 decided she needs to be a part of this live cast. She loves bingo. She wants a prize. She wants bingo night gear. So hello. So how's everybody doing out there? This is our inaugural version of Friday bingo, the very first one. So we thought we'd talk about projects because each particular event that we have for bingo, we're going to have a guest with different projects. So if you have a particular project you want more information about, drop us a comment and let us know which project you're most interested in getting more information for. We'll go out and talk to them and see if we can bring them in as a guest. But it'll be really fun because each week or each event, bingo, there's every other Friday, there'll be two events. One at noon eastern and 6pm eastern. We'll have different guests and the words. We'll match the project. So especially when we get into some of, like we were talking the Welsh project or something like that, we definitely need a guest to help us pronounce some of those words. And we put the bingo card up top. Let me see if I can do that again. This is how we're going to get started. Give everybody a few minutes to get their card. This is the first at noon at this event. There'll be two. This is the first one. So if everybody gets their bingo card, let us know if you got it. I've got mine. And you're ready to go. I'm ready. And because there are two bingo cards for every two bingo games for every time you see us here, that's two chances of winner prize. I mean, it's nice prize. It's a wiki treaty shirt, which you know everybody wants, but also everybody wants mug. Mugs are very popular. And guess what? We have particular bingo specifically for here. So you can get a bingo shirt or bingo mug while you come back and play bingo and learn about the project. Okay. So work, John. So we've got one. Janine's got Eric Scott. Oh, that's so kind. She's commuting and listening. Yeah, it looks like a lot of people have got. Oh, Mary, is it cold in Western Pennsylvania? You guys have to have snow by this time of year. It seems like. Right? We don't. Do you generally get snow? Yeah, here and there. It's, you know, it like here it'll snow in the morning and it's gone by the afternoon. Yeah, we get snow in Atlanta. You know, we're wiki training all day long because we don't get in the car. I don't play me. I don't either because people here, you know, we don't get snow that often, so nobody remembers how to drive in it. Yep. Fun chaos. Pam wants to know how to get her card. Click the link. Well, pretty warm taste. Mary knows no. Oh, wait, didn't we hear that Oregon was getting snow too? Maybe the first time here for Friday. Cool. Hi, Bobo. Okay. Now, for those of you just arriving, just want to mention again that this is the bingo is going to be involving the projects. So the very first one, you get to see us kind of discuss what projects are on wiki trade. And then we're going to have guests. So come back tonight at six o'clock Eastern, because our special guest will be David from the newly revitalized US governor's project, which is really taken off. He revitalized, I think, about a week ago. And it's really taken off and he is looking for volunteers. Yeah, I was happy to see so many people hop on there. And I really want to volunteer to do Mexico, but I can't. I know he is to a point. I was going to pick two states. And I said, no, that's greedy. I'm going to pick one. And even then it's, it's fun. It's interesting learning. And I will give everybody a little hint for the connectathon starting next month. I have found that the three states that I had been working on for governors, a lot of them are not connected. Or they need lots of kids or siblings and parents at it. So if you're, you're here, a little tip, go out to your state's governor. See if you can connect some during next month's connectathon. And then you're set. Yeah, because we're probably focused a lot on adding the governors themselves, but their families and extended families are probably just sitting there waiting. We added. Yep. So seeing what you learn when you come to VINGDA, we give you fun stuff to learn, easy stuff to learn. So I was talking, we're talking, and can anybody guess what the first wiki tree project was? The very first one ever silence. We have silence. No gases. That was even before I joined for the long time ago. Well, give you guys a hint. It is definitely not anything in the new world. He clicked on the link. Oh, I don't know if it works on tablets, Pam. Should works on phones. So I think it worked on a tablet. Bingo, Eric. Yeah. Now, Eric, did you go out and find that real quick? Or did you know that? Betsy got it, too. That's true, Pam. It does work. It works on. I know it works on my Android. In my computer. Does anybody have an iPhone that works on? And then we were talking, do we ever figure out what the most current new project? I'm still pretty sure it's Appalachian. That's pretty impressive. I had no idea. I thought there might have been some sneaky ones behind this. There may be like little ones. That would just be really fast. So it's on the radar. So there may have been like free space page ones that were started up or they haven't. I think we got a few of those Appalachians in here, too. So they're pretty cool to show up. All right. So if you guys are ready, let me, I'll go drop the link one more time for those who just joined and give you my hot second or two to bring it up. And we'll see how it goes. Okay. Let me share the screen. And if you're ready, a couple of things to tell you, there is no free space in the middle. So what you'll need to do is get the horizontal vertical horizontal door. Are we doing diagonal too? Nope. Okay. Or diagonal. And the first one that says bingo in the chat is this winner. And then after this game, we'll have one more. Okay. Here we go. So the first one is the breeder's project. And many of you know PIP from wiki tree. So I'll be the first one to tell you that if anybody would like to be a breeder, please reach out to PIP. You can always, always these gooders. And just remember that the first when you start wiki tree, somebody greeted you. And remember how good that felt that you weren't alone. So if you would like to be a breeder, there you go. Tommy, you have a free space? I thought I got rid of that. I had