 Hello, hello, thank you for being here. We're happy that you're here for our Wednesday reveal. We had, of course, Melanie McComb was our guest this week and we're really, really excited about this evening. I know that everybody's been working super, super hard trying to find her surprises and different ways to introduce her to her ancestors. And so before we go into those, that fun stuff, I'm gonna go ahead and let people know that don't know about wiki tree, what we are about. We are a community of genealogists who are working together on a single family tree. In other words, we collaborate to grow an accurate global tree that connects us all and it's free. The wiki tree challenge now is our year long event and that's part of our year of accuracy that we've had this year, where we take, each week we take a genealogist starstree and we try and make that as most complete and accurate as we possibly can so that it'll be the most complete here than it is anywhere else. And our goal in the meantime is to improve our accuracy on wiki tree, add more family connections and make more friends, which we've certainly done. Now this week, like I said, we worked on Melanie. So Melanie, I have to ask first. You were such a, you've been such an integral part of the challenge. How hard was it not being in the discord room this week? It was unbearable to be away from my wiki tree family on discord and to be actively involved in the challenge. It's just been such a pleasure working on it each week and just connecting with everybody daily. Even though I'm sure we've been talking daily a little bit at a time though, it's been tough. So I'll be very glad when I'm at a discord jail after this, but you know what? It was worth it for the things that's crucially any way to see what you all have uncovered. Well, that's good. And I know, you know, we've all missed you too. Yeah. I know a few of them are saying that down there. They've been saying it all week. They're just like, it's not the same with her. Not here. Well, she can't come in and work on her own tree. I'll be back soon. OK, so we're going to go ahead and start with Joseph Doherty's line. And we broke these out by the great grandparents. Kind of gives us an idea of which part of your tree we're working on. Now, Patrick Doherty was your third great-granduncle, and he was an interesting man. He was an old and highly respected resident of Emmevale. He came from a family of longevity, with his father living to be 101. Patrick himself was 93 when he died. He'd emigrated from Ireland in 1840. Now, this was really cool. I don't know if you've read this story, but they have this church, and he bought this land when he came out in the middle of nowhere. And so not only were there not the usual amenities, but there weren't roads and stuff you couldn't take, like your horse, and hook up the cart and go get supplies in town. And they decided they had just outgrown their church, and so they wanted to build this big structure in its place, and they tore it down. And this person, Patrick, your granduncle, carried the majority of the boards for this church on his back from a sawmill that was three miles away. Well, he just went back and forth and back and forth until he got it done. So, you know what I mean? It just shows the kind of character and how he must have been raised to be that kind of a person. Those kind of stories are fun to find. And they had also had one that Lot 30 had been previously reserved in 1856 report. A man named Mr. Stewart, he was at least a portion of the land to him, which did not belong to him, and Patrick refused to pay rent. So that was just kind of interesting reading back and forth. Oh, wow, that's interesting. Yeah, I think I saw mentions of the church. I think we might have a screen share not coming up. I don't quite see the image of the profile. Let me see. There we go. Oh, there we go. Oh, that's the actual church. Okay, yes, I did hear about that there was like a church that was being founded, but yeah, I didn't know about the detail. Oh, wow. Oh, that's beautiful. Thank you. And can you imagine, I mean, that just the time and effort that must have taken, it's pretty amazing. Sure, sure. Wow. And here we have some more on that same line. Now, two of your ancestors on Prince Edward Island, of course we did a lot of research there, as I'm sure you've done in the past, were reputed to be well over 100 in newspaper articles. But if you looked at the sources, from a different slant, and you focused on just that, the facts didn't bear out. Now, Bernard Clarkin, who was born about 1775, was shown to have been born later by his entry in the 1841 census, which put him at between 45 and 60. So that actually pushed his age down a little bit, making him about somewhere between 83 and 98. So still really, you know, a good age, a good age. And then Francis Dougherty was born between 1796, as late as 1802, putting his age at between 90 and 96. So once again, you know, I don't know if they honestly just lost track or... I think he fudged it a little bit. I remember seeing a follow-up article on Francis that he claimed he was the oldest person, and actually they found someone else that was the oldest person. And yeah, I think he fudged his years a little bit based on other articles I found. I think he kind of was like, yeah, close enough, but... Yeah, that sounds good. I'm about 95 this year, yeah. Yeah, I think he was like close enough. Like, yeah, I've let a good life, though. Yeah, he is someone I've been chasing for so long, because I've been trying to tie him directly in Kansas with his son, Peter. And it's always like, I would always find one article on one and not the other, and I'm like, can we listen together so I can definitively say it? But I'm like, 90% sure it's him, that went to Kansas at that point. Oh, and I see someone mentioning about Emmieville County Monaghan. So, yes, Emmieville PEI was very much... There's a lot of towns being twinned, so we do see that. Yeah, that's right. Okay, and next we have Onro's Rooney, Dorothy's Line. They