 Good afternoon, good evening, and good morning to our friends from Australia and New Zealand who are joining us this morning, tomorrow morning, whatever, in the morning. Yes. Very exciting. The first person to join us was Amanda from Melbourne. That's great. We don't usually get a greeting from Amanda in Melbourne or anyone in Melbourne first thing in the office. Welcome Amanda and Anne from Cleveland and Dee and Christine and Yoke, Vicki, Chris. It's lovely to see you all and all the rest of you who are joining us after the fact and watching this afterwards, welcome to you as well. So here we are on the 10th day of Elfmas. We're very excited for all this. And if this happens to be the first time you've watched a wikitree video, welcome to wikitree. Wikitree.com is a free genealogy website where genealogists collaborate and we work together all the time. And we've been working together for the last couple of weeks doing some really special stuff because we've been doing a Secret Santa challenge where certain wikitreers, Secret Santa elves, have been granting wishes and doing research and breaking down brick walls and adding profiles and doing lots of things for their fellow wikitreers. And so we've been highlighting one of those each day and today is the 10th day and we'll be doing something special. But before we do that, I should introduce the rest of the people with me. My fellow lead elves on the end over there are Kathy and Christine and they've helped keep me and the rest of the elves all organized, though there's been so many elves and so many wishes and so many things we're all getting floored by the organization and wondering how we're going to wrap this up on Saturday at 10 a.m. Eastern 3 p.m. UTC and highlight all the things that have been found. But we'll find a way of doing something. But we also have right next door, I have Greg, who is the person who made the wish for today's wish that we're going to highlight. And below I have Pat and Elf Michael who worked on that wish. And so we're very happy to have them as well. So Michael's been, he's on the naughty list, so he's under the interrogation lights. Interrogating him for, you know, putting up a profile without sources or something like that. So anyways, welcome to everyone. So let's start off by going to share my screen and sing us into the beginning of this wish on the 10th day of Elf mess to kind elves gave to me 10 French soldiers. And as always, you'll get the full song with all 12 verses on Saturday's live cast when we do the big wrap up. But for now, 10 French soldiers. We let's let's start us off. Greg, can you read your wish for us? Can you see that? OK, yes. Dear Santa, have I been a good boy? Well, I can explain impersonating you was really my fault. People see the physical resemblance and make assumptions, and I don't always disillusion them, especially youngsters. My wife loves that, by the way. They'll kick us and I just go. And they go and get all excited. But that time at the airport in Amsterdam, the clerk and that other couple really needed a laugh, so and that's a story that I told some of the time. I have any number of brick walls I'd like to see broken down. But my brick wall ancestor, who was born most recently, was Margaret Crozier Waddell, so if you can find any of her parents and siblings, I promise to stop procrastinating any day now. But then I changed my mind because I had to ask that in a previous secret Santa thing and nobody can make any progress that time. So I said, you know what? I made that same wish two years ago and nobody could help. So here's an alternative gift that you can slip into my stocking. That should be easier. Pick any of the surnames that I'm tracking. Look up the people with that same surname on the Commonwealth War Graves Commission site. And for those people who have profiles on Wikitree, add a link to their CWGC entry to their profile. For those who don't have profiles on Wikitree, create a source of profile for them, including a link to the CWGC entry. I'm cursed with a vivid imagination and going through all those records makes me so sad. You know, when you see somebody dies when they're like 18, 19, 20, 21 and in such huge numbers, it just breaks my heart. And I want to say to the families who probably all died before I was even born, I'm sorry for your loss because, you know, and when you lose somebody, it really, really hurts. Yeah. Yeah, it is. Yeah. So yes, thank you. Indeed, it is. It is actually it could be overwhelming because they're I mean, these are 10 profiles that have been chosen and the connection of the French soldiers, because they all have the last name French. So it's the Commonwealth War Graves Commission. So that means that all of these come from Commonwealth countries. So Canada, the United Kingdom and Australia. I don't know if we have it. I don't think we we picked any New Zealand profile. I don't think we saw any. I didn't see any. But yeah, I have to confess, yes, the free space page was a little more extensive than I was anticipating. Mm hmm. So I don't know if Greg has seen Greg. Have you seen that free space page? I have no. Yeah, nobody sent me the link yet. Oh, OK. It's too close to Greg. Captain Greg, there's a link at the bottom, just under Greg's name. OK, it's going to have to be Greg, one of Greg, two. OK. So this is here we are, right? So so did someone actually find the