Welcome to the National Archives and Records Administration's genealogy series, a set of educational lectures on how to do family research. I'm Andrea Matney, the program's coordinator, and pleased to bring you the next session in our series. These lectures demonstrate how to use federal records and other resources for genealogical research for beginning to experienced family historians. Our presenters include experts from the National Archives nationwide. During the premiere broadcast, we invite you to join the conversation. Please participate by using YouTube's chat and Twitter. So this is the third of six sessions being broadcast over two months, and here is our May schedule, and here is our June schedule. Previous sessions, the presentation slides and video will remain available after the broadcast. As you can see from this slide, chat is available as a video plays. We invite you to participate. First, log into YouTube and then type in your questions. Keep your eye on the chat during the broadcast because speakers will answer your questions there. You don't have to wait until the end. Please type in your questions in at any time. Under the video box, you'll see the live captioning, handout, and event evaluation. Click the words show more to see their links. Now on to our session. Tips and tools for engaging family with your research finds with Missy McNatt and Dorothy Daugherty. During this session, family historians will learn how to connect research findings in an engaging way with younger family members. So Missy McNatt is an education specialist at the National Archives in Washington, DC, where she has worked since 2006. As you can see from her biography, she is an instrumental part of the education team. And Dorothy Daugherty has worked at the National Archives for 20 years. She is the virtual public programs director at the National Archives at New York City and team leader for its public education and outreach program. We are now beginning our session and it will begin with Missy McNatt and now turning the broadcast over to Missy. Thank you for that great introduction, Andrea. And Dorothy and I look forward to sharing our tips and tools for engaging families in genealogy research with tools and records from the National Archives. Today, we will share how you can captivate young genealogists with federal records, build on their personal interests and stories from your budding genealogists with National Archives educational activities, and then how you can find the activities and the genealogy resources online. I manage the Boeing Learning Center in the National Archives Museum in Washington, DC. It's a drop in space for visitors to the museum. Many visitors come to the Boeing Learning Center because they are interested in genealogy research. But I quickly discovered that it isn't just adults. Young people also want to unearth their roots. In 2014, I facilitated the first genealogy camp for kids at the National Archives. And over the years, we learned that the genealogy camp for kids is much more than an experience for young people to dig into their past. It teaches valuable civics lessons. As we access records from the federal government, we learn that we have census records because Article 1, Section 2 of the Constitution empowers Congress to carry out the census in, quote, such manner as they shall by law direct, unquote. And we have military records because of Article 1, Section 8 of the Constitution, quote, the Congress shall have power to raise and support armies, unquote. Citizenship and immigration are mentioned in several places in the Constitution. And as we examine the Constitution, the genealogy campers gain a better understanding of our democratic process. We learned a number of lessons from the genealogy camp for kids. And one of the first things we learned was that genealogy camp promotes critical thinking skills. As the campers closely read family records, evaluate the accuracy of their findings, and then synthesize the materials into a coherent story. As Benjamin Franklin once said, tell me and I forget, teach me and I remember, involve me, and I learn. Personal genealogy research is truly an authentic learning experience and connects young people to real world research. They develop problem-solving skills and develop a final product to share with family and friends. And finally, we observe that family ties are strengthened. Campers reach out to parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles, and cousins with questions. Connections are created or strengthened and family reunions are planned. When young people sign up for the genealogy camp, I always ask them why they're interested. And there are many reasons. Believe it or not, there are a lot of history buffs out there. Young people who just want to learn more about history. And no surprise, many young people are interested because someone in their family has already started some genealogy research. And one kid even responded, grandma is an ancestry addict. And another more recent motive for kids to learn about their past is the increased availability of DNA testing kits. So someone in the family has completed a DNA test and they're trying to figure out what those results mean. And then we have families that take those great history trips, places like Ellis Island, and they come back with all kinds of questions. And so what better place than going to the genealogy camp for kids at the National Archives to get those answers? In addition, many schools actually, more and more schools are finding include genealogy research. And it's for a variety of reasons at the middle and high school level. And students are learning great research skills as they go through the process. And then they are connecting to the history of the broader area. And I recently worked with the DC Elementary School and their goal is to understand the students for them to understand their identity. And what better way to understand your identity than by doing genealogy research? And then finally there's a group of kids who just love puzzles and challenges. And certainly genealogy research is a gigantic jigsaw puzzle. As a world change last year as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, so did the genealogy camp for kids. And like the rest of the world, we went virtual. And as with so many changes, there were pluses and minuses to the virtual world. I missed being with the campers in person, but I loved having young people from across the United States involved. And then last year as