 Hello, hello Everyone out there. I'm here with Kathy Nava who was the captain for mark camels week and Cheryl who was a helper and participant in his week of the wiki tree challenge So anyone even here? I know Thank you John because I was starting to think nobody showed up for us and there were a lot of wiki tree I was in there at at 10 o'clock Hi Christine glad you made it Hi, you know we haven't even really gone over who's gonna do what I want to go over the Top five of the survey though and I think Cheryl's gonna do a couple of stats And then Kathy's still got all kinds of stuff to pick from so Cheryl says no, I'm not I can't bring them up I'm having oh well. Maybe Kathy will if not I will We're disorganized as what we're telling you, but we're having fun being Relaxed yeah, we're having fun being relaxed just like we had a lot of fun with the week discovering mark camels ancestors and I'll tell you what everybody had so much foam of the research that we didn't have the usual amount of Star Wars memes that we should have had or Voices of the Joker there were a few jokes in there But people really were really involved with the research and it was fun to watch everybody collaborating So Kathy, how do you think that we went? I? Think we did awesome I Think we had the highest number of participants on the score sheet that at least I've seen While participating in these the number of edits was insane I One I felt honored that you asked me to be captain just because I'm a huge You know Star Wars, but I don't have all the memorabilia and stuff my youngest daughter has quite a bit though I just love watching the movies and Growing up on Star Wars So but I think we did it awesome job and there were people I Had fun watching the top Ten change a little bit and then it seemed to be the top five kept changing for a while until Martha just ran with it and blew everyone else away there at the end I know Martha did so much incredible work this week But so did a lot of other people and I think we did for points We only had two weeks that That beat out this week for the whole year and that would be Elon Musk's week And then all of our wakeman, of course, he has a huge fan base, too You know of wiki-triers and other researchers So but as far as edits, I think that that I can look but I think Nope, it's the incident Third, let me look again. What was our total edits for this week? I don't have that showing Um No 5720 edits, so yeah, that was the highest amount of edits that we've done all year long Crazy crazy amount and so many and people involved there, too. Oh Tommy you can't miss us. You're supposed to like have your alarm set for it So Cheryl, how did you think the week went I thought it went great it was a very interesting week to be participating in Was my first week that I experienced being cut My branch it my branch was cut off and there would have been a lot more edits if it hadn't been Yeah, and I was hoping you would want to share with people a little bit that didn't participate and so they don't know Why that happened? I mean, how does that happen where you have a bunch of points and all of a sudden you get up and they're gone. Oh Wow, I was up in 13th place and I was really excited because Usually I spend my time doing a Biographies because I love doing biographies. So I'm kind of a background person and I let the other people do sourcing although I love sourcing profiles But during the challenges, I let the the other people do the sourcing And I like to go in there and clean up the profiles But this week I actually got in there and I was sourcing the profiles and was in 13th place And I woke up in the morning and I saw I had zero points and I thought what the heck is going on So I told Mindy. I said Mindy. I went to from 13th place to zero And we started looking and all of a sudden we found the there was a Wrong father, I think it was in the the tree and somebody found the actual correct father and because of that My branch got cut and every all the work that I had done is Out there some floating in wiki tree land And you know, it's important to say that all of Cheryl's research was really sound It's not that there was anything wrong with her research It's that you know, sometimes we get to looking and we add somebody at you know We say oh Elizabeth is the daughter of Mark and then we add her spouse and her kids her speculative parents And once we start all looking at it and we find out that oh wait a minute this daughter to this father his daughter married somebody completely different then we have to detach those but Cheryl just happened to have had somebody else's work detached right below her So all of her branches went away not just like part of her branches all the branches. She worked on Went away and it's still really great though because like she said it's floating out there around the tree in a little floating leaves and Somebody's gonna come along one day looking for that particular Elizabeth and get really excited Because it already has several generations attached and they're all fully sourced and it's great and you know adding those Speculative answer ancestors is so important because we need places to put the research notes And you know we need to have the the profile where you can go Hey, can somebody else come in and take a look at this? I'm not sure and they can come in and look at the sources and look at the relationship and then determine if it's correct Or you know if it isn't What's so interesting about that I found is that everything matched The