 Thank you. Thank you for joining us. We're going to have a great, yeah great evening. We've got Irene Cornish here and she is going to be the week that kicks off tonight. I know people are anxious some of you to start and then of course Roberta Estes below me and I'll tell you what we have been having so much fun with your branches this week. There weren't enough hours in the day though. I will say that there just wasn't enough time for everything. So we're going to go over some of those finds but first I'm going to take a minute and talk about what Wickey Tree is for those of you that are just joining us. Now Wickey Tree is 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 Wickey Tree Challenge is our year-long event and part of our year of accuracy which I can't believe we are getting near the end of and that's where we take each week. We take a guest star and a team of people work on their branches and we try and make it as accurate and complete as we can and more complete hopefully than it is anywhere else. Our goal is to improve the accuracy on Wickey Tree to make more connections and to make more friends and that we definitely have. Now of course Roberta's captain Maddie Harman has been just um or sorry it isn't Maddie for her it was Laura. Laura has been very busy this week with her team and I have Maddie on the brink because we were talking just before we started about how Maddie won't be here for Irene and we have just found some amazing stuff we're hoping for Roberta and the other thing I will say that was a little bit different this week is that you know we've had a number of the guests that blog by Roberta. Your blogs are so captivating and people kept getting lost to them you know and they were like oh I was trying to do this but oh I got from busy reading that blog again they're like I don't know where to go now she put so much information in them they're just really wonderful okay and we are going to start out of course we always started the great grandparents and we work out so we're starting on the Lazarus Estis line and it was known already that Ellen Martin Estis' parents were Thomas and Wilman Martin. Now what wasn't known was what her maiden name was so research did find that it proved to be Bax and her father was Thomas Bax who was new to Roberta so that's a new line that you get to get to play in. So you're going to have all these upcoming blogs to do now you're going to have to look at all your new stuff and then of course Elizabeth Vanoie's line and they tried so hard to find things on this line but really you have that so extensively mapped out already and Elaine did though take the time to try and find the history on that cabin and you know you had done that wonderful blog about the Vanoie's and Vanoie Road and the different places you couldn't go in the Jeep and she did wind up kind of last you know right at the end of the week finally finding the prior owner which was John Henry Bailey. Now he was the last owner of the property and he died in 1996 so we're not sure who owns it modern day but a cursory look and like I said this was coming right up to the wire so this was right up before the live cast started and I got the last few notes from the team. A cursory search shows that John's maternal grandmother was Sarah Jane Vanoie. So now you have an actual Vanoie connection I'll tell you what Elaine's been working hard on on trying to find stuff for that cabin this week and I know you have the the wonderful picture that was entitled the what was it the old Vanoie cabin or whatever in one of the blogs and the workmanship looks exactly the same so that was really excited to find out you don't have to go that far back to find a Vanoie in that. I would I thought sure that thing had been long gone by now how exciting oh I can't wait to look at this more closely. Yeah that was actually posted on a real estate site so I'm gonna picture a current picture of it excuse me now we have Margaret and Clarkston's line and on that we took a look at Thomas Craighead McSpadden Jr and Dorothy Edmiston and of course they were already on your primary tree but probate was found proving that Dorothy was a daughter of Robert Edmiston whose will was probated in 1850 and it was interesting he left her five pounds of Pennsylvania money now he left five I think it was another five pounds of Virginia money to his wife and then the son got the plantation and everything else so I guess you know the men ran the roost back then and but it but she was mentioned so that proved who her her father was and Robert was part of the boarding tract of Augusta Virginia which of course you know he was one of the earliest settlers there. Now this one I I'd have to say that we had the most success of activity there was a lot of activity on different branches but some of them they just couldn't find the records out there but there was a lot of movement on the pervertal line and so we're going to start here right now with Anna Elizabeth Panbergen who has proven to be Anna Elizabeth Bamberger so really close her parents were Jan Bamberger and Maria Hansen, Germeron and I'll get a few of these wrong I know tonight so forgive me um sorry allergies there are now four new direct ancestors on that line so that was very exciting he served as a soldier under Sir Captain Johann Victor and Baron Daronow now this Baron was actually present at his marriage and the seal that you see on the lower left that was a seal that was kept from the Baron so okay that explains something because we have had this persistent story about connectivity to this royal line and I could never find that and I bet you I I that I bet that's it yeah and I know um David been looking at and to see if one of the other lines was possibly the royal line and he at the last minute said sorry I'm sorry to disappoint her but I find any royalty on this line either but yeah it might not be that they were related it could be just that they were associated and you know how stories get right you know yeah they kind of grow over the years but how exciting is that I mean and that's really that's really a cool seal when you look