Hello, hello, thank you for being here. We're happy that you're here for our Wednesday reveal. We had, of course, Melanie McComb was our guest this week and we're really, really excited about this evening. I know that everybody's been working super, super hard trying to find her surprises and different ways to introduce her to her ancestors.  We are a community of genealogists who are working together on a single family tree. In other words, we collaborate to grow an accurate global tree that connects us all and it's free. The wiki tree challenge now is our year long event and that's part of our year of accuracy that we've had this year, where we take, each week we take a genealogist starstree and we try and make that as most complete and accurate as we possibly can so that it'll be the most complete here than it is anywhere else. And our goal in the meantime is to improve our accuracy on wiki tree, add more family connections and make more friends, which we've certainly done.  So Melanie, I have to ask first.  How hard was it not being in the discord room this week? It was unbearable to be away from my wiki tree family on discord and to be actively involved in the challenge. It's just been such a pleasure working on it each week and just connecting with everybody daily. Even though I'm sure we've been talking daily a little bit at a time though, it's been tough. So I'll be very glad when I'm at a discord jail after this, but you know what? It was worth it for the things that's crucially any way to see what you all have uncovered. Well, that's good.  I know a few of them are saying that down there. They've been saying it all week. They're just like, it's not the same with her. Not here. Well, she can't come in and work on her own tree. I'll be back soon. OK, so we're going to go ahead and start with Joseph Doherty's line. And we broke these out by the great grandparents. Kind of gives us an idea of which part of your tree we're working on. Now, Patrick Doherty was your third great-granduncle, and he was an interesting man. He was an old and highly respected resident of Emmevale. He came from a family of longevity, with his father living to be 101. Patrick himself was 93 when he died. He'd emigrated from Ireland in 1840. Now, this was really cool. I don't know if you've read this story, but they have this church, and he bought this land when he came out in the middle of nowhere.  And they decided they had just outgrown their church, and so they wanted to build this big structure in its place, and they tore it down. And this person, Patrick, your granduncle, carried the majority of the boards for this church on his back from a sawmill that was three miles away. Well, he just went back and forth and back and forth until he got it done. So, you know what I mean? It just shows the kind of character and how he must have been raised to be that kind of a person. Those kind of stories are fun to find. And they had also had one that Lot 30 had been previously reserved in 1856 report. A man named Mr. Stewart, he was at least a portion of the land to him, which did not belong to him, and Patrick refused to pay rent. So that was just kind of interesting reading back and forth. Oh, wow, that's interesting. Yeah, I think I saw mentions of the church. I think we might have a screen share not coming up. I don't quite see the image of the profile. Let me see. There we go. Oh, there we go. Oh, that's the actual church. Okay, yes, I did hear about that there was like a church that was being founded, but yeah, I didn't know about the detail. Oh, wow. Oh, that's beautiful. Thank you. And can you imagine, I mean, that just the time and effort that must have taken, it's pretty amazing. Sure, sure. Wow. And here we have some more on that same line. Now, two of your ancestors on Prince Edward Island, of course we did a lot of research there, as I'm sure you've done in the past, were reputed to be well over 100 in newspaper articles. But if you looked at the sources, from a different slant, and you focused on just that, the facts didn't bear out. Now, Bernard Clarkin, who was born about 1775, was shown to have been born later by his entry in the 1841 census, which put him at between 45 and 60. So that actually pushed his age down a little bit, making him about somewhere between 83 and 98. So still really, you know, a good age, a good age. And then Francis Dougherty was born between 1796, as late as 1802, putting his age at between 90 and 96. So once again, you know, I don't know if they honestly just lost track or... I think he fudged it a little bit. I remember seeing a follow-up article on Francis that he claimed he was the oldest person, and actually they found someone else that was the oldest person. And yeah, I think he fudged his years a little bit based on other articles I found. I think he kind of was like, yeah, close enough, but... Yeah, that sounds good. I'm about 95 this year, yeah. Yeah, I think he was like close enough. Like, yeah, I've let a good life, though. Yeah, he is someone I've been chasing for so long, because I've been trying to tie him directly in Kansas with his son, Peter. And it's always like, I would always find one article on one and not the other, and I'm like, can we listen together so I can definitively say it? But I'm like, 90% sure it's him, that went to Kansas at that point. Oh, and I see someone mentioning about Emmieville County Monaghan. So, yes, Emmieville PEI was very much... There's a lot of towns being twinned, so we do see that. Yeah, that's right. Okay, and next we have Onro's Rooney, Dorothy's Line. They were unable to find any primary sources, of course, to confirm her ancestor's arrival on the Lady Constable, which is referenced in the Brendan O'Grady book on the same... However, they did find, sorry, Phil Rooney on the same tithe allotment page as Patrick McCluskey. Oh, and I saw this, and there's several of the family members all grouped really tightly in that selection. Oh, nice. Yeah, so Phil Rooney was taxed for 12 acres of land in that parish. Now, one of Phil and Mary's daughters, Rose, married to Sullivan. They had a large family of at least 12, including three Catholic priests. They're three younger sons. And their son, Phillip, married to McKenna, who also had a large family of 13, including three priests. So I imagine that's something you've seen, too, looking back through those records where there just is a lot of them. Yes, there's a lot of nuns and priests on the Irish part of the family, and you may even see later on, and maybe in the presentation, that there actually is a photograph, a portrait that was done of different family tree, and it showed all the different nuns and priests in the family, so. Oh, wow, no. So there's a lot of them, too. But you know what? That makes it really good because if you have your nuns and priests in the family, they make the papers a lot often. There's usually a lot more information on the family, which is good. Excellent. Yeah, they either have to do something like that that's notable, you know, which still, not just notable, but it tells you once again, you know, you have a lot of people with good character back in your ancestry, but they either have to do something notable or they have to be naughty. And really, those are the two things.  Unless you're a Quaker, those are the two things that you get the records for. Because otherwise, some of these people we'd never hear about. We just, we wouldn't. Now here was this, somebody did find and show to us, one of the team members. So it was another one of the devotional families in your line, and that was your great-granduncle and aunt, Philipp Runian, Allen McAnaruni. Now they raised 14 children, which included five priests and two nuns just within that one set of family. So that was really cool. The look for a nun that Maddie was like scrambling, trying to find it for me, because she's like, well, which two were the nuns? I was like, well, I don't know. I just know the record said there was two nuns. And it set it off to the side on that record that you see part of there. It said, oh, the parents married on this date and they had five priests and two nuns. So that's how they kept track of, my guess, what they remember to buy. But it says Eileen joined the Sisters of Mercy and lived all of her religious life in New York State, where she was a successful teacher and she lived to the age of 90. Catherine, who was the other nun, joined the Sisters of Notre Dame and served her community in a variety of leadership roles in Maritime Canada, so two totally different places, including a 30-year period of teaching at Mount St. Bernard College. And I can't say that, Antigonish. I think it sounds right. Yeah, Antigonish and Nova Scotia, right? Yeah, she died at age 89 and is buried in Charlottetown. Now, just still so much longevity. Philip lived at the age of 83 and Ellen herself lived to an incredible 96 years old. She died coincidentally on July 1st, 1867, the very day that Canada was born. So, team members thought that was kind of cool. That is pretty cool. Yeah, and that actually is the family that I mentioned that has like a family tree that was actually done. It's in the shape of a crown and with each of the different children as part of the little tears on it. And then even like the two that died, a small child and like one of the adults there and they're at the bottom. I'll have to link that to you later, so. But yeah, that's really cool. I know I was gonna say we were taking you out of Discord jail now so you can share it now. You can share it with us. Yeah, I'll just share it with them. Yeah, they're a fun family. They're the ones I think they had a, I think they had the golden anniversary I wanna say, so. Now this one was a correction, so to the line. So still a bounty points for someone. This was Thomas Corcoran born in 1880. He was known to be married to Bridget Duff, but instead of his mother also being a Bridget also, which it's easy to mix that type of a record up, she was proven to be Alice Riley. Oh wow, okay. Yeah, and that hasn't been that long where we didn't have enough time to keep pursuing that, but that should open up an entirely new line for you to research. That should be a lot of fun. Oh wow, interesting, I'll have to look into that. Yeah, we had Patty Waldron did a lot of him and John did a lot of our Irish work, but it's fun and you've already seen this in person where there are people on the team that'll just jump into anything. They're like, I'll do Irish. Okay, now where do I look for this at? Or tell me where this county is. Does this town make sense? And we get those corrections and we bookmark things a lot and we all learn from each other. So I just really love it. Now here we had, and this is on the Corcoran line and boy, and I can't just say on this line because not only do they try and find things on this, but of course all of your lines and your tree is just so well researched already and there are just such sturdy brick walls holding that in place. There just really are. So we were trying to just find anything. So here we went back again just to try and find more information that makes those ancestors, brings them alive and makes it a little more personal. And we had your second great grand aunt, Catherine Duff Crawley. And she and her family, unfortunately, were evicted in 1881. This paved the way. Yeah, two important land reforms later. And the text you see there on the left, they've actually put up a placard on that property. And so it actually says that in memory of, and of course that's her husband that's listed, Lawrence Crawley, because his family was evicted, it actually was a turning a point in land reform because that case was used as an example. Oh my God, I never thought we were doing that. All the articles I've ever found made it sound like they all liked the landlords that they were dealing with. I thought we got lucky when we didn't get evicted. So apparently not, wow.  