 everyone. Good morning, Megs. Hey, Greg, how are you? I'm doing fine. How are you? Interesting times. Interesting times. Interesting times. I don't see people here. Let's um, uh-oh. That's interesting. I could put people's comments up. So I don't understand why I don't see anybody. Unless we're just, it's just you and I. Just you and I. Okay. Do you see anybody? I don't see. Oh, look, Chris. There's Chris and Susie. They popped in. Hey, guys. There's, there's more of us now. Okay. Good morning and happy, happy, snowy, wintry, sunny day today. Yeah. And lovely Ottawa and Greg. Yeah, in central Ontario. Very snowy here. Very snowy here. Tommy Buck just popped in and oh, oh, Brian, I forgot to do your thing. Oh my, oh, oh. Brian just fed me his, his uh, oh, I gotta figure that one out. Um, yeah. Um, just been busy here. I'll just say that it's been a bit, a bit, I've been a bit distracted to say the least. So, um, yeah, let's go back over here. So, um, while everybody's coming in, Wendy Callahan is here, Patricia Jackson, Tommy Buck, Chris, did you say excuse me after you tweeted? Excuse me. I just tweeted Judy Stutz is here. Oh, nice. John Tyler from Ireland. It's chilly Southern California. Are you kidding me? Really? Are you kidding me? It's like, How chilly is it really? Yeah, really. It's minus a zillion here. I've been in chilly Southern California this time of year and it was like so hot. I just thought about walking outside and started sweating. Um, hey Debbie Root, Hillary, how are things? And did you survive, Eunice? Has Eunice gone past you, Hillary? That was a big storm heading towards the, uh, British Isles and I've got some friends who are below Dykes in Scandinavia. I hope you guys are all good. Uh, Steve, Adi, Adi, Adi? I would have said Adi, but I'm, maybe it's Adi. Adi, I don't, I don't know. John Tyner's here. Hey, John. Yeah. Well, you know what I love? I've got my tart as a coffee. We're sitting here saying hi to everybody and everybody's saying hi to Chris. What? Yeah, nice. No school that I know of. Oh no. Had to bump out my basement all day. Ooh, pump out my basement. Wow. And I hope you didn't lose any records or photos or anything important. No, no. Yeah. Mine are all in rubber made containers and up high. They're in the basement but up high. Steve says I pronounced his name right so it is Adi. Adi. Uh, Hillary says not been bad in Wales. Uh, Lincoln sure had some damage. Oh look, now they're saying hi to you. Yeah, that's nice. Hi, John. Hi to Tommy. Uh, Wendy loves your TARDIS model. Yes, that's right. I like to say, Wendy, that it's more caffeinated on the inside. Ooh. Uh, my buddy Kevin Borland has, see, look, somebody actually said hi to me. Thank you, Judy. I feel love now. There you go. My friend Kevin Borland has a TARDIS top kit. A TARDIS bag to put your toiletry items in. I was like, do they, do you lose the people, the TSA people checking out your TARDIS bag? Thank you, Brian. Um, everything is office? No, everything is in the office. I'm like, I asked if he lost, if he lost any records or photos. Oh, God, the basement being flooded. Debbie Root says, hey, cuz. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, because the Roots Tech relatives at Roots Tech, yeah, that's finally gone live now. Yeah. So you have a check to see if you and I related. Have you? What's that? Have you checked to see if we're related on Roots Tech? Uh, I haven't checked to see if we are. I've got, I, the last I checked, I had 737 relatives, which is a lot lower than, like, 4,000 something. I, um, I had a lot of people comparing my wiki tree connections to the Roots Tech connections, which I thought was fun. Um, well, on the, the connections, what's, what's neat about the family search one, the Roots Tech connections is that because I have my family search tree, I have both my adoptive family and my biological family coming from the same profile, which you can't do on wiki tree. Right. Um, I've got relatives from both sides. Right. But the, the adoptive family, they go way beyond 18 back before 1800 in Ireland and Scotland, where I don't know, I don't, I don't know where they're getting these records from. Well, there's no sources attached. So I'm afraid some of that might be bogus. Yeah. Yeah. And family search is really trying to get their global tree connected and stuff, but they have such catch up to do, to get it to the same level as what wiki tree is, because wiki tree started off saying there's only one profile per person. So I commend family search for doing that. And it's really nice to have the two trees kind of working, you know, they do help. They, they certainly give you hints. I just wish I knew where, where we could find records for the places where they just don't exist. Yeah. Yeah. I, um, I want, uh, I have a friend that I don't know if I should name him or not. He was playing on going to Belfast for the weekend. And I'm like, would you mind going up to Island McGee for me? It's just north of Belfast and walk around and ask some questions. I know where some of the Templeton's live. Can you go and knock on some doors, please? Oh, family search needs accountability in a place where people can talk like a message board. I agree, Chris. That would be something that would really help. And Judy wants to know church records. Is that what you're looking for, Greg? Well, yeah, I did find a marriage of, um, the original or the parents of the original Clarks that came over from Ireland. So that was exciting that I got. So that got me back to 1820, I think. Debbie Root says Pennsylvania is horrible for records. And John Tyner says he's been working on doing merges at family search. I've done some merges over there too. There's a Belfast in Maine. That is not the Belfast in Ireland. So I am slightly distracted today because there's some weirdness going on, not too