 Hello everyone. We have Benjamin who was here, who was, it's like 2 a.m. for him in Australia. And we have Kay and Tommy and Chris. Anybody else lingering out there in the- Do we have any mo-lingers? Any more in the ether lingering about Facebook? Nobody on Facebook. I don't see anybody. Anybody watching on Facebook? Yes, no. 47 degrees with a chance of rain in Louisiana. Yeah, from the vibe state. That's warmer than you. Where you are. Now it's like 48. Oh, okay. All right, all right. In the 40s, I was just kind of in- There's a lot of freezing here. You guys don't want to know what it is here. I don't want to know. Too cold. Minus seven. Well, for Benjamin, it's summertime. So it's hot there, I'm sure. And they've had some fires going that way. 30 from Chris. New Hampshire. New Hampshire, yeah. It's looking cold. No, thanks. I'm good. See, I'm a short-sleeve shirt. And the window's open. And the window's open. And the birds were singing and- They were. They were just some geese honking early. So what? Some geese were honking. I bet they're Canadian geese, eh? Probably came down because it's too cold up there. That is so true. The sun is three inches from your face, Sarah. Yeah, and now it's like right here. Right there, the light sun. It's not hot here. Just not freezing. So how is everybody doing? I know we have some people in the chat that are working on the challenge. And if you guys watched Wednesday's live cast, we had Dr. Henry Lewis Gates on, Dr. Henry Lewis Gates Jr. And I know Mags was on something, a podcast with Brian this week. Yeah. He just popped in, so that's why. How we got here podcast. Yeah. We talked about wiki tree a little bit. A lot, I think. I didn't actually, I haven't listened. I need to. I haven't listened to you. I just saw the, I saw it. You saw it. Oh, thank you, Chris. Brian's a fun guy to hang out with. We have a lot in common too. That was, it's so strange to meet people that you've never met before. And all of a sudden, you have things in common. That's pretty cool. Internet says funny that way. Thanks to the internet. We get to meet all of these fun people. Yeah. Thanks to wiki tree. We get to meet all these fun people. Wiki tree is the best cousin bait in the world. Yeah. It really is. I agree, I agree. I'm reading the comments. Yeah. Benjamin took a bus load of guests to a wedding and the weather was perfect all day. Don't read Tommy Bucks. Oh, Tommy and a, that's mean. When they weren't Bucks, they were geese. Geese, geese, geese and ducks sound different and geese are violent and scary and ducks not so much. They're protective of their young. There were no young around when I have seen geese. They just want to attack me. That's a runaway. Speaking of running. Running? Yeah. Question of the week. You know, K-Nite, I have a bone to pick with you. Uh-oh, let me get to the right page and share my screen. The question of the week, there were 30 something answers and they were all really good but I have one really serious question. Now let me share my screen. There's something, where it's going on. Share screen. Oh, wonder why it's doing that, okay. Nice, having technical difficulties. Yeah, really, it just did something different and I didn't recognize it. So we got, we have K-Nite here. K-Nite is in this photograph but K-Nite did not say I am number whatever from the left or the right. So K, number 45. Oh, we can't see who 45 is but it's one of these two, right? So, are you the middle one or the? The one to the left. I would assume, yes. So there's a really tall girl in the middle with a four and then there's this not as tall but pretty darn tall lady to the left and I'm assuming that those are the only two fours we see. So, and K is not answering. So I'm guessing that this is K, although this could be K. I don't know. I made an expression but I realized nobody can see us. So we have some really fun entries in today's. If running from the law counts quite a few, that's Betty Fox, of course, Betty, sure. And she put up a cute little cartoon. There are some great pictures posted. This guy, Lynn St. John, who excelled in sports and went down to be a football, baseball, basketball coach. St. John Arena at Ohio State University is named for him. Cool. How fun is that? This picture is from the 1922 dedication. Nice from the Ohio State yearbook. That's Alexis Nelson's cousin. Anonymous Nagel. She's got couch jockeys in her family. Do you have one of those? Me too. Yeah. Champions, yeah. Yes, I think myself as well. Couch jockey. Jacob Gill, Jake Gaddar, I'd say that four times really fast. Born April the 4th in 1858, Atherly Simcoe County, Ontario, one of the world's greatest oarsmen. Now a lot of people don't think about people doing sculling or rowing here in Canada because obviously we are pretty cold in North, but there are lots of lakes up here. Lots of lakes, lots of waterways. And so sculling or getting in a boat and rowing is a big time, past time during the spring, summer and fall. So yeah. So a great oarsman established a world's record for three miles with a turn at Austin, Texas in 1843. How cool. Here we go with Kay. Has she told us which one she is for sure yet? Yeah, it's the left of the tall girl, Ollie. Okay, so here's Kay. I wish I could blow it up even further. I could, but. You could probably hit it and open it a new tab. Okay, let's