Good morning everyone. It is Gregor night today. My ex had a last minute webinar thing. She didn't realize it was at the same time. She's presenting. She's a busy lady so we're very lucky that she's able to make time for us every Saturday morning. So let's see who all is here. We have Brian. First one in. Kathy, Hillary, my mom, June, and I think we said Betsy already. Yep. Yeah. Yeah, Betsy said hi to us both. Yeah. Hello, June. And there's Brian from how we got here. Anybody else popping in? Did you say Janine already? Yes, I did. Over our usuals. Oh, look, there's Chris. Yes. Hey, hey. All the regulars. We appreciate you coming to see us every morning. Hang out. Lately, they're probably coming to see us. Who's going to be missing this week? Who will it be? Yes, because I was going to change it up. Different dynamic every week. That's right. You just never know. Oh, I didn't have anything new for anybody before we got to kind of let some more people come in. Hello, Susie. Anything new with you, Greg? How was your? It was a busy week. It was a busy week. As a church musician, you just never know. I ended up having three funerals to play for this week. And there's another one that's planned in advance. I guess it's a memorial service for a couple of Saturdays from now. So there will be at least one more Saturday in April when I won't be around. Okay. Greg is also a busy man. We're also lucky to have him here with us. I enjoy being here, but I got to say, retirement turned out to be a lot busier than I expected it. Retire and then not so much retired anymore. Not so much. I feel like that happens to a lot of people. Like they want to, yeah. My dad just picked up a lot of hobbies from being retired. Golfing, fishing, school, living, you know, all of the above. So we actually have a good question of the week this week. Yes. It is what is on your genealogical bucket list? That's a hard, difficult word, genealogical bucket. Genealogical, yes. If you didn't answer in the G2G or if you want to share again, you can add it to the comments and we'll bring it up. We have some good ones here. So Barbara wants to find her father's father's name. I don't know if it's last name or just the full name, probably missing, but wants to find the name. I think that's on the bucket list for most people to find one of their ancestors' name because there's a brick wall somewhere, usually. Another one to find out who my second great grandfather was. No name on the baptism record, no social security claim that I can find. All I have are three DNA connections with the same last name. It's not very common name on the island, so I know they have to be from that line. That was from Lynette Dovey. And we have another Lynette Patrick who said to publish one or more family books, to put as much as I can to wiki trees, one-world tree. That's a good one. To find my husband's paternal great-grandmother's parents. To figure out my husband's maternal great-grandmother's other two husbands. And to find out more about my paternal great-great-grandfather's family who were from Chemnitz, Germany, Prussia. Oh, look, Chris! He's not that he's broken through his... Tell me if I say this right, Chris. Gulo? Gullo? No, that's Spanish with the double L. For gual. I want to expand that tree. And also his copula side. And then speaking of copula, I also want to do a second cemetery, run at St. Patrick's Cemetery. And Haverill. Oh, I said it right. I usually butcher it, but I didn't write this. Instead of Haverill, Haverill. He'd be so proud. And Gary is to prove his great-great-great-grandfather's parents and then his great-great-great-great-girlfriend's parents. Great-grand... Wow. Great-grandfather's great-grandfather's parents using DNA. And then Virginia wants to find the maiden name of her maternal third great-grandmother. Confirm who she thinks her paternal three-time great-grandmother is. Let's see. Oh, Wayne says he wants to trace the journey of the Ulroids from Yorkshire, England, Salt Lake City, and or Australia. Oh, Susan. All I want right now is a tiny bit of enthusiasm from my family when I share an interesting fact about our ancestors with them. Yeah, that is funny. All I get is a blank stare and a grunt. Oh, yes. I heard of, if you say so, from a cousin. My immediate family is so small that it doesn't appear to be anyone who's interested in picking up the banner when I pass away. Oh. Like most others, to break a brick wall.  Oh, Diana says photos. She wants to find more photos or back as she can. Well, this was a good one. I saw it from, and she has a photo to Alexis. She says she would like to be able to find my lovelace family in England. They sent me this doll in about 1951. My grandmother took me to the photography studio where they had, where they hand-colored two 8x10 copies. She mailed one back, one copy back to England. Hand-colored guys, hand-colored. It's crazy. My general bucket list is full of places I would still like to visit. One of the places to spend time in the Family History Library. That's, yeah. I went in there once. I was doing Roots Tech. So, it was already kind of a busy time. So, I didn't really get to do much. Let's just look a little bit on the second page. So, Marilyn says her goal is to find her maternal great-grandfather. He was born Louis Morales, but on his marriage certificate, he had picked up the last name Landry. Ooh, a mystery. No records to verify this. His children carry the Landry name. Interesting. Yeah. Those mysteries are the most fun to solve when you actually find out what happened. Let's see. So, Max always shames me to upvote all of these. So, go ahead and upvote them. Yep. That's a good thing. Upvote. Upvote. Sorry for the ones on the first. I'll go back and I'll do it later. So, Elle Goldstein says my grandfather came to the U.S. from Italy and then his wife, my aunt, followed. She was refused at Ellis Island. Wait, that was confusing. My grandfather and then his wife, my aunt. So, his grandfather and his aunt that were married? No, that doesn't make sense. No. Okay, I'm thinking. So, she was refused at Ellis Island and then my grandmother, her sister came to the U.S. Oh, I see. Her husband died and following year, she had a child with my grandfather. Oh, okay. I see. Scandal. Oh, no. Oh, I know. I think, don't we have a answer from Brian Craig? We do. Would you like me to share that with you? Yes. It would make such a fun video. He does such a great job. So, let me just add that. Okay. And I'm going to go full screen. So, I'm going to go full screen. I'm going to go full screen. I'm going to go full screen. So, let me know if you can't hear this. You should be able to. We tested it before and I could hear it. So, I know. It should work perfectly, right? Okay. Possibly go wrong. Hi. I'm Brian Nash from How We Got Here at Genealogy. WikiTree, you asked a question and I'm here to answer. This week's WikiTree question and the week is, What is on your genealogy bucket list? Well, I don't have a mirror list. I actually have a bucket book.  But one of the things is travel.  My kids are grown and I'm just getting ready to be able to enjoy some travel. And I'm wanting to go and visit my ancestors' homes in Ireland and Scotland, see where they came from, be able to experience the culture, to be able to go to Edinburgh, take a walk to High Street where my great-great-grandparents lived in 1891 on the Scottish census. The house is still there. I want to go and be able to visit the Isle of Tyre and call where my camel ancestors came from. I want to be able to go to Glasgow where my Anderson ancestors came from in Scotland. I want to be able to go to Ireland and visit the multitude of counties that my various ancestors came from there, from Dublin to Cork, even County Down. I want to go to an Irish pub. I really want to be able to see the graves and the sites where my ancestors' homes were. Go to the places where someone died in battle. I want to be able to take a transatlantic cruise like my great-grandmother did in 1905 when she came over here as a teenager, 13 years old. I want to go for myself in the sights and the sounds and the tastes of Irish and Scottish culture. Now things are somewhat back to normal. I'm hoping to be able to fulfill some of those travel items in my bucket list. I know I'll probably now get due to transatlantic cruise, not just because it's rare and probably hard to find, because my wife gets extremely emotional and I'm going to be lucky to get her to fly over to the British Isles. And there's other things in my bucket list. Some of them are simple and some of them are more difficult. One of the things is to be able to join my friends from Saturday morning on the WikiTree livecast to be able to sit down and find in person with them. To be able to share a wee glass of Irish whiskey. Maybe I'm trying to guess. I'm sure I could talk magazines and have a discussion with them. And that's one thing off my bucket list that will hopefully happen sooner than later. It's more sooner than later. But you know, for the other things, for the travel, I'm lucky. Even if I never get to go to Scotland or Ireland, I live in Atlantic Canada, where there's so much Scottish and Irish culture that's still really rich. I can go to Cape Brighton where my ancestors landed and be able to experience a lot of that Scottish culture, to immerse myself in daily culture there. While in Cape Brighton, I can experience it. There, I'll just pause it right there. Thank you, Brian. Yeah, that was one. I want some of that Jameson in my mug right now. Oh, do you? Oh, wow. I want some. I don't have any. Well, before we go any further, I'd recommend everyone to re-watch the video. And the end of it is really neat because it then goes on about how Atlantic Canada has a lot of the Scottish and Irish roots and places. So he can investigate the or immerse himself in the culture, even if he doesn't get to visit there in person in the short term. But Sarah, you know what? What? I think we can help Brian cross one thing off his bucket list, or at least kind of virtually cross it off. If he's available, maybe we could invite him to join us next weekend. Brian, would you want to come on next weekend and be our guest? Be our guest. Be our guest. But with each of you to the test. Anyways, if you're interested, Brian, contact us. Mm-hmm. We might be able to make that happen. Have you on. Be fun. That would be fun. I was trying to figure out what his shirt, like, what... Best friends. It looks like a dog. I don't know, a squirrel? I think it's a dog doing like a fist bump. Oh, is it? I couldn't tell. I was having a hard time. You see? Doesn't it look like a dog? Oh, okay. I see. I see now.  I see now. I think my mind was like, you know, those like optical illusions. Oh, yes, yes. Or two things. I see the schnauzer now. I was thinking like it was some kung fu squirrel. I look like a kung fu squirrel to me at first. That's right. So what's on your genealogical bucket list, Sarah? Probably brick walls and also go to Idly. So to see if I could track down my Italian ancestors.  