 I'm here with Donna Bowman and we're here to talk about Robbie Coltrane. Now I know, you know, a number of us had a Thanksgiving holiday. So in the US, at least it was this week. So, you know, this was our big time to not be available on Thursday. So we did not have our usual wrap up on Thursday and Zoom. But Donna and I were just chatting over, you know, who we spent the holiday with. And I think it was, was it England that did theirs like a week or two ago? Do you know? I do not know that. I am not very national. Yeah, as far as the holidays, I'm not totally, I'm international on that. I wish I had a good calendar that would sync with my Google Calendar because I have like the Spanish ones, but that's all I have. But I noticed somebody else said, Oh yeah, we had ours like a week or two ago. So I know you guys are having yours now. We have June, we have Lynette. I'm sure we have other people out there. We have a few people watching. Good morning, Tommy. Hello, Christine. Yeah, it's beautiful here. Very sunny, very nice. It's supposed to be the nicest day of the weekend here. So. Oh, wow. Have you guys had cold yet this week, Donna? Some, but this week's went pretty decent. It's supposed to be 55 today, which is good for Illinois. So. Yeah, same with us. You know, we were supposed to be in the mid 50s this week, which is exciting considering we were like below freezing the entire week before and my husband works outdoors right now. They have a job site that's not closed in. So he hasn't been really appreciative of the cold weather, but it looks like a beautiful day out there today. Yeah, take it while you can get it this time of year for those of us in the fall part of the hemisphere. So. Yeah, I want to go visit like people in Australia or whoever it is that's having summer right now. Summer's a good season. I like it more. Stephen says foggy here. Yeah, but Stephen, you also get a lot more snow and stuff than we do here in Kentucky. So. So Donna, how do you think our week with Robbie Coltrane went? I think it went well. I enjoyed the Scotland. I was I had not done a lot. My husband has one branch and I have a branch that I haven't figured out. I suppose you have a lot more Scottish than I know about, but I haven't figured out how to get to that. So I haven't done a lot with Scottish. So the Scotland's people, I had only experienced with a little bit, but it was really helpful for even without credits. It was a good search site. So. Yeah, and you know, the dates are based on something valid. That's what I was trying to explain to somebody other the other day. It's not like, you know, say on some of the other genealogy sites that were on where an index with a date might not even be correct because you don't know where they got the date from, but the dates on Scotland's people are actually taken from the vital records. So I was excited to to see that so many of those were available. I did find on Scotland's people, though I noticed that it also is a register. So there was a one that was registered like in 1866, but the the person died in just late December 1865. So without viewing the actual document, the the the search result was did say the wrong year, but it was you had to go into the credits to see the actual date. Yeah, and you know, we did have several of us that had credits available. The only thing I asked people was like, don't ask for every single record to be, you know, viewable, but definitely if you have questions like that or say the index doesn't tell you who the parents are and you're helping to get, you know, a father's name at least, they could definitely ask and discord and one of us would get that record for them. And somebody said, I'm not sure who that is down there. How we got here genealogy said love Scotland's people. And yeah, they are considering relatively affordable, you know, compared to the sites that I use for some of my other locations. It's really it definitely is affordable. Yeah, I do like the option, especially if you were heavily Scottish, like if I was Robbie McMillan, Coltrane, I would want some sort of subscription. But when you look up individuals like that, I do have credits and I looked up I probably only spent 30 credits because I only did about five or six lookups. But that's very affordable when you only have to look up a few things. Yeah. But I don't think they have a subscription, though, do they? So you do you can only do it with credits, I believe. Yeah, it's by the credit. So it's not like you can pay an annual cost. But yeah, once again, it's so affordable compared to, you know, a lot of other sites, really nice and easy to use. Now I know we were not thrilled to find out that on our All Scotland week, they went down for maintenance near the end of our week. And so we had a full day where we couldn't access the records at all. And we just had to hope we could find something on one of the other sites. But and then, you know, it was a learning thing experience for us anyways, because, you know, some of us that aren't familiar with Scotland and how their project does things didn't necessarily know to use a certain type of citation. And, you know, so we tried to make a full citation on it, and it wasn't necessarily what they wanted on it. So, you know, I did do a request for people to go back in and just do the search terms that they used is enough to put as a source citation, you know, and then obviously if you want to link just link to the Scotland people's main site because linking to anything else will not work. Yeah, that's sad. But yeah, it's hard. You can't control that. So we just have to do the best we can. So as we