time for the Wiki Tree live cast. Greg's here. Sarah is under the weather and that's okay. Sending me lots of hugs and love, Sarah. And Jelaine is here. Yay, Jelaine.  So what we're gonna do is I'm gonna quickly get things done. The question of the week was a really cool one. Not a lot of answers, but we'll get through that pretty quickly and spend a lot of time and see which one takes up the most space this morning. Greg or Jelaine. Oh, morning, John Tyner. I think you won the whoopee cushion for being the first one here. And his comment, his very first comment was a new person in the live cast today. So I've heard. Yes, you did. Yeah. Susan Anderson's here. Chris Berriello. Let's see. Donna Bauman. Jeanine, hey, Jeanine. Lisa Gervais. Hey, Lisa. Where's my bridgehead coffee mug? You're delivering that to my front door. Susan Carter. Let's see who else we've got coming in. Yada, yada. Betsy. Betsy. Betsy, go. Betsy's here. Other people will be wandering in as we go, but good morning to all the people that are here early. I'm gonna go ahead and get us started by talking about that wonderful question of the week. And I am so upset that Sarah's not here to help me pronounce this stuff. How are you, Jelaine, on your South Americans? I know a little bit of Spanish, so I might be able to help out. All right, all right, all right. Okay. So question of the week. Do you have South American roots? Good question. And let's see.  Karen Lowe and Mindy Silva lead the South American project. So if you're interested in checking out that project, there's a great South American roots project, or Latin America, or Caribbean. Now, is the Caribbean considered Latin America? There's some answers in here that came up as Caribbean answers. So, yeah, I don't know. Is the Caribbean considered Latin America? Somebody give me an answer on that. Well, if they speak Spanish, do you think that would qualify it? Well, there's lots of places in the Caribbean to speak English or Dutch. Let's see, 20 answers, not as I'm aware of, but if I grow my tree, I continue to discover more diversity. That's from Marty Frank. And if you notice, Mindy Silva was all over the question of the week this week because it has to do with her project. So, and I love Mindy's answer. Isn't it great how we discover so many new locations when we expand our branches? Roger Stong says, my mother was Chilean citizen at the time of her birth after immigrating from Germany. And my birth registered with Chilean from a consulate at the time. So, you have a Chilean birth certificate. That's interesting. And Mindy, of course, getting on there.  That's cool. I was born in South America and it's where I live. I'm from Buenos Aires. This is from Gonzalo Alonso. All right, cool. I'm Latin American via my father born in the Dominican Republic and my great-grandmother born in Puerto Rico. Those are two Caribbean nations or Caribbean, what? Caribbean nation in a Caribbean US territory from Alexis Abru, Abro. So, are those Caribbean? Are those considered Latin America? I can kind of consider that that. Christina Corbalani, not really, although both my parents were born in Argentina and I was born and still live in Buenos Aires City. So, European by my gene pool, South American by culture, I guess. But my children do have a couple of ancestors as long as they go back to colonial times. That's cool. Yes, my father comes from El Salvador and that's from Gabrielle Cruz Fernandez. My paternal grandmother, Lori Rodriguez, was born in what was British Guyana. Her father was a Portuguese immigrant. She immigrated to the US to marry her. My grandfather, I was gonna say her grandfather. Oh, no. My grandfather whom she met while he was a merchant marine. Nice, Christine Wells. Rob McClellan says, yes, my great-grandfather, John Birch Menchin was a 10-miner who made his fortune in Bolivia. Now, a lot of these people are talking about having connections to the area, but not many are having roots to the area. My father, Charles Richard Close, lived in Costa Rica and that's from Cameron Close. And I like this story because I love coffee here. Everybody cheers. Joanne, do you have a coffee? I've got first coffee of the week, actually. Let's do it, let's do it, coffee. Cheers. All right, so my father, Charles Richard Close, lived in Costa Rica for about 25 years. He searched out and exported coffee beans to the United States. He married the niece of a former president of Costa Rica, not my mother, and lived there until she left him around 1940. He was probably so hyped up on caffeine she couldn't keep up with him. Shortly after that, he enlisted in the army for 42 years and built a coffee plant in Iran for the Persian Gulf Command. Following an early release from the army, the mission accomplished and now 45 years old, he came to Ohio to work for White Villa Foods, White Villa Foods, a food wholesale manager as their coffee roasting and packing department. How about that? No. Yeah, yeah. According to my DNA from Sherry Siever, I have a Northern Triangle of South America and Lower Central America in Portugal, probably all connected, but I haven't found a specific person. Yes, the Portuguese were quite good seafarers, lots and lots of them. No ancestry or cousins for share from Kevin Black, Greg Englishman, my maternal grandmother was Panamanian, which includes Central America, Iberian North Africa, and a bit Sephardic, probably a Converso. Somebody look up that comment for me. Both my parents are born in Ecuador, Consuelo, Siago. Latin American ancestors is not a typical type, you think of a Latin American. Not a typical type, you think of a Latin American. North Brazilians, North Brazilians. Jolaine, you need to turn off your speakers, lady. What are you hearing? I'm not doing anything. Okay. We're getting feedback. You're getting feedback. I like hearing myself though, right? So a Converso, Mags, is a Jew who publicly recanted the Jewish faith and adopted Christianity. Under the pressure of Spanish Inquisition. There you go. And here in this, Latin American ancestors is not typical when you think of Latin Americans, though my Northeastern Brazilians have blind or light blue and greenish hair. Well, that's from the Dutch, the Dutch settled that area, as well as the islands off the coast of the Brazil. And Louis Ward says, yeah, yeah, yeah, we've got it. We've got it down here. So there's a lot of great stories. There's a great story from Carol Dyer here. Go through and read some of those, and we're gonna switch this over. We're gonna switch gears, and we're gonna go talking about why Jolaine is here. Before I share my screen, Jolaine, tell me what you, nice, thank you. Tell me what you happened upon. What, tell me what happened. Oh, it's very exciting. Introduce your story. Yeah, hi, everybody. I'm Jolaine. I think I've been on since 2012. I don't know, I don't know, somebody will find out. Anyway, I've been using Wikipedia for a while, and every once in a while, pretty rarely, somebody from outside contacts me because of something they've found. And I've, you know, that's really fun when that happens. And this time in particular was really great. So I got a private message from someone, and I did reach out to her to see if she wanted to be identified and I haven't heard back from her, so I'll keep her anonymous. But anyway, she sent me a private message, and she said, I found, I was walking down the road in my daughter's neighborhood, and I found in a ditch, a roadside ditch, a bunch of old photographs from the 1800s and early 1900s. And she took a photograph of them and sent them to me, and that's what you're seeing on the screen. And she said, I'm a genealogist, and I'm just horrified to think of these being lost forever. That's the private message she sent. And she started, the good news is, someone in this family had put names on the back of the photographs. So she used those names. Jelaine created this great page, space page, which is what Wikitree said great about, pilfering LeBont photos. So if you wanna pull it up and follow along as we talk about that right now, this is such a great story. And Jelaine said, how should I fix this up for the live cast? And I said, fix up a great space page and take it from there. And all she had to do was go up to add, down here to new thing, create a page for anything, and that's what she did. So Jelaine, you got this, what did you got this on August the second? Yeah, this just happened really quickly, right? So she writes to me and says, I researched the names and I found profiles on Wikitree managed by you and figure you must know something about them. And the box was in a ditch somewhere? And it wasn't even a box, it was, well, some of the photos were in this, this is like a velvet, a velvet, there you go, bag, right? And most of the photos were inside of that. I think the others were scattered, they