 Hello Friday date nighters. Hi, everyone. I did not play the music this time. I Think we need to have a different kind of intro for our Friday date nighters. Don't you Katie? I think so. Yeah, you should have a special one. Yeah, like some romantic music with wine and flowers Because we're already throwing people off we might as well just go all the way Well, first of all, you all might notice that Katie Katie which way am I pointing Katie is here Because a one is stuck in traffic somewhere Yes, but she might pop in when she gets home if she's able to do that So we're just really happy to see a few people watching. We've got Thomas is here as usual Robin is here as usual John Tyner Got Tommy at Tommy, I never know if I'm saying your name, right? So tell me if I'm doing it, right? It's I assume it's book. Does that sound right or Buck Katie, do you know I don't know We've got Lynette Jester and Luther's here Luther you have you you need to bring cake next time because we always talk about your chocolate cake Oh Sharon Haynes. Hi Sharon. I think you're a new name from Alabama and if you're not I'm very sorry I'm really bad with names. So we all need name tags. Oh wait, we have them Name pronunciation guides that would be helpful a little phonetic help would be awesome so far everybody's pretty pretty Good here except for Tommy. He needs to give me a phonetic guide for his name And I think Thomas's last name is caneline. Is it I? Think it's an a sound Thomas help me out IPA guides is that the that's a pronunciation guide, right? Yeah, they don't help me because don't you have to know like what all the little symbols? Oh, yeah, you do I Just want to hear somebody say it. Oh, I got it wrong No, oh Lynette wants to hear about the talking dog Well, I have one quick story. This is it for those of you who haven't heard this tomorrow or heard this yet My daughter's dog has It's like an assistive device is that you might use for somebody who doesn't have speech and This whole thing for dogs was developed by a speech pathologist. So They've started there's a whole movement right now to start using these talking buttons to help dogs express I can't believe I'm saying this On wiki-free date night. I know but it works. So her dog Charlie Has buttons. He has several little buttons. We actually got to see him use them while we were visiting a couple weeks ago I won't bore you with all those details But it was funny yesterday She has a button with his name Where he pushes it and it says Charlie so that he can say something about what he's thinking or whatever so The other day that button stopped working. So she took it out of his little arrangement of buttons So if there was just a missing blank spot there so instead He went over and he looked at he looked at her and he looked and he pushed the wear button. Oh Wow Where's my button? So he does understand a lot of these concepts it's kind of funny It's it's amazing We showed up with our dogs at their house and then the next day or a couple days later we came back without our dogs and He he again gave me that look like what's going on and then he ran over and he pushed the dog button Oh, I wanted to know where the we're hit were his dog uncle and aunt were Yeah, it's amazing if you if anybody's really interested in that kind of thing go to Instagram and Search for what about bunny? That's the name of the account and this dog knows a lot. She's amazing Tommy it's bush. Okay. Thank you. I don't know why had gotten booked before from somewhere, but okay now I will try to To do a better job of pronouncing your name in my head and when I'm reading it Also, Thomas's is Ken line Ken line not came line Ken line. Okay. Thank you I'll try Katie next time we're together. You'll help me with this, right? I don't know how I remember but I'll try oh So Lynette. Yes, Charlie is very self-aware. He's he knows what's happening. They had they have buttons for Of course one for food Um Thank You Luther Brown got it But he's just got Charlie has a ton of buttons enough of that we're doing date night. Let's talk date night I have a surprise for you guys. Yeah, Julie has a cute little slide show. I do Are you ready? I and I figured it would just be nice because we have people that pop in that may not be chatting with us right now Who have never attended date night before? So You guys are you can stop talking? Yes, I do remember Mojave Lynette I just completely read her her nickname wrong. Thank you for changing it. No my evil brain Can process what what her name is now and thank you John For those of you who are on Facebook, I can't see these other Comments that are coming in from YouTube. They're all making fun of how I'm pronouncing their names and Hi Rosalie welcome You're in Are you in Australia or I'm trying to remember I know I I know I should know Anyway, I do have a little slide show just because I know that some of the people that are watching may not have been here before So I thought I'd just go over a few things about how to date I need a date You need it. Yeah How to date the wiki tree way hi Betsy co and Yes, Rosalie is in Australia. So let me just run through this real quick It's it's stuff that you've probably already seen I figured a lot of you already know this some of you have not seen the space page And you've never been here before So let's do that. I assume you can see this, huh Katie. I can't see you anymore So the best way we're how do you find dates? That's the first question. How do you find dates on wiki tree? Well, the first thing you want to do is use wiki tree plus so The suggestions that we're working on our numbers one thirty one through one thirty four So I said the really lonely ones are one thirty one and one thirty two because they don't have any dates and There are no dates on the relatives. So really what I meant was these are the these are the harder ones. Yes Yes, so you get it there you're you're Clinking around trying to