parents for Margaret? No, yeah, there's a well, well, that has their hand up. OK, so maybe you did that. I there are two profiles for Margaret Crozier on Wikitree. One of them has been on since 2011 and one of them was on three years ago. They were both made by the same person. Yes, one person has one one profile has a different last name, which is why they weren't connecting. But one profile has all the sisters and brothers, parents up. And one profile has all the husband kids down. So you put one of your profiles together and they'll be fine. I wonder if they were made to try to prove that there was no conflation or two separate people. That's a bit of a difficult time period to research in the Maritimes, and I don't know what there is for sources. Well, it does. It does say on the one that has the different last name, but there are no sources for this name that she is trying to look for that she says is the last name of this person now. But she has it as Cozier. OK, so well, that's something for you to check out, Greg. But here's the other one. So the all of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission list. The look at this list. Can you believe it? I'm still scrolling, still scrolling. I can see the progress from the side. It's just still some. More, more, more. So what Pat did here was the ones that are in bold are I think the soldiers and then the ones underneath that are their families. Yep. Oh, OK. OK. So Walter, for example, here, there's Walter is a soldier in bold. And then underneath the profile for his father, his mother, his paternal grandfather and his paternal grandmother. Yep. So so in case you were looking for something to do. OK. I have a question. OK, Kathy. I want clarification on those letters that are after the names. Is that regarding like paternal paternal grandfather and so forth? OK, I was right. You were right, Kathy. Yes. And what are the numbers? OK. Those are how far back. I can still go trace that line back sourced. The one the number on the left is how many I have sources for. I can get sources for. And the number on the right is how far back I can go. So sometimes they coincide and sometimes they go. Right. So, Jack, you can you have no sources, but you can go back a generation, but you don't have the sources to prove it. Right. Got it. OK, OK. Cool. OK. Michael, who is under the heat lamp from. Do you want to comment on? So we're going to we're going to be focusing on the French profiles. And I think you worked on other profiles. The ones at the top. If you scroll it up, you'll see a couple kibblers and a bunch of goodies. Yeah, good. And I did those. I didn't. I didn't list all the family profiles that I created like Pat did. I just put notes on the side. So there's an extra, I don't know, 40 or 50 profiles that I created that I just have in notes there. I found it interesting. You know, I found, as you can see, there I found a couple brothers there and a scroll up just a little more. Henry and AJ are Uncle and nephew. Oh, oh. And I'm hoping maybe someday someone who's researching the good goods surname might go into these profiles, ancestor profiles I created and check. And, you know, for instance, Henry or is that Harry? I can't very, you know, parents. I created their profiles and in that bio for them is all of the children that I could find quickly. And so, but I didn't go and see if they existed on Wickey Tree yet. I just sort of listed them. And someday I hope somebody who's researching this surname will go in and look at all those children of the parents and children of the grandparents and see if they exist on Wickey Tree and maybe they'll be able to connect with some of these other veterans who passed away in the war. I actually do work on goods and all of the surnames in my family tree. Like I do it like three surnames per month. So when I when I get to it, I will take a look at what you've done with the goods and the kibblers. That's excellent. But you you're not wrong in calling them French soldiers. At least you might not be because I was I was visiting England and we found in an old church that's it was a Baptist church and they moved into town. They were hiding out of town until the edict of toleration in 1837 by the old church out in the country. There are French gravestones and that's up on my mother's family line. And so we went into the church in town and asked if the Cyril's mother was a French and Cyril had done a family tree by hand, dating back to the time of like Oliver Cromwell. And his French is were juvenile refugees from France and people couldn't pronounce their French names. So they just called the way French is and it may be that other French's got their French surname that way. So they may actually be partly French. Oh, wow. That makes sense. That does make sense. It makes perfect sense. Yeah. Wow. That is fantastic. Wow. So let us shall we shall we dive into this? OK. Come on, Craig. Come on. I'm so excited. So we have picked 10 French profiles, the surname French, but, you know, maybe deep, deep background in French. And I've got I've picked sort of a little snippet of each of them from each of them of different records or different things that have been found. So I'm just going to sort of go through this. But Pat and and Michael, feel free to jump in and correct me or add any any notes that you want to add to it as well. So the first first