No, it's just that they wanted the land for something else and they're like, okay, everybody in this area, you're gone. We're taking this for the royal, whatever. And they finally started telling people, you can't do that. These are these people's homes. You can't just tell them to get up and get out. Now, this is where the correction was. There was a death date for great uncle Peter Corcoran. And his title was A Very Reverent, the correct death rate record actually lists that the title in his death record versus the 1941, oh, I see what he was saying is that it was for Peter who was a carpenter. Okay, so correction, okay. And the obituary tells that he was a highly revered priest who in 1938 played an important role in restoring sistercy in life to historic melafond. And the monks of this new found new melafond situate in his parish always considered him as one of the founders of the Abbey. Oh, wow. It says his living sister and he says now, I don't know how living they are right now, I'm residing in Ireland or listed in the obituary, but they really had a lot of respect you could tell. But those names are so common. Yeah, yeah, absolutely. He was one of the reasons why he really stuck out because I believe this is the one that he was the brother of my great-grandfather, Thomas Corcoran, and Thomas Corcoran, even though he died in New York, his obituary was actually in an Irish paper and it was named with the very Reverend Peter Corcoran. So it was a very nice way to kind of loop them in and obviously give a little bit of awe to the priest in here, even though we're not talking about him. Yeah. Wow, but that's really cool though. So he's one of the founders of the Abbey. That's really neat. Oh, I love it. Now here we have, still on that line, Bernard Duff. And of course, he's your third great-grandfather. Okay. He appeared a few times in the newspapers in Ireland. And a couple of times this piqued their interest of course just because it was different, but it was the same man too. And I'm not sure why Mr. Henry Murray just kept coming and assaulting him, but for some reason he did several times. He was not convicted. I guess he was just told to behave and go home. And so I don't know what their beef was. I don't think that was a land one. I know on one of the lines, there was one with a land and the ancestor was going and blocking off the basically the entry because he didn't like the other neighbor. So, and the neighbor was getting really angry about it. But at any rate, Bernard was also an early member of the National League, a political organization which campaigned for homeroom in 1848. This was just another interesting thing. He had an advert in the paper selling 30 cocks of hay, which is of course what it was bundled in instead of a bale. Okay. The record you see below, that was one we found that was just showing that he did sell alcohol, basically. And so they were listing. And for that parish, those few men that are listed actually were the only ones that were considered like merchants. This is what this was, was a merchant listing. And so they were the only ones and Bernard was one of them. So that was kind of cool. Yeah, I mean, that makes sense to me.  So that's, wow, that's really neat. I wonder if Henry Murray, maybe he was stealing the horses. We hear about this, those horsies, right? Now this one we had, and this is Bridget Connelly's line. And they tried so hard. They tried so hard, both James and his wife Rose. And looking online, the baptism records, and we were talking a little bit about these difficulties before we came live. It said that they weren't available until 1836, which was more than 20 years after their birth. So you're like, why? You wanna go there in person and dig through the basement of the Calan and Courthouse or whatever you're saying. You just wanna see him or the Catholic churches. But there was, however, a register that was found that starts in 1797 in the catalog at Family History Library. So that's somewhere that you can go ahead and look. And I'm sure you'll find that should help you tie together several ancestors, hopefully with those. Hopefully they're good enough to read. I know some of the ones that Patty and others were waiting through and Maddie and whoever else. Rosalie, we had just such great people on this team this week. Some of them were just so damaged and faded and they were just really difficult to read.  So we've left you our little breadcrumb trails all over in the research notes. Oh, excellent, thank you. Now this one, Ava Bodner Shield was known to have married Abraham Shield before 1890. But what wasn't known was that Abraham's mother's maiden name was Sheki. So she was born about, yeah, 1840 in Austria. Oh my God. And that was a name you didn't have. Oh my God, you found her maiden name? I tell you, these guys have been working hard. They chose this. Yeah. So she had one son that was a tailor and one that was a book binder. And that was just kind of interesting that they were both, you know, basically crafters, I mean. Yeah, it was hand done before they started doing it by machines, I understand it, because they actually had to sew the pages in. Yeah, all of those tools are something that would hang on the table of a book binders. That'd be so crazy fun to watch somebody actually build one old style, I think, that'd be really neat. Oh wow. And then here we have, and there's always some amount of tragedy found in all of our branches, you know, we find it. And so today, for a moment, we're honoring Yehuda, Edith Gunter, Frunlich. Okay. Lewis and Edith had 10 children together, only four of which survived till 1900. And so she lost six very young children. And then, unfortunately, out of those four, one of them, Otto, which is Arthur, he died at age 19. So, you know, really there were only three that lived to the age to be married and have children. And, you know, that had to have been so difficult for her to be there for her family after going through that many losses, I can't imagine. And especially after they were the ones that immigrated from Bukhaz at the time. Right, and we couldn't find all of the birds and dust for them. So there may have even been some, you know, before she came over.  Yeah, especially at the time. They were coming over around the time of the program, so. Yeah, it could have been anything. Now this one, we thought we had two mysteries solved for you, but we at least got one. And this was Matilda's siblings. And so the brother Isadora was one of the mysteries in your tree and you knew he came to Romania to United States with his sister, Rebecca. Well, we had, and we did days, an entire group of people scouring records looking for these, and we actually, there is a family, I have to warn you, that has almost their same exact names, but they're different. They came over 10 years later. And so we thought we had him and Yedda, but we wound up with just Isadora. So at any rate, it turns out in 1911 he married to Clara Rolik. And she was also a native Romanian. Now they had at least two children, Harry and Bertha. Okay. Wow. Now to continue this saga, and this is probably why Isadora really wasn't on the books later, because if you read the stories on him, the headlines in 1917 said, Swindlers got fortune by fraud, say police. A get rich quick gang caught here had a nice scheme. So I guess him and his brother-in-law, Abraham Rolik, and Morris Moskowicz, now I'm not sure if he's related or just friends. What they were doing is they'd open up a quick storefront and they'd start ordering supplies with good checks and then they'd write a whole bunch of bad checks and order supplies. Well, then they'd have all the stuff sent to them in Boston, close the shop up and leave. And so the bad checks were just floating out there and then they just went from state to state and did that. Oh my God. I know. And so the team looked at the dates and they couldn't have done any more than three years. So I don't know if it really was just a first offense slap them on the wrist or they didn't really know what to do with them. Or if maybe they told on somebody higher who had set up the whole thing, I don't know, but they couldn't have done much time in jail. But it would explain him not wanting to be out there on the records and kind of stand off the grid. Okay. I gotta look for court records now and see if I can find out more. Wow. Right. I know they were trying to find those and unfortunately we couldn't find them. It's New York City. You're going to have to get them from them. Then I got to put them online on as many. Wow. Wow. But see now this ties into you. You have to have your notable and your naughty. So we did all the pieces in the hands. You got to have that one off in the branches. Yeah. But interesting that now I have a lead on where what happened to him. Right. Interesting. And I still, you know, you really just have to, once again, like I said, look closely. And I think even some of the people that had like Yeda on other trees from the other family online had her records mixed up a lot. Cause it was really easy to go, oh, Yeda that had two brothers named this and a, you know, a husband named this. And yeah, I think some of those records are just still a little too mixed up and people are conflated out there. Yeah.  You can go and you'll have to let us know what you find. Now for military, we do always try and take a moment whether you support the idea of war or not. We like to honor the men that put their countries and their neighbors and their families in front of themselves and go ahead and serve. And so for World War I is what we looked at for years. And you had of course your great uncle Michael Joseph Conley. You had great uncle Reuben Schill. You had a great uncle Philip Dennis McKenna. And you had a second cousin Bernard Corcoran who was actually blinded in World War I. And here once again, now you've seen that, you know, sometimes we do a space page. Sometimes we do one or two. I think at last count we had eight for you. Oh my God. There is an incredible, incredible amount of research for you. And, you know, with the names being so common and some of these families being so much the same, you know, sometimes it really came down to we had to find a record that had the same address or, you know, people were looking at lots. No, this one was in lot 85. Oh, it says lot 43. Nevermind, it's the wrong, you know, John with a wife, Mary with a kid named this. And so they were looking very, very closely. And for several of the certain names, Rosalie started up one, Kathy started up one. I'm not sure who else did the name studies. Basically, we kind of did a mini name study where you can actually look through and see like all of the connellies that are between 1840 and 1870. And then it's broke out by year. And then their census records broke out separate from the altisms. I mean, they're just incredible, incredible work. And so, you know, as you're looking at these families and still trying to expand them and maybe going sideways, because of course, that's a good way to find cousins. Yeah. You know, you're gonna have these pages just all set up for you to use. So here's another one, and this was for the Connelly family. So not only were the baptisms and the census records listed, but Rosalie had gone ahead and taken the time to put a chart in there. So what you see on the bottom is the first time a couple was mentioned, it was put in there. So like with their first child's baptism, their first census record, whatever it was.  