father match the the city matched the mother matched the this everything matched and For these people that are so great at doing The research and actually finding a correct father when everything put together like a finite puzzle That I thought was right and somebody ahead of me who had worked ahead of me found that that was wrong And there were two people in the same city and everything that worked didn't work That's amazing to me. It's amazing Yeah Whoever ruined my week You did a fabulous job And we did have a lot of those common names though, you know, and of course you're gonna have that in anybody's branches And you start looking at it and you're like, oh wait a minute All of a sudden you're like, I don't think she married this guy So yeah, and we wind up getting we call it we get the chainsaw out is what we say So a lot of chatter goes around in discord Yeah, Steven says good job and all was not lost. So yeah, Cheryl lost her points It does take them away when we have to detach people But it was for a worthy cause it allowed us to fully research and make sure we get it, you know accurate That's what we want. We want everything to be accurate and once again She's gonna make some future wiki tree are really really happy when they stumble on those those branches that she built up Because those are all correctly attached So in the future if it happens to you don't get upset About it. Just smile and know that Eventually all of that hard work Is going to make somebody very very happy Yes And I know I don't Go ahead Kathy. Oh, I was going to say yeah dawn said he connected his swedish ancestors And We did have just some really amazing growth in those swedish lines. It was just incredible how far they went back on there Really fun to watch and you know, I know Marta. I know donald There were a few people working on those lines and when you look at the oh, I was going to show this anyways Let me full screen this when you look at the branches of Why does it not tell me she's screen-share maybe I won't be able to When you look at the The branches that have expanded those swedish lines are just solid I mean it takes up like one fourth of mark's trees and really really solid and so there was just a lot of great Great work done on those Why is it not going to let me screen-share? So why don't you go ahead? What who was your favorite profile of the week this week? The one that got disconnected Besides the one that got disconnected The guy that was in jail and and left the message saying not to connect or contact him for two years But I thought Yeah, I thought that was really awesome too and you know, I kind of wondered about it though because You know, you're kind of wondering is the guy really just being honest and saying I'm just going to put it out there Don't go to my house. I won't be there for two years while I'm in jail or was he kind of wondering Hmm if I tell people this I wonder how many will come visit me While I'm in there without me having to ask You know, I put it out to all those friends. They're going to be like, oh, no, I need to go talk to him and see what's going on but okay, I'm going to go ahead and share this real quick and At the end of the week and so you can see That, you know, a lot of his ancestors were filled in but that purplish section you see here is his sweden part And it just a huge massive line and it goes way back It goes way back there. So Really really great job on those speculative ancestors somebody has a civil war pension file with a common name Oh and no connection yet And I love those pension files because sometimes they have so much information in them Kathy, who is your favorite? Oh yours was the guy with the thing, huh? Um, the one that I found that his paternal great-grandmother's first cousin John Haggart Had operated a grocery store for 30 years while his wife Rose Stolberg was the postmaster for 30 years in marvelhead, Illinois. I I just A female that was a postmaster for 30 years. I mean it was there no one else to do the job or Was it just that his house was really set up for it already? So they went well go ahead I mean, yeah, they didn't give women important roles like that Back then Yeah, so I I thought it was really interesting just to have a female postmaster, you know back Back then Okay, I'm gonna go ahead and show This seven degree chart and that would be all of the people that were put on his branches Which is incredible and there's 1541 connections There's a few that don't show up on here because you know, we do want to protect the privacy of any recent ancestors um John says reminds me of a postman Pat Patriot, maybe the children's tv series the postmistress was a woman Oh, Christina had a great grandmother that was a postmaster. See you're all gonna make a liar out of me They're like, oh no, there were tens midi. You just don't have it in your family. That's right Okay, and this one here This is for Christopher frick And you know, he was an american sports writer and baseball executive, which was really cool And um, he married in colorado. So this was part of the us ones and his claim to fame was He was the public relations director of baseball's national league in 1934 and then the nationally So he also was instrumental in founding the baseball whole of fame in the late 1930s You know, which eased tensions During the racial integration and the major major leagues and I mean really these are you know, do you think you like sport you guys? I'd say Let's say he was really into sports there and then another one that