on his profile the picture is much clearer I love those old seals too I just love them I know the things we don't do anymore today yeah and then also on this line we had a Thomas O.S. and his father um Ayle Peters was uh recorded on his marriage record so that was just another small discovery amongst the many this week that they found on those lines now on a sad note we had Jan Ferverta whose name was Perbeda or Perberta at birth he was only three months old when his father died so and I we found several of those I think the team did during the week but in the death record they actually talked about him about his father Salomon who used to live on Pilter Street and husband of Greta Rolofs was buried in the church at Groningen I guess they didn't have a lot of money because a sheet was used for the burial it was lent to them and they didn't charge them for any use of it but that picture there is what of course the street looks like nowadays more modern picture but that's the area they actually looked up the address to find the area that he was living so that's kind of cool I've stood in that street have you yeah yeah and Salomon is my brick wall and that line oh wow and now we had told people I'm sure you probably weren't watching Saturday but um hinting to some of them that that weren't following everything in discord this week um that there we had a couple of pieces of information that proved dates and went not for us that want the usual types of information so this one I don't know if you've seen this or not but this was I thought an outstanding one that was really fun have you seen the silver spoon I've seen that spoon in person yes I have I haven't written about it but I've been there I went with a vet and she arranged the museum to get it out but she didn't tell me that in advance we had to go sit in this room and they brought me this spoon yes oh wow I know I know it's amazing that is so amazing I know isn't it beautiful it is I wish they would have done dual pictures and shown the backside where the birth date and everything was actually inscribed I have one that I can post oh that'd be really cool we were all excited about the spin that was like the neatest things oh I know I mean how exciting I was when the vet told me that I'm like no seriously yeah she goes yeah but now here was another one on that line and Garrett Pierce um the young was first married to Efka Harman's she died in 1809 at the age of 36 they had four children together now he remarried to a tringei origins um in Bard he filed for a name change so this was our second we had two pieces of unusual information not our standard fair this was actually a record where he went into the courts and applied adding the deong to the last name so and it listed the three living children at that time that he'd had with the first wife as well as their ages so that was kind of cool and all of them had that additional surname from that point forward now he married a second time of course to another to a tringei and they had no children together so he was not doing real good on the wife point side they were not they did not have a lot of longevity and so he married a third time in 1833 to tringei means ma and he had one child with her so he was actually pretty old at this point and I believe he was about 20 years older than what his wife was but he did have one child with that third wife he died five years later at the age of 64 so his youngest son was only four years old and then she removed to huse him two years later and remarried and had several children wow but that was kind of cool you know we had to ask like our Netherlands people or Dutch experts okay so what is this one because you know and what is this record I knew what the name change one was I couldn't figure out the other one that's really that name change is really unusual that's a very unusual record yeah and we've done a lot of you know the in the Netherlands the Dutch research this year off and on and that's the first one I've seen of that so I'm not sure what the story is behind that but maybe you'll find out once you do some more research on him we have Efka Hessels wife of Jan Piers who was said to have been from Britsen this was a really just last last minute in the week another discovery that was pretty cool but records show that she was 17 when her mother died her mother was already a widow and so her siblings Gertie who was 22 Dirk was only 19 and her brother Cornelis was only 13 we're all mentioned in the mother's death record in 1720 and so Efka she married Jan Piers of course five years later and had five children with him and she lived for a long time though she lived at the age of 78 so that's pretty good for that time period now on the Miller line this one we didn't the team didn't have a lot of movement on that but that's another one that you had already done some really extensive work on so they weren't wanting to focus as much on that so they could get the other lines but if you look back through those on winky tree now you'll see that I noticed several lines actually stretch back further than what you have on your primary tree now our team didn't have time to go over them there's never enough hours in the week you know and see what sources they've attached but there were several of them that stretched out further so that's just good clues for you to use well you can count on that I know she's spinning in and put that one on the list they're all on the list now this one was on Curtis Benjamin Lore's line Henry Hill of Barrington and this was just kind of interesting and then sad though and he had petitioned on the behalf of his late son Joseph's infant sons Henry Robert and John Joseph was serving in an expedition to Canada and was active in the taking of the island of St. John most likely during the seven-year war and it was very graphic it said there he was slain by a cannonball shot from the enemy which almost divided his body and so the petition was on behalf of the children who had no parents now they were all orphaned and the eventually the the case was dismissed so you know I don't know if the family members just