm going to take a guess at that uh that would be um Hebrew word for catastrophe that is the word for the Holocaust so it's actually becoming more you'll see it more in the newspapers and stuff now the news too as a as another word for the Holocaust sometimes how do you pronounce that word uh just show show it and so would i say that would i say that in instead of holocaust would i say show you could but i mean i feel like in america most people still say holocaust that would be the right way to go okay and we have a bingo so let me bring this down um we lost it so uh janine what you need to do for the bingo is let me bring up you're going to email anyone and you're going to tell her that you won the bingo on today this is the February 3rd and the first bingo for the jewish roots if you email her that information she will get back in touch with you with what and how you can proceed from there to order and um i might recommend begin the mode the bingo mode the most popular thing that's there oh wait but do you make it in this size yeah i did i originally did that would be cool if they did that would be really cool so i agree way to go janine congratulations and that was pretty cool because i i i also learned a couple different things there so i i kind of like saying the word show up better than holocaust because i don't know if it's because we attach holocaust to something that just gives me this bad feeling inside and show a just it sounds more appropriate i guess towards me because it's not only i mean means catastrophes so it's very appropriate now um i don't know if it'll be the kind of thing where over the coming 10 or 20 years there will be a total conversion over to that other word instead i do not know i've not kept up with that particular uh linguistic sure let me move on and i just wanted to um i'll bring my screen i wanted to mention something that janine mentioned i'm sorry that lane mentioned i got janine on and while i do that let me also sorry guys i know i'm sharing my screen here let me bring it back okay let me give you guys a chance to get the bingo card while i ask elaine a couple questions i didn't review those new words you put on the bingo card so so what i wanted to mention is the categories we talked a little bit about the categories and one of the categories on the maintenance categories every project has maintenance categories guys so the one is the needs gravestone transcription love i agree i love having that particular category there there is another one i noticed this was quite big so this why i said mark cuban earlier so when you had the challenge last year for mark cuban he has a couple ancestors in here that the jewish roots would love to have your help with as well and these are some feldmans these are from russia and i always like to bring up ones that are a little bit different to show everybody so this is kind of fascinating you can see how whoever entered this entered in the place of birth as it would be where he was born so and that actually that one's not particularly informative because it just says russian empire um so you know one of those square miles that's russian empire covers about half the world so that was not very particular and um yeah i need to i didn't enter that one i need to learn more about um especially winky tree plus and stuff search capabilities for those different locations um here's a little bit different one that you can see this one it's pretty pretty detailed out a little bit but i find this amazing because um and then they landed in pittsburgh so i guess they would have gotten to philadelphia and then went to pittsburgh and by the way that says akatarina slough in um both hebrou first and then in russian and then akatarina slough it must be one one of them is the like county and then one of them's the city name or something akatarina slough is a very large area um anyway and i really don't know how the how well the search works if you put both languages in there i think that was probably probably enter is probably tough and then i wanted to show again everybody get your bingo card up for the next bingo because the next bingo will be interesting it's not travia bingo because i wanted to be a little bit more respectful to the heritage but we do have some interesting comments that are trivial like with the second bingo card so make sure bring up your second bingo card um i just wanted to bring up being a little selfish here my um experience with the jewish roots project and again with provance of georgia which was before the united states was the united states there was a ship the william and sarah that came aboard savannah georgia came ashore excuse me and savannah georgia and this ship actually had nowhere else to go it was in dire straits it wasn't shipwreck but it was in pretty bad dire straits so the the interesting thing with the province of georgia is that it was set up by england by oglethorpe and england at the time did not allow catholics into the any settlement that they created including the province of georgia so when this ship arrived it does have a lot of the um what's your hair break how do you pronounce the word uh is the word on there it was not they're not oscanazi they are a safari safari okay sorry the safari so this does have predominantly as far the um passengers and we do have eight that were oscanazi that actually came into but my point is that um oglethorpe governor oglethorpe from england who set up this province did was not allowed to take catholics would not take catholics so when the ship of jewish settlers arrived and they needed help they desperately needed help um they said as long as you weren't catholic then you should be allowed in so they allowed them in and that's how they got in so this is just and i need to link this to lane's jewish roots page because this is another one we're looking for help to add and there are some great resources and the reason why i say great resources is benjamin cheftal was one of the first settlers in savannah before america was america on the ship but his son is