far from where I live. But guess what, Greg? What? We have a question. Do we have a question? What's the question? The question of the week is, hold on just a second. Okay. We're gonna find it. There we go. The question of the week. Oh, that's weird. Ooh, that is weird. Flashy, flashy. Now, I gotta fix that. Stop, share. Let's try this again. There we go. Whoo. I was flashing all you people. I'm very sorry for that. I was gonna tell them about the guy I saw on TV a little while ago. He was kind of flashy. Oh, let's see. So the question of the week is, do you have African roots? And we have 16 answers, which are good. Always remember to go through in the G to G post and the Facebook posts and upvote these great answers and get involved. Answer some of them if you'd like to. That's nice. It's always fun to watch some of the back and forth amongst people. Judy says, no, I do not have any African roots. No. I don't either. I was very disappointed considering that my family was very southern. But where my family lived in Appalachia or Appalachia or whatever you want to call it, the mix of African and the people that came over the Europeans was a bit different than what people normally think of as the South. I have one great, great, great grandfather by the name of John LeVon, who I've been told possibly mixed with French, Spanish and Afro-Caribbean ancestry. He was a ship steward who came to South Australia in the 1850s, married my Northern Irish great, great, great grandmother and Trotter and had seven kids, haven't been able to trace back any further than John. Now I'm scrolling down. I'm pretty confident the African ancestry due to it appearing across most of my DNA tests, two to 5%. So I've worked with people who have about 3% African ancestry and it goes back to a fourth or fifth great-grandparent that lived in the late 1700s. So 1770 to 1790. But she says her ante gets 6.8, 6 to 8%. And also descriptions that she's found of some of John and Anne's children. It makes her think that there are also other cousins. So interesting. Mervyn Taylor. Technically, we all do, right? That very good point, very good point. If you go back far enough, we are all in the same place. But for me, no recents, no, no one. Yes, a male ancestor was transported from the Caribbean islands to Tasmania or New South Wales. And I'm heading the Black Heritage in Australia sub-project. Good for you Shoshana. Nice. And I like your last name, Lucky. I have an ancestor who was, last name was Key, K-E-Y. Oh yeah. His first name was Luck. Really? I kid you not. No way. I kid you not. That's crazy. Brian, I don't know what to do for you, bud. I messed up royally. Let me see if I can find it. What happened? Yeah, but I can't go into my email. See, that's the problem of why I can't do that. Brian Nash has a great answer for us. Brian, you want to post your link in the chat? Oh, can you do that? He can post the link and then we can put it into the scroll and people can actually see it live during the broadcast. Sorry, Brian. Been a bit distracted. And I'm still distracted. Yeah. There's a TV right here. There's a TV, right? And there's a, anyway, there's something going on. Let's see. Nancy Reid says, yes, I do, but I haven't been able to figure out who the specific ancestors were. She's got 2% sub-Saharan and my sister has 5%. And then she's got first cousins and older generation have 5% to 12%. So based on her African DNA matches and attempts to triangulate the trees in that line, the common element is Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, and the family seems to be Crawford. Unfortunately, records for the Black residents were poor back in the early mid to 1800s. I suspect the original African ancestor was deemed a British loyalist during the American Revolution. That's a very good assumption. Or was a servant of a British loyalist who made their way to Nova Scotia. There were shiploads, shiploads of African loyalists from the United States who were former slaves who were brought to Nova Scotia. There is a book called The Book of Negroes, which is one of the best books that I've read. It's a historical fiction, and it's about a book where they wrote down everybody's names, whether that's true or not. You might want to read that book, Nancy Reid, because that might give you some insights as to where you might check for stuff. And if you watch The Curse of Oak Island, we all know that Samuel Ball, who ended up on Oak Island as one of the big landowners, was a former slave from the Charleston area of South Carolina. So yeah, so you might want to do that, Nancy. Did you see the mini series based on that, The Book of Negroes? No! It was really well done. Oh, I have to watch that. The book, the book, I haven't even put the book away. Books that I really like. I even liked the way the book was the trade paperback. The edges were like not normal, but it was, I love the book, the feel of it. I love the smell of a good book. You can do that with your tablet. You end up hitting your nose. That's right. According to my DNA results, this is from Tanya Kassim. From my heritage, 8.9% North African and 2.6% West African, possibly Nigerian. All the rest of me is West Asian, Central Asian, North and West European, Celtic, and Iberian Peninsula. Iberian Peninsula, there's a theory that the original settlers of Ireland, way back at 8,000 or 9,000 years ago, could possibly have connections to the Iberian Peninsula and the Basques. Just a theory, but that's, that looks good. Interesting to see some of this. Interesting. Yeah. Iberian Peninsula may be your native roots. Check the results again. Jetmatch has some really good stuff for checking different admixtures. If you go there and you don't know what to do, check out Randy Siever, who's a great wiki-trier. Randy Siever has a blog post on his Genius Musings blog that tells