one here, Flight Sergeant George French born in 1916 from Bowen Hills, Queensland, Australia. And he was in the Second World War, died on November 11th, 1944. So a remembrance day in 1944 while serving the World War. That should say to actually we missed an eye there. That is death was a result of a flying battle over Germany. And so all of these all of these have research notes. Sometimes they're just a matter of that when they were created, but sometimes there's additional information that's been added. The information here from the from the war graves site is has been added so you get the parents name and any comments, residents, the rank, the regiment that they're in. So lots of really neat information there. And now this one has a sticker that says this profile is part of the French name study, but could all of them have that sticker on it? I don't know if they all do, but they they go. Action. I had I read his profile of what he wanted on the French. Yes, said he wanted to go all the way back to what I couldn't go past. So if they have a sticker on, they have no parents. If they don't have a sticker on, then they have parents or grandparents or great grandparents or great, great grandparents. So the sticker, the names, study stickers only going on the last the last answer with that name. Yeah, it keeps down with that keeps the numbers down inside the study for sure. Well, one of the things that I'm trying to do with the French study, which I manage, is to find out whether the name rose separately in multiple locations or whether all of the French is are ultimately related. So when I managed to connect two lines together, I removed the sticker from whichever one is not the oldest ancestor. Yes. OK. OK, well, we'll let you manage that then. Since you've got to handle on it there. So what I wanted to show you there here was so here is what the site on the Commonwealth, the Commonwealth War Graves Commission site, there is the entry for flight sergeant George French. And so this is typical of what the official CWGC site looks like. It tells you where they're buried and then a link directly to the cemetery. In fact, and even a look, those numbers indicate exactly how to find the grave. Column row, something like that, section, section row column. It's I think each grave cemetery has slightly different coordinates, but stuff like that. And then so that if you open up that link, then you can see a picture of the cemetery. And why did this? And here is the find a grave link. And this one you can actually they've actually taken a picture of this of the tombstone itself. Which is kind of nice. And then there's a picture of him, too, a picture of him. And these are always some of them are like he looks like he's in his 20s. He would be in his 20s, right? He was born 18. Yeah, some of them, you're right, like 17, 18 years old. It's just hard for me. I mean, it's heartbreaking. This is one of my one of my great uncles lied about his age to get into reform and he was just too young and he couldn't handle it and reading his military record is heartbreaking because he spent so much time in the hospital. Yeah. That is hard. OK, moving on, Walter Edward French from Ontario and you'll see a lot of Canadian content on this one in this whole wish because it is the Commonwealth Wargray. So between Canada, UK and Australia, those are the three countries that the 10 soldiers have been picked from. And Canada actually has some really good records. So sorry, not sorry. So Walter, Walter Edward was born on the 20th of April 1923. So he was only 20 when he passed away in 43. He was he died on the 14th of July in England while serving World War Two. He was buried at St Andrews Church, well, Lincolnshire. And there's this fine to grave. And so for him, I wanted to show I want to show that we have Canada has a virtual hall of remembrance and they have a giant book which lists all of the the dead from the Second World War. I suspect they have one for the first war as well. And you can actually download the high res copy of that and then zoom right in to see. And there's there's all the French's. So Walter Edward here from part of the RC, the Royal Canadian Air Force and his that would be his title, which was what was it? How we see. Leading Air Craftsman. Leading Air Craftsman. There you go. Thank you. A leading aircraft man. Leading aircraft man. I guess the title, the suffix or the prefix here has a limited number of characters. Yes. So, you know, I mean, he fit right in today, you know, leading in AI, that's really cutting edge stuff. But it's sorry. It's interesting to note, though, that his parents left England to come to Canada and then he went right back. He went right back. Yeah. Yeah. And yeah, I wonder if his father served in the first world war. Oh, that's interesting. I haven't. Should we? Well, we could diverge. We're known to take rabbit holes, aren't we? Um, John French, that wasn't a simple. Does it say about serving French? Oh, is that his? Yeah, that's Walter's father I clicked on. Yeah, Harry. Oh, OK. Anyway, so it doesn't look like he did. Or if he does, it wasn't documented. That's an interesting question, though. Yeah. Um, so anyways, I thought that was neat that there is that virtual honor roll. That's there that is kept. And in fact, there's a lot of records in the Library and Archives of Canada. And some of them and many of them