do it. Too much work. It's not open. And we had Hillary Alish and Steven join us. Hello. And Harris Lineage says good morning, ladies. Yeah, this is not Steve. Here, let's see. Yelena Egstott says that she has a first cousin once removed, considered a legend in Serbia in rugby. Second cousin once removed was Olympic champion in handball in Athens. Newest addition to the sports in my family is the husband of my second cousin, two times removed. This sounds like an AJ connection. He's a football soccer few in America pro. Currently T2 in Serbia, cool beans. Prisoner of war and an apprenticeship bricklayer. My father, Heinz Gustav August Lorenz, joined the police service state and North Rhine was failure, transferred the police service out of state. He was a talented runner and winner of middle distance races. How cool, Deger. The Roberts family, 10 young tennis player, champion at just 15. Here's another great basketball picture from Joyce Vander Bogart. Mark Lanky guy named Mark Bologet when I was in high school the star of the basketball team. That's a good action shot. Yeah, it is a great action shot. But he became a world famous baseball player with the Baltimore Orioles. So basketball to baseball? I was pronouncing that Bologet because that's the Canadian pronunciation. So it's probably Mark Ballinger for the US. My niece played guard and woman soccer team in high school and college. And my daughter's second paternal cousin was Walter A. Wally Hallboro, who was a professional basketball player. That's a cool picture of him. Love it, here's some hockey. Ooh, Joao Colville Hanson. Neal McNeil and Matthew Mack Lamont Colville, hockey Stanley Cup players. How about that? I missed Luke Davis. He's got a NASCAR driver. We have a NASCAR driver in our family too. One of the, his name is Gaulding. I don't follow him, but I have a friend who's into it big who loves it. He's my distant, distant, distant, distant cousin. Ice skating, Joao Colville Hanson's daughter. That's cool. Coach is now, that is cool. I could not do that. If I did that, I would just be stuck in that position. No, that is just great. And here we go. More skating from SD. My daughter is in the back left on this 2019 cover of Skating Magazine. How fun synchronized skating national championships. I have never seen a synchronized skating championship show. I'm going to synchronize swimming. Well, there is a link. So if you want to check it out, you can to a video. Father-in-law started in the 1924 and 28 Olympic Marathon. He ran in 1923 a national run. That's Shep Hansenberg. Stock car racer who died and crashed during a race in 1948, his great-grandfather. This is Steven Saunders. Look at this little hockey team. This is from 1948, United States Olympic team. John Bright Garrison since his black history month. His grandfather was an abolitionist. Fun. Let's see. And that was Sarah Rice from Susan Durant. A champion athlete who can trace your lineage to Arktin. He's my first cousin, Kathleen Jones, Hettle, Bryden won nine world championships and three gold medals rowing again. My son ran in the Commonwealth Games. Not as fun as Star, but I can say I was there. Peter McCallum, great uncle was a catcher in seven NL teams in the 18, 1900s. He's noted for catching a ball thrown from the top of the Washington Monument. That's from Harry Schreiber. That's crazy cool. On to the next page. Really? Let's see. Stepdad was an athlete, played basketball. That's from Robin Johnson. My two uncles were world class tennis championships. Donna Child, my daughter-in-law's sister, Lisa Raymond, played on the women's tennis WTA for 20 years. Cool, that's Rosemary Dill. Marion Saruti, yes, my family's full of athletes. My brother rides a bicycle. Our mother and grandfather also rode bicycles. My grandfather was a champion century 100-mile rider. Cool, look at this cool picture. Look at this, a baseball team. My great-grandfather, Alan Shepard, played on the Pipestone Indian Training School baseball team. He's shown squatting at the bottom left of this photo. How cool is that from SD? That's fun, that's an old picture. Oh, and here's another old picture for you, Sarah. These ladies, Lizzie Good, one played on the Pipestone Indian Training School basketball team. That's cool, back left of this position. SD, you've got some cool, cool photographs. Thanks for sharing. Grandfather on the run, what did he do? Are you running away from the geese? From the geese, this is Ben Mosworth. Damn, how cool. William Brookide, you've seen a long distance running and ran from Adelaide to Melbourne. I'm pretty sure he also participated in the Sydney to Melbourne marathon. That is pretty darn cool. Grandfather on the run. Are you a runner too, Ben? What did you take after your dad? Kansas City University National Championship basketball team in 1923 from Beth Snyder, husband's great-uncle, then multiple. I'm a niece of Ron Oster from the Cincinnati Reds. Ooh, caught the ball that won them the World Series in 91, I believe. That's pretty cool. Melissa Raul, Hank Pollock, my grandfather Irving Mendelssohn was a football player for the University of Pennsylvania. And yes, Mickey Charles Mantle is a 10th cousin. Ty Cub is a 10th cousin once removed. Dizzy Dean is a 11th cousin. Woody Hayes, a 12th cousin. Ted Williams, a 12th cousin once removed. Boy, Alice