 Good morning everyone. It is Saturday morning well for some of us. All day long. Saturday morning. Yeah it's only ever Saturday morning. That's all that matters but I know it's the middle of the night for some people like Benjamin because he's in Australia. Well technically I guess it's morning for him now because it's midnight. Hey Joe. Hey Lynette. It's afternoon for Alech and Hilary it's also afternoon. Yes. Alash are you enjoying the coast? We also have Cheryl here, Donna, Thomas, Chris, my mom, Betsy, Kay, Sharon, David. There's no last name on David but hello David whoever, whichever David you are, June, Chris. I think that's everybody. Hey Mindy. I like how Mags got all capital letters. Mindy got some. I took them from her Ben. I took them from Mags. I know it was a mean thing to do. It was. She's worried about my dental health. So yeah that's a small crowd today. Don't see Mindy. So let everybody know I have to leave 30 minutes and Mags and Mindy will take over from there. You know I was going to make up a story about where Sarah's going. I was actually going to say Sarah you know behind you there's a policeman behind you. What do they want? What did you do Sarah? Jo's dialing. Check your phone. Check your phone. Nope. And yes I'm feeling much better. Thank you. Yeah of course Mindy was not feeling well. Back to her old self. Yes. Dealing my M&Ms. Yep. Yeah. I can eat food now. At least it was her body decided to be sick during off week of the Week 2 challenge. At least that. At least that happened. So what's wrong with me? Nothing's wrong. You have your calm Sarah voice on. The cops are really outside her doorway. Yeah I'm about to get arrested apparently. Not. I guess I'm not bubbly. I'm sorry. I don't know. I'm fine. Maybe I'm just tired. Who knows. Okay so I guess we can go in. I know Mags was excited about the question of the week. It is. I am. I wanted to show this to you though that Thomas Coloneline is going to be running around driving. Driving around a lot today Sarah. He's going to be driving around a lot doing a bunch of stuff. Isn't that fun? That is crazy fun. Yeah and then run around and drive around a lot. Like you're going to be in the back of police cruiser here in 30 minutes. Um guess what? There is a really great question of the week. Let me share my screen. Whoops. Let me share my screen and then share my screen. Ben says that I'll be myself soon with some names to mispronounce shortly so. Well then she'll get really bubbly. You know the question of the week. I don't know which page I'm on. I'm on the second page. We had so many incredible answers this week. I mean there weren't a lot. There weren't a lot. There were what 39 answers. Let me go up 39 answers and for the first time ever I don't think I've ever seen somebody actually answer vote up one of the questions of the week's answers as best answer but we have that this week which is interesting. I think it's very interesting. Lots and lots of stuff. So for this week's question of the week you had to pull up a big comfy chair or find yourself a sofa or a nice patio. Grab a blanket, your your smoking jacket, your pipe, a glass of bubbly or or a cup of tea or whatever and curl up because this was like reading novels today. This was just so cool. So the first one, Barry Smith loves this. He wrote this really fun thing about Bathia about his Thurver One name study. I learned of Bathia Thurver born at Rehoboth, Massachusetts and she conducted a private lottery in 1733. She purchased 14 acres from her younger brother Samuel and decided to sell tickets to the lottery in which one of the prizes was the land. But she seems to have done lots of things. Bathia seems to have been a little bit of a shall we say con artist. It's interesting. It's fun. It's fun read through that one. There's lots of them that are like that. There's Frank Gill found an interesting story because he had had the McGill's possibly is his surname and he found that he had an ancestor who served in the British Army and the story went his last name was McGill and he deserted out of Canada and came to the US which is the opposite direction that a lot of the loyalists did go. Anyway so there's it's interesting that he he finally finds out what his surname is but literally I'm trying to find one of the longs. Oh I like this one. This one was fun. My first cousin three times removed Seymour Edward Long had an unusual life that really intrigued Alexis. Alexis always had some great posts and obviously there's a picture here for us to see but he was in business making carriages and he met his future wife Mary Ann Forpaw who was a circus equestrian. Her uncle was Adam Forpaw owner of the famous Forpaw Circus and he and Mary Ann had seven children and after her death he married her sister. Keep it in the family but what's really cool is that he painted the circus wagons and these are some of the circus wagons that he painted. How cool is that and how cool to have that picture and these are like I mean if you've ever seen a really old circus wagon they are incredibly elaborate in the paintings and the fixtures on them. Sometimes they're not just paintings they're like sculptures as well but truly let's see here's one. This is one from Thomas Kernline of course that in I don't know why that's not upvoted by me upvote. He talks about he writes a novella so there's lots and lots and lots of great stories in here about well and here's one about where somebody gets their DNA test and they have 50,000 siblings because they find out that