can. And yeah, see, now my husband's family, he has Scottish and Irish on his, but I just have Irish on my line. So I just really haven't spent a lot of time looking at Scottish ancestors. A few times here and there for small branches, you know, helping other people. But we've never had a challenge where we had somebody that was 100% Scottish. So this was really fun for those of us that aren't used to it to get out there and jump in and look at those records. Yeah, it did sound like we hit quite a few countries on the within the seven, though, within the seven degrees on the downlines and the cousins we in, I think people are in about eight different countries, I think by the time. Well, they listed six, but I think we're missing a few. We had Scotland, England, United States, Canada, Australia, and Northern Ireland. And so that was within those degrees. But I'm pretty sure we had a couple of others. And I thought we had a Wales one in there hiding somewhere. But I know once we started branching out into the cousins, we were able to at least find a few things. I know, I know Karen Lowe likes to really go out there sideways and hit those long branches. And so she had found some interesting locations, too. Yeah. Yeah, she was the first one I saw, I think, that ended up in the States. She got there really quickly. She found the right line for her. Yeah. She's she's really good at doing that sideways work. I need to have her work on my CC seven. Hey, Karen, go sideways. Yeah, I need to find time to work on my CC seven. Mine's fairly low compared to a lot of people. So mine is too. When it first came out, mine was pretty average. You know, it was kind of around that average amount, like 1100 or something. Then we're where there were a lot of people. But, you know, yes, those of us that are involved with a lot of projects and, you know, the challenge full time, it's really super hard to do our CC seven. I was actually excited last week because we're doing some beta testing on wiki tree. And so to do it, I had to add people and I was like, you know, if I'm going to do this, we're done with the challenge. I'm going to start adding my people. And so I did. And like my CC seven went up by like 43 or something. I was really excited. Yeah. And if anybody's not sure on how to use their CC seven number, either to help find profiles to work on during the challenge or to expand your CC seven number, you know, just reach out to me after the live cast because I do have a short video on it. And there's one of my other project members that has a helpful space page on it. So really not that hard to do is the making the time right on it. Yes. Yes, you can see it's easy to find the holes. It's harder to find the time to fill the holes in CC seven. So yeah, way too many projects and not enough time. So that's a good thing. There's a lot of interesting finds this time. I think there's 15 on the space page. Oh, awesome. Do you want to share a couple of those with us? Yeah. Yeah. I thought the one about there is the obviously the two younger brothers of his grandmother on his maternal side, moved to New South Wales, Australia. So that was one of the first lines that got out to one of the other countries. And then of course, we had to have a train, a railroad train accident, Robbie's second grand uncle, Robert Loudon, he came to the U.S. in 1879 and he settled near Pittsburgh, where he was a watchman for the railroad for over 20 years. And but in the end, he was killed by his passenger train. So yeah, and it's not funny that the poor man died via train for anybody that's new that's watching this. It's just that we kind of have this running thing going about, you know, it was getting to the point with the challenge where every single person we did their branches, we found a train accident, you know, and we were starting to wonder about all these accidents. We didn't realize that there were so many of them that it got to the point where it was really uncommon to find somebody that didn't have a train accident. So yeah, this was another unfortunate train incident. Especially in today, we don't use trains for passenger anymore. So a lot of, at least in the States, a lot of the trains are fairly not, there's no people around where the trains are, it's cars maybe, but there's not people entering trains as much. So yeah, not something I think about as much in today's standards. Yeah, not nearly as many passenger trains as there used to be. That used to be the, you know, the way to go long distances. Or you could have a train, you could have up, you know, here you could have a train from our town to the next town get off. And then if you knew the schedule, you could hop it back when coming back home later. You didn't, before the cars were as common, you know, you could do that. But now you don't do that. So who else did we find? The, oh, we had Robbie's second great grandfather, John Ross. He was a hatter in Scotland. And he left his fortune to his family and his will. But the lawyer that was dealing with the estate stole the majority of the money. And then he himself left for the States. So that was a sad one for the family. Yeah. Because I don't think it was easy to amass money back then, especially back then, and to have anything left for your children and have it gone. I'm glad he didn't know it, but it had been hard for the children. So let's see. Oh, and then we had a bonnet dresser, which at first we all kind of, we all were thinking of a actual closed dresser, like a picture of a dresser in your bedroom. But it was a person who adorned a bonnet or decorated a bonnet or made a bonnet. So, and they actually