went ahead and and raised them and didn't get any compensation or or what the remainder of that story was but that was another interesting piece of information and that's a brick wall for me too oh is it well it was it's not yeah she goes well it was but it doesn't have I know seeing you find these little things sometimes and you just look upon them and they can tell you all kinds of information now on Eleanor Kirsch Lore's line we found plenty of interesting information on Johann Leonard Dreschel born in 1758 his parents or Johann Leonard Dreschel and Anna Denner lane his grandfathers were Johann Dreschel and I don't know if that is that a form of Matthew math yeah it's generally okay and Johann and his wife Barbara had seven young children with three of them dying young um Johann and Barbara had married without ceremony after paying a fine to the court for fornication before marriage they had a child uh yeah born one month after they married so I think that was a little bit yeah especially with the catholic church yes yes definitely Johann Jacob Leonard died in 1808 age 33 this was just a string of like bad luck and you know we were already talking about all the Johans in that line but Johann Jacob died in 1808 he was only 33 years old his father was Johann but he was a Johann Peter he died age 44 leaving his widow with six young children and then his grandfather who was also a Johann Johann Peter died at age 32 leaving behind a widow with eight children so I mean he had actually started having children really young and luckily after that I believe it was about his are and he lived like well into his 70s or 80s so you know but those those three Johans in a row just did not have a whole lot of luck but you know in finding these records once again we're taking down brick walls so and we've got some really good documentation and the ones that don't get send to you I mean you'll see a lot of them that are either uploaded on the profiles or you know we've gone ahead and linked them so you can add those to your collection also name on that same line is the mother of Barbara Fisher Dreschel now her birth record listed her mother as Margarita Nicole and she was from Brunersville and so you know you can see we have the the copy of the birth record for that that was pretty exciting I love those old birth records they're just so beautiful I know aren't they and the writing in the old wills I really long as I have somebody to translate yeah we had several people that were using you know Steven's abilities this week and Irene we have a team member that really loves to do the will transcriptions for us so you know we just tag him and discord and go oh and I have a will he has a whole thing up for us on the profile and everything so that we have it but one of the things of course that we had to go over again this week and you know we've had some of our team members that have been participating all year we have a few of them that are newer and they haven't been with us that long or just joined us and so we like to do a little refresher and we came across the Dutch naming conventions again so with the Dutch ancestors the women are always identified in the documents with their maiden name they do not take home the married name of the husband which is nice because you can just track them with their with their their name throughout their life there's you know maybe a small very small time period or after they've migrated where they might take the husband's name but not generally and there are no middle names so prior to the adoption of surnames many of them use the patronymic names and they do have those search fields on the free sites that we use like the the vivas fee is a really nice site to use really easy I think and you know they have room to put whether you're using the patronymic or an actual surname and they're generally patterned though after the father's name so you know say you have a Hans for a father then your surname your patronymic name is Hansen it's not the same as what his last name was and so you know we have to go over these ourselves for people every so often so that we know our team members are naming those correctly and and we have our experts go through and try and and check this for us and make sure we're doing it right and the other thing that they often did is they named their children after the family members from both the fathers and the mother's side so first born son is named after the father's father the second son after the mother's father and then the third son after the father and they do the same thing for the daughter so it kind of helps you if you notice that they are following that pattern to fill in oh well there's probably a missing son in this you know I this should be a son number three and you know it also helps you with knowing the the father's name you know if you're Willems then his father's first name was probably Willem and it gives you something to look for so it really is helpful when you're doing the research now we use space pages on one country for a wide variety of things of course you know sometimes we're just putting long research notes if somebody has a really you know a four page will or we have a lot of land to look at there's a lot of different things we do with our space pages and one of the ones that was created this week was for records in Somerset England that use the code surname and so that was really cool because it provides clues for future research you know if you are working on that name in that location you can go now go to that page and I'm I might be mistaken I think it was Maddie that started that particular one we had several space pages created and you can see like all the baptisms during a certain time period and what the exact year was and what the parents names were so how do you find the space page well this for you will be linked on on your main space page your challenge page but the other thing that we do is say you know I'm researching so-and-so code I can put that in a link in either research notes or in the sources so you might find the link there like on several profiles where the family