was found quite interesting was Hiram hall and he was on a several things, but yeah, he was the one That said the friends and cousins, please don't visit me for two years Because i'm in prison and I don't know kathy. Did you figure out what he was in jail for because I didn't have a chance to follow up on that No, I Didn't follow up. I should have but I didn't yeah I just thought it was interesting though, too And then the other interesting fact about him was that he wrote about His war of 1812 service and it survives in his pension file His daughter martha had written a letter in that file and she said Father was called the handsomest man that walked the streets of old bennington So and there's a couple of them in this family family lines that have that claim to being handsome So I thought that was very interesting And he was a harness maker so even his occupation was unique And then we have dr. Omar Burton pan coast In his obituary it said he was a professor of surgery at john hopkins And he was the one that invented an operating trunk for when operating rooms were unavailable So, you know, he made this portable Supplies this trunk of portable supplies so that they could do the surgery Where wherever they had room or where the patient was and then For poor miss and mary ross you can see on the right exactly what she was known for And we're not really sure why she was unplugging the heater while she was in the bathtub But you know nowadays they all come with warnings for stuff like that like please do not use your blow dryer in the shower I mean they have they have warning notices for everything, but this unfortunate unfortunate woman Did not know and she did electrocute herself And so you know those warnings are for a reason And sometimes, you know, that's the only reason that we really hear more about them as if something really tragic like that happens And then we have hakan larson ripe And He was born in sweden and he was the oldest one on the sweden line It actually was when sweden was still dead mark for that area and he was born in 1475 So where we were showing you those purple lines, you know, that whole section of his tree Some of those lines go back to the pre 1500 era, which to me is just incredible And then the last one i'm going to do is mom's nielson And he was the fifth great-grandfather of mark And also his sixth great-grandfather was olaf johnson And i can't say the word but it comes from the swedish roostar meaning to armor equip And what they did is this was, you know, a wealthy farm owner or landowner and instead of paying taxes to the crown They supported a cavalry soldier So they supported the the soldier and you know the horse that he needed to ride on And they figured that was equal to what, you know, it would be if you were paying taxes So those were just a lot of fun john said the pat was short for patrick clifton Okay, thank you I wasn't quite sure what the um the abbreviation on that was And then we have donald here who says, you know, I like the guy named johnson who changed his name to conrad because there were too Many johnsons in his town And we kind of had a good laugh when we did our wrap-up in zoom for that because uh the marta we've been talking about so much Our surname is johnson and so Yeah, that is a very very common one So did we have any questions from the audience? No personal questions, please Oh Come on charol. No Not answering them today Kathy, do you have the um score page where you can tell us who the top people were? Yeah, you want the top five? sure Okay In fifth, I'm going to start at five and work up and you'll see what the big difference is drum roll Donna bowman had 130 points Don Lindgren who's here had a hundred thirty three Homer a hundred sixty three then erin brian 222 and then marta johnson three hundred and fourteen And number one so yeah Huge Points for that And we did have a tie for top bounty though and that would be donna bowman who is one of our other challenge captains And then homer thiel who is um incredibly good at fighting these newspaper articles And so we had two that tied for top bounty hunter yes Kathy was in the top what? Kathy you were in top what 13 10 11 um i was top 10 for a while and then At the end there You get asked to No, I ended up in 11 Yeah, she's she's less than 10 points behind karen low. So karen Yeah, I was minus 13 this week I was my usual. I was zero. Let's see. How many edits did I have though? I had 65 edits. So Way to go But with everything you're doing doing during the week, I'm surprised you're even in there I know I sneak in once in a while and fix something The the commander in chief is number 46 the last place on the score sheet with one edit But every edit counts, you know every edit counts Just like when we do our thongs, you know every profile that we can get out there that is good You know, we do want to see sources on them But every profile we get added that is sourced is you know better for the tree So even if you only have time during the week to spend, you know, say an hour All week long then even that hour is appreciated Yes and Someone had just mentioned in discord that they didn't sign up for the week yet They were still showing up on the the score sheet um So i'm like you're on the score sheet Yeah, and and we've kind of talked about this a little bit in our zoom chats and we do two zoom chats if you don't know We do one at the start of each week and there's actually two that day There's one at noon on eastern and then I do want to 8 p.m Eastern And then