you how to work those admixtures and stuff at Jetmatch. So you can do that. Matt Malker says, yes, I'm a descendant from Elizabeth Key. Wait, Key? K-E-Y? Wait a second. I gotta check that out. On my father's side, according to my DNA results, I'm 1% Benin Togo. However, I don't believe it comes from Elizabeth Key, since none of my cousins on my father's side share that. I gotta, Matt Mulcher, I gotta write that down. Matt Mulcher. Yeah, that's right. Check on his keys. Yeah, that's right. So that's interesting. People are trying to figure out that it's one of the hardest things to figure out doing that, that the African or the Afro-Caribbean heritage. Yeah. Lynette Dovey says she's got African-Caribbean, so a majority of my ancestry is African. My mother's side is mostly Nigerian. My father's side, mostly Ghanaian, was some Nigerian and Angolan. That's pretty cool, Lynette. Georgina Boud. I've got one great, great, great grandmother. I don't know if I got those right. Did you count as I was going? Grandmother, she is Crotoa Eva Vande Gorin Ginkona Mirhoff. What? You just did that just to trip me up. Really? Oh my goodness. Her husband was Peter Havegard Mirhoff. She is a Koikoi, K-H-O-I Koikoi. They probably lived in Zweed Africa for 10,000 years, or is that 10 years? That's a decimal point rather than a comma. The Koikoi language consists of cliques, yes. She grew up in the house of Van Rebeek. She was first the habitant of the Cape, baptized. Oh, okay. Very, very interesting, Georgina Boud. I'm familiar with that. I know that in Ghana, my son spent some time in Ghana studying drumming, believe it or not, and they would snap their fingers before they would shake your hand, and it had to be a specific hand, and you had to do something specific for an elder and the... Wow. Yeah, it was pretty, pretty cool to live through his experience with African drumming, which was fun. I've never heard of that. Excuse me. And I've also heard about the cliquing. I've heard that there was some cliquing going on in the Ghanaian village he lived in while he was studying too, or stayed in. Known parts of my family traced back to Case Pilot Martinique. Some were enslaved, but later emancipated. Not surprisingly, DNA indicates West African. That's from Stephen Blanchett. Yes, I do. On my father's side, my ancestors are from Africa, from what is now known as Senegal, Benin, Togo, Ivory Coast, and Nigeria. Recently, I found out that I have an ancestor from the Maghreb. They came to the Bahamas and later in the U.S. that marry in Surudi. Cool beans. Teague doubting. I do. My maternal great-grandmother was Ugandan and had connections to the royal family. Great-grandfather was a German aristocrat, so it was the first legal interracial marriage recorded in the kingdom of, I want to say, Toro. That's really interesting. Wow. That is entry. What year was that? So, great-grandfather, great-grandmother. So that was not that long ago. About 100 years ago, maybe? Yeah. About 12 years ago, my dad and one of his sister-in-laws discovered that my great-grandfather was mostly African and native ancestry. His family was from Nova Scotia, but he was born in Massachusetts. They've been able to trace that line to a slave. It was purchased in, I believe, South Carolina. And you may be talking again about some of the loyalists and slaves who were transported to Nova Scotia by the British. So you might want to check out that book again, the Book of Negroes. Give you some ideas where you can check. And the native ancestry, if it's truly Nova Scotia, it was probably Mima. Mima. Okay. Yeah. Rupert Astus is her native line, her maternal native line goes to the Mi'kmaq in that entry. Really? Yes. Yeah. Yeah. Notice how we go really high when we get excited. Yeah. I don't know. For some reason, I would have just assumed it was more of the in the Central Plains in the U.S. Yeah. Great-granddad. This is from Jennifer Bristol. My great-granduncle did his uncle, did his uncle. My great-uncle had his DNA done and it shows 3% West African Congo area. So again, I'm saying that 3% I've known as goes back to about the late 1700s. Lawrence Bristol's New Jersey will states he was black, but we're having difficulty finding any other records of him besides a court case. We don't know if he was enslaved, because there's no new manumission records for him. Sorry. Manumission? Yes. Thank you. I'm sex generation called Cajun African. This is from Linda Hayes. I've lived here for 50 years. I visited enslaved holding cells, whipping blocks in East Africa broke my heart. Yeah. My son too, when they were at the slave castle in Accra, he was spectacular picture from there, from that castle. Amazing. Amazing how he was affected by that too. A friend in Liberia. Wow. That's pretty cool, Linda Hayes. And then the last one is I have DNA from Sub-Saharan Africa actually from two places in Africa, Congo and Senegal, which suggests an enslaved ancestor or two since how else would they have come gotten together at that great distance? No idea. Who am I closest to African American hair? Ancestor was despite my speculation. This is just great and that's from age. Check out the project. Let me see if I can get there really quick. The project. There you go. Now, let's go down our list here. And you can check out the Africa project. But where I'm going is the Black Heritage Project, Emma Beth and East Jurae, and Alain Langoff are currently leading those. They've got a lot of activity in the project these days. You might want to check that out and see if there's anything that you can do to help get your information better done based on the information that they're learning in the Black Heritage Project. So check that out. Yeah. They hit a milestone at the end of December, right? Yeah, they did. That was part, I mean, I remember like 50,000, something like that. Yeah. So