find some hints on on how to pick up Dates for these poor people who don't have any at all on their family I always just start searching by the name and then if I can find a census listing that has the same family names on it Then usually you can make a connection and start filling in the blanks And that's a good way to start sometimes Although I don't always depend on the information on find a grave. You can get some good hints there Usually not always because they don't add sources. They don't not everybody does But it is a good place to start if because a lot of people who have created these Files might have started there and that's where they got the information to begin with and they just didn't fill in all the blanks So the really lonely profiles don't have any dates and they don't have any dates on the relatives And those are going to be really hard but those are the suggestions that You can take a look at through wiki tree plus 131 and 132 and Then the other two Suggestions we work on our 133 and 134 and those are the kind of lonely ones, but they are at least have dates on their relatives So you can pop in there and usually get some ideas on a range of dates to search for for children or parents sometimes siblings and Start knocking around in the census listings. That's I always start with census listings. Don't you Katie? Yeah It just seems like the most sensible No, no, I said though if it's for someone outside the US I'm not I don't really have a strategy for that I know I kind of leave those and move on to US ones just because I don't feel I mean, there's some like, you know Canada I feel pretty good about yeah, yeah some of the England ones I can find because Well, they have these too. Yeah, their census listings are pretty pretty easy to work with I have a question You mean next to 133 and 134. Do you mean there are dates on the relatives? Is there a typo? I have a typo. Okay Thank you. That's very astute of you Can you tell I just threw this up in this afternoon? So, yes, that's what I meant. There are dates on relatives. We'll just go past this slide We're done there So of course wikichre plus is gonna be a good place to check Some other ideas that I like to use and I will ask you all for some of your suggestions after we get through this list so be thinking I like to use my wikichre the my wikichre menu and I'll go and look through my suggestions to See if I have any of the numbers that we're working on because I sure don't want to have those on my watchlist But so I'll go look at that sometimes something will pop in there by accident If I've been working on Like somebody else's watch list and I changed the last you know like the last name at birth Maybe maybe you guys don't know this if you work on a profile and you well you guys have okay Let's back up a back the boat up here Since since I'm on the team since I'm an admin I can go in and change the last name at birth on anything without adopting it So when I do that it puts me on the trusted list So I have to remember to go in and take myself off the trusted list or I have way more many way too many profiles on my watchlist Is that aowing? I think it is it is. She's here Sorry, we have a slump. It's okay. We have a slight show Slideshow nice and we're doing some some ideas great So I'm glad you're here, but I'm gonna go back to the slideshow now. Okay Okay, so anyway, I go and I look for suggestions on my own list and try to get those cleared up And then I'll go to my wiki tree my white my wiki tree menu and click on surnames And you guys have done this to go to one of the surnames associated with your family and you can pick those and start with the surname index by date of birth link on that there's like a little box for every surname and You that should be up near the top and click on that and then go out and see if you can find any profiles in that surname that don't have dates, so that's another place to look and Then of course go to your own watch list And you can sort it by birth date and look for anything that might need dates there So there you're kind of in your own neighborhood looking at stuff there, which is always a good place to be But then if you want to get out of your neighborhood and you can kind of just go to different surname pages just by Doing searches, you know something interesting The other thing that I like to do and I was just doing this the other day It's a little overwhelming But if you go to your watch list and there's a little button up at the top that says find matches So it helps you find or look for duplicates For profiles on your watch list and I can guarantee that you will find profiles that don't have dates that pop up there That's a really good way to find profiles with but dates plus You might be able to eliminate some of them from the search that happens when you're looking for matches So I didn't know that's what I'm You did it I didn't know that was a thing no, oh I'm so glad you learned something It's a fun way to do it because you're you might be eliminating some duplicates that out there in the database Yeah, it's a fun thing to do So those were my ideas for the day I want to know if anybody has another method that they use So we're gonna just sit here in silence and wait for them to comment I'm just kidding. Do you guys have any other methods that you use Katie or anyone? Um There's something on wiki tree plus That I use I have to go look So that I don't fumble what I'm saying I Know it's easy It's like I have muscle memory for the things that I do on wiki tree And when I have to stop and think about the steps I actually go through I always leave something out So and I never know like what it's called. I'm just like it's there. Yeah, I know where it is Well here rosalie says something She's working on the challenge this week for drew She created a profile for someone and found a match That has a profile manager It has no sources or dates or any other connected