were wet, it had rained, she dried them out in her oven, which I don't know if I've ever heard of that before that sort of terrifies me, but they look fine, they're sitting here, some are in better condition than others, but so she wrote to me and said, do you want them? And I said, absolutely, I'll take them. And so they arrived a few days later, and I've been going through them this last week and scanning them, technically I'm taking photographs of them with my iPhone and it seems to be doing just fine and adding them to their, whoops, to their particular profiles, but you can scroll down. So, oh, and so how are they related to me? So it's a branch that's not, I wanna stress, this is a great reason to do related lines. So this line is related to me because my emigrating ancestor was a Ludwig Gauke, yeah, leave it there for a second, Mags. Ludwig Gauke was from Schwenningen, Germany in the south of Germany and he had an uncle Thomas Gauke and Thomas emigrated to the States 10 years before Ludwig did. Thomas went to Stanton, Virginia in the Shenandoah Valley. My ancestor went to Buffalo, New York. But anyway, I had started, I was curious to know well, what happened to Thomas? And so I researched and put, this is years ago, put profiles up of Thomas' children and their lineage down, working as far as I could down to the present day. And I put them up and then sort of forgot about them. And it was these profiles that this woman found, the woman who found the photographs in the ditch. And so she sent them to me and I'm freaking out. Like this one, Thomas and Kevin Schlenker, her name was Kevin Schlenker, his is Thomas Gauke. They married in 1835 in Schwenningen. They emigrated in 1856 and he was the brother of a direct ancestor of mine. And I don't have any photographs from this time period. So even though it's not my direct ancestor, it's his brother and hot diggity. So that's exciting. And you can keep scrolling. And basically what this free space page does is it then says, okay, well, their daughter Ursula, also born in Germany and emigrated with her parents. Shortly after arriving in the States, she married a guy named Henry Fifferling. What a great name, huh? And- That was a great name. Yeah, and I'm still, I found that you can keep scrolling. I found a group shot and Henry is on the far left over there. Yeah. Nice mustache. And I think, except for the woman on the far right who I haven't identified, I have profiles for every single one of these people in this group photo. Wow, what is her name, the far right? It's Marie, but I don't know her, I don't know who. It's, I haven't figured out who she is. How she fits it, but I know everybody else. And so if you keep scrolling, then Ursula and Henry had a son, Andrew. And it's interesting in some places, he used his initials more than his name. And in some places, I found him as a J, Fifferling. And in other places, I found him as a Y. Well, it turns out his middle name is Yelk. And the original German spelling is with a J, but they changed it to a Y. So that explains it. Following the phonetic of it. Yeah. Yeah. Now, my Yelks did not. They kept the J. They kept the J in other Yelks in the States kept the J, but others changed it. And so then this is, so their daughter Marie Fifferling, she married a guy named George LeBont, or LeBonte, and Marie is the person who had the photos. She's the one who wrote on the back, all the identifications, cause she often will say, and me, Marie. Oh, that's fun. Marie. So we know that. She's not the same Marie up here. She's the, no, she's the baby in the middle. She's the, she's the baby. Me, Marie. Yeah. So I have not finished going through these. There's easily, I haven't counted them. I'd say there's easily 40 or 50 photographs in this collection. I have not finished going through all of them. Some of them include, which I have not put up. There's someone in here, it's like a photo album. And you can't, I can't, they're attached and they're hard to look at. Oh, that is so cool. So I have some work to do. Trying to figure out, and I don't want to pull them off because it would destroy it to see if there's, to see if there's writing on the back. So for people who want to know about this free space idea of taking something like what Jelaine has had dropped in her lap. Oh my gosh, how wonderful. She's created a date range for these photos for 1870 to 1920. That's what it is. It's called in Augusta, Virginia, United States. I'm not sure why. Because all the photos were taken in Stanton. Okay, and they were found in Moxville. And now I pulled up, let me see here. I pulled up. Oh yeah, I have more story. I have some more story about that. Which works out perfectly. North Carolina, this area of North Carolina was settled by people who were coming down the wagon road from Philadelphia. And that wagon road came right down through this area. I've done a bunch of research in this area on German, Alsace, France, all of that kind of immigration people. And they ended up in Germantown in Philadelphia and came down. So having these people end up in this area of North Carolina makes a whole lot of sense to me. Absolutely. Well, I actually did some research on that. Since I talked to you, Max. Yeah. So, because I was wondering how Stanton, Stanton, I keep wanting to say Stanton, Stanton is in the Shenandoah Valley, which is not on that path. Although Shenandoah Valley had people from Pennsylvania, South of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia settle it as well. But I still was curious, how did these photographs end up in Moxville, North Carolina? Right. So I've been, I've also been simultaneously trying to find living relatives to see if there's somebody who would want these photographs, who's closer to the family than me. And in so doing, I found out that, so Marie, who did all the writing on the back of the photos, she had two children, George and Anne. And I have not put, well, George is dead. He died in 2014 or 16. Anne, I think it's still living. She was living as of a year ago. And she was, she lives in a town I won't name, but it's not far from Moxville. Really close to Moxville. She's in her 80s. I'm curious to have it up. Here's the last most important thing we have, like leaving your coffee on top of the car, and it blew off the car. Oh, that's nice. That's a nice way to think about it. I have sort of worse theories, but imagining cleaning out someone's home who's just gone into a retirement community or whatever. So anyway, so Anne, this daughter of Marie, she was one of the few of the family that left Stanton. She went to Norfolk, which is in Eastern Virginia and was a school teacher there. And I think that's where she met her husband. And they ended up in North Carolina in Winston-Salem, which is also right next to Moxville. Right, they ended up in Winston-Salem. So I have a feeling that Marie gave those photos to her daughter, Anne. Ooh, better not be calling people out now, Delayne. Well- So Delayne has a couple of surnames or tags up here. I would add Moxville to it. I would add the Yacht name. I would add every possible surname that could be connected to this. Moxville- How many, can you add Max? How many tags can you add? I don't know. At least 10, I think. 10, let's see, Hillary LeBont. And you can add them by- Oh, you can add more after it's created. No, you can like Moxville here. And just the comma, right? The comma between them. Oh, you can. Moxville, what's another Yacht? Y-A-U-C-K. Use the one with the Y, because that's what the- I'm gonna put both in here. So Yacht and Y-A-U-C-K. Let's see how that turns out. C-K is not C-H at the end. Yeah, the original one was a C-H. But that's all right. I'll fix it later, don't worry about it.  Yeah, yeah, I'll fix it. So those show up, they don't show up individually, but they do show up on it. So that's interesting. So we just learned something, then we've read. Yeah, I would have thought that, but comma would have made- Yeah, the comma, usually when you're adding tags to something, a comma will create a new tag for you. Yeah. And then just to close the loop on the story part, I did find there are two living daughters of George. So I mentioned Marie had two children, George and Anne. Right. And on George's obit and his wife's obit, which was last year, his wife died last year, two daughters are named and where they live. And so I think I have found a way to reach one of them. Yeah. And so I'm drafting a letter to them. Say, hey, you know, somebody lost these, I'm in the family, I'm taking care of them, check them out on this free space page. Yeah. Enjoy making free. If you want- Well, if they want them, I'll send them to them because there's no reason for me to keep the originals. Scan them all. I will scan them all. Yeah, yeah. That was such a great story. That's amazing. Isn't that great? Yeah, great story. That is amazing.  