 So thank you for it. Wow. Is that a short? A short intro, yes. Did it play? I played it for a few seconds. Are we live? I think we're live. What? We're live. Hey, good morning everybody. I'm obviously in the back of a van. I'm camping out in the wilds of Ontario right now and okay now go guys say that all again Megs you're muted now Megs you're muted hello can't hear you start again Megs you're muted now you're now you're unmuted now you're muted oh I'm just gonna sit I'm just gonna sit here and you guys just do this can you hear me oh okay hey everybody it's it's Saturday I am out in the wilds of Canada camping oh and I'm so laggy oh my gosh so I don't really I really should not run anything today so Greg you're in charge so I'm like camping I was connected to the car and had the car running to get the computer on but anyway so I'm camping welcome to WikiTree I'm just gonna straight go straight into the question of the week that way I won't talk over anybody and I know that you'll understand me and then I can just not I won't you know it's just one of those days um so I need to do stuff from my laptop which means I need to present it's one of those days share screen here we go oh that's just taking forever oh my goodness this is so bad here we go who doggy can you see it now nope can you see my screen nope nope okay Greg you're in charge take it I'm just gonna sit there we go now it's there now it's starting to load okay wow okay so the question of the week is how did you catch the genealogy bug and I don't often talk about the the comment sections because we're looking for answers because we want people to upvote things but there was a good answer here about I spent my youth attending two family reunions each year one of which is still being held after 120 years but I was a kid passage of time when I retired my mother turned her genealogy over to me and I love this because we've been discussing that here I'm at a family camp out our family camps out together every year heaven help us but we do but when when I retired my mother turned her genealogy over to me saying I needed it to keep my brain from atrophying you know people do crosswords or they they work seducu or seducus or whatever to try and keep their mind sharp or genealogy in in Kathy Lynn's family that was what her mother said so her mother said you want to keep your brain sharp you do genealogy and said it's your turn now that you retired so I love that comment what should be an answer that could be upvoted big time that's great and Michael Taylor also gave us a best answer to our questions of the week which I really like this one this was Nancy Wilson's post and she says I caught the genealogy bug as a part of honoring my parents after they passed I inherited a family history book written in 1950 and a typed letter from the 1950s both documenting different branches of my father's family I painstakingly put them on family search in 2012 and then forgot about them then in early January 2020 I found a printed copy of my tree while cleaning out a closet and looked for what was new in online genealogy and found wiki tree this time with the beginning of the pandemic and got me hooked I do at least one thing on wiki tree every day but now I'm busier with other activities and wiki tree helped me get through the isolation during the pandemic so we've got two things there the first one is is we think about technology and how things have progressed in the wider world we think about that but think about also the fact that in the past 15 20 years genealogy has gone from having to be those drives the snail mail letters sent out to people you know go to the courthouse look up these documentation to being a very very highly technical field so she's acknowledging that but she's also acknowledging that whole thing that we had to go through for a couple of years that whole pandemic thing and how wiki tree people turned to wiki tree because they needed something to keep their minds fresh so here we are we're segueing from one person getting their genealogy bug because their mom said you need to keep your brain sharp into another person who needed something to do to keep them from going stir crazy during the pandemic so that's a good one um let's see i have them all bookmarked here um let's see this one is from dc mccount or is that is it this one this is it um christina adams i had uh maternal on a paternal on ants who were interested in genealogy so lots of research done in the old way of plowing through paper records micro fish uh and talking to the older ants i inherited it all all my grandparents and all but one grandfather were living when i was young talking those stories but those those two things got her hooked and then she married and adams and her adams husband told her that she was related he was related to george washington and how could she not do anything but start checking out those two names washington's and adams and his john ams was on the fortune right after the mayflower and his washington connection is through george's wife so that's fun and we're always talking about those connections on wiki tree and in here christina is talking about having to make those connections for her husband's family so that was a cool thing to do for her i'm going to jump over to the next page rod corkham let's see peter roman oh this is a fun one peter you have to switch you have to switch tabs there mags oh there we go uh peter roman uh started with an excel template okay i'm just gonna i'm just gonna leave it at that and i'm gonna scroll down here and hope i don't lag so much look at this oh my goodness wow holy spreadsheet man right exactly yeah you have to really blow it up but he says okay so he says that um where is it he says this he says that he he keeps it in excel but in in my heritage family tree builder and the spreadsheet keeps me focused on who still needs work now last week we talked about right here right here in the livecast about how greg's fan chart if you need to see a visual idea of who you need to work on greg's fan chart shows you those gaps so easily in there and what we have lots of other tools batsy i'm sure you have probably have some that you could think of where we can actually go through and help you find those gaps in your trees so that you can do some more of those those little bits of work that's it do you do you have anything off the top of your head that you can think of people that might use a tool to to find gaps where they need to do work well i'm just thinking questions yeah the yeah and the connection finder yeah and you go through and you'll see your your watch list but with the brick wall either pink or blue depending on whether it's a mother or father or both that are missing that's that's a first go to so rod i have a i have a challenge to you and i also know that you're corkham that you're uh you have a name that's associated with chris witton's family so i'm assuming you have the the brain um i have a challenge for you rod take a wiki tree tool that can help you identify those places where you have holes and add that to your spreadsheet and then have your spreadsheet link directly to wiki tree to find that information for you there's your keep working on that spreadsheet your spreadsheet's beautiful but see if you can incorporate some wiki tree stuff in there i think good let's see let's go to the next one uh and this is one whenever we've asked this question and and we ask some of these questions over and over again because there are so many great new