the OBDN was actually he was the one helping out the moms so to speak so there were lots and lots and lots and lots of people anyway. There's lots and lots of great great stories about families. There's one where the husband and wife lived separately the husband lived in the attic and nobody ever saw him. He would sneak down and get food and and then sneak back upstairs before anybody would see him. For 20 years they lived like this never talked to each other. You know there's fascinating stories but lots and lots of great long reads as you can see and that's our question of the week. I suggest you pull up your armchair get a blanket and sit yourself down for a nice long read for these. Do you have an answer to that question and unusual? We're so boring. Yeah mine's pretty boring. I've shared mine a few times on different livecasts to be honest already but I can always share it again. Well my third great-grandfather he was in the Civil War and he got the measles. He went crazy and then he also found out his newly born daughter had died while at war. Yeah and then but he survived the war and he came back but then he ended up getting shot in the middle of the street by a young kid. Yeah and then that's yeah so that's my interesting story of one of my ancestors. It's Steve Greenwood's posting here. There's there also great answers in the Facebook group and I didn't go over there. I read those earlier in the week and truly again it's like reading novellas. I do have a couple of interesting stories but I did a presentation on one this past week about my grandmother which is why I got into genetic genealogy. The whole family says she wasn't a part of the family and then there's anyway you should go watch it. It's a family living family tree webinars anyway. My mom was asking who was that so that was Benjamin Hutchinson Lewis on daddy's side. On daddy's side Joan. Yes that's the crazy side. Okay well that was the question of the week. I think our profiles of the week this week are pretty fun if you guys don't know what the theme is. So which animated voice so all the animated voice actors that's fun. So we have and while we are while I am mispronouncing everything go ahead and let us know who you're most closely connected to. So first we have Clarence Nash who is Donald Duck born in Oklahoma and 1904 died in California 1985 and he was the voice of Donald Duck for 50 years. Wow that's that's pretty good I'm not even gonna attempt to try that. Good job are you gonna do what please do an impression for each one Mags I'm expecting that for me now. Okay not a lot on him if anybody wants to brush up his profile his biography greatly appreciate. So next we have Sterling Holloway Winnie the Pooh I love Winnie the Pooh born in Georgia 1905. Wait was this Winnie the Pooh? Winnie the Pooh was not born in Georgia in 1925. Oh damn it. So says Nelson did okay he also was the story in Dumbo and Cobb Python in the Jungle Book from the Disney Children's Productions but he was mostly well known for Winnie the Pooh. Okay next Snow Chris said he was closely connected to Snow White. Snow White was married four times. Adriana Castellotti is she Italian or am I just assuming that from the name but immigrants from Italy look I that's probably why Chris was mostly nailed it nailed it. So apparently Walt Disney was also reluctant to allow her to use her voice elsewhere for the fear of spoiling the illusion of Snow White. So for a dream of Hollywood career never materialized man Disney or of course Snow White. Hey look she married one of her spouses by where I was born in South Florida yeah that's a different county right next to Miami Dade but yeah okay next on the list Clifton. These are easy names to pronounce guys so far so I think it's going to be a smooth morning. Clifton Edwards who was the voice of Jiminy Cricket um from oh I just moved Pinocchio there we go born in Missouri in 1895. It seems like all of them died in California so far. He died in California in 1971 and in 1940 Disney chose him to the voice of Jiminy Cricket and the actual song when he wished upon a star star was sung by him and he would go on to earn the Academy Award for best song of 1940 the first Disney song to receive such an honor. Which ones are you most close connected to guys thanks and Mindy. Mine is along the same as you. Charles Butler. Mine's actually Vance Colvig. Pluto and Goofy and it goes by Pinto. I guess I'll find out later who I'm most closely connected to so next we have Richard Jones Vicki Jones voice of Pinocchio. So we have two actors from Pinocchio so far born in Texas in 1927 and died in California. Is anybody not going to be died in California? That's the question I think they all have okay he started acting at the age of six and in 1940 he beat out about 200 other children from what would be perhaps the most notable role voicing Pinocchio called the Disney second animated feature film. How old was he when he became. So 1940 he was probably in his teens maybe okay. Also this is Mindy's most closely connected to Pinto Colvig. And the interesting thing is and of course he was way before I was born but he in 1914 he was in Reno, Nevada which is where I lived before I came to Kentucky and at one point he lived in Portland, Oregon and I also lived there at one point. Oh you may have more you need to do some research and find out what this interesting story is about. I hope there's no DNA connections there with him. Surprise cousins. So Pinto was actually born in Oregon in 1892 died in California