were unable to find any primary sources, of course, to confirm her ancestor's arrival on the Lady Constable, which is referenced in the Brendan O'Grady book on the same... However, they did find, sorry, Phil Rooney on the same tithe allotment page as Patrick McCluskey. Oh, and I saw this, and there's several of the family members all grouped really tightly in that selection. Oh, nice. Yeah, so Phil Rooney was taxed for 12 acres of land in that parish. Now, one of Phil and Mary's daughters, Rose, married to Sullivan. They had a large family of at least 12, including three Catholic priests. They're three younger sons. And their son, Phillip, married to McKenna, who also had a large family of 13, including three priests. So I imagine that's something you've seen, too, looking back through those records where there just is a lot of them. Yes, there's a lot of nuns and priests on the Irish part of the family, and you may even see later on, and maybe in the presentation, that there actually is a photograph, a portrait that was done of different family tree, and it showed all the different nuns and priests in the family, so. Oh, wow, no. So there's a lot of them, too. But you know what? That makes it really good because if you have your nuns and priests in the family, they make the papers a lot often. There's usually a lot more information on the family, which is good. Excellent. Yeah, they either have to do something like that that's notable, you know, which still, not just notable, but it tells you once again, you know, you have a lot of people with good character back in your ancestry, but they either have to do something notable or they have to be naughty. And really, those are the two things. Unless you're a Quaker, oh, God, I love Quaker records. Unless you're a Quaker, those are the two things that you get the records for. Because otherwise, some of these people we'd never hear about. We just, we wouldn't. Now here was this, somebody did find and show to us, one of the team members. So it was another one of the devotional families in your line, and that was your great-granduncle and aunt, Philipp Runian, Allen McAnaruni. Now they raised 14 children, which included five priests and two nuns just within that one set of family. So that was really cool. The look for a nun that Maddie was like scrambling, trying to find it for me, because she's like, well, which two were the nuns? I was like, well, I don't know. I just know the record said there was two nuns. And it set it off to the side on that record that you see part of there. It said, oh, the parents married on this date and they had five priests and two nuns. So that's how they kept track of, my guess, what they remember to buy. But it says Eileen joined the Sisters of Mercy and lived all of her religious life in New York State, where she was a successful teacher and she lived to the age of 90. Catherine, who was the other nun, joined the Sisters of Notre Dame and served her community in a variety of leadership roles in Maritime Canada, so two totally different places, including a 30-year period of teaching at Mount St. Bernard College. And I can't say that, Antigonish. I think it sounds right. Yeah, Antigonish and Nova Scotia, right? Yeah, she died at age 89 and is buried in Charlottetown. Now, just still so much longevity. Philip lived at the age of 83 and Ellen herself lived to an incredible 96 years old. She died coincidentally on July 1st, 1867, the very day that Canada was born. So, team members thought that was kind of cool. That is pretty cool. Yeah, and that actually is the family that I mentioned that has like a family tree that was actually done. It's in the shape of a crown and with each of the different children as part of the little tears on it. And then even like the two that died, a small child and like one of the adults there and they're at the bottom. I'll have to link that to you later, so. But yeah, that's really cool. I know I was gonna say we were taking you out of Discord jail now so you can share it now. You can share it with us. Yeah, I'll just share it with them. Yeah, they're a fun family. They're the ones I think they had a, I think they had the golden anniversary I wanna say, so. Now this one was a correction, so to the line. So still a bounty points for someone. This was Thomas Corcoran born in 1880. He was known to be married to Bridget Duff, but instead of his mother also being a Bridget also, which it's easy to mix that type of a record up, she was proven to be Alice Riley. Oh wow, okay. Yeah, and that hasn't been that long where we didn't have enough time to keep pursuing that, but that should open up an entirely new line for you to research. That should be a lot of fun. Oh wow, interesting, I'll have to look into that. Yeah, we had Patty Waldron did a lot of him and John did a lot of our Irish work, but it's fun and you've already seen this in person where there are people on the team that'll just jump into anything. They're like, I'll do Irish. Okay, now where do I look for this at? Or tell me where this county is. Does this town make sense? And we get those corrections and we bookmark things a lot and we all learn from each other. So I just really love it. Now here we had, and this is on the Corcoran line and boy, and I can't just say on this line because not only do they try and find things on this, but of course all of your lines and your tree is just so well researched already and there are just such sturdy brick walls holding that in place. There just really are. So we were trying to just find anything. So here we went back again just to try and find more information that makes those ancestors, brings them alive and makes it a little more personal. And we had your second great grand aunt, Catherine Duff Crawley. And she and her family, unfortunately, were evicted in 1881. This paved the way. Yeah, two important land reforms later. And the text you see there on the left, they've actually put up a placard on that property. And so it actually says that in memory of, and of course that's her husband that's