answers every time we get it but this is one that we get every time we ask this question is i got interested and this is for pat brunson in tracing my family history in the 10th grade where my class project was to trace my family tree back as far as i could and i love the further of this is i was only able to get back three generations before my dad took over but that's what started her interest i love that but did the dad complete the project for you that's what i want to know complete oh i see complete the assignment yeah yeah was it was it like the science fair where dad gets in and adds yeah that yeah that's that's a great one pat um let's see i got the bug about two and a half years ago in my grandson switch screens there max oh i missed the on the last one there's that one but you described you always visualize what it said good thank you um i got the bug about two and a half years ago when my grandson had to do a school report here we go with the school report again mom had left me both sides of family documents family paper histories that were handed out at family reunions in the 60s we don't you know at our family reunion to this camp out and at the reunion i went to in south carolina the only person handing out family information was me you know i'm not sure about this am i that aunt so uh yeah go ahead anon no i said i think you are that aunt yeah the crazy fine aunt yeah right so um i felt my kids and grandkids deserve to know their roots with a big heart all the family histories weren't amassed the documents were poorly written and hard to understand all of my uncle charlie's research was dumped in a box so david draper got it and put it together that's pretty cool let's skip over to the next one and i will change this tab this time um and i like the answer to this um the answer to the one from david draper mary and seruti says hello david i see that you were involved in much the same kind of activity that i was family geniallis just did not keep tracking sources and document them the way we do on wiki tree this leads to puzzles that must be unraveled to find out where they obtain their information family pictures can be helpful if a relative is in a picture it is safe to assume that they were alive when the picture was taken moreover your description of dumped in a box sounds all too familiar thank you for posting this i can relate to that and that's mary and seruti mary and also she gives lots of great answers and does some great posts but that's a really interesting thing to point out that we aren't like a lot of other genealogy sites wiki tree we really want to work on a healthy tree and a healthy tree means we have sources and information and documentation to back up the information that we have if we don't have that we have our research notes that can show how we've gone through and tried to prove that information on a profile so that's great i'm going to switch over to the next one that i had shared up let's see figure out which one it was i think it was this one there we go i and we had a couple of these we had a couple or more than one or two of these where i found my grandmother's genealogy notes stashed away in the attic of the extended family cottage presumably left there when my grandparents moved to a retirement home this is david wilcox a lot of people said they found that box of junk just like david had of what they thought was junk but it was really genealogy papers um this was way before there was anything more than very bare bones internet certainly no genealogy helps he had posted well certainly have wiki tree now don't we that was all my grandfather's line i've extended other lines of a whole branch in recent years using online sources and ran into a number of mayflower ancestors beyond the one family my grandmother great grandmother had found wouldn't it be fun to be able to show you that that's one thing my mother passed away in 1994 and i wish that i could show her all of the stuff that's happened with the internet and technology especially with the genealogy stuff because i think she had the bug as well let's jump on to the last one i have up let's see oh this is a good one in uh vicky blanco now i know you can do this in ireland as well i think she's in the chat i think she's in the chat vicky's here oh vicky's here yeah let's up vote vicky there you have 11 of votes now vicky um she she had loved this one oh and i said you could do this in ireland as well my family some people in my family here have actually done this for ireland uh it began in 2017 when i found out i could get the german passport because my german great grandfather then began a quest for document states and stories told about his life and the rest is literally history i love traveling with genealogies vicky blanco that is our we were talking about that today is that i feel like that i am more connected to the world to people who live in other countries because of wiki tree absolutely agree with you vicky blanco and i think that's a great answer to the question of the week and a way to to send this out and send this over to greg okay i'm gonna be quiet because i'm so laggy i'm gonna interrupt people so okay then super well as i'm finding my screen here um let me give a shout out to vicky because she actually uh she sent me an email after watching the livecast last week because i um when we're going through the profiles you may remember there was um when meg was doing her um talking about dna and how um it was mexico it was spanish dna in particular and we were looking at a map was south america and how part of that was north was north america and our native indigenous folks we're talking about the indigenous folks and i just threw out the question well is there a is there a word for a mix of spanish and and and native or um indigenous because in canada we have a word for french canadian and first nations we call it metis um and there is a word and vicky emailed me and told me that the word is mestizo mestizos um so thank you very much for that's pretty cool yeah very cool that was very cool so i appreciate that um and uh so now we're not in spain anymore we're across the across the the north sea um across the channel to um cambridge sure and hunting hunting then sure um this week uh because we just finished the wiki tree challenge about from the uh cambridge sure and hunting to ensure family history society and so that's that neck of the woods is where all of the notables and the profiles are for this week um a win did you want to talk about this past week's challenge now or do you want to talk about the wiki tree challenge later after i've gone through the profiles um well that's a great question or i could just go through and you just jump in yeah i can jump in and for this one i would just say we did a live reveal with the society for this one that's on youtube you can watch it and it was a lot of fun they were really excited there's some really cool graphics from greg that they also really liked um but it was you know if you have any interest in this area or any of these people it's it'll be fun to watch that video that's cool yeah yeah it was good it was a really good wrap up that you did there i was watching it in between watching sofia so um the first um if you're not familiar with england and where all the different county shires are um i jumped over to wikipedia to find out where cambridge shire is and uh actually there's a blown-up map of england and so the red area is cambridge shire and it's called cambridge shire and huntington