check that out. Check out the Black Heritage. Check out the book, The Book of Negroes, for those people. There were quite a few people in our comments and stuff that were talking about Nova Scotia. And you can see it's like I said, it's a historical novel, but it really does give you an idea of what it was like living in that direction. So not too bad, Greg. You've got time to spend the rest of the time. And we never said Sarah. Sarah is not here today. And that's okay. Yeah. Yeah. So, well, we have some profiles of the week. And the theme, I guess I should start sharing my screen here. Let me, oh, let me go to the right place to share my screen. There we go. And the theme for this week is the Olympics. And so last week, I made a bit of a game of the Super Bowl. And so I decided that was fun for me. Oh, there we go. So, Mags has already gone through the app. If you check out the link that's in the, that's showing on the screen in the banner there, go to that and fill out the, there's just four simple questions. And then you will be registered to be part of the the Olympics team. Because we're having the Olympics. The Olympics. Yes. The 2022 Winter Olympics. So let me just share my screen here. I'm hoping to show all are getting there. There we go. Can you put the link back up, please? What's that? Put the link back up. Did I take it down? You might have. Yes, you do. Sorry. There we go. And did Brian put up his link to his video? I'm so sorry I didn't get that taken care of, Brian. No, that's, we were just, we were all, we were both being a little distracted. Okay. So, does anyone, anyone go into that link and registering? I don't see anyone registered yet, but go register because we're going to play. We're going to play. Greg is so fun. Well, I'm trying. Let me just type it in. You say that if I type it in here, it will not show up. Right. Well, it'll be there, but they won't be able to click it. Oh, okay. Well, so I don't know if you all noticed, but I was selected as a flag bearer. Yes. Okay. So, yeah, I do want you to go to that link, fill it out. It's, it won't only take a few seconds, but in the meantime here, let me share my screen again. There we go. So, the theme for this week is the Winter Olympians because of course the Winter Olympics are still going on. And so I thought I would make going through the profiles a bit of a, a bit of a game and make we all participate. So, if you register to be part of a team, then your name will show up here as we go through the profiles. And it'll show you the who the high, the closest relation is, and then it'll go out to the least closest. Yes. I've got it so that that should work. So, if people could reply in the chat to let me know if it's working or if they're registering or if they're registered yet. Morning, Denise. Good morning. But I'm going to start my click link here and it worked for me. Thanks, Cathy. Okay. Judy said she's registered. That's great. Okay then. Are you all flag bearers or is it just me? Well, I'm going to first of all, I'm going to start off with the first one on the list who is Dick Button. Okay. I'm going to zoom in a little bit. Does that help? Yep. Okay. Is that, do you want me to go with one more? There we go. I'd be scrolling more when we do this. So, Dick, Dick Button was born in the 1920s, still alive. Most of these Olympians, winter Olympians that have been profiled, are still alive. So, you'll see that they're just born in, and it just gives the decade. And many of them also, because they're still alive, have fairly short profiles, so there are some notable exceptions to that. So, Dick Button's an American figure skater and skating analyst, two-time Olympic champion and five-time world champion, the only non-European man to have become a European champion. Wow. And he's credited, which is interesting. Yeah. But what's also interesting, he's credited as having been the first skater to successfully land the double axle jump and the triple jump of any kind, the triple loop. He invented the flying camel. Now, I've heard the word flying camel. I don't know what it means. I picture a camel flying through the air, but I'm pretty sure that's not what it is. It's a lot less bulky, for sure. A lot less bulky. It's actually quite beautiful. Yeah. Well, how cool is that? So, this is the guy who invented that. Yeah. At one point it was just called the button camel, for Dick Button, that's his name. Now, what I ended up doing- Probably a better word for flying than button. The button camel or the flying camel? Yeah, I don't know. What I ended up doing to find out some more details is most of these profiles under sources, they have, well, this is an interesting one. It only has the one source, which is the Wikipedia article. Many of them have multiple sources, including a Wikipedia article. So, I've gone to the Wikipedia article, which is much more descriptive and also gives the highlights of all the championships and medals that they've won. So, that's kind of a neat thing to have. Okay. So, I'm hoping lots of people have registered. So, let's just go see. So, welcome. Debbie Roode says she used to be able to do a flying camel. That is very cool, Debbie. Very cool indeed. I'm not taking down the link. So, I'm not showing. So, if I just burst out with something, you know what it is. Okay. That's great. Okay. So, Oh, look at all the athletes. So, here's all the athletes. Welcome to the Winter Olympics. So, here's all the athletes. Chris, Debbie, Greg, that's me. Hilary, John, Judy, Kate, Catherine, Kathy. Kathy, I think I used yours. You did it. You submitted multiple times. Megs, Steve, Adie, Sue, and Wendy Callahan. And so, here's the teams that are competing. We have one athlete from Austria, some two from Canada, two from Great Britain, and the Irish, Italian, two from Italy, one from Luxembourg, one from