Oh, right, great. Post on social media, tweet about it. Yep. Yep. Yeah, and Lisa Gervais and I have the same mindset that maybe they were lost. That's a positive, that's possible, that's possible. There's a blank naturalization form in there? No, Chris is talking about a box of stuff that he got. Oh, okay. Not found in a ditch, but I think sent to him. Contents of old rusty tool box, cool. Yes. You should probably do a free space page on that, Chris, and come in and tell us about it. And that's what Lisa told them to do. Yeah. Lisa, you and I need to get together and have coffee, really. Yeah, you guys are obviously in sync. We're not all working. So, Jelaine, when you said that there was a La Bonte, my great grandmother was a La Bonte, and I have a whole book full of La Bonte connections. Did any of them end up in the... And what did I figure out about La Bonte? He... Yeah, I'm curious. So these are from, well, this group emigrated from the St. Lawrence Valley in Quebec to Northern Ontario, to Miscoming Area right along the Northern Ontario, Quebec border. Yeah. But it'd be cool. Okay, well, I... Yeah, that would be fun. So, the one that married, the one who married Marie Fifferling, he was born in Lawrence, Massachusetts. And his parents, all that said, all I know so far is that they were from French Canada. So, it made me... Whoa! Oh my God, this is so funny. I need to find... Okay, you'll have to send me the link to that profile, because then... Yeah, take it. Maybe I can do some... You want to take it. How do I do that? How do I send you a link? I can do it through the private chat, right? Yeah. Yeah, and go... Just go up to the top and click link, and then send it on to him. I wanted to show something else to the stream going on today is the South Carolina, or the South. South Carolina? Genealogical Society. They call it the jamboree is going on. There's live talks and also not-so-live talks. And I'm one of them, but not only am I one of them about minoydna.org, I'm also doing one on WikiTree. So, check out the Southern California jamboree for that, for this weekend. And are you... Is that a live or a not-so-live talk that you... It's live, it's a hybrid. No, it's not- But you're two talks. No, my talk is not live, it's recorded. Yeah, I know, I know. It's things have changed since I did it. Also coming up in the next couple of weeks is the North of Ireland Family History Society conference. Now, if you aren't familiar with the North of Ireland Family History Society and their connection to WikiTree, they have taken the DNA group projects idea on WikiTree because FTDNA doesn't have a space to have all of this information. The North of Ireland Family History Society, which I'm gonna pull up right now, North of Ireland Family History Society. There we go. They actually work on WikiTree solely. And they have a DNA summer school coming up on Monday the 22nd through Friday the 26th. So there's lots of talks and you'll see that I'm doing another WikiTree talk. No, I'm doing just a My-to-Why or a My-to-Control-D&A talk. So that's coming up soon. So if you wanna check it out. And the North of Ireland Family History Society and WikiTree work so well together. They have been actually going out into the villages in Ireland and actually swabbing people for their work on WikiTree and their work with DNA.  They started a project based on my Templeton family who is probably from Island McGee, Ireland. So they had been going around Island McGee swabbing people. So that's pretty cool. That's pretty cool. So give them a check too. Hi, Drew. Oh, that's very cool. Yeah. That's very cool. So before I start the profiles of the week, I wanna just give props to our colleague, Megs here because she did a workshop recently and she got a compliment that I think all of us can agree with that she handles DNA like a sleek sports car. I think I'm paraphrasing because I can't remember the exact quote, but wasn't it something like that, Megs? You drive DNA like a fancy sports car, not a moment's hesitation to answer a question. Oh, I wanna take the workshop with you. I don't know if I don't get DNA, I have resisted. Resistance is futile. Resistance is futile, yes. There you go, Chris Ferriero. Anyways, that's great stuff. Lisa, we gotta get together and just talk. We've got, do you have Bridgehead way out there where you live? All right, Greg. Okay, we're doing profiles of the week. And let me add, there we go. So this week, the theme is, oh, no, I have to put it on. The theme is which participant in the battle in the optimal are you most closely connected to? So I think that the WikiTree logo should change from WikiTree where genealogists collaborate to where genealogists collaborate and teach Canadians all about American history. That's crazy funny. Yes, because I've heard, I mean, I know there's the battle of the Alamo. I know the phrase remember the Alamo, but I was never taught about the Alamo in school. So I have nothing to remember about it. Well, we weren't taught much about it either down here south of the border. Oh, really? We were, and one of my ancestors was best friends with Davey Crockett. Wow. So we have a family connection. He, like, when he died, he took over part of the stuff for the family or whatever I've gotten one. He was a dillard. Oh, wow. I actually learned what I know now about the Alamo from WikiTree. Yes. Well, that's exactly my point. And being involved with the Native Americans project. And it's, yes, it's a pretty awful story. Wow. So here's what I've learned. And correct me where I go wrong, because anyways, the profiles of the week are all about the Alamo and people connected with that. So I had to find out what the history of it was so that I could sort of make sense of this. So apparently it's all about the Texas revolution because Tejas used to be one of the provinces of Mexico. And when Mexico became a country unto itself, there are lots of provinces. And in 1835, in the fall of 1835, after lots of politics and stuff, the residents in Tejas wanted to separate and form their own, they wanted to leave Mexico, basically. So that's where the Texas revolution came in, it started on October 2nd, 1835. And it was a rebellion of colonists from. So I learned two other words that I had never heard before, Texians and Tejanos. And Texians were people who lived in Texas, who were of English background and Tejanos were Hispanic Texans. But there were both groups, types of people were part of the rebellion. So it started out pretty easily because the Mexicans didn't expect this. But then in 1836, they got a little more, the Mexicans got a little more serious about this and Santa Ana, who was the leader of the Mexicans, declared that they were gonna treat, they were the rebels like pirates, and so no holds barred. And the battle of the Alamo, which happened in March, March 6th, around March 6th of 1836, I believe it is, after they attacked, they basically left none of the soldiers alive. They didn't take prisoners, they didn't, there was no leniency at all. Only a few women and children, and I think a few couriers were left, but most of them were just slaughtered. And so because of that, that's why we have to remember the Alamo. So then later in April, they got back at the battle of, where was it Jacinto San Jacinto? And so at that point, the rebels won and they did separate from Mexico and declared that Texas is a republic, which I knew that they was called the official name of the state was the Republic of Texas. And now I understand why, because they became their own little mini country until they were annexed and absorbed by the United States. So how'd I do? You're 20 degrees from David Crockett. That's the closest. Jelaine has a bunch that are 18, but she's 16 from James Bowie, or Bowie, the Bowie and I, Bowie and I. Yes. And I am, I haven't even looked at mine. Ooh, I'm 11 from David Crockett. Wow, you're really close. Yeah, let's see how that goes. And it's real too. It's, wow, that's surprising. It's through my dad, but it's a direct connection. Oh, so you're an actual cousin? Yep. That's very cool. He married, he married my cousin, or my ancestor. Yeah, he married one of my direct ancestors. So his children are my direct, are in my direct line. That's very cool. Isn't that very cool? Yeah. Let me look, see relationship, finally. Here we go. All right. So I just thought I would share that. Yes, thank you. That shocks me that I'm not close to David Crockett. I just, I knew that there was a strong connection between our families, but amazingly, the connection that this comes up with is through the other side of my family. So that's interesting. Interesting, yeah. So yeah, it starts with David Crockett, or David Crockett, is the profile of the week. And Jelaine, did you get that link or not? I was gonna share it with