the reason why we have details of the jewish colony that came into savannah and his journal and there are several pages there are 69 70 pages worth of his handwritten notes here that document his community and the ship and the people on it it's it's just fabulous if you're in the historical documents this is a fabulous document and i wanted to bring this up as well because there there's so much more jewish heritage than than just the holocaust there it's important peace no doubt but i wanted to also let those of you that might not have the means to add profiles for those that did not make it out after war or two there are other options for you with colonies that we showed you from canada new jersey a few moments ago this one that was in the province of georgia and records are easily findable too this is not going to be a struggle to really find a lot of the names but if you're also into just history or if you're into documentation reading some old diaries this one is a fabulous one i just want to point out um i had visited this and actually uh when we scheduled jewish roots i had spoken to rabbi that this is one of the uh well one of this is um the first synagogue built in georgia and it's a beautiful they have a museum and and everything that you can go through it's it's just really amazing when i was speaking with the rabbi telling him that we were going to do your project he was thrilled that we could maybe look at adding some more of the chef calls into our profile system did he mention that they had records like in house they do they do have some records but they have turned over most of the records over to the georgia historical society and um the georgia or at least the indexes in the georgia historical society if they don't have the actual records they will link to the organizations that do so they're kind of like the index system that will go here i say that but i will tell you that this page this particular page was like fabulous for a genealogist that was researching that particular ship of jews that came onto the province of georgia so it was really amazing and this is actually the third um oldest jewish congregation that's in america keep in mind that they came before america so they you know as they lived there and had children their congregation just got larger and larger so that that's a big thing but let me um bring up and i'll bring up the bingo cards in a minute so azure says she's got a space page for the united states holocaust museum and um interesting because yeah for now you can just put it just email to me and i'll put it on our jewish roots project page which is currently too long and will be um she's going up into our appropriate sections but in any case um yeah we don't want we're gathering links and then we'll then organize them so yes just send it to me and lane is doing amazing things with the project and with the page i mean you're really trying and it takes a hot minute to get in and look and explore what's there and how you want it to look and what the purpose and the main purpose is exploring the jewish roots and how do we do that on wiki tree i think wiki tree is a great example of how to do it right it's very respectful how wiki tree handles heritage and we'll talk um a little bit later in the second bingo with the united states black heritage group and then the jewish roots so i was thrilled that we had two heritage groups together today so we can explain how wiki tree is respectful how we create these space pages that are really dedicated to the people who came before us and anyone can edit it pretty much yeah everyone can add everyone can add the information that they have it's not just all the leaders or whoever who are running it everyone helps so that and that's that people welcome please okay so let me go ahead and close down and i'll start the second bingo card is everybody ready let me bring my screen up this is the one too that i have a little cheat sheet too so guys bear with with us we're not we're doing a little bit of trivia with this but be respectful with it so bear with us as elaine and i work through this and give you some information about it specifically the towns and the people that you might see on this bingo card okay let me bring this back up so we've got a desa and this is obviously a large yeah and i realized that um after i sent you this that typically it's spelled with only one s that's what i get for being from texas and knowing about midland or desa area anyway a desa is um a very large seaport city um on the black sea it is currently a part of ukraine um and it had it had almost it had about 35 jewish population for decades and decades but no longer wow next day oh i didn't i didn't put that one on i didn't look up the stats oh in new york state well this one's pretty obvious i think that that when you have a new york state has a tremendous amount what i think that we typically think of of the more stronger orthodox jews of america every time but yes there are plenty there yeah yeah and um yeah and a lot of people went into the port and stayed um so yeah and oh mark rocket oh i should be able to see more about it here he says he's he's a painter he's an artist he's a painter and he actually became really really famous because he painted the four seasons in york their dining room but he's known for being more understated and muted he he doesn't come out with these extremely vibrant colors like some some are he's very muted colors uh he he has painted the inside of congregations and and different types of buildings around the united states possibly around the world but i know definitely around the united states in oma hall now this surprised me and i will tell you i used to travel for business every week and oma hall is one of my favorite all-time town so everybody laughs but it really is an awesome town so when i saw that oma hall is one of the cities in the united states it has a quite large jewish congregation i was pleasantly surprised because it just made oma hall even more cooler to me this one's on oh i just put that one