So here in Idly. It's very... It's when, from when they came to the U.S. from Ellis Island, they were in the Rome area. But originally, they're also from the north. They have a little town called Gamalero in Solerno. And yeah. That's also, I have to work pinpoint exactly because there's documents that say like three different varied places. So yeah. Very cool. What's yours, Greg? Well, I don't know. Visiting lots of places is certainly one of them. And since I've gotten back into genealogy at big time and research in my birth family, there's a lot of little towns in Quebec there where, you know, families stayed for generations. So I feel like I know them, but I haven't actually visited them. I might have driven through them. Like when our kids were young, we had a secondhand motorhome and we drove to the east coast. Bryna's right. Atlantic Canada is beautiful. And we drove through Quebec. And I remember one time we stopped for lunch on the, right on the St. Lawrence. Like, so we were, the motorhome was sort of parked on the side of the road and you could look down over the cliff and you see the St. Lawrence and there was a poutine stand there. And that was like the best poutine ever. But I mean, the location was perfect for that. So we may have driven through some of the towns that my family had come from, but I just didn't know it at the time. No, I only actually had poutine when I was in Japan because I had Canadian friends in Japan. And she kind of made us the, not real. I mean, it was poutine, but it was like kind of put together a poutine. Right. I feel like I had poutine in Japan. Interesting. Well, should we move on to the profiles of the week? Yes, I believe. What is our theme for the profiles or topic? Well, the main profile of the week is Madeleine Albright and the theme is Secretariat State and Government Ministers, basically. So if we take a look at the main profile, and I should probably make the screen a little bigger there. How's that? A little easier to read? Mm-hmm, yep. Okay. So she was born in 1937, May 15th, 1907, in the Shmikloff Prague in the Czech Republic. And of course, she just died just recently on the 23rd of March in Washington, D.C. She was born Marie-Jana Korbalova. Her parents were Anna Spiglova and Joseph Korbal, who was a Czechoslovakian diplomat. Besides, and she was born as Marie-Jana, but later on, it tells how she went to a French school and eventually adopted the name Madeleine. And so that's what she used for most of her life. This was a very well-written profile, and I got to give kudos to the people who put this together because obviously there was a lot of work and background put to this. And it's interesting for me because now I'm not sure how familiar you are, Sarah, with Madeleine Albright and her career and stuff, probably as an American, you are more familiar than I am. But being your neighbor, I hear all the big names on the news because they obviously make the news, but you don't know a lot of the details. So going through and reading a profile like this and giving some of the background that I had no clue about was very interesting. And I know we have an international audience on WikiTree, so I suspect others are sort of in my boat as well. So, in fact, I didn't even realize that she was, with the last name of Albright, I didn't even know that she was not born in the States. Yeah, I wouldn't know if I don't think I knew that either. Well, and it's very interesting, the profile, because she had quite an interesting, I would say, it must have been a scary upbringing because so she was born in 1937, right? So, and the country had just been independent after the First World War, but things were moving in the wrong direction. And in 1941, actually her parents converted from Judaism to Catholicism, probably to make it safer because of Adolf Hitler. And so, because Czechoslovakia was taken over, I believe, by Hitler. And sadly, three of her grandparents perished in the Holocaust. Isn't that horrible? So, they left Czechoslovakia during the war, and then they came back afterwards. And then, eventually, she was sent to a finishing school, the Preylapinach Institut per Junfi finishing school in Schecter, in Lake Niven, Switzerland. And that's where she learned to speak French, and she changed her name from Marijana to Madeleine. And then after, in 1948, they left Czechoslovakia, and that's when they came to the States, arriving at Ellis Island on Remembrance Day, though I don't know if it was officially called Remembrance Day in 1948 or not, but November 11th. And the father applied for political asylum, and eventually became a lecturer and then a diplomat. And when she was in high school, they moved to Colorado. She became active even in high school, forming a club in the high school, a polyscience club, and then it goes on about her career and stuff. And she did lots and lots of stuff, which many of the Wikitreers will know about, and others will be interested to read about. So, very impressive. But she was, when she was the Secretary of State, she was the highest, she was the first female U.S. Secretary of State, the highest ranking woman in the history of the U.S. government at that point, up to that point in time. So that's pretty impressive. And in fact, the only, to go further, to be president, which would be the highest ranking possible, she would be disqualified because you have a role in the States, right? So that would have disqualified her. So she pretty much got as high as she possibly could get.  So I was curious, also if they were, I don't know if she had nothing yet, I was in the middle, I was just starting, I was just starting to. That's interesting though, yeah. Anyways, very impressive. And I'm sure she'll be missed. So moving on, let's see, where's, here we are. So we have a number of them. So I will try and not belabor this so that I only give, you know, 10 minutes at the end for photos and stuff, because there's something else we wanted to talk to, I'll talk about two at the end of it. But let's move on to Sir Garfield Barwick. And Sir Garfield Barwick was born 1903 in Stanmore, New South Wales, Australia, and he passed away in 1997 in Sydney, Australia. And so he is popular, he makes the cut here because he was the longest serving chief justice of Australia from 1964 to 1981. And he was, as I was saying, he was born in New South Wales, eldest of three brothers, two Methodist parents. And he admitted to a legal practice after finishing university. There was a bit of a problem with a bank loan that he had loaned to his brother and then wasn't able to pay during the Depression. But later on, he did some important cases and he was created a Knight Bachelor, which is an interesting title, Knight Bachelor, in recognition of service to the public service. I was elected to the House of Representatives and he led the Austrian delegation to the United Nations for a number of sessions. And then talks about his being the chief justice of the High Court of Australia. And then there's some more more details down here as well. So I was just looking more into the Secretary of State. So Secretary of State is forth in line to become president if anything were to happen. So I wonder how that would, like there's the Vice President, the Speaker of the House and the President Pro Temporary of the Senate. So I wonder how that would work if like she was Secretary of State and not being born here if she'd need to, I don't know. I wonder, it's just something I was thinking like, would they let her? She was forth in line or not? I wonder if that, like in a situation like that, would it be, you know, acting, what they call it acting, or she could be president, but she couldn't run for an election maybe? Like I would recently watch designated survivor and if he could go on with it. So that would make me think like, is something worth having? Okay, yeah, let me just get the other tabs all lined up. Okay, so let's go. Julie Bishop also from Australia. And she's the daughter of Douglas now Bishop born, she was born in the 50s. Here it's in the biography. It gives you specifically born in 1956. And she attended Harvard University and the University of Adelaide. After entering politics, she was a delegate in 1998 to the Constitutional Convention, served as an MP. And from there on, she became Minister for Women. And then Deputy Leader of the Liberal Party and Minister for Foreign Affairs. And she's been the Chancellor of the Australian National University since January 2020. The first woman to be in this position. Actually, she was the first woman to be in a couple of those positions. So that's Julie Helen Clark. What are all those things? I think I'm missing something. There's a whole bunch of icons on the top. Oh, okay. I was like, what? Oh, yeah, you know what this is? Okay, so we're diverting. Okay, time out from the profile. What are those icons? I totally forgot I'd done this. So like, am I missing something? Was there an update? No, no, these are extensions to wiki tree. Have you heard of that? Have you heard of what extensions are? Oh, yeah. Does everybody else know what extensions are? Well, I'm wondering, you know, they may not. So an extension is something you add to your browser that basically reformats or adds extra value to your web page.  Where do we go to? Manage extensions. There's a bit easier way to do this. There's a different way of doing this, but What extension is that one, though? So this is the extension manager. This is what Chrome uses to. What's the extension that's giving you all of the extra little icons? It is, I believe it's the wiki tree v, which is in becall, I believe, that one. And then the sorcerer is the one. I just used this for the first time this week, and it is a very cool one because if you're on Ancestry or there's a few other sites it uses, but if you're on a site and it's got a source there, like an image, sorcerer will actually format the citation for you and a live link to that document. And with Ancestry, it's smart enough to put a sharing link so that even those who don't have Ancestry accounts can see the image. They can't do much more with it, but they can at least see the source image. And wiki tree x is another one, which you might be familiar with and turbo, but I think it's the b, so now that I've removed it and I go back to... I wonder if you can refresh the page or close your browser all the way. There we go, I'll refresh the page. So there we go, so now we have a basic... With that a whole bunch of...  