you. What's that? I just, Jelaine asked for it, but I have the link. So apparently, so he went by David Crockett during his life. The name Davy Crockett, it was popularized later after he passed when his life story became myth and history and a nice little ditty that we've all learned and loved in a Disney movie and stuff. But he went by David Crockett. So there was a comment somewhere in the profile about referring to him as David in the profile because that's what he would have been known as in life. But he was born in Eastern Tennessee, August 17, 1786, son of pioneer parents, one of nine children. And he often was hired out to earn some pay so he didn't have any formal education. They came in Woodsman, the Hunter and a Scout, all of those skills that he's famous for. Enlisted in the Tennessee militia, worked, served during the War of 1812. And a number of the people who ended up at the Alamo started out in the War of 1812. So I thought that was an interesting fact. But later on after that, he then became a member of the US House of Representatives. So he was a politician as well as all that. And in Congress, he opposed the Indian Removal Act, which I thought was interesting. He wrote an autobiography along with the help of Thomas Chilton, which was published. And I love this quote here, I leave this rule for others when I'm dead, be always sure you're right, then go ahead. I can commiserator, I can understand what he was talking about being against the removal of the Indians because my family was very much against that as well. My ancestor, John Dillard, is actually written up in an outward bound manual for people doing the North Carolina outward bound because he worked so hard to try and keep the indigenous people in their lands. And he ends up, John Dillard ends up in Raven County, Georgia. He's one of the first people to settle that area when those lands open up. But we also had indigenous people who married into our family and stuff. So there was a, it's interesting to hear that about David Crockett, knowing how my family, it was closely connected to, had also had those feelings as well. Yeah, yeah. It's nice to know that there were people, on the other side of, you know. Yes. It wasn't just, we can't just sort of blanket everyone and say, well, everyone made this choice, which, you know, had negative effects through. Look at Jelaine Smith logged in in another space, leaving me alone. Oh my, doing double duty. Anyways, his opposition to Andrew Jackson led to his defeat. Well, but then he did end up, so he ended up going down to the Alamo and he brought with him a group of 12 Tennessee volunteers. He joined the Garrison in February and was part of the siege. He was killed at the battle on March 6th along with all the other Alamo defenders. So that is Mr. David Crockett. And then on the other side, every one of the other, wait a second, maybe except for the last one here, Juan Jalmonte was on the Mexican side, I believe. Yes. He was born in May, 1803 in Naca Patero Caracarao, district of Michoac Cuen, Mexico. I probably butchered that. He was the son of a Roman Catholic priest who had led insurgents in the Mexican War of Independence from 1811, 1815. But he went to New Orleans where he was educated and learned fluent English. He was on the staff of a rebel leader in Tejas and then was sent as part of the Mexican delegation to London and he negotiated a treaty with England. So that was Mexico's first treaty as a new nation. He got married in Mexico City and he was one of the leaders of the Mexican army. So he rose to the rank of Major General after, yeah. So, Elmonte led the last organized resistance of the panicked army. So on the Fallen Day, Santa Ana was also taken prisoner. So he was in the Battle of San Jacinto when the Mexicans lost, that's when he was captured. He stayed with Santa Ana during his imprisonment acting as his interpreter and negotiator. So, interesting fact here, this town of Elmonte in Ontario here was named after Elmonte to commemorate the general's futile resistance against the United States. That's an interesting reason for naming a town after someone. But- And why do we call it Elmont in them? Well, because of his, well, I guess because he tried to resist the United States, I don't know, maybe- No, but why do we call it Elmont instead of Elmonte? Oh, good point. Well, you know how lots of, lots of pronunciations have changed over time. If there's not a lot of Spanish speaking people in the town, and my guess is most of Ontario little towns probably don't have a lot of Spanish speakers anymore or didn't back there originally. But it's the only town in Ontario that's named after a Mexican general. I haven't, you don't want to go. The town of Elmonte, without the E, Michigan is also named after him. Interesting. But somehow he ended up in Paris when he passed away in 69. James Bowie, famous for the Bowie knife, but was also at the Alamo. Came from Kentucky, described as six feet tall, 180 pounds with light gray hair, gray eyes and a temper. So you can sort of picture that. I guess. He was engaged to Cecilia Wells, but she died before they could be married. So that's sad. And so he joined them, he would join the Masonic Order. He and his friend entered the Mexican Texas colony and by, let's see where, by February 1830, he was already living in San Antonio de Bejar to present more letters to a wealthy settler. And then down to the battle, to the Alamo. Where was he here? He was in charge of a group of volunteers in January at the garrison of the Alamo and the leader, Colonel Neil, needed to leave to go to take care of his family and asked Lieutenant William Travis to command the Alamo. He and Travis didn't get along, but due to it being, anyways, he wanted to continue to stand up for Texans' rights. And anyways, there's a lot, this is a well done, well done profile. Anyways, all the defenders, he was one of the ones killed on the last day, just like many of the others. But there is a picture of the original Bowie knife right there. It's kind of cool. Big. It's a big knife. That's a big knife, yeah. So here's the person who was put in charge of the Alamo. That's William Barrett Travis, born in 1809 in Saluda County, South Carolina. That's where I'm from. Is that right near you? Yep. Cool. He was the commander of the Battle of the Alamo and is the eldest of 11 children. Wow, big families back then. That would have cheap labor for the farm. Yes, that's right. So huge long profile about his career and whatnot. And here we start, some 1835, Antonio López de Santa Ana had asserted his control in Mexico and demanded the surrender of a cannon in October 35 and he, Travis, joined with hundreds of Texans to fight against that. He prepared the mission known as the Alamo and he wrote a letter addressed to the people of Texas and all Americans in the world to ask for help written on February 24th. Brought more than enough to help Texas but it did not arrive in time. So that's one of the reasons the Alamo fell because they didn't get the reinforcements in time. And so then the Mexicans overpowered the Texians within a few hours. Travis was killed early in the battle from a single bullet in the head. There's that. Then we have a woman. Juan Gertrude or Gertrude, Navarro, daughter of Jose Angel, who is Navarro and Marie Concepcion. And Juana Gertrude is Navarro. Juan, sorry, say that again. Juana Gertrude is Navarro. Gertrude is, oh, it's a hard G. Gertrude, okay. And she's a survivor of the Alamo. So she was there with her father with Angel Navarro. Married twice. So she was during their 11 year marriage, Alisbury is off and away from San Antonio. He did not survive the Mexican-American War. She probably wrote a few letters. Her signature appears on numerous Texas land office documents. But, I've always thought of the Alamo as this humongous building for, and you go and you look at it, it's tiny. Well, it was only a little mission church, right? Yeah, it was tiny. It was a little mission, yeah. So, yeah. And then, now this person, I looked out the family tree and all of his ancestors are, like the, you know, the Offless, Elizabeth Crumpler, like these are all, that's like a French name. There's a French connection there. So I'm not sure how to pronounce his first name, whether it, if it was Spanish, that's how it would probably pronounce it. Micaja, Micaja, Micaja. How would you pronounce his first name? Micaja. Micaja. That would have been the Appalachian Micaja. Micaja. Micaja. Micaja. Micaja. Micaja. Anyways, he was also killed in action at the Battle of the Alamo. And having French names, Akkadian names in there would not be unusual because when this turmoil was going on, people were going from New Orleans and from Louisiana over to help with the fighting as well. Right. Yeah. Yes, yes. That's interesting. So I'm wondering what the timing