 Welcome, everyone. Thank you for joining us as we go over the highlights for the Challenge Week for Indiana Genealogical Society. The WikiTree Challenge is WikiTree's largest ongoing community event where volunteers work on growing the connections for the seven ancestors provided by our guest for seven days. Now for your highlights. Okay, we are now live. Welcome to our last 2023 Facebook live event and just a little homework. I want to remind everybody that this is going to be recorded. You will be able to find it on Facebook and you will also be able to find it on our YouTube channel. So be sure to go over there to subscribe. I'll put the link in the comments in just a moment. We're very excited. Some of us have been waiting a long time for this. We wanted to find out. WikiTree had a challenge and they asked for some of our challenges and we had some people submit ancestors that they needed a little help with. And WikiTree is excited to be here. We have an experiment of mispronouncing Asia with us and she's been with WikiTree since April 2018 and she's recently became a team member last month. So we are very excited. She's going to show the results and then after we'll stick around and she will tell us a little bit about WikiTree and how you can get involved and if you're like Kay and you have a 2024 goal of being on it more, you'll want to hear this. So I don't think we have anything else. If you have any comments, please just post it in the comments and we will try to get to them. If we go over a little bit, we might have to hold off on the comments and we will answer them later. So we are going to go ahead and we're off. I'm WikiTree. All right. Well, thank you so much, John Marie. We are really excited to present our, the work that was done by all the volunteers that took part in this week long challenge. So just thought I'd start out first. This is the space page where you can find all the information that was done for your week. It starts out here at the top with the starting profiles and you can kind of get an idea of what work was done and we have a section here which we'll be going over. Tell us what you found and so you can see here all the different states in the United States that we went to and then all the different countries that the challenge took us to for the week. So part of the slideshow will also share some interesting finds, but of course there are more on the space page. So definitely take some time and check out the space page because it has a lot of great information has been shared here. There's also section on all the different military profiles that were added and you can read more about all the different service that was done by different ancestors. And there was, there is a one-place study that is associated with one of the profiles. Also we'll talk more about that later too. So I just want to go over back up here to the starting ancestor profiles that you have provided to us. And I wanted to walk you through a wikitree profile and then I'll take you through each of the profiles. So James Henry Hughes here is the first one right on across the top. We have a summary of his name and his lifespan and you can see here this little circle here showing 17 degrees. That's how far away he is from me. He's 17 degrees away from me. So that's what that number is up there showing you. And so then we have more information about him, categories that are applicable for his life. And then on the right here we have all his family relationships. And then this biography is where the profile is got basically the fleshing out all of those facts that were researched and found, those sources that were found. This is where it's all written up into the story of this ancestor's life. You can see there's also a section on research notes. We use this section to collaborate with other members on things that maybe didn't make sense or maybe there's a little conflation going on just to kind of make sure that we're getting all the facts straight for this ancestor. So that's a way to do that. And then there's the sources section down at the bottom. So you can see lots of information available for this first profile. And if there were any DNA connections, they'd be showing up here on the right hand side in this section. So once a profile is connected to the main tree on wiki tree, then the DNA connections will start appearing if there are any, there are within a close relationship to them. And they have also have taken a test. So if there are images, there's an image tab. And then we have a tab up here at the top for the tree apps. The tree apps is where you can view this ancestor's family tree. Let me go ahead and go to the fan chart real quick. There's a lot of different views. And this gives you those different views that you can check out all the different ways you can look at the look at the information, all the all the data that's available for this person. So a lot to explore, like we were talking before we got started, there is a lot to wiki tree. There's a lot you can do with it. So definitely check out some of those options for viewing the family tree or the family tree. There's also maps that you can look at. So that are in relation to this ancestor and his family. So that is James Henry Hughes. The next ancestor that was provided was Jacob Pickens. And this is his profile. So we have a whole huge section here about this ancestor in the research notes section. So we really utilize that to work through any issues or questions that arise in the research. All right. It's 15 degrees for me. It's interesting throughout the week. What's the connected to the main tree to watch how close, you know, sometimes they grow closer to you. And then sometimes you'll come on here and they'll, you'll see at the top that they're actually a relation to you. So that's really fun. William H. Stoffer is the next one. And looks like we have all the siblings and children. And again, some more research notes. So just a really actually wonderful way for you know, utilizing the profile collaborating about the ancestors is to have those good research notes. And David Armstrong was next. Another good