we do one at the end of the week too for a wrap up so we can kind of talk to each other but You know the reason that some people show up anyways is because we changed it a little bit this year with registration So if you've signed up for any prior week this year And you go out and participate without registering you'll still be on the The score sheet the difference is you probably won't get the emails because we make the email list up out of the people that have registered So, you know, those people are getting a daily update on You know what's going on or like when the brick wall bounty ancestors come out You know those are sent out to the people on the email list and you miss out on those things if you don't register But you can still participate and you will still show up on the score sheet if you've participated before this We had a lot of participants this week We did I know it was starting to look like we were going to hit the 50 mark. We got 46 We just needed four more people to come in there and pop in one edit four people made one edit and showed up on the Score sheet we would have hit 50 So we should make that a challenge for the upcoming week We are going to have roger federer and you know, of course famous for tennis And if you have participated at all this year Once the week starts on thursday at noon eastern time Then you know go in there and let's see how many people we can get on the score sheet See if we can top this week Postman pat had a black and white cat That's not sure when you remember john I'm used to john replying to me Face to face. I know I know Um, I will say real quick that kevin bacon's week. Oh, sharyl. You were captain that week was our highest participant participation week And that was 80 people Which is crazy We have some we have some awesome awesome, um captains here. We really do awesome awesome Kevin the first one that we went over to just doing the the working on the tree without being a live guest um I know Elon musk was Oh, okay. Yeah, elon musk was the week before him and he was our first nine let Uh non-live, you know a focus we featured him instead of him being an actual guest But kevin was the first week that we started going out to the seventh degree Because before that we were only doing direct line ancestors And so there weren't as many possible points available And now we can either do the direct line or you can work sideways out to the seventh degree So it gives us a lot of profiles that we can create And I promised I'd dance to cut loose if we got that many Oh kathy we have witnesses You got to promise stuff kathy She says oh no, I don't have anything I can promise Well, if you haven't looked in the highlights in the g2g yet Um, of course, you'll see that wonderful fan chart that we have that shows his lines But it also shows you how far some of these went back now You know, we we talked a lot about the swedish profiles, but the england lines were really worked on as well It's just that they weren't as full when we got done as the swedish lines But those actually some of them reached really far back also to pre 1500s And the oldest one we have in the england line was ralde dolpheas lift coats and he was born about 10 30 Wow, and that would be 1,030. That does not mean 10 30 in the morning He was he was way back there the swedish lines. Of course. We talked about it Was when it was still considered dead mark back to 1475 We had uh Some of swedish lines on his mother's side that went back as far as 1663 or earlier Also on his mother. We had just a small just a smidgen of canadian and holy roman empire, which is now canada and um We had some ancestors that were part of the swiss lines So all together people added 1,255 family members. Um once again just crazy crazy incredible numbers but um, oh John says sorry he would have answered quicker, but His mom needed help We had a crazy amount of profiles added. It was just really fun to watch all the collaboration. I think Including the removal sorry, Cheryl Everybody collaborated nicely It's always fun to watch uh discord and how everybody works together Yeah, and you definitely don't have to be part of the challenge to um hop in there You just have to be in the wiki tree server So, you know anybody can stop in and go great job everyone or just hi how's it going Or just even peek in there and read and kind of see what people are talking about Um, you know, I can tell you these challenges are pretty addictive once you start doing them, right ladies Right. Yeah, it's really hard to to stop Definitely is When you start working on it you get and you learn a lot too. I think we're doing the challenges Especially in other in other areas um But I have noticed like when we have English ancestors and we get some members from the england project going discord is Running practically 24 or 7 in the guest Challenge and when we don't have english profiles. It kind of gets a little quiet there for a few hours Yeah, it kind of really depends on what countries we're working on because you know, some of those are are busier than others as far as uh, you know, not Not that people aren't working on the profiles for other countries, but not everybody is a chatty person in discord And you know, when we get going with a country that they like to get in there and chat with us And it's really a lot of fun Stephen says he just wishes he had a bigger screen to work on He would like my setup. Stephen you go. He does those well transcriptions And so he probably wants to really be able to zoom in and make