every but I think yeah so I think that's probably all went to Hollywood so yeah I know but it's just interesting that they all ended up just staying there you know in 1930 he signed to contract with Walt Disney which allowed him to expand his acting talent and he became the original voice of such legendary animated characters such as Goofy, Pluto, the practical pig and the three little pigs Grumpy and Sleepy and Snow White, Seven Dwarfs, he also co-wrote several songs including the lyrics to Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf and other Disney cartoonist copies Pinto's silly facial expressions and developing their own animated characters. Bozo the clown. Oh Minnie Mouse, Russell Taylor so born in Massachusetts in 1944 and died in California in 2019 just a few years ago best known for the voice of Minnie Mouse. She was also the original voice of Strawberry Shortcake in the 1980s and the voice of Baby Conso and the Muppet Babies, Pebbles from the Flintstones and many more. And so apparently the voice of Minnie and Mickey Mouse are married too. What are you supposed to do? Were you supposed to do voice impressions of every one of them? Yeah I think she's good for Pebble. Yeah she only did Daffy Duck. Mickey Mouse! I know you just did Mickey Mouse too. How about Yogi Bear? Go do Yogi Bear. Go. We're gonna have a pecanica. Go Charles. Let's have a pecanica. Okay let me put myself together. Hold on. So Dahls Butler born in Ohio in 1916 died in California. American voice actor mostly worked at the Hannah Barbera for Yogi Bear. His voice work went on for many years sometimes voicing all the characters on a single show and his range of voices was almost legendary and he was highly respected in his field. He was also in the U.S. Navy during the 4-2. Yeah. Then we have one more. Look I think nobody can say anything about any of the names today. It's been very good. Natasha! Is she the one who played Natasha in Rocky and Bullwinkle? Rocky the Flying Squirrel. Oh dang. So we have June 4th born in Massachusetts in 1917 and died in California for notable roles in voice animated characters including Rocky the Flying Squirrel and Natasha from Rocky and His Friends. And she also did Neil Fenway from Dudley Dew Wright, Cindy Lou from Dr. Seuss's Grinched Old Christmas, Granny from the Looney Tunes, Jokey Smurf from Smurf and a whole bunch of other stuff. In 2012 she received her first Emmy award winning the category of outstanding performer in the animated program and she was the oldest entertainer to do so. And then one year later June received the Governor's Award and she died two months shy of her 100th birthday. Wow. Nice. Super cool. So that's everybody. Let's see who I was most closely connected to. Well I'm pretty close to, so Clare to Daffy Duck and to Dick Jones. That's interesting. We usually are right locked stuff together and we're not this week. And then Dick Jones 18 degrees both through my dad. That's actually how it goes. But yeah those are our profiles of the week. Who did everybody else say they were closely connected to? We threw up some and they were back further. One thing that Ben Malzware said that he used to work for Disney. Isn't that cool? Really? Yeah. Hilary said 26 degrees closest. What did what did he do? Then work at a Disney store. He wasn't a voice actor. No he wasn't a voice actor but if they had a voice actor job in Australia he would have jumped at it. I believe it. Maggie you should have jumped on it too. That was a spot-on impression. Thank you. Okay well I guess I guess I'll just I don't know. I'll put it up to your quilting day. The police are waiting. I'll leave Maggie to it. Yeah the profiles and the question of the week and then they'll do the photos. That's my favorite part so I am kind of upset. But then Mindy will then also talk about all of the our current week for the week three challenge. So stay tuned for that. So I look it off. Where's the stuff for the profile of the week? The profile? What do you mean? That's what we're doing next right? Yes. You mean you mean the photos of the week right? Go for it. Mags was going to do profiles. No you're going to do the photos. We just did the profiles. Yeah we just did the profiles. Oh okay well I will see you guys next week. Thank you. Goodbye all. Bye bye. Bye Sarah. Now that she's gone The Mindy and Mags show. The M&M show. So we are getting ready to do photos of the week. So we have lots and lots of great photos. How many of you guys out there put up great photos for photos of the week? I'm trying to fill in while Mindy gets her stuff together. I know I kept wanting to go to the wrong window. A hair down now. Yeah I'm going to let all of my long luxurious hair down. Okay and photo sharing of the week was vacation this week and there's some really great photos too. Only 21 showing in here but it was a lot of fun. Here we have Jillian Locke shared a side car. This was her mom and dad on holiday six months before she was born. They were out living the wildlife. David Smith working class holiday. Oh the postcard was taken in Margate. Can you eat ice creams? Yeah there you go. Thank you. Wow nice. California. Somebody was trying to get the ocean in the background. This was Alexis Nelson. That's not the ocean. That's mountains isn't it? They're like up on a mountain right? Yeah it looks like the beach is down below them and then the ocean. Oh this one was kind of fun. This was somebody that said their great uncle and aunt were always on vacation and they went up actually buying