had a business where they employed about 20 people. And that was Alexander Pickin. So. Yeah, really fascinating. I love it. I love it when people find those unique occupations, you know, that aren't as common. Trying to look through the other ones here. And we had a cider maker. We had a, John Weir was the son of a cider maker. He worked hard to feed his family. Then he became a game keeper, a police constable, a mole catcher, a gardener servant, and then a laborer again. And then he was in the mining industry. So he had quite a few different, that's a lot of professions for one gentleman. And I found it fascinating that at 74, you know, he was coal mining. I mean, you know, for anybody that doesn't have that occupation in your family, it was not an easy job. And, you know, the days were really long and hard and they, they didn't work in great conditions. And it was just an awfully physical job for people to do. I can't imagine being 74 and, you know, working at the coal mine. I just, my hat's off to him. Yeah. And it looks like he entered that profession later in life. So one would assume that he still needed to work, and it's hard to work at 74 in general, but then to start in coal mining, you don't, it's a hard profession to be in very long. Yeah, definitely somebody with some really strong work ethics. Yeah. That's, he probably worked hard to support his family when that many different working hard to find that many different professions and still looking, you know. We had one, one seventh degree relative that was in the Lancashire facility years. And I assume that was a military and his disability when he left was recorded as constipation. That's quite the disability. Yeah, it's crazy how so many little things, you know, what seems little stuff to us nowadays, because we have so many ways to treat different health ailments. And, you know, back in the day, I mean, they just didn't have the options that we necessarily know or the knowledge. And so sometimes it didn't take much, you know, even a flu bug that normally we would just treat and move on, you know, they, an ear infection or, you know, it was so much more critical back then. Right. Yeah. And we didn't, stuff we take for granted now that it's just a one day thing we can treat and be better. So then he had a first cousin twice removed that was a veteran of the great war, which you believe is the first world war, correct? The great war. Yes. He served with the Gordon Highlanders and for three years was guarded as a prisoner in a German camp. And he had been captured after he had a head wound while he was unconscious. And they thought he was dead for quite a bit of that time. But he made it back and his family moved his family to Canada. Yeah, and that whole thing with him was tragic. Oh, yeah. He obviously had some severe health restrictions and whatnot afterwards. You know, it took a really serious toll on him. And he had a plight in his head, didn't he? Yes, I do see that now. And then he ended up tragically taking the life of his wife, the life of his wife. So yeah, he must have had, you know, we think of concussions nowadays that what he had must have been very serious to have a plate in his head. So yeah, that's probably a concussion or brain injury, I would think. That's very severe. Yeah, lots of interesting finds. Yeah, people did great. And, you know, we kind of wondered about it only because if we're focusing on some of the areas like England or the United States or, you know, even Canada, you've got newspapers that you can go and look at. And, you know, we have people that sit and just do that sometimes for the challenge for the United States ones is they go out to newspapers and they look it up and find these interesting little tidbits, you know, because unfortunately with some people, if they're not political or, you know, wealthy or something tragic, really tragic happens, then, you know, you don't necessarily find out about them in the news. And we like finding these little bits good or bad that kind of bring to light what that family went through. And, you know, even that last one, you have to think how hard that was on the children, I mean, to lose both of their parents at the same time. And from the sounds of it, they'd already been dealing with a lot of issues as far as with his health and whatnot and lack of money. And, you know, so those things really help. But we weren't sure with Scotland. And it turns out we did wind up, you know, with different ways. And Don, I think you belong to a site now that had newspapers for them. Yeah, I was amazed. The British Newspapers Archive has quite a few Scottish newspapers on there. So depending on the area, some areas are not heavily archived down there. But other areas, quite a bit was able to be found. So yeah, the newspapers definitely helped bring life to the ancestors and the cousins and because otherwise it's just a lot of dates and places and people. So I really like the stories. Yeah, I was talking to my mom a couple days ago, and we were talking about that, you know, how sometimes these little stories are the only real way you get to see, like, what kind of things they were dealing with. And, you know, I was saying how one of my first great-grandfathers that I researched, he got fined for letting his livestock wander over into the neighbor's yard and eat, you know, and so the first time they fined him like 50 cents. And they were like, slap on the hand, you know, put your fence up, fix it, do something. And but then he wound up like three weeks later doing the same thing. So he never fixed the problem. And I'm thinking him in the neighbor probably just