will see later on. It's a great reason to have access to ancestry.ca. You can see their whole war file, right? All the notes and what they got paid for, what they got reprimanded for. Yes, when they were drunk and when they, you know, all those things, it's amazing. You can see that directly on the Library and Archives Canada site. So you don't you don't need to be on ancestry, which I'm not. Right. Yeah. Yeah, that's the amazing thing. The Library and Archives of Canada is totally free. There's no paywall at all there. As long as you can navigate it. So the next one is Robert French. We're talking about born around the 19th of January, 1890, in Cheltenham, UK, passed away at sea on the 31st of May, 1916. And this one he received, he was on the Battle of Jutland or Jutland on the HMS defense and the ship went down. Well, what's nice about this one is that he did receive some medals for his service and we've got the medals added to the profile. So that's really nice. And Pat, who was the elf that helped you with the medals? Kirby, Kirby, Kirby. Elf Kirby, who's going to be our guest tomorrow? Spoiler, Kirby has done so much work. I was starting to wonder if we had two elf Kirby's. Mm hmm. So she she went in and she helped you with a number of profiles, right, Pat? Yeah, I think only one of the ones of the 10. And I thought, well, what are the chances? But then when you look at the huge list that there were, I didn't realize how long that list was. No wonder she couldn't get to all of them. But anyway, but that's a really neat addition to the profile, like quite like that. And then moving on to John Gay French, who was born in Bayswater, London, London, England, passed away in the 16th of November, 1939, the age of 33. Still in England. This guy makes me shake my head. Oh, yes. He did not he did not die in action. Actually, he died as a result of an accident when he was in the mess hall, talking to a few other people and he they were arguing about the merits of the two different types of gun. He grabbed a colt, so it's twirled it around and ended up shooting himself. Very sad. But the neat thing and then there's but you still awarded a star for what he had done before then, I guess. And he comes from such an enormous, well respected and well educated family. The newspaper articles were quite easily found. Yeah. Yeah. So there's one about his sad and shot while playing with a revolver. And I'm not going to read the whole thing, but it talks about. I mean, at first of all, you know, sets the stage, the eldest son of Mr. John French, who was a so the father was a throat nose and ear specialist. You know, resided Popper Hall, blah, blah, blah. And the one who died leaves a wife and two young children. So that's said to know. And then it actually has part of the transcript, basically of the court. The court report. Yeah. The court report, you know, you know what's. And the conversation back and forth of that happened in the in the mess hall, which is quite interesting. Yeah. Are you sure this is empty? Is the gun on? No, no, it's empty. Yes. Of course, it's empty. And it wasn't very sad. But so anyways, this is linked to the art of the the profile. So you should check that out. Actually, what I can do is I will put the link to this guy in the chat if people want to check it out. And then you can get to the clipping from there. But there's another clipping that is even sadder when you read it, because it's about death haunting, haunting your family. This family, this was not the first son. This is, in fact, the third son that died tragically in this family. Another son died in an air crash. The the one son died with a let's see. Who was a was a special specialist. No, just a second. Yeah, you got one with a bullet in the head, like was was murdered, basically. No, I think he did it to himself. Oh, OK. Oh, yeah. This one just says he was found with a bullet wound in his head. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. And his wife, what another interesting sort of side connection. The wife of the person with the bullet in the head had a promising film career. She was actually discovered by Douglas Fairbanks. No, that's. Wow, I like connections all over the place is kind of wild. Yeah. Then we have George Timothy French, born May 16th of May in 1879 in Woodstone, Huntingtonshire, England, died in the First World War 1917 in Belgium, died of shrapnel chest wounds received while serving in action in World War One. And what I wanted to highlight there, that Pat had found. So there is a find a grave. And this was a nice, actually, fulsome find a grave with the tombstone or the tombstone there. So you can see the marker with all the dates, but an actual picture as well of young George Timothy and another one here from the Australian surface. And he also served in the Boer War as well. OK. So he was born in England, but he worked as part of the Australian Imperial Force. Interesting. And the Boer War before that, yeah. And here is his record from My Heritage. So Pat also branched out and used some My Heritage records as well. And this one you can see. Where is he here under French? There is Lieutenant G. T. What's the. I'm not sure what the G.T. stands for there. Oh, maybe that's the plot. And. I had these all loaded, but they sometimes force. Come on. So what's the maximum number of tabs you can work on? Oh, yes. So. That number is