one too. Okay. Well, there's a free space in this one. The Nordic group project. Now this one covers a lot of different subcategories as well. So if you have Nordic ancestors or you're living in that area of the world right now and enjoying it, then check out that project as well. They have a lot of really good subprojects. And USBH, which is the US Black Heritage Project. They are going like gangbusters. They are doing a fantastic job of documenting and really, really beautiful profiles too. For sure. And I agree with Azor. Even if you just read one hour a week, just one little hour a week, that would be tremendous help. Canada. I bet you they have some snow. They have some snow. Oh, yeah. I was in a video with Greg Clark the other day and he had snow in his backyard. I'm jealous. Okay. This is one that we talked about. This has been a popular one with the Appalachia project that I'm part of. Remember the children. You want to say a little bit about what, remember, the children project is? Yeah. They are focused on individuals who died young. I want to say 18 is their cup. It's just, you know, sometimes those profiles get overlooked. And really, they found that there's quite a lot you can add to those. They've got some stickers you can add. There's some boxes you can check, you know, like that's not married and no children. They just really focused on, you know, kind of remembering those individuals. You're right. They are kind of forgotten. They really are. And we've already reached out to this project. So look for them in the future as a guest. Wales. We talked about this as well that we'd love to have somebody come on Wales that can pronounce the streets in the city. For us, that would be fabulous. Oh, the D&D project. This one is like one of the beloved ones on Wiki Tree because every time you look at a profile, you'll notice on the right you see if your DNA connected to them or not. This has got so many people working on it and information. So if you're curious about DNA, definitely reach out to them. They're great. They will answer any question too. To them, there is no dumb question. So ask them anything. The Italy project. Italy. I thought we'd do. I believe we have Azor, the project leader of Italy. U.S. Southern colonies. That's one of my favorite. That's one of the ones that I worked on, the colonial governors last week. Which one did you just do? It Africa. This one is large. This one's got a lot of subprojects. So if you have an interest in this continent, it would be a great help to Wiki Tree because this one is quite large. It would be great to see some more profiles from some of these projects that don't have a lot of members currently. So maybe today you can work on some. You know some. Reach out to some people who might want some disasters. I don't know how many people know a lot about the disasters project. It covers such a wide variety. I think weather disasters and I know mining. Yeah, mining. The weather disasters. They do trying to think about testing them through fires, industrial disasters, transportation disasters like the Titanic. Oh yeah. I forgot about that. Natural disasters. They try to stay. They don't focus on anything that's in the last 75 years though. That makes sense out of respect for the that makes sense. Exactly. The ambassadors. And since it was yours here, if you wanted to type a little bit of information into about it, ambassadors, this is one of my favorite I meant because I am a true social media addict. You will find me on Twitter constantly. We got a bingo. Oh, we got a bingo. Is Mary is like, there we go. Okay. So, Mary, what we'll do is contact. You need to send me an email and tell me that you won. And then I will help you be able to pick your price. And tell them, I guess the very first bingo something tell her that way you'll know. So, which one it is, but you'll probably remember because you're here. I'm here. I'll remember Mary's lucky. Okay. So, let me let me remove this. Congratulations, Mary. Yay. Oh, Debbie, one away. Debbie, which one were you one away from? Oh, and John was waiting on data doctors. Okay. Let me bring up then the next one. Okay. Everybody wants a brand new card. Here we go. I'll give you guys a few seconds, a minute to go ahead and bring up your card. Let's make sure that it works. The link works and what projects are you project that wiki tree projects too. I'm a little luscious here. Sandy. Yeah. Which projects are you most active in? Which project am I most active in? It's a combo actually, you know, I won't lie. Appalachia has my heart. But because of that, I am constantly working in the West Virginia project, as well as the Georgia project, as well as the mining disasters project because I combined those. That's a good one. What was your answer? Let's see. I would say the ambassadors and that's you can I you know, I'm not I'm in a lot of projects. I don't have a lot of time to do sadly, like things on wiki tree that much. So it's a treat when I get to you. I do do New Mexico. Yeah. Because that's where like half my ancestry is from is probably another one. There I would love to do. There's my list as long of ones I would love to. It's like you're saying with the US governor, it's like, oh, I wish I could do that one. And there's, you know, I think that's really what you know, you really do bring up a good point with you tend to go to a person tends to go to wiki tree to the project that really appeals to them first. Yeah. And I'm trying to thank I think West Virginia project might have been my first. It was too many years ago to really remember. But then you do reach out and branch out to ones. Yeah. I think my first was actually the breeders. Oh, wow. Yeah. You died right on in. I did. Yeah. Well, so here's so I joined wiki tree and it was in the time where an administrator had to add you. Oh, yeah. And so it was Tammy and she set up my profile and so I went and looked at it and I was like, I don't really know what to do here. And I didn't know how, you know, I didn't know there was this whole community and stuff. So I did that and then I was gone for like a year. And I came back. And all of a sudden it was like, well, there's all kinds of stuff happening here. You know, I found the projects and G to G, you know, are like what I was supposed to be contributing, you