part of the camp, we asked the campers to produce a final product in which they described one of the records they discovered during the camp. We will listen to three of the campers tell us about what they found. The first one is great grandfather registered for the draft. During NARA's genealogy for kids camp, I found a copy of my great grandfather's World War II registration certificate for the Army. And right here. And this information on this certificate is important to me because it gives me insight into what his life was like, both as a soldier and how he worked. And what he did other than enlisting in the military. Next we learned how a camper found his two times great grandpa's Civil War record. Found a Civil War index which led me to the roster for the 38th Indian Regiment. My third great grandfather Robert Easton served for five years when he was 28 to 32 years old. He died 14 months after he got home and the historical reference is the Civil War. The most well-known campaign they were in was the Siege of Atlanta and being with General Sherman as he burned his way across Georgia to Savannah. And then here we learn about the oldest document that a camper discovered. Hello, I am Brandon and this is the oldest document that I could find on ancestry.com of my family. Not the oldest person though, the oldest person was Thomas Bathurst and he was born in 1789. And we could not find any documentation of him. And here is the document. Alan Bathurst as I think says right here. So starting genealogy research can be bewildering. Who do I research? Where do I start? One of the first things we talk about at the genealogy camp for kids is what is a family? And our definition of family is really quite simple. It's all who love and support each other. So families can be a single parent and a child. It could be a multi-generational household. It can include cousins and friends. And it's truly up to the camper to decide who he or she will research. And guess what? Your family can even include your pet. So one way to begin family research is with a fun and creative family tree that can be found at start with the family tree activity on the National Archives website. The URL for the page is on the handout. We have a variety of family trees to use. This family tree is one of the most popular and it's a very traditional one with mom and dad and then grandparents and great-grandparents. We have these family trees as handouts in the Boeing Learning Center. And when visitors pointed out to us that the traditional family tree was restrictive in terms of blended families, we knew we had to design something else. And this family tree works for a blended family or you could use it to add additional information for a traditional family. Now this family tree is designed specifically for a blended family and you can read the designations on the tree. And we also knew we needed a family tree for our youngest visitors. Young children can draw a picture of the person or pet in the square or paste a photograph in the square. It can be a great fun work of art to share. And I encourage you to ask your little ones in your family circle who is in their family. You may be surprised by the responses you get. And last but not least, we have this fun family trees with balloons and this was actually designed for a genealogy fair many years ago. Another great tool to connect a family history is with a family food tree recipe book. This authentic recipe for a pound cake and note the one pound of sugar, the one pound of flour, the one pound of butter, although it does say scant. I'm not quite sure how you figure that one out. And the nine eggs is from Nellie Nolan and Mary Ethel, cousins of President Harry Truman's. So do you have family recipes that have been handed down from one generation to the next? My sister has been on a crusade to collect family recipes and create a cookbook for several years now. And of course the collection can be more than just recipes, including fun facts about the recipes make it even more special. And suddenly you have a recipe journal. Planning a family reunion, ask everyone to bring their favorite recipes and why the recipes are important to them. Or a project with the young child could be to include favorite foods rather than names on one of the National Archives family trees. In the holdings of the National Archives are other great examples of family records. Can someone in your family draw, knit, crochet, or embroider? Turn those skills into a family tree and a work of art. So you're probably wondering why the National Archives has this sampler created by Mary Hearn of Nantucket in 1793. This sampler was created as a personal family treasure, but it became a federal record when the pension claimants were required to show proof of relationship to a Revolutionary War veteran and submitted it to the U.S. government. So you can be inspired by works of art like this by this young woman from over 225 years ago. And a facsimile of what we call the Laura Goodale Sampler is one of my favorite documents to share with the Genie campers. This sampler was created listing the parents and the children. Then if you look really closely and carefully, we see Samuel Goodale was born December 23rd, 1813. He's all the way at the bottom. Nine years after Phoebe, the youngest child, so life is full of surprises. This is a fractor from the family of Isaac Dickinson, again submitted to the federal government as proof of relationship to a Revolutionary War veteran. What's a fractor? It's an artistic and elaborate folk art created by the Pennsylvania Germans, also known as the Pennsylvania Dutch or Deutsch, and is named after the German fractor script. And we've created a new activity sheet that is based on this particular factor. And here is this great activity sheet. You can download it and you can put in the information and color it in. Ever gone down a rabbit hole as you research your family? I love this example of a family tree created by Caden Stundaro. This family tree is a great example of creativity and facts. And it shows us that kids of all ages can design a family tree and all you need is a piece of paper, some crayons or colored pencils. Have fun. So yes, we have some great activities on the National Archives website, but that's not our only tool to connect young people to genealogy. DocsTeach.org is a website designed for teachers, students and history explorers. DocsTeach has over 12,000 primary source documents and is a terrific tool to enhance the analysis of documents