one. But I was going to challenge the people in the in the chat to guess how many tabs I have open, but maybe you're counting them now. And so are you close to me as a photo? I can tell you that Kathy lowballed at first, but then you went over. So. It's in between 25 and 50. I was going to guess 40. OK, yeah, it's pretty close, actually. That's pretty close. Let's moving on to Ernest Leonard, French, private Ernest Leonard, French, born right before the turn of the century at in the 16th of December, 1899, Hopes Hill, Western Australia. Nice to have an Aussie here died in Thailand. This is Pat's cousin. Is this your cousin? Look at the top. No, this is me. It's my cousin, but it could be Pat's cousin, too. Because it's my. See, is this not the one? Oh, because it's she's the profile. Let me check. Let me check. No, no. Yes, yes, it is. Pat's. Yes, this is what I put the note in. It's a very distant cousin. But it's close to cousin. Ernest Leonard, French is. Twenty four degrees. He's my twenty first cousin, three times removed. OK, there you go. You're close to the nine. He's the one that I can go back to go parade Godfrey of Laughlin about eight hundred to eight hundred and seventy three on on wiki tree. That's amazing. Wow. Well, I mean, look at this. I can my cousins ship apparently goes around around to just shortly after a thousand, like a thousand thirty. That's wild. So our friend, Private Ernest Leonard, he died on the forty three while serving. He was a prisoner of war. So this is very sad. He was captured and then died there. And let's see if this opens up. Here is. Let me just rotate this. This is his service and casualty form. So this is one of the many types of forms you can find, if you're lucky enough. And this one here, you can see when when he was enlisted and TOS and you're thinking, what does TOS mean, terms of service? It actually is a term and there's a page on Library Archives, Canada, which is how to read a record of service or a casualty form. And you'll often it says you'll often see the TOS and SOS on those forms. TOS means taken on strength, which means they've joined the strength or the company, basically. The company is stronger because they've taken on these people. And then when they leave, they're struck off strength. So you use that to they use that to track their movements from one company to another. So he was on the 25th of February, 1941. He was enlisted and taken on strength. So he joined the company. Claremont and then you can see strength decrease, increase, granted, re-embarkation, embark for overseas. So he went from these are all Australia, free mantle Australia. Then he went to Malaya, which I guess is that the old name for Malaysia or is that a part of Malaysia? Well, Malaysia, the current Malaysia is a federation of Malaya that's I forget the other country. But yes, it's what was Malaya is now Malaysia, but it's not all of it, but not all of it. OK. I wasn't sure if it was the same or part part of so part of it. And then he got missing in Malaya and registered as a prisoner of war, died of illness while POW, dysentery, Berry Berry, World War Two, third of December, 1943. That's very sad in Siam, which we now know as Thailand, right? Yes. And then there's another note here. He was exhumed from Canberra and reburied at the Canberra War Cemetery. So that's something you see often as well. They might have a temporary grave and then some of them are re are exhumed and reburied in other places. So that's which leads me to wonder. I guess on the profile, you put where they actually died because we don't have a burial field, right? So he died in in this place in Thailand. But if we under burial, if we had a burial note, you should have a cemetery cat at the bottom. Oh, is there if you scroll to the bottom of the profile? No, we just have the Secret Santa X category. But we could create a cemetery. It might not be known or that cemetery might not be created yet. Right. Yeah. But I know that in in Europe. Like the the cemeteries were done afterwards and then all the soldiers were put or moved to them in the same. The same place. Right. OK. Then we have Albert French, ordinary, ordinary S ordinary soldier, ordinary sailor, sailor, ordinary sailor, seaman, seaman, ordinary seaman. He's just an ordinary seaman. Just an ordinary seaman. That's not extraordinary, not special about him. Apparently he was born about. I'm sure there's a reason for these names. I know it was born about 1915 in England, but more likely Ireland. That's interesting where his parents reside. Well, I guess his parents are William and John Agnes, French Northern Ireland. He died 27th of April of 1941 in Greece while serving in World War Two. When his ship, the HMS Diamond, was sunk by German aircraft. This was such an interesting story as well. Mm hmm. That that ship that he was on went in to rescue hundreds of people. And after they had rescued everybody, they got sunk. It's very sad, eh? So there's a Wikipedia page for the HMS Diamond, which is linked on the profile. And then it talks about the loss on that April of 26th. And the ship came to its aid, rescued some survivors, but was then sunk along with the Diamond. Oh! Yes, they both, they lost both the Diamond and the Rhinek. Oh, that's so sad. Yeah. So that's, but anyways, that's neat to have that additional information about the ship and stuff. Sad that says that story