bit of information available there. Not a lot. Not a lot. Let's see. Jesse Jasper Nakesen is next. Looks like almost all of these profiles will have research notes. So that's actually great. I love research notes. And the next one that we'll go is Stith Thompson. So this is what I was talking about. Now you can see he's a relation of mine, sixth cousin five times removed. So that's really great to see. And you can see here, he's a notable connection. This is another kind of section on profiles that will appear if they're notable. And then you can see here, he has 4,848 connections within seven degrees of him. So if you click into that, you'll you can see what it breaks down to into the different degrees. So of course, he did a degree zero. And then it tells you what the where those who those people are at the different degrees out from him. It's some really great information. It's available. And of course, a lot of different categories that would apply to Stith because of, you know, he's a notable he has a lot of different categories like University of Texas at Austin, University of California, Berkeley. So you can explore if you go into those categories, then you can see all other people that are also in that category. And this is what I was talking about. The DNA connections show up here on the right hand side. All right. And then the last profile was the one that we had added on for you all. This is a notable another notable profile, Katie Beatrice Green Hall. And so she the work was done for her and we got got her connected to the tree and learned a lot more about her. And she's the one that is best known for sponsoring legislation and leading the efforts in the US House in 1983 to make Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday a national holiday, which is of course coming up. Not too much. Is that two months from now? So that's another great profile. Okay. So next I'll take you all into the slideshow has been prepared. So you can see the results. So the closest connection between the ancestors, the seven ancestors is between Jacob Pickens and William Stofer. They are 13 degrees away from each other. So that's kind of interesting information. I always love to see where those connections start showing up. So with this, with the connection finder, all you have to do on an ancestor profile is just click on the profile ID up in the menu bar and I'll show that in a minute. And you can say the connection to me and it'll tell you whichever profile there is, as long as they're connected to the global tree, you can check your connection to anybody. And so that's what this is doing here. So 15 degrees times two. This is the next closest connections is between Stith Thompson and James Hughes. They're 15 degrees and Stith Thompson with David Armstrong. Okay. So James Hughes, this is the starting, what we started out with for his profile, 324 connections. And oh, let's see. Sorry about that. It looks like, did we start with, let me just double check something. I think it's missing a page. Okay. I'll double check to see if we started with the 323 or 324 or if we were started with zero, I just want to double check that because there's not the first slide saying what that was. I'll get back to that. So one of the tree apps that you could use on a profile, ancestor profile, is to take all the profiles within that CC7. And you can see, so all of the profiles that are connected to him within seven degrees. This is a snapshot of their migration patterns. So the blue dot is birth in the dyed place is in the blue or red. So this kind of gives you an idea of where all the different locations were that we went to with this, which is this ancestor. This all over Italy, looks like Ireland, England, Mexico, just all over. We find that so often with all these different challenges that we started in one place and we inevitably end up all over the place. So it's really wonderful opportunity to learn research techniques for different countries when we do one of these challenges. So here's a little bit closer snapshot of the United States, where all the Hughes CC7 profiles go within the US. And one of the interesting finds that we wanted to share from the Hughes line was the tragedy in Tucson. So James Hughes great granddaughter Flora was married to Jimmy Anderson. And in 1929, when Jimmy's sister Jewel was killed by an accidental gunshot wound, she was only 14 years old. So that's one of the one of the interesting finds that was found during the week. Part of the announcement for the school graduation reads, one of the one member of the graduating class, Jewel Anderson will be missing. This is the girl who just 10 days ago was accidentally killed in a shooting accident at her home. Her vacant chair will be on the platform and her diploma will be accepted posthumously to her brother. And that's the newspaper article about it there. So Dunbar School is where that's talking about. Jacob Pickens is next up on our list of ancestors that we're going to work through. And so we get 793 connections. And that grew to 1359. So that's the work that was done during the seven days by the volunteers. I love looking at the before and after. 793 to a little less than double. So that's great. And here's the maps for his CC seven. Again, all over the place. Looks like Panama and over into Eastern Europe. So really, really love to see all the different places we go. These challenges. The close up for the United States. Or North America, I should say. And then into Europe. Looks like we got Switzerland, Germany. And the interesting find for this line, the Pickens line, is Jacob's Pickens son Joseph married Nora Abraham. Her brother Enoch had a son, Clyde Rush Abraham, who spent his whole life in military service. He was appointed to West Point Military Academy in 1902 and graduated as a second lieutenant in 1906. During the Great War, Clyde served in the 81st Infantry Division in France. And in 1933, he graduated from the Army College. So by 1935 Clyde was promoted to Colonel and in 1940 to Brigadier General. He retired in 1943 and is buried at Arlington National Cemetery. So and there's a note that he served in