Mexico, one from Portugal, and three from the United States. Here are all the sports that people are playing. Genealogy. It's a winter sport. No, it was not. It was right on that list. It's on the bottom of the list. But you know what? I'm surprised no one chose Team Wiki Tree as their nation of choice. That was at the bottom of the list, too, in the W's. But that's okay. So, let's now get ready for the Parade of Nations. While you're doing that, John Tyner has an Olympic silver medalist cousin and a high jump from Melbourne. Wow. They actually played this song during the I noticed that. I was like, why are they playing off in circles dance? I feel like I'm graduating. All of a sudden, the genealogist, way to go. It's Chris, very brave skeleton slider there. Chris, that means we would see you in one of those weird, weird suits. Welcome, everyone. So, we're all marched into the stadium. All marched in. Okay, so now we're going to go through the profiles of the week. So, Dick Button, we already talked about him. Oh, no. And so, there he is. He won two gold, a silver and a bronze. And here's how everyone is related to him. So, for the Olympics, uh-oh, I've lost mags there temporarily. No, you haven't lost me. You haven't lost me. Okay. So, for the Olympic games, not only do you get, we get points for the profiles. So, Dick has just scored two gold for the American team. But we also are getting points for the people who are closest to Dick. So, because Kate and Kathy are only 20 degrees, they get a gold medal. So, a gold medal for Team Mexico and Team Middle-E. Silver medals for Wendy and Mags and Sue, because they're all 21 degrees away. And Kathy and Debbie Root get bronze medals, because they're 22 degrees away from our profile. Okay. The next, and so here's the medal report after the first round. The States is in the lead with two golds. Italy has, Italy, Mexico have one gold. Canada, Great Britain, Austria have other medals. Moving on to the next. Chris says he registered for hockey. How did he get into the skeleton? Uh, I don't know, Chris. Steve, Steve Addy says you just have finger problems, Chris. Okay. Peggy is our next profile. And she's the daughter of Albert Eugene Fleming. Peggy is a world champion, American figure skater and gold medalist, as well as a well-known sports commentator. And she has a very short bio and one Wikipedia article, which is a little more descriptive. It began skating at the age nine and so on. Now, this is a very, I didn't know about this. Did you know about the, in the 1961 crash of the figure skating team? I am not sure I do remember that. I was not, what month was that? February? I wasn't even around yet. So in 1961, the entire United States figure skating team was flying to the world's skating champions and they crashed. Oh no. So it just wiped them out. She was not part of the figure skating team at that time. But she was one of the ones who sort of turned around and brought, and I read here somewhere here. Time out. Denise, you can still sign up. No worries. There's more medals to give out. She said she didn't sign up because she thought you were going to do trivia again. You can sign up, Denise. Go ahead. Are you trivia phobic? I'm trivia phobic. Are you? No, everybody in my family are trivial. Yeah. So that, like I can't, like that is a huge tragedy. Judy mentioned there. But when she won in 1968, her, it was sort of a began a resurgence of women's figure skating. But I did not know that story. Yeah. Sad. Okay. So let's go back and see. So I'm going to refresh the screen here. Let's see if we have, has Denise joined our team yet? Not yet. Okay. Well, I'll refresh again, Denise, so we can see you. We are Peggy. So she won a gold in 68. And here's how we're all related to her. And the gold medal for closest goes to Wendy Callahan, only 20 degrees from Peggy. Gold medal for Team Great Britain. And a whole pile of people are 22 degrees. So that's a lot of silver we're handing out. And then Debbie and Hillary both won bronze for being 23 degrees away. I don't think I've won any medals yet. Oh, well. And now the US have pulled ahead with three golds. Great Britain, Italy, Mexico now have one gold each. And so on. Canada's on the board. They're not doing bad. Okay. Moving along to Gillis Emmanuel Grafstrom from Sweden. June, if you go ahead and sign up on your phone, it's not a very taxing thing. It just gets you into the stuff for what Greg is doing. Yeah. So if you if you want to try on your phone, I think it would work fine. She's she said I'm on my phone, so I'm not going to sign up. Okay. Wendy, I sent the link out last night to Team Italy and Team Canada in the Discord chat. I'm pointing to the Discord over on my other monitor here. Just a test to see if it worked because I needed like I knew it worked for me, but I had to make sure that it worked for other people too. And you didn't send it to me. I am I'm going to cry. I know. Well, I was going to and then it's okay. Okay. You knew I was probably distracted. But I think it was Wendy. It was either when their camp, Kathy were doing it on their phone and they said it worked fine. So go ahead, June. Try it. Good. Anyways, we're on to Gillis Emmanuel Grafstrom from Sweden. So before we even went any further, he's the husband of Cecil Mendelssohn Bartoldi Grafstrom, married in 1938 in Potsdam, Brandenburg, Deutschland. So that last name, does that sound familiar to you at all Mendelssohn Bartoldi? Yes, it does sound familiar to me. Yes, because there's a famous musician, Felix Mendelssohn, who turns out to be Cecil's great grandfather. Of course. Of course. Isn't that cool? That is so trivial. Anyways, I just thought that was very cool. But anyways, Gillis was an Olympic champion in figure skating, lots of figure skating, winning three gold and one silver medal. The only male figure skater to date