is like from the expulsion of the Akkadians from Nova Scotia down to New Orleans. Somebody look that up. Like is that, how does that figure in with the timing of the Alamo in the, Mexico more? That would be interesting to find out. I should have thought to look at that in the head. So again, he was, he started, he, he's part of the, 1763. Oh. So what would have been 1755 to 1763. So the Akkadians were all down in New Orleans by then. Yeah. Nice. Jelaine, you're muted and just in case, John Tyler, you were not worried about that, but John Tyler is, okay? John Tyler, sure. You're muted Jelaine. She's muted because she's got background stuff going on and we really appreciate that. So, so Micah Jay, Micah Ja, what did you, how'd you pronounce it? Micah Ja. Micah Ja. Micah Ja joined a squad in New Orleans. There we go, New Orleans and on their way to Texas. Now you gotta get New Orleans right. New Orleans. New words. New Orleans. New Orleans. N-Y-O-L-E-A-N-S. Something like that. Yeah. They had to walk all the way to Washington on the Brazos. Brazos is a river that flows through there with David Crockett and others on the command of Captain William B. Harrison. They arrived on in February and entered the Alamo Garrison on February 23rd. And then March 6th, the morning, Mexican Army hit the South wall and he died along with 187 other defenders. James Butler Bonham, born on Flakrose Plantation, South Carolina, again, near Saluta, South Carolina. So that's, again, your neck of the woods. What about Bonham? Really?  No. So I like this. So he was a bit of an instigator. When he went to college, South Carolina College, in his senior year, the whole senior class was expelled due to a protest that he instigated. Oh, my word. Yeah, because of attendance regulations. So maybe because he had to attend class and poor food for the students in the boarding house. So there was a whole protest and then it got expelled. When he was practicing law in Pendleton, he struck an attorney with a cane who had insulted one of his female clients. Those heroines are just dangerous folk. Yeah, he would not apologize, then offended the judge, which results in a nine days sentence for contempt of court. So he obviously had a penchant for social justice and doing what he thought was right. So I think he followed David Crockett's motto to that, which is probably how he ended up helping out. He left February 83rd at the Alamo. He was killed on the 6th of March along with the rest of the defenders. So. None of these profiles have a happy ending. I'm just saying that. No, no. So he offered his service, so he was actually a courier, so he took messages back and forth. And the second pause of letter to Colonel Travis was that help was coming, but they didn't arrive in time. Then Susanna Wilkinson, known as, she was a survivor. She survived? She survived. This is one of the happy endings. One of the happy endings, yes. And I believe she was able to save her daughter. When the Mexican troops arrived in San Antonio, she and her husband moved to the Alamo for safety, which turned out to be not maybe the best decision. And so, her last memories of her husband was him running into the chapel where she was hiding.  Aww. Said? Now she did survive and she did save the child, but she became a widow that day. Where was she born? She was born. Bolivia. Bolivar, Bolivir. Bolivar? Bolivar? Come on, Janine. Bolivar. Micaiah. Micaiah, Janine, he says. Okay. From a few people far as that. You didn't said that out loud. Patrick Henry Herndon. Right, because I'm going to remind you right now that it's like 10 till. Oh my goodness. Okay, so someone else. Patrick, first assigned to, he was also killed in the Battle of Alamo March 6th. He was in the company, he traveled with James Bowie. He was part of that crew. James Clinton Neal. He survived because he was, I think he was the one who was called back. He left the Alamo because his family, there was a family problem. And then on his way back, he stopped to buy medicines, but he was too late to arrive at the Alamo with the medicines. Yeah, can you imagine that phone call? Mom, mom, he won't let me have the remote control and we're going to get beat each other up. Dad, come and help us. That didn't happen back then. No. And the last one, Juan Nipolmusteno, Seguin. Yeah, whatever you say. I think that might be how you pronounce it. Juan and San Antonio Beja, province of Texas, when Tejas, when it was part of New Spain. And then this is mostly bullet points. And for the full round, he's cheating on the media. You get that, Greg, bullet points. Oh, sorry. He left the Alamo as a courier to carry a message, requesting aid for the Alamo defenders and many of the soldiers in unit company. When he encountered a Mexican army patrol, so he was a loyal Tejano, this guy. When he encountered a Mexican army patrol, he spoke to them as if he was a Mexican officer. So that's a cool way to hide that, but he never returned to the Alamo as the other couriers did. So that's how he survived, why he survived. So there we have it. The profile's the week. Now we need to jump on the roller coasters, go. Do I even have those up? I don't have those up yet. That's your weekly episode of Canadians learning American history, or butchering it, however. I got recent questions up for sure. And since we only have like four minutes left, maybe we should do that. Here we go. We've got a challenge coming up for Scott Turo's ancestors. I think we're in the middle of a lot of, what's up? We're in the middle of the Jennifer Lopez challenge right now. Yeah, and we're in the middle of Jennifer Lopez's challenge. Everybody knows who J. Lo is, but according to the last week's session, we found out that she is now Jennifer Lopez Affleck. Ah. Yeah, and let's see. And Scott Turo, who is Scott Turo? He... He's an author, isn't he? Yeah, I think so. Scott Turo, you can register for that. And the tree tops in your CC7 history, which has something to do with Greg. There's also another wiki tree tops page. Let me look for it real quick. But I don't want to get lost. And it's been around for years. Well, didn't the tree tops sort of incorporate that as part of it? I think so. Is this it? Yeah. So, Patrilinealine Cousins, it's called wiki tree tops, and all you have to do is Google it, wiki tree tops, and it'll take you to this page. And he's got bunches of stuff, outstanding profiles per week, per week. So there's a lot more information what is in the wiki tree tops they have listed so far of what I've seen. Photo of the week. Now, does this really take us to the photo of the week? Takes us to the archive. And living persons with ancestry from the largest number of different countries within eight generations. Here, I was trying to figure that one out. Yeah. That's pretty cool. Most number of generations in which a person's ancestors are all known and they are all from one country. That's pretty cool. Wow. Let's see, most number of identified ancestors back. So there's a bunch of stuff in here that's fun for wiki tree tops. If you wanna see some of the extra stuff that goes along with that. And we're really not gonna have time to do the Royal Coasters. Maybe we can do double up on the photo of the week next week. Sure. Yep. So, Jelaine, thank you so much for joining us and sharing that story. This is the invitation. Yeah, I'll keep adding photos if I discover any other interesting ahas. There's gold? There's gold in that? I wouldn't tell anybody that you find gold. Yeah, that's right. I think of gold and been found it didn't make it from North Carolina back up here to Washington DCs. Nice to, thanks for letting me play with you. Hey, we love having you on, Jelaine. And next time to find that wiki tree shirt I think it's back in that in your utility room back there. It's holding, you've got it tied together holding something together. It's on the other side, the other side, other side. Yeah. Greg, always a pleasure. And do you have anything exciting coming up or? Me? Yeah. Well, let's see. I did a little mini update to the DNA Confirmation app and I might put a YouTube video to explain that. And I'm actually going to add a link to Johnny Pearl's DNA Painter. Cause I would look- Look at the eyebrow work on that one. Johnny Pearl was the keynote last night for the Jamborees. Nice. I was going to say something for you to you. I don't remember what it was. What blank? Well, while you're looking in your mind for that, Greg, let's follow up on the Lobonte Connection app. Cause I bet it connects. I bet it connects. Where genealogists collaborate, folks. Yeah, exactly. What happened right here today? Yeah, so you guys have a great week. Sarah, get well and we'll see you again this time next week. Next week? Oh, and I'm going to be out in the woods again. Oh, great. Bye, y'all. See ya. Bye. Get the branding up here. So- Yeah.