listed, Lawrence Crawley, because his family was evicted, it actually was a turning a point in land reform because that case was used as an example. Oh my God, I never thought we were doing that. All the articles I've ever found made it sound like they all liked the landlords that they were dealing with. I thought we got lucky when we didn't get evicted. So apparently not, wow. And if I remember correctly, it wasn't like we think of nowadays, oh, you don't pay your rent evicted. No, it's just that they wanted the land for something else and they're like, okay, everybody in this area, you're gone. We're taking this for the royal, whatever. And they finally started telling people, you can't do that. These are these people's homes. You can't just tell them to get up and get out. Now, this is where the correction was. There was a death date for great uncle Peter Corcoran. And his title was A Very Reverent, the correct death rate record actually lists that the title in his death record versus the 1941, oh, I see what he was saying is that it was for Peter who was a carpenter. Okay, so correction, okay. And the obituary tells that he was a highly revered priest who in 1938 played an important role in restoring sistercy in life to historic melafond. And the monks of this new found new melafond situate in his parish always considered him as one of the founders of the Abbey. Oh, wow. It says his living sister and he says now, I don't know how living they are right now, I'm residing in Ireland or listed in the obituary, but they really had a lot of respect you could tell. But those names are so common. Yeah, yeah, absolutely. He was one of the reasons why he really stuck out because I believe this is the one that he was the brother of my great-grandfather, Thomas Corcoran, and Thomas Corcoran, even though he died in New York, his obituary was actually in an Irish paper and it was named with the very Reverend Peter Corcoran. So it was a very nice way to kind of loop them in and obviously give a little bit of awe to the priest in here, even though we're not talking about him. Yeah. Wow, but that's really cool though. So he's one of the founders of the Abbey. That's really neat. Oh, I love it. Now here we have, still on that line, Bernard Duff. And of course, he's your third great-grandfather. Okay. He appeared a few times in the newspapers in Ireland. And a couple of times this piqued their interest of course just because it was different, but it was the same man too. And I'm not sure why Mr. Henry Murray just kept coming and assaulting him, but for some reason he did several times. He was not convicted. I guess he was just told to behave and go home. And so I don't know what their beef was. I don't think that was a land one. I know on one of the lines, there was one with a land and the ancestor was going and blocking off the basically the entry because he didn't like the other neighbor. So, and the neighbor was getting really angry about it. But at any rate, Bernard was also an early member of the National League, a political organization which campaigned for homeroom in 1848. This was just another interesting thing. He had an advert in the paper selling 30 cocks of hay, which is of course what it was bundled in instead of a bale. Okay. The record you see below, that was one we found that was just showing that he did sell alcohol, basically. And so they were listing. And for that parish, those few men that are listed actually were the only ones that were considered like merchants. This is what this was, was a merchant listing. And so they were the only ones and Bernard was one of them. So that was kind of cool. Yeah, I mean, that makes sense to me. If you're running a bar, you're gonna probably, if you're in a few places, you're probably sick and sell alcohol and food especially. So that's, wow, that's really neat. I wonder if Henry Murray, maybe he was stealing the horses. We hear about this, those horsies, right? Now this one we had, and this is Bridget Connelly's line. And they tried so hard. They tried so hard, both James and his wife Rose. And looking online, the baptism records, and we were talking a little bit about these difficulties before we came live. It said that they weren't available until 1836, which was more than 20 years after their birth. So you're like, why? You wanna go there in person and dig through the basement of the Calan and Courthouse or whatever you're saying. You just wanna see him or the Catholic churches. But there was, however, a register that was found that starts in 1797 in the catalog at Family History Library. So that's somewhere that you can go ahead and look. And I'm sure you'll find that should help you tie together several ancestors, hopefully with those. Hopefully they're good enough to read. I know some of the ones that Patty and others were waiting through and Maddie and whoever else. Rosalie, we had just such great people on this team this week. Some of them were just so damaged and faded and they were just really difficult to read. But hopefully, and you've seen, you've learned wiki tree enough now, you know what our white space is and how great it is. So we've left you our little breadcrumb trails all over in the research notes. Oh, excellent, thank you. Now this one, Ava Bodner Shield was known to have married Abraham Shield before 1890. But what wasn't known was that Abraham's mother's maiden name was Sheki. So she was born about, yeah, 1840 in Austria. Oh my God. And that was a name you didn't have. Oh my God, you found her maiden name? I tell you, these guys have been working hard. They chose this. Yeah. So she had one son that was a tailor and one that was a book binder. And that was just kind of interesting that they were both, you know, basically crafters, I mean. Yeah, it was hand done before they started doing it by machines, I understand it, because they actually had to sew the pages in. Yeah, all of those tools are something that would hang on the table of a book binders. That'd be so crazy fun to watch somebody actually build one old style, I