shire because they used to be two separate areas but now they're sort of one big municipality or area um and if you're wondering where that is in relation to london here's the if you can see can you see my little hand cursor there this river coming in here that's the tems river so london is here so cambridge shire isn't next they're one county away from london basically okay can i ask an ignorant geography question sure is cambridge university in cambridge here uh my guess is yes yeah because cambridge i think so well let's see if we go to the next picture that that shows you the cambridge shire and the different components of it so the city of cambridge is right in cambridge shire so my guess is yes and there's huntington shire which is now a part of the whole thing the isle of elie city of peter borough we have a peter borough here in ontario canada um probably named after this one i'm guessing and then there's uh the ones around at our norfolk suffix sx herford shire central britain for sure i've got you know what my my father's mother's family there's a lot of a lot of uh family here i should have investigated more and see how how i'm connected to some of these people yeah um if i hadn't been so busy last week doing a few other things i should i really should have jumped in anyways the first profile of the week the big one is oliver cromwell who is apparently a distant cousin of mine um very notable has 13103 connections that's his cc seven so yeah he's got a lot but if you uh he has but he has um from a family of nine so he's a brother that uh he's the fourth of nine children and had nine children of his own so it it wouldn't take long continuing at the the they each had nine children and they had nine children no wonder they that's that's betty's closest is oliver cromwell oh at 18 degrees wow okay that's good lord protector of the commonwealth of england scotland and ireland so um now it's interesting this talk it talks about this profile um this biography focuses on his family and for a fuller description of his military and political career please see the Wikipedia entry which i did actually peek a bit at that so we could uh i'd have a little bit of more history behind it but he was the fourth of nine children of robert cromwell and elizabeth steward um and he's from the huntington so that part of of the area um born in 1599 uh baptized the church of st john his grandfather had been a wealthy man and much of the family fortune unfortunately dissipated in his father who was a younger son um briefly wasn't imp just like that and by the time of oliver's birth he was just he was the justice for peace justice of the peace and lived quiet quietly on a modest income oliver was educated huntington grammar school went to cambridge uh to sydney susk's college which was a puritan establishment at that point and then once his father died he was called back home to look after the family um he married at age 21 um and they had nine children together um the first one was born just one year after they were they got married uh they lived the life of a minor gentry in huntington and he and oliver himself became a justice of the peace and then he was elected as an mp for huntington in 1628 uh and so and initially he was a quiet backbencher with his first round of an mp but then the king decided they didn't like the parliament because they were too disruptive to what he wanted to do um so he cancelled it in 11 years without parliament um and then when parliament resumed he returned and this time apparently he was not he uh wasn't as uh shy he was no longer a quiet backbencher at this point and then the civil war broke out so now i'm not sure how much how familiar you folks are about with english history and whatnot um and i did take some english history in in high school myself but i had i kind of forgotten this piece that um uh you think at least when i usually think about england you know they had kings and queens for forever and you would think it was a it was a straight line from you know wilkin the contour all the way through to the present day but in fact there was a point in time um they had a civil war in the 1600s um and there was a point in time when they actually executed the king which was charles the first and there was it was declared a republic so there was a point in time when there was no king or queen or was not a monarchy so which might be surprising for some people who i didn't realize that and during that time that's when oliver qualmwell was the lord protector which was basically he had all the powers of the king in all that name and that's uh that was basically his claim to think to fame so he was part of the during the the war leading up to that point there were two to uh there was the the royalists the one who fought on behalf of the king who wanted you know all the power uh to make decisions however they he wanted and uh basically believe in the divine right of kings and all that and so this was king charles the first who was the son of james the first um and grandson of mary queen of scots so that's the the lineage there um and then so the royalists run one side and the parliamentarians were on the other and those were the ones that were called the round heads so if you often hear them called cavaliers which would be the royalists and the round heads were the parliamentarians who ended up winning at that one point um and it was 1650 1651 that uh charles the first was was executed and that book that i talk about a lot on here the albion seed yes that is one of the great four great migrations is when all of the cavaliers came over to mariland virginia and i'm trying to track my galleons back to that group because they seem to have appeared right about the right time to have been a part of that migration interesting yeah albion seed has it there's so much cool stuff that you can connect back that's right history of how things happen right because charles's father james the first was very um was very influential in in expanding into the to the new world and um and other like he was very forward thinking in that and expanding the empire whatnot um so i love the fact that the whole time you've been talking we've been staring at his death mask i know have you really i thought i was i thought i was scrolling down isn't i i don't see that mole on his eye and any of the in any of the paintings oh yeah that's just just amazing yeah you know i feel like i'm i'm looking at his face wow yeah now what does i saw on his left i was spooky with that now there you go be like one of those statues when you're in new york city the guys that freeze and pretend they're statues anyways moving on um please okay franz is thomas bacon order the bittersen empire um re uh i read but that is not it's just escape me at the moment but it'll come up here in the evening he's an english engineer he developed the first practical hydrogen oxygen fuel cell that was used in the apollo moon project so without him uh the rock um the Apollo missions wouldn't have had enough fuel wouldn't have been able to get it into space so that was a pretty important thing uh director he's a real cousin he's a real cousin yep yep 20th cousin three times removed yeah 13 of yours yep cool um directed senator nicholas bacon and who's the brother of francis bacon sir francis bacon um now nicholas was the father of sir francis bacon oh nicholas was the lord keeper of the seal for queen elizabeth the first oh okay he may have had a brother named nicholas but he wasn't very famous oh