is using the same surname so that you can look and go oh wait now I can see you know there's uh there's where Thomas Cotes was was baptized and it saves you a little bit of work so really nice when when people can when the team members can do that and then military this is another thing we always like to take a look at just to honor those that have have been in service somewhere and you have a lot of revolutionary ancestors revert is like yes I know boy there was plenty of them so a lot of fourth and fifth most of them fifth great-grandfathers captain John Hill from New Hampshire Gideon fairs was in Virginia militia Jacob Dobkins was a private in the Virginia line during the Revolutionary War George Estes served three different times your third great grandfather Henry Frederick Colton immigrated from England and then fought with a Pennsylvania militia you had Samuel Muncie Jr. Virginia militia Joseph workman Pennsylvania militia fifth great-grandfather Nicholas Schaefer Berks County so that's Pennsylvania militia and then Gershom Hall Connecticut now war of 1812 we only had one of those marks so you may have more but that was the one that was found was your third great-grandfather Farrah Clarkson actually it was his father James Lee who was killed oh really yeah it's just we're just one generation off here it's just I'm sure it was a type of and then great-grandfather John Younger Estes served in Tennessee Cavalry and then a great great uncle Henry Claxton in the Civil War on the Union side so a lot of a lot of interesting and patriotic people there now here is where we look at our our charts that me and some of the others use to keep track of the brick wall so of course this is a nine generation fan chart for Roberta all of the yellow spaces are where we had available brick walls that we could possibly break down and so you know not only were people working towards accuracy and getting the the profiles out to those points really fully sourced and you know getting the the best information they possibly could on them they also would hit those brick wall ancestors and that's where they needed to look for them and a very diverse amount of country so that was fun I like it when it's you know just kind of a mix but this right here is showing what your wiki tree chart looks like now Roberta so you know you can see where there's still a few gaps there where we haven't quite been able to to push those lines out or we just flat right out of time but but your wiki tree branches are looking extremely full now they look really nice that's so exciting so let's go ahead and go a little bit over collaboration and stuff and then we'll look at who did the top scores for your week collaboration and collaboration is a must and we are a collaborative community anyways on wiki tree but you know we wind up with anything from 30 up to 45 50 people working on the tree during a week and so we have to kind of work together and we also have to not step on somebody else's work and maybe erase what they've done or you know um getting their way somehow with the the software so collaboration we have the spreadsheet on the left now we have a individual spreadsheet for each week and that's where people go ahead and they mark down hopefully the profile they're working on so that everybody knows where they're working they get done they erase it put the next name they want to work on and they move their self out that way start of the week's always the hardest because you know you usually have a more limited amount of profiles you can work on but as we get those branches built out the people can just spread out and go crazy now on the right hand side is the g2g forum week and um that gives a post for each of the the great grandparents now sometimes people go ahead and put what they're working on there or questions they might have but pretty much now I think they've used that just for posting if they have bounty points and for some reason we have some weeks that people use it a lot other weeks that they just don't that's just how it seems to work out and the third way is our most critical way we have live chat and you know we are a global site so we have people working on these branches around the clock there's always somebody awake somewhere and so here is where we can go in we can talk about what we're working on we can say hey can I get somebody to look at this I'm not sure if this parent is correct or this document is correct several people will stop and go oh we'll look you know we can get translations done um generally we have to post out into the g2g if we want to our forum if we want a translation here we can just go you know tag somebody and go oh I need this this marriage you know translated and one of our experts will come in and translate for us and once again this is all volunteer this is free work so it's just really impressive how people work together so well in here um sometimes we just go in there and cheer each other on you know like good job you know you found that or way to go and while it's not all about the points the point system does help us not only stay motivated but it kind of gives us a way to gauge how we're doing so far so we have two ways to get points the first way are those big ones those bounty points and you get 10 points each for the first brick wall and cluster you find on a line um anything you add after that is gravy it's nice but you don't get bounty points for it now you also get one individual point though for nuclear family so that would be siblings or children um if you go in and you break a brick wall and you add the grandparent or that you know the parent the new parents that's your 20 points and then you add the other five kids they had now you're at 25 so those points can add up pretty fast actually just kind of depending on how big the families are um and at the end of the week of course we look at these total scores we gotta give those add a boys and we have our top scoring person which is a new one this week she has not hit mbp most valuable player yet and that would be jamie errington so jamie way to go thank you jamie yeah and you know and