think, that'd be really neat. Oh wow. And then here we have, and there's always some amount of tragedy found in all of our branches, you know, we find it. And so today, for a moment, we're honoring Yehuda, Edith Gunter, Frunlich. Okay. Lewis and Edith had 10 children together, only four of which survived till 1900. And so she lost six very young children. And then, unfortunately, out of those four, one of them, Otto, which is Arthur, he died at age 19. So, you know, really there were only three that lived to the age to be married and have children. And, you know, that had to have been so difficult for her to be there for her family after going through that many losses, I can't imagine. And especially after they were the ones that immigrated from Bukhaz at the time. Right, and we couldn't find all of the birds and dust for them. So there may have even been some, you know, before she came over. I mean, I don't know what the circumstances were. Yeah, especially at the time. They were coming over around the time of the program, so. Yeah, it could have been anything. Now this one, we thought we had two mysteries solved for you, but we at least got one. And this was Matilda's siblings. And so the brother Isadora was one of the mysteries in your tree and you knew he came to Romania to United States with his sister, Rebecca. Well, we had, and we did days, an entire group of people scouring records looking for these, and we actually, there is a family, I have to warn you, that has almost their same exact names, but they're different. They came over 10 years later. And so we thought we had him and Yedda, but we wound up with just Isadora. So at any rate, it turns out in 1911 he married to Clara Rolik. And she was also a native Romanian. Now they had at least two children, Harry and Bertha. Okay. Wow. Now to continue this saga, and this is probably why Isadora really wasn't on the books later, because if you read the stories on him, the headlines in 1917 said, Swindlers got fortune by fraud, say police. A get rich quick gang caught here had a nice scheme. So I guess him and his brother-in-law, Abraham Rolik, and Morris Moskowicz, now I'm not sure if he's related or just friends. What they were doing is they'd open up a quick storefront and they'd start ordering supplies with good checks and then they'd write a whole bunch of bad checks and order supplies. Well, then they'd have all the stuff sent to them in Boston, close the shop up and leave. And so the bad checks were just floating out there and then they just went from state to state and did that. Oh my God. I know. And so the team looked at the dates and they couldn't have done any more than three years. So I don't know if it really was just a first offense slap them on the wrist or they didn't really know what to do with them. Or if maybe they told on somebody higher who had set up the whole thing, I don't know, but they couldn't have done much time in jail. But it would explain him not wanting to be out there on the records and kind of stand off the grid. Okay. I gotta look for court records now and see if I can find out more. Wow. Right. I know they were trying to find those and unfortunately we couldn't find them. It's New York City. You're going to have to get them from them. Then I got to put them online on as many. Wow. Wow. But see now this ties into you. You have to have your notable and your naughty. So we did all the pieces in the hands. You got to have that one off in the branches. Yeah. But interesting that now I have a lead on where what happened to him. Right. Interesting. And I still, you know, you really just have to, once again, like I said, look closely. And I think even some of the people that had like Yeda on other trees from the other family online had her records mixed up a lot. Cause it was really easy to go, oh, Yeda that had two brothers named this and a, you know, a husband named this. And yeah, I think some of those records are just still a little too mixed up and people are conflated out there. Yeah. But at least that, like you said, it gives you a kickoff spot. You can go and you'll have to let us know what you find. Now for military, we do always try and take a moment whether you support the idea of war or not. We like to honor the men that put their countries and their neighbors and their families in front of themselves and go ahead and serve. And so for World War I is what we looked at for years. And you had of course your great uncle Michael Joseph Conley. You had great uncle Reuben Schill. You had a great uncle Philip Dennis McKenna. And you had a second cousin Bernard Corcoran who was actually blinded in World War I. And here once again, now you've seen that, you know, sometimes we do a space page. Sometimes we do one or two. I think at last count we had eight for you. Oh my God. There is an incredible, incredible amount of research for you. And, you know, with the names being so common and some of these families being so much the same, you know, sometimes it really came down to we had to find a record that had the same address or, you know, people were looking at lots. No, this one was in lot 85. Oh, it says lot 43. Nevermind, it's the wrong, you know, John with a wife, Mary with a kid named this. And so they were looking very, very closely. And for several of the certain names, Rosalie started up one, Kathy started up one. I'm not sure who else did the name studies. Basically, we kind of did a mini name study where you can actually look through and see like all of the connellies that are between 1840 and 1870. And then it's broke out by year. And then their census records broke out separate from the altisms. I mean, they're just incredible, incredible work. And so, you know, as you're looking at these families and still trying to expand them and maybe going sideways, because of course, that's a good way to find cousins. Yeah. You know, you're gonna have these pages just all set up for you to use. So here's another one, and this was for the Connelly family. So not only were the baptisms and the census records listed, but