And so that gives you another resource to look at down there. And you know, and once again, we're all learning from each other. So it's great ideas like this that we look at and go, hmm, what can I do with my own research? Oh, I love that. Thank you, Rosalie. Wow. Here we had one, of course we had already spoken about some of the clergy and we just kept finding them. So this is what that Kathy Navas started a space forum. Wow, nice. Thank you, Kathy. Wow. Yeah, several of them at reach, really lofty statuses, not just priests, all were dedicated to their church and community that we could see. You know, so after she got it all set up, people would either add or tell her here, I found some more, you know, and she'd add them in. So that, and you can add to that yourself now. So that hopefully, you know, you can just look at it one day and see all of them, whether the director or not, that's interesting. Excellent. And then here, this was a little humor from our hardworking captain. And let me tell you, Maddie Hardman was the captain this week and she was amazing. She has just such great people skills and leadership skills and, you know, patience. So, and she's making sure to stand touch with everybody and make sure questions were answered. She was really great. But she said, I had to laugh because when I zoomed in on one of the census records to read the column headings to see how many people of each age in the group there was, only to find the number of sheep, the number of pigs and number of horses. And then she was laughing at herself. Yeah, I felt, I felt her pain there because I was a few of those up too. And you're not even looking at the title and you're like, I found a census.  Yeah, no. And unfortunately, and I think that the Canada ones aren't even indexed where you can even see the number of household breakdown like you can for the US. You actually have to count it yourself and it's very teeny tiny. So I appreciate you looking into that.   That was, you know, that was kind of fun to look at some of those other columns and go, ooh, extra little tidbits that we have. Sexual tidbits, I love that. Now here, of course, is what we started out with. All the yellow spots on this fan chart for the nine generations that are showing are places where you had available brick wall ancestors and years are unusually just like with several other guests we've had this year really close, really close to you. I know you had done tremendous amount of work just to get as far as you did. And so if you look at the little pop out on the upper right, that shows where we did do a brick wall or correction. And so you actually have four, which is more than we thought we'd get this week with what we were looking at. And I thought about actually shrinking the chart down and only doing seven or eight generations because there's so much white space. And I thought, no, because you should get props for doing, you know, people should see how difficult your branches actually are. They're just incredibly. Oh, I missed a couple of. Well, we hope Maddie gets a sleep after this. And thank you, Maddie, for doing such a great job, Kathy. Rosalie didn't either, because Maddie's like, aren't you supposed to be in bed? And Rosalie's like, I am. I'm my head's falling down on the keyboard. And then pretty soon we'd see her pop back up and she'd go, oh, but wait, I found a corporon over here. We're like, Maddie, our Rosalie, didn't she go to bed? Oh, I couldn't sleep. Well, thank you, ladies. A little bit later, we'd see. Oh, but look, somebody look at this. Oh, they just had fun with it. But yeah, I think they're all going to be ready for some rest. Yeah. Well, now you can see what I deal with, though, when something keeps you up at night, you're like, you know what? I should look into this one. You're right. So you feel my pain now. OK, now, this is your final wiki tree branches. And so here is what we were able to fill in for you. And, you know, once again, with it being as difficult as it is, I'm my hands off to the team. I think they just did an amazing job and finding what they did fine. So good. Yeah. I'm trying to see what. Oh, I missed it. Is it or comment? Oh, here's another one. And yeah, like I said, we talked about earlier is that, you know, there were people that we always have some people that at the end of the week, they just don't want to stop. And it is so hard. I have the same problem. It's so hard to leave a tree and go, oh, we'll just jump to another one. You know, but we've already we have people working up to the last literally up to the last second before broadcast. And some of them are actually talking about continuing that research since we have source on a known guess this week. They're like, we can fit some time in with some extra research. Interesting. Connected to source thought. There you go.  So there's always a little tidbit you can get here and there to kind of keep you going. So. And those are the fun parts, you know, that they're more than just a name back on a record somewhere on some date. Now, I'll go ahead and talk a little bit more about the challenge now that we got through the fun stuff and how we make things work. And of course, collaboration is key during the challenge. So, and that is what Wicked Tree is all about. Now, one of the ways we collaborate is to use the spreadsheet. You'll see on the left our spreadsheet and Melanie is very familiar with those when you get 20, 30 people working on a set of branches. It's really key. And, you know, for those participants out there that aren't using the spreadsheet, I implore you to please try because it makes it so much easier for everybody if we just all know what everybody else is working on. And, you know, the other place that we have that we can ask questions or put comments is in on the right there in our G2G post. Each guest star gets their own post. And Melanie, of course, will get a link to all of this. Yay. All the goodies. Yay. But a lot of that, I think, because people are really finding out how, you know, much you can feel the community environment with Discord, a lot of people are using that instead of the G2G post, but we do still use that for the bounty points and for the people that just choose not to. And the third way, and here's where we're talking about Discord, and that's our live chat. And we have Miss Melanie so much. She has not been in there this week and we are just so used to her piping in and being helpful and being great. We have people that chat, you know, around the clock, there may only be one or two people in the middle of the night, but that's a daytime for somebody else. So, you know, we try and help each other out. We have people that do really good with our obit looks at lookups. We have Steven, who does our transcriptions. He does well transcriptions. He did some obituaries for us this week. That was really great.  We wake each other up when we're naughty guys. We get a little silly occasionally and we have some fun with it. So, and then while it's not about the points, the point system does help us keep track of how we're doing. And some people like that little bit of competitive nature, you know, being able to use that. And so let's go into the points. Now there's two ways to earn points, of course. There are the big points, which are the bounty points. And that's 10 points for each brick wall ancestor that's corrected or found. And then the individual points is for the individual nuclear relatives. So that would be siblings or children, somebody that's one step away from that direct ancestor. And at the end of the week, those can sometimes add up. Of course, having a small of a set of branches as we did with Melanie, it's not gonna have the huge numbers that we have sometimes, but I think they did an impressive amount of work. They did wonderful. Excellent. And top five, I'll refresh it in a minute and recheck it. Top five, what I had when I checked it last time was actually Patty Waldron with some bounty points. So that really helped boost them up. They were running, Melanie, you'll see the scoresheet, surprisingly really close. Because we didn't have those huge jumps or gaps with huge bounty points, you could really see those people close together for the individual stuff. And then of course there's things that they don't get points for. So the people doing things like Stephen doing the transcription, thank you so much. People that do the obituary lookups, that isn't counted anymore in the score. But that's just important because it keeps everybody going and we work as a team. So let's go ahead and take a look at that scoresheet. Congratulations, Patty in top five, well done. We'll do a little refresh and make sure it stayed the same. So I have the numbers. Okay, and Patty is still in number one spot at 41. Cheryl Hess, it says she's in second but her and Rosalie are actually tied. It's just that Cheryl did a lot more edits, the type of edits that gave points. Rosalie did a lot of stuff on the space pages. So they were kind of right there in the same ballpark with their number. And then Kathy Nava who also of course did some work on the space pages, thank you so much. And Anonymous Sharky who made the number five slot. And yes, Ben, great job, everyone as always. They worked so hard this week. It was so crazy good. So appreciated. And then we'll look at the, let's look at the rest of the numbers too and just go through them real quick. We have 159 total points. Okay. We had 119 relatives or ancestors added complete, you know, within the one step or direct ancestor. So 20, excuse me, 20 direct ancestors, 90 nuclear relatives. For bounty points we had 40 and 30 of those were patties, 10 belong to AM. We had 358 profiles edited. So that was crazy good. And for total edits, so that's every time somebody went in, changed a date, added a source, fixed something, 1481. So I think, you know, they just did an amazing job. That's wonderful. Thank you everybody. Wow. So did we at least meet your expectations, Melanie, with? You've exceeded my expectations beyond everything I can imagine. You've broken down brick walls. You've given me new stories. You've helped me with a couple of corrections. I mean, there's just so much. I'm just so eternally thankful to this team and you and Maddie and Emma and for everything that you've done here. So it's, this is incredible.  So there will definitely be more updates along the way and to continue the progress. Yeah. And for those of you that haven't joined in with the fun, with the challenge, you're more than welcome to join in now. So you can get into discord and see what Melanie has to say. Ben, if you want to click overview, give me a second here and I'm going to pull that number, those numbers up for you. Let's see. Sorry, I need to get rid of that. It was in the way. So for total points this year, and now this is overall, this is starting from the very beginning of the year. We're actually almost at 16,000 points. That is crazy. 