is though. It's nice to tie into, like clearly somebody's put in a lot of work on this project, trying to, on this other project, trying to catalog and categorize all of the ships and what class they were. And I don't know anything about, I don't know enough. I don't know as much as I should. None of my family ever, I don't think they ever were soldiers on a boat. I have lots of soldiers just not on boats. So I don't know about these things, but it's, somebody has put a lot of time and effort into that and it's nice to tie in to some of these, to some of these soldiers. Yeah, I agree. And Edwin French was also a sailor, a sub-lift tenant. Edwin French, Edward Michael French, born after, after March 1922 and North, Thrapsen, North Hampshire, England, passed away the 24th of November, 1941 before the age of 19. His ship, the HMS Dunedin, was hit by two torpedoes from the German U-boat U-124 when they were in the Central Atlantic in between Brazil and, or just north of Brazil. So this one has some interesting, so there is, again, there's his official record from the Commonwealth War Grains and he was, he's memorialized at the Portsmouth Naval Memorial and it has a very nice memory, memorial page set up for him. So in memory of sub-lift tenant, Edwin Michael French, I'm pronouncing it the British way, left tenant. I know all the Americans watching are gonna want to pronounce it new tenant and you can in your head, but for the, to be true to the, true to the history of where it's from, the Commonwealth we pronounce it left tenant. So there we go, commemorated in perpetuity by the Commonwealth War Grains Commission. So that's a nice little honorable plaque that's there. And then here is a picture taken from the larger, the larger wall that lists all the, these are all the people from the same ship that passed away, all the sub-lift tenants who die, including there's French, EM French. And someone wants supper, I'll get you in a sec. And here's a picture of the Dunedin when it was at sea in better times. And then there is a, there actually is a website where called U-Boat.net that, go get your supper. Sorry. Dogs and kids. The dogs and kids, that's great. There's a whole website devoted to, to Allied ships and the ships hit by U-Boats. And so here is the entry on the Dunedin. It's a light cruise of the D class. Did you know that Christine from the Royal Navy? And there's a map of where exactly it went down. So I think I thought I zoomed into that. You can, can zoom into it. Okay. I do love that they have all the photos of the boats though. Yeah. Oh, there we go. If I do this, then you can see where it is. Oh, wow. It's really in the middle of nowhere. But, which is why they- Is this death place at sea? Yeah. At sea. And then it goes into details about what happened. And so you could read all the details of exactly what happened, which is, and then here's from the actual entry that attack itself. It gives it notes on the event. So some really interesting stuff there. Moving on to Cecil Harold French, the 21st of June, 20 in Halifax, another Canadian died on the 14th of April, 1945 at age 24. He died in Germany while serving in World War II. And what I wanted to highlight there, there is a picture of him and his at rest young kid. He actually lived here in Hamilton for a bit after he was born on the East Coast. Right. His parents had lived here and he signed up. This is where he signed up. Wow, right where you are. So here he was part of the Argalan Southern Highlanders of Canada, also known as the Princess Louise's unit. And he was buried in Holton eventually. But at first, when he hears from his war record, so this is part of the files, these are the files that we were talking about at the beginning, the whole, basically the whole folder on Cecil is available for free on the Library and Archives Canada website, but also available in Ancestry, if you have a subscription to that. And this is one page from it that talks about his particulars of his death. Died of, I think that's not going to be bigger. This was here, if anything, there we go. The 14th of April in Germany. And then the burial, it actually amazed at the detail here. They tell you exactly where he was buried. On the main road going into Frigsoth, traveling northeast on the right side of the road, just before crossing the bridge into the town, about 18 yards back from the road in a garden beside the stream. That's wild, but I mean, how valuable that is, because then they know exactly where to, like if they were able to go back and relocate them, which they in fact did, they did move into a grave, a military grave later. But it's amazing what I'm finding interesting about all these records is the detail that's been put into them. So I thought that was interesting. And then there he is. This record here is the reburial record. So he's now been moved to the Holton Canadian military cemetery in Holland. And there's the location for that. So those are interesting things. And Christine shared with me where exactly Frigsoth was. It's there it is, or Frisoth. So they spelled it with a G on that one record, but it's also spelled some time. Maybe it's more properly spelled with an E. And so there it is in Germany. If I zoom out a little bit and sort of get a sense of where it is in the larger scope of things. Almost halfway between Amsterdam and Hamburg. Looks like right over next