to win three gold medals in the Olympics. Now, I think there's a number of women who have won three gold medals. But according to this article, to the Wikipedia or to the Wikitree profile, he's the only male to have won three, more in Stockholm and married to Cecil. And then again, his the Wikipedia article has more details about when and where he won his. So he was very early on in the very first Winter Olympics in fact. Nice. So let's see. There's Gillis. I have a question. So the stats and stuff, we could like leave this up and as people view the live cast during the day, we could like check this out next weekend and see what exactly over. Oh, cool. Yay. Yeah. I think you know what? I think I might do a G to G post with the. Yes. Yes. And then that would be really cool to see how the. Yeah, so collaborative. Yeah. Anyway, so Gillis won three gold for silver. So yay team Sweden. Oh, three golds. That's going to really help team Sweden out. People are in the more in the 30s. So people aren't as close, but Kathy in gold for team Austria. Yeah, Kathy, you had you had three profiles last night. So I mixed up the team so they wouldn't all be the same. So you wouldn't. So you might wonder why you're from there. Meg Silver for team Canada. Way to go. And Judy and then Debbie Roots bronze. Way to go. Way to go being closely related. And the metal report, the US and Sweden are now both have three golds, but because the US have more silver, that puts them technically in the lead. Did you realize that the first place is determined by the number of golds alone? Yes. So you could have, you could have like twice as many metals as everyone else. Right. If you have more gold than anyone else. Yep. That's the way it is in the economy as well. The more the gold, the better. The more the gold, the better. Anyways, so there we go. Nice to see a few more, a couple more flags just joined us. I think this is the first time we've seen Portugal. Portugal. Okay, Scott Hamilton looking a bit like a golfer there. Yeah, I remember that one. Yeah, he's a world champion, American figure skater and Olympic gold medalist known for the backflip on ice, which is illegal. You can't should not do that during an official competition, but always a crowd pleaser. Florian Straub, you what we're doing is we're playing a wiki tree game that's called the wiki limpo. What is it? It's the olympics. The olympics. So if you go to this tiny URL and you can sign in and join us. And even if you don't do it right now, you can do it later in the day. We're going to go back and look at this next week to see what the final totals are. Because a lot of people tend to watch us after the fact. There you go. Sorry. Looking forward through the boring parts, I guess. Yeah. So I'm going to leave that up. Usually post people's comments, but instead I'm just interrupting Greg Rudley and telling. Go right ahead. No problem. So Debbie, is this cousin, Debbie? You had the same coach as Scott? And is Debbie the one who could do the camel? Yes. That's amazing. Come see me. I live not far from the canal. You can come skate. Way to go, Kathy. Thanks for choosing three different teams. So I didn't do it. I thought I changed someone around. Oh, good for you. So there we go. So yeah, after he did his gold medal stuff, then he did a number of other skating things, non other shows. And there's the Wikipedia article for him. So let's just go see how. So he won one gold when he competed in the Olympics officially. Oh, we've got some nice closer connections. So Sue wins gold for being only 17 degrees away. Wow. Well, you know, I'm going to refresh. Let's see if that's changing. Oh, still Sue. Sue's still there. Oh, but Denise has joined us. There's Denise. Denise, welcome to the game. And Judy S. There you go, Judy. You're there too. Wendy gets silver and Chris. You're in it twice, Chris. Yep. He's doing it for the U.S. and Italy. I should go back and join for the U.S., but it's too late now. I was thinking we should, you know, you should pick your favorite ancestor and have them, you know, your most, your most, most athletic ancestor. Put them in for a team. Okay. And so at this point, oh, the U.S. now has five gold medals, Sweden three, Great Britain one, a bunch of other teams have won. So there we go. Oh, there's one more. Who's, who is the new one that arrived? From Portugal. Oh, Luxembourg. Luxembourg. There we go. In Austria. Yay. Excellent. Okay. Going on to Eddie Sixten Jornberg, again from Sweden. Son of Karl and Marta. And he was a Swedish cross country skier, winner of four Olympic gold medals and four gold medals in the world championship, born in 1929. I love this. In an interview from 2010, Sixten Jornberg describes his first home as a two-room hovel, half cottage and half cow shed, where one would not even be allowed to keep cows today. Eventually there were nine children in the family. By then they had to move, they had moved to a better house. And how many cows? Yeah, it didn't say how many cows in the new house. But he started work, he would work in the blacksmith shop. And he was involved in cross country skiing. He dropped his other sport, which is ice hockey, to get more seriously into the skiing. Also worked as a lumberjack. And his daily routine, training every day, cross country skiing or running, was more strenuous than the actual training camps of the Swedish national team. Wow. He felt that that was more, when he went to the Swedish national team camps, it was more like rest and recreation. Oh, wow. That's pretty wild, eh? And he also has a nice wiki tree page. He does. I was noticing that. Yeah. So four gold for Sweden. Okay, Sweden's going to creep up there. And yeah, okay, there's how everyone's related. So gold for Kathy and Catherine. Luxembourg and Austria are going to, yeah. Oh, great. Thank you. I get a medal. I get a