Oh yeah, so let me put it back on again and we'll go to here. And refresh. So one of the things... One of the things he's done is he's made quick links to... So there's the profile overview app, quick link to the relatives app, a quick link to my fan chart. So if I click on this, it will automatically open up Helen Clark's fan chart. Which is very cool. So there she is. And then of course you can do all the different things with fan chart, but I'm not going to talk about that because that would take the rest of the hour. And we do have a live cast that we went over the feed. So I don't need to go through all that over again. But that's one of the things that this extension does, is it gives you quick access to some of those and also... Add style. Add style. So it changes the style. So if you don't like the default style, it can add this little round of rectangles and stuff and then you can... Or if you like that, a little more pastel-y, or it has a dark... So at night, and the bright light is hurting your eyes, you can put it into dark mode. That's cool. It's very cool. It's very cool. Very fashionable. Yeah, there's lots of other things here too, but maybe I will go back to remove that style. And maybe I should, for now, remove the extension just so we are not as distracted. Definitely distracted me. Oh, no, that's... And I totally forgot I had it on. But I highly recommend you investigating so that... So if you... In Chrome, you just search for extensions. There's actually a URL for that, chrome colon slash slash extensions. Or on... Under setting... There's a number of different places you can check for that. And in fact, on the apps page, which... Oh, that must be part of the extension. The apps opened up to... I thought there was a menu that popped out of apps, but that might have been part of the extension. Anyways, on the apps page, there is a list of... Of the extensions. Yes, so you can scroll. There's the apps themselves, which are standalone programs. And then the extensions are below, which are ones that enhance the website when you're on it. Okay, so that's the distinction. The app is a standalone program that works on its own. And the extension takes the actual WikiTree page and adds extra functionality to it. So, there we go. So, Helen Clark... We talked about Helen... Did we talk about Helen? We did not. I don't think... No, but we get distracted by the icons. Okay, so... She has not only been... She's not just Secretary of State, but she was also Deputy Prime Minister, Leader of the Opposition, and Prime Minister of New Zealand for... From December, 1999 to November, 2008. So, she's had a notable career in New Zealand. 37th Prime Minister, serving three consecutive terms and the first woman elected to that post. Very impressive. Okay, Thomas Cromwell. Now, we're going way back in time. 1485. Back in the days. Also known as the Earl of Essex. That was one of the titles he got right near the end of his life.  And again, there's been lots of books and plays even written about Thomas Cromwell. He served... He was in the time of Henry VIII. And in fact, he was very involved with Henry VIII in the end. But he was the son of a blacksmith, Walter Cromwell. He was also a fuller and a brewer. So, that would have been interesting. And anyways, he went to... He was part of... Join the French Army and had a very career growing up. And he then became... Let's see, where is it here? I'm going to have... He basically became a lawyer, right? So, then that gave him a lot of skills and also became wealthy and well-known Cardinal Wolsey, who was an important advisor, noticed him and basically introduced him to Henry VIII. And then he did a lot of work with him. But in the end, after all of this and the profile goes into a lot of detail, in the end, he got on the wrong side of someone's favor. And he was basically betrayed and he was put to death, beheaded. So, it's a lot of intrigue back then. So, but he held lots of different offices, principal secretary to the... Principal secretary to the king. So, he did a lot of work for him. So, and it was interesting in the end, Henry VIII was lamenting that under the pretext of some slight offenses, which he had committed, they had brought several accusations against him. And on the strength of that, he had ended up putting to death one of his most faithful servants. His head was placed on a spike. And the day they killed him was the day that Henry married his next wife. Catherine. Yeah. What a... No class. Anyways, lots and lots of stuff there. So, but anyways, we'll move on back to... Let's see. Can you pronounce this one, Greg? Dag, Yalmar, Agna, Carl, Hammerskold. Better than I would have done. So, Hammerskold, Dag Hammerskold is famous for being part of the UN, secretary general of the United Nations. And in fact, in the city where I went to university, I went to the University of Waterloo, there is, there was, there's a building called the Dag Hammerskold Building, which I think was a set of residences, but anyways, he was well known for his work with the United Nations. And apparently, flowed over into Canada and into a little university town. But born in 1905 and in Sweden, right? Yeah. Jönköping, Schmalen, Sweden. Interesting, he died in Northern Rhodesia. But anyways, he was, got a doctorate in economy, or economics, I guess, became state secretary. So there he fits the category of secretary of state and then Swedish delegate, cabinet minister, and then eventually to the secretary general of the United Nations. And he died in Rhodesia because that's where his plane crashed. And that's, he died in a crash in 61, very sad. Cordell Hall. Now, this is an American. Have you heard of Cordell Hall before? I don't think so. The name is ring a bell. No, born in 1871 in Olympus, over to Tennessee and died on the 23rd of July, 1955 in Washington, D.C. So he was a secretary of state, the 47th secretary of state, apparently. And also a senator from Tennessee. Born on a log cabin, and, excuse me, 35 children, attended National Norman University in Lebanon, Ohio, and then that outlines his career from the House of Representatives captain and during the serving in Cuba during the Spanish-American war. I didn't know the Spanish-American war involved Cuba as well. Did you know that? I guess I can see it, but... Not my guess, but... I don't think I would have said that either. Interesting. And then secretary of state, and he won a Nobel Prize for co-initiation in the United Nations.  Yes, probably. There he is. And there's a famous picture of him with President Roosevelt. I feel like that's somebody, I feel like somebody I should know, but I don't know. I didn't have very good history lessons in school. Thomas Jefferson was also a secretary of state, but he's more commonly and more famously known as a president. Your third president? Is that right? Second or third? Oh, third! Third! Good job! Second vice president. There we go. There we go. And first United States secretary of state. Second vice president. He just went up. He's got the gold, silver, and bronze in politics. But question is, which way is the gold, silver, and bronze? Oh, well, he started off with bronze, working in the secretary of state. And then he worked up to the silver being the VP, and then he won the gold medal as the third president of the United States. He was also governor of Virginia, so he just kept going up. Oh, I didn't go far enough. Oh, governor of Virginia. Wow, very cool. And so this is an interesting quote from JFK. I want to tell you, so he was welcoming Nobel Prize recipients. So lots of smart people coming to dinner at JFK. And I want to tell you how welcome you are to the White House. I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent and of human knowledge that has ever been gathered together at the White House with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone. Oh, I think that's a diss on all this guess, isn't it? That one man, Thomas Jefferson. He's very high regard of Thomas Jefferson. He's very high regard of Thomas Jefferson, yes. So there we go. And there's a lot of details here, and I feel that as a Canadian, I shouldn't say anything more except that he must need to... Who was your third president and did lots of stuff? Yeah. Oh, I mean, there's a little DNA coming first to there. Let me see how close I am to Thomas Jefferson while you keep going. Okay. I'm curious. Because I am kind of directly related to some of the presidents. Let's see. Are you? Cool. So Julia Verlin-LaMarche is Canadian. Yay! We have our Canadian entry, born on the 23rd of December of 1924 in Chatham, which is not too far away. It's only a few hours drive from where I am, and then died in October 27, 1980 in Toronto, which is even closer to me. So she was the Minister of National Health and Welfare from 63 to 65. So she was a Canadian politician, a lawyer and author and a broadcaster. And she was only the second woman to serve as a federal cabinet minister. So this was back in the early 60s. So up until that point, there was only had only been one woman ever who was ever in the cabinet. So breaking that glass ceiling. She helped push through legislation that created the Canadian Pension Plan and Medicare, which are two important things in Canada. We think they're important anyways. As Secretary of State, she helped establish the World Commission on the Status of Women in Canada and oversaw the White Paper on Broadcasting. It was in charge of the Centennial Celebrations. Yes, 1967, Canada celebrated 100 years. And there were celebrations all over, including the Montreal hosted the World Fair that year. And lots of things happened that year. Sadly, her mother and her grandmother died of cancer. And in the end, she did as well, which was a pancreatic cancer. But she was given an order of Canada while she was still in the hospital. So that's nice. She at least was alive when they awarded that to her. So she knew that she was well-respected. So a great person in Canadian history. Yeah, I'm 17 degrees from Thomas Jefferson. I'm also 17th cousins, eight times removed from him. Oh, very cool. Very cool. Okay, we're almost done. We just have two more left. First, Bernhard Heinrich-Martin Karl von Gullo was born in the 3rd of May, 1849 in Deutsche Bund, which would now be part of Germany. And Maria died on the 20th of October 1929 in Italy, Roma Italia. So there is a German biography, but I'm going to skip because, nice, kindly, they put an English one. I could read the German words. I can pronounce it pretty well, but I don't necessarily understand them unless I go back and read them slowly. So I won't do any of that. But he was a chancellor of the German Empire from 1900 to 1909. So this is before the First World War. And he was known for his aggressive foreign policy that angered France and Russia leading up to the formation of the Triple Entrance. So he sought to make Germany into a leading power on the world stage. Well, that's a noble goal, but maybe some of the... Anyways, but obviously a very important figure in terms of German history and what he's done. He did. So I said that where he was born is now part of Germany, but it was, in fact, it was the Duchy of Holstein. And at that point when he was born, it was actually part of Denmark, which was a member of the German Confederation, which is interesting. I didn't realize that Denmark had been part of that at that point. Anyways, we'll move on to our last one, which is Colin Luther Powell. Powell is one of my surnames. I wonder how closely... No, no, no. Yeah. Interesting. So yes. So he was Secretary... 65th Secretary of State. Also the 12th Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and National Security Advisor. And retired four-star general in the United States, Armini, served under President George W. Bush. First African American appointed to that position. And the first and so far, only African Americans serve on the Joint Chiefs of Staff. So he had a very impressive career and it's a well-written profile, which documents that. So very nice. And you also had a notable achievement for this week with a Supreme Court appointee. Didn't you have a...  