that can tell us so much about who we are. We can examine passenger arrival records and naturalization records, asking those important questions of who, what, when, where and why. In this case, it's about Luther Powell. And guess what? Luther Powell is Colin Powell's father. So we can take this activity from DocsTeach one step further and we can use the questions on DocsTeach to analyze your own naturalization records or you can compare them to what we learn about Luther Powell. People arrived in what is now the United States from many points of entry. They may have come through Ellis Island in New York or Angel Island in California. They may have come from Mexico or Canada and the journey may have been one of their own choosing or it could have been a forced migration. An engaging activity for young people to think about what people brought with them to their new home is by examining a photograph such as this. So we see the immigrants arriving on Ellis Island and if you look very closely and carefully, you can see that they either have one small suitcase or perhaps a bundle. So what is in that one small suitcase or bundle as you start a new life?  So what did you bring? Clothes, photographs, perhaps even letters. And does anyone have any documentation in your family of what was brought here on that immigration journey? On this slide, we see a family that was part of the Great Western Migration. With a covered wagon, there's a little bit more room and there are great stories of people migrating west with their cherished items, perhaps a piano because people loved music or a special piece of furniture. Then they got to the Rocky Mountains and the horses were unable to pull the wagons over the mountains with all the excess luggage and so these treasured items were left on the trail. So you can think about if your family was part of this Great Western Migration, they can connect to them by perhaps writing a letter to an ancestor or even writing a story about their journey or a poem. You can also use maps and geography to connect to the past. This map shows immigration patterns to the United States between 1820 and 1924. You can ask the question, does your family fit into these patterns? And if so, which ones? And if not, when did they come to the United States and where did they come from? And next, we have an activity that we've designed to show immigration patterns. So this is an activity that you can download and you can draw using a ruler and a pencil showing where people came from and where they landed. So maps and geography show migration patterns within the United States. So statistically, people move 11 times during their lifetime and when you research generations of families, that can be a lot of moves. For the geography and map lovers of the family, tracking those moves on a map can be a terrific way to connect to family history. So we've also recently designed a migration map of the United States. And here it is, you can do the same thing. You can get your ruler and your colored pencil and you can start with one side of the family and show where they moved, put the date on the map to indicate when they moved and then you can do the other side of the family. So these are great ways to connect some great tools and some great tips to connect to young genealogists. But there's no better way to find where people moved and lived than those U.S. census records. And now Dorothy will tell us how census records are a fun and engaging way to engage young family genealogists. Thank you, Missy. Okay, so let's think about common connections in your family, your current family and the family you found on a U.S. federal census record. As you know, the National Archives maintains census records from 1790 on up to 1940. And census data is all about questions and answers because someone in your family was interviewed by a census enumerator. We suggest you start by a very simple interview activity with your family. Ask your family members what they think about a line of information. How does it compare to your current family? For example, did your family own a radio according to the 1930 census? How many radios, TVs, etc. do they currently have in the house? You can even engage your young children in the family by asking them about their schooling. And you can simply tie that into any of the literacy and education questions asked on the multiple census records over the years. You can also make geographic connections with census records. Think about mapping out addresses for a select family member and then how they may have physically moved from one point in time to another. And you can use as many census records as you have. For example, let us map Catherine Felton on the 1940 census. You can see there's an enlarged section of the census here. The header reads that this is for New York, Queens County. The highlighted green section at the bottom shows Catherine Felton and her husband, John. And then if you look at the second column on the left, that shows her address as 74th Street. So she's currently living in a place called Glendale, New York. Here in the 1930 census, you can see we have mapped out her address and she's living at the same address. Keep going back. Look at the 1920 census and you'll see she lived in Brooklyn. And we can keep on going from one census record to the next, but I think three examples are enough for us to map her movement. So take those addresses and start with the 1921. Put it in an online tool that you can get easily from Google, Yahoo. Or another and pin it. Then add the next address. You can see a line of movement slowly moving to the right. And you could share that visual map with your family as a way to engage young people. You could take this activity a step further and add your current family address. And again, it's a great visual way to show how far away the family may have moved over 80, 90, 100 years or how close they actually stayed to where they once lived. Mapping addresses can be such a fun visual experience, but wouldn't it be great to go and visit the old house or the old neighborhood? I actually did this with my family a few years back and I can tell you there's a fantastic way to create lasting family memories. Does your family have game night? Use to trivia night in person or in line. You can do this by taking any of the data you find on a census record. Select the questions and answers and then quiz your family members. See who can get the most answers right. And of course, any trivia game should have a prize. Personally, I