didn't get along real well to begin with, you know, and so the next time they were like, no, we're not giving you the little fine this time, because we told you to fix the fence, you didn't do it. But it was just funny reading all the stuff in the newspaper and thinking, you know, how boring were their lives. This made the news at that time, you know, they were like, oh, we got something to put in the paper this week. That's put about the livestock wandering over. Yeah, probably in between the wars and the, you know, the different things that happened to catastrophes and big news and those little things are what kept people buying the paper. And so if you haven't been, you know, to the big island in Hawaii, nowadays is the chickens, which, you know, at some point there was like, and of course, they don't have all the land that we would have on the mainland, you know, to have big herds of cows and stuff. And so chickens were a popular thing to, to breed. And, you know, you got the eggs from them, you could eat chicken. And so at some point there was a population explosion of them. And they did not have any luck restraining that and lowering that number. And now when you go into some of the shops, even the chickens just run wild there. So you'll go into a shop to buy candles. And there's a chicken hopping along the shelves, you know, because they, they go in and out when the people do. And yeah, it just cracked me up. I never heard anybody say anything about the chickens, you know, when I went over there. And I was like, okay, there's chickens in this store too. So let's not buy like open things of nuts or anything, you know, because might have been some, yeah, they probably can't keep anything open. Yeah, they probably can't keep anything open for food wise or even anything that they could digest or ingest. So yeah, it all had to be like in bags and jars and stuff like that. But it was pretty funny. And even when we went to one of the pineapple factories, and they had a little like slushy stand and stuff like that, after you took the tour, there were chickens running around and they're on the floor too. And they weren't up on the counters at least, but there were chickens running around. I was like, wow, that's a lot of chickens. Chickens eat bugs. Right. We had a lot of participants this week. That was, it was just people kept coming in and coming in. I was really happy that we had so many people participating in the challenge. So was I because I know some of the people were concerned, you know, they wouldn't necessarily join us because they didn't know the Scotland research. So I was excited to see, you know, we, well, we have at least 39 people. And I always say at least because we usually wind up with a few that aren't signed up that want to help anyways. And, you know, it was really, really great to see like 40 people working on these branches. And, you know, once again, like some of us took the holiday and didn't do anything. But, you know, it was nice to see that there were still people around the clock and discord working on stuff. Yeah, I know at this time of the year, the distractions come up left and right as you commit to something and you think you're going to have time and then you get distraction. So I kept popping in and help out here and there where I could. But yeah, there was always somebody going and somebody had an issue, you know, stories and so much collaboration to people were really helping out each other. That was a good segue to our stats here. So let's go ahead and take a look at that. And once again, we had 39 people that were registered that made some sort of a contribution. And, you know, there's always some that don't. But our top, and I have to tell you, Guillaume just was a powerhouse this week, because that should actually say 100 bounty points out of 200 bounty points this week. Guillaume got 100 of them. So he got one half of all the available bounty points. And, you know, it was mixed up some of his discoveries were chosen. He did quite a few brick walls. I think he saw five brick walls, which was just amazing. And, you know, so he wound up with a lot of points. But look at all these other people, you know, that did Celia, Dunia did, John, Rosalie, Liz, Heather, Ian, and then of course you, you know, there was just so many people that got bounty points. It was really exciting. And then total points was 1,540. But the number I like to look at is over here at contributions, you know, because we only do this for one week. And people can't come in and spend 24 hours a day doing it, you know, we just all volunteer however much time we have. But there were 4,862 contributions done in that one week. And that was over 1,569 unique profiles. So, you know, to me, that just is amazing. It always amazes me. Yeah, if you think of the sheer number of, you know, there's millions of profiles, but to actually improve over 1,500 profiles in a week, it's all, it's amazing what can be done. Yeah. It just goes to show the power of collaborative genealogy, because when we get in there and we get our minds, you know, set on getting something done, it always helps when you have people that you kind of bounce ideas off of, or, you know, you do a parent change, you want a second set of eyes on it. I think we get a lot more done that way than if one person is just sitting down and trying to figure out a mystery and untangle something. And then we did have a few people in the top 10 that didn't have bounty and they still wound up in the top 10. So, Billy Crawford did, Alan Drummy did, and Valerie Penner did. So, you know, way to go, you guys. I mean, that's, it's hard