I wouldn't be able to tell you, I'm not usually in the know. In the know? Okay. Well, maybe someone in the chat can correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought I heard that on the news the other day before. So, anyways, again, I've taken too much time, even though I tried to go on, but we did a couple little... Yeah, we had some different segments, so... Yeah, different segments. Anyways, are there any pictures? Any photos of the week, Sarah? Yes, we do. Okay, well, let me stop sharing. Well, let's go. And I was looking at Colin Powell. I'm actually 29 degrees from him. Through my mom's side. Oh, really? He never happened through my mom's side, so that's how it's fun. Excellent. Where'd you go through my mom's side? Where'd he go? Where'd he connect it? Oh, Chris says I was right. Yay! Yeah, I'm just not... I don't know. Current events. I'm just oblivious to them sometimes. Okay, photos of the week. The theme is birthday. Does anybody have a birthday? Around this time? Then any family? The theme is birthday. Let's see. All the good photos. You know who's not here, but Meg's. Oh, yes! How did I even forget? Yesterday! Yesterday was Meg's birthday, and it snowed in Ottawa for her birthday, and she was actually happy about that, so that's good. In honor of Meg's birthday, we'll show birthday photos. Happy birthday, Megs. I also went to a birthday party last week, too. Again, no wonder we get the diverted. What is going on? Hold on, I keep clicking all the wrong thing. Okay, there we go. I like this one. This one's a cute photo. Nice.  Five years old. That's very sweet. I know a few guys also do it, but my mom would, when we ever had a birthday on the cake, there was always however many we were turning and then one to grow on. So I was turning five of these six candles on the cake. I don't know if anybody else did that, but that's how my mom, my family, did it. Five and one to grow on. So there'd be six candles. Isn't that neat? Now, I don't know.  So when she cut the cake, everyone probably got some type of little something in the thing. That's fun. It's fun, but it's totally dangerous. You're thinking about it now and thinking that's not a good idea. Everyone knew to look for it, but still.  Mm-hmm. That's probably. So these ones are 91st birthday. Probably way too many candles to put on a cake. So they just fill one candle. I think this is a card, I am assuming. Birthday card. Sherry Petit Cousine, my dear little cousin. It's happy birthday. Cute little card. Oh, look. Who's going to get to look the candles? Wayne's 16th birthday party. So it's his 16th birthday party, but it looks like he's about to blow out all the candles. Yes. That's fun. Oh, look at the balloons. So very oddly. But this is Betsy's photo. So we got some elongated balloons and. That's amazing. That's a fun photo. That's neat. So the long balloons always remind me of the, when they make the animals, balloon animals. Dr. Walter Johnson's 60th birthday party. They're all dressed up. Oh, very fancy. In 1918 was when this was that photo. Alice on her 80th birthday. Cut in her cake. So she can have her cake and eat it too. That's nice. Good one. Good one. Good one. Oh, you're all weak. Florence McLean's first birthday. Oh, because it took her to do a photo shoot for her first birthday. Oh, she looks so happy. What? So Chasta Jade's pin guards birthday. What kind of thing is going on in this cake? It looks like gnomes or elves. They have little hats. Is it snow white in the seven wars? Oh my goodness. Made almost. It was good. It's a good guess, but that's what I'm going with. Yeah. Janine. Oh, Janine. What, what is the, what is the thing? This is Janine's photo. She's in the chat. Oh, I'm going with snow white in the seven doors. Oh, the only nine images this week. Oh, no. Oh, no. We can go to the G2G and see if there are any. Okay. Any more. Okay. Let's see. We saw this one. Ninety-first birthday. We saw this card. Oh, you see this one? So it says this is a photo of my grandmother, Samira on her 66th birthday. They had ice cream because they went around a restaurant so that she got like a little ice cream bowl. Oh, we didn't see this one either. No. When she was growing up, my mother celebrated her birthday with her grandmother, Melanie, who was also born on May 21st. So they're both born on the same day. Years later, Melanie's family made sure to announce her birthday in the newspaper every year on May 21st. Surprise on her birth record. Her real birthday is May 1st. Oh, no. Oh, no. What if the Queen of England doesn't celebrate her birthday on an actual date she was born? I think my great-grandmother can do the same. That's funny. Oh, there's nothing. I guess there's another one of that sequence. It looks like a fun birthday party. Oh, 30th birthday party in 2003. Wow. Looks like a fun night. And we saw this one, 80th birthday. And we saw this one, too. The balloons in the tree. And it says that Betsy says that she thinks her mother was quite happy that she was a summer baby. It meant that all my birthday parties could be in the backyard. No screaming children on sugar high running through her house. Yes. Mm-hmm. There is something about that. So this one, let's see. Oh, so what did Jeanine say in that? Was that, that's Jeanine? I don't know. Anything? Well- There's no comments here, but- No, up above? Isn't there above or no? No. Oh, no. No, you're right. Jeanine, if you're still in the chat, tell me. Oh, she did say, she said, that was my, here, let me click on this there. Show. That was my youngest, but I do not remember what was on that cake. She was into Disney, Care Bears, Hug a Bunch, Rainbow Bright, et cetera. It was taken about 1986, 87. If she wasn't to Disney, like looking at the girl that's there and all little, little guys with hats on, I would think they would be little gnomes or dwarfs. Thanks for answering, Jeanine. It only took me how long to figure it to notice, sorry. This is a no one we didn't see. This is my great-grandfather's birthday cake. The bottom of the cake says happy birthday, dad. And the top was his favorite pastime on it, sitting in his recliner, drinking a beer and watching TV. That's funny. Okay. And that was it for the photos too. Cool. Some good photos. Good photos, yeah. Birthdays are always fun. They are, yeah, they are. Oh, John's brother's birthday was March 28th. Yeah. That's good. So I'm going to share my screen again because there was a couple of things in the newsletter this week. Let's see. Oh, that's supposed to make, oh, that's what I wanted to do. Okay. That's not, now I've lost it. Now I've lost it. Ah. Uh-oh, I've lost. There we go. Okay. So I will just refer to some of the things. I don't know what happened there. I had this, the email and then all of a sudden I clicked the wrong thing and it disappeared. Anyways, so on the weekly news update, there was a mention of a number of different projects. And so I got an email or a message from Aowyn earlier this week asking us if we had, we wanted to talk about some projects and one project she wanted to talk about at some point was the Disney Project, which I'd never even heard of before. So that made me look into projects in general and that tab I do have open. So I can reshare that, I think, over here. So I think one thing we might add to our Saturday live cast is talking about projects. And maybe pick a special project each week. So if you're not familiar with Wikitree projects, it's just another way of working together and collaborating on Wikitree. So after you've sort of exhausted your own family research or you need to take a break from your own family research and creating profiles, if you want to join teams of other Wikitreers, a project is an excellent way to do that. So this year, the current project, the Profile of the Week, the Wikitree Challenge is a fun one and I believe the current one that they're signing up for is for CJ Cherry, who's a science fiction writer. So if you check the email that you would have got on Wednesday, it's Wednesday mornings, right? The email of the week comes, you can check that out or just go to GDG and sign up there. But there are other projects. Some are based around geography. So there's projects based on different countries. So you can start with the continent and then dig down deep into, so here's the list of the North American projects. And if I clicked on Canadian projects, then there's actually sub-projects within that. So there's Ontario projects, Quebecois projects and whatnot. And specialized ones, even Fiduwa, is a special group of women who came to Quebec and their descendants. And so, well, not their descendants, the women who came to Quebec. And so there's a project specifically about creating profiles for them. But there are also topical projects. So one-name studies about different names or the Photo of the Week project, I guess, but Jewish roots, First Peoples, lots of other different ones. So we're going to be talking about some of these and trying to highlight projects that you are ones that you may not have thought of before, as well. And so I just thought I'd point that out. And anything else you'd like to say but that, Sarah? What project have you been involved with? I was in the Arborist Project and then Mentors and Mediators at one point. And I think it was more in the Functional Projects, more so than like Profile Improvement and all that. Then I also have one-name studies, so in the One-name Studies Project. I don't think I've ever really got into any of the geographical ones. But functional and topical, more so. Yeah, cool. Yeah, yeah. And as you were talking about the projects, they were commenting on my cat that was on my shoulders earlier. Oh, I didn't see your cat there. Who's there for a good portion of when you're talking about the profiles? I'm looking at my second monitor over here. You were focused. I was focused. And then when I went to, when I did my key combo to make things bigger, not only did I lose my e-mail, but on the stream deck, like where I'm seeing you, went to like an itty-bitty little thumbnail.  So, you know, I was yukered in all directions. And Janine just said she verified her second cousin's grandfather from the 1950 census. Nice. Yeah, we talked about the 1950 census a little bit last week. Yes. And you were finding people in there, right? Yeah, we were. Yeah, I was looking for, oh my, ancestors briefly. Still need to go on a better search. So I've done that, but it's on the list. On my bucket list. On your bucket list.  Well, unless anybody has any questions, we'll probably see you all next week. And don't forget to sign up for the Connectathon. That's the end of the month. Yes. Or I don't think it's not the end. I think it's the week right before the end of the month. Yeah. So sign up while you can. So we can connect. Connect. And until then, we will see you next Saturday. All three of us should be here next Saturday. I'll leave so. I hope so. Maybe with a smile. Yes. Until then, guys. Goodbye. Bye.