Rosalie had gone ahead and taken the time to put a chart in there. So what you see on the bottom is the first time a couple was mentioned, it was put in there. So like with their first child's baptism, their first census record, whatever it was. You know, if you had Tom and Mary Connelly, then it showed, oh, they didn't show up in the records till 1832. And so that gives you another resource to look at down there. And you know, and once again, we're all learning from each other. So it's great ideas like this that we look at and go, hmm, what can I do with my own research? Oh, I love that. Thank you, Rosalie. Wow. Here we had one, of course we had already spoken about some of the clergy and we just kept finding them. So this is what that Kathy Navas started a space forum. Wow, nice. Thank you, Kathy. Wow. Yeah, several of them at reach, really lofty statuses, not just priests, all were dedicated to their church and community that we could see. You know, so after she got it all set up, people would either add or tell her here, I found some more, you know, and she'd add them in. So that, and you can add to that yourself now. So that hopefully, you know, you can just look at it one day and see all of them, whether the director or not, that's interesting. Excellent. And then here, this was a little humor from our hardworking captain. And let me tell you, Maddie Hardman was the captain this week and she was amazing. She has just such great people skills and leadership skills and, you know, patience. So, and she's making sure to stand touch with everybody and make sure questions were answered. She was really great. But she said, I had to laugh because when I zoomed in on one of the census records to read the column headings to see how many people of each age in the group there was, only to find the number of sheep, the number of pigs and number of horses. And then she was laughing at herself. Yeah, I felt, I felt her pain there because I was a few of those up too. And you're not even looking at the title and you're like, I found a census. And then you're like, oh, wait, that's not telling me who the kids are. Yeah, no. And unfortunately, and I think that the Canada ones aren't even indexed where you can even see the number of household breakdown like you can for the US. You actually have to count it yourself and it's very teeny tiny. So I appreciate you looking into that. The fun part, though, for people that didn't look at the egg censuses this time is that not only did you get information like that a total breakdown of what their farm was, you other got some really interesting information that wasn't on wouldn't be on a regular census. You know, so like how many people of your in the family were born natively, how many weren't, you know, how many were born of a foreign country, how many own land. That was, you know, that was kind of fun to look at some of those other columns and go, ooh, extra little tidbits that we have. Sexual tidbits, I love that. Now here, of course, is what we started out with. All the yellow spots on this fan chart for the nine generations that are showing are places where you had available brick wall ancestors and years are unusually just like with several other guests we've had this year really close, really close to you. I know you had done tremendous amount of work just to get as far as you did. And so if you look at the little pop out on the upper right, that shows where we did do a brick wall or correction. And so you actually have four, which is more than we thought we'd get this week with what we were looking at. And I thought about actually shrinking the chart down and only doing seven or eight generations because there's so much white space. And I thought, no, because you should get props for doing, you know, people should see how difficult your branches actually are. They're just incredibly. Oh, I missed a couple of. Well, we hope Maddie gets a sleep after this. And thank you, Maddie, for doing such a great job, Kathy. Rosalie didn't either, because Maddie's like, aren't you supposed to be in bed? And Rosalie's like, I am. I'm my head's falling down on the keyboard. And then pretty soon we'd see her pop back up and she'd go, oh, but wait, I found a corporon over here. We're like, Maddie, our Rosalie, didn't she go to bed? Oh, I couldn't sleep. Well, thank you, ladies. A little bit later, we'd see. Oh, but look, somebody look at this. Oh, they just had fun with it. But yeah, I think they're all going to be ready for some rest. Yeah. Well, now you can see what I deal with, though, when something keeps you up at night, you're like, you know what? I should look into this one. You're right. So you feel my pain now. OK, now, this is your final wiki tree branches. And so here is what we were able to fill in for you. And, you know, once again, with it being as difficult as it is, I'm my hands off to the team. I think they just did an amazing job and finding what they did fine. So good. Yeah. I'm trying to see what. Oh, I missed it. Is it or comment? Oh, here's another one. And yeah, like I said, we talked about earlier is that, you know, there were people that we always have some people that at the end of the week, they just don't want to stop. And it is so hard. I have the same problem. It's so hard to leave a tree and go, oh, we'll just jump to another one. You know, but we've already we have people working up to the last literally up to the last second before broadcast. And some of them are actually talking about continuing that research since we have source on a known guess this week. They're like, we can fit some time in with some extra research. Interesting. Connected to source thought. There you go. You know, I mean, I mean, I mean, now you can see why I get so enthralled in the stories of them, because you can see there's a lot of interesting characters in my tree. So there's always a little tidbit you can get here and there to kind of keep you going. So. And those are the fun parts, you know, that they're more than just a name back on a record somewhere on some