those big And I'll tell you what when I do my um, my portuguese ones It's awesome because I can put one of my screens for just that the you know the register And then a different screen for my transcription or translation of it. So it really helps out a lot Yes, having two screens is wonderful But Mindy Mindy has three I have three and I have room to put my laptop which I used to keep my laptop up too But um, I kind of like having that as my coffee space coffee and snacks So and I don't really need four at a time since I can split screens for these big ones But yeah, I like having all the different screens I want to say conny knocks from genealogy tv has four screens She has like two kind of in the front and two up a little higher. I'm like, whoa I don't know if I could work with four You guys Look There were several people though that took source of thon pictures last year Um that had multiple monitor setup and I did put some of those in the intro for this year source thon you know, so Remember if you're participating in this kind of stuff, uh, you know Take a picture of what your setup is or have somebody take a picture of you with your setup And you know, maybe in one of the future intros your picture will wind up in there It's fun to see what everybody works on and you know for those of you that though that work off of just a smartphone I mean my hat's off to you because I couldn't do it I need to have my mouse and I want my you know, big screens That's a good idea, steven. Yeah Yeah, I I think I need to Do that all I have is my laptop at home and then when I go to the family history center, I have Two monitors, so I'm a little spoiled there Yeah, that makes it nicer Well, it makes it nicer for the rest of us though, too. Kathy because you find a lot of records for us. So We appreciate it We sure do Kathy I try and I enjoy it so I wish I had one close to me Yeah, I'm like why try to get the library being affiliate when The family history center is closer to me than the library. So Yeah Yeah, for us, I don't have a really close one The closest library to me is not an affiliate Actually, the first few closest libraries are none of them are affiliates And so I have to go into a larger town To use a affiliate library and it's kind of a pain to get into And I know, you know, some people say just hook your computer up and then it'll stay online for a couple hours and drive home, but That's a lot of driving just to just to get online with them Yeah Steven says always fun to find records and documents to read them without transcriptions I don't think steven liked the one will that I gave him that was old english I Was sad that that um was it and that found that pension file that really really big pension file um I was I was sad that that wasn't found before the weekend Because that would have made an awesome space page and it was like 81 pages or 61 pages something like that It was incredibly big and those are just so much fun to find and you know Especially if you want to get the different letters from the family members and what not then Um, you know, it's fun to go and flesh that person's history out How is my wi-fi? Um, they have not fixed by My internet yet john Um, this is the hotspot on my phone which is through a different company and so it's working rather well Uh, the one that i'm supposed to be using is not that great yet. So I'm hoping they'll get a fix put in for that Now is steven's response and to john I don't know steven. What are you referencing? We're waiting to see steven's not gonna answer He's like i'm not explaining if you didn't get the joke right I was thinking joke john is kind of walk walking a tight wire with that question there Yeah He says yeah, you have all the monitors, but can you use your internet? Mindy? No, so it doesn't help you Oh, can they put it again and say the will Oh, okay Yeah, I had a Will that needed some transcription and he did a great job on What steven's the best when it comes to transcriptions Can't beat him and we did get sidetracked the other day talking a little bit about um the Extension and you know, I know that was pointed out to me that that isn't exactly have anything to do the challenge But actually it really does in my mind because there are so many of us right now that use the various You know browser extensions to help us get these profiles done And you know take some of the tedious workout for us so that we can do the fun part where we just You know untangle the family Lines or you know, we get to add people and finding people and the tedious stuff is really just click click and it's done So once they get all of these if you don't know You know we're in the middle of Hacktoberfest month where the coders all get together and collaborate on one big project And so what they're doing is they're taking all of those fun extensions that we have now are so spoiled Like a tree for our tools and toys that we have They're taking all of those and rolling Almost all of them into one big extension. So you'll just have one extension that updates every month Um, you know, it'll be some of them will be easier to find because they were around already but people didn't necessarily know about them and Um Steven's pointing out like the auto bio button, you know, there's a lot of people that do that now to add a stub bio So, you know, if you haven't seen yet what they're doing with this big extension Then you can look in our g2g forum or you know, you can get in on the The thursday livecast that we do for it where you know, we talk