Have a good night. Mary, Mary. Ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho. Yeah.  We're fine. Awesome. Awesome. You're fine. You're awesome. Mm-hmm. You know who our very first person was this morning? Who's the very first person today? Marie. Really? Marie. No. Totally from sunny South Africa. We have somebody in here from Melbourne, Australia. They are 8 p.m. 17. If you let us know who you are, we might give you a shout out. You may or may not want that. We would. Oh, I just did something to my screen. Oh, no. No. Okay. That's not right. Okay. Yeah. So, Jory was first. 8 p.m. 17 from Melbourne, Australia. Brian from out on the East Coast. We call that the down East. Down East. Down East. Lisa Gervais. Macklem. Gervais. Hello, everyone. I'm having blueberry muffins. That's great. Wait a second. Lisa, you are so close. You could drop them off. Yeah. That's right. Bring her the muffins. Lynette Jester is here and she hasn't had coffee or nicotine yet. It's really great to see the sun coming off at this moment. You know, How about with some stuff that you know, Hey, Lary's here from beautiful sunny breezy. Wales today. Electricity Millers here. Chile, Montana 22. With dense fog like what minus for five. Something like that. Good afternoon from sunny Ireland. Boy, it's sunny over on the, It's gonna be really warm today. It's gonna be almost 50 Fahrenheit. So that's, that's a nice thing. I don't want it to melt the snow though. I want to have a great Christmas. We have lost our snow. Whoever's listening. Uh, Crystal J. Hi from dark and dreary Vancouver. Welcome. We don't say that's down west though. Do we? No. No. It's out west. It's out west. Let's see. Vicky Blanco. Good morning from the summer side of the world. The sun ain't up yet from Lynette Lynette.  Come on. Victor is here. Time zone. Time zone everyone from Rainy St. Louis. See it's raining on this. Send that up our way so it'll be snow by the end of the week. Please. Thank you. And send some to the non-Canadian down there. Eric Varvara is here. Marie Maloney. Donna Gerber is here. Good morning. East Spencer Carr. Chris Bielow is here. We already said good morning to Brian, didn't we? Yeah, Brian. Willardine is here. Mark Lemon. Yoke is here. Mary Sleppy. Mary. Let's see. Pat Jackson. Patricia Jackson is here from Kentucky. She just slid into the server. I I I. Let's see. I need to hear another screen with you. Let me listen to you, Greg. Yeah. Yeah, it is that time. I got to pull something up real quick. For the peeps. You've got something for the peeps. Yeah. Yeah, there we go. I want to say some words that are very, very important. It was the night. It was the week before Christmas and all through the tree. Not a creature was stirring. Not even we three. The stockings were hung by Ayo and the Elf with care in hopes that St. Chris Witton soon would be there. The wiki trees were nestled all snug in their limbs while visions of good sources danced with them. And Julie and her kerchief and Jamie and her cap had just settled their keyboards for a long winter's nap. It's almost there. It's almost time. What the question is this week? Anybody? I'm going to show this. So here we go. I'm going to share my screen. Here we go. Thank you, Greg. No problem. Do you see this? Beautiful. Very beautiful. So that's today. 10 a.m. What genealogistic gifts are on your wish list? That's what we want to know. So the question of the week is what genealogy gifts are on your wish list? We've got about 29 answers. Now, knowing that this question is being asked the week before Christmas and you're not answering this question, you might want to think about that. I'm just saying. Just saying. So we have some great answers. DNA is increasingly showing that the DNA line came from County Mayo in particular, I would appreciate help in unpicking the Hessians from there. That's a crazy kind of a tree analogy too. The Hessians from the tree. And as, by the way, as has the share for this week's question of the week will the question of the week be the same next week? It might be. I don't know. We don't often do that, but this is an important topic. Yeah, it is a very important topic. So Ray Sarlin is saying that genealogy is a spiritual gift and of course he's being facetious or am I look deeper and the more parallels appeared if I were still in university, I might consider writing a paper on this and not having said that my wish list would include sharing my love of genealogy and my research thus far with all of my relatives, especially the younger ones, I wish on them the gift of genealogy which I can honestly say has been a huge gift to me. So Ray instead of asking for something great is trying to give away great stuff. Nice, very nice. That's a nice guy. Georgia Lange says she would love to know who John Green Mosley's parents are. He said he was born in 1821 in Virginia. So that's a good question. I wish I could tie more of my family to the bigger picture and that's Rebecca Old. I'm assuming she really means to the bigger tree. Right. So she wants to connect her limbs, all that connecting that we do is a connective one coming up. In a month? Next month? Next month, in a month. In a one month. So Rebecca, keep track of that. Yeah, you could put Rebecca's stuff on your list to do, to work on for the connective one. I've always wanted to try those DNA kits. Family members have done them and they found some surprises. It would be fun to do my own and I think the prices ever go down and that's from each other. In Marilyn Assel and I both answered her in a comment, watch for the sales from the company offering DNA tests. They have reduced prices. Those sales, a lot of them are already on and I answered along with Marilyn's great answer, think about what you want