15,965 and that's not including this week. Those numbers have to be added in. Created ancestors since we started this year and amazing 2,586. And those are just the direct ancestors for a nuclear relative, 7,303. Bounty points, 6,010 bounty points. So yay. Wow. 601 brick wall ancestors. We have gifted to our guests. Profiles edited, 23,000. There's over 23,000 profiles edited. And the actual total edits over 97,000.  You guys just wow me.  I didn't see that now. Oh, thank you mom and dad. Thanks for tuning in. And anyway, any of my other family members tuning in. Thank you for seeing this. It's nice to be able to share this with family too. Well, I hope they're enjoying it as much as we did. We just had so much incredible fun working on your branches. Oh, thank you. And you know where to find us. So if you want to continue on getting help on any of those little lines that maybe somebody can do lookups or something, we're still here for you, Melanie. Yeah, and you won't get rid of me in Discord. So don't worry, I'll be around to help out in here. And like I said, that was my way of giving back because I knew you all would do such an amazing job. And this is just the greatest gift you can give anybody. Like I mentioned last week when we talked, this is given someone a part of your heritage and now you've given me all these stories and new things to look for and appreciate and keep finding more. The journey continues, it will never end. Always, always eternal. Always, and it's always just so such a blessing to be able to remember every one of my family, even whether they're a director or just another relative. We keep their memories alive by talking about them and their stories and even for any of you researching, I'm sure you got maybe attached to a couple of them along the way. Yeah, they start to feel like family.  Yeah. See, they're still missing you, Melanie. Oh, thank you.  I think I saw a couple of questions. See if there are any other questions in there. And Kathy, I saw your note, Kathy, that you were trying to add every picture of every church. I really appreciate that, that was wonderful. Yeah, because religion was definitely an integral part of their lives, so I'm waiting to find out when I get a rabbi on my mom's side, though. That would be nice. Yeah, that would be cool. Can round out a little bit. And one of the other things, you know, that we really were hoping to do more this week that we just ran out of time. There's just so much to do, you know, is trying to go sideways and look for those cousins and ancestors that, yeah, maybe didn't survive some of the tragedy or did and have success stories. But that's something that you can look forward to adding to your journey through your family tales. Absolutely, yeah. And I will continue to say that I am a proud descendant of my immigrant ancestors from both sides, coming over, you know, experiencing a lot of trauma and poverty and hardship. And they still managed to find a good life over here.  Right. See, Steven, you have an interest in the Bodner family line. Okay, well, Steven, keep in touch if you see anything that links into mine. You never know, though, so. Oh, great, Kathy. I'm glad that was helpful. Yes, that's a very big part of a tagging clergy. I actually have done a talk on researching clergy. It's part of, for American ancestors, so it's definitely a, it's an interesting viewpoint of like when you're trying to look for people in your tree that may be of the cloth and maybe just, you know, and maybe they didn't have children, you know, what was their story like? So I'm glad that was helpful, though.  So, you know, five generations of fishmongers. But I mean, that's cool to me. That just shows you, kind of gives you an idea of what their life was probably like. Oh, sure, yeah.  I have a long line of like tailors, for example. There's a lot of people in the fashion industry, we'll say, we'll see the tailors, the dressmakers, the cutters, so, you know, long line of work, I mean, people need clothes.  Yeah, and you know, and it was like the ancestor that was the tailor and his sisters were button makers. And we didn't figure it out until later that he had a shop where he sold, that's what he sold was the sewing stuff, you know. So he had the haberdashery and then, which made a lot of sense because then, you know, here's the sisters that are button makers, they must have been working in his shop with him, doing this stuff. So it just is kind of cool to see that family working together on the same, same type of an occupation. Yeah, and it seemed like some of them, it might have even like worked in some of the higher end shops. Like it was hard to tell if they were some of them were independent versus like a Schmatte factory or something.  So, yep, Lewis knows all about it. Yeah, she knows what the Schmatte business. So, you know, yeah, and I saw there was a note here, you all try Eastern Europe ancestors. Yes, you definitely have to exhaust your US records first. That's really what I did is I really went into like naturalization records and passenger lists to really try to dig up as much as you can. Sometimes you get lucky with some gravestones, getting at least the parents, so at least the father on the Jewish gravestone. So it takes a lot of time before you really can dig in. So some of the profiles I can tell you probably took me about, probably took me about five years to find Anton's arrival record, to be honest, because he came in on a, you might have seen that he came on a, on a merchant ship. So. Yeah, any kind of a naturalization or migration record is just a treasure, you know, just a treasure to find. And then, you know, I know myself personally, I was a little disappointed because we found some of the tombstones and stuff we were looking for. But sometimes when we have the Jewish ancestors, we can find them on Jewish Gen. That's an excellent site to find where they'll go ahead and give you what their Hebrew name was and, you know, a good clear image of the tombstone. And we weren't able to find as much on that site this time, but we did utilize some of our other resources. Oh, that's okay. I'm sure that you've had like, users like a, like Lewis maybe telling me, at least the translating the Hebrew name, that those were always interesting to find out about, you know, just give me a little more insight into them. Even if we don't quite get back, it just gives me another, another thing to look into. So. And yes, Segal is super difficult. So as I mentioned, Segal is kind of like Smith in Romania. So very common. So well, thank you, Lewis, for the compliment on that. It was a, luckily I had a lot of information on that line. So that was really helpful. And that one was actually the one we're, I don't think I mentioned last time, but I connected with several cousins that we met up with over the last two years. And we just started piecing together bit by bit, just seeing what we can find on each of the different siblings. And we even formed a Facebook group to share what we found. And we keep finding more and more and we're adding more people to it. So I think that's a. That's great. The power of collaboration can be really key, especially with those common names. Right. And then you also have the modern day tools. I mean, people have DNA and stuff that really helped it, that our mothers or grandmothers didn't have when they were looking at stuff like this. You know, we have a lot of things at our disposal. Absolutely. Yeah, I think it's always a question there. So yes, I have tested my DNA. It's obviously finding more and more descendants of some of these lines. So I'm making more progress. So hopefully we'll just get more people to test to keep expanding out. Do we have any other questions out there? I think I will go ahead and talk for a few minutes then about. And this is going to be Melanie's first two, 2021, our sixth annual source of thought. And I have to say, this is my favorite thong. So I love all the thongs. I get excited, but the source of thought is my favorite. And this, of course, is where we go out and we take on source profiles. And yes, I know we have those on WikiTree just like everybody else does, you know, but we do try and keep up on it. So we figure, since we've got these projects to do, we may as well have some fun with it. If you have not signed up for the source of thought yet, then you really, really need to go to the G2G and sign up because I'm closing out registration tonight at midnight my time. So that would be midnight Eastern. I am not staying up late to add people in late. And you can still have fun. We get together on teams. We, you know, I don't know about some of the other groups. I think most of us are really chatty. And, you know, we have a little fun with it. A lot of fun with it. We talk as well as add the sources. But now last year we added almost 60,000 profiles. We added sources too. So it was like 58,000 or something. It was almost really close. So I really like to see everybody try and pass that up this year. And we have some fabulous prizes. If you haven't looked at the prizes list yet, those are on the help page for the source of thought, which is linked in the registration post. And we do our live video hangouts every four hours. You'll see me here or Sarah or A.O. or some combination of us. I'll be there, my ponytail and no makeup every four hours and we'll draw a name when the winner. So yeah, I just keep sourcing in between that. So do the hangouts, go back to add the sources. I really hope that I see you there. Shout out Team Corp Red Catchers. Team Italy. And I'm Team Northeasters. If you want to continue on those PEI lines. So, you know, head in if you want to get some points for that. Yeah, get that plug in there. Okay, do we have anything else this evening, Melanie? I think I just wanted to say one more big thank you. Thank you for this opportunity to have my genealogy be done. Let me be a part of this. And thank you so much to you and all the volunteers for all their hard work over the past week and this year helping me and everyone with their challenges. I'm truly touched by everything you've done, done for me and I'm so excited to learn more. And I really hope to share more of the progress with you. And I definitely plan on helping to continue with helping others with their research on time and bugging you all in Discord on a regular basis. So, thank you truly, truly thank you for everything you've done here. And I'd like to thank everybody too for the participants. Thank you guys so much for this.  Everything about WikiTree is free. So not only are you putting your time in, but help like this is volunteered. We're all volunteers. We put this time in out of our love for genealogy and the community and the goals of documenting our ancestors and keeping them alive. I have to thank the guests, of course, that don't participate or we wouldn't be doing these live casts and we have a lot of fun with them. And if you'd like to see more about WikiTree, check us out at wikitree.com. Make sure you guys have hit like on this video. Do the good ol' thumbs up. If you'd like to receive alerts, you can subscribe to the channel. And now I think, oh wait, I gotta show this before I say goodbye. You have to free me. Yeah, hashtag free Melanie. She's now officially had a Discord jail. And so, we'll see you guys there.