like candy, but you can actually surprise your family with your tech prowess by sharing a free animated image also known as a gift from the National Archives Giffy Channel. There are so many historical images to choose from, but this one is particularly fun of children clapping. And you can note all the gifts can be shared on any social media channel. It can also be downloaded and shared via text or on smartphone. And it's just a fun way to engage with your family. You could also take your trivia challenge to the next level by making a family challenge around the release of the 1950 census. Did you know that it will be released in April of 2022? Challenge your family members to try and guess the answers for a certain relative. And then you can all wait in anticipation for the release of it. And if you haven't started preparing for that release of the 1950 census, the Archivist of the United States has a great blog post on how to get ready for it. So we talked about connecting data on the U.S. census records, but sometimes it's easy to connect when the person is relatable. Maybe you don't know everyone on the census record, so it's hard to really engage family if they don't have a memory of that person. So let's bring a record to life by using an example that everyone should know about. And that would be Elvis Presley. In 1940, Elvis is listed as five on the census, but so many people know his rags to riches story and how he actually became the king of rock and roll and the influencer of so many musical talents to this day. His story is relatable. As you know with your research, any person you find on a census record, you can relate that person's story or enhance it by tying in other records, not just federal records you find at the National Archives. So again, with our education programs, we like to tie in related items. And for this purpose here, we add this adorable letter from a number of Elvis fans written about Elvis to President Dwight D. Eisenhower. And this is in response to Elvis being drafted into the Army in 1958. Don't you love those hearts? Is this a letter that you can relate to in your own family? You just mentioned that Elvis Presley served in the Army. So now let's talk about common connections with military records and the military records that you have. Perhaps you have a photo of a veteran in uniform. Maybe there are current family members serving in the military. I bet that many of the family members you have don't know all the details about a particular person's service record. You can use those records, share a lot of details about their training, their service, any awards they may have received, physical descriptions about that particular veteran, and even their physical illnesses or conditions. One of the records we like to pull out and talk about in our education programs is that of Albert Gantt, a formerly enslaved person in St. Mary's County, Maryland. Albert actually ended up joining the U.S. color troops in 1864, and his veteran service record tells us that he traveled far from his original home all over the South and ended up mustering out of service in Texas two years later. We also like to talk about this record because we came across this record by accident, more or less. In the New York office we were doing research on employees of the Custom House in New York. We were looking at those employee records because we actually have our office located at the Alexander Hamilton U.S. Custom House. Looking at the custom service employment records, we found Charles T. Hudson, and his record mentioned that he was a veteran. And it was at that point we actually contacted the National Archives D.C. staff to see if we could get a copy of his compiled military service record. And as you can see from the highlight down at the bottom, Charles T. Hudson was present at the capture of Jefferson Davis on May 10th, 1865, and as a result was awarded for his service. Now, even though I never met this man, I am told that Thomas Starty had a great sense of humor and he loved a good story. I've been told this since he's my grandfather, and so I don't think he would mind if I shared this record. What happened is I actually had applied for his service record from the National Personnel Record Center in St. Louis, Missouri, and I shared his record with the family. But there was one particular section I also had a question about, and you could see it listed there on the slide. It was a question I asked my siblings, cousins, nieces, and nephews who also had never met him about who might have a similar medical condition. You can just imagine the discussion that this started with the family. Again, just another way to connect with military records. Is your veteran buried in a military cemetery? Kenneth Walker, a Brigadier General, was shot down over the Pacific Ocean in 1945 during World War II, and his body was never recovered. After doing research, his family located his service record and compiled additional information about his service using action reports and some other records. They were then able to have a headstone placed in his honor at Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia. Visiting his headstone was an enormously emotional way to connect his family with him and his service. There are many ways you can honor and connect to your veteran and the service they gave. Family visits to war monuments or memorials is another very powerful way to connect. So our talk today is all about sharing and showing off your research. We just want to remind you to follow guidance on how to preserve your family records. Check out our dedicated webpage. It has never been easier to share data that you have. You can share photos. You can share digital files. You can share items via email or even on your smartphone. Now I want to share several examples on how to engage with stories of interest. Stories that are relatable. Do we have any sports fans out there? Do you have any sports fans in your family? Does the name Babe Ruth, baseball legend, former Red Sox, Yankee player Ringabel? You can share his World War I draft registration card to engage family friends. What's great to note about this document is George Herman Booth notes his occupation as baseball and his employer at Fenway Park. Has anyone in your family ever watched the movie The Sound of Music? Ever wonder how accurate the Hollywood movie is to the actual events? What happened to the Von Trop family as they left Austria? The naturalization records we have in our holdings reveal part of