Thompson, you were using our relationship finder like crazy this week. That's it. That's cool. Awesome. Ben Loveworth says he doesn't have that much energy. Same. Thank you. Thanks for showing your comments and lots of photos. I hope those are all on... Well, I think they are up, but you kind of have to upload them to put them in the G2G, so. Yeah, that was great. I hate running. Except when she's caught. She really hates it because she gets caught. No, no. The geese never caught catch you. I can do quick bursts and out maneuver them, but I still hate running. That whole zigzag thing they can't do. Like the alligator, that's how you get away from alligators, the zigzag. In the water you're doomed, but in land. Okay. So I'll go ahead and share my screen because since we already got brought up, this month is Black History Month. So our US Black Heritage Project is doing a couple things for this month. They're honoring different people each week. So this first week of the month, they are honoring the first, like the first. So like one of them is John Swett Rock. He was the first black person to be admitted to the bar of the Supreme Court. He was a teacher, doctor, dentist, abolitionist, and is credited with coined the phrase, black is beautiful. So, and they also have other firsts here. And then each week they will be featuring different people. So I think that's pretty cool. And this is Emma, our captain for this week, actually for the week you take challenge as well for Dr. Gates. That's pretty cool. And they have a free space page as well. So for first, I have like a little timeline with links to the different profiles. That's pretty cool. So if you're interested in that, you can help. You can also join the project if you want. That's a very long page. So, and they're also doing a connecting challenge so they have a goal of creating 50,000 plus new African-American profiles this year, not just in February, but in 2020. Wow, that's a lot though. Yeah, so, but I think they're like for this month, they're really pushing for connecting. So I think that's awesome. Getting more African-American profiles onto Wiki Tree, getting them connected. That's awesome. So if you wanna participate in this connecting challenge or kind of participate in that project or in any kind of way, look at these B2G posts or look at their project or get in contact with Emma. I know also if you guys are familiar with, some projects have discords. I know this challenge has a discord and there's a project also has a discord channel. You're able to chat with everybody who's participating and they also have a free space page. So it has the rules and everything. So, yes, I think that's awesome. I don't know if anybody, I didn't see no comments. So I think this is really cool. And I wish I could help, but so much stuff going on. So that's that. So if you have any questions about that, contact Emma or the project. Yeah, that's it. That's all I have to say about that. I guess we can go on to our profiles of the week, which are NFL or American football grades and kind of tied into this since the soup, if you're not from the United States or you're not familiar, this Sunday, tomorrow is Super Bowl Sunday. Technically it's already Sunday for Benjamin in Australia. So it's already Super Bowl day for you. So congratulations. So our main connection was James Thorpe. His nickname was Wa So Huck. He was possibly the greatest athlete of the 20th century. He won gold medals in the 1912 Olympics in the Decalife, I can't pronounce that. Decalon. Decalon. Decalon. That's all I thought it was in the Penthouse. It's very close. So he played professional football and baseball. And he's also a Native American from the member of the Sac and Fox Nation Tribe. That's pretty awesome. So he has a sculpture. Where is it? Is it at Oklahoma since he is from Oklahoma? That'd be, oh, it doesn't say where it's from, but I'm assuming probably in Oklahoma, but I can't say for sure. If anybody knows, let me know. He married three times and had eight children and then looked throwing discs. He also took jobs in Hollywood. He acted in small parts. He was just all-around kind of guy. He was. Fantastic. Fantastic. Okay. So our next one is Earl Lambeau. Lambeau. Lambeau. Lambeau. I don't know. I'm a Packers fan. Lambeau Field. Lambeau Field, Green Bay, Wisconsin. Curly. In NFL, the Green Bay Packers as Mags. Mags said. Hi. Hi, Sarah. My name's Mags. How are you doing? Hi. Nice to meet you. He also played Notre Dame for his college career. Look, that's his photo. And he was, he served during World War I as well. Well, he was served in the student army training corps during World War I. And yeah. That's our second profile of the week. Next one is Joe Guyon. Guyon. Joe. Well, he is also a Native American and a member of the Chippewa tribe. The nickname is also Big Chief. He was an American football and baseball player and coach and he was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1966 in the College Football Hall of Fame in 1971. Pretty cool. That's cool. We got some Native American pro football players in our Pro Football of the Week. So the next one is, he's Canadian. He's Bronco Nagorsky. Nagorsky, got it. He was in the NFL and he was renowned for his strength and size. Apparently his parents were Ukrainian immigrants. Yes. What's he