okay interesting okay well then i'm reading it wrong here go up and see who the well you can't see that what's not oh no okay never mind i'm like i'm 20 centuries before you from an anachronism today sorry oh no that's okay so they've included the the census from 1911 he studied at eaton showed an aptitude for science he won the mausoleum prized mostly prized physics um studied mechanical sciences uh married in 1934 and uh his occupation was given a steam turbine engineer research in developing work um yeah and his tombs his memorial browsed the inscription remember francis thomas bacon um fellow of the royal society um who developed the fuel cell which enabled the Apollo missions to reach the moon very nice very cool and he was even recognized uh personally by president nixon when they met tom without you we wouldn't have gotten to the moon so there we have and he passed away in cambridge in cambridge here so there's the connection uh joanna vasa franley was one of the seven the seven chosen ones um what's that the chosen has just repeatedly said okay the chosen one so she was born uh in april 11th of april 1795 in soham in cambridge here passed away at age 61 uh living in london at the point she was the only surviving child of the former slave an anti-slavery campaigner uh olada aquiano and little is known of her life unfortunately but they've got a fairly good uh bio here um taken they've gleamed as much information as they can from the records that they do have so it's still the daughter of uh gustavas vasa and susana cullen born born in 1795 baptized saint andrew's church um her father is noted as an african in the saint andrew's church records but her mother is simply noted as susana late cullen meaning her maiden name was cullen um lending credibility to the claim that joanna was at least of some scottish descent um because they didn't specify that the mother was not otherwise um she married henry bromley in 1821 saint james in islington england uh and he was from the county of devon uh and in 1841 she was living with henry at mount pleasant um she was 30 years old in the household servant uh and then she was named in the 1844 will of nathaniel warner bromley esquire as the wife of his son henry so that would be her father in law who passed away and she was bequeathed to small tom some and buried at abney park cemetery stoke newington the lemon borough of hackney graded london i like i like the uh the photo that's the back wallpaper yeah there yeah that's the saint andrew's church yeah yeah so she has 359 connections now the interesting thing about this wiki tree challenge this week was almost almost all of them started with like just four connections or something like that yep so she um hers multiplied quite a bit and then there's some that were amazing now there was one notable exception to that one guy had a huge one to start with and then almost doubled that but um uh anyways david dunkelt the eighth earl of huntingdon so there's the connection right there huntingdon it's right in the name um and in terms of earldom of huntingdom who was preceded by simon the third and succeeded the person after him was john discosher earl of huntingdon uh this guy collected titles like some people collect paperback books earl of huntingdon earl of lennox earl of kempton and potten earl of bedfordshire earl of cronington earl of huntingdon sure earl of tottenham earl of middle six earl of father and gay earl of north hampshire uh oh um did he ever did he ever become the duke of earl yeah the duke of earl duke duke duke duke of earl duke debith mackenrick and house of dunkelt i i just hope that he had a stamp you know how they you know in movies we know when people arrive at you know the royal ball they announce a person in the title it would take forever uh and now intrigue they just didn't invite him that's great uh anyways born 1144 so this is a long time ago um or 1152 after the death of his father i guess they can't quite decide that um he would got married in 1111 11 1190 to maud of chester uh daughter of hugh earl of chester and bertrod daughter of simon de monfort um there's all his children listed and some of the notable things now the sad thing is look look at died young died young died as an infant john the fourth born did not die young um uh he but uh let's see and he has and some of his heirs he was the only surviving uh son and heir born about 1207 but he did die in 1237 so he was only 30 when he did pass away so that's still i would still say that's young um margaret survived isabel mary doesn't say when she passed away and then maud survived so it looks like the women survive better than the young boys listen what it looks like everything's very well sourced i'm seeing all these inlays yeah so what did they use well it looks like they're using two two two so a bunch of them are using the same source so let's just check let's just pop that down the royal ancestry of studying colonial and medieval histories five volumes from kimball and everyone nice yeah yeah uh next we have miles jeffrey game day dsc and he died young as well 21 uh he was another one of the seven chosen ones uh fleet commander uh flight commander not fleet flight commander miles jeffrey game day dsc dsc uh i'm not sure what the dsc is there probably has something to do with his his war record um uh it was a world war one flying ace created with five aerial victories and also a war poet um he was born on the 1st of december in 1896 um and he was living in st ives hunting ensure in 1901 so there's the born um born hunting ensure there's the connection educated at sandroid school and taller royal wiltshire and rekton school and derbyshire or derbyshire um where he's found on 1911 when the census was taken and he was due to go to st john's college when the war broke out so he joined the royal naval air force service and served as a flight commander he began writing poetry during a spare time whilst in the mills jerry i just know there was a lot of spare time in the military but but i guess enough to write a little poem maybe that's why you write poets and not poems and not novels right right and no epic poems no epic poems um let's whip off a limerick and then we'll be done or a high i take that back and flanders field is an epic poem it is epic isn't it uh anyways um he served as second lieutenant in the royal field artillery and was shot down by a sniper on the 25th of september 1915 um his poems were published post war um he was posted to so when he was shot down 1915 he wasn't killed then he was just um he was posted to the 13th naval squadron in 1917 he's flying with a sop with camel that's snoopy's plane right the sop with camels yep it is um and then he died while serving in the royal naval air force in because on 27th february 1918 he was shot down in flames into the sea west of duncirk by a german sea plane his body was never recovered um very sad but look at him young kid yeah mm-hmm those those military photos are so often heartbreaking because they just yeah they're teenagers they're yeah they're just yeah william wadellis another one of the chosen uh now he was the one he was the hardest one um he went from four connections to 67 connections and his connections all stayed in the basically in the um in the united kingdom there was a few that um a few connections that reached over into the into europe if i remember that map correctly um but unlike all the other ones who eventually by the time they got to this the seventh seventh circle the cc seven they had