i know and i can tell you i know at least a couple of these that were in the top five this week not only were they in the top five but i know for a fact that they work on profiles they got absolutely no points for you know but they said i don't care i needed to work on this or i wanted to add the husband and his family um you know it's just is really impressive to me and so once again jamie was first now second this is our german expert one of them and that's deeter leverans and he was in second place this week we had sharyl hess was in third margaret beers that's one of our dutch experts and greg laboy was in fifth place so way to go you guys and then i'm just gonna go ahead and pop this score sheet up so we can see what the breakdown of the point says now points yeah you you got some really really good ones i'm sure especially watching last week's um we had some challenges with the points last week but this week they were going to town so jamie our top performer was a total of 115 points but all together for our team was 490 you know and once again some of these people are working on stuff that they don't even get points for so that's pretty incredible to me and you know the teams just never cease to amaze me at how much they can do now creative ancestors is direct ancestors so that would be you know just in the direct line only in there were 25 added of course that number would have been higher you know because um there were already quite a few on revertis wiki tree tree and but our team still found people to add and then for here's a big number for those nuclear family members um the children and whatnot 345 profiles created for them we wound up with 120 mounting points so that's 12 brick wall ancestors revert i just for you you know and then additional ancestors behind some of those which is the most exciting part i think unique profiles edited there were 1,069 profiles edited and this is one week keeping in mind and then total edits now this is contribution so anytime somebody goes in and they change a date they add a source they fix a name whatever they do they get a point for it it doesn't add to the total points but they get they get their contribution numbers are raised and so once again this does not include any of the work intense work they put in on those space pages or people that did transcriptions or people that looked up articles for us or people that added the peripheral family members and still there was over 3100 contributions this week so you know that's just to me an amazing number you know if i work every day for a year i would have to make more than 10 a day to do that myself it would just not be possible i know right it's just it's incredible you know and i know a lot of people talk about um how this is a type of crowdsourcing in a way it is but you know i like to think of it as community sourcing because we get together and do it we just don't put it out there and say okay 50 people go work on this and tell me at the end of the week what you found you know we're all working together to get to this the same common goals and the collaboration and the skills and the sharing of resources is always incredible and you know and we all learned from each other so that part of it's really neat too so reverted did we at least meet your expectations oh my gosh you know i didn't have a lot of expectations because i have worked for a really long time and i'm like i would just be happy with anything somebody turned up i'm just dumbstruck at how much has been uncovered and i can hardly wait to go and look at my tree i was i behaved i didn't get notifications that things were being changed so i'm like oh i'm not gonna look i'm not gonna look but now i i can't wait to look i know and you know and i always just imagine how late people must stay up the guests on their first night they're like i'll go to no i can't go to bed yet i still gotta see what they did with this one yeah yeah and i hope you'll send me the spreadsheet so that i can see you the chat thank you yes definitely you'll get a you'll get a copy of the um the working fan chart that we had as well as the sheet with the bounty points and stuff like that i'm so excited i this has just been like christmas for me early i just i i just i'm blown away thank you so much well thank you for letting us play in your branches it has just been like i said you know it's just been so much fun and it's gonna be really hard to leave behind i know there's a few people that'll straggle after and go okay now i gotta finish this anyways because even though the week's over i know there's a lot of people really excited about iran's but um you know i'll be one of those people are like i'll be torn you know do we do this or can i go back and at least finish that profile because the week goes so fast it just goes so fast not on my end i know you you guys that have to wait you know and and irena i'll call you that to you too we always tell the guests that you'll get these notifications and stuff in your email saying like oh you need to go approve this merge for somebody and you're like oh no just leave it because the paid staff will take care of it so okay so that you don't go out and peek at your branches i guess the hardest part is the not peeking so okay especially when you're getting notifications that now yeah or whatever it's like yep all right that's good to know go back into this for just a minute and i'll look there it's iran so yay now iran says she's always been interested in her family history because of her mother she told her many fascinating stories about her family and growing up in the small town of bordentown new jersey because she was the youngest child and there was a large gap between her and the siblings many of the relatives had died before she was born so she only knew about them through her mom's stories and that's great though that you know your mom was passing down this history to you in later years she put together a family history document for iran and since her passing iran's been trying to expand that document and learn more about her family she loves researching and gets excited when