to get in that, you know, top five to 10 without having bounty points. So, that means, you know, you guys really had a lot of input into this week, a lot of participation. And then, like, what ends up with me a lot of times, Cecilia up there, all of hers were single relative points, nearly all of them. She had 137 relatives added outside of the ancestors. You know, the ancestors, one can add it fast, but just adding within those seven degrees adds, adds up fast as well. But it's a lot more profile work. She touched a lot of profiles doing that. Well, yeah. And, you know, and for people, too, that aren't really sure they, you know, they don't feel confident that they can do the research. That's one of those other ways that they can do this is, you know, there will be those of us that go, okay, I'm researching this couple trying to figure out this problem. But, you know, I did put the sources for their 10 kids on the profile. Somebody wants to go add them, feel free. You know, so if you don't feel confident doing the research yourself, you know, you can get into our live chat and just forward. And when somebody says that, go, hey, I'll add them, you know, and take the sources and create those profiles, because that's still really important. And it's really helpful. You know, I want to see the whole family on Wikitree, not just the main ancestor. Right. And that's what I've been doing as well. I kind of will wait until the next day. And then I'll start looking up the newspaper articles on starting with like the grandparents or the great grandparents, depending on the ages. And try to figure out where I want to find things I can just add on to what they've already done to make their ancestor stories more interesting. Yeah. And I do love the, you know, the fact that we go out to these seven degrees now. And that will be something we'll be continuing for the 2023 challenge. But it just gets people so many more places to work on. You know, in last year, we only did the direct line. And if we had a lot of people signed up, you'd get in there and it was really hard at the start to find a profile to work on. But now once those first, you know, few generations are added, there's just hundreds of ways you can go with it. So it makes it so much nicer for participants to be able to get out there and find something to work on. Yeah, I like it better. I like it this way. I'm not a big competitor. I like to compete, but I'm not like, I don't like that the huge competitor. So I like to be able to contribute and see that I'm contributing, but I don't always have to be, you know, battling. Right. I don't want to have to, the ancestors, like you say, are a little farther between. There's not as many. And it's harder once you get out. So it's, some people are really good at that. And that's good. They can do, it's, there's more of their jive, you know, they can, so. They can follow that path and everybody else. So just go branch out. Yeah, I like the connections. So that's one of my favorites. Did you have any really difficult ones this week that you got to look at or? The naming was just hard because there was so many, unless you could find a last, I had a last name that was, didn't have any particular ones. I didn't delve. I didn't have a chance to get in deep on anything. So if I, if I ran into a challenge, I usually took a break and maybe had another kid or another line because I just didn't have the time to delve in anything difficult this week. But there was some in the chats I saw that were quite the tangled web of conflated profiles and. Yeah. And if any of you in the viewing audience want to pipe in with names of difficult lines or those common names, feel free. I know we had a number of them where the names were just so common, or, you know, they used it in three different generations in that family. You know, the, usually the Scottish are a little better about it because they do have their naming system as far as, you know, what to name the first child, what to name the second child. But you still wind up overall with some names that are just so incredibly common. And I know we did have a couple of branches that got clipped, not, you know, not even long after we got started. And, you know, and I don't ever want anybody to think that I don't believe them because I'll say, okay, I just need one other person to look at this. It's not because I don't believe you. You know, it's because I find it better if you have two different people with two different perspectives, take a look because they might see something you don't. And, you know, chances are, I mean, you're right, it needs to be disconnected, but it also kind of gets them familiar with it so that when you go to reattach the correct parents, you've got a second person you can go to and go, oh, hey, I think this is the mother-in-law, what do you think? You know, and they've already kind of researched some of the line helping you out and it gives you somebody to collaborate with. So, you know, that's kind of the reason I usually ask somebody. And I do the same thing for myself, though, you know, if I think somebody's the wrong parent, I'll have somebody else come in and take a look. I'll say what, you know, I'll leave good notes and I'll say, come in and look, what do you think? Yeah, and there's so many good analytical minds in our groups here that it amazes me how much I don't always have that. I don't always have the time to get my brain wrapped around it, but once you can get your brain wrapped around it, it really helps to have someone to balance it off of. Yeah, and I love to see that go back, you know, where they go back and forth