or any others connected to it It looked like a perfect profile to merge and get rid of a no dated and no sourced profile But I was not game to approach the manager Rosalie I read across stuff like that all the time and I will just go ahead and propose emerge and say Do you know anything else about this person that might help us determine if this is a match If you don't and this you know if it's the exact same name and everything You can propose that you help them merge it away And then they don't even have to manage it anymore because they might not have any more information for it either Especially if it came in through a Judcom Or they might come back and say oh no, this is my great aunt martha and I'm going to fill in her stuff right now All right, I found it. So it's Plus Under the first heading suggestions if you go down to tree you can input your wiki tree id and a number of generations eight is the default and then You press the button to search in it We'll show All of the suggestions for the people in your tree I think it's It's not just direct ancestors Okay, so um, but scrolling through here. I see some no dates ones And I may not so they um, I may not manage the profile So I may not know that these suggestions exist But I like to to look right here because it goes all the way, you know Cool. Yeah, that's another good way to find it and you'll be improving your own branch if you do that So that's cool Um What else what did Thomas say? Oh, they're they're having a little side conversation over here They're talking about natural disasters, I think Yeah So Next step in my little slideshow. Let's go back over here There's more There's more not a lot more just a little more So what happens when you find a date? Can you imagine some just popping in here? And they have no idea what we're talking about Uh, yes, I love it. So when you find a date if the person is deceased Kind of dating are you doing Julie? Oh, let's just go on. Okay. So the first thing you want to do is add your source Really, we mean it add your source. That's very important to keep your sources On the profiles by the way, you want to add source There if I made that point So then you also want to fill in your date on the data fields and then You should search for duplicates. So you have to save first save the profile and then start searching for duplicates Um, this is a by by eliminating these un sort or um undated profiles It's real it makes it just so much easier to find the duplicates if they're out there Um, and then You can go down at the bottom of the profile and see if there are any unmerged matches That this profile might be involved in so if you're not familiar with those that means that somebody said I think these might be a match, but I'm not sure so I'm going to put them in an unmerged status So that we can do more research and determine if they Match or not. So now that you have a date you should be able to look at the unmerged match And tell whether or not it's something that should be rejected or proposed as a merge And then you can leave that profile Feeling happy knowing that you did a good thing Go on your merry way. Go find another one without dates So what if the person is still living Because sometimes you can tell pretty quickly if they're if their relatives have dates that are pretty current Then, you know, they're probably still living Make sure you add your source That's pretty important Um, and then add the date to the data field If you can't find a date, but you can tell their living based on the dates of the relatives you could click the still living button And then add a note to the profile that says why you think they're still living and then add your source And then you'll want to Add the if there's no manager on the profile add the category wiki tree admin If there is a manager Don't add the category because the only time we need to know about these profiles is if you're going to save it And it's going to be unlisted And not adoptable. So then by putting it in that category The team can go back and review the profiles in there and decide how we want to handle those And sometimes we find a manager to add to them. So that's really cool But only do that only add the category if there's no manager already on the profile So then go ahead and save it and you're going to get a warning that says Um, this profile, who's that? That's me. Sorry It's pretty So save the profile you're going to get a warning that says if you save this it's not going to be adoptable It's going to be and it's going to be private. We'll just click save anyway Because if you put the wiki tree admin category on there, we can find it and and take care of it. So That's about it. Does anybody have any Questions That was a good overview. I didn't know what to do if we found a living person So that's good to know All of these instructions. Oh, there's molly All of these instructions are on our space page I can share that too. You guys always can go out there Where'd it go? So all of these instructions are out here There's probably there's much more than I put on the slideshow But um, here's here's kind of a I did kind of a walkthrough of what to do when you find a date Depending on if they're living or deceased or if you can't find a date how to How to estimate dates and all that so This is always here. It's a space page called wiki tree friday date night So you should be able to find that pretty quickly And if you can't Everybody knows where to find me, right? I'm always here So any if anybody has any questions There's three of us sitting here ready to answer them far away Any questions about anything Well, we already covered charlie and his button It's again When what's your favorite fruit since we're asking anything my favorite fruit I would go with strawberries Good choice, but I also really like bananas and apples Also good choices What's yours katie Probably strawberries I like strawberries I like