medal. Oh, no, gold for one. And Jonathan too. What's that? Jonathan got one for Canada too. Yes. Way to go, Jonathan. Okay. So there we go. And now, yes, Sweden pulled ahead of the U.S. Thanks to, uh, there we go. Moving along. Okay, that was, so we're on to Jean-Claude Kili, right? He was, like, I loved Jean-Claude Kili. Yeah. I looked up to him like crazy. He was good. So I could read the biography in French if you want. Jean-Claude Kili. Thank you so very much for that. Susie Carter says that she loves your games. Oh, thanks. It's fine. I enjoy it. So, yes, he was an Alpine skier, but he was also, he also got into racing. His father was a former French ski champion and fighter pilot for the World War II. And his father was of Swiss origin, and the family settled in the French Alps. So it's not surprising that he went into skiing. I always pretended I was Jean-Claude Kili. I started skiing when I was three years old. Three in the mountains of the Carolinas. If you learn how to ski on the icy hills of the Carolinas, you can ski anywhere. Oh my goodness. But I used to always say I'm Jean-Claude Kili and I would bomb it down the slope. Oh my lord. Oh yeah. That's crazy. Wow. I didn't start skiing until our kids started taking lessons when they were like, I don't know, six, seven, eight or whatever, whatever they were. So I was a total novice on the ski slopes, and I had, I remember the first lesson I had, there's this German instructor. I mean, he was from, anyways, he was, he was obviously a retired person and he was of German, and he was so strict. And oh my gosh, I was so afraid of him and the slopes. But anyways, Jean-Claude obviously has done lots of stuff and influenced a lot of people, including Mags. So, and let's, so let's see. Three gold for France. So Team France should move up in the standings now. Catherine, gold for Team Luxembourg. I mean, 20 degrees away. 22 degrees for Mags. You're just doing a maze. You're related to everyone here. Debbie and then Wendy. Got the bronze. Great stuff. Okay. And then Sven, this is the second, or did I call, I must have called, you're in 6th and I called him Sven by mistake once. Anyway, Sven Kramer was born in April 1886, the son of a speed skater, Jep Kramer and Eli Kramer. He represented the Netherlands, long track speed skater, as well as team pursuit, competed Olympic games from 2006 to 2022. So he's relatively new compared to some of the other athletes who have in more classic games. He won four gold, two silver and three bronze. Yeah. And his daughter plays field hockey. So that's very cool. And he has done, look at all, look at all of these medals. Look at this. Wow. That is incredible. So, oh, we didn't look at the medal report after the last round. Sweden was in the lead again. Okay, but let's move on to Sven. Four gold and two silver. So Team Netherlands is now going to be a factor. And Team Netherlands is always a factor in the, in the winter. Yeah. So Kathy wins gold, being closest from Team Austria. Catherine is silver and Mags another bronze. Oh, my goodness. Okay. Mellerford, Sweden, top again, still with seven, five gold for the United States. But look at that. Netherlands at four. Oh, look at the moose. Austria three, France three, and then one, one a piece for four other teams there. How is this going to end? Anyone know how this is going to turn out? I'm biting my nails. So is Murph. That's Murph, oh no. You know, we're not going to get to any pictures this week, are we? This is so fun, though. We'll have to do double pictures next week. Oh, you know, I can't make it next week. I've got, I've already committed, I'm already triple booked. I've got a math webinar, and there's also a math. I have to play for the church. So I'm sorry. How are you going to do math and math? That's a thing done. That's like a webinar started, and then I'll leave when someone else can sort of take control. That's hilarious. Yeah. Yeah. Now, if we, if we were studying, if the picture of the week was about doing cartography, then I could do on Saturday, I could theoretically do math, mass, and maps. Anyways, Sonja Henning, our Sonja Onstad, formerly Henning, from Norway. Daughter of Wilhelm and Selma. So she is a, she was born in 1912 in Norway and competed. Captured her family's heart. Isn't that nice? Her first memory was a desire to ice skate. And there's a, I love this quote here. I want to do with skates what Fred Astaire is doing with dancing. And she did. Yeah. She did. That's amazing. I love that. That's just so, that's so neat. She had many suitors during her years. So after she finished skating, her skating career, and she also studied classical ballet, which probably helped with her skating. Yes. She turned to acting as well. And then she had many suitors during her years acting, not surprising. And ended and had three marriages. She was the first ice princess. Isn't that sweet? Says sending a precedent for later figures like Peggy Fleming. We just had, we just talked about Peggy a while back. Tara Lipinski. I'm not familiar with her, but Nancy Kerrigan I'm familiar with, but I don't think it was because of the ice princess story. I think there was something else she was famous for. But anyways, she was the first to wear and insist on white skates for women skaters. That's an interesting piece of trivia I thought. So her first Olympics was in 1924 at Chamonix. And then she was a 10 time world champion, six time European champion. Very good. Look at that metal. What's that? Look at that metal. Yeah. Neat, eh? Look at all the names they had for it. The nasturtium of the north, the ice queen of Norway, the white swan. Little Miss Moneybags. Yeah, I know. That's, she had crazy cool dimples too. Yeah. Look at that. So sweet. Anyway, so let's see when Sonya enters the race. Three gold for team Finland. Okay. Let's see how everyone else is