she finds a new clue or can document a family story through some old newspaper clipping or a record that turns up so i'm going to go ahead and get rid of that and iran so what did you say when they called you about the hidden marriage record i think everybody knows now that that record was found in that frame for your great-grandparents well actually nobody called me i found out about it because i saw connie's message to me on another platform and she sent me a link to the facebook post so i immediately went to facebook and looked at it and honestly i was shaking as i was reading it because i knew the names i saw boredom town new jersey and trenton new jersey and i i knew immediately my god this is my great-grandparents and i was just amazed that it had survived that somebody found it it was really i was just blown away and overwhelmed by it totally overwhelmed so where it was that said of great-grandparents was that one of the ones that your mom had talked to you about like oh yes yes because that was her mom's mother and father and they all you know they knew that she knew them she grew up around them and you know they had fascinating back stories my great-grandmother came over basically as an indentured servant from ireland my great-grandfather in addition to being a machinist you know was a ventriloquist and had built his own merry-go-round so i think that's why i was always so fascinated by them is because they had such colorful stories um and so it was it was especially touching to me that it was their marriage certificate that was found right that's really great now who's the oldest relative that you actually knew personally that would be my mother's father my grandfather valentine debtor he was the only grandparent that was still alive when i was born so he's the only one i knew yeah and he also was from that boarding town new jersey area he married my dwarf grandmother so that's where they spent their years now with your experience especially with your mother handing down those stories and whatnot and you learning possibly how hard it is to find you know information on your ancestors when you didn't get to grow up around all of these people what do you find the most important to pass down to younger generations about their own family history well for me and i don't know if it resonates with other family members but i think it's important to know where you came from what the people before you went through that actually has enabled you to have the life that you have now if if those people hadn't got on boats in germany and ireland and wherever and and came here i wouldn't be here and so we study so much history in school but i really think you should study your own family history because it's very rewarding there's unique people very patriotic people very creative people that are part of your family history and i think it just enriches your life to know about that so that's i i hope to expand on my mother's document which i've already done but then formalize it and send it out to the younger generation so that at least they'll have it right and i definitely agree with that you know i get so excited when i see some of the really young people on wikitree that are just so excited about their research and they're really getting into their ancestors because they're they're you know for all those people that do that there's a lot more it seems like out there that aren't as interested in their families you know and at one point you're not going to have that good foundation if you don't talk to the people that are around now and find out what you can from the people that are living it's going to be a lot harder to try and dig through that later and really get a good grasp right right okay and then what now you got to see reberda's reveal at least everybody looks at the challenge a little bit differently what do you hope to see in participating in the wikitree challenge well the i'd like to see um my primary hope would be to learn more about my great grandmother's roots in ireland i have really hit a true brick wall about her and her sister i only know what my mother told me and you know i can i was able to document a little bit of the story but can't get any further can't ever find out for sure where in ireland she came from never have been able to find her sister on another census after 1870 it's i know the story of where she lived and her family but i've never been able to find her and document anything so that would be the first thing and then my great grandfather i know his parents his grandparents his great grandparents but i haven't formalized documenting some of those connections so to see more concrete documentation of that would be great now you have the the two aunts correct are they also tied to the the irish ancestral line um i'm sorry the two aunts yes um it's my it's my great grandmother and her sister okay those two those are the ones that are linked that i'm hoping to find out more about well hopefully we can find something for you um you know i know they're gonna deep dive into everybody that we have on your tree but it's always fun to know if there's a you know a particular branch that that somebody likes or you know some people just want more of the individual stories or they just have set things in mind that they're hoping for another kind of sad thing so there's a story the grandfather i did know always talked about a sister who at the age of two after the mother died the father gave her up and my grandfather and his one brother when they were older tried to find her and never had any love i've never even been able to find documentation of her birth let alone find out what happened to her so that would be another amazing discovery if somebody could at least find proof that she was born yeah that would be great well hopefully do you have any other interesting stories you want to share with us and that your mother had passed on well i have a fun thing that has happened as a result of all the marriage certificates so my great-grandfather in addition to being a machinist on the side he was sort of a carnival type person he was a ventriloquist