Your name? Takuro Your password? One, two, three, four, five? No Quarantine? No How about admin? No What's up guys? What's happening? Do you know this guy? Sure! He's Takuro He visits me every day Do you need the ID? Thanks Can I get in now? Yeah, go ahead All right See you tomorrow We all know that passwords can be a pain Every website asks for one Users have a ton of them they can't remember Or even worse, some users have one or two passwords Reused across various websites and apps Which could be a big security risk This is not fun for users or developers My name is Eiji And there's a handy and simple solution to this issue Called Federated Logging Federated Logging means that Users authenticate using a search party identity Usually without re-entering credentials or profile information Google Sign in is Google's take on federated logging And is designed to be as easy as possible For you to implement and for users to sign in Let's see how it works Here's the sign in button When the user steps on it A sign in window appears The user chooses an account And then signs in if he is not signed in already The user allows access to profile information Now the pop-up window closes And the user is signed in Notice that the current best practice for asking permissions Is incremental authorization This means that rather than signing in And requesting user permissions at the same time You should first sign your user in And request for permissions only when they are needed Check out my authorization video for further details on this Now let's take a look at how to implement Google Sign in In just a few steps First, head over to Google Developers Console Create a project Add a credential Configure a content screen And create a client ID In HTML, add the client ID to the head section Using MetaTag Then load APIJS This is the core of Google JavaScript library When APIJS is loaded Call GAPI load to import OS 2 module To enable Google Sign in Then call GAPI OS 2 init to initialize Once these are done, you are ready The next step is to render a sign in button The most generic option to do this Is to use a custom button Put an HTML tag and use regular CSS To design the button Don't forget to read our guidelines for designing the button You will also find the button assets in the same doc Add an event listener and inbox sign in When the button is pressed The sign in function returns a Google user object Use it to get basic profile information Such as username, email and the profile image Finally, users can sign out Simply by calling sign out Review our sample code here For a more detailed work through Ok, this was the basis of authentication Using Google Sign in But what do you do if there is a server involved? Or how would you access the Google APIs On behalf of the user? I will talk about these workflows In the following videos in this series Thank you for stopping by And stay tuned


ESA method and why you should use it. As we all know, students will be eager to learn and be more active during the class, if they are properly motivated and interested in the lesson. There is no better way to motivate and engage students to learn a new lesson than the ESA method. ESA method is very useful for students as well as for teachers. With ESA method teacher can present a lesson to the class in a variety of interesting ways. ESA method has three stages, engage, study, and activate. Engage. Engage is the first stage and in this stage, the teacher can use different kinds of methods to inspire and engage students to learn new lessons. If students think the lesson is boring or teacher just started lesson without engaging them, students would find this kind of learning wrong and they will quickly get bored. The teacher should encourage students to talk and think on the English language about the topic, or some of their personal experiences that could fit in the topic. Teacher talk time in this stage should be minimized, so that students would be free to talk as much as possible. This could be done with some interesting story, game, or even a popular song. The teacher could also use pictures, short movies, and ask questions that are associated with the lesson. This stage shouldn't be that long, that is more than enough to engage students and get them ready for the study stage. After successfully engaged students, the teacher goes to the next stage. When students are engaged, interested, and familiar with the topic, the teacher slowly starts to present to the new content. This could be done in many ways, text, missing word game, song lyrics, and many other options. Presenting new knowledge is important, and it's the key for students to understand new language and content. After quality and interesting presentation comes repeating and going through content a few more times. If some students have difficulty to understand this or make mistakes, the teacher should correct them and explain to them why they are not right, and how to be sure that they won't make that mistake again. Students after this study will have all the needed knowledge for the next stage, where they will confirm and further enhance their knowledge. Activate. The last stage is activated stage. In this stage the teacher gets students talking with new words as much as they can. Students can say something about themselves or things they do every day, but using words they learned in the previous stage. Students talk time in this stage should be maximized, while the teacher should only talk at the beginning of the stage to explain the rules if there is some game or activity that suits this stage. Games teacher could use at this stage or discussion, role play, or any other game or task that will make students think and talk on English, using as many new words as possible. For the teacher this is also good feedback to see if students understood the lesson, and if there are some mistakes that need to be corrected. Types of ESA lessons. All of those three stages of ESA method are equally important and we can't leave any of them out, but it doesn't mean that it always has to be three stages. For example, we can have three engaged stages, one study stage, and two activate stages. They don't have to be in the same order as well, we can have E1, A1, E2, S1, E3, a two ESA lesson. The only rule is that we start with engaged stage, and finish with activate stage. There are so many ways we can organize our ESA lesson, but there are three main groups we can classify. Right arrow is the simplest of all three ESA types. It literally follows the ESA pattern. Firstly the teacher engages students, after that the study and activate through games or activities. This type is simple, so it is good for simple and easy lessons, it's not suitable for some complex or complicated lessons. Boomerang could be used for some more complicated lessons. Boomerang lesson would look like this engage, activate one, study, activate two. In the first activate stage the teacher should think about a possible problem that can come up, so they could be dealt with in the second activate stage. Patchwork is the most complex of all three ESA types, the teacher can rely on this type when a lesson is so complex, and the teacher knows which one of many stages to use. In patchwork type there is plenty of engaging, study, and activate stages that can improve knowledge of students and can make the lesson easier to learn and understand. The main rule is the same as for ESA method, begin with engaging, have as many steps between as you want, and finish with the activate stage. Do you want to teach English abroad? Take a TEFL course today. ESA method is good for teachers as much as it is for students, and can help both of these two groups to complete their goal easier. For a teacher the ESA method helps to keep lesson organized, and as well as keeping students focused and engaged, especially for new teachers. ESA method makes the lesson easier to understand for students, engage stage get them interested and ready to learn, study stage learn them new content on the interesting way, and activate stage help the practice and fully understand the lesson. ESA method is a win-win method. Thanks so much for watching. We are ITTT the leading provider for TEFL and TESOL training courses. If you like this video, please subscribe by clicking that button down here and click on any of the videos here on the left for more interesting teaching tips for getting certified to teach English abroad and online.


