 Hello, everyone. Welcome to our rock. We will rock you recap from October. I'm Betsy Coe, and with me I have one of my, one of our Rockies from October, Stephanie Hill. Hello. Joining us from Guernsey, England. So thanks so much for being here, Stephanie. I think we may have other people popping in because I thought a few more would join us. We'll see. So today's reveal is a bit later than we normally do. We shifted the October rock by a few days as it was because everybody had to recover from Soursathon. So it ran from October 3rd to November 2nd. And then if you know anything about wiki tree, you know that that put us right around as we were finishing rocking, we went into the wiki tree symposium and wiki tree day. And so that it's been very busy plus the American holiday that we just passed. So here we are. We're wrapping up October, right as we're about to start a new rock cycle for December. So without further ado, let me get the presentation up. For those of you who don't know, if you've just stumbled onto this today, we will rock you is an event that we started doing in March. And it's an acronym for random acts of wiki tree kindness. So the idea is it's just like a wiki tree challenge, except that it's average, not average, extraordinary, but not notable wiki treeers, living wiki treeers who they get nominated. And then we do a random drawing for five of them who are invited to have this opportunity to have a team of other wiki treeers work on their branches and specifically to increase their CC seven. So this past cycle, we had a very strong group of 58 rockers and here they are all listed here. And we do collaborative work on Discord and G2G just like any other challenge. And the Appalachia project is always very active. And in honor of that, I have my biscuit mug today. So who got rocked? Okay, so Steph Hill, who's with me, Christine Daniels, Rhonda Hill, no relation to you Steph that I could see. I really, I sort of, I know Hill is not an uncommon surname. I should have though, I should have checked your connection before and after just to see, just for fun. We had Suzanne Yarber and Chris Sharkey. So the numerical results were really amazing this month. So the total increase in connections made for these five wiki treeers, 4,671. And you can see for each person, their starting number and their ending number and total increase. In terms of really, really boosting some people, Rhonda received her 2,000 CC7 badge and Suzanne received both her 1,000 and 2,000 CC7 badges. So on to what we discovered, Steph has been a wiki treeers and Steph, please, if I've gotten anything wrong or omitted something, please do chime in. But looking at all your badges and your profile, you've been on wiki tree since 2022, but doing family history research since 2014. She's a member of the England and Wales project, as well as being a connector and a data doctor. Also working on a one-place study on Barry, Vale of Glamorgan in Wales. And you yourself have rocked for others in June, August and this month. And we're fellow teammates on the Welsh dragons. So here's Steph's fan chart. Steph, do you wanna talk a little bit about your lines and your research to date? So I started doing my family history around about the same 2014. I started researching and then I took quite a big break and trying to find out in how I wanted to do my tree and where I wanted to store it. And it was wiki tree day last year that I came across wiki tree. And that's where I started building it up on wiki tree. And I didn't get very far, got to 223 connections. So just looking forward to seeing what you guys have found out really. Yeah, but although you are relatively new to wiki tree and it was our good fortune that you stumbled upon us last wiki tree day, you've been very active. I mean, I've seen your name popping up all over the place. So we were happy to try and bulk up your numbers. And this is what we did for you. People were really hoping to get you your 1000 connections badge. We didn't quite get there. But a great deal was filled in. So, and a little later in the presentation, I am going to, this graphic that you see here is just two screenshots from Greg Clark's six degree app. And I'm gonna show how you can look at that and specifically look at your CC7 graphic at a specific date. So, so one of your most interesting stories, this is your fourth great grandfather. Do you know anything about him, Steph? No, I don't. Yes, yeah. Well, I particularly, so Chet Snow was the rocker who did this work. And he discovered that Thomas and his, Thomas was, let's see, he was married to Amelia and they had three children. I can't see them quite, no, four children. One son, Elias, who you can see there on the screen and then three daughters. And I did notice that the youngest daughter has yet to be added to a key tree. But Chet really did quite a lot of excellent work here. You'll see when you visit the profile yourself that the bio is very healthy and good sources. This family moved to Chicago in the 1860s. And so it's not clear whether or not Thomas himself moved, but there are definitely records for two of his daughters who married men over in the States and for Amelia, they definitely all did emigrate. And you are descended from Elias. So the branch that stayed behind. Let's