every time there's a new release everybody jumps on the bandwagon and they want the latest and greatest but what about the makeup products that are really good that we've forgotten about that maybe in the back of our drawers that's what this video is going to talk about is the hidden gems of the drug store that we might already have but they're so good and I can't wait to share them. Hi my friends today's hidden gems at the drugstore video is a series that I've been doing for quite a while. I love doing this because it's not necessarily about going out and buying new things. I just shop through my stash and find the very best of what has been there for a long, long time. So you might not have some of these you might have some and you can start pulling them back out and re-loving them again. I also want to tell you that there's a timestamp right here where that actual video will start with all of the products because my intro does include me showing my top, my jewelry and a bunch of other stuff and it can take a little bit long. So go to that timestamp if you want to skip over all of this stuff in the intro. Alright first of all in the intro I always love to show you my shirt and this shirt is so cute this time. I found this on Amazon and I thought how fun and how summery. It's got this kind of a chiffon feel to it big blousey. It's actually got almost like a three-quarter sleeve. You can pull it down to a full sleeve if you want but it ends up being a three-quarter sleeve on me throughout the day. I just think this is all kinds of fun and I love off-the-shoulder blouses anyway. And there are several prints if you want to go take a look at those. I also want to show you my earrings. These are a very lightweight hoop. This is a resin earring and I absolutely love these. These are in the pink modeled color or has a bunch of colors in it. So it goes really well with the top because the top has the pink, the white, and the green in it and then it has the gold accent on it. And to kind of pick up the gold accent today I did wear a bangle and I really like this bangle. It's so much fun. I love the kind of geometric design on that. And of course my fingernail polish, my rings, and any makeup that I'm wearing that I don't show in this video will be listed and linked below for you. And speaking of links I always like to tell you that right here is going to pop up a number. And right now it's going to be the number three. So when I show the number three product I'm talking about today I will hold up that product and it will correspond to this number three. You don't have to remember the name of this product or even the color that I'm using. You just open up the description box go down in there go to number three. The product will be listed there along with the link and any color that I am using will be listed there as well. Alright let's get into all of the goodies that I dug out of my drawers to find what are some absolutely wonderful hidden gems at the drugstore. Let's do this. Alright first of all you're probably wondering what I'm wearing for foundation. I get so many questions on the makeup I'm wearing and everything. So I did as much of this video in the makeup that I'm showing you today. So first of all let's talk about the number seven protect and perfect advanced all-in-one foundation. This has all kinds of age-defying yummy ingredients in it and it has an SPF in it and I can't see that. I think it says 50 plus and I love this. I think this is such a better foundation than the CC cream. I love that it covers everything for me. It gives me a beautiful glow but at the same time it really does give that protection and the longer you wear it the more beneficial it is for your skin. So I really like that and like I said it is what I'm wearing for foundation today. This foundation is so easy to wear. It never gets orange on me. They have a ton of cool colors, neutral colors, warm colors and I will list what I'm wearing for my summer color which is a tan color, a more tan color because I'm tan and then also what I wear in the winter time because that is a very fair color. So I'll make sure I list both of those below and this is a fairly long wearing foundation. It is about I would say anywhere between 8 to 12 hours. I mean I've got it to last as long as 14 hours before I wash it off but it's really a good one and like I said I love it so much more than the CC cream. Now what I'm wearing on my eyes today is one of these two palettes. These are the 18 pan palettes from ELF and you can tell mine are just so loved. This is the earth and ocean 18 pan one right here and then this one right here is the new classics. I love the new classics so much because I've got bored with the same old browns that were super warm. It's fun to have all these different colors in here that you can mix around and today I am going to show you a little snippet on here of how I was doing my eyes because I know you're always asking me how I do my eyes but basically I took this color right here which is the saddle brown with the lightest white color or beige color. I mixed them together for my transition color. Then I went over here into this color right here which is more of it's kind of a I want to say it's a mauve brown color almost. I really like that and that was to deepen my outer V and then I took this green right here which is kind of a really muted green and then this kind of silvery green right here together and put it across my eyelids with this color right here kind of closer to the inner corner. I love these they are such a good formula. I really love the mats. I think the mats are the standout for me as far as what is in this palette. I do like the shimmers they really are pretty but when you get into that matte formula that's so silky and so easy to blend that's what really stands out for me and then in the earth and ocean you get those pops of color that I love to wear. I love wearing blue. I know that it's outdated for most people but I really like wearing it and I like wearing it in my bottom lash line and I like wearing it just as a little bit of a pop across my eyelids at times and it has these beautiful earthy greens over here as well. I'm being cool. I kind of skip over the you know the little bit warmer colors. There's a couple in here but as far as the palette goes as a whole what a great value and what a great formula. I just love those and then I'm also wearing today one that I completely forgot about and I have not had this palette out in such a long time. This is from Essence the Pure Nude Highlighter palette. Now some of you have the just the Pure Nude highlighter in the pan and that is absolutely gorgeous because it doesn't show up any texture. It is very light on your skin. It's just a beautiful highlight that it looks like you're glowing from within. These are every bit the same as that formula maybe a little bit softer because I've always felt like that formula was a little bit more hard baked than most formulas and they these are gorgeous. I actually just swirl my brush into the middle of them and then I'll go ahead and apply them and I just love them. I think that they did a really great job on the colors themselves right up here on the colors themselves but they're really that glowing look to your skin no glitter no you know super high beam unless you want it to be. I kind of high beam did up today but unless you want it to be super high beam it's not and at $10 this palette is an absolute steal when some of these highlighters are running between $30 and $50. I want to say um have you seen Essence? Anyway I think that is just a really beautiful palette that I've loved for such a long time. This one right here is kind of an old school. Let's throw it back. This is Pawn's Cold Cream. Now the reason that I wanted to revisit this is a couple of things. I remember my mother using this all the time my grandma using it all the time and I just thought the other day actually saw it online and I thought the other day I wonder if that is still as good as it ever was and I can tell you absolutely 100% this is as good as it ever was at taking off makeup like a dream. This is fantastic. Now the one thing I will say is this is pretty highly fragranced and that's kind of you know a little bit of a bummer but I don't mind this too much because you're wiping it off right away. So that is a really thick one. It's just beautiful as far as how quickly it takes off the makeup and you are just done in just seconds and it's off and I really have been enjoying this. The one thing that I do like about it is I don't feel like I have to do a double cleanse because it does leave your skin just a tiny bit hydrated but it wipes off to where you feel like your skin is very squeaky clean. I feel like. So I wanted to revisit this with you guys and tell you that if you can afford some of these new cleansers that have so many claims that this is still every bit is good. The OG Pawn's Cold Cream and it will give you the nostalgia feeling of sitting with your grandma or your mom and watching them take off their makeup. Just love that. All right for another highlighter today I chose to put in here the Koki Cream Highlighters. These get so overlooked. Now I do know that Koki um they are only sold either at the right aid stores and I don't have a right aid around me or Amazon. So when I'm talking about drugstore I'm kind of talking about a price point when I talk about Koki but I love this.  