he had a fire eating act and he built his own merry-go-round that he brought to local carnivals and things and people put me in touch with a website where i could look up old newspaper um archives and i have found little snippets where they talk about professor de worth and his merry-go-round so that was great oh that's awesome i knew there was a model of it that he built first that an uncle had and i was talking with a cousin and it was a convoluted story but when the one uncle died her father got it and he didn't know what to do with it so he donated it to a funeral home in new jersey but nobody could remember what one and this is back in 1983 well with help from a man at the boarding town historical society he contacted the boarding town funeral home and lo and behold they had it and it was in the basement of the funeral home still so i drove down to boarding town monday and i actually got to see the model merry-go-round that my great-grandfather built so that was wonderful and that all happened as a result of the marriage certificate being found yeah that's great well i know we do have um you know people that that specialize in finding those newspaper articles man some of them are just so good at it so that'll definitely be one thing they'll try to be staying on top of this week and um okay so do we have any questions i have missed in the audience oh i popped this up earlier melanie says pro tip turn off your email notifications i'm like a tree so you don't get tempted if you don't know how to do that let us know i'll teach you i'll make a note about that i think that one was aimed at at roberta shelly's asking how you were you behaving i was behaving but it hurt a lot but now i don't have to behave anymore i know now you get to listen to everything oh here here was that top performer she told her her husband he had to treat this entire week as one of our thongs we do our quarterly marathons where we do nothing but wiki tree and he had to leave her alone so i guess that's one of the way she got things um got so much done this week oh and charles asking do you have any pictures that we can use yes any any that are up there and i have other ones um that i could share i just i didn't know how much you wanted me to put up there yeah and actually what you can do is just go ahead and email those to your captain okay yeah and she'll make sure that people get them put out there but we do like to bling up our profiles when we can so we'd like to add the the pictures as well as you know add that personal information hopefully i could get your for all of the people that are on the tree currently so oh wow and they're free to use those i'm lucky that i had one for each of them yeah that is wonderful june says check circus world for the history of circus history okay for a good story to distract you with this week author Sharon Lee wrote some stories about america around so i think we're on a carnival theme i have a feeling we're going to see a lot about carnivals in the discord room this week and that one's linette jester and one of our team members i wonder if it's any connection to my husband's i have been working on a small family tree for him for him and his brother so well i can tell you one of the things that they are already um working on that i saw when they were talking in discord earlier Irene is you know one of the things that we like to do is it's really super easy to see how people are related so you know that's how we can look and go oh i'm 17th cousin of reberda estes and it actually will walk you through the steps of how you know you're connected so the more people on your tree the more likely you connect and you don't right now connect to the global tree um but i'm telling you by the end of this week you will so we've already got people looking at that and they know which branches they have to work on to get you connected so it's going to be really fun to see you know how many cousins you have by the end of this for the people that are working on it steven says bear boo is in my family's home county awesome i'm going to look that up as soon as i get off here okay well i think we have covered all of it yeah she says we're all pretty much guaranteed um since you weren't connected we will be connecting you and yeah we're all going to be filling up the discord room going but i'm 11th cousins but i'm tense uh uh we have a lot of fun with it okay so i think we're going to go ahead and uh one more comment here from Cheryl reberda i love reading your blogs very interesting and detail thank you so much i actually really love doing that because it brings my ancestors to life and it's my way of preserving that information for whoever comes after me in the future yeah it really is an amazing way to share those and i link them all on my rookie tree the wiki tree profile for that person so when i'm finished yes we've seen a lot of that and you know and once again our some of our team participants would get a little caught up and they're like hey i don't know what to look for now because she's got like all this stuff about them already um so i'm going to go ahead and thank challenge participants all of you team members out there you guys rock i mean every week you get in there and you do this and you face all these challenges and you research in new areas and you still always surprise us to come up with these great discoveries so thank you very much and then thank you guest for coming on i ring we're really excited to start your week uh reberda will definitely you know how to reach us if you have any questions about your goodies once you get to start looking through them it has really been an honor to go through and work on your branches it's been a lot of fun thank you so much thank you to everybody watching or he wouldn't be here of course we would just all talk in discord to each other um and for those of you that don't know you can check out more at www.wiki-tree.com don't forget to like the video go ahead and subscribe so you receive notifications and i think we're going to go ahead and say good night now all right good night thank you all bye everybody bye