did? He played for though. Anybody know? I'm looking. I can't. Minnesota though. Looking, looking. Doesn't say. Anybody know? Anybody know? Going once, going twice. Apparently the University of Minnesota football coach recruited him to play football, but what NFL team he played for? I guess someone will get back to me. The next one we have is Fritz Pollard. Frederick Douglass Pollard. I'm the closest related to him. Really? Yeah. 16 degrees. Cool. I probably, if you're mostly closely connected to him because we're cousins, so I'm probably most closely connected to him. My closest are Jim Thorpe and the Earl Lambeau. Okay. We actually have somebody in DNA connected to him. One of our wiki triers. Jay. That's cool. Next one we have is Bobby Marshall. Oh, oh no. Bobby Marshall. He was best known for playing football, but he also competed in baseball, track boxing, ice hockey and wrestling. And he was one of the first two African-Americans to play in the NFL. Very cool. And his, I guess his aunt was Jesse Gilsipi. He turned on the second wife of Alonzo, founder, president of the Atlanta Life and Trans Company. Fun fact. So Nagurski played for the Chicago Bears. Aha. Thank you. I knew somebody in the chat would know. Harris. Harris Lineage. That's Steve. Steve Harris. I figured that. Yeah. The next we have is Joe Magas, maggot zone. I don't know. From Russia. That's probably why I can't pronounce his Russian empire. Okay. He was the first Jewish athlete to a university, a letter to the University of Michigan and the first known to refuse to play on the Jewish high holy days. So there's him. And apparently he's in the international Jewish sports hall of fame as well. Ever cool? Where did he die? Doesn't say where he died. No, well. Okay. Next we have Wally Yonemine. Yonemine? From Hawaii. He played for, Sarah. Let's see. He was a Japanese-American. He's four athletes who played in the All-American Football Conference in Japan's Nippon Professional Baseball. And he played for the 49ers. Oh, too bad my mom's not here. Mom loves the 49ers. My mom texts me she's doing groceries so she could be here. She doesn't have us on? Like she's not walking through the store with us in her earbuds? No, she could. Oh, Joe. She doesn't have us on. She could, but, oh well. And his parents are from Japanese descent. Did I say that right? Yeah, it's his parents are Japanese. So, yes. Very cool. Then the first football player of Japanese-American ancestry played professional football. And his football career ended unfortunately after he broke his wrist. Haskell, we got a lot of different kind of people this week. Lots of variety. Diversity. I like this. Diversity. Good, good word. Then we have, last one we have Lou Partlow. So, he is remembered for being the first professional football to score an official touchdown in NFL history. That's pretty cool. To be known as the first official touchdowner in NFL history. He started with the West Carlton Paper Company team. And in 1920, he was in the Dayton Triangles, beat them 14 to nothing in the first NFL game and scored the first touchdown. Very cool. That's cool. And that was the last one for our football players. Football players. Mindy. Oh, I'm gonna see who was I. I was most close. Echoing in Mindy's computer. Do you like football? Are you asking everybody in general or me? Mindy. Mindy. Do I? Yeah, I haven't watched it recently that I used to watch it all the time with my girls. Yeah. Football, football is. I'm actually directly related to him. Sorry, I got through my mother. My mom's not here for this. Why not? Joe. Through my mom's side, to Lou Partlow, I'm actually a related to him. That is cool. Okay. But how many cousins is it though? I don't know. I don't see. Seventh cousins four times removed to Lou Partlow. That's cool. I'll have to text my mom now for that. For the first official touchdowner, I'm most closely connected to. That is pretty cool. Sorry guys, got excited. Okay. Did everybody say who they were most closely connected to? In the chat? No, it doesn't look like it. Looks like they're talking about Star Trek. What? No, no, no. Christopher Palmer died this week. And so Benjamin Malsworth said, music goes next week and Chris Ferriero says, or Star Trek. And then apparently Steve also said, if you see me running, you better be running too. Cause something is chasing me. I agree. If you see me running, you should also be running. Oh, and June says she's 20 degrees to Bobby in Lambeau. So there you go. Those are our profiles of the week. I am a cousin of the official touchdowner of the NFL. There you go. So next on our list is our photos of the week. My favorite part, you have 16 images to look at. Our theme is happiness. So this one, first one we have is Minnie and her sister Sue with their uncle who was visiting London with the family from Australia. So as I can see that being happiness, they look pretty happy. And to get their pictures taken, sorry. And to get their pictures taken, they went down to the local photographer. They want to express their happiness in a photo. Very cool. What's the next one? So we, oh, I like this one. Yeah. We have Violet Tuggle, 15 years old, 1925 in Kentucky. Look at that house. Look at that beautiful house. That is probably an old log home that has been clabbered over. That is so cool. She does look very