the story after they came to America. You can use these type of records to start a conversation with your family. It could also allow you to confirm or dispel family myths and lore. Does your family have an annual holiday tradition? Think about ways you can connect to those traditions. For my family, we love watching It's a Wonderful Life Every Year. In the story, George Bailey cannot join the Army due to his 4F status. But the actor who played him, Jimmy Stewart, was in the Air Force during World War II. So as I watched the movie this year, it reminded me it was a great conversation started to have with family. We actually have his record available in our online catalog. And sharing that file with family was a great way to connect when we were all so distant because we were quarantining at home due to the pandemic and unable to participate in our other family traditions. Do you have any readers in the family? Anyone ever read the Little House books or even watched the TV series? You can engage your family members with that story since we have a number of documents on the Ingalls family. Do you have any young kids that help around the house? The education program loves to share this document from the 1880 census of the Ingalls family. Not only because it lists all four children at home, but it also has a line where Mary, age 15, and Laura, age 13, are helping around the house. Another connection to make is through records such as our land records. So we've talked about the most popular records at the National Archives to research in. Those being passenger revival records, naturalization records, federal census records, and military records. But did you know the archives holds over 10 million land entry case files in all 30 public land states? What better way to connect than with the Homestead application of Laura Ingalls' father, Charles? And don't forget Laura Ingalls' husband, Almanza Wilder's Homestead application is also available. You can also connect relatable stories online. The next several slides will include examples of how we share on National Archives social media accounts. If you're looking for a way to connect, first and foremost, we would encourage you to look at History Hub. It is a great tool to ask questions and find answers related to research and, of course, genealogy research. It's also a great tool to learn from other questions other researchers have already posted. The responses can also be shared with your family members online. History Hub comments can also be found on the U.S. National Archives Pinterest page. So if you're on Pinterest and you have your own board dedicated to genealogy, you can save our pins on your board and share those with select people in your family. We also talk about relatable stories on social media. And so I have an example from our National Archives Facebook page. On January 27th on the International Holocaust Remembrance Day, the National Archives posted this image where a Holocaust survivor was able to identify herself as the second woman from the right. This was a post that was widely shared because of the content and the importance of finding yourself in the records of the National Archives. Again, this is a relatable story that could be shared if your family has a similar story or if your research takes you down this path. Last year was the 100th anniversary of the passing of the 19th Amendment and women's right to vote. Sharing stories about the suffrage is a great way to connect, especially if you have a suffragette in your family or maybe you have a millennial in your family who voted for the first time in the presidential election or a Gen Y family member who was learning about suffrage in school. Again, it's a relatable story. Annie Moore was the first person processed at the then newly opened Ellis Island, January 1892. Sharing her immigration story is particularly important for our young students because Annie Moore is listed as age 13 and she comes to this country with her two younger brothers, Anthony and Phillip, who were 11 and 9 respectively. And like Missy mentioned earlier, if your family came through Ellis Island and you have their arrival record or they visited Ellis Island on a family trip, this is a great way to connect. So these are just examples. And now I've told you about my grandfather and how he loved a great story. And so I'm going to show an example of my own. On the back of this postcard, my grandfather wrote, hi mom, I'm in this picture from basic training and this is me on the far right in the white shirt. So I shared this image in November because it was Veterans Day. And I thought my family members might actually like it and like the photo. But what happened was it started a larger conversation with cousins across the country about his service and so much more. So the moral of our story today is share, share and share some more. And so that brings us to the end of our presentation. And to summarize, I would ask you to consider the educational activities we have on our website. We have talked to you about ways to create common connections to connect relatable stories and showed you a few examples of how we can engage online. Whatever record you're using or researching your passion for genealogy is infectious. Share it, be creative in every way you can, laugh when you can, and certainly have fun. Now, if anyone has any questions, Missy and I are happy to answer them. Thank you so much. That was spectacularly wonderful and so many great activities. I love it. I love your personal example. So although we are wrapping up the video portion of the broadcast, we will continue to take your questions in the chat for another 10 minutes. Please stay if you are watching during the premiere broadcast. 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Alrighty, so we have a construction update for you guys today. We're going to cover front gate a lot. So as you're going to see right there, you're going to see a lot of electrical equipment and the spoodles of electrical wiring right at the main front gate building where you could get your tickets before. Again, more signs that there is a lot of work going on inside that building. We don't know what yet, but there's a lot of work going on inside there. Over here, we have the merch shop slash new exit in quotations being worked on as well. I'm starting to come together and over at front gate, they're just finishing off those timber kits buildings and getting the brickwork laid down. So they've done that whole section now and they're just spreading that sand in between the grooves to help make it, you know, more weatherproof. Over at our 2025 coaster, they are digging out around that tunnel. So that service road, that old service road, they're digging out around it. It took them a really long time. So again, because of Craig is helping out the channel, we're able to fly at all parts of the day. So we're documenting what they can get done in a day and figuring out the best time to fly and get that best kind of shot. So we're not going to miss anything. Don't worry. We have two people on ready to command with the drone. So right here, they're just digging out around the tunnel. Nothing significant happened today over here.  