Cuba, Hawaii, Panama and Puerto Rico, as well as all over the Continental US. Just really interesting. William Stover is the next profile. And this is where we started with him. Six connections. And we grew him up to 3,256 connections within seven degrees. So that's all that was a lot of work that was done on this profile. Lots of connections were made. Of course, this makes it so that it's really nice because people can then come to Wicked Tree and maybe find their ancestors because we've now added all of these people. So they might find their ancestor here and connect to the street right away. So really a lot of work, but a lot of fun. And here is the migration map for the profiles connected to Stover. Again, looks like Upper Canada we got and Caribbean and looks like we have some down in Indonesia. So way all over the place. Poland. And here's the close up view for the US. It's I find it really interesting how the different ancestors that we started with have definite groupings of their connections in different parts of the country. And then they followed a certain pattern. So it's just really interesting. Okay, David Armstrong is next up. And again, we started with six connections for him. Oh, I went right past it. And we got 1392 connections added for him. And look at that all over the Americas are pretty much almost covered up without migration map. And again, this all over into Japan, even just really some great information here. And here's the close up of this one down to Jamaica. Looks like and it went if you go into the tree apps and go into the wiki tree maps. There is so much information available to really delve into with all of these profiles. Definitely recommend checking that out. You can dial things in, you can zoom into the map and get some detail. So it's definitely a lot of fun to check those out. Because these are static views. Just show definitely, definitely recommend them. Okay, then the interesting find on this line inmate marriage mishap. So this is about Rosa Levina Tuttle. And you'll see on the side there we have the newspaper article sensation at Ravenna. Prominent woman marries a young man to reform him. So David's daughter, Nancy, married Orville Tuttle and he had a sister Rosa who was quite something. Rosa married for the first time at the age of 48 or 50. Her birth date is listed differently on almost every source that we found for her. So not quite sure what it what the age was, but right around there. So according to the newspaper article announcing the marriage she was quite well off and had never been married before. The man she married was quite a bit younger and someone that she met while leading prayer meetings in the prison for inmates. He had quite a criminal past in the area. The odd fact is that she died less than four months after the marriage. So it's kind of interesting what happened there we don't have, but definitely, maybe somebody can delve into it even further with only one week. Sometimes we find something and we run out of time to delve into it even further. So maybe that will trigger somebody to really take it even further and try to find out more about that. Jesse Nickison is our next one. We started with 91 connections for this profile and we grew it to 4036 connections within seven degrees. That's the thing is that this is within seven degrees of this person. So that's a lot of people. All right. And here is the snapshot of the migration pattern for this person. And here's the U.S. zoomed in for you there. Actually North America is what I shouldn't be saying because we have Canada and Mexico there. And here's Europe zoomed in for you there. Denstein. Luxembourg. Switzerland. Okay. Katie Hall is the next ancestor. And we started with zero for her. And we grew her to 223 profiles. And here's the migration map for her. All of those 203 profiles. This is where they lived and died. And Stith Thompson is the last one here. And we started with five connections for him. And we grew him. He's the biggest one at 4,741. That is a lot. The chart had to be really zoomed out. So if you go into his profile and look at the CC7 views, you can, or not CC7, but when you look at the, I'll go in and show you what that looks like. But you can change the, you can zoom in and out. So you can read the text at the top there. So you can see the detail better. And here's the migration pattern for him. He has the profiles within seven degrees. Again, just all over the place. And of course that happens. It happens more and more. The more profiles you have connected closer. So here's the U.S. are zoomed in and then Europe. And the interesting find that was found, it's a tragedy that happened. This college lad was killed when he was hit by a discus. It was kind of a freak accident that happened during track and field practice. He just got hit by a discus and died of school fracture. So that was really sad. He just was a freshman just starting out. So Julian Arendt shorts. All right. So that's the slideshow for what we, some interesting finds that we found and to give you an idea of what the work that was done. And I just want to go in here to the tree apps and show you the view. So you can see what that looks like real quick. So I think it's the, sorry about that. I just realized I was in the wrong place. Here we go. It's the sixth degree. It's called six degrees, but it actually is within seven. Let me pull up for Steph Thompson here. Just going to grab his profile ID and pop it up over into here. There we go. So you can put in any ID in there and then it's going to work behind the scenes to load up that. But I was just going to show you, you can change how this looks. There's a lot you can do with this and even print things off. So that's what I was saying. Definitely, if you're interested in wiki tree and want to learn more, there's a lot to it. One of the things I definitely recommend if you are interested in coming, building out your tree on wiki tree is to join a project. That's one of the best pieces of advice that we give to new members is find a project that you're, that you have an interest in. Maybe a country project or a functional project or a