on there because jacob is what we say in english but um and i didn't put the hebrew on there but you'll see yakov and that means the same thing um one of the biblical patriarchs in a very common name this is a province this that's the word for a province in poland so kind of like a county um right now they just have 16 of them but historically they had tons and tons of them so that's just something you'll sometimes you'll run across that word in documents especially with us genealogists this one surprised me i'll miss elizabeth taylor so and i did forget to look up so if anybody wants to uh look up who was elizabeth taylor's third husband feel free because after her third husband died she decided to convert to judyism and not only did she convert she was definitely all in because she had raised um i it was a tremendous amount of funds i know it was over a million dollars but she had raised a tremendous amount of funds for israel for the jewish state so she traveled there quite often so she wasn't one of these people who just converted just to convert oh mark wilder i think wilder was it mark wilder i think it was thank you mom and southwest nashville i did live in nashville for a hot minute there and um i can attest to this there there is a large congregation of jewish people there too as well and it's really quite cool what they do i see miss molly she's back do spies molly she molly is by the way our official wiki tree dog mascot oh they will get her a little like super cape that says wiki tree i had more oops i had more notes for this one for glacia but um it's um a historical region by austria and hungary and like many countries in eastern europe it's changed hands over uh many years but you'll see even in uh u.s census records sometimes under the ethnicity or country it'll say glacia or glacia instead of um yeah does it have spain no no not spain it's no it's it's by glacia now no it's well one of the traditional names was glacia or austria glacia and then it's also by hungary oh okay i'm thinking of a different region then by spain we have a we actually have a project for this that's what i thought yes old poland thank you seven old poland oh yeah so gallistan is a port in texas well actually it's an island with a port um and um in the early 1900s there were several thousand jews who came there partially because they were told that new york doesn't really want anymore um jewish a jewish immigrant so they went so they went to gallistan and um some of them stayed there but a lot of them moved up through texas um even into like deep east texas which i didn't realize like i knew they came up to dallas because i'm from dallas um in one of my neighbors families was one of the gallistan um original families but um but yeah some of them went up in state and east texas and um a couple of congregations have just closed one just closed in long view so i mean it lasted a long time but it did bigger places sorry i wasn't watching the screen no no no you're fine yeah it's amazing that they came from new york to gallistan that's a that's a interesting trip to make i got my grandmother actually still has all these hat boxes and i need to figure out who i i made one wiki tree profile for one of the jewish um um hat merchants but there is blue steams and all these other places in bowmont which is east texas not too far from houston so i want to figure out who these people are and if they came from gallistan um for three gallistan and stuff anyway i have a bunch of her hats anyway then birmingham's in alabama and steven sanham i don't know anybody who probably has not heard some of his music he is probably most famous well he's very famous for all his broadway but most famous for um west side story so if you've seen or heard any songs from west side story but it goes a little deeper than that for him um i had to take some notes he has eight tony awards one academy award eight grammy's one pulitzer and the presidential medal of freedom so he's uh pretty well known and then jerry louis i don't know who hasn't heard of jerry louis i grew up i mean it was a memorial day or labor day we had to watch his telephones but he is a comedian first and then he decided to do these telephones for muscular dystrophy and donated it had so much money come in and donated people donated money for this telephone i think he's the king of telephones we don't really see telephones anymore i don't think oh we have a bingo bingo tressa congratulations tressa we have a bingo but we didn't we didn't get to everybody so let me um usually when we do a little bit of the trivia we just quickly go through some more but um tressa what you want to do is you'll want to email and i'll bring this up and janine if you need this again as well so you're going to email anyone at wakeytree.com and tressa you're going to tell her that you yeah okay you tell the rules go ahead molly um that that you won the bingo for the jewish root second bingo and she will send you an email back telling you everything that you need to know about how to claim your prize and that's congratulations let's just go through a couple more real quick a we have a couple more trivia so savannah we talked about savannah georgia and for those who are watching we already have a bingo we're just going through some more details about the jewish roots so lane this would be all right yeah that's in lithuania also called vilnius and that was a center of um a lot of uh where a lot of rabbis came from um or rabbis and um yeah and then poland congress poland okay so that i just wrote congress poland on there because um poland was split up into three different parts um the oh golly where are my notes i don't have my notes that's fine that can be something austrian part russian part so it's kind of in three like three um the central part was like main poland and then austrian part and then uh russian russian part this this is probably one of the most beloved jewish individuals around the world um ellie wasel if we mentioned i think as we're mentioned too that there was the holocaust museum