people they had relatives who had immigrated to to the americas or to australia and new zealand some there was a couple that made it uh to india and some uh south africa as well but uh william wade we haven't found those connections yet for him why is it why is the profile photo yeah tell us about the bird bird because he was an artist and a naturalist and he he accompanied captain james cook and his journeys in the south pacific and he drew some of the pictures that cook eventually used in his competitions um so yeah uh he was a surgeon he was a surgeon's mate on the voyages for captain james cook but he was also an artist um he painted natural history subjects his paintings included the murray sandpiper the lesser akiyolo aloha the mangea mangea but didn't they didn't they didn't they look for people who were artists who could do surveying who could do that kind of stuff to populate the crews of those voyages i think they did that makes sense i didn't i hadn't heard that but that makes a lot of sense yeah i mean they couldn't record it with you know cameras or smartphones or anything like that but they have some way to record it yeah right like louis and park one of those guys was a very good artist as well so he could draw out and map and cartography yep sorry go ahead no it makes a lot of sense because i mean the worst thing you know coming back you've just you just discovered you know a whole bunch of you know a country that's been unseen it looks really cool you should have seen it looks really cool and all you have to do is describe it from your memory like really yeah there was this bird this dodo bird that looked really good oh yeah makes sense he went to join the queen charlotte on the voyage to the northwest america but he had an accident oh this is so sad this is how we passed away he had an accident when uh when they're in belgium he fell from the mast of the ship oh no isn't that horrible how that is so now if only he'd learned to fly from painting all those birds i yeah so bad greg sorry uh anyways there's some research notes there mags people are adding those research notes i love the research notes i love those research notes yeah winifred mary harrison fair was another one of the chosen ones she was born in betsy that was it betsy no it's you it's you that's your closest at 19 degrees mr oh interesting okay well i was wondering if it was the one back here because he's from elie camberture and that one of my great greats is from there um and also wisbeck is another town that they're from um well you have to remember though this is the connection finder not not the real right relationship genealogy so right yeah anyways he was right now you thought oh well this uh he's the one that has the fewest connections so um and ellis isn't one of the names in my family tree that i know of yeah so but no no connection no no connection that i can see yeah oh well anyways winifred was an aviator she was the first woman to be checked out on a hurricane fighter um so she has a really interesting history um this uh she was one of the first eight the initial group of women pilots to join the air transport auxiliary so do you know what the air transport auxiliary was let me tell you so uh anyway the she became her father was a general medical practitioner and his claim to think fame was that he was the first doctor to deliver to successfully deliver british quadruplets so far who all survived into adulthood because i mean they would have been quadruplets before but these quads lived adulthood and they were born in 1935 and they were still alive as of 2021 wow isn't that amazing when were they born the quads 1935 1935 so they would be almost 90 wow yeah wow very cool eh yeah um so anyways but she so she had a privileged upbringing was educated um well and then she uh let's see she became let me just zip down to where she becomes part of she learns to fly um she was almost uh so she was she anyway she took part in this air transport auxiliary so what this group was was um she delivered she basically flew planes um that had been repaired um or serviced back to the front lines so she flew planes back and forth during World War II to the troops important job important job huge job and most of the time and a lot of times they had to do it without navigating because they didn't want the enemy to see them so they didn't have you know it was a very dangerous job and a lot of times they were delivering planes right off the assembly line and they hadn't been tested yet yeah yeah it was uh it was very um very important very wild job um uh let's see where here here is down the so she started flying and learning to fly in 1934 she became a pilot aerobatics pilot in 36 flew in tiger moth um and then this is where she became part of the in World War II um she joined the the auxiliary to transport the planes as I said and their unofficial model ATA was the it was supposed it was called the the Air Force Transport Auxiliary but their model was anything to anywhere um there was little radio contact they had um their weather contest uh forecast may have been uh they had to rely on ground and accurate weather forecasts they drew they she was cautious about flying in bad weather it says um but anyway she was an ace about that so that was very impressive uh anyways cool so and she had 15 ended up with 1500 1500 51 no 1551 connections so that's pretty impressive then we have Roger Roger Sohm Jennings I think is how you pronounced it right and he's the one who started with a lot he started with over 2000 ended up with 4227 connections so he already had now it was his maternal line was pretty solid the fan the original fan chart had his father and that was all it had on his paternal side but his mother line his mother's line was solid on the on the fan chart um but after this um challenge it's not both sides are now well fleshed out um he usually wrote under his name simply as Sohm Jennings and was a British art historian known as an expert on East Asian ceramics so he was born in Cambridgeshire born and born and died in the same town and his interestingly despite the fact that he has all these connections his little his print was literally sure um what a cute little profile cute little profile yeah then we have Ernest Rutherford Sir Ernest Baron Rutherford of Nelson um from New Zealand um born in New Zealand so where's the connection with the connection he's passed away in Cambridge in Cambridgeshire uh at age 66 in 1937 so he's a physicist father of nuclear physics he was one of the ones I had to dress up as when I talked about the structure of the of the um atom because he had he Rutherford and board um they both had models of the atom um so he did lots of work on the effects of x-rays and gases and work which led to the discovery of the electron so um before him we didn't realize that atoms were made of neutron protons and electrons and he helped out with that uh he continued to study on radioactivity discovered the concept of radioactive half-life which is very important in science and uh proved that radioactivity involved the transmutation of one chemical element into another and uh he was he was the basis for a Nobel prize in chemistry first Nobel prize this round of profiles um moved to the uh to the Victoria University of Manchester and then during World War I he worked on a secret project to detect submarines by sonar that was pretty cool um it was nighted in 1914 returned to Cavendish laboratory and then was admitted to the Order of Merit in 1925 and became a