two different resorts so and they said funny enough some of the best pictures were them taking at those locations. So that's one of the hotels they owned and this was another one. A little bit of photo damage on that one. This one's great. Joey says my son sent me this from Florida. Sin City the place mother warned you about. Now is that not Las Vegas's nickname Sin City? Yeah yeah. Oh look you could get a tattoo there. There's another sign. Oh you sure can. You can get a tattoo while you're at Sin City. Lucky devil tattoos. You can memorialize your Sin City weekend by getting a tattoo of whatever happened. Gangsters. You can do those in Virginia City in Nevada. They're a lot of fun. Get everybody dressed up for the theme picture that was by Deborah Campbell. Oh this is Thomas's picture. He's waiting for a ferry maybe? What are we doing? Yeah he says waiting on a ferry. He said he liked walking along the long line of cars to get to the ferry. I rode ferries a lot at Washington when I lived up there. That is awesome. San Diego, California. People like that California beach. Nice tent too. Yeah a nice big tent. One two three four five six seven children there. Yeah that's a big family. No vintage pictures. So a more modern one. One is reserve. The other craves attention. Can you guess which is which? No. No Brian we can't tell. Tell us who was the shy one. Oh cool. Yeah this one's cool. Lost Creek Campground. It's in Eugene, Oregon. Oregon has the most amazing hiking trails and places to either camp out or just spend the day. It's beautiful state. 1957 beach day. Somebody's got a bushel of grandbabies. Somebody's trying to keep the little ones out of trouble. Or keep them still enough for a picture. Yeah that too. Well it's there's a story on here about the brother deciding to climb the big tall dresser in the bedroom in the hotel by using the doors and the dresser fell over in the mirror smashed and said it wasn't the first time the three of us were in big trouble. I bet. So somebody else said he just caught caught caught you and holds tight to avoid more trouble. If they're sitting here they can't climb anything. Yeah oh there you go. Yeah this was nice. Mother was a cancer survivor and it did not slow her down so they were out fishing. Nice putting together tents there. Putting together tents there yeah. Well that's fun. I'm glad they have those memories. That's really nice. Virgin Islands. Betsy says oh hi Betsy. Betsy says I do not remember this at all however it's one of my favorite photos with me with my father. You're so cute. I love Betsy's pictures. That is awesome. I love them. I know she has the best ones. Look at how proper she is with her little foot in the right place. If you're a guy you don't remember that they used to tell us to put one foot in front of the other for the girly pictures. Oh my second daughter I love you Sammy. She could be in the middle of a full on tantrum and if somebody picked a camera up she would pose like she would make the instantly make the perfect pose and grin. It was fun. Yeah somebody that thought they needed a little more hair. Jeffrey Sweat. Beach in Cape Cod. Hey you's having fun. Daytona Beach well before I was born. Trying to recreate the picture. That's cool that people still have these postcards and stuff from the 50s and 60s. Yeah that's a nice picture. That's a really nice one. Let's see where are they at. Island Heights, New Jersey. James Ross Bird. Oh Mary and Saruti's sent those in. It's a really nice picture. She looks like she's just laughing the mom. She looks so happy. She's trying to hold that baby in that boat. Yeah or maybe she's going to let the baby fly. Yeah that looks like a car trip. Yeah packing up to go on the vacation. In the dad's face is just not in it. He's just like oh I'm getting ready to go on 20 hour drive with these people. Mom says yay and he's like no. And the two little guys in their overalls. That was Stacy Briggs's picture. Here's another one where they take a picture by the car before they leave. Yeah but who's leaving? Are all of those people going to fit in that car? That's a pretty full car. That's eight people. No seat belts. Yeah back then. Not back then. You just crowded on in. My brother and sister and I I would sleep in the area above in the floor board. My sister would sleep on the seat because she was the oldest so she got the biggest space and my brother would sleep in the in the area beneath the back windshield. And this one is through Yellowstone in 1928. That's nice. I wish you could see the whole car. Hucon Canada. That's way north. John Thompson. Mom and my grandmother's enjoying a day out. Very nice. Very nice. Where are they Hillary? Look at that. You can absolutely see family resemblances there. Yeah I know Hillary so I know it. Yeah it's that's so cool. I love it. That's a great picture. I don't have a picture to display but our family went to North Myrtle Beach every summer in the last week of August and stayed at a house called the Windy Hilton which is not there anymore but it was Windy Hill Beach and my favorite part of going to the beach was that the family all got together because my parents were professionals and worked and we all had our lives and you know busy and we would go to the beach and we would read all week or we would just be out on the beach getting sunburned or the kids would go down to the pier to the arcade and play or go fishing or whatever. Then my grandmother you've heard me talk about Doodle. Doodle every afternoon at five o'clock Doodle