topical project like Quakers is one. So definitely recommend checking that out. You can go to up at the top here into the find menu and then you can just go find projects and you can see all the projects that are available on wiki tree. It's just a really great way to get to meet people that are in the project. They're interested in something you're also interested in and so you can kind of learn from them and tips and tricks from them. So it's a really good way to get started. So back on the space page, again, just want to point out that there are a lot more interesting finds on here to read about that were submitted by the all the different wiki trees that took part in the challenge. So recommend checking those out. All right, so that's all I have. Does anybody have any questions or want to see anything specific I can share? I actually have one. The DNA connections, do you have to upload your DNA results? Or how does that work? Yeah, so the DNA, it's not the actual raw data that gets uploaded. It's just that you took a test where you took it and if there's like your user ID or GED match, it would be the GED match ID for your test that you get when you upload a GED match. So that's all that's all it is. And then after you've entered your DNA information, then within 24 hours it populates out to your ancestor and other profile descendant ancestors and like cousins all to any profile that would have you know you could do a confirmation with the DNA confirmation with it would be showing on there. So on that profile. Yeah, there's a lot of DNA tools available on wiki tree. Mags did a wonderful presentation both this year and last year about DNA and wiki tree. So that's out on our channel if anybody's interested in that. And I will post so everyone knows I will post the link to their YouTube channel and also there on Facebook, Macedon, Instagram, Twitter, YouTube and TikTok where you can always ask questions. I do have there's a question that was just posted. How did you get their profile page displayed on the right side? Was that? Oh, how did I get the I'm sorry I didn't hear the last part of that. How did you get the profile page to display on the right side? Was that on one of the apps? Oh, yes, the the family relationships to show on the side here. Right. Sorry, I should have changed this back. We have what's called an extension, a browser extension that was done last October and was improved this October during Hacktoberfest. It was a collaborative effort between different wiki tree members that developed this wiki tree browser extension is what it's called. So it's available on I think all the browsers out there. I'm on Google Chrome. So it's in the Chrome web store for Chrome extensions. And it this browser extension, I don't know if you can see, but I have a little pinned icon for the browser extension here. And it has a lot of options to allow me to change how I interact with wiki tree and how things show up for me on wiki tree. So that's kind of what I was talking about before when different ones of you have mentioned. There is a lot to wiki tree. It's very feature rich, I would say. There's a lot to it. So that's why I was mentioning definitely join a project, work with different members that have been around for a while. They can really walk you through and share what their tips and tricks are for getting around wiki tree. Now, where do you find out where all these projects, where can you find them? Yeah, so if you go up to the menu, just right here at the top, there's these options. There's a find button up here. And if you go find and then projects, it'll take you to the help page for all our projects. And there are topical projects and for geographical, pretty much, we are actually at the beginning of the year going to be working towards having a project for every country out there. So there are already quite a few countries on here. And then we have themed projects, as you can see, military and war, medieval project, Mayflower. We have a project for one name studies and one place studies. So there's quite a few things to pick from, whatever interests you, is a great place to get started. We have functional projects like cemeterists, if you're someone who likes to go out and take pictures of headstones and share those out on Find a Grave or Billion Graves, that there's a cemetery project on wiki tree for doing that. We encourage people to upload their photos, create the profiles for those ancestors on wiki tree. And there's a DNA project. So they're like I've said, and there's lots, lots to pick from. Do you have any questions Kay or Gail? I think we lost Rhonda. Oh Gail, I think you're on mute. Yes, I was. I can't wait to get in there and look at more things. I've added a bunch of profiles, including Jacob Pickens, and then I can't wait to go look at everything that was added to his. Yeah. Yeah. That's great. I had Jesse, Jasper, or Nikosen. Oh yeah. So I have to dive into that one. That's great. I'm just looking forward to jumping in. Just like you said, it's feature rich. I can see being lost there for a few weeks, months. It definitely, yeah, it's an addiction. I like the DNA. That was the thing that caught my eye when I first started using wiki tree was being able to find an ancestor and then other descendants had posted their DNA. Yeah. Their IDs are, so you could go match, you know, to shed match or to see who you might have matches. You'll learn more. Yeah. Yeah. Everything is sort of side-noticed. At least the source and then in the research notes is that where it tells you the sources. Yeah. Yeah, the sources are, for the most part, I think they're in line citations. So there's a link at the end of the statement and then it takes you to where the source is down at the bottom. Now can anybody add a source? Yes. Okay. Yeah. The only profiles, so on the privacy tab, I'll just take you guys in there real quick. These profiles are all open, which means that anyone can view the full profile and any member who has signed the honor code can edit it. So any profile that has this green lock, which would be closer in time, maybe more recent ancestors, maybe somebody's