happy. I like her. She has some fuzzy hair, kind of reminds me of me. Then we have the Joseph Francis Lee family. They look like they're having a good time. Are they having like a little picnic? Looks like they're eating chicken. Are they eating chicken? Looks like they're eating fried chicken or something related. I want to pick a nick. Oh, look at the little guy there next to, he looks like he's like has his hand or something like that. He's up to no good. His face, he's like something's mischief. Mischief is a foot. I believe it. Oh, this one's nice. She looks so happy. I like that. In Montana. Still happy after all these years. Oh, it's all Lake City. Bertha Ray. That's a nice photo. It is. Andrew with seven of his children. Does that mean he has more children than that? Easter. That's the implication, isn't it? Yeah, like the wording of it. Seven of his children. Not all seven of his children. Look at this kid. Look at this kid with a rip in his face. You're not getting my picture. And then this little girl over here, like looking at her dad. They all look pretty darn happy. Yeah, except for the baby, the baby looks like just kind of upset. They look really close together in age. Yes, yeah they do. Poor mama. Yeah, from San Diego, California. Oh, that's a happy baby. Alexis, Alexis always has a photo to share. So happy baby. Last with lots of them, yeah. From Oklahoma. Happy baby from Oklahoma. We have Marianne Estelle. It's a nice photo too. It had some little, what do you call that? Looks like somebody folded the photograph. Oh, there. Maybe to fit it into a small like locket or something. Maybe. Oh my gosh. Wow. It's fun. It looks also colorized. I was gonna say that's colorized. Yeah, look, my heritage, yeah. I wanna see the original photo please. Yes, the original photo. The face coloring, I don't know how I feel about that. No, I don't like it. But I do like the photo. Like I like the photo. Like I think that's a good one. Obviously, obviously, we all went to when we saw it and then we realized that there was something quite off about. There was something amiss. Something is not, doesn't tag who's in, who's the photo. So Grandmother's Connect, Martin, if you ever see this, I wanna know who this is. And I wanna see the original photo because I feel like it'd be really cool black and white. And he was a chimney super yet, just that's so cool. And his motorcycle. And in there with his gear too. Yeah. And he's got his harness on and he's got one of his tools in his hand. That's super cool. And what a cool, is that an Indian motorcycle or a Vincent? That's hard to tell. Mike zoomed in, but yeah, it doesn't. It's a 1950. And whatever this bad Sigeburg shells wig Holstein. And apparently chimney sweeper in, I guess, German is Shornstein figure. Herb was not. That was fun. A chimney sweep. Oh, there we go. That's fun. They look very happy. I guess they're on that. So since they're going home, so are they in a boat? They're in a camper, I guess. I don't know. You're well. Yeah. Look at that. I wonder if it's a train. It's a train. It's a train. There we go. Yeah. It's got the little net. Yeah. The little cargo net. Sarah, can I answer a question real quick for somebody? Yeah. Donald is asking, how do I find the black history project? If you go to the G2G and you type in US black heritage, you'll be able to find it. Sometimes searching G2G can be a little... Yeah, I just tried it. Or go to your text menus at the top right of every page. Go to find, scroll down to projects. Projects. Projects. And then there should be a US. I think it's in the United States. I think it's in the United States, a part of the United States project. Yeah, it's a US project, a sub-project. So CC here. So when you get to United States, and then we have here the US Heritage Project. And they should have, for the most part, a lot of stuff linked. But this will have you more easily. This is how you find the project at least. So, and this is their project page. Oh, look, they actually have it here. They're African-American first. So, so yeah, that's how you find it. They're cool. Okay, we have one more page of photos. Oh, this one. Oh, that's mine. Oh, it's got, it's written up too in the frame of the photo. So it has Wedding Day, July 30th, 1952. Anthony Leonard Ross and Elizabeth Ann Rogers. Very nice. Grace and Ella, they look happy. Got a lot of good photos this week. I am pleased. I love the photos all week. I love it when people share their photos. Oh my gosh, breadmask bread. My, does she have some big buns? I'm sorry. What are you laughing at? I don't know. Look, there's also a guy back here. So this lady's washing dishes. He's probably waiting for these buns to be ready. There's a guy behind the lady washing dishes? No, she's washing dishes. Oh. And then behind her like through the window. Yeah. See, look, there's this guy here. Oh my God. Oh, that is creepy. I don't know. Is that a mirror? That is creepy. Oh my gosh. It looks like a ghost. June Stearns Bootca says, I miss my baby photo. Did you upload it? Well, I'm about to go to the beach. I haven't seen a baby. I do. Okay, this he was part of the, he looks like he was in the army or something. But they all look happy. And this, she looks very happy. Our Jess and boys in Australia. Nice. Rosalie. Oh, look. The baby photo. A baby photo. There