Hi, everybody. I'm Kyle. This is Dormonster. We're making a D&D channel. This is just a very quick update. First, I wanted to thank everybody for being extremely supportive of this change. Hey! I'm talking! You guys are the best, and somehow I always forget that. Give him a happy Kyle smace. Happy? Wow. Happy Kyle smace. Happy Kyle smace. One more. One more because that was a smace and I need a happy Kyle smace. Yay! I just wanted to let you guys know about the changes we're making on our Patreon. Just really fast. We're probably going to do a big ad later on. It's now going to be actually much easier for us to make rewards for things because the new content is going to be much more community interactive. You can go to patreon.com.com slash Dormonster right now and it should all be entirely updated and you can see all the new rewards. So a really quick rundown. One dollar still gets you Discord access. Five dollars gets you access to an exclusive Patreon podcast. Ten dollars. We've got digital downloads of the videos that we put out each month. We've got merchandise discounts for DFTBA and Teespring. And we also have GM notes from one of our monthly games. Twenty five dollars. Anybody who's currently at twenty will be grandfathered in. Are you trying to film yourself in my VFX ball? How's it going? Hi everyone. Twenty five. That gets you your name at the end of the video and the credits. And also you get a monthly encounter for Dungeons and Dragons or Pathfinder that will be written by Ian or Ricky. And you can incorporate them into your own games. Fifty dollars. Again it is not the one with the information. I'm the one giving the information. I should just film this for me. You should. I don't know why I'm talking. Fifty dollars. You get a custom voice clip. You can up to, I think up to fifty characters or something. There's also a character re-roll. Fifty dollars gets you a character one re-roll that you can hand out to a character in one of our games. So if they are about to die they can go, this re-roll is brought to you by Burnt L and then they'll re-roll the dice and they can get a second chance at not dying. Two hundred fifty gets you a producer credit and a vanity plate at the end of the video. So on the end plate everybody else's nails will be scrolling past but it's gonna be like this video produced by Burnt L. Also two hundred fifty gets your name added into the D&D game. So an NPC that shows up will just be named after you and you will be forever part of the world that exists within that D&D game. Finally, if you for some reason want to donate five hundred dollars one month you will get an invite to a one-shot adventure run by a D&D or a DM crew member. So you can actually play a game with us. And the first time you join you'll get a character sketch of whatever character you make for that game. How do they play a game with us? The internet. All of the new stuff is gonna start coming out in February. We've got Altered Egos, that game we recorded like two years ago. That's coming back actually this time. I'm also running my own game. So we're gonna have two like full-length games going that are slightly different themes. And then we've got stuff coming out like this really short form interview like Hot Ones style rapid-fire D&D series hosted by Ethan. We've got Ian's running one called There's Rules For That where he just comes up with a ridiculous concept and describes how to make them in Pathfinder or D&D Fifth Edition. Because there's always a way to make something work. Thank you all for the support and I hope you like it. So one more special thing to all the viewers. One more special thing? You're just looking great today. Good job on the hair.


The Big Picture, an official television report of the United States Army, produced for the armed forces and the American people. Now to show you part of The Big Picture, here is Master Sergeant Stuart Quain. Twice each year, a group of representative American citizens is invited to inspect the Department of Defense. These guests are selected to represent all areas of the country. A meeting at the Pentagon in Washington is followed by a nine-day tour of our Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marine Corps bases. This joint civilian orientation conference is the subject of today's Big Picture. Its purpose is to acquaint the American public through representative citizens with the problems, workings, and accomplishments of the Defense Department. It shows how and why our defense dollars are well spent. One of the 80 representative Americans invited by the Defense Department to attend the Joint Civilian Orientation Conference is Ben Allen, a businessman who lives and works in Virginia. An Army veteran of World War II, Ben Allen has a special interest in the defense establishment of today. Like the others invited to the conference, he travels at his own expense except between military installations during the eight-day tour. That he has been invited to study the workings and accomplishments of our defense services firsthand is cause for pride for both Ben and his family. And as a family man, he naturally has a strong interest in the state of our military preparedness. As a taxpayer too, his interest is equally strong in seeing that our military dollars are being well spent. Now, here in his own words, is Ben Allen's report on his experiences during the JCOC tour. The first thing that struck me when we got out into the field was the variety of businesses and professions represented among the other members of the conference. Lawyers and teachers, union leaders and corporation executives, clergymen and shopkeepers, a real cross section of America. We'd been invited as typical shareholders in a big concern, the Department of Defense. Many of us had had some personal experience with one or another of the services in the past. Now we were to get acquainted with all the services. Send us out cold naturally. We got our first briefings in Washington in the world's largest office building, the Pentagon. From the moment we arrived, everything was on a well-organized basis. Experience has shown the Defense Department that these conferences have a direct bearing on how much understanding the general public has of our defense setup. Briefing by the Air Force filled us in on their latest plans and strategies, showed us what was on the drawing boards for service in the future. The Navy outlined their program of fleet operations, showed us how maximum preparedness was being maintained at minimum cost. The Army told us how the government plans its budget, how budget appropriations are made for each of the services. All down the line, everyone leveled with us. And the Joint Chiefs of Staff made us feel we were sitting in as real staff members. For the first time, I got a good idea of the magnitude of their decisions. When I got to the Marine Base at Quantico, I felt pretty well informed. The Marines gave us a demonstration of their new tactical concept of vertical envelopment. These demonstrations don't cost the services anything extra because they're part of the regular training program anyway. The years since I got out of service, things have changed a lot, speed, mobility, maneuverability. These are the words you hear all the time now and new and better equipment. More and more emphasis is being put on science on research and development. Take the new one man helicopter, now undergoing testing for possible tactical use in observation, liaison work, rescue work or small unit maneuvers. These little whirly birds would really give you a chance to make a vertical envelopment. Elsewhere, our seagoing soldiers, the Marines put on a demonstration of their latest model rubber assault boat. This eight man rubber boat provides a means of landing small reconnaissance parties on a beach and of getting them back to the mothership safely once their job's done. Despite its size, it takes only 30 seconds to inflate the boat. While he inflated it weighs less than 150 pounds, but it can carry a ton of men and supplies, most noiseless. Skillful paddlers can make the boat move at a fast flip. Especially designed motor can be used when silence isn't necessary. The motor drives the boat along at a fast cruising speed of 20 knots. The Marines, as always, are ready to move on land, air or sea. And in this age of A-bombs, the fighting man must move fast, inspectors long enough. They decided to show us first hand how some of their equipment works. I wish now they'd moved us infantrymen by helicopter back in the 40s. Getting set for the takeoff, I couldn't help thinking that Ben Jr. would have gotten just as big a kick out of a helicopter ride as his old man in the travel hogs. It was time to say farewell to the Marines and Quantico. Our next stop, the Naval base at Pensacola, Florida. The Navy gave us a briefing on their missions and responsibilities, kind of an expanded and more detailed version of what we've been told in the Pentagon. Then we split up into two groups. Half of us went aboard an aircraft carrier. The other half aboard a submarine. We'd change places later. Those of us aboard the carrier discovered that a flattop is a mighty complicated piece of machinery, and that the men who run it have to be highly trained specialists. If you've ever been near a flight deck during operations, you'll know exactly what I mean. Of course, the Navy has a variety of ships it depends on, submarines and tankers, destroyers and cruisers. But in today's Navy, the aircraft carrier is the spearhead of the Navy task force. Just as with the other services, the changes in naval strategy and equipment have been enormous since World War II. Places. And those of us who'd been aboard the carrier went to see how the submariners live and work. As an infantryman, the only Navy I'd seen in the past was a troop ship. Seeing a carrier and a submarine close up for the first time gave me a much better idea of how the Navy operates. The sub was a lot different from the wide open spaces of the carrier's flight deck. You began to think seriously about that diet you always mean to go on. We asked the crew thousands of questions and got clear, intelligent answers every time.  In such close quarters, you can understand why the submariner has to be a special type of guy. The submarine we visited was a conventional type, but we heard an awful lot about the Navy's new atomic submarines like the Nautilus. The future of the submarine with nuclear power, guided missiles, fantastic speed and maneuverability is something to really think about. When you consider that the Navy first began to experiment with submarines in 1900, you can see how far they've come in recent years. Under Captain Wilkinson, the Nautilus went to sea in January 1955. She sailed until February 1957 without refueling. During that time, she sailed a distance of 20,000 leeks, a distance equal to more than two trips around the world, or 60,000 miles. Such fantastic range makes the submarine a more valuable weapon than her inventors could have dreamed. The completion of the 60,000 mile trip deserved a celebration by the crew. Another new Navy development is Telos, a supersonic surface to air guided missile. Next year, the Telos will be used on board the USS Little Rock and USS Galveston when these ships have been converted to guided missile cruisers. But the Navy has more up its sleeve than the Telos and the atomic submarine. Navy helicopter pilots have added a new twist to conventional landing techniques by putting their aircraft down on the pitching fan tail of Navy frigates. This is possibly the smallest and most precarious landing place for everyday flying. Current tests prove such landings and takeoffs feasible, the helicopter used along with the Navy's smaller ships will help revolutionize anti-submarine warfare. After our close look at naval sea power, we were ready to return to land in a demonstration of naval air power. By this time, we were all getting well acquainted with the versatile helicopters. With its integrated submarine, surface and air power on display, we were becoming convinced that the Navy is ready to fulfill its mission well. A truly amazing demonstration was put on for us by the Blue Angels, the Navy's precision flyers trained for group flying in combat. In precision flying was shown us next at Eglin Air Force Base where the Air Force's Thunderbirds exhibited their skill. We sat in with the regular class. This was no special show, but on just for our benefit. We found that hundreds of officers and enlisted men from the other services were observers just like us, receiving an orientation. Operation usually conducted along with an infantry attack. Difference between success and failure when the Air Force comes to the assistance of the foot soldier. B-36 bombers, they put on a show of precision bombing that made your hair stand on end. J-C-O-C guests are a bunch of free-livers, except for one official meal at each base, we paid our own way. After chow, a special treat, a ride in a jet plane, a tight