grandfather or father, could have these other privacy settings. So public would be only the people who are on the trusted list can edit the profile, but everything's still viewable. And then private with public biography and family tree, just like it says, nobody can edit it, but who's on the profile on the trusted list. And then the public biography and family tree is available for viewing. So just dials, you can see it just kind of gets more and more private as you go up to black, which means it's unlisted. And so those would be, you know, somebody who maybe your spouse, you want to create a profile for them, and that's okay with them that you've created that profile. So, but they also don't want that information viewable. That way you have a profile for them, but it's kept private. And then you can add their ancestors. So then they can go in and see their ancestors. So it really is great how you can really dial down the privacy for all the different ancestor profiles specific to that ancestor or family member for whatever's needed. And do you have to create an account to get on to look at the stuff on the tree? No, you, I think if like if I log out, you can still view things, you just can't interact. And you can be a guest and interact a little bit, send messages and things, but if you want to do more, you just upgrade to family member. That gives you a little bit more ability to do things. And of course upgrading is free because everything at wiki tree is free. So and then the top level membership is wiki genealogist, which just means you've signed that honor code that nine point honor code that we have, you know, we collaborate is the top one there care about accuracy. We assume that mistakes are unintentional. We know misunderstandings are inevitable. We're trying to be courteous to everyone respecting the privacy, respecting copyrights, giving credit, citing sources, and keeping information as free and open as possible. So you can see all people signed signed it. So it's kind of nice there. Do you have something for somebody who's new for wiki tree on how to use it and what to Yeah. Yeah, we actually have monthly there is a Zoom meeting that goes on with Betsy Co. She hosts a new member. Cute question and answer sessions on the first Thursday and Sunday of every month. So there's one coming up this Thursday at 8pm Eastern time. And then on Sunday at 11am Eastern, she'll be doing another one. So it's a chance for new members to come on and ask some questions and get some pointers. And that's on a monthly basis. And that's out on our G2G. So I'm just going to bring up her. So this is our forum or we call it G2G. And that's just short for genealogist to genealogist forum, where we can interact with other members, ask questions and get help with things. That was one of the first things I did was ask for help with a transcription of a headstone from Japanese. I had no idea what it said. So and with it, I don't even know. I think it was the 15, 20 minutes. I had a response from somebody that knew Japanese and they were able to translate it for me and get me get me going on creating a profile for that person. So that was that really impressed me when I first came to wiki tree. So yeah, this is the monthly new member Zoom Q&A that she does. So that's out on the G2G. And the G2G can be found by going to the help menu at the top right hand corner, upper right hand corner. And it's just under forum. Another great place to find out some information is the help, which is the next item on the list on help menu. There are some really great articles that were written up by members on how to use wiki tree. And there's even new member tutorials that walk you through all the different steps of how to get started on wiki tree. A great place to start out. And when anybody first joins wiki tree, I'm sure if those of you who are members on wiki tree have experienced, we have a whole project of greeters that, you know, these are volunteer members that greet new people who come on to wiki tree. So that's what they'll do. There's a lot here. Yeah, there is a lot. So that's one of the things that they give to new members is this the new member tutorials on how to get started on wiki tree. Because there is a lot and it helps you get kind of get started. I don't see any other questions. Unless any of you ladies have other questions. We're excited to talk about how and everything you've learned. We're going to go check on our ancestors when you discovered after this and beyond to like two in the morning. Well, this was absolutely fun. We wonder what and we have a lot more to learn. And feel free to reach out to me. My wiki tree ID is Robinson dash 27225. So you just put that into the search and it'll bring up my profile and you can send me a private message or ask me any questions or actually I have I have a wiki tree email now so it's azure at wiki tree.com. We spell azure az u r e. Okay. Yeah, like the color blue. Oh, yeah. It's from the show Kojak. That's where my mom got the name. And if anyone has questions, this is going to be published on Facebook after we're done here and then it'll be on our YouTube channel which will let you guys know as soon as it's available on there. I know I'm going to have to go back and watch it again. So we can get down that information but if anyone has any questions go ahead and post below even if we're not live and we can always get back to you later or you can email. However, um, see, hey, do you have anything to add? Um, I don't think so. Um, our next Facebook live on January 9th. Is that it? I think so. Yeah. Because the second January 2nd was too close. So yeah, the night in K is going to be special guests that day. But we hope everyone has great holiday and thank you again for all of this. Everything you guys have uncovered. We're excited to explore it and those of you on watching on Facebook or watch it after, we hope you guys will explore wiki tree and like I said, they're all over social media. So be sure to go follow them because they have tons of tips and videos they share constantly. But um, I hope you guys all have a great evening. Thank you. Thank you. Bye.