you go, June. That's adorable. Is that you? Is that you, June? This says, this is June under the oak tree. Oh. That is cute. That is precious. That's precious. You are really cute as a baby, June. I'm sure you're cute now, but she has a baby. That's the last one. You are the last one, June. We saved the best for last. Well, we do have the G2G post we'll look at real quick. See if there's anything else. So for Raven said, this was the only family photo where she could find someone smiling. And look at the dimple too, by the way. It looks like just one dimple. Like just as one. Hmm. Aram and Ruth Ramel up to date funeral directors and licensed embalmers. They're happy? Yeah, because she was the first, she, well, not the first. Well, Ruth became what is to believe to be the first woman to get certified in Illinois as an embalmer. Well, there you go. So I guess the husband was extremely happy to have his wife, Ruth, to join the family business. I guess that's nice. That's cool. I like that. Same one. Yeah, the parents was their uncle visiting London, emigrated there in 1911. Oh, look at this one. That one's nice. Birthday party occasion of the 80th birthday of Auguste Cruz. And look at how proper he is with his hand on her back. He's like, Keanu Reeves, I'm not going to touch her that way. This was his daughter too. Nice. And she looks like she's singing or? Or she's like, don't take that picture. Baby, it could be either or. Who knows? Oh, cute. Joyce and her, Fred Vander Bogert, her uncle. This is the same baby. That's the baby. Alexis and all her pictures. Happiness. I think the children are very happy, but dad looks a little dubious. Seven children born between 1946 and 1954 might have subdued his joy of it. Seven children between 46 and 54, that's crazy. All still living plus two more who came later. So that's why it said seven of his children because there were two more after that point. Your parents liked each other a lot. Or they had a big farm? I don't know, I think that's... I love there's a dairy farm commercial here and they're showing the children running around working on this dairy farm. And the father says, we do two things right here. We make good milk and we raise good humans. I think that's a cute commercial. So apparently he's not sure of the name of the motorcycle, but it doesn't seem like anybody really answered. Says moto bike? It's a guess. Who knows? Okay, this one. I had chosen this photo of myself and my sister on a two day training journey across Canada on her way back to England after a failed immigration. Canada was lovely, but my dad's job hadn't worked out and we returned home. Aww. This is the wedding one. My dad home on army leave with his sister and niece. Look at this one, they're dancing. I said, oh, they're dancing, but this is real. This is like Arthur Murray dancing. Oh yeah. My parents, William and Lucille, enjoyed dancing as they were very good at it. Nice. This one's funny. That's funny, that's happy. Mm-hmm. Picture of you. Sorry, go ahead. This picture of me, so the young blonde girl, my grandmother, Jerushia Gregory Ilesman, my younger brother, Jonathan Ilesman, my cousin Stella Ilesman. I probably, if I say that last name incorrectly, I'm not sure. And her mother, Pearl, this pic was taken the summer of 1967 in Toronto, Ohio. Oh, look, it's a tea party. Oh, look, chicken, chicken after church. You got it. You win. Okay, this is another dancing photo, but this looks like, oh, look, their heads are in, their heads are in the, now we got to look this better, hold on. Yeah, it's one of those. I have a comment from the creepy ghosty looking picture. That was a reflection of my grandpa in a cabinet on the kitchen wall. I didn't even notice him in the background. Too fixated on those big buns. That's funny. Well, she didn't say bungee. I know. I was taking a little creative license. That's fun, the picture. Yeah, I like that, that's funny. Now Bill Frank Bernice from Scott. And then this is the, we saw that one. And then Bernice's Jared's first cousin, three times move Ella and her sister, Gracie. And that's all of the profile, not the profile, all of the photos of the week, the photos that were shared. Thank you everybody for sharing your photos. I love looking at them. Makes my Saturday morning. Makes my Saturday morning. Last 10 minutes we can talk a little bit about, I mentioned already a bit, our wiki tree challenge, which is our year long challenge where each week we take on a different genealogy guest star. This week we're doing Dr. Henry Lewis Gates Jr. And if you haven't already seen it, on Wednesday we had him in the last 15, 20 minutes of the live cast. He told some very interesting stories that the word I'm looking for, it was interesting about this discovery of this document from, of his. So she haven't seen it, check it out. And so Mindy, how are we doing so far? I feel like we've been fine. I think considering the challenges everybody's facing this week as they've done spectacular. You know, we're looking at a lot of ancestral lines that had of course, what they termed the black freedmen. So newly freed people didn't have the properties to track records through like you could with Pete, with New Englanders, you know, a lot of name issues. So people have been really good about helping each other out and collaborating and they're