to Britain. And number 10, the last French, Alfred French, born in 1918, 21st of July in Greater Vancouver on our west coast, passed away on the 24th of April, 1945. Don't, I hate seeing the death dates in 1945. They're so close to the end of the war. You know, in the Netherlands. And while serving in World War II. And so what I have here. And he died in Holton. Is that not where the last time I was buried? Yeah, that's interesting, isn't it? Well, let's check it out. So here I have, this is the link now. I'm using the link on Ancestry because that was the one that was added in the profiles but there would be a, would be good to actually put the Library Archives Canada link on the two so that everyone can get access to them, not for free. So this first page that it links to, so that's the first page you'll hit when you go into the access to the record from Ancestry. And this is basically his signing up page or his attestation, the details about him. Alfred French, he was from British Columbia, Presbyterian, a sheet metal worker, single, gives his mother as a next-to-kin. Not sure why that's scratched out. Oh, I do remember there's something later on. Another sad thing, then in fingerprinted, isn't that nice to know that he's fingerprinted. So you move on and you get more details but if you move back, you would get like this is just a treasure trove because if you go back, then what you get is his questionnaire that he filled out, which includes members of his family, his father, the father and mother, his brothers, sisters, and all these sorts of details. So you could fill out a lot more of the profile or you could add additional profiles with all of this information as good starting points and stuff. And then, so there is about 20 pages of information here, but as Christine said, I'm just gonna highlight a few things. So here he is, this tells you, they keep track of so many things, all the dates and where they went, when he disembarked, taken on service, granted leave, when he was on a ship. When they went on furlough, when they took their Christmas, when they, everything, if they had to go to sick fate or something. Medical exam, he's a vertical scar on his right little finger, like, I mean. Yeah. He had, he was sick and he had, let's see, there was one thing here, more dates and stuff. An exam, an exam because he had enteritis. Anyways, the type of detail and information here, you could really be, if you were a bio writer or a bio builder, you could take this information and really flesh out his military career and sadly, he's passed on, but at least that would be something and another way to remember him, at least you knew what he was going through. Was this the one that his mother ended up in a mental hospital for a little bit? I think that's why her name was, her name and address was crossed off because her father was, the father was the only one, yeah, so she went to a mental hospital. And he sent a letter, he wrote a letter because he was destitute and needed and- And he wanted money. He wanted the money, he was poor, he wanted money. Yeah. Yeah, he wanted the money from his son, his dead son. Mm-hmm, yeah. Suddenly stuff. I know Vancouver's expensive to live in. That's right. So I think I will leave it here. There's just so much interesting stuff. You could, I could spend the next half hour just going through these records, but you don't want to do that. Yeah, let's not do that. Okay, I will stop doing that. But what I do want to say is Bravo, Pat and Michael, for all of the work that you guys have done. Above and beyond. Above and beyond, this is, wow, this is a gold star wish. What do you think, Greg, number two? All right, I am astounded. Just like I, well, to have both wishes granted, you know, when I was kind of hoping for one, and then just the sheer number of, thank you so much, Pat and Michael, just the sheer number of profiles that you built. And it's funny that the last one that we looked at is from my hometown, so. No way. Yeah. As a matter of fact, I saw the address for the father in the records you were flipping through. And where his father lived back then is now Pacific Center, a big shopping center in Vancouver. Oh, wow. Wow. Wow. Do you know any Frenches? Are they? My mother's maternal grandmother was a French. In Vancouver? That's why I studied that. Well, she ended up in Vancouver. She was born in England. But in her family that came across, it was all girls. So Edwin's father may have been her cousin, but was not her brother. Right. Interesting. Might be related. Yeah, could be. Wow. Well, Pat, Michael, do you have anything else to add? Nope. Nope, okay. Well, thanks for joining us today. Thanks, Greg, for joining us as well. We love when the wishies are part of the broadcast and get to react to the reveal and, wow, the sheer number here, amazing. So Greg here in Vancouver? Actually, right now I'm in Ontario, but I was born and raised in Vancouver, yeah. Oh, okay. Ontario. Ontario, there we go. Sorry, Kathy. So come back tomorrow when we will have day 11 and that will be at 12 noon Eastern or 5 p.m. UTC. And we'll try to keep Greg under an hour again. Yes. It is under an hour. I, we didn't do it over an hour. There we go. Anyways, thanks everyone for coming, all my guests. Thanks everyone here who are in the chat, sharing lots of great things. Like and subscribe and we'll see you tomorrow. Bye. Bye.