to find out by testing. For autosomal DNA, all of the companies have sales over the holidays, all of them do. So the prices are quite low. So check that out and figure out the best place. Ancestry has the biggest DNA database. So if you're looking for the biggest bang as far as matches go, you can test it Ancestry and then you can upload to FTDNA or if you're interested in your mother's line specifically or your father's line specifically, you can do those tests over at Family Tree DNA as well as their family finder test and you can shuffle tests from other companies and do all that. So there you go, each child. Good luck. John Huntson says that I'm asking for a subscription to newspaper.com so many times I research and I bump up against the need to buy a subscription. Yeah, I have found very helpful. Don't sign up with it as a part of a ancestor Ancestry bundle because the bundle doesn't give you what you're really looking for. I found that out a few years ago. Yeah, me too. Sign up for the world and it includes newspapers.com it does not include all of newspapers.com and you have to pay an extra bit to be able to do that or just sign up for both. My genealogy and it's funny because Ancestry owns newspapers.com and that's weird. My genealogy wish would be rather selfish. This is from Stuart Beavis as I'm not in a position to return the compliment. We're not asking you to return the compliment. My wish would be to find the parents of my paternal ancestor John Beavis born about 1741 married Edith Beardmore in 1775 St. Catherine's Priest pre-church all gate London died in 1809 So there's another one that's a specific wish list I have several I have two paternal great great aunts that I've been searching for info for for years and this is from Patty Underhill There both were at one point in time in Portland, Maine So she needs some help with that Give us some names Give us names Give us wiki tree IDs there ladies and gentlemen Memberships Anonymous four would like a membership to Ancestry legacy family tree webinars and genealogy bank Genealogy bank Have you used genealogy bank? I have I didn't think that was a I'm thinking of something else I mean lots of things have gone subscription now Yeah they have We're getting red here Angela Newcombe has bold red My genealogy wish list has this one at the top Kentucky and it's kin and in-depth guide to genealogical resources in Kentucky and beyond How specific can you get? That's very specific And then Evelyn Random books are definitely on my wish list as well That is not a Random wish list And Evelyn I hope you get all your Random books I have like five books on the go right now I was thinking last night I need to Hunker down over the holidays Aside from doing genealogy on wiki tree I need to settle down and read some of the books I've got on the go Alice Thompson This is another pretty I want to connect my Vernon family line Short and sweet Sharon Blunt says I would like to find parents for my mother-in-laws Ancestor John Holmes Sarah Crow says I would like to receive one to two extra Hours per day so that I could really Dig into existing genealogical Questions and I Answered her by saying sing it sister Yeah we all want that I don't know if that's We'd have to really find some magic To make that happen Um Well no I won't say that You could lay out a work Into your genealogy work Yeah George Locke says A Christmas wish list Is for someone to do a scientific study To determine Most likely why DNA haplogroup signature For English philosopher John Locke What I was Wondering is is John Locke on Wiki Tree You wonderful people over at Oh Lynette we've got some good answers Coming up over here Nice And my heritage Sorry Um I'd like to know if This fella Oh there he is Locke too Locke too Um so no DNA Tested connections here Hmm But Yeah and so The person who loaded That George Let's see if George has DNA Tested on his You have to go to his profile Yes sir so It's interesting that intermediate page there Okay so he's got a Y700 test So and there's another Y700 test That's the exact same So the question would be Is The ancestor he's asking about He wants to see if he's connected to him So what we would have to do Would be to follow the Y tree Up Or back in time And see if we could figure out If this other fella Has the same Is in the same limbs of that tree Last week we talked about A mitochondrial lady The more recent testers Were from the same limb So they were actually related But not in a very genealogical Time frame relation So they were descendant of that limb That we were talking about last week So we need to look for that For this Locke fella Anybody wants to do that I was going to play with it And see if he is A lot of work with wiki trees Famous people So they just asked me to send Them a list of mitochondrial DNA Tested famous people last week So they take that and they're adding That information from wiki tree To their discover tools So maybe we could Find out how we could connect Them and get that over to family tree DNA to post that up John Corralo Has A wish to find proof of the link Between Richard Marchand And his grandparents That sounds like a pretty cool one He's got lots of good information there To help you out What comes to mind first Is connection to the big tree For the 70 unconnected profiles Marilyn that's a pretty Fun request A wish for wiki tree Yeah And I would like someone to solve At least one of the mysteries Documented on the seruti family Mystery pages Let's check that out real quick The Bahamas Triangle Not for me to triangle Marion has the best story Of her parents eloping in a boat From the Bahamas to Miami That's how they elope That's pretty That's colorful Ahoy mateys Ahoy mateys Help me to the seruti family mysteries page