They feel so good on my skin and as you're rubbing them in you can see how beautiful and beaming that is. Again you can go really light handed and just have a little bit or you can go ham and get that disco ball look if you want to. These are amazing. Now I know that they have four colors. They have the gold and then this one is the rose and then they have kind of the um light white champagne color and then they're more of a bronze color and these are amazing and I highly recommend that you try them out. I feel like they are definitely a hidden gem. People don't ever talk about them that I hear. I really like them a lot. Also when we're talking about Koki let's just talk about what I have on my lips. I wanted to share with you these liners from Koki. I don't ever hear anybody talking about them. I feel like Koki is not talked about a lot because it's not super available when you just walk into your neighborhood Wal-Mart or Walgreens but these are beautiful. These are creamy in texture and yet they last a very long time. So what I did today is I outlined my lips in the purple I think it's called perpetual purple plum purple it's called so it's really beautiful it's kind of that wine purple color. These are automatic. On the bottom there is a sharpener if you like that but I love these because of how creamy they were so what I did was I outlined with the perpetual purple and then the rosy pink is what I put in the middle and then I just put a gloss over top of them and they're really beautiful but they feel matte going on and so if you don't like that matte feeling you're going to want to put some sort of a gloss or a balm on top of them. I also like to put a gloss or a balm on top it kind of seems to mix them together when you're doing liners together but this is such a great formula and they have tons of colors and I have been so impressed by those. Another one that I got in my drawer and I'm like ooh I forgot about that. This used to be my very favorite contour such a long time ago. It's the NYX Sweet Cheeks Matte Blush but I use this for a contour. This is taupe. I use it for contour because it's that beautiful muddy great color that just looks like a shadow. This is a gorgeous eyeshadow. It's a gorgeous contour. I actually used it not just for my contour a little bit of bronzing in there with it but I think it's so pretty. I absolutely love this creamy creamy texture. Any of these that you get in the matte formula I'm not crazy about the shimmer formula but the matte formula of these is really saturated. It lasts a very long time. I used to use this every single day to do my contour and I completely forgot about it. This was actually a fairly new one but I've been using it a lot lately and I love how it just curves out the cheekbones and just really love the formula on that one and I had completely spaced that off. Now this isn't forgotten on my channel but I don't hear a lot of people talking about these. These are the LA Girl Ultimate Eyeliners and these come in a ton of colors and today I have on my bottom line right here. I have on this teal color right here. Love it. These are so creamy when you first put them on but they will set down and they will be super long wearing on your eyes. Now in your waterline I don't feel like these are going to be the ultimate long wear but they really are very beautiful eyeliners and you can smudge them out or you can build them up and so I have the teal and then I have the purple and I think I said this in the last one and then I forgot I want to go get some more of these because they're so pretty. I'd love to have a brown in this and the formula can be so easily smudged but once they set up they're going to set up and they're going to be there. See it's already starting to set up and I had a hard time even smudging them. Okay these blushes, the Maxi blushes from Rimmel, I don't hear anybody ever talk about these. I talk about them on my channel because I love them so much but I don't hear other people talk about them. I had two of the colors and I decided to go get the other two that I didn't have so I originally had this one which is called Third Base and it has been my color and I've just used it a ton. Well it's a little bit light while I'm doing myself tanning so I thought I would pull out the other one I had which is this one called Rendezvous and Rendezvous is this beautiful plum but I wanted something that was just a little bit brighter even though I love that plum color on there. So pretty. So I did buy the other one that is more of a nude color that I thought was really pretty. You could wear it with any of your nudes and I think that and this one is called Sweet Cheeks. So this one is kind of more along the lines of your apricot, your peach color, so pretty for light skin as well and then this is the one that I have on today that I'm in love with and this one is called Wild Card. It's a bright pink and I just think it's so pretty and I fell in love with it immediately because it is that bright pretty pink that everybody can wear so you've got a gamut of colors here. I wish they would come out with more colors because I feel like people would pick these up and use them more if they did. They're so pretty. I thought I would just maybe pop a little bit more on. This is a brush that I got from Dewcare in a set of brushes that is really good that I can link for you below but this is pretty intense so I don't know if I want to go too ham with it but it is a really pretty blush that will brighten up anybody's look and I just think it's just it's lovely. It's a beautiful blush that will really brighten up your complexion and any of these blushes really are just gorgeous and I have loved them for a long time so those are the Maxi blushes from Rimmel. All right the next one one of you subscribers told me about and I was like why have I never noticed that this was a tubing mascara? This is from L'Oreal and they do have it in a waterproof however this is the washable formula but I did try the waterproof one and I couldn't find it to bring it over here today. Both of them come off just like tubing mascaras do which is you know you get them wet with a little bit of water and they just come off of your eyelashes instead of being you know something that's stuck on there that you have to really work at getting off but what's really cool about this is you have a primer on one end and then you have the actual mascara on the other end and I'm going to show you right now a couple of pictures where you're going to see just the primer on me on one one eye and then just the mascara on one eye so you can see how well it does but they're the natural bristle brush they're not anything you know crazy no hourglass no anything just a regular brush with a little bit of taper on the end I really like this thank you for showing it to me whichever one of you were the ones that talked about it. Yeah I was really pleased with this and pleased with the waterproof version as well because we're sweating right now so much in the summer so this is a really good one.  L'Oreal L5 8 second Wonder Water this makes my hair beyond soft and it doesn't weigh it down. I'm finding that in the summer right now my hair is just having a time because everything feels like it's just drooping and you know the humidity and everything but this doesn't weigh it down and by the time you're done you know just rinsing it through your hair at 10 seconds or whatever your hair is conditioned and it feels great and I love this stuff I have talked about it over and over again now I did try the Garnier one and because another YouTuber was talking about it and she was saying how much she liked it but she had longer hair and it really weighed my hair down so I don't really like the Garnier water one but this one this one is a good one and your hair will be so soft that you will just be astounded by it it really is wonderful and that is all the hidden gems at the drugstore. I hope that you did enjoy this please give it this video a thumbs up right here on the screen I'm going to put up another video right here and I'll put up another video of hidden treasures at the drugstore so that you can go explore some more of the items that I feel like are so good but they get lost in the shuffle of all the newness so take care of yourselves I love you very much and we will all meet back here in my next video goodbye my friends


I'm sure you're happy to know that I'm not going to give a speech, but I am here to just have a very few brief opening remarks. You have a copy of the President's remarks, and I would say when you look at them, they may not have a specific title, but I'm personally going to put a title on them. I'm going to say that what he has to say today is the Reagan Doctrine. That may be a little too dramatic for some, but it's only mine if you don't like it, you can have something else. I would relate to you something that you may not know. Many decisions in government are made in cabinet councils, cabinet meetings, budget review sessions, security council meetings. Many of these issues affect agriculture. And I, when I enter one of these meetings, I am prepared. I know who my friends are and who those that might oppose me on the issue at hand, and that's the way it should be. The President doesn't have any yes men in this cabinet. All of us come from different perspectives on different issues, and that's the way it should be also. But as I enter sessions of this nature, I always think to myself and quietly smile that I have one added voice of sympathy and support and understanding as we address the issue at hand. It's the voice of a rancher and a farmer, and his opinion really counts. Ladies and gentlemen, the President of the United States, Ronald Reagan. Thank you. No, no, please, no. Jack, thank you very much, and thank all of you very much, and welcome to the White House. We're, we just, it isn't really technically that, I know there's a street in between, but this is part of that same shop over there too. We're delighted to have you for these briefings, and I've been looking forward to meeting you personally. Now I can say I've met the one group that, here's as many complaints as I do. I think it was Thomas Jefferson who said that farmers are God's chosen people, but nowadays they're, they must be asking, chosen for what? I've always thought that when we Americans get up in the morning and see bacon and eggs and toast and milk on the table, we should give thanks that American farmers are survivors. They're the real miracle workers of the modern world. They're keepers of an incredible system based on faith, freedom, and hard work that feeds us and sustains millions of the world's hungry as well. I'm told that in 1820 a farm worker produced enough food products for himself and three other people. By 1920 he produced enough for eight people, and now the number that he feeds has risen to 77. Agriculture has also become one of our biggest employers. The meal ticket for millions of workers from farm suppliers, bankers, hired hands all the way through the system to supermarket clerks. In 1981 the $28 billion agricultural trade surplus offset almost half of our petroleum deficit. In fact our agricultural exports account for about 40% of the world's total agricultural trade and one-fifth of America's merchandise export earnings. This bounty from our nation's farms has been a little too easy for us to take for granted. We've never really had nationwide food shortages. Our share of income spent for food is among the lowest of any nation and our farmers keep on increasing their productivity. I believe that our administration is lucky to have an Illinois farmer named Jack Block who never lets me or any member of our cabinet forget our farmers. Through your group I'd like to thank the Farmers of America for so strongly supporting our economic recovery program.  