getting a lot done. But it's turned out for this time, you know, each week has had their thing but for this particular week's challenge, people are really focusing on improving the details and improving the lives of those people that you know, have been discovered. Yeah, I've been kind of seeing what people are doing because we have the discord where people are chatting away and then we have this G2G post where people are posting what they found. Have we found any, have there been any bounty points yet? Or if you want to explain- Yeah, I actually do have 40 bounty points now. 10 of them were recent. There was only 30 yesterday. And if you look at the points overall, I mean, once again, there's a lot of challenges so they're pretty impressive. Now, they've got 117 points. But for edits, you're looking at right now, I just refreshed 1,334 edits and we're not through the week, which is almost as many edits as we made for the whole week in week one. Nice. That's very impressive. And one of the other things that they've done, which is kind of cool, and Emma, make sure everybody stays really focused and points in the right direction is we're looking at things first or notable people, which is a lot harder to find. So, the first one that went to college, people that were actually educated, things like that. I saw, I saw, I won't reveal who it is, but I saw that we had somebody who was on a stamp to sell it. And if you wanna find out all of the good beats that we have found, you wait till next Wednesday. Watch the live cast on Wednesday. What time is it, guys? Gonna be at 8 p.m. again, right, Mindy? Yeah, so this will be 8 p.m. Eastern Standard Time, which is 1 a.m. GMT. Yeah, so if you are on, in some parts of the world, maybe you'll be sleeping, maybe you'll be awake, I don't know. But it'll be, should be very fascinating. Will we have him on for the whole hour? You think? I don't know. We only got him for like 20 minutes at the end. Yeah, but we should only, well, he may only stay for the half hour, I'm not sure. Okay, yes. And who's the next week? It is Judy Russell. Oh, Judy! Yay! Judy Russell's the next one. I had to use my brain power to imagine who was next. I'm glad you weren't mathing. No, mathing never works well. I know we are on the fifth week, the first week of February. Besides that, I cannot help you. So yes, do we have any questions do we have about the Weakie Tree Challenge, about Weakie Tree, but anything in general? June Stern Spooka says she loves the lineup. Yeah, if we, and just we have, we'll be revealing March soon. We have some exciting people for March. We have five people in March, just because of the way the weeks line up, five people for the month of March. Got some good people in March, but we won't reveal it yet, still secret. But you are still able to sign up for the weeks, even though we haven't revealed the... What the lineup is, right? The March sign up is out in the G2G. So you can sign in for the weeks, and you know, especially if you like participating, you're able to sign up. But if you want to wait to see who's week is what, we should know more soon. Karen, I want to answer Karen's question. I really wish we could do something like that, but honestly, we're having a hard enough time just trying to fit two guest stars, trees and everything else into one hour. I mean, it's a hard fit. Yes. I mean, on Wednesday, we went over by 15 minutes because Dr. Gates' story he was telling us. So yeah, it is, but I feel like it would be fun still to have those videos. I don't know what we would do with them. Maybe, I don't know, why not? So yes, so the wiki tree challenge is going great. If you haven't seen, we also have the highlights of each week done, that Mindy worked on. So like we had the highlights for Jen's week. So if you didn't see, we made 2,577 edits to her week and we broke down 18 brick walls. Wow. I added everything up. I think in total for all of the weeks, we had about 60 or 70 brick walls broken down in total, like for the first month of January. I did add it. Sarah, for just interesting facts here, for the totals already this year and keeping in mind, I mean, we're still new into this. We have given out 1,645 points, created 302 direct ancestors, created 643 relatives, given out 700 bounty points and have a total edits of 10,420. So that's pretty incredible. That's just the first, the first month, the first four weeks of the challenge and just think we still have 11 months to go. Who knows? I mean, I feel like it's only gonna get better from here. You know, that's my feeling. Cause I believe in us and especially as we gain more traction, as we squan more people find out about it, we'll have more people want to participate and just be awesome. I'm really proud of everybody who's been working. I know Karen's been, she's been really involved as well in the challenge each week. Was she, is she on our tracker? She said, she saw her name, where? Oh, here she is. She has made seven edits. She hasn't gained any points yet for this week, but I'm sure she will. You know, we've created 15 ancestors and 62 relatives so far for Dr. Gates. I have eight whole points. Yay. Yeah, because I think what Amal was saying that for Dr. Gates, he has had a professional people working on his tree already. So it's more of, we're gonna go sideways than up and kind