Maintenance was training on their little scissor lift. So that was funny to catch at first. I was like, what are they doing? And then I clued in, there's a group of them gathered. So they're probably doing their little training. So that was cool to catch. I would say that not much going on yet in terms of prep for season opener. Again, I have heard that maintenance is actually ahead of schedule. So huge kudos to them in terms of getting all the rides ready. Again, this is probably the earliest I've seen like a train ready on Leviathan, a train ready on behemoth and all these other rides coming together. Tundra twister, which you'll see in the studio, was also receiving its maintenance today as well. So that was really cool to capture. Here they're removing the fence and the curb. So getting ready to, of course, dig this thing out. It's going to be interesting to see how they do this, how they choose to remove this maintenance tunnel or expand it.  But again, it is too early to make that call. To be honest, right now it's too small for four-cross seating with leg clearance, arm clearance and all that. This is looking like a two-seater so far. So again, can't make the call because it is way too soon. They can obviously widen this all they want. But yeah, it's quite interesting. With that being said, that's essentially all they do in the 2025 coaster plot of land today. Extreme sky flyers should be coming down either Friday or Monday or Tuesday. That's my prediction. That's not what I'm hearing through the rumor mill, they got the land ready for a point. The fence will come down at around 4.35 p.m. and yeah, then it's a lot more prep. So hopefully when we fly today we see a little more action in this area. I am kind of surprised there's just a tiny little excavator doing this. I'm really curious to see what they've done in the mountain. Really curious because I would love to see it because I know that sometimes, you know, I could just imagine if all the footing work is done inside the mountain already. And now they're coming out here. But that's it for essentially the 2025 coaster for yesterday. Over here is Tunger Twister receiving its maintenance. You can see them removing, you know, the seat backs and then working on the ride. And yeah, that's pretty much it. I was wondering why they didn't wrap it in tarp over the winter. It was like one of the only rides I'd seen not wrapped in tarp, especially for a new ride. But yeah, I'm trying to think if there's anything else I'm missing. Ah, yes. This surveying truck was parked over by Flight Deck. I could not see where they were. But again, there's a lot of control points going in around Kingswood. So I was trying to figure out where this surveying guy was. I could not see him. If you guys can see him on the screen, comment down below. But I have no luck finding him flying. I had about five minutes of footage looking for this guy. But I could not see him anywhere. So let me know. For all I know, he could be around the Skyflyer Puddle Land 2. And he just wanted to park away. Just getting those control points in before construction begins. But yeah, let me know. Anyways, that's it for construction update today. So this is obviously, remember these updates are always one day behind. So yeah, hopefully you enjoyed. Hopefully you guys are having an amazing, what is it, today Thursday? And yeah, hopefully you have an amazing weekend coming up. Stay tuned for tomorrow's update. Bye guys.


Hey guys, what is up? Welcome to my channel. For today's video, I'm going to be talking about my top 10 cool toned neutral eyeshadow palettes. So if you want to see what the best of the best are, then just keep watching. Hi guys, if you're new here, my name is Morgan. I am a product knowledge enthusiast. I just love knowing anything and everything about all the new makeup on the market and sharing my thoughts with you guys. Now, if you are a regular to my channel, these palettes should not be a surprise to you, but I did want to create a nice guide for those of you who are looking for some nice cooler toned palettes. Now, if you don't know, I really love cool toned eyeshadow palettes. They are my favorite and they are becoming more and more popular for a while. It was pretty tough to get your hands on a good cool toned neutral palette. So I've narrowed it down to my top 10 and I will say not very many affordable options in this video just because I feel like the drugstore market has not been able to really master the cool toned formula, but I'm still going to share my top 10. So let's get into it. This is in no particular order, just alphabetical order of the top 10. So the first one that I picked out is not readily available, but it is the ABH Sultry Palette. Sometimes they'll come out with some deals where this is still available, but this is one of the best cool toned palettes. This is actually my second one that I'm going through. I keep this in my makeup kit as well and the quality on this is spectacular. The shimmers on here are really glam and this came out at the wrong time when it came out a couple of years ago. This was not a color story that people were into, but first of all, I love the glittery packaging and the color story is so on trend right now that they were very smart to release this, this past holiday season and a couple bundle deals because it is actually up with the trends now. The quality on this is spectacular and the colors that they chose are just so beautiful for many looks. Now you do see you have one warm pop right here, but if you take that away, it really is a glam neutral palette. If you are able to get your hands on this palette, I highly recommend it. It's probably my second or third favorite cool toned neutral palette. The next one that I have is from Charlotte Tilbury. Now this one, it's a bit expensive for what