You prepare the ground, you plant the seeds, you tend the field and weed it, then you hope the harvest will bring a bumper crop, in this case for the American economy. As a part-time rancher myself I share an appreciation for this system. The chance to own your own land to work it with a sweatier brow and take risks for profits. So often we forget the risks they're taking. A drought or a terrible storm is usually a little more than a temporary inconvenience for city dwellers. For farmers it can mean a whole year's work and investment wiped out. Maybe some of you know this story but I remember when Ezra Taft Benson was Secretary of Agriculture under Eisenhower he was making a tour of a farm area and in one he was assailed by one particular farmer who just wouldn't stop complaining. He had all sorts of things that were wrong and the secretary kind of turned to an aide and looked at some papers and then turned back to him and he said well now wait a minute you didn't have it so bad last year you got 29 inches of rain this last year and the farmer says I know I remember the night it happened. But right now many of our farmers must be wondering if the sky hasn't fallen. I know this is an extremely difficult period for them. The U.S. agriculture is in the third straight year a third year of an economic recession. Now vicious cost price squeeze, high interest rates and uncertain markets have combined erode many farmers confidence and hopes for prosperity. I have to personalize and tell you that cost price squeeze I learned a little bit about that one day I bought a tractor second hand many many years ago a 1953 for $1200 and then about a five now one then needs a little help along the way but it's still there and working but I was tempted and so up came a fellow who said he'd make a good deal and he did he offered me $4000 trade in on that tractor and this was just recently and all I had to do was give him $13000 more and I would have had a new tractor I know about the cost price squeeze but the tragedy of what is going on right now is that much of this misery didn't have to happen I believe the first body blow to agriculture fell in January 1980 when contracts for the sale of our farm products to the Soviet Union were blocked in retaliation for its invasion of Afghanistan the impact was immediate and severe farm prices declined and our entire agricultural marketing system elevators, barge lines, railways, millers, exporters were disrupted. According to both private and government estimates billions of dollars in output and services were lost thousands of jobs were lost and taxpayers immediately had to shell out more than $2 billion to help soften the blow other countries didn't hesitate to increase their production and displace U.S. sales no one knows for sure what the ultimate impact of that ill-advised embargo will be that our actions affect trade patterns for years now it's also worth noting that the Soviets are still in Afghanistan suppressing an innocent people who yearn to be free and while the Soviets experienced some economic problems that predicted cutback in their meat production never materialized as a result of our action by increasing grain imports from other sources by seeking out meat imports from other countries and by expanding the use of substitute feeds the Soviets were able to maintain their meat inventories now don't get me wrong there may come a day when our national security is threatened and the issue of an embargo is raised again in that case I would not hesitate to declare such an embargo thank you I never usually do that but I don't know what's in there right now but only if it were part of a complete boycott and if we could have the cooperation of other nations so that we wouldn't end up hurting ourselves with no harm done to those we were trying to influence I should have waited for a laugh line to do that don't know whether I got any more in here though the bottom line is that the Soviet embargo was bad for our farmers bad for our economy but not that bad for the aggressors we were supposedly going to punish on top of the Soviet embargo farmers were hard hit by the policies of the late 70s that led to sharing inflation and interest rates inflation went from 4.8% in 1976 to 12.4% in 1980 and during that period interest rates shot all the way up from 6.5% to 21.5% the farmer like any other small businessman lives or dies on his ability to sustain an adequate cash flow and when that cash flow is reduced to a trickle by high inflation and interest rates the farmer sometimes has no option but to shut down his operation and to all this and the reason bumper crops we understand why the cost price squeeze is so bad and threatens to strangle the vitality of American agriculture prices received by farmers have gone up 5% since 1979 prices paid by farmers have gone up by 25% or 20% I should say 4 times as much in this period one other problem I didn't mention is that excellent weather overseas has created a large worldwide surplus the one exception of course is the Soviet Union you know I can hardly remember a year when Soviet harvests were not victimized by bad weather and I've seen a lot of harvest seasons as I'm constantly being reminded and I'm determined to do everything that I can to help our farmers get out of their terrible bind I've listened, asked questions and probed for answers I think we know what needs to be done to get agriculture back on track as one of the first things is to make the federal government get its own house in order so we can reduce its claim on our national resources and end its interference with the marketplace that's what our economic recovery program is all about and let me say again how grateful we've been to receive the strong support of the farm community in our first 12 months we've cut nearly in half the growth in federal spending the inflation rate has dropped to 8.9% and since October 1st it's running about 4.1% last year's drop in inflation means that an American family of four earning the median income of $24,000 had $754 more in purchasing power than if inflation had not come down prime interest rates were 21.5% as I said at the end of 1980 we've got them down by 5 percentage points they're still much too high but if everyone stiffens their spine and does what still needs to be done on spending we'll bring those interest rates down more the growth in regulations has been cut by a third my goodness I can remember that nest of regulations some years ago a fellow running an oil station on the chosen route in the east here down to Florida right around the Mason-Dixon line and he had a little patch of triangle of ground between the driveways and the sidewalk and the street met so he planted a few cotton bushes in there and then when he'd see a license plate coming in from up north he'd give them a cotton bowl off one of those bushes as a souvenir of their crossing the Mason-Dixon line he was hailed in by the government because he was planting cotton without an allotment personal and business taxes have been reduced to stimulate savings investment work effort and productivity the provisions for accelerated depreciation will benefit many small enterprises in agriculture the 25% personal rate reduction helps the small firms that pay their taxes by personal rates not corporate rates and this is another reason why that personal tax cut must be protected one of the features of our tax program that I'm most proud of addresses a special problem for farmers and family owned businesses it's not right that widows and children must lose just to pay Uncle Sam what generations of love and toil created so the estate tax exemption will increase to $600,000 by 1987 and have even greater help there will be no estate tax for a surviving spouse the widow or widower we know that the federal government also has an important role to play as partner to the farm community I think the gist of that role is to help the farmer do what he can't do on his own promote basic research seek out new markets counterfeit any or counter any unfair trade practices of our trading partners provide a measure of protection from erratic weather and natural disasters and create the proper environment so the forces of supply and demand can more efficiently allocate resources we're fully committed to do this we have increased the fiscal year 83 budget for agricultural research by nearly 3% above the inflation rate we've expanded the federal crop insurance program we proposed a $4 million increase in the Department of Agriculture market development program and recommended that the level of agricultural export credit guarantees be maintained at the highest level in history 2.5 billion we ended the previous administration's Soviet embargo and withstood pressures to impose agricultural trade sanctions during the Polish crisis we have also set out a blueprint to challenge unfair agricultural trade practices by Japan and the European Economic Community we're challenging in the GATT the European Community's open-ended use of export subsidies on certain agricultural products where we feel they've gained an inequitable share of world trade as a result of those subsidies we're pressing the Japanese to remove non-tariff trade barriers that prevent us from fully benefiting from our comparative advantage in agricultural production the U.S. Japan Working Party will meet in Washington on the week of April 12th to discuss the GATT consistency of Japan's agricultural quotas with a view toward liberalizing those restrictions in the past eight years our stop-and-go export actions have weakened our reputation as a reputable supplier if we're to take full advantage of our agricultural resources we must establish a clear policy for the benefit of our farmers those who market our crops and those who buy our commodities at home and abroad and for this reason I am presenting today our long-term policy on farm exports the agriculture export policy of the United States will ensure three essential priorities first no restrictions will be imposed on the exportation of farm products because of rising domestic prices farm prices go up and farm prices go down high prices signal market oriented farmers to produce more and they will if we allow them to compete freely in export markets this is best for everyone from farmer to consumer second farm exports as I've already indicated will not be used as an instrument of foreign policy except in extreme situations and as part of a broader embargo agricultural commodities are fungible that is they're easily interchanged for the