of just improving and seeing what we can find on those. That was a good description, Sarah. That was a very good description. Thank you, Amal. Yes. That side been out. Working on the other aspects of the tree. So. Well, Mayo and me, I believe they're gonna do 52 weeks of these challenges. So I think they're gonna go all the way through the end of 2021. So we've been working on which guest stars we're gonna have on. I don't think we have a lot of them planned. Not, but it's, again, there are surprises as well. We wanna leave them a surprise. And also we don't know who will fit into which week that schedule everybody out. But yes, mostly it's a secret. Secret. Top secret. Top secret lockdown, blacked out, top secret. Benjamin says a kangaroo was jumping along the road in front of me. That's pretty cool. Side, that was a side thing. Okay. And we have any other questions about anything? I just wanna point out that Chris F is saying 52 people for 52 weeks. And that's not accurate. If he's talking about for the challenge, it'll probably be 49. Cause we aren't, we aren't doing one. Cause we are still planning on doing the Sourcathon. We're gonna do the Sourcathon. We're gonna do one for them. We don't wanna give that up. And then most likely the two big holidays at the end of the year. So Thanksgiving Christmas, it'd be nice to let everybody focus on their families. Yeah, so probably minus three weeks. Are you meaning that there's a world outside of Wiki Tree? I know, right? We try to make, we try to understand that some people have a life outside of Wiki Tree. And our guests certainly do have lives. So outside of Wiki Tree. I mean, we could try to plan for Christmas or Thanksgiving. We just probably won't have anybody to do. They won't show up. No. Karen says no, there is no such world outside of Wiki Tree. Okay, so yeah, so minus three weeks, but pretty much the whole year we will have somebody, something going on, challengey. Challengey. Challengey. I love how it makes all the great words, too. Really technical. And many corrected Chris Ferriero's bad mouth. Not 52, but 49. June says to do a regular person for those days. Who knows? And who would you suggest, June? What would you suggest? Choose a non-American for Thanksgiving. I mean, we've had, I don't know. Are we going to do Chris Witton? I mean, we already have somebody here who works on Chris Witton anyway, so. Yeah. So we're trying to go for people who don't really have a tree on Wiki Tree yet. And Chris Witton has his whole tree on Wiki Tree because he's the founder of Wiki Tree. So, but you are more than welcome to work on his tree in your own time. We have had a couple of people's names submitted so far that are non-United States, non-Americans, and they're being considered. So definitely if you guys have a good idea of somebody that is a genealogy star, pass the name on to me or AOLN and she'll take a look at it. Jill Ball, Michelle Patient. We did tweet him in Bacon, but he did not respond. He tried. John Thorin, Michelle Leonard. I would love to see Michelle Leonard in this list. History professors. What's also a kind of what Dr. Gates is. He's also a professor. So yeah, one in the shoe. One in the shoe, shoe. I didn't say that phrase right. One in the shoe. One of his professions? Yeah, because Dr. Gates is a history professor so Karen was like history professors. And we already got, I'm just gonna stop there. Ken Burns. That would be cool, Karen. That would be really cool. Ken Berna. He says Ken Burns, he's a filmmaker. He does all of the crazy cool PBS movies about the Civil War. That whole series on the Civil War, he did that. That's cool. Like I said, once, because we've already have- What about Nathan Dillon Goodwin? Nathan, I don't know. He's a writer of novels about genealogy. They're mysteries. Yeah, those are cool. Well, like it's been one month. I feel like once we gain more attraction, like we just had Dr. Gates, we also had CC Moore who was on PBS shows. Once we get more people lined up, then we can try to get in other people too. Who maybe don't know about Weak Tree because everybody we've done know about Weak Tree, right? So it was- Right. Maybe we can pull in other people. Hillary says that that will not improve with age. I guess my details for words, yeah. Andy and Devon Lee, or Devon Lee, the Women's History Fanatics. Nathan is on Weak Tree as a guest, Hillary says. I'll talk to Nathan. Nathan, what do you wanna do on Weak Tree? Dr. Gates did kind of know us, didn't he? He absolutely did. Yeah, he's been to Roots Tech. Yeah. He didn't have an account with us, but he was familiar with us because he did the thing that AJ did, the global family reunion. He talked a little bit. We were thinking of people who were non-US based. So that's why I was throwing out some names. Yeah. Well, we are over the hour. So unless there are any questions, but please send your recommendations to Aowyn. Also, Mindy has taken a mental note of these so they haven't already reached out to them. We can try to reach out to them. Karen, he asked who we were, like who I was and who Julie was, like the people who were in the life. He didn't know us. In your Weak Tree. Yes, we didn't know who am I. I have nobody compared to him. Like, okay. So I guess that is all, my friends. We will see you next time. Until next time, my friends.