see, going. So I take real particular interest in this story because I live in Chicago. So they are buried in Rose Hill Cemetery in Chicago, which is a very big cemetery up on the North side. And let me know if I can do any on the boots or digging for you. What you'll see on their find a grave entries is that there are 14 members of the family built in Rose Hill, buried in Rose Hill Cemetery, but only one of them has a marker. One of those, one of those daughters. And so that is why there's some doubt as to whether Thomas really did make the trip. And whether, so you'll notice that Chet left it as that he died in Wales because it just really wasn't certain. I was wondering, I just didn't have time to go up. I thought about it yesterday. I'm like, do I have time to drive up to the North side and I'm on the South side. And I didn't, but maybe the cemetery office might have something record-wise. So that was very intriguing. So you have Chicago cousins. Yes. So this is Chet. And it was his third time rocking for others. So, and he also probably would be able to tell you a lot. So, our next Rocky is Ronda Hill who is a very, very new to wiki tree person, just joined in February. She's a member of the Appalachian and United States projects. And there is her tree or her fan chart. And she's with us, just fine. Well, hello Ronda, so glad to see you. Me too. Yes. You're just in time to tell us a little bit about your family research before I dive in. I guess Betsy, it was begun a couple of decades ago by first cousins once removed, my mother's first cousins. And they did it, of course, all on paper. And then when they were computers, started on computers, are so thrilled and amazed with wiki tree and I began my own family tree like so many in the pandemic. One of my kids said, mom, please do your DNA. I did that. And then you know it comes. And then the way ancestry works, they send you little emails, you know, like we have hints about your mom. We have hints about whatever, whatever. So that's how it started. And I do not remember how I found wiki tree. I thought a lot about it. I just don't know. I was Googling. There it was. And it so appeals to me because it's so uniting, which is so needed. Yeah, absolutely. Yeah. And you got in with a great crowd. Yes, yeah. Project, there they are. Biscuits. So I know that they were working very hard on your behalf as they always do. So your CC7 more than doubled. I know. Yeah. I would get little notes with the numbers, but of course you're not supposed to look. It was very hard. Right, right. So I mean, that is a lot of profiles, a lot. And I was saying earlier, I don't know if you heard, but I am going to show how this is from the Six Degrees app. And I'm gonna show how you can sort of snapshot by day. Oh, great. Thank you. Yeah. So your most interesting find that I was told about, there may be more, with a thousand connections added, you very well have more stories here. Right. But one of your seventh degree connections, William Hunter Sr. was a breeder of stallions and jacks. Cool. Yeah. And that was Pat Brunson, I believe, who created the profile for him. And I studied the profile. I don't see where she got that information, probably from a census. Right. But yeah, I was not able to find out precisely from her. So. It's just a wonderful, oh. So there's your pathway. Yep. North Carolina, I don't know, it would be interesting to find out how he got to, why, how, why he got to Missouri. It has been interesting on both sides of my family. We have quite a few emigres west. You know, like west at some points in American history is, Arkansas is way far west. You know what, people just are moving west. Yeah. It kind of goes with. Right, right. So, yeah. It is a relationship through marriage, but then, yeah, after that, it's all bloodline. Yeah. All right. I wanna make sure that we haven't had other people pop in. Okay. So Christine, Christine has been on wiki tree since 2015 as a member of the Canada and category categorization projects and also a cemetery. She is a team captain for the wiki tree challenge. Also a member of the wiki tree events committee. She rocked for others in March. And for thons, you can find her either with the Canadian connectors or the Mighty Maple Leafs. So here's her family, her fan chart, well-filled in. Couple of pictures. And here is what we were able to do for Christine. We, she had just gotten, you've just gotten that 1,000 connection badge on herself. But we got a pretty well-filled in for her. So in Christine's lines, we found many, many military heroes. Alexander Frazier, a six-degree connection was Scottish and he served in the Gordon Highlanders during World War I and did parish from injuries that he sustained in 1918. But he still, he had had children prior to that. So his descendants carry on. And then a seven-degree connection was Frederick Andrews. And he served in the Devonshire Regiment during World War II. What you see here in the lower right-hand corner, that's the badge for that regiment. And then his grandfather, so this is Frederick's grandfather, Alfred was aboard the HMS Formidable when it was sunk by a German U-boat on New Year's Day, 1915. So you can see that we put his place as at sea. And this is a depiction of that terrible day. Yeah. Susanna Yarber, another