squeeze getting in here too. I'm going on that diet, I swear. By now, we were all getting pretty air-minded, what with transports and helicopters and now the jets. For most of us before, a jet was just a vapor trail in the sky or a noise you heard with nothing to see, it was moving so fast. Then here it was, a real thing. It is as easy as driving a car, this jet flying, but not as complicated as I'd thought either. And admiration is the word to use to describe what I feel for the men who fly them. Admiration with a little awe mixed in. From the jet, we headed for the climatic hangar. Here, all sorts of Air Force equipment is tested under different conditions. The temperatures range from 40 below zero to 120 above. With bases from the Arctic to the tropics, our Air Force equipment has to stand up in many different climates. The and the Air Force treated us well. Now, we were ready to push off to visit my one time alma mater, the United States Army. Our destination, famous Fort Benning, Georgia. Give us a good look at the modern soldier, his weapons today and how he fights in this era of pentamic reorganization. Once more, we changed hats to be in the uniform of the day. I'd been expecting a few changes that had been made in the Army I used to know so well, but the changes went far beyond anything I'd imagined. Since the end of World War Two, we learned the Army has been planning and working to adapt itself for any wars of the future. Superior mobility will be one of the primary factors for success on any battlefields of the future. Because of this, the Army is putting increasing emphasis on the paratrooper, which to see one of the first jumps ever made by paratroopers from helicopters. Fighting infantrymen are getting so they can jump from anything. Small planes are large from way up or from only a few hundred feet from the ground. We learned about the Army's new pentamic idea and reorganization plans. Our national security demands that we rely on a strong combination of ready combat forces. We were told that speed, mobility and versatility are the key ideas behind the Army's new look. And fast moving, highly skilled paratroopers are part of the Army's answer to the pressing military demands of today. When those hundreds and thousands of fighting men come floating out of every corner of the sky, you can't help but feel thrilled, swell up a little with pride as the paratroopers training pay off. Every man and every piece of equipment landed safely. Because the whole idea of the JCOC program is to put us as close to the real thing as possible, our next stop was at the paratroop training jump tower. First, this wasn't the same as jumping out of a plane, not by a long shot, but it was close enough to the real thing for me at my age, making me some kind of one quarter qualified paratrooper. I even got a certificate, something I can use to show the kids what a brave dad they have. When shot time rolled around, we were escorted by men attending the infantry officer's candidate school. And as we sat and had a bite to eat and talk to informally, we found out what splendid men these potential officers are. We were genuinely proud to have met them. Lunch, we once more took our places in the grandstand for a look at some of the Army's latest equipment. Just for comparison sake, they showed us the traditional but time-worn Army mule, a hero in many a campaign. And then we were introduced to the new mule, a machine whose capabilities are putting the old mule out to pasture. Then one by one, much of the new Army's modern equipment was displayed in action. Often shown explained why the modernized infantry division has become such a tremendously hard-hitting force. Notice the special flag being raised, an ominous silence descended, broken only by the sound of heavy tanks moving into position. The seconds ticked by as we waited for something unusual to break. Then suddenly, as it had started, the mass firepower of the mad minute was over. We went for a closer look at the weapons. Some of the weapons were familiar, other strange, needing an explanation, even to other former infantrymen like myself. For time's sake, under strict supervision, they even let us take a few practice bursts. When the time came to break up and go our separate ways to all 48 states, we felt close to each other, of course, but more important, closer to our country. It had been only eight days since I left my family to go on the tour, but they'd been eventful days. And in looking back, days of tremendous importance to me. In rejoining my family, in thinking of them in terms of their future and our countries, the purpose of the JCOC program was driven home to me forcefully. And as might be expected, what I had seen and heard and learned was too good to keep entirely to myself. When my fellow club members heard of my experiences, I was invited to give a short report. I spoke of our defense establishment in terms of an investment, an investment in the future of not only us, but of our children and of generations to follow. I spoke of my belief that the matter of defense is one of great personal interest to me, to my neighbor, to all of us. It is something demanding more than taxes. It calls for a personal responsibility in keeping informed of how the Defense Department operates, how it serves our best interests. Unless behind our Defense Department stands a well-informed nation, a nation prepared to perform its obligations intelligently, it will not be enough that servicemen and their weapons be ready to fight. It performs its task of safeguarding the peace and rights of free nations, how well, in the words of the Constitution, the Department of Defense provides for the common defense of this country and of the free world depends upon the public support it receives from you and from me, from the citizens of all America. 1500 representative American citizens have been given an inside look at our Defense Department through the JCOC program. Such conferences are further evidence of the fact that under the Constitution in our democracy, the civilians actually do govern our military establishment. Now this is Sergeant Stuart Queen inviting you to join us again next week for another look at your Army in action on The Big Picture. The Big Picture is an official television report for the armed forces and the American people produced by the Army Pictorial Center, presented by the United States Army in cooperation with this station.


Today we're beginning a new series called True Worship. Worship is something that is very dear to our house. We love not only the music factor of worship and not only we love the good-looking worship team that we have, amen. And the amazing albums that they release but we love the Spirit, the heart of worship which honors God and Jesus is looking for, amen. Napoleon said that if Socrates would come into the building everybody will stand up in honor. But if Christ comes into the building everybody will fall in reverence. The reason we worship and the reason we get on our knees and we'll raise our hands and we adore is because Jesus Christ is God. It's not like Thanos who becomes God by getting all the infinity stones and crushing the rest of the planets. Our God didn't become God. Our God was God, is God and forever will be God. Come on somebody. He didn't become God by crushing everything that came on his way. He was, is and forever will be and gave his son being God so that we will be rescued and that's why he is worthy to worship. Another reason why we bow, get on our knees, lift our hands, clap, shout and sing praises to God is not just because of who he is but who he is to us. We always remember where we came from. There was a story when the prisoners in Iran were released. I think it was a nighting, don't remember the exact day, but when they were released from prison through the negotiations of a president and they arrived back on the American soil and the first thing they did is they kissed the ground of the United States. You know for an average person who walks in America you don't kiss the ground in America because you take it for granted.  And see the reason why we get on our knees before God because we remember we used to be prisoners of sickness, prisoners of the devil, prisoners of curse, prisoners of these things and we constantly remember where we've been through what God has taken us from and that's why during worship we worship not the style, not the preference of our songs, not the music, loudness or quietness of it but the God who is the object of our worship. Can somebody say amen? Come on somebody, let's put our hands together for the Lord. Let's put our hands together for Jesus. I heard this, I heard this lady she was in Kansas City and she walked into a ice cream shop. She noticed Paul Newman who was directing, directing a film in that city, Mr. and Miss Bridge and she saw the director of the movie standing in line to get ice cream, you know blue eyes, this handsome man, very known, very popular. She started to shake uncontrollably. She started to, her pulse you know went up, she just started to sweat and get very nervous and and he said hi to her and she said hi back to him and she gets her ice cream and walks off the store and forgets that she didn't get the ice cream, goes back to the store and he's standing again there and he says you forgot your ice cream, huh? She says yes I did. He says you put it in your purse. When was the last time God's presence affected your pulse? When was the last time the presence of God caused you to shake? Get a little bit nervous because God came into the room. When people would meet God in the Old Testament they would fall on the face like dead. When people would meet God in the New Testament the Bible says that they would, their life would change. I can't, I don't believe that you can meet God and remain the same. I believe you can stand in front of the semi truck on the highway get hit and remain the same but you can't meet God and remain the same. You can put your fingers in the outlet please don't do that and remain the same but you can't meet God and be the same. When God truly encounters your life and that happens during worship something changes about you. Come on somebody amen. So today we are approaching the topic of worship. I want you to see the verse in Isaiah 43 verse 7. Everyone who is called by my name whom I have created for my glory I have formed him yes I have made him. God in here reveals that God formed us for his glory. God created us for worship. We were called to warfare but we were created for worship. We are in this world in the war zone from the beginning of creation the man was called to dominion and to warfare. God created man with an assignment to have dominion that means our assignment on this earth is to wage war against demons to wage war against sickness to wage war against poverty to wage war against spirits and curses but our calling who we were created to be is for the glory of God meaning we were created to worship. Somebody say I was created to worship. Turn to your neighbor say you were created to worship. God has the same right for worship as you have for your car keys or your iPhone. It belongs to God. I want you to see this next verses what it says. God says in Malachi he says where is my honor meaning God thinks honor belongs to him. It's rightfully his. Kind of like your keys when you lose your keys in the church and you don't simply if somebody takes your keys you don't simply say well it's fine you want to take them today that is yours. I'll find a ride home I'll call Uber oh by the way they don't have that in Pasco but I'll call my friend I'll call taxi no no no your keys they're yours they are rightfully yours. God says where is my honor. It's mine. Who took it? Who's holding it back? God sees praise and worship as rightfully his as anything that I own belongs rightfully to me. In 1st Chronicles 29 he says yours oh lord is the greatness the power and the glory in Revelation 411 he says you are worthy oh lord to receive glory and honor in Psalm 1151 he says not to us lord but to your name be the glory in Isaiah 428 he says I am the Lord that is my name my glory I will not give to anyone I want to tell you something that when it comes to worship God thinks it belongs to him that means that if I take it I'm a thief if I don't give it back to God that's not something that's going to be really good worship belongs to God there were people in the bible in the history who held worship from God and instead of giving worship to God they decided to keep it one of them the famous guy Lucifer would remember when Lucifer said I will exalt I will exalt I I I in few verses he said I five times any time I is the center of the universe you become like him and Lucifer never planned to be the devil Lucifer simply held worship something that belonged to God and became the devil when we would hold worship we go from the best of us to the worst of us it damages us and it destroys us Lucifer wasn't the only one there was a guy that