date. Now, I'll go ahead and talk a little bit more about the challenge now that we got through the fun stuff and how we make things work. And of course, collaboration is key during the challenge. So, and that is what Wicked Tree is all about. Now, one of the ways we collaborate is to use the spreadsheet. You'll see on the left our spreadsheet and Melanie is very familiar with those when you get 20, 30 people working on a set of branches. It's really key. And, you know, for those participants out there that aren't using the spreadsheet, I implore you to please try because it makes it so much easier for everybody if we just all know what everybody else is working on. And, you know, the other place that we have that we can ask questions or put comments is in on the right there in our G2G post. Each guest star gets their own post. And Melanie, of course, will get a link to all of this. Yay. All the goodies. Yay. But a lot of that, I think, because people are really finding out how, you know, much you can feel the community environment with Discord, a lot of people are using that instead of the G2G post, but we do still use that for the bounty points and for the people that just choose not to. And the third way, and here's where we're talking about Discord, and that's our live chat. And we have Miss Melanie so much. She has not been in there this week and we are just so used to her piping in and being helpful and being great. We have people that chat, you know, around the clock, there may only be one or two people in the middle of the night, but that's a daytime for somebody else. So, you know, we try and help each other out. We have people that do really good with our obit looks at lookups. We have Steven, who does our transcriptions. He does well transcriptions. He did some obituaries for us this week. That was really great. You know, we cheer each other on. We wake each other up when we're naughty guys. We get a little silly occasionally and we have some fun with it. So, and then while it's not about the points, the point system does help us keep track of how we're doing. And some people like that little bit of competitive nature, you know, being able to use that. And so let's go into the points. Now there's two ways to earn points, of course. There are the big points, which are the bounty points. And that's 10 points for each brick wall ancestor that's corrected or found. And then the individual points is for the individual nuclear relatives. So that would be siblings or children, somebody that's one step away from that direct ancestor. And at the end of the week, those can sometimes add up. Of course, having a small of a set of branches as we did with Melanie, it's not gonna have the huge numbers that we have sometimes, but I think they did an impressive amount of work. They did wonderful. Excellent. And top five, I'll refresh it in a minute and recheck it. Top five, what I had when I checked it last time was actually Patty Waldron with some bounty points. So that really helped boost them up. They were running, Melanie, you'll see the scoresheet, surprisingly really close. Because we didn't have those huge jumps or gaps with huge bounty points, you could really see those people close together for the individual stuff. And then of course there's things that they don't get points for. So the people doing things like Stephen doing the transcription, thank you so much. People that do the obituary lookups, that isn't counted anymore in the score. But that's just important because it keeps everybody going and we work as a team. So let's go ahead and take a look at that scoresheet. Congratulations, Patty in top five, well done. We'll do a little refresh and make sure it stayed the same. So I have the numbers. Okay, and Patty is still in number one spot at 41. Cheryl Hess, it says she's in second but her and Rosalie are actually tied. It's just that Cheryl did a lot more edits, the type of edits that gave points. Rosalie did a lot of stuff on the space pages. So they were kind of right there in the same ballpark with their number. And then Kathy Nava who also of course did some work on the space pages, thank you so much. And Anonymous Sharky who made the number five slot. And yes, Ben, great job, everyone as always. They worked so hard this week. It was so crazy good. So appreciated. And then we'll look at the, let's look at the rest of the numbers too and just go through them real quick. We have 159 total points. Okay. We had 119 relatives or ancestors added complete, you know, within the one step or direct ancestor. So 20, excuse me, 20 direct ancestors, 90 nuclear relatives. For bounty points we had 40 and 30 of those were patties, 10 belong to AM. We had 358 profiles edited. So that was crazy good. And for total edits, so that's every time somebody went in, changed a date, added a source, fixed something, 1481. So I think, you know, they just did an amazing job. That's wonderful. Thank you everybody. Wow. So did we at least meet your expectations, Melanie, with? You've exceeded my expectations beyond everything I can imagine. You've broken down brick walls. You've given me new stories. You've helped me with a couple of corrections. I mean, there's just so much. I'm just so eternally thankful to this team and you and Maddie and Emma and for everything that you've done here. So it's, this is incredible. And you've given me so much more things to know, you know, research and to go off of. So there will definitely be more updates along the way and to continue the progress. Yeah. And for those of you that haven't joined in with the fun, with the challenge, you're more than welcome to join in now. So you can get into discord and see what Melanie has to say. Ben, if you want to click overview, give me a second here and I'm going to pull that number, those numbers up for you. Let's see. Sorry, I need to get rid of that. It was in the way. So for total points this year, and now this is overall, this is starting from the very beginning of the year. We're actually almost at 16,000 points. That is crazy. 