it is, but it does create one of my favorite all time cool toned looks. So this is the Golden Goddess from Charlotte Tilbury. It's not very golden and it looks quite boring and I wouldn't necessarily recommend this over other palettes in this video because it's very high priced. The value is not the best, but the look that you get with this is just so beautiful. Again, the quality is not top notch from Charlotte Tilbury in this quad either, but it's just the look that I really enjoyed and this was one of my first cool toned palettes that I fell in love with and it's very beautiful. So if you are looking in the Charlotte Tilbury line for a cool toned palette in a little quad form that's easy to travel with, this is the one that I would recommend. So these are going to be really the only true affordable options here. I have two from ColourPop and ColourPop does a very nice job with their cooler toned palettes. So if you are balling on a budget and you need something more affordable to add cooler toned options to your collection, definitely look in the direction of ColourPop. I know I don't even have all of them, but these are my top two that I've loved for a long time now. So the first one is Going Coconut. So this is going to be the most affordable option in this video. It is a nine-pan palette. Mine are a little bit mismatched because I fell one day and I just kind of threw them in here, but the quality is really nice here. You do have a couple more warmer toned colors in here, but for the most part, I would say that this palette definitely leans more so on the cool toned end and quality is really great for the price that you're paying and it really narrows down some essential neutral colors to create a look that are great in the cool toned family. And I just know you will love this if you haven't tried it out yet. Now say you're looking for something that has more options. The Going Coconut, it leaned a little bit more neutral neutral, but this guy has more gray tones and just much more, just a larger range of the cooler tones in general. And this is also from ColourPop. Oh my goodness. This is also from ColourPop. This is the Stone Cold Fox palette. So this has all of the colors that are in the Going Coconut's palette. And then some, you know, you have more of a plummy leaning row here. You have more of a gray leaning row. You do have the Going Coconut's kind of similar browny tones here, but you just have a lot more options in here. And I think this is a great option to add a lot of different cool tones in your collection without breaking the bank. You can usually get this on a pretty good deal. And the quality on this is really awesome. This was one of my favorite palettes last year. It really shocked me when they came out with this because it was one of their first cooler tone palettes and they really killed it with this. And I know I actually got a lot of you guys to purchase this because so many of you were dipping into cool tones for the first time last year and this was a great palette to start off with. And so many of you guys told me that you loved it because it's awesome. I mean, the next one, if you've watched like two or three videos, you should know that I was going to talk about the Natasha Denona Glam Palettes. Now, in my opinion, this is the ultimate cool tones neutral palette. This is probably my number one recommendation to anybody getting into cooler tones. Obviously, if you're more in a budget, I'd push you in the direction of Colourpop. But if you're okay with spending a little bit of money here, this is where you need to go. So Natasha Denona has the best of the best quality. And this is such a good deal for her quality. It's about $60, $65. And you have all of the essential cool tone neutrals that you need in this, some leaning more brown, more gold, champagne, gray, you have all of the everyday tones that you need here. The quality is absolutely impeccable, like I said, and the value is just awesome. For Natasha Denona, she has the best colors in here, the best shimmers, the most easy to use mats. So I'm just going to say here now, if you are looking for a good essential cool toned neutral eyeshadow palette, this is the one that I would recommend you. And it was hard to get for a while. It sold out. So they recently did just restock it everywhere, and it's worth every penny. I know a lot of you guys waited until the Sephora sale to pick it up. But honestly, this is a palette that is even worth the full price, if you ask me. Now, I do have an honorable mention. This one isn't actually in this top 10, but Natasha Denona also does have kind of a mini glam palette. So it's called the mini glam and it's her take on a miniature version of it with corresponding colors. The colors aren't the same that are in the big one. So if you want to try out the Natasha Denona formula, this is going to be $25. And it's a great way to get a taste of the formula and also stay in the neutral cool tone vibes. The next one was the very first cool tone palette that I ever fell in love with. And at the time that I fell in love with this palette, I didn't even realize I liked it because it was cool tone. I couldn't figure out the reason why I kept grabbing for it until one day I realized, oh, I really like cool tones. And this was way before cool tones were in style. It was warm tone central when I got this palette. So this is from my beloved Pat McGrath. This is again a very expensive palette, but in my opinion, it's definitely worth picking up if you're into this color story. So it's not going to be for everybody. This is the OG Mothership One Subliminal Palettes. And I just feel like I've gotten some of the prettiest looks from Pat McGrath with this palette. Now, if you aren't familiar with Pat McGrath, the palettes are extremely luxe, extremely heavy and opening it up. How beautiful is this palette? I'm telling you, I've gotten some of my favorite looks ever from this palette. You have all of the cool tone essential matte colors that you need. And then you have her Blitz Astral Formulas that change up the whole look while still keeping the look very cool tone. It's a unique palette. I haven't come across another palette that's like this. So I can guarantee you if you have this palette, you're not going to find another one like this in your collection. It was so unique for the time that it came out. And it really is still a unique palette in my collection. It is the best of the best. Again, it is so expensive. You do only get 10 shades. So it's not like