Hi everyone, I am Kirsten Pima and today we are going to be exploring Google Slides and more specifically Google Slides on an iPad. It's a tool that can be used to connect and instruct students through a digital platform and here's how to get started with Google Slides on an iPad. So the first thing you're going to want to do is make sure that you actually have the Google Slides app downloaded. Most iPads are going to have it but just in case it's that white little box with the orange piece of paper on the inside. The next step is you can either choose a template or you can create a new presentation. If you're going to choose a template, here are your options. As you can see, they already have different things split up into categories between education, work, personal. They're already set up. Now for this presentation, I'm going to create a new one. You can make your title first. This doesn't matter, you can change it later so it's not set in stone. Okay, the next thing you're going to want to do is most people aren't going to want a white Google Slide. So you're going to hit the three dots in the top right corner and that will give you different options for colors and fonts. So you'll hit change theme. Change theme. Here you go. You've got all these options for different colors and fonts to make your presentation look a little prettier. Perfect. So next thing, if you want to change wording or fonts, you'll go and click on the actual space and you can change your font here. If you were to change your font, you would click the A with the underline and that will get you to the different font choices. You can make your font bolder or you can make it italic. You can underline it. You can change the size here, color, all those things. Now if you're trying to change the actual font, here are your options. Just keep in mind you have to highlight it and Google only has certain fonts. Those are the only ones they have. You can't add them. That's it. So if you're trying to change anything else, you'll want to hit that little plus sign. You want to add an image, a text box, comment, shape, lines, all those things are there. So if you want to add more text, that's the spot you're going to want to go. Now one in doubt, hit the three dots in the corner. Perfect. And if you want to add speaker notes, that'll be housed in that three dot spot. This is if you want to make a presentation and you want to keep yourself in check while you're writing or reading. If you want to hit view guides, that's going to add these lines. This is to help keep things more aesthetically pleasing. Now Slides has this nice feature where it kind of automatically will give you those guides anyways but if you'd rather have them on all the time, that's where you can change that. The next thing most people want to do is add more slides. So this little box at the bottom with the plus sign gives you all the different types of slides you can add. Some people usually go with the same slide over and over. The best part is you could add a different type of slide for each different piece. You could start with a section header and then you could add a title and body. They don't all have to be the same. They all have to be uniform. It kind of spices up your presentation and doesn't keep it so bland and boring. So as you can see, we've got different types of slides and it all still matches, which is the best part. It doesn't look like it's all over the place. So we're going to go back over to the three dots and now what you can do is share and export. This is probably my favorite tool in Google. You can easily share with anybody you know or anybody that has an email address or a Google account. I'm going to share it with myself here and you can add that. You can make me an editor and you can easily share it like that. You can share other ways. You can also copy the link just simple as that. You can email it to someone. You can post it on Google Classroom. Those things are easy. You can also share by sending a copy. You can send it as a PDF, which they won't be able to edit or a PowerPoint, which they could download and edit later.  And the last thing you can do is make a copy. So say you want to make a copy for a teammate so that they can use it, but they want you want them to be able to change whatever they need to. Without changing your own, that's an easy way to share a slide or a presentation with someone. That was just the introduction to Google Slides on an iPad. I hope that is helpful. Don't forget to check out our Dish Channel. You can subscribe on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, follow us on Pinterest. Subscribe and enable notifications on YouTube and look out for more tutorials. Thanks for watching.


So I have something I love to do with the guys that are uber successful like you and I find this to be extremely intriguing So what is a day in the lifelike for you Monday through Friday? What when do you get up? What do you do?  I? Get up at 430 do you every morning? Yeah, and I get up and I do cardio I drink one cup of coffee and some water and do cardio. I'll ride a bike. I'll do sprints all jog For 30 or 40 minutes then ate a big breakfast big breakfast oatmeal eggs fish steak Whatever I got eggs oatmeal and a meat. Yeah Protein yeah, and then then I go to the gym. That's about six o'clock By then I go to the gym and power lift for an hour when you do cardio. What are you doing? I'm jogging. I'm sprinting or I'm but riding my bike whichever I decide when I wake up some day You know since I go so hard Some days I might want a little less of a you know, so I ride the bike, but I'm still getting that I'm still burning those. I'm still getting it in right and I like just doing it see that the thing about that is is It's still Pushing yourself in a different area. It's not the same as jogging get it's you it's different You're you're working different muscles Right, so it's so it's positive that you're working the different if all you did was ride the bike Or all you did was jog that would not necessarily be the greatest thing because you're just working those same muscles all over and over again And and your work your cardio is different when you can do several different things And work your heart out differently, you know and kind of confuse it stay comfortable. That's where you go Yeah, that's where you even be pushing and I ride the bike.  I'm at the wall. We're about 7 7 a.m. Now coming back home about 7. Yeah 7 Okay, yeah 7 7 15 and then I take a shower. I'm to the office before 8 Okay, so when I get to the office, that's my time to meditate about my business. I Take 15 minutes and I just sit there. I go through all my emails All my notes all my deals all my follow-up stuff all my appointments everything I got going on and I want to take one sheet of paper and I want to organize everything going on in my business in Terms of appointments Negotiations You know people I need to follow up with deals. I got you know, what all is going on that way at the end of that 15 minutes on this one sheet of paper I've got everything I need to know about taking my life to to the next level that day There's nothing more. I can't you know, I've sit there for 15 minutes and think of is there anything else I can do today That I can put on this piece of paper, you know, that's going to take everything to another level Right, so I've got huge goals way beyond, you know, I'm talking 10 years out here Right and it's all about the daily habits. Are you reviewing those goals? Short mid and long range when you get to the office as part of your meditation. Not really. Okay. No, I There's not for me. I'm kind of different. I mean, there's really no need to look at that because You don't control the results The results control the results you can only control your daily habits and what you're going to do every day, right? So I don't care about the results. I know the results will happen when they're supposed to happen in in 2014 I did 600k in personal income and I wanted to do a meal the next year You know, so the next year comes around I make this grand plan to do a meal And I say I need to make this many phone calls do this many this this many listings this this this and this and So January comes around and I try to implement this plan February comes around March by March. I start to realize I'm not hitting this. I'm not I'm not doing 80,000 a month to get to the meal. I'm still at 50 a month What am I doing wrong? How you know and what it was is is I was Putting too much on myself, right? You and your goals are like that and I was trying I was trying to control the results right was the problem and You can't do it like that. You got it. You got to control your daily habits. Let the results happen when they happen and then Be patient put the work in if you if you're putting the work in Then you then you can go to sleep at night knowing I Did it right? I did I might I might not hit a million dollars this year like I wanted to But I did what I was supposed to do. I did my full potential my full potential is where I want to be So I want to talk to the insurance agents listening to this right now And real estate agents because if I'm a real estate agent, I got to listen to this podcast, too But you go back to you controlling your daily habits and what I've always said to insurance agents is this If if I see what you're making this month in commissions, okay?  Well at the end of that three months. Guess what you're not gonna have any closings. You're not gonna do it You're not gonna have any business Kind of the same thing now going back to your daily routine 8 a.m We do office. We do emails. Are you just jamming the rest of the day? Just just you've got you know meetings and phone calls and whatever's on that piece of paper. Okay, whatever's most important I might have a listing appointment or I need to make You know 15 follow-up calls of people that said they might want to do something or need to show property Or I might have a podcast or I might need to do a live training session Whatever's most whatever's on that paper That's what I got to do, you know, do you have any certain time at night when you just turn it all off? Or do you are you just depends on what I have going on because see What's so crazy about everything I'm doing is I'm one guy, right? I have Blake I have another assistant Christie is my real estate assistant And I have a girl named Brianna that works pull past a part time That just kind of does a little real estate and little the coaching stuff and really it's just me right and so You know Blake does a lot of videos, but I do a lot of videos on my own I'll film and edit them myself I added all my podcast, you know a lot of my podcast or recorded coaching calls I'll have with with people that win them off Instagram and I'll record them and put them on there. I do all that and so at night That's kind of my chance to To if I need to edit something or if I have something, you know like really good ideas about some Facebook ad I want to do or or something like that.  I'm pretty dead, you know, so the next question Nine most of the time