baron in 1931 and did you know that that sonar uh that that little listening microphone network that they set up yeah one of the key things used in the Cuban missile crisis because they were monitoring the the ships and the submarines that were coming in and out of Cuba interesting yep thank you baron Ernest Rutherford um passed away in 1937 as a result of an infection from a strangulated hernia none of that sounds good those are three yucky words all in a row infection strangulation hernia um then we have Charles Stacey another one of the chosen ones from the that's my closest how many 18 degrees 18 good and he he multiplied quite well 1,867 connections now he was born in Huntingtonshire in earth um in 1843 passed away at age 81 in 1924 in Norwick Ohio so uh he was a united states army soldier who received the Medal of Honor after fighting in the battle of Gettysburg so from 1843 he came over obviously came over to America in time for this um the civil war um married he married Lydia Sherman in 1866 in Ohio uh let me think that's after the war isn't it 1866 yes yes um now it doesn't stay here okay so in 1860 he's in Ohio because of the census in then 1880 so it doesn't say when he came over exactly but Medal of Honor for the battle of Gettysburg but born in Huntingtonshire so that's why he qualifies and the last one is Marjorie Stevenson who I believe is also one of the chosen ones from the contest the challenge uh she was a British biochemist in 1945 she was one of the first two women elected as a fellow of the royal society um daughter of Robert Stevenson Sarah Rogers christened in 1885 in Burwell Cambridge Cambridge here um and she was a lecturer in domestic science in 1911 and uh in biochemical research in 1921 was the single visitor of Robert Stevenson at the Manor House and she did not marry it had no children and then died in 1948 so there you have it the results from Cambridge in some terms fascinating that is really cool that is a very fascinating group and not not our normal group kind of thing that's no I wanted to say a really quick shout out uh for anybody that knows about uh Alash and his family and where they live uh we want to say we hope everything is safe at home they've had massive flooding Alash and Mira and Alia are actually in Bosnia on vacation and from what uh his wife has told me over the weekend is that they are in the area where the flooding has taken place but they are safe and their home is safe so if you had any questions about that we would we want to set a big hug a wiki tree hug and love out to Alash and family and we hope you're enjoying your vacation and not worrying about things at home not so good on that um I also wanted to say anyone did you want to share something with us today today yeah what what's what you're gonna talk about something well yeah we thought you'd give us a hard time about being in purple and not in orange that was our cue wiki games notice notice I drug my orange over yeah that's great so what's going on with wiki games coming up soon right the opening ceremony it's coming up right uh this Monday at 8 a.m eastern is the opening ceremony and we'll kind of go over how it's all gonna work and do a little teaser about the teams and then after that everybody will get their team assignments and their olympian assignments and hopefully do some strategizing and collaborating with their teams and then Friday is when the wiki games will start yeah oh nice yeah June says she got her t-shirt uh yesterday it's my leggy for it to show up so yeah yeah so the wiki wiki games are the next biggest thing coming up and I just thought I'd give a segue into Miss Patsy okay well um I've got photo eight one photo and several um ancestors to celebrate and a tip so um actually the photo is from wiki Blanco who is in the chat oh all right wiki yeah so this is the this is her great grandmother uh looks oh wow Alice dressed for the time of her first communion um in she was born and died in chile so I assume that this photo is also there um about 1910 real and look at the ringlets in the yeah beautiful and the spray of flowers in front of and behind she's kneeling right yes she's kneeling on a little yeah yeah so um yeah thank you very much Vicki gorgeous yeah and then going to our uh our ancestors so let me come on over to uh Tuckett Clary um this is uh Teresa Willis's father and Teresa's also in the chat yes welcome um so she um both her parents Tuckett and Anne were born in um August and what do we notice about do we have oh we don't have a birthday but his birthday is today today Tuckett's birthday happy birthday Tuckett and um there's a really um Teresa writes a very charming story about how they met they met on the school bus and um here's here's her her mom's profile her you can't tell in the photo necessarily but she had red hair and Tuckett would tease her that her hair was on fire and she better she better lean it out the window because it was going to cost it worked it worked they got married they got married and um they had uh two two daughters and eight grandchildren and 11 greats so um yeah thank you very much Teresa for sharing um and then Vick Thor I think Vick Thor is is in the is in the chat right yes yes okay great um I'm gonna go there and show you this photo yeah you're with me okay so so we have Vick Thor's mother born in August her her father so Vick Thor's grandfather was also born in August and then his parents were married in August so here are those great grandparents of Vick Thor um with with Paul who's Vick Thor's grandfather I think that he said he thought that that was the younger one and um and uh older older brother and I think yeah Vick Thor so much of your um family is history is in Illinois is this photo in Illinois I think it's that's what I would guess so and let's see then we had M Ross who who wanted us to celebrate a rascal in uh the family tree um okay so look carefully at this photo that's for a four generation photo but what do we see off to the right there's someone else there yes a smaller someone else who was who was trying to escape from the photo so that would be Alfred Thomas Ross born August 1st 1899 and then M did reply to my message and said um that let's see if I can find that there's another photo on the profile where um Alfred is firmly in command of his parents so let's see there's that I guess this is yeah that would be this one uh oh Chris says there's a ghost in the window of that other photo really should we look for it is there you love those ghost mags yeah go back to the other one yeah okay can you yeah yeah maybe can we see a ghost in the window uh it looks like lacy curtains to me but I can't see a ghost in the window but thank you Chris that's my favorite thing is to find the person right forget the people what it was for natural okay um we're just people trying to be photo bombing yeah that's right so I just want to see this photo and let's see Alfred behaving a little better now is Alfred in the center or in on the right so Leonard and his wife Sarah then Elizabeth then Alfred then Leonard so I'm guessing that Alfred is the one in the center and he looks very much on his best behavior yes yeah and he's the little littler of the boys so that right because he's two years younger yep yep cool um very very fun thanks him and um pat miller pat miller shared with us let's let me go down in size um this is her second great grand aunt who died in august um and Catherine but went by Kate um and she was the daughter of a master mariner so when it came time