The Bahamas Triangle Is defined geographically By the Bahamas Florida USA And New York State The USA Unsolved family mysteries She's got I want to know if she and Peter Roberts Are actually related So here are the unsolved mysteries Theodore Emma Phoebe Ava So look, there's all sorts of fun stuff To look for on that one Let's go back How did I get there Oh where was I Here we go, I'm going to vote this one Is the best one, having more time right now Yeah So where was I Okay, sing it sister We're in the Bahamas Yeah there she is Two big genealogical wishes At this time, more maclam And variant spelling Males take a Y And a test And we treat DNA And it's from Lisa Gervais Being able to figure out More about my Irish Ancestors from Wicklow and Wexford Last names are brown rig Twombly Twombly, legged Price, Morris Scott and Smith I was, I didn't Practice those, I was afraid that No The only genealogical gifts I want are The parents of my two times great grandparents Burial locations So that's from Gail Ivy Vote those feast grade answers by the way The main name Of my third great grandmother brown From Gail Weiss That could be hard Made names in general And then with the last name brown Yeah, brown is like the second most common name In the world My wish is to find proof Or immigration of Samuel Welch That's from Sherry Sievert Carol Baldwin would like To She sure would like to know Who Elizabeth Dunstone Stevens mother's Line hails from Like where, where, where are they from Nice Oh, this is a challenge Several English Team wiki treers Have tried But the hints don't add up Things are getting crazy there Carmel would like A photo of my biological father She hasn't been able to find him Robin Wilson I would like to see the younger generation Of everybody in my tree That's a good one Interesting A trip to Pender County, Burgaw, North Carolina I would like to research A brick wall ancestor Ida Tabitha Bordeaux Prigdon Um Where do you live? I drive down that way a lot Um I surely pushed you out of the cars We go by I would love help Finding out what happened to one of my ancestors Jacob William Fries Born in New York in 1852 That's from Heather McNamara Ancestry To finally add a proper chromosome Browser extension Um M Dryden Have you tried DNA GEDCOM I know that The downloads right now Are kind of wonky from all of the Sites because of some Privacy issues that have happened Some hacks that have happened recently But as soon as Those uploads are more Freely open You could probably get yourself into DNA GEDCOM and use some of their tools To see what you are missing At Ancestry Let's see, I wish I could break through The brick wall, my second great Grandfather, Carney William Brown That's from Luther Brown Uh and the final one This morning from Donna Gerber The genealogy related gift I'd like to receive for Christmas This year is to break down My biggest brick wall Which is my great great grandfather James Young There you go So we got a list started We got a list started I need to pull up that other page I hope that everyone who Had a genealogy mystery Has posted to the secret Santa Which is posted That's exactly what I was thinking I did, you know When I found this gift That says to WikiTree Or from Santa, I should have said From Santa Witton Alright Alright, so that's the question Of the week Excellent, that was fun I'm going to go back while you're Getting yourself set up I'm going to read through the answers Because I thought there were some good answers In here too Some of these answers We have synchronized t-shirts We do I'm wearing green and not orange But we all have the genealogy one And it's like the sandwich So Lynette Jester Says she's got She's working on her orphan Great-grandmother Let's see My heritage is airtight too That's from Alright Wedge beauty Yeah, so my ancestry An ancestry Let's see Library of Congress Newspapers has newspapers That's for the other person And is that free or do you have to subscribe No, I think that's a free one It's actually not called It's called something else Yeah, I can't remember right now Yeah, there's a name If somebody remembers what the name of the Newspapers are at the Library of Congress Post that and we'll share that today Tickets to Italy I don't think so, Chris You need to talk to Mary And about the boat Her parents Let's see Hopefully to find my grandfather's birth family And then hi there Greetings from Amsterdam No I sometimes go Genealogy on the south During breaks at work is that bad No There you go Chronicle America, that's the name of the newspaper Oh is it? I didn't realize it was the Library of Congress Yes Interesting Thank you Great comments and thanks for letting me grab those I just wanted to make sure that if anybody In our chat wanted to Be on the wish list You can go over and answer the genealogy post You can also answer in the Facebook group too That's right But that segues nicely into A little elf report here Because the Secret Santa Project Is up and running So we're still in the sign up phase right now So we've got 91 elves Already signed up Very keen elves We're not posting yet So don't give away the answers But some of them can't help themselves And may be starting to do some research They may be setting up their own free space Or not free space Yeah it is a free space page I kept typing FSP for free space page And mixing it up with F2F Face to face For conference I have to double check myself every time So doing some free space pages To save their notes and their research Because they're just so keen Excited about answering these Eager elves And this is a good thing It's a great thing But we do want to save the surprise Till we get Christmas time So if you are, is it still open For people who want to volunteer You have up till