followed his footsteps his name was Nebuchadnezzar and Nebuchadnezzar he also would held worship one time he came and looked at all the things that God has given to him and he says is this not my mind that accomplished me is this not my glory and there was a voice from heaven and he became an animal until he recognized there is a God who appoints kings and puts kings down and when he says God to you be all the glory he wasn't a believer but he was a worshipper he recognized I might not be a Christian but I recognize worship doesn't belong to me it belongs to God when you hold worship back it destroys you because worship is not yours to keep worship is yours to give come on somebody there was a guy in the New Testament his name was Herod and the Bible says there was a meeting and in the city and people came and people started to worship him people started to honor him and the worms came and they ate his body because worship is not mine to keep it's mine to give God says in Romans chapter one he says the people who knew God but didn't worship him as God he says that God allowed their minds to become futile and their hearts to be darkened and he gave them up to their own passions meaning they became the worst version of themselves because they knew God but didn't give him what was due to his name you may say but I'm not a Christian you may say what about people who don't believe in God actually it does not really matter if your phone is yours and people don't believe in your existence it doesn't change the fact your phone is yours they don't like you it doesn't change the fact it's yours God says I don't care worship is mine you may say well that's kind of egoistic of God he's God has no beginning has no end has no opponents no competition no rival didn't become God and worship doesn't corrupt him the more worship he gets he doesn't become meaner he doesn't become evil he doesn't become corrupt like us when we get worship God becomes is always will be good the only body only one person only one being who can be all powerful and at the same time all good everybody else who gets the glory right away it goes into their head and they become manipulators they become liars and they become bad worship is dangerous for us to carry actually word glory in the original Hebrew is a word for weight glory is the weight we carry and our spine is not strong enough to carry that kind of weight only God is strong enough to carry the weight of worship when you take worship and hold it it messes up with your back it messes up with your system it messes up with your character it messes up with you but when God takes worship it doesn't mess up with his back it doesn't mess up with him it doesn't change him you may say but I am I am better than anybody else Lucifer was better than you and I and worship was too heavy for his back is snapped and he became evil he became corrupt he became a destroyer he became someone that gives people sickness today and gives people evil anytime you give somebody worship it snaps them it changes them it doesn't make him good it makes him bad but you give worship to God God's already good but he becomes good to you come on somebody are you with me with holding worship corrupts us destroys us you may say well I'm not one of those people I don't go around worshiping me and I don't ask people to worship me but how many times it magnifies our problems magnifies our fears our worries it actually makes the problems we have more permanent when the worship opportunity comes in and we hold it back and we hold it back during worship time now I understand we really hold it back for two reasons first is pride pride manifests in this way not my favorite song too loud now understand we need to keep it keep it nice we need to keep the volume and everything nice but in reality it's not really about the song and secondly it's not really about you we're not worshiping worship we worship God because some people they are in love with worship not with God the reason why we hold back worship back in our services and our hands don't go up our lips are not open well I don't know the song you can learn it well I'm not sure I don't really like that man first thing is pride the second one is problems problems are so big what we simply say well I can't today why because I'm just really going through some things actually you can't afford not to because the only way to get out of those things is to worship in second Corinthians chapter 3 verse 18 it says but we all with unveiled face beholding in a mirror the glory of the Lord are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory as by the spirit of the Lord one of the biggest reasons you need to worship I need to worship it's not because I was created it's not only because if I don't I become something that's not good my worries become the stronghold not only that but because whatever I worship I become and Corinthians it says that we behold the glory of God as in the mirror and we are being transformed meaning whatever you behold you become during worship you're not beholding your sickness you'll be holding the healer during worship you're not beholding poverty you'll be beholding a provider during worship you're not beholding your single life you'll be holding someone who's a matchmaker during worship you're not beholding your situation you'll be holding God who is bigger than that and so whatever you'll be holding you are becoming they did it even a study and they posted in one of the newspapers were couples that are married for a very long time become like each other so it's been proven scientifically because you are actually looking at each other for so long so many years you become to look like each other there is a picture of the two couples you see how they look each like each other miserable but nevertheless why because you become what you behold if you behold somebody for 40 years you become like them sour little face depressed a little bit discouraged a little bit those wrinkles and everything you become what you behold what would happen if you behold the glory and the beauty of God what would happen if instead of staring in the face of your problems in the face of your feelings in the face of your disappointments in the face of people's opinions the haters in the face of whatever you're going through you lift your eyes to the hills where your come where your help comes from and you look as in the mirror to the glory of God you become like God God is rich you become rich God has no cancer you begin to have cancer leave your body God is not broke you begin to see poverty being defeated in your life God he lives in the presence of peace you begin to see a flood of peace in your life the past is understanding God is powerful you begin to stop being pitiful and become powerful God begins to change your life you stop being a victim you become a victor why because you become what you behold that's why worship is so important because during worship you lift your eyes from whatever you're going through and you fix your eyes on him and he transforms you the key to change you is not to try to change you it's just change what you behold change what you behold is how you change who you are change what you observe change what you're fascinated with is how we change who we are because somebody say amen there is three types of worship the first one is the idol worship idol worship is when we worship something or someone that is created instead of a creator and we know that it's brince demons we know that it's wrong and we know that everyone worships something are you with me everyone really worships something there's no no such a thing as nobody's worshiping anything and many people in this culture instead of worshiping god they're worshiping really an idol that idol can come in the form of a car a job that idol can come in the form even of a person it could come even in the form of themselves the second type of worship is idol worship it's when we worship god but with lips only it's a worship jesus rebuked in Pharisees because they knew they had the form of worship not the spirit they had the style not the substance idol worship it's when you memorize the flow of the service you know the song so well that you can actually do an amazon shopping in your mind and sing along you can plan your weekly schedule and actually go through the whole motion of worship and god calls that idol worship one time men had a dream and in the dream an angel came and took him to a church service where there was a beautiful setting people were singing songs and hymns and during the service the man noticed and asked the angel he says i'm not hearing anybody sing i'm not hearing the sound i see everybody singing and worshiping but i don't hear anything and the angel looked back at him and he says this is what we get when men sing with their lips not with their heart he says heaven hears nothing they see the facial expressions they see the raising of the hands but they don't see anything because worship is not meant to be a lip service to god it's meant connected with our heart and with our spirit so the first one is idol worship the second one is idol worship and the third one is ideal worship an ideal worship is where jesus stole samaritan woman he says that those who worship god my worship god in spirit meaning your heart has to be connected with your lips spirit meaning the holy spirit is helping you and the second one is truth is truth what does it mean to worship god in truth now we know that truth is subjective in our culture today truth is different than facts facts change truth doesn't truth is eternal jesus says i am the truth what does it mean to worship god in truth and before we go into communion and pray for healing i want us to look at the verse in the bible where worship was mentioned for the first time and i want us to see what god reveals there that connects to what jesus reveals to the samaritan woman where worship to god must come in spirit and in truth if you go to genesis chapter 22 verse 5 it says the following and abraham said to his young man stay here with the donkey the lad and i will go yonder and what does it say what does it say church the lad and i will go yonder and and then he says and we will come back to you did you notice that he says we will come back to you god says to abraham to sacrifice azik i want you to notice this is completely for free that abraham tells the guys we're coming back together meaning abraham knew isaac is not going to die even though he was willing to offer to him now talk about faith but i want you to see that in here abraham says we will go and worship now my definition of worship and yours is worship requires instruments musicians song it requires a man behind the board it requires a congregation but in here in genesis chapter two we don't see a worship team we don't see a song we don't see music we don't see nothing except an altar and a sacrifice and abraham says we will go up and worship first definition of worship in the bible has nothing to do with songs and singing and posture and style and form of worship it has to do with the spirit of worship and that is obedience and what is obedience it's approaching god on god's terms because abraham comes to god and offers to him Isaac now we understand this is complicated for some people because we see god requiring a human sacrifice god actually is demonstrating something here because god is asking abraham to give his son out of obedience with something god will do thousands years later when he will give his son out of love and god is letting abraham experience just a drop in the ocean or what he will do when he will give his own son except not because somebody asked him but because love asked him to give his son and the fact that god says to abraham don't don't offer your son to me god wasn't after Isaac god what didn't want to remove Isaac from abraham's life god wanted to remove Isaac from his heart that's really what was god after but the whole part of here the whole idea the whole hero of this story is not abraham it's god god showed me to abraham you want to approach me in worship you have to offer the sacrifice i give you not your sacrifice abraham isaac will be a sacrifice they will cost you everything but isaac costs me nothing i want you to offer a sacrifice that costs me something and your sacrifice is simply obedience to what i provide for you two thousand years ago god provided a sacrifice on the cross his name was jesus christ and god is saying to us today worship is when you come to me and you offer to me you come to me through you come to me caring you come to me the truth of worship is you come to me with jesus christ as someone you go to me through you don't come to me through your deeds you don't come to me through your good works you don't come through me through your perfect church attendance you don't come to me through the the three fasting days that you do as a church you don't come to me through none of this stuff you put that aside and you come