would make lime daiquiris for everybody no matter how old we were we got to have a lime daiquiri at five o'clock that my grandmother Doodle made. She was the best daiquiri maker ever ever and then the evening would turn into making whatever food and playing cards and being rowdy all because of my grandmother Doodle's wonderful daiquiris. That's awesome. That is yeah. Hillary said maybe in Bournemouth Hampshire. Oh cool yeah uh Myrtle Beach has really long piers they did yeah yeah this was North Myrtle Beach the pier at North Myrtle Beach is the one I'm talking about got taken out by a couple of hurricanes and I think there's a big I didn't think the pier is now private at Windy Hill so Jeanine grew up in San Diego so you were down at La Jolla I guess nice nice beach having fun in the summer don't go on vacations is nice and I could show you some I was at the cottage this past week for like this much time I took a picture though I'll go back to the cottage as soon as I can so that's it Mindy you're gonna tell us about the challenge I guess I will talk about the challenge and for the wiki tree challenge is this is just an update on how our progress is this week if you want to hear all about the challenge go to our genealogist to genealogist forum and see you will see that we are featuring Yvette Hoytink this week which is exciting and she is the only professional genealogist in Netherlands that is actually BCG certified in the United States and she just does some amazing work her tree already her primary tree was so full like 12 15 generations out she knew who her people were the research is just incredible to look at and replicate on wiki tree so people have been very busy and it's been fun this week we've had a lot of new team members from the Dutch Roots project so making new friends again and just seeing how they research and get together and tackle those little problems in the tree and mysteries it's been great it's been a lot of fun any bounty points yet actually yes oh well she's gonna have to wait till Wednesday so is everybody else that didn't participate if you haven't participated yet this week even if you don't know the Dutch research come on in and say hi and see what you can do we have these guys have been so helpful and provided sites that we can use and they're helping us understand you know the correct way to look for the records how to name the profiles it's been wonderful that's that is really cool and I hear that uh your challenge team members are are missing a couple of possible bounty points that they could be so the team if you're watching hop on it people there's bounty points to be had there's there's there's a couple of more yeah so that's fun all right so people are still talking about vacation and um Ben's also saying great when they come and join in that's and yes Ben see it'll be early again but I'm not sure how early yet I heard somebody say two three it might be at 3 p.m eastern time in the u.s um that's how we started out because we don't want to make event get up in the middle of the night to do her to do her reveal are you in canada that's a because we just fully well no we're not fully reopened we're step one reopen sorry I am step one reopened from our lockdown from our stay at home order as of midnight yesterday and I am going as soon as we're done I am going to go have lunch on a patio in or at a restaurant not in a restaurant at a restaurant I'm going to go and out to eat which is something I haven't done in goodness a long time yay yeah I went out to breakfast like two weeks ago um and it was the first time that I'd been out to breakfast in over a year so we had a little place that we went to lunch a couple of times me and and Lynn's mom went because we go when there's first open at 11 and nobody's in there nobody but the waitstaff and the food's all super fresh and so we we've been in there for lunch a few times but we haven't meant to our our favorite breakfast place because it's teapot you know and and the funny thing is is the they've reopened patios for for everybody at 1201 friday morning so patio bars and stuff were packed from 1201 to 2 a.m. here it was it was like it was like the floodgates opened everybody stayed awake stayed sober so they could go have a beer at midnight which is fun and I know you're in Kentucky at least one of the things that we are seeing of course we know I got sick um is that something we hadn't really thought about everybody's been staying home we've had forced people staying at home if you do go out it's with a mask your hand washing all the time you're sanitizing we haven't had summer colds and flus and over a year so guess what's gonna come back now people are gonna start picking up those little summer bugs it's okay they're good for your immune system yeah we're gonna build them back up and get your immune system strong again so don't be afraid to go out yeah yeah well we don't have any more uh really fun stuff for you because we're all we're all out of fun we're all out of fun so we're gonna close up shop early because our fun our bubbly fun girl took off with the police she left us for that quilting bee yeah she went to a quilting bee um so have a good week and we'll see you come by and check out the livecast on Wednesday uh watch gg to post uh for the post to tell you what time it's going to be because it's going to be early so that doesn't have to get up in the middle of night and we will see you next Saturday here same place same same place same place so you guys have a good week