for her to marry and her brother was also a sea captain so when Katie was looking for her husband she married a master mariner and they married in 1846 and decided to emigrate to australia um and pat said that um this particular um um ancestor was responsible for a brick wall coming on down because her baptismal record had the mother's maiden name nice whereas all the others this list over here just had just had married right so that's a that's a happy moment when you like yeah and finally um sally kimball uh shared theodore don't uh jones with us uh he's her second great grand uncle born in august and served served in the civil war twice which i thought was curious to do either of you know any of you know why he would have served in instead of one continuous service i don't know um i think it's just me i think we lost mags uh oh yeah we did i hope she'll come back do we do it it's just you and me it's just you and me yeah yeah this great okay okay um well great you do you know why you know okay me neither you said served in the civil war twice right right i'm just looking at these stickers um and they're both for pennsylvania regiments but uh different numbers um 173rd and then the 208 is it just maybe just two different like you got a promotion so one he's a private and then he got a promotion yeah that's a good good theory because you would do yeah i mean i don't know when you're serving a war and if the war's not over can you be discharged like do you if you've done your tour of duty even if the war is not done do you go back to civilian that that's what i was thinking is that you know i think um you know manpower in the military was probably a real high priority so i wouldn't think that they would release him he mustered out in 18 august 1863 and then he re-enlisted 13 months later so what happened in those 13 months i don't know interesting anyway um it's really amazing on these stickers how much information gets packed in yes yeah right so uh and let's see the the uh the interesting the challenging thing for sally was that there were quite a several men named theodore jones in the same town so i can imagine yes yeah and um um mags for wherever you are here are the research notes those are lots of good research i know i know wow great so it's only august 19th um and so keep them coming um well we we are not um doing a normal live cast next saturday but because of the wiki games wiki games yes but i i'm sure we could squeeze in a few more augusts uh ancestors um when we return in september oh yeah we could we could do that yeah yeah so my now this is i greg i didn't warn you but this the tip is interactive oh okay we're gonna talk about finding cousins and using using wiki tree all the ways that you all the ways okay so here's my dad's profile and underneath the categories there's this hyperlink help cousins find this profile you click on that there is such an amazing list of suggestions i i kind of feel like azure is behind this this uh this you know azures yeah this comes like azure yeah wizardess and yes yeah so i mean it's so well designed um so like for instance first thing you could do you can like on facebook and i was i was thinking well how oh wait wait there's a there's a link right there i don't even have to go anywhere i just like and it will you know connect into my facebook um you could also download an image of the person's tree that will go into your computer downloads and then you can upload that on facebook worth more than a like um you know this first one is just oh i like this profile but this this is gives more detail and people will will study it hopefully and be interested um you can now this is a really important point to remember is just to don't don't keep a profile hanging and neglected for too long because search engines look for pro for for pages that have been updated so if you haven't touched in a long time they're going to kind of trickle down in the search search hits so just see if there's anything you can add or update even a little tweak um and your result there's also a link here where you can click and see what what profiles you've been neglecting nice yeah yeah i i didn't know that was an option yeah so go back and see those i was thinking oh my goodness if i see those profiles for my early wiki treeing days there might be some embarrassing things yes right yeah yeah um upload another image for the person and keep in mind it doesn't have to be a picture of the person of photos of his house or maybe the church where he's baptized or married uh scan of a document a census page a bird that the person has sketched think big yeah there you go yeah um because search engines know that people like that people like web pages with images so they get you know popped up in the in hits um if you have mysteries with the person um write these questions on the profile in the research notes so it's kind of like uh you know too yet to be discovered and then it's a little example of the sorts of things that you could ask um you can um let's see which one is this post a comment on the profile um again this is sort of similar to doing research but um just um you know asking for help um and and saying you know that they can send me a send you a private message um and then i i always do this when i'm working on a profile and i'm i'm reaching out for help is definitely include the link for the profile so when i'm on the profile page i just quickly you know go up to the browser bar and i grab that link and copy um you can tweet it again one step yeah and um if you're on pinterest um you can pin it i love this page this page is great yeah uh share on another net social network so um you know if you're on uh i don't know what else instant well you could i guess instagram or a mastodon or what's the new one that facebook has just started oh oh oh threads threads that's it i i'm not on thread yet me neither um now do you know about this great it says near the top of the profile page you'll see a row of sharing icons and i locked and i i couldn't okay this takes me back to the profile i could not find the sharing icons do you see them uh the sharing icons i thought i saw oh are they those icons next to the toolkit no next to the tool yeah like those ones there those ones that were added by the browser oh is that what they mean i build ancestors family group profile oh or maybe do they mean like um the thing i use a lot is the scissors up at the top where you can copy just the id oh that that yeah one of them is the url right yeah so so now you you um if you're on the home page you can also just go up to the the location bar the browse in the browser but you can also do it from those scissors there copy url oh yeah yeah true true but we were looking for the share the share share i the crazy thing is i feel like i've seen this before but now i don't see it where is the share azure azure azure there next to his name okay so it is the next of the name it is the the clipping the scissors oh that oh okay so that would just copy copy the uh the id either the id or the url so i use this when i'm like doing the hyperlink with the two double square brackets and um within a profile and this one i'm like sending it out okay right okay um very cool and i think that's almost the end of the list but let's make sure we haven't missed anything say what you don't ask to link pin post a note note on a co-forum see see if there's a blog or a forum for your family surname that you're interested in and go ahead and and make yourself known out there