my number one recommendation for somebody looking into cooler tone neutrals. But if you're looking for something that's unique to add to your collection, these four shades right here are going to make it worth it. They pair so well with the other cool tone mattes that you have. All right, we're going to get into the palette that I'm wearing right now. Now this palette is newer to me, but I've really been enjoying my time with it. And I do think it's a very unique palette as well. So this is the Scott Barnes Glamazon palette. And this is what it looks like inside. And the reason why I'm featuring it in today's video is because it's such a unique cool toned palette. I don't have another palette that has these colors in my collection all wrapped up into one happy family. So I'm wearing this one right now. I went very, very gray today. I even popped some of this dark green in the outer corner as well. I will have a tutorial for this on my Instagram coming very soon. So if you want to see how I got this look, it will be on there. But I think, you know, if you have your essential cool toned palettes, this is another one to step up your game because it has it's more colorful than the palettes that I'm featuring. I stuck pretty neutral. So this one is kind of the out of the box one that's going to fit those of you who like colors. Scott Barnes has really interesting textures and his mats are very easy to use. Now I sent this in my most recent monthly palette rankings. This is a beautiful palette. I really enjoyed the quality. I really enjoyed the looks that I've gotten in the range of looks that you can get from this because of the pops you have here. You can totally go a different direction with this navy with this purple with this dark green or you can go very traditional like the looks that you can get from the other palettes here. But these are expensive. This is about $80 and Scott Barnes always has sales. So I do not recommend picking this up at full price. But if you can get it on a sale, it's definitely worth it. It's a very unique palette and can get some gorgeous looks from this one. I'm really excited to be sharing this next one with you guys because I do love supporting my indie brands. The Sydney Grace Enduring Love Palette is amazing. Now you do have a couple semi warmer tones in here but for the most part this is a cooler tones palette. It's like a subtle cool tone palette. So if you're not quite as comfortable with shades leaning more on the gray side, this is perfect for you because you do have this top row up here that can warm it up just a little bit. So we'll start off with the quality. Sydney Grace has impeccable quality as most indie brands tend to do. The mattes are superiorly, I don't even know if that's a word, but the pigmentation on the mattes are superior. Same thing with the shimmers. They are like creamy, thick, buttery-ness, super reflective on the eyelid. Just top-notch quality here. Lots of interesting color combinations that you can do with this palette and the best part is they actually offer this palette in two different depths. So you can get a lighter one for obviously lighter skin tones like myself. That's of course the one that I have now and you can also get one that has transitional shades for deeper skin tones. So what they do, the difference between the lighter skin tones and the deeper skin tone palettes are the transition shades are deeper to fit a deeper complexion. But anyways, this is a fabulous cool tone palette that I don't think a lot of people really realize is a cool tone palette and they don't really talk about it as a cool tone palette, but it is and it's wonderful and you're supporting a great small company as well. I couldn't get away without mentioning this quad from Tom Ford. This is a classic from Tom Ford. This is a nude dip, but it really is a great introduction to cool tones.  It's not something I necessarily would say this is the number one belly you need to have if you're looking to add cool tones to your collection. You have to be into luxury makeup and you also kind of have to have some accompanying colors to pair with this because it's a look. You create one whole look with it. It's absolutely stunning. It's great for every day, but I find it really fun to pair this with some other palettes as well. And I mean, this is just, this is a Tom Ford classic right here. It doesn't look like much, but it really is so beautiful on the eyelids and it really is an approachable way to get into cool tones. So I do recommend this one. All right, very last one. This one is different from the other palettes that I've mentioned just because it's so different kind of color family here. So this is the Vizier Art Paris edit palette. And I love their edit line because it is so much more affordable than their big 12-pan palettes. And you know, Vizier Art is not cheap, but this is a way to try the palettes in a more affordable way. I believe they're around $44. Now the Paris edit is going to lean a little bit more on the plummy side. And these are, these are some good cool tones. So these aren't necessarily neutral, but I'm going to count them because they do have some neutral tones in here. And I do think that this is a unique way to pull some more cool tones into your collection because they run a little bit more plum. You have some pinks, you have some peaches. So I just think overall it's a really unique palette to what you're going to have in your collection. And I wish Vizier Art would pull out some more interesting color stories like these because this one is so unique. It's so beautiful. It's a great value. It's great quality as Vizier Art always has. And it's so cute and little. It's just perfect. So this is a nice one to add in your collection. If you do have a number of the other palettes that I mentioned in today's video, this one is quite unique. And I actually want to add more palettes that kind of have a color story similar to this in my collection because I really don't have that money. So yeah, there you guys go. There we have it. Those are my top 10 neutral cool toned palettes that I love so dearly. And really just for me, I find to be the most flattering, the most easy to use. And I always create some of my favorite looks with colors leaning this way. So I hope you guys enjoyed this video and you found it helpful. If you aren't subscribed to my channel already, I would absolutely love it if you would consider taking the time to do so. And I will see you all in the next one. Bye guys. Have a good one.