about what the changes are this week And then, you know, I'm sure there will be some new instructions and new tutorials out for people Um, I think a lot of bind will have to be redone now because they're all set for the extensions how they are now And you know, now they're all being rolled into this bigger one But it really does help us like I said, you know, we get to do the the fun part and focus on the fun part of Doing this challenge So Kathy can share a both of you I mean, you guys have been doing this for a long time with me now Not necessarily as captains, but as researchers during the lucky tree challenge What do you like the most about the challenge your challenge experience? for me, it's the learning of the different Countries and you know, how they have their records And how to research and the collaboration and discord If you're not sure about something you just put it in there. Hey, I need a second set of eyes on on this What do you think of this? You know, and and people are there to help you Yeah, and usually just really really friendly and nice about it So charo, what would be your favorite part? I think my favorite part is in discord where If you ask questions in the g2g You might get an answer But the answer isn't as clear as it is when you ask a question in discord In discord when you ask a question, you have the opportunity to immediately Say, you know, I really don't understand that Can you be more specific? and so I have I have learned more During these challenges than I have anywhere else on wiki tree More about sourcing How to set up my profiles how to collaborate Using the autobio All those little extra things that you just don't find Anywhere else on wiki tree I guess you could find them, but you have to really search But on discord people will tell you, you know, have you have you used the autobio or Each challenge is different because you give us a set of records where we can find like the german different german links different dutch links things that Are really very helpful And I I think those are the For me the most important things that I've learned And the most helpful to make me a better sourcer or In a wiki tree or Yeah, and all good points, you know, and for that I mean for like the live conversation that you're talking about and it's not voice chat You know, it's text chat where you're typing But you know, if you go out and you post on our forum I mean we have a ton of helpful people that are always looking at the forum to answer questions But it's exactly that it's a forum So, you know, if it's late at night and you get out on the forum and go Hey, I need somebody to look at this record and I think it's for this person. What do you think? You know, it may not be till the next day and then you get a comment You know instead of like what you're talking about where you can go into discord There's almost always somebody in there and you can have an actual conversation back and forth, you know Or they may want to ask questions really before they can give you a good answer You know, and then also where you were saying About the sources and I love that part too Where you know, we are always learning from each other I learned new stuff that can be done on wiki tree or that can be done in genealogy research all the time And I love having somebody pop in and go. Oh, have you tried looking at this set of records and you're like I've never even heard of that set of records. No, let me bookmark that And then I'll go check it out. You know, we all we all learn from each other And I think the other thing that is really very cool about working in discord is the fact that While I might have um A subscription to a certain Like ancestry or something somebody else might have a subscription to newspaper.com Somebody else has a subscription to another source and when you get everybody together if you don't have um a source To go to somebody else does and they're so willing All you have to do is go in there and say hey, I'm looking for an obituary for so-and-so Man, they jump on it and they've got it for you And then you have steven who's so great at transcribing wills All you gotta do is say steven. I need this will transcribe. I mean everybody is good at something And they're all willing to work with you and you don't find that. I don't care what site you go to Yeah, don't find that anywhere, but on wiki tree. Yeah, we are definitely, you know, we're all about collaboration And just everything we do it's a free site and we all work together You know there and there I know there are some people that prefer to stay off on their own and be a little bit quieter Um, you know, but they're always going to have some interaction with somebody And really to me, you know the more I interact with people on wiki tree I think the better my research is because it's more informed and You know the more resources are used and it's just an all in all better experience for me anyways And in discord, I'll say one thing else one more thing. You don't really have to Be active in discord to learn You can go to discord and see questions other people have asked And learn from what other people have have asked On discord and learn just from from that and I have I have done that And it's a blessing blessing to people on wiki tree to have discord no matter If you're in a challenge or if you're in the england project Whatever project you're in You need to Appalachia And Kathy comes in and goes quit posting everyone. I now have 153 comments before I can Say anything This morning I