Ladies and gentlemen the railroad hour and here comes our star-studded show train tonight the Association of American Railroads invites you to a review of some of the outstanding music from the railroad hour shows of 1950 starring Gordon McRae his guest Lucille Norman and the entire company. Our choir is under the direction of Norman Luboff and the music is prepared and conducted by Carmen Dragon.  Thank you Marvin Miller and good evening ladies and gentlemen well folks tonight is New Year's night time for looking back and the time for looking forward during the past 52 weeks of railroad hours we've had a great deal of mail from you telling us about your favorite shows and so tonight we're going to sing for you some of the songs you liked especially starting off with the song from the very first railroad hour of 1950 the operator was the Red Mill the song well one of the jauntyest that ever came from the eloquent pen of Victor Herbert every day is ladies day with me I'm quite at their disposal all the while and my pleasure it is double if they come to me in trouble I always find a way to make them smile doubt I should have married long ago the proper thing to do you'll all agree but I never could find any fun in wasting all my time it's a frightful thing to think of all the hearts that I have broken although each one fell in love with me without the slightest token though among my vulgar creditors I'm fearfully in debt it's because I have afforded anything that I could get but I must say I've enjoyed the best of what there is in life I've been lucky in my love affairs I've never had a wife and I don't begrudge the little dears those necklaces of pearls all the money that I've ever saved is what I've spent with me I'm quite at their disposal all the while my pleasure it is double if they come to me in trouble I should have married long ago the proper thing to do you'll all agree but I never could find any fun in wasting all the show that seems to be a plenty of favorite of yours is Walt Disney's interpretation of the story of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs is a lovely song that Snow White sings by a wishing well and here's Lucille Norma to sing the song you like the best from Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs What a no secret Promise not to tell We are standing by a wishing well Make a wish into the well That's all you have to do And if you hear it echo we Wilburton Sullivan Modality our comedy highlight of the year I'll take a big deep breath and sing I am the very model of a modern major general from Pirates of Fanzan I am the very model of a modern major general I've information vegetable animal and mineral I know the kings of England and I quote the pike historical from Marathon to Waterloo and Autocatagonical I'm very well acquainted to it matters mathematical I understand equation for the simple and quadratical about my normal fear and I'm teeming with a lot of news Let's see what rhymes with news Ah snooze blues baby needs a new pair of shoes I have it with many cheerful facts about the swear of the hot pot to news Very cheerful facts about the swear of the hot pot Very cheerful facts about the swear of the hot pot Very cheerful facts about the swear of the hot pot to news Very good at integral and differential calculus I know the scientific names of beings and immaculous but still it matters vegetable animal and mineral I am the very model of a modern major general I'm not a vegetable animal and mineral I am the very model The history king others enter paradox I answer horticostics have a pretty taste for paradox I quote an elegiac all the crimes of heliogabalus and conics I can plop peculiarities Perabulous I can tell undoubted Raphael's and Gerard Dawson's oponies I know the fronking corners from the francs of Anastophanes and I can hum a fugue of which I've heard the musics dinner for Let's see what rhymes with dinner for Bore? Snore? Dinosaur? Ah, I have it And whistle all the air some maddened fernel not just dinner for And whistle all the air some maddened fernel not just dinner for And whistle all the air some maddened fernel not just dinner for Babalonic uniform and tell you every detail of Cadacacas's uniform And short and mad as vegetable animal and mineral I am the very model of a modern major general The musical highlights of the rareland hours 1950 season Make you need Judging from your letters one of our favorite shows of the last year Seems to be one of your favorite shows of any year Noel Cowart's haunting and unforgettable operetta Bittersweet So from that score here's one of the most beautiful songs we sang in 1950 Now I'm just arising a skill There is a time when Americans look to the future The year just ended has been one of solemn concern for all Americans Since last June our armed forces have been fighting with desperate courage To stem the tide of aggression in Korea Today our country is re-arming against the threat of another world war For the coming year we Americans are prepared to take up a notch in our belts And push re-armament with all possible speed We are determined to produce guns and planes and tanks and munitions In quantities that will deter any enemy or combination of enemies from future aggressive acts As defense mobilization goes into high gear It is the job of the railroads to move men and material And to haul the raw materials, the food, the fuel, the supplies that are needed To make the munitions which our men must have To help speed this tremendous transportation job The railroads have the skill, the ingenuity and the experience gained during World War II And since the end of that war the railroads have spent more than five billion dollars To increase their transportation capacity and to improve efficiency Last year the American railroads put more new locomotives into service And during any other year in the past quarter century These new more powerful locomotives operating more efficiently And hauling the new larger cars Make it possible for the average freight train today to carry more freight And carry it faster than ever before During the year ahead the railroads plan to continue this billion dollar a year program of expansion and improvement Right up to the limit of available manpower and material At the same time with the continued help of shippers and government agencies They will get even more service out of every available car and locomotive Yes, 1951 is a year of challenge to all Americans And because we are free men we will meet that challenge For their part in 1951 the railroads are determined to provide the transportation service so essential To keeping our economy strong, our nation free And now back to Gordon McRae, his guest star Lucille Norman And the show train's trip through the musical memories of 1950 Many of the songs that you wrote us as being among your favorites Came from the railroad hour summer series During which we took you back through years that you had lived yesterday And told you the story of those years in words and amusing Well, sir, a song you like particularly came from the year 1924 And here's the wonderful calm and dragon arrangement of George Gershwin's great hit Lady Be Good From some of the greatest composers of opera Victor Herbert, Gilbert and Sullivan, George Gershwin And our next song is the work of a man who wrote not only some of the greatest music of his day But music that must live forever, Jerome Kern It's the song that introduced Marilyn Miller to Broadway Look for the silver lining from Sally Well, folks, we opened our 1950 fall and winter series With the first radio performance of the great Rodgers and Hammerstein hit Allegro And no review of 1950 would be complete without something from these two talented pens I'm looking forward to next week, Gordon, when you present your next Rodgers and Hammerstein show, Carousel Well, we certainly are, too, Lucy Miss Patricia Morrison, Broadway musical star, will be our guest And, well, the Carousel story and music ought to make a wonderful show But now, from Allegro, here's your favorite love song You Are Never Away You are never away from your home in life Never a day was based on a morning spring You're a star in the lace of a white You're no star that I sing But running through the year was the somber thread of current Thread that broadened and darkened as the last days of 1950 ran out And now, as the new year begins, the hopes and the prayers of the world are united In the hope and prayer for peace In the hope and prayer that we may find a common understanding That we may learn to live with one another in one world Gathering strength and knowledge from the experiences behind us In the hope and prayer that with faith and understanding We can solve the problems of this hour And all the problems of the future Please, God, may the new year truly be a happy one For you, for your friends, for your neighbors Your neighbors in your town, in your country Your neighbors in the world It's been a real pleasure for all of us to have been with all of you on this first day of the new year And on behalf of the American Railroads and all the members of our railroad, our family Let me extend best wishes for a truly happy new year Of course, we'll all be contributing in one way or another to an accelerated preparedness And like the rest of us, the railroads are going to do everything possible to help the national rearmament Since railroad transportation is such an essential part of any such effort The railroad program is to spend more than a billion dollars in 1951 To enlarge and improve every part of their plans And the result will be even more efficient dependable railroads With transportation capacity rising in step with the rising demands of national defense All aboard! Well, sir, it looks as though we're ready to pull out Remember, next Monday we're presenting Rodgers and Hammerstein's Carousel So until next week, this is Gordon McRae saying goodbye to all of you, especially to my mother and my wonderful family The scene starring in the Warner Brothers production, the West Point story Our guest star tonight was Lucille Normans, the script was written by Gene Holloway Our choir is under the direction of Norman Luboff, and our music is prepared and conducted by Carmen Dragon This is Marvin Miller saying goodbye until next week for the American Railroad And I'll keep tuned to your Monday Night of Music on NBC Enjoy James Melton on Voice of Firestone on NBC