and discord once again in the live chat, you know, and you'll get to them that are trying to figure out this difficult tangled roots somewhere and to watch them go back and forth and, you know, bounce ideas off each other and say, what do you think about this? Or, you know, I think it might, that's supposed to be that person. It's just really fun to watch and see how their mind works its way through the problem. I know, the ones that have done it, like even just so you, they don't realize how many of us are watching and observing and learning from what has been done. Even if you're not involved in it, it really helps to watch the process like that, I feel. Yeah, it does. And, you know, we all have different ways of looking at things and we all have different skill sets and resources, even. So, you know, where I might be stuck on something, you might have an additional resource that would help straighten it out. And, but I think, yeah, just having the different point of views, you know, where I might tackle a problem this way and you tackle it a different way. If we get together between the two of us, you know, we might really knock something out of the park. But, yeah, the rest of us get to learn by it. Yes, I learn something every week. So, for sure. I do. And, you know, I've been doing this challenge for almost two full years. Now, it's hard to believe it, but it's been almost two full years. And, you know, I learn stuff all the time from the people that are involved and the projects that we interact with. It's really great. And, Anne Watt was saying, if you do Scottish stuff, the best thing is to go ahead and go to Edinburgh, you can visit the archives and for 15 pounds a day, you can look up dozens of records, which for people that can do that, that's really awesome to know, you know, that they just do the like a one-day pass, I'm assuming. That is nice. If you had Scottish ancestors, you know, that would be really fun. I mean, I love digging into archives and real records. It doesn't happen that much anymore, but... Well, and the other thing you can do is just so many people, so many active genealogists on Winky Tree is reach out to people and say, hey, you know, I need somebody to go to the archives in Edinburgh and offer to trade them something, you know, say I'm in this location. So, if you go to Edinburgh for me, I'll go to this place for you if you need it, you know, and see if you can work out a trade that way so that you're both kind of getting something out of it. Right. Or sometimes if they're already going there for something, they might be willing to look up a few things. It's just hard to coordinate all that. There's so much out there that's potentially useful in those ways. You can just make the connections with people. Yeah, and I know that's one of the things we usually do as far as with the Family History Library is we have, you know, you and somebody else that can look up records there, but when we get into these trees like this where it's all Scottish, it didn't really help us. So, usually that is a huge help, hopefully a trip in the next year. Well, you'll have to let us know if you go how much you find, how successful you are. And Anne says she's traded lookups. Yeah, that's really cool. So, Thomas, are you still down in the chat? I know he's probably getting excited about the next challenge coming up because that will be his week to captain again, where we have difficult, difficult lines. It does. It looks like very challenging and unique locations again. You know, not one location for sure, but multiple. Yeah, and we've kind of done little bits of this and that, you know, as we've gone along. You know, we've done quite a bit with the Ashkenazi Jewish people and, you know, we've had small places where we've dipped into Ukraine and whatnot, Russia not so much, and Lithuania. I don't think we've done any research there. And, you know, and so we're going to be really relying on our people that know, like the Hebrew and the Yiddish languages to come in again. And we're really hoping to, they're working on trying to get the naming guidelines to match up with the fields a little bit better so that when we do start, we'll have some standards for that and we will go over that in a kickoff next week. But, you know, hopefully, I think it'll be exciting. I think it'll be a fun week. It's just very, very challenging. And another one of those donna where we get to learn from the people that know what they're doing because I don't know about you, but I don't, you know, don't have a whole lot of experience. Just what I've done within the challenge. I will probably be lurking and offering to do lookups, newspaper, and family search. That will probably be my biggest contribution, maybe, or if I can get down on some sidelines and do some connections, that'll probably be where I'll try to add. So just a pure fact, a pure fact that we added almost 950 people to his CC7, basically, between ancestors, nuclear, and within the CC7, there was 947 ancestors added just on the score sheet so that doesn't count people who added them that aren't on the score sheet. Yeah, I usually have the connections brought up, but I didn't this time. You know, the other incredible thing was is we always have certain amount of lines that we connect to. So, you know, I mean, that's our goal anyways. We want to connect to people that are already attached to the global tree, and that helps shorten other people's connections and to show us how we're connected to them. But, you know, when we do that, we usually wind up with this nice laundry list of suggestions, and people really stayed on top of