that he spoke at he's actually a award-winning journalist a noble priest uh excuse me noble peace prize winner but he's also a holocaust survivor and he did spend a tremendous amount of time in his later life talking about the holocaust and talking about how we should as a group of global individuals treat each other red bank i that is a town in new jersey and tucson another town that's in arizona these are towns that have a large congregation of jewish members richmond virginia and then ruth bader ginsburg this is a little bit of the trivia she's actually the second woman to be on the supreme court of united states but she's the first female jewish justice louisville kentucky this one kind of surprised me but louisville kentucky has a large community of jewish as well and myrtle beach so that was that was kind of a surprise to me some of some of the areas in the territories where we live and play and you know we're around at your heritage all the time let me bring this up again too for teresa there you go teresa and i wasn't i since i don't have a great computer set up here um i wasn't watching the chat was there anything in particular people asked i think we got most of i think a lot were amazed at some of the information you shared i know that i was i i thought it was really interesting to learn about some of the places in the words and also the fact that um the cities how many different places people that would not i mean you think our myrtle beach is only play and fun and things like that but when you also told me that they came from new york to go to galveston it's just an odd path that you wouldn't well they didn't actually land in new york if i remember correctly like they went straight from europe to galveston no but they were around were they around that area and then they traveled down no no no they were like eastern european jews who wanted to come to america but and new york was like we're full um go to galveston go to galveston they went to galveston i mean it's just amazing but that's that's just a town a random town in the united city in the united states yeah i mean i didn't know that except only because of my neighbor and because of other research and there weren't that many who went through there but it's definitely significant for um texas history so that is i am and then another one of elizabeth taylor's many many husbands um and what kate was probably what kate's referring to about significant for black history that's because the um one of the union generals came to galveston about three months after the end of silver well in june um so the silver ended in april he came in june and told texas get your out there the slaves are free the war is over um and yeah they landed in galveston because galveston is a good port those are the port and i just mentioned john gave a little plug for the rock event if you haven't heard about that please go to g2g and randome acts of wiki treat kindness did i get that right anyone yep yep it's gonna be fun it's really that one please go to g2g to see that it's really cool it's really fun um do you want me to tell them really quick what it is yeah that'd be great okay so right now we're taking nominations for wiki trees um and then in march we'll kick off the actual rock event and we'll have we'll pick five of the nominated wiki trees at random just five random ones and for the month of march we'll have rockers who are volunteers who are gonna work on trying to improve their cc seven scores so five wiki trees we'll get like basically the wiki tree challenge attention throughout the month of march and see how much we can improve their cc seven numbers it is it for a whole month we work on it for a whole month that's cool so it's not like a quick weekend or a quick week we get a whole month yep that is awesome that is such a great idea thank you for doing that it's awesome we're gonna try and do it in june and september also so and if it goes well maybe we'll just keep keep it going why not that's the cool thing too we were talking about wiki tree there's so many ways to engage there's so many ways to collaborate and even though for example you might not have um jewish roots there's still ways that you can collaborate if you're interested in helping another project if you're interested in learning about another project or their heritage or you know you have somewhere maybe you married into a jewish family that had ancestors from a while ago and they want to look into it and explore and see you know what did their ancestors do where did they land in anywhere around the world because your particular jewish heritage is so global it's it's not defined by the united states or israel it is so global and it's a great project and if anybody has any questions guess who they can ask helene i will be glad to answer the best i can and if i can't answer it i probably know who to ask so there you go i'm glad to do that that works well i think that's it everybody i wanted to say thank you to helene and anyone and i will see you again later on tonight we have got at 6 p.m eastern another heritage project one that is also popular with wiki tree and that's the united states black heritage project which i believe lane you're part of as well yes i am it is a super busy and super fun project um i can't see enough good things about it i'll let them and denise do that later you ever see the heritage exchange right yes yes i'm team leader for the heritage exchange so pre 1865 so we work on connecting enslaved ancestors and slave owners and just documenting as much as we can we have a bunch of cool categories that are pretty easy to use and everyone is welcome to take part they'll talk about it tonight but it's really cool they just started a video series about it so it was really interesting to see see what you guys are doing it's really cool it is and well needed especially as far as i'm concerned because i need to dig into the specifics and that's what the video helps me do so we will see everybody for part two of heritage a little bit later on right come on bye