Appalachia project member as well as a member of the United States Project has been a WikiTree member since 2018, also a cemeterist and participates in the WikiTree challenges. And for the Thons, you can find her on the Appalachia Connector Team. There's her fan chart. And we more than doubled Susanna's connections, 683 to 2309. So she had some intriguing stats. Grace Pearl Barker, a six-degree connection for Susanna. If you look closely at her birth and death dates, she very nearly made it through the entire 20th century. Born January 17th, 1900, Damascus, Washington, and she was just six months shy of seeing the century through. Again, born and died in the same place. Nancy Wilson was the one who discovered Grace and added Grace to WikiTree. And then Susanna's great-grandparents, Ed and Corabelle Yarber, had 70 grandchildren. This was also discovered by Nancy Wilson. And I sent her a message this morning. I said, how did you know? And she said, she just went to the, she was on Ed Yarber's WikiTree profile. And if you just go to descendants, it says that he had 12, I think 12 children and 70 grandchildren. So that's pretty impressive and intriguing stat in honor of Grace Clark, who loves our stats. Susanna also comes from a military family. It's amplifying service and sacrifice. We had Kathy Zipper added Everett Worley, seven-degree connection. And he was, oh, I'm sorry, hang on. He was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross for his extraordinary heroism in combat. He died in battle in France and he was awarded this Distinguished Service Cross posthumously and that's the second highest award that you can receive for military valor in the United States. And then also Johnny Davis, another seven-degree connection. And he was notably, he was a veteran of World War II and the Korean and Vietnam Wars. So I thought that was quite rare and special. He's buried in Arlington National Cemetery. We thank him for his service. And moving along to Chris Sharkey, I keep checking back to see if anyone's hopped into the studio, but no. Chris has been with us since 2019 and has made more than 80,000 contributions. Wow. My jaw dropped. She's a member of the Global Wales, Canada, England, Ireland, Scotland and Profile Improvement Projects as well as the Adoption Angels Project. She's a Sematurist as well as serving as a Greeter Ranger and Data Doctor as she's participated in the Wiki Tree challenges. I think those started in 2021. So all three years and come, oh, I knew I'd find a typo there at some point, sorry. She's on the Mighty Oaks team when it's thawing time. Okay. Now, Chris is in the situation of not knowing who her father is. So that's why her fan chart looks like this. And she already had over 2,000 connections, which is not surprising given what I just told you about her level of activity on Wiki Tree. So we were not able to take her too much higher. We tried, but we only were able to add 35 more connections. And I was trying really hard to find out who were those 35 connections and what did we have? Now, I came up with this list. I sleutered around and I was able to find 12 of them. So that's about a third of the connections. But here's what we're gonna do as a little activity if you're curious about the CC, the Six Degree app. So I have shown this as a tip on the Saturday Roundup livecast. And so you can go to this space page, tip of the week from Betsy Coe and look for the tip presented July 22nd. But I'm also gonna walk you through it today right now. So basically I'm gonna switch to a screen where we can sort of pick up partway through. But on your profile, you can just go to the find menu, the upper right hand corner and then right at the top, you'll see apps. So you can go to apps and then in the pull down menu, you'll find Six Degrees. And just run the program for yourself. And once you get to the full connections, that will show all your connections as of the day you run it. Now, we're gonna go over to this tab. Okay. So here are Chris's connections. I'm gonna make it a tiny bit smaller. What I've done is I've gone to show and then I've done animate connections. And then you're gonna get these choices. So I'm going to do by profile date, then I'm going to pick by jumps, pick every, yes, we are gonna every day. And then it will give you the option of day. Are you seeing as I'm doing things? I'm sure it's small, but are you seeing that? Chris and Rhonda, can you see as I'm making changes? Stand by. Okay. Okay, hold on. I was just saying. It's little, so I'm working on blowing it up. Right, it is little. Okay. And then I was- So you know what is best Betsy, actually? It's hard to read the words. Yes. You can see the colors in the blank spaces. You know that you can see the wheel fill in. That is visible. Yeah, okay. Starting month. So you can see this is Chris in 2000. Well, I don't know when that would be because she surely had way more than that. This said the first January, 2023 then. Oh, okay. Yeah. So this is the start of our rock. Okay. So as you can see, pretty complete, but she's got this noticeable gap over here. And so then I can just, now if I wanna just let it go, and then it's running and you can see that now it's filled in, but I don't know when that happened. Now I'm at October 31st. If I go more