was jumping in post something more This morning I woke up and I looked and I was scrolling in appellation. I think it said over 300 Oh my goodness during the time that I was asleep because it counts Like each post somebody Does so somebody comments and hits enter and then they comment again and hits enter Even though their posts may be you know this long on discord They could have typed four or five six different sentences and so that Yeah, and you know and not all projects are like that That just happens to be a particularly busy one and it's busy pretty much round the clock And you know and then the other nice thing is you don't have to get notifications at all You know like what Kathy's talking about is you just wait till you get ready and you go in and then you can see How many comments are there? Not everybody reads through them all when they get to the room But you know if you're trying to make sure you are staying in touch with what everybody else is doing And sometimes it's a lot to read when you first get in and in the morning Get your coffee park review and start scrolling Is that because it's fairly new Mindy or You mean the popularity or the chat The chat The amount the sheer amount of comments Part of the reason is because most of the projects we stay pretty much on we try and stay on track With conversations. So you know where we might make an occasional brief joke in discord in the challenge room The rest of it is all research And um, it's really easy. There's just so many people with different backgrounds And the Appalachia project one of the other things is it's a culture. It's not just a location And so, you know people like to share their Views or their background their history with the different parts of the culture. And so we get into anything from, you know What type of Maybe do you put on your biscuits to? You know, who knows where to find this cemetery record in Burial record in such and such tennessee You know, there's just a lot that gets talked about and it just happens to be you know People that are really sharing people and I know we do have some project members that don't come into the chat Probably for that reason or you know, some of them just can't run discord on their computers But the ones that we do have are just very very chatty Yeah, I I have never lived in what's considered Appalachia And so by me being in there and them talking about food and all this other stuff I'm learning part of the culture And I do have direct ancestors that were born in a county that qualifies as that and so It's an insight in for me into you know, my direct Biological ancestors so even being part of a project In learning stuff like that is helpful for me Yeah And I think you know when you are learning the background and the history and the culture of a set of people Um, you know of a family it helps you bring that person to life better You know, because you better understand how they may have viewed the world around them And you know, that's what we want to do is we want to bring these people back to life and document them fully for future people so I think do we have any last minute more questions because my winds really starting to howl out there So I don't want to I don't want to lose my internet before we can close this out Don't forget to um, oh and made it just as we're leaving. That's a bummer and Um, you know, don't forget to like the video about the video and you know as well as the highlights post and the g2g forum And join us back here on thursday when we start roger fetters Week and that should be interesting um, switzerland and south african records and you know, so Areas that we've visited in the past will get another chance to work in those areas on records and of course the awesome wiki tree Oh Awesome wiki tree collaboration and says seems my usual lately sigh She is just one of the busiest people I've ever seen and she works way too many hours We appreciate every little bit that you know, she can give us During the challenges So, you know, just like we were talking about before if you can only show up for an hour one day You know, we even love that kind of help so Yes So I guess we will wrap it up Kathy you did just such an amazing job of keeping everybody updated and interested and informed Over the week and keeping your team motivated. So, you know, everybody give a big hand to Kathy She did an awesome job And um, you know, I liked your daily messages. Kathy. Thank you. I I tried and I know sometimes the challenges Some people may take it serious as a competition type thing. So I Figured I kind of like try and lighten it up a little bit. So very nice. Yeah, it was a lot of fun Tommy's asking if roger will be connected to the main tree before the start on thursday Is he not connected right now roger's tree is how it will be when we start on thursday So he does have his first great grandparents on it I believe there's one or two lines that it has been pointed out some of the lines that he will connect to are already on wiki tree We don't want to work on those before the challenge week starts, of course And we don't want to add to the greats before, you know as the before the challenge week starts So I think a couple of lines we're going to wind up, you know, we'll probably get them connected to the global tree pretty quickly Um, but you know, we just don't want to make those connections until We get the challenge week started So I think yep, we will wrap that up and thank you all for coming and watching like the video. See you next week