know, when I first joined, it was I just had this blank profile and it was like, okay, how do I do that? Or I did. But then, you know, I got active in different projects and, you know, it was cool. And I think that the projects help you find a home base. So, you know, feel a drift. You kind of have an anger on the site. And I'm loving I don't I'm not sure what you're was it a year ago or two years ago that wiki tree added discord for the projects. Yeah, it's like a two or three years ago, which was great. That I think that really has. Okay, guys, haven't started yet. We're just chit chatting about the projects. Okay. So I am it definitely if you have a particular topic that you're interested in location topic group, there are so many there's, there's religions, there's locations, there's topical, there's so many different projects. Start with one get a feel for it. And then if you expand out from there, then that's great. But I think you love it. Joining a project, you will feel part of the community. And every you know, we do the member of the week features every week. And one of the questions that we ask them is what advice do you have for someone who's just starting. And I think 98% of them say join a project. Well, that's great. I agree. You get friends and you find, you know, you find the community and the community is the best part of wiki tree. So when you can tap into that and find like-minded people and, you know, have a place to ask questions and a place to help like get back and you know, it's funny because even during COVID when everybody was secluded, it was still a place to go. So you didn't feel so alone. Yeah, we still have those connections here. So I think that's great too. Okay, guys, don't have your cards. Let's go. Now you're going to find interesting words for projects here. Some of these projects you might not even know are on wiki tree. So this is actually classic Disney. I just put Disney. And David is doing a fabulous job with this. I love reading the profiles. I love seeing the movies that I saw as a child come to wiki tree. That's pretty cool. And you'll see David tonight with the governors. Okay, Iceland. This is kind of on my bucket list to go see the northern lights in Austria. I think this is a fairly new one, maybe not even a year old, but I'm not sure. Oh, no, I'm thinking of Switzerland. Austria might be oh no, it's been around since 2017. Oh, okay. And then here is the very first project that wiki tree ever had. So for those of you just joining us are a little bit late. We were talking about this earlier. And remember just to remind you that the first person that yells bingo in chat by typing it, then you are the winner, the prize winner. Accessibility angels. And this one's cool because this helps, you know, sometimes we have older members that have bad eyesight or other members have disabilities. I know that in our project, that last project, we have two people that have pretty severe disabilities and they used some tools to try and work with the accessory. So it's good. This just shows that wiki tree is for everybody in my mind. You're not leaving anybody out. They also have I was just looking at their page. They have a research and transcription team that helps people with that and they have a technology advisors team. So to help people who are using screen readers or other like the assistive technology. That one's cool. Are they also or do they all they do? Is that in the project where they transcribe documents to or is that a different one? I think that's a different one. I think this is specifically, you know, for people who have a hard time seeing her. You for the when bingo vertical, horizontal or diagonal. Okay templates. So for everybody that sees a sticker on a profile, the templates group created it approved and allowed it to be on a propa. A Huguenot migration. I'm curious if any of these are new projects. They've been around, but if they're new to to you and tree huggers. This one was interesting. The tree huggers are the ones that it sounds like you're maybe fixing the tree, but you're not. It's the people that are making sure that everybody has the wiki tree buff, right? Read that right. That is correct. Now the black heritage in the previous card, we talked about the US black heritage. This one is worldwide and it's really kind of cool to me too because I was taking a peek at it yesterday and for example, Jamaica is listed in this and they have a person that is taking the lead on the Jamaica. So we're we're getting profiles from all over the world and the projects are leading the way with this for sure. Indonesia probably would love to have more here. This one's another huge project. Okay, can I just say Quebec? Because I know we talked about Canada and this is kind of just that little project that's there. Now, of course, you know, I'm going to sneak Appalachia in. I'll give everybody a second or two. I figured somebody might have bingo. Azure got a bingo. There we go. Azure make my day and tell me that that last word is how you got bingo. Congratulations. This is pretty cool. So again, if you guys have any project that you would like more information about, let us know. Reach out to us and we will reach out to them and see if they could be a guest. If you go to I think I have it up here. Let me see. The Friday bingo page and I'll post it there. Just the past couple days we have a lot more projects that signed up. So there's a couple really cool ones and I know that there are two waiting in the wings to sign up as well. Let me remove this that are waiting just to pick dates and looking at their schedule. So that'll be pretty cool. And then come back tonight at 6 p.m. Eastern and we'll have David from the classic Disney, but he's going to speak about the U.S. governor's project which just revamped itself started up again and he needs volunteers. And if you want to learn more about that or win a prize, we'll see you at 6. And Azure send me an email to remind me that you won this game. She might need your email. Sure. She's my neighbor. She just lives a few hours from me. Oh, that's pretty cool. I'll hand delivery your bingo. Oh, wait, then you get to say you get to wave hi to mom. Yeah. You see her too. Azure's mom. That's cool. Yeah. All right, we'll see you guys back tonight. Sounds good. Bye, guys.