15,965 and that's not including this week. Those numbers have to be added in. Created ancestors since we started this year and amazing 2,586. And those are just the direct ancestors for a nuclear relative, 7,303. Bounty points, 6,010 bounty points. So yay. Wow. 601 brick wall ancestors. We have gifted to our guests. Profiles edited, 23,000. There's over 23,000 profiles edited. And the actual total edits over 97,000. So I mean, never, never cease to amaze me every time I think, you know, I can't be more impressed. You guys just wow me. Oh, oh, my mom and dad are tuning in. I didn't see that now. Oh, thank you mom and dad. Thanks for tuning in. And anyway, any of my other family members tuning in. Thank you for seeing this. It's nice to be able to share this with family too. Well, I hope they're enjoying it as much as we did. We just had so much incredible fun working on your branches. Oh, thank you. And you know where to find us. So if you want to continue on getting help on any of those little lines that maybe somebody can do lookups or something, we're still here for you, Melanie. Yeah, and you won't get rid of me in Discord. So don't worry, I'll be around to help out in here. And like I said, that was my way of giving back because I knew you all would do such an amazing job. And this is just the greatest gift you can give anybody. Like I mentioned last week when we talked, this is given someone a part of your heritage and now you've given me all these stories and new things to look for and appreciate and keep finding more. The journey continues, it will never end. Always, always eternal. Always, and it's always just so such a blessing to be able to remember every one of my family, even whether they're a director or just another relative. We keep their memories alive by talking about them and their stories and even for any of you researching, I'm sure you got maybe attached to a couple of them along the way. Yeah, they start to feel like family. I mean, it really does bring that back out as people by doing this, so it's amazing. Yeah. See, they're still missing you, Melanie. Oh, thank you. You're part of my morning routines and everything and checking in, so I'll be around. I think I saw a couple of questions. See if there are any other questions in there. And Kathy, I saw your note, Kathy, that you were trying to add every picture of every church. I really appreciate that, that was wonderful. Yeah, because religion was definitely an integral part of their lives, so I'm waiting to find out when I get a rabbi on my mom's side, though. That would be nice. Yeah, that would be cool. Can round out a little bit. And one of the other things, you know, that we really were hoping to do more this week that we just ran out of time. There's just so much to do, you know, is trying to go sideways and look for those cousins and ancestors that, yeah, maybe didn't survive some of the tragedy or did and have success stories. But that's something that you can look forward to adding to your journey through your family tales. Absolutely, yeah. And I will continue to say that I am a proud descendant of my immigrant ancestors from both sides, coming over, you know, experiencing a lot of trauma and poverty and hardship. And they still managed to find a good life over here. And, you know, and, you know, keep their heritage alive, which I think is something that I think a lot of us can appreciate, you know, is, you know, trying to be reflective of the past while still moving forward. Right. See, Steven, you have an interest in the Bodner family line. Okay, well, Steven, keep in touch if you see anything that links into mine. You never know, though, so. Oh, great, Kathy. I'm glad that was helpful. Yes, that's a very big part of a tagging clergy. I actually have done a talk on researching clergy. It's part of, for American ancestors, so it's definitely a, it's an interesting viewpoint of like when you're trying to look for people in your tree that may be of the cloth and maybe just, you know, and maybe they didn't have children, you know, what was their story like? So I'm glad that was helpful, though. Well, and even following the families, it's interesting to see the ones like that, you know, were generation to generation, the occupation or the faith remains the same, you know, because it's just not as common nowadays, you know, but the further you go back, you see it where, you know, and we've seen those, of course, we had, you know, one guest and she had the fishmongers. So, you know, five generations of fishmongers. But I mean, that's cool to me. That just shows you, kind of gives you an idea of what their life was probably like. Oh, sure, yeah. I mean, you probably saw my mother's side. I have a long line of like tailors, for example. There's a lot of people in the fashion industry, we'll say, we'll see the tailors, the dressmakers, the cutters, so, you know, long line of work, I mean, people need clothes. I mean, so that's gonna be a common thing that's gonna come up, so. Yeah, and you know, and it was like the ancestor that was the tailor and his sisters were button makers. And we didn't figure it out until later that he had a shop where he sold, that's what he sold was the sewing stuff, you know. So he had the haberdashery and then, which made a lot of sense because then, you know, here's the sisters that are button makers, they must have been working in his shop with him, doing this stuff. So it just is kind of cool to see that family working together on the same, same type of an occupation. Yeah, and it seemed like some of them, it might have even like worked in some of the higher end shops. Like it was hard to tell if they were some of them were independent versus like a Schmatte factory or something. So it was just, you know, trying to, trying to see like, you know, trying to get a visual of like what, you know, life must have been like in the, you know, in that part of town in New York City. So, yep, Lewis knows all about it. Yeah, she knows what the Schmatte business. So, you know, yeah, and I saw there was a