connected. And the gold goes to team Great Britain and Canada. Mags, gold, metal. And Wendy, Kate, Judy, Kathy all get silver for being 20 degrees away and both Chris's and Sue are bronze, get bronze for 21 degrees. That's Sweden in the lead. It was seven. United States with five. Netherlands, four. Austria, Austria, Finland, France all have three now. And then some twos and we're getting there. Okay. Three left. So we have Frank Gilchrist Rankin, who is a Canadian. Yay, Canada. I'm Stratford, Ontario, born April 1st, 1891. Son of Joseph and Catherine Morrison. I wonder if Justin Bieber would be related to him. Because he's from Stratford. Yeah. Someone put in his mother. When I first looked at this profile earlier in the week, it had his father's name, but not his mother's. But I found some rec, I found a fine grave and I found a census for her. And I was going to go put it in, but I got distracted and never did. But some would do. So thank you for, oh, Lori, thank you, Lori Crothers for adding his mother's profile. I really like Lori. Yeah, that's great. So I thought about it. She did it. So she's a doer. It was Chisman. Yeah, that's right. So he didn't, he wasn't an athlete in the Olympics. He was unfortunately hurt before he, before the Olympics came along, but he did coat. He turned from being, he was an athlete, got hurt playing hockey, and then he turned to coaching. And he did coach an Olympic team to gold. So we'll count that as a gold medal performance. And so I've, he has one goal for Canada. And let's see how close people are related. Megs is the closest 22 degrees. Yay. I can't believe this is not rigged. It is not rigged at all. I can't believe it. My goodness. Kathy Nav was talking about the story that I know about. Yeah, we weren't going to talk about it. Yeah. Okay. Okay. Kate and Kathy got silver and then Wendy, Judy and Denise, congrats for bronze. And here are the medal reports. Sweden is again, what's that, they're Sweden and the United States, they're just sitting on their butts, just no, you know, they're on the third place. That's so look at that. Hmm. Oh, Chris, come on. Okay. Um, okay. So we talked about him. Chris Ferrella, you could just say that I'm relatable. Relatable. Yes. Yes. Georg, Georg Tomas, son of Albertus Tomas, and we don't know his mother. And I did not look him up to find out. So, and he signs one Sieben kindermann von Albert Tomas. I won't read in German though. Let me go to the English. Born in 1937, his family at one point lived in Hinschersgarten and was poor. His way to school took several kilometers every day. And in the winter, he did it on cross country skis. So hence, he was, he was trained early on and then became successful in Nordic combined, which is cross country skiing and ski jumping. So, uh, participated for the first time in 58 and then nominated in 1960 to join the Olympic Winter Games in Squaw Valley. Nice. You have like two minutes left to finish. Yeah. Well, we're just one more after this. So let's Frank. Okay. And here we are. Georg want to gold in the silver. Let's see how people Catherine wins gold for Team Lux, only 20 degrees away. Florian silver for Team Germany, 22 degrees and Kathy bronze for Team Austria. Yay. Yes. Okay. I'm not in that list. What's that? I said, yeah, I'm not in that list. Yeah, that's right. Chris is already going. Hmm. Lindsey, uh, killed out or Lindsey Fawn born in the 80s. An American world world cup alpine ski racer and Olympic gold medalist from 2010. She won four world cup overall in 2016. She won her 20th world cup crystal globe title in all time record among men or women. She's considered one of the most successful American ski racers in history, born in 1984 in St. Paul and still living. So let's see how this goes. Okay. I'll skip by the, okay. Lindsey, one golden two, two bronze there. Chris, look at Chris. Okay. Kathy gets gold for Team Austria. Catherine gets silver for Team Luxembourg. David gets silver for Team US and Mags bronze for Team Canada. Wow. Okay. So the final standings. The US has eight gold, 10 silver, 12 bronze, 30 medals and first place. Sweden, seven gold, one silver, two bronze, second place. Netherlands, four gold, two silver, three bronze, nine medals all the overall third place. But honorable mention go to Austria, Canada, Finland, France, Luxembourg, Great Britain, Italy, Mexico, Germany, Portugal and Team Wikitree with a bronze. Who signed up for Wikitree? Someone new signed up for Wikitree. Was that Gillian? And the final, the individual reports are just in the order, not in any particular order, just in the order of people registered. So you'll have to find your name. I'm just going to scroll through the names, find your name and celebrate. It's missing my gold. I got a gold. Something is wrong with your metrics there. No, no. Must be something wrong with my algorithm. Oh no. There we go. It looks like, so Cam won nine medals. Catherine won eight medals. What was the two highest numbers of medals? And Wendy's got four gold. You haven't got more than four gold. Gillian, you don't have to play this one. All you have to do is sign up. If you just sign up, you'll get included. It'll do all the calculations for you. And if you win a gold, it's not going to include the gold just for now. I'm going to have to look that up before I put the, so here's the, here's the creative nations again, which let me, with the most recent people who signed up. Yeah. Just go to the URL there, Gillian. Yeah. Denise share it. Ah, nice. Genealogist. There we go. Yay, wiki tree. Congratulations, everyone. It's time to go. We'll see you next week. I think Sarah will be here next week. We love, we love Greg and his games. Maybe Greg, you're going to help me get this all put together for next week, right? If I can show everybody. So we'll see you next week, people. We enjoyed being here.