same commodity from other nations for this reason the embargo of 1980 was almost totally ineffective and yet it caused great economic hardship to U.S. agriculture and we won't repeat such an action third world markets must be freed of trade barriers and unfair trade practices we must continue to pursue this objective aggressively world economic health will be improved and strengthened by freer agricultural trade our great agricultural system must be turned loose to benefit not only Americans but people throughout the entire world I announced this policy with a great sense of pride but pride in the accomplishments of U.S. farm families adherence to this policy will bring them deserve credits and add to the prosperity of all Americans and enhance the cause of peace throughout the world during the first year of our administration I think we've turned in a story corner we're ending the destructive inflation and financial disorders of the 70s we're restoring incentives for personal enterprise and we've begun to dismantle the regulatory straight jacket and reverse the dangerous erosion of our military strength our recovery program was passed too late to avert the present painful slump brought about by past pump priming and those 21.5% interest rates there's no quick fix for the economy or for our farmers weather will still be a major factor in determining when prices make a recovery some farmers will not make it through this difficult period of readjustment but I think the vast majority will and they're going to discover a better environment to conduct their business and realize a meaningful profit I am not going to turn my back on the farmers of America and undo all the good that we've begun to put in place if we stay on course and shun retreat we'll bring prosperity back to our farmers and to the nation's economy and I again thank you very much for coming today and I understand that I'm getting run out of here now for another meeting but Jack Block is going to stay with you you might have some questions that you'd like to Jack will take care of that while I move on again thank you for being here


I'm going to pretend I'm a chef. Ugh! Hello, it's Rosie Ramsay here. Now I am going to be chatting to Lizzie from Whole Again Communities down in Cornwall. Good morning, Lizzie! Hi, Rosie! Thank you so much for my delivery that came. And we are going to be making a vegan frittata. Is that right? A vegan ferenate.  Got it on. So the next thing we're going to do is make the batter mix. So we need 200 grams and your water. Don't put all your water in. Just put about half in. They're all good-rich. They're brilliant. I'm going to pretend I'm a chef. You've got a mountain of leaks there. Do you know what it is, Lizzie? I'm not going to lie, I've got a new knife. And it's really good. So I quite like chopping. Have you had many kids doing the cookery classes? We do. The National Lottery have funded us for what we call our Tuesday Repair Cafe, which is Gardening Repairs and Cooking. And since lockdown, that's all gone virtual. One of the positive things about lockdown is the fact that instead of having one person cooking with us, then whole families cook. And they always come up with better and different ideas that we do. Did you do a lot of cooking and baking in lockdown? Yeah, loads, actually. I've got a five-year-old as well, so he loves making cake. I put on two stone, Lizzie, I'm not going to lie. It's all I've done. Eat. Remember your tin that's in the oven? It's going to check to see if it's smoking. Nice and simple. Take your whisk out. I would put a bit more water in that, Rosie. It all depends on the quality of the flour. It looks quite posh. Oh, yeah. Is that good? Put in as much as you like. Some people like them loaded. Some people don't like very much. How has the National Lot refunded and helped you guys then? We simply wouldn't be here without funding. We wouldn't be able to connect with so many lovely people, projects and businesses in our community. We just wouldn't be here doing this, and it's not a life that I can imagine. Woop, woop. Oh, look at this.  Oh, that smells absolutely gorgeous. Well, Lizzie, thank you so, so much for showing me around everything today, and for giving me this recipe. I'm going to cook this again for sure. And there we have it, a vegan Fahrenheit courtesy of Lizzie and the guys at Hall of Game Communities. Thank you, Lizzie.


I can't remember one thing, now you want me to remember two or three or four. And it's, you know, it's layered. You know, I used to do these seminars at this company and I used to give this example of a guy who, you know, goes out to drink with his buddies and comes home and tells his wife, all right, I was at work late. And I used to explain why this was, you can't sustain a lie like that, even a simple lie like that, just can't sustain it because what if the wife meets one of the buddies and other buddies have to know that you're lying and they have to say, yeah, he works late and what if she bumps into your boss and complains to the boss, how come he's working late all the time? And the boss says, he's not. So somebody raises the hand and says, this is exactly what happened, right? This guy was telling his wife he was working late, he was out drinking or whatever, and the wife called the boss and said, how come my husband's working late all the time? And the boss says, he's not. And guess how that relationship worked out, right? Lies don't work because they're anti-reason, because they're anti-reality, because they're anti-fact. So rationality. Einwand defines seven virtues to live by for good life, and I'm probably going to forget one. Eric's laughing. Rationality, honesty. We just talked about honesty. And honesty is primarily not faking reality, primarily for yourself. Justice. Justice is being rational in how you deal with other people. It should be rational how you deal with yourself. It should be rational how you deal with other people. People should get what they deserve from you. Good or bad. And you have to be objective and rational about that. Not emotional and subjective about it. Independence. You have reason. You have a mind. You are the only person who can do thinking for you. You can get advice from other people. Advice is great. You want to listen to other people, particularly smart, if they have your interests in mind. But you are the one who's going to make the decision. You have to. You can't relinquish that. It's your life, nobody else's. You can't listen to your mother after a certain age.  You have to understand what she's saying if she's got your own interests in mind, but you have to make the decisions about what's right and wrong for you. Integrity. If you say stuff, if you believe that you're going to be rational, that rationality is good for you, then you've got to do it. You've got to walk the walk of reason. I always miss one. What am I missing? I miss productiveness. Your life is yours, therefore you're responsible for maintaining it, for getting the physical material that needs, that you need in order to survive. Being productive is essential for your happiness. I'm going to end with these two virtues, productiveness and pride. Pride is your commitment to be morally perfect, to be the best that you can be. Not in a superficial sense. Not just the biggest, the richest, the strongest, but the best in everything that you do. That's what pride is, that commitment. What do you need in order to have that kind of commitment? You need to have self-esteem. You need to know that you are worthy of being good. What do you get self-esteem from? It gets from other people, from ribbons, from medals. We live in a generation where everybody gets a ribbon, because they think that's how you're going to get self-esteem. Now only you can give yourself self-esteem. Self-esteem comes from achievement. But it doesn't just come from achievement, it comes from recognizing the achievement. You achieve and you pat yourself on the back.  Michael Jordan became Michael Jordan because he recognized that he could be the best, and every time he was good, he recognized that he was good, and he recognized that he could get better, and worked hard to get better. He recognized, if you look at Michael Jordan, there's a guy with self-esteem. He's incredibly self-confident. Incredible to have a sense that he's worthy of being the greatest basketball player of all time. It's not just an accident, he's worthy of it, because he worked hard, he attained it. He's got what it takes. And so it's getting those achievements, recognizing those, and what area in life do you think you get the most self-esteem from? Where do you achieve stuff in life?  At work. At work. It's not with family. It's not at the gym. It's not in the front of the mirror. It's at work. So if you want to build a life of self-esteem and find work you love and do it really, really, really well, not because other people expect you, not because you'll get rewarded for it, but because you will reward yourself when you make those achievements. Stretch yourself, push yourself, challenge yourself. That's where you'll get the self-confidence to be good at everything else in life. But that's the foundation. The foundation is to be good at what you do at work. Being productive. And I wouldn't even call it work. I'd call it a career. Because a career is something planned. A career is something long-term. A career is something you develop, you move towards. It's not just the work I'm doing right now. It's the career I have. And a career is not about money. It's not about prestige. And it's not about other people. It's about you.  It's about fulfilling yourself. It's about being happy. So that's the seven. That's the formula for success. But it takes work. I like to say that being selfish is the hardest thing you can do. It takes hard work. Because it takes figuring out what is good for me. Which is not easy. And how do I achieve it?  But the reward, the reward of that is what life is all about. The reward for that is that flourishing, that fulfillment. The reward for that is happiness. That's the payoff. That's what it's all about. Thank you all. Questions? Thank you very much. I really enjoyed your speech.  But then where does responsibility come into that? For example, let's say you have a sick child or a child who needs special attention or maybe you might have aging parents and are those responsibilities that you have to take on? Are you socially obligated to take those responsibilities or should you have the free choice to say, no, I don't want to do those things and I want to pursue whatever I want to pursue?