mango. Oh, I don't like mango. You don't like mango. No. Oh, we can't Like I don't mind it if it's like if it's in a smoothie with other stuff Okay, but I don't like the taste of it just by itself Oh gosh, it's pretty cool little lime juice on it. Oh my goodness. I don't like lime juice Oh for crying out loud. We can't work together anymore All right, your fire didn't happen Strawberries dipped in peanut butter. Oh, I've never tried that But I like strawberry jam and peanut butter sandwiches What's good? Oh, we make fruit fluff Like at all of our family gatherings. Have you ever had that? I think you take a block of cream cheese and a jar of marshmallow fluff mix them together Dip strawberries grapes Whatever I refer you like That sounds good. It's delicious And it's so very healthy Oh, Kathy says she just got the notification that we're live. So maybe that's why we had an influx of viewers. Oh good Happy to see it. I wonder why it was late That's weird. Well, she's eating watermelon. That's one of my favorite fruits too Mango with habanero way to go Lynette And peanut butter and cheese sandwiches. John, I have a problem with that We need to know what kind of cheese I think add some mustard to that Bananas Peanut butter cheese and mustard sandwich Yeah Molly would eat it Betsy has some good advice for everybody. Don't forget to like the video Yay. Oh cheddar cheese and peanut butter. That is just something I would never put together But they do the crackers like you can get the cheddar cheese crackers the peanut butter in the middle like the little snack pack things Yeah, yeah, that's true I think I think at the moment it's a texture thing for me Thinking about a slice of cheddar with peanut butter Oh, emmental I like emmental cheese But I don't know with peanut butter I think you should try it and let us know Julie. No, we'll just take John's word for it I bet cream cheese and peanut butter would be delicious on a sandwich No, I don't know it tastes like cheesecake Peanut butter cheesecake if you mixed it together maybe Yeah, my husband likes peanut butter and honey Mixed together That's good. That's his favorite comfort food sandwich. Oh, look, we have we have a legit question Well, okay, so I always struggle with finding just the native wiki tree plus rosalie, so you're not alone I usually get there by going to my wiki tree and clicking on suggestions At what what do you guys do to get there? That's how I get there um, my browser bar saves it So I'll have to do a type in wiki tree and then like it shows up. So that's not very helpful I'm trying to think let me look at something here is there It's not it's not on the help menu I've I've been meaning to suggest that we put suggestions on the find menu But you can always get there by going to both Your profile id menu. It's the last selection on there Or the my wiki tree menu So either one of those will take you there and then you can kind of fudge around with getting to the Native native thing. Oh, I gotta take your comment off rosalie So they're still talking about food, aren't they? They were yeah Yeah One thing on wiki tree is you can always count on us defaulting to talking about food. It's so true. So true every time So true Kathy has a good has a good suggestion for bookmarking it somewhere Which I I also have it in my bookmarks too, but I just never I just it's quicker for me to just go to the The menu item and use that Let's see. And yes, there is an extension Lauren. Hi, Lauren. Welcome Um, show automatically if you use chrome. I have it installed as an extension. So yeah, that that's available too I don't have that installed right now. I think the last time I tried to use it a lush wasn't quite done with it So I just never added it back And what else it's very helpful That is helpful You should add it back I should I should probably do that. I just haven't Oh, and lauren is in australia too Cool You guys aren't having friday date night. You're having saturday morning Yeah, so guys anything else you want to add Or I feel like I feel like we covered stuff Yeah, I think we did it was very informative Yeah, very informative Hope it was helpful. Go look for the space page. It's always linked from the g2g post Um, so that's always helpful And ask me questions anytime Julie loves questions Oh, do I I do That sounded a little sarcastic, but I really I don't because usually I learn from them. I learned when you guys ask questions. I learned the answers If I don't already know them so And katie is a very good resource too. And so is aowyn of course We always expect aowyn to have all the answers. I have every single one of them She does and I ask her questions all day long Aowyn, where's this aowyn? What's that? It's fun It's fun we're saying that Yes, it's that wasn't sarcastic All right, you guys It's rock and roll. Let's date some profiles. You think? Yes. I have found some to work on Okay, well, we'll do another video. Oh wait. I was going to give you guys our total for the our progress total we have dated according to the statistics that are pulled from wiki tree plus For the four suggestions that we work on We have improved 27,383 of those We've added dates to that many profiles in the last nine months I think it's pretty awesome So keep going And we will see you back here In two weeks Right. Oh, Lynette has a question. You said do we have a live chat? We don't have a live chat, but we have discord Yeah, we have discord and that if you go to the wiki tree page help colon discord You will find a link on there on how to get to the server if you're not already on there and Just make sure you follow the instructions And we will get you verified and you can come join us on the friday date night discord channel Mm-hmm More you can ask more questions Well, that was it. Yeah, there we go So see y'all in two weeks. Thanks for stopping by. I love talking to you guys every other friday So We're gonna go have a good weekend Bye guys