to me through Jesus Christ who is the truth and only through Jesus we approach God in worship amen only through Jesus when I have Jesus in Jesus I have everything else in Jesus I have healing in Jesus I have deliverance in Jesus I have freedom in Jesus is victory in Jesus is provision for all of our needs in Jesus and not only we offer Jesus to God and say Lord we come to you today not in our name not in our goodness but through Jesus Christ but in Jesus that we have is not only the salvation of our souls but also the blessing for our life I want you to see that Abraham offers a ram to God and God speaks back to Abraham he doesn't just rescue him he says Abraham I swear I will bless you it's like but God you already gave me a sacrifice I'm already good God says I know but when you offer a sacrifice not only you please me with your worship because it's offered in truth but I also on the top of that give you something more today we're gonna pray for healing and healing is already provided in Jesus Christ healing is already provided in Jesus Christ amen but let's say you're one of those people today that you grew up where you were told in Jesus is only salvation for your soul nothing else Jesus is only to get you a ticket to heaven Jesus is a sacrifice just so God can be pleased with you and nothing else is in Jesus well I can tell you that that teaching was wrong because the Bible says that by his stripes we were healed the Bible says when he died on the cross he also became poor so that through his sacrifice on the cross we can receive financial breakthrough the Bible says that on the cross he became a curse so we can receive blessing of Abraham the Bible says that on the cross he saw the shame that was said before him and he overcame that that means that we can experience freedom from rejection through the cross but let's for a moment imagine that on the cross Jesus only died for our sin and for our forgiveness Apostle Paul says in Romans he says he who did not spare his own son but delivered him up for us all how shall not he with him also freely give us all things that means God says not only I gave you my son and if you are limited in your perspective about the sacrifice of Christ and you think it's only to give you salvation God says well I give you a promise not only I gave you my son freely somebody say freely meaning for free you don't have to earn it you don't even have to have big faith for it freely I will give you anything else that you need along with Jesus Christ not only I gave a ram but God also gives Abraham a promise and God goes in into swearing he says I swear I'll bless you I swear I'll heal you I swear I'll provide for you I swear I'll break the curse else I swear you know it's serious when God starts swearing you know it's serious when God starts wearing you know it's serious when God says I swear today God is saying to you in Christ is already all the blessings but if something in Christ is missing maybe you're single you're ready to mingle and you're looking for a spouse and you're like what I don't find a scripture wearing the cross Jesus died to give me a spouse well God says with Jesus if not in Jesus then with Jesus I'll give you everything else sicknesses from the devil a hundred percent God does not sickness he doesn't have it to give it Satan is a thief if God gave permission for you to be sick then Satan is not a thief when he took your health because a thief is someone who takes something without permission Satan can't be a thief if he takes what God gives him I believe Satan is a thief because he took our health and that without permission and today the best way to do with thieves is you catch them if you recognize today the sickness is illegal in your body you're already catching a thief healing will be yours the Bible says Jesus came to heal oppressed by the devil it doesn't say Jesus came to heal those God made sick it says he came to heal oppressed by the devil you miss if I worry about Job Job God's sick Job is not your standard Jesus is Job is not someone who died on the cross for you Jesus did and he is our perfect theology sickness is from the devil as long as you believe that God send the sickness you're playing a hypocrite I'm gonna show you how because on a Sunday service you make sickness holy on Monday morning you'd fight it with every medicine antibiotics and every doctor in town that's hypocrisy I want you to be real with yourself if you're fighting against sickness on Monday through Saturday and believe it's evil on Sunday don't switch your position just because something and someone told you that somehow God can use it for his glory just because God used the donkey to speak to a prophet it does not mean we all should get donkeys and hear from a donkey what God has to say for a generation God's exceptions is not God standard God standard is Jesus Christ God standard is I want to heal your body God standard is I want to restore your health God is God standard Apostle Paul Elisha Job are the exceptions but Jesus is who we worship and Jesus is who we honor if your mind is confused today about sickness and you think well it's a little pet I have God is using it for my glory you don't have confidence to pray for healing I want you to put that pat on the altar right now and I want you to accept what God says in his word in Christ is your healing if you don't believe in Christ is your healing then with Christ is your healing but you have to have healing amen I want you to rise to your feet thank you for watching this content I hope this was a blessing to you if you're like me and you like to click on things click on this 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Hello everyone. I'm Sanjay Gupta. I welcome you to Sanjay Gupta Tech School. StudySalesforce.com. This is my website. You can visit this. It is a video library to learn Salesforce. In this video, I will demonstrate you how you can implement Apex test classes for the Apex code where you have used S object. So as of now, whatever implementation I demonstrated, it was like basic implementation of Apex test class. But now you will get to know how to implement Apex test classes where S objects are included. So here you can see one Apex code is implemented. So name of classes, update accounts, method is update account. Here I have created a list of account whose name is account to be updated. Then I created a set. So set name is account ID set. Then I have a loop which is querying ID, account.id from contact where name like test and where account.id is not null. So all those records will be available in this con variable one by one. Then I'm checking whether con.account.id is available in the set. If it is available, then that if that account is available in the set, so this if condition will be false, so nothing will happen. Otherwise, what will happen? New account instance will be created. con.account.id will be assigned into ace.id. Then its active field will be equal to just rating will be hot and account will be added into this list and account ID will be added into set. So let's say we queried multiple contexts. Those are related to one account. So we don't want to do this process again and again for all the accounts. Those are common for several contexts. So that's why we are maintaining this set so that we update one account once only. So this is the idea behind this code. So this is basically a apex code. Now I need to implement its apex test class so that I can cover this code and I can test whether this code will be working fine. So I'm going to create apex class. Name of this class will be update accounts test. So I need to put at the rate is test. Then again, at the rate is test private static void test update account. Now here I need to create some data. So in previous videos, we we didn't use as objects. But here in this demonstration, we are using as objects. So accordingly, we need to create the data first and then we need to use that data to process this. So basically, this this query needs to find some context where name is equals to this test, right? And that context should be having account associated. So this kind of data first we need to create then only we can check its code coverage, right? So whatever data we will be creating in this test class that won't be inserting in your org, it is for test class only. So here I'm going to create account records. So account acc equals to new account. Now acc dot name equals to test account acc dot active equals to more and acc dot rating equals to. So here we are updating rating to odd. So initially I'm putting it as code, right? And then I can write insert acc.  So remember again, this account won't be actually inserted in your org. This is available for this test class only, right? So whatever data we created apex test class, those are limited to test class only. They are not related anywhere with your org. So now I need to create a context. So the con dot first name equals to test con dot last name equals to test then con dot count id equals to acc dot id and then insert call. So this way I created both account and contact. Now it's time to call this method update account, which is available in this update accounts class. So this way I can call this method. So this is basically apex now it is not called through any trigger. So that's why we are calling this method explicitly, right? So if we call this method like this, so it should be static. So public void public static void. So I'm converting it into static so that we can call it directly. Otherwise, what we need to do we need to create instance of this class and then we need to call this, right? So I call this directly. That's why I converted that method into static. Now after execution of this method, this method will be querying the data which we created in the effects test class here. So it will find this contact and account associated. This account will be updated. So now we need to query this account here in this test class and then we need to apply the assertion. So if this account acc active and rating fields are updated to yes and what respectively it means your code is working fine. So what I'm going to do I'm creating new instance that is updated account here. I'm going to go and select ID active underscore underscore c rating from account where id equals to acc.id and now here I can write system dot assert equals. So here I need to put expected and then actual. So expected I'm putting a spot and actual I'm putting as updated account. So updated account dot rating. So this way I implemented this code, right? So if this account is updated so updated values will be available here and then I'm matching this. So I'm saving this code. I'm going to run test. So clicking here clicking on run test. So scrolling down. So at the bottom you can see this is executed and here you can see code coverage. So so a class is available here update accounts and it is covered 100%. Now if I go here and see this so it is covered 100% you can see all lines are covered right because we provided data according. Now by mistake if you put let's say warm here you are expecting warm and it is updating to hot. So in that case your test won't be passing. I'm showing you that as well. So I'm running test. So here you can see it failed. If I open these so here you will see the error. So expected warm and actual is hot. So this way it is failing. So sometime it happens like your expected is correct but your actual is incorrect. So in our case this is incorrect and actual is correct but I show you like if both are not matching. So your test will fail but actual code coverage will be maybe 100% because code is executed but your results are not matching. So that's why you need to implement assert equal. If you are not implementing assert equal so it means you are just covering your code. You are not validating it whether it is working fine. So this way whenever you are implementing a pics test class for the apex code where S objects are involved in that case first you need to create the data and then you need to call that method then you can query that updated data and then you can apply the assert equal. So again remember the account and contact which I inserted those are not available in the org anywhere. So these are limited to this test class and here I just created one account and one contact but in my introductory video related to a pics test class I told you like implement test classes for bulk testing. So I'm going to show you how we can do bulk testing in my another video that will be available after this. So you can watch that video like how we can create bulk data and we can implement test classes using that bulk data. So that is the best practice but this was small video that demonstrated you like if S objects are involved in your apex class then how to implement its relevant apex test class. So if you want to watch more Salesforce related videos so you can visit this website studyfieldfold.com a complete video library to learn Salesforce. Thank you for watching this video.