start a free space page i i did that for one of my McMurray my canadian McMurray series yeah and i'm so glad i did that i i haven't broken the brick wall i haven't really touched it but the fact that it's all laid out on that free space page just makes my life easier because when i was connecting recently with a McMurray cousin i was able to just send that link yeah perfect you know here it all is um and you can ask about the person on g2g again one quick and the cool thing is that once you have posted a question or comment about a profile um it will appear on their profile right so that's cool yeah so i i haven't done any posts for my dad but it would be right like up about here there are links saying g2g august 19 2020 and the the title of the post so that someone visiting his profile can just say oh look there's been some conversation about this person click click click so very cool yeah excellent okay well um so here's my profile and so in this is the spot here that you were just talking about the link to the g2g now my links are ones that either uh are the where someone has tagged me in the so a lesh always tags me in his posts about the ask a lesh um video every month so that then if someone responds i get notified so he knows he's gonna keep me on track that way um but uh someone responded about the x dna tools that i just did and oh someone gave me a nice little thing there um but uh so what's happening around wiki tree um playing the part of mags to wrap us up because mags just sent me said that she's running she was running on a juice and she's lagging in her van do you have the social media page or show i do i've got it right next door yeah so thank you yeah but i only have it because azure who's here in the chat with us puts it together and does a great job uh and this page is a win does that but she had to run and get ready for another meeting so um we we missed that i hope she was able to say which um announced what she was going to announce and stuff well i think we were just going to talk about the the wiki games and and of course there's a new challenge uh let me around london middle sex i got my london mug queued up oh good good now is that ongoing now or later i think it's going on i think it started started already right started on thursday they always go thursday to thursday that's right yeah because i did the opening fan charts for that yeah which most of them again are only four people yeah i think it's on the calendar actually i bet you if i scroll down i would see that there it is on the 17th of the 24th london wedding west minster and this is why you need a calendar to keep all these things in your head because otherwise you lose them uh there we go so yes the wiki teacher challenge is on this week for london wedding west minster and middle sex um so that's just a little bit further south than the cambridge sure one that we just finished right um we can chat of course is going on all weekend long um last night there was friday night bingo so check it out to see the global tour and a surprise um for the later one um we just finished this there's a saturday starts in sprint today 15 nations global tour wrap up for syria is on tba i guess have they finalized they haven't finalized the time yet or for the net uh i think it's yeah it's going to be monday evening yeah because monday morning eight o'clock is the beginning of the wiki tree games opening ceremony right yeah i mean we're not we're not it's just a big fanfare announcement of teams right yeah and then and but nobody should start doing anything the reason for doing the the opening ceremonies so early is that it gives the teams a chance the teams are randomized remember right so it gives them a chance to connect bond strategize and you'll be ready for friday right okay so uh azure just corrected us or filled in that the syria wrap-up is six p.m eastern on my thanks thanks azure um and then of course uh the german tap stanthosh happens on the 24th and which is a thursday of leave and then the wiki games themselves are friday saturday sunday uh month-long challenger month-long challenges continue the biobilders about massachusetts connect canada project modal notables the jedi challenge the german connectors challenge the integrators challenge the sorcerers challenge and the u.s civil war camp chase confederate cemetery challenge lots of things in that one very cool we need to add rock to that we've been rocking away we had a rock in this month yeah we uh we had a 12 hour research party on wednesday yeah and um you know people's g uh cc7s have been climbing uh so and just a note like if you're concerned like how am i gonna rock and do wiki games well certainly on that one day where the the game is connecting just connect with your rock with for the rock people right so you can you know participate in two things at once right yeah yeah um there was i'm trying to find uh i can't find one of our azure mentioned and i can't find her in the in the chat here so i can't highlight it but crystal j uh was the wiki tree of the week yeah she's here in the chat with us so whoa where you go yeah and crystal you and i are pretty uh closely connected i think 18 or 19 yeah very nice okay um and let's hop over to as a social calendar social media calendar i should say so again here are links to all of the social media uh sites and links that you can use and what's going on uh of course so this is the wrap up here the wiki games hang out um and if you want to link to that on any of those social media types there it is there's a link to the ceremony itself the youtube link that so we'll click there so you can start watching us on monday morning um the 15 nations there's the syria wrap-up link um uh one named tuesday yeah the the this week it's about all about lambert so if you want to post about that somewhere to share it with your your folks that's how you do it the one place is the jupa bouillon the events showcase is the wiki games of course on thursday because at pre it starts on the friday morning and there we have uh connection finders internet innovators the rock and roll hall of fame is robbie robbertson we lost robbie robbertson that's very sad um and then of course there's all the links for all of the all of the live cast the hangouts during the games and yeah come hang out with us and come hang out yeah hang out with us and thanks azure for putting that all together yes it's always the yeah so and thanks for everyone here who's who's stuck with us live and those who are watching us after the fact uh for joining us today and um i think we're going to uh let's see do we have that brand new spanking new uh commercial uh the the one that the 90 the um the one that was done about about wiki tree i was thinking we could play that i don't see it here i don't know if that's loaded up um in terms of mm-hmm yeah i was talking about that is great um and that's available on youtube yeah um yeah if anyone hasn't seen that new little 90 second or two minute clip all about youtube that is a great thing to share with everybody in your your networks um yeah okay so i'm going to do the live cast regular outro and uh we'll see you back do you have a um uh new to new to wiki tree thing coming up on sunday no that's always at the beginning of the month um so yeah yeah not not for a few more weeks okay good well hopefully we'll see you monday morning for the bright and early bright and early yeah okay okay see ya bye everyone have a great week have a great week weekend great week see you later