them. So, you know, by the time I got in there and was trying to help with it, because I'll usually spend some amount of the week going in and trying to work on those suggestions once they build up, most of them were knocked out. They were just already done. So, that was really, really impressive. I was trying to look, see if my distance improved. I know it had not earlier in the week, but... Well, I don't think I checked mine when it ended either, just because... Oh, I did. No, I did. I went from 33 to 24. I did finally increase or decrease my connection by nine. So, that's cool. I went from 39 to 23. Wow. That's a huge jump. I think that's the biggest jump I've ever seen, and it looks like a lot of people at that same time did. So, that was one of those really amazing connections that was initially done. When I see one person on here, they were originally at a 50. They were 50 steps from Robbie, and now they're 18. It was a gain of 32 degrees of connection gain. Wow. That's a lot. You know, I'm excited if it goes like two or three steps closer. I'm like, because that's a better connection made. And once again... You see a lot of people, yeah. Yeah, a lot of people were double digit changes this time. 15, 14, 16, 12. Yeah, there was quite a few of double digit decreases for the connection distances. I know. That's very exciting. Oh, Rosalind Todd, yeah, she's went 50 to 18, which is 32 degrees closer. That was the same one I was looking at. Yeah, that's not crazy. Yeah, it just really is. Usually we get some amount of jump, but not necessarily that big a one. But we must have made some connections, some really good, well-attached family lines. So, that was fun. And in Scotland, I mean, a lot of those, maybe you have been with some of the Scotland connections, we must have made some, not just going 12 generations out and then connecting, but actually making something closer. I'm thinking. Yeah, and most likely it's those connections that did go out sideways, and especially the ones that were able to go to other locations, because otherwise people like me wouldn't connect at all. If I had to rely on just Scotland, since I don't have those direct ancestors in my branches, then I need those other sideways or closer connections. Right. I'm looking all over because I have extra screens. So, then when I look for something besides a camera, I look like I'm looking away from everybody. No, that's okay. We can tell. I do the same thing. I want to just read it everything and look at it all and all the changes. They were just really incredible. So, I think we've pretty much covered, though, everything, right? Do the interesting lines. I haven't done the fan chart yet, but if you guys watch the G2G and I will be getting the highlights post out today, and I'll put the fan chart, the ending fan chart on there so you guys can really see. Hopefully, we'll have a few people that will show up, and it isn't just 100% Scotland, but it could be. So, I don't know until I get the fan chart pulled for it and I get the highlights done and we'll see what happens with that. It'd be kind of fun if we could figure out a way to look at those charts, but you know what I mean? But just see which line those out to seven degree people came on. Like they could float out on the fan chart or something so we could see the other locations. It's hard to get everything that would we need to see in a way that you can find it. I mean, there's so much on there now that I don't use that is so fun to see when I see people using it. I never would have thought of that. That is a really fun way to look at the connections or the ancestors, but finding it and getting it where we can all find it and use it is tough. I know. I use the six degree app a lot. They have the dynamic tree view, and that's really been worked on and improved since they worked on that extension. They've worked so many features into that. There's just all these fun tools that you can use. Of course, Greg's fan chart that we all love. I use that all the time throughout the year for the challenge and not for the challenge. And then have you tried the fan doku yet? No, I have not. It's harder than you think. If you haven't worked on your own tree lately, it's harder than you think. And basically it's like a puzzle. So all the names are floating outside the fan chart and you have to put them in a slot they belong in. Oh, I do want to try that sound. Yeah. And I'm like, oh, this will be easy. My main branches haven't changed in forever. It's just the outer branches that have. And you get to doing that and you're like, oh, no, where was this one supposed to be? I think it's over here. Sorry, grandma. Right, right. And then names repeat too. So then you're still trying to... Oh, and I am now 14th cousins three times removed from Robbie. So I'm actually a cousin now. So. Oh, awesome. Yeah. Well, I think we will go ahead and wrap this up for today. I want to thank everybody that participated really once again. It always just amazes us how much you guys can get done. You know, it's just really incredible to always look at these numbers and see the huge amount of work that you guys can get done in a week. I mean, a genealogist could work all year and not get this done. And you know, you guys just knock it out of the park every challenge. Oh, for sure. Yeah. And even as captain, it's all the people that did all the work and just it's amazing watching what everybody can do. So I appreciate all the work they did as well. And we will see you guys for the next challenge. Watch the G2G and we will start Mark Cuban's week and it should be an interesting one and a lot of fun.