note here, you all try Eastern Europe ancestors. Yes, you definitely have to exhaust your US records first. That's really what I did is I really went into like naturalization records and passenger lists to really try to dig up as much as you can. Sometimes you get lucky with some gravestones, getting at least the parents, so at least the father on the Jewish gravestone. So it takes a lot of time before you really can dig in. So some of the profiles I can tell you probably took me about, probably took me about five years to find Anton's arrival record, to be honest, because he came in on a, you might have seen that he came on a, on a merchant ship. So. Yeah, any kind of a naturalization or migration record is just a treasure, you know, just a treasure to find. And then, you know, I know myself personally, I was a little disappointed because we found some of the tombstones and stuff we were looking for. But sometimes when we have the Jewish ancestors, we can find them on Jewish Gen. That's an excellent site to find where they'll go ahead and give you what their Hebrew name was and, you know, a good clear image of the tombstone. And we weren't able to find as much on that site this time, but we did utilize some of our other resources. Oh, that's okay. I'm sure that you've had like, users like a, like Lewis maybe telling me, at least the translating the Hebrew name, that those were always interesting to find out about, you know, just give me a little more insight into them. Even if we don't quite get back, it just gives me another, another thing to look into. So. And yes, Segal is super difficult. So as I mentioned, Segal is kind of like Smith in Romania. So very common. So well, thank you, Lewis, for the compliment on that. It was a, luckily I had a lot of information on that line. So that was really helpful. And that one was actually the one we're, I don't think I mentioned last time, but I connected with several cousins that we met up with over the last two years. And we just started piecing together bit by bit, just seeing what we can find on each of the different siblings. And we even formed a Facebook group to share what we found. And we keep finding more and more and we're adding more people to it. So I think that's a. That's great. The power of collaboration can be really key, especially with those common names. Right. And then you also have the modern day tools. I mean, people have DNA and stuff that really helped it, that our mothers or grandmothers didn't have when they were looking at stuff like this. You know, we have a lot of things at our disposal. Absolutely. Yeah, I think it's always a question there. So yes, I have tested my DNA. It's obviously finding more and more descendants of some of these lines. So I'm making more progress. So hopefully we'll just get more people to test to keep expanding out. Do we have any other questions out there? I think I will go ahead and talk for a few minutes then about. And this is going to be Melanie's first two, 2021, our sixth annual source of thought. And I have to say, this is my favorite thong. So I love all the thongs. I get excited, but the source of thought is my favorite. And this, of course, is where we go out and we take on source profiles. And yes, I know we have those on WikiTree just like everybody else does, you know, but we do try and keep up on it. So we figure, since we've got these projects to do, we may as well have some fun with it. If you have not signed up for the source of thought yet, then you really, really need to go to the G2G and sign up because I'm closing out registration tonight at midnight my time. So that would be midnight Eastern. I am not staying up late to add people in late. And you can still have fun. We get together on teams. We, you know, I don't know about some of the other groups. I think most of us are really chatty. And, you know, we have a little fun with it. A lot of fun with it. We talk as well as add the sources. But now last year we added almost 60,000 profiles. We added sources too. So it was like 58,000 or something. It was almost really close. So I really like to see everybody try and pass that up this year. And we have some fabulous prizes. If you haven't looked at the prizes list yet, those are on the help page for the source of thought, which is linked in the registration post. And we do our live video hangouts every four hours. You'll see me here or Sarah or A.O. or some combination of us. I'll be there, my ponytail and no makeup every four hours and we'll draw a name when the winner. So yeah, I just keep sourcing in between that. So do the hangouts, go back to add the sources. I really hope that I see you there. Shout out Team Corp Red Catchers. Team Italy. And I'm Team Northeasters. If you want to continue on those PEI lines. So, you know, head in if you want to get some points for that. Yeah, get that plug in there. Okay, do we have anything else this evening, Melanie? I think I just wanted to say one more big thank you. Thank you for this opportunity to have my genealogy be done. Let me be a part of this. And thank you so much to you and all the volunteers for all their hard work over the past week and this year helping me and everyone with their challenges. I'm truly touched by everything you've done, done for me and I'm so excited to learn more. And I really hope to share more of the progress with you. And I definitely plan on helping to continue with helping others with their research on time and bugging you all in Discord on a regular basis. So, thank you truly, truly thank you for everything you've done here. And I'd like to thank everybody too for the participants. Thank you guys so much for this. For those of you out there that don't know, this is completely free. Everything about WikiTree is free. So not only are you putting your time in, but help like this is volunteered. We're all volunteers. We put this time in out of our love for genealogy and the community and the goals of documenting our ancestors and keeping them alive. 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