slowly, now I'm going backwards from 20, from Halloween. Now I'm seeing things change. So I can see that there was activity. If I were Chris, I would be doing this and saying, aha, but around the 20th of October, on the 21st, that was added in. Do you see? Back and forth. So what you can do is look for the change. And then when you click on one of these dots, it's going to do a pop-up for you of the person that the dot represents. And then you can investigate further. That's what I did to come up with those 12 profiles. So this was just a really quick and tiny demonstration as Rhonda noted. So if you watch the YouTube video from that Saturday roundup in July, you can blow it up, make it full screen. And just ask me if you have any questions. So those are our finds and our numbers. We had more interesting finds, but tried to just do the highlights and the numbers, the stats. We start a new rock a week from Friday. And these are our rockies, Ian B. Call, Abby Edwards, Bonnie McFeeders, Katherine Ness Penner, and Caroline Vernon. So it's not too late to join the rock team. And if you, there's a G2G post. And I think I better put that in the chat. Rock, rockers wanted. It's our turn. December. Oh boy. I should have had this pre-done, but I didn't. What I, oh, there it is. Okay. So this is where you would sign up if you would like to put this in the comments, if you'd like to join the rock team for December. And I mean, the nice thing about a month-long challenge is that you don't have to be present every single minute. We understand that a lot of people are busy with special events in December. So the rockers tend to come and go throughout the month and work as is convenient for them. And there's breathing room because it's for 30 days. So, yeah. And let's see. I'll see if there any, thank you for those of you who are, who joined us live. I see, I live, I see Lisa Gervais who was on the rock team. And Alice, Kathy Nava also on the rock team. Christina Miller. Jen, John Tyner did a lot of work for Chris Sharkey. Hey John, Jen Lawrence, Yoke. Thank you for being here. And Chris, Chris, will, I'm gonna send Chris Sharkey. I'm gonna send you an email afterwards because I have a list to share with you of about a third of the profiles that were added for you just to make it helpful for you. Yoke asks, would anyone who has served be considered a veteran or just when they have been active in combat? Well, I don't know the technical answer to that, but... Can I answer Betsy? Please write about it. My son is in the army. My dad, I'm the mother of a sergeant, the daughter of a sergeant. Anyone who has served is a veteran. Anyone who has served for one day is a very specific rule. Yeah, okay, thank you for clarifying that. Well, the Veterans Day parade came and went and that question came up and that's the answer. Yeah, okay, thank you. All right, well, I would say that that wraps us up for today. And thank you again, Steph and Rhonda. Thank you so much for being here. Well, thank you, Betsy. I mean, it's just, there's so much to look at and do and tell people about and move from one tree to another tree. It's very exciting. And of course, with some, like some glitches occur, I have twin first cousins and their profiles were merged and one died as a child and one is living with a whole family. So undoing that is really important to me in a project I'm working on. Of course. I also fixed a grandfather who had two profiles. You know, just different stuff happens, but you can't really realize the richness of it all until you start looking. And of course, when November the first came, I started looking and so many people in my family are contacting me, what's happening, what's happening. So it's just very, it's such a lovely gesture and I look forward to giving it to others, paying it forward. Yeah. And it's interesting though, in my, you know, I'm new. I'm really new. So then my situations, you know, like my two grandad's, I did my first merge. You know what I mean? It feels different too for me to do it on my own tree rather than to be messing up somebody else's or my own connections or whatever we call them. Rather than messing up someone else's. So I'm glad to have these opportunities to fluff and fix. And you know, you couldn't tell if you didn't know. Right, right. And I mean, I've been on Wiki Tree for, I guess, four years now, but I still remember my first merge. Right, exactly, it's a big deal. I was emailing two or three people. I was on Discord, do I hit the button now? Later, you know, help. Yes, yes. But I mean, the great thing about Wiki Tree is the community. And you know, we're here to help each other and do things like this, where we research. Yeah, just like if I were to go and do all my profiles now and see what has been found and sharing it with the family. Yeah. Right. And John Tyner, come into the chat, he also worked on your lines. So I know that. Thank you John. Yeah. To say thank you to everyone that's helped and looked at my profiles and increased my CC7. Great. Well, we were happy to do it. And thank you so much for organizing Betsy. It's a lot to do. You can downplay it all you want, but it's a lot to do. Thank you. My pleasure, Rhonda. All right, well, we'll say goodbye for now and everybody rock on. Thank you. See you soon.