next Friday night To sign up To sign up to volunteer to help people Both So in Friday night Is Christmas Eve Eve Yes We will still be here And in fact the Saturday morning is when it begins And after our live cast next Saturday We have an opening Zoom meeting at noon For all of the elves to meet with Myself and Christina and Kathy So that means we have to make sure That we shut you down But before noon Yes, exactly And I really vote That they keep the question of the week the same For next week Fine with me Fine with me too So you can sign up to be an elf Join our 91 excited elves There and we have elves Who have experience In England, there's a lot of people from England Really keen to help people out So especially If you're from North America or Australia If your ancestors have emigrated from England And you're having trouble tracking back Those The original where they're originating from We've got lots of people who are keen on helping out With that. We also have elves who are Experts in Norway, Sweden and the Netherlands And Italy as well So if you have People from there that you're trying to You're having trouble research Two elves said they're experts in Norwegian records and I think that's amazing So if any of you guys That are watching now or watching later Not only should you up vote And give us some thumbs up But follow that link and volunteer to be an elf Sign up on the G to G And if you're not a wiki tree Or jump in anyway You could be a Join wiki tree just to help out With a secret Santa if you've got Special knowledge going on And Mary Sleppy My good friend Mary Sleppy That I just She's such a joy to see She is volunteering She's won over a 91 So it's really easy 100 elves Well we had 105 last year I think we'll probably go over that This year I've been personally greeting All of the elves and if anyone who's signed up To be an elf in the last hour and a half I was preparing for this so I'm sorry I'll greet you afterwards But they've tagged this They pinned it to the top of G to G So when you just go to the G to G There's the link right there to elves wanted And the corollary is if you want to Make a wish We have a G to G post for the wishes That are being accepted And we have 45 wishes on this page Or on this post And you know we need some more We've got 91 elves So it'd be nice to have 90 wishes Now some of these wishes Are very challenging So we're probably going to be putting A couple of elves on some of these Well for sure to try and break through And we can't promise we'll solve all of them But anyways Oh and you're hiding You're switching gears again What? Greg? Yes You're at a good segue man You got to get it over to Our professional conductor With your segue We're going back to Now the profile is a week Anyways The profiles of the week are about Napoleon Is that because of the new movie that came out Because everyone's buzzing about it Apparently that's it Well it will be on Apple Plus I think it's in some selected theaters It's by Ridley Scott It's a huge mass of multi hour movie But it's probably amazing It's probably pretty cinematic Imagine the Even just seeing some of the battles Yeah it's amazing So Napoleon Where are we here He is actually my closest connection I don't know which ones are you You know I haven't even got that set up yet Okay that's okay I'll work on that You guys post what you're most closely to Who you're most closely to So Napoleon Who was actually born As Napoleon Bonaparte Napoleon Bonaparte He was actually born in Corsica So Corsican was his first language Italian was his second language Because Corsica is really close To Italy and so The language is closer to that French was actually his third language To learn Later on of course he became Napoleon Bonaparte But originally He would have pronounced Bonaparte And if you look through his ancestors They're all Italian last names Bonaparte, Giuseppe Maria Bonaparte, Maria Sabria Prabacini Giovanni Giovannimo Ramolino Oh my gosh, just talk Italian To me baby You have my undivided attention So of course Napoleon Very famous of course Emperor of France And The whole revolution This is a huge profile Which goes through All the things But let me just pick out a few things That are interesting of course Born to Carlo Maria Bonaparte And Maria Latizia Ramolino You really are closest to Napoleon Bonaparte You really are closest to him I told you 20 degrees Excellent I'm finally getting around to doing what I'm supposed to be doing Who is Arthur Wesley Wellesley Oh He is, yeah, he's coming up He's my closest He's my sixth cousin I think that's Wellington Oh he's got lots of post-nomials too Yeah I think that's Wellington Duke of Wellington, Iron Duke Okay, go ahead, sorry Anyways, he did well in school of course This is where we learned about his languages His father died and he left Left Corsica because of revolutionaries How ironic that he had to leave his home place Because of a revolution And then later became a revolutionary himself Of course he married Josephine Who would became an empress herself When he was crowned himself emperor First of at least 22 mistresses He had 22 up to 22 mistresses And Josephine had lovers of her own So I don't know I guess during that marriage the vow of Chastity Well, not chastity Or no, sorry Fidelity, yeah That's so funny They must have been crossing their fingers when they said that I don't know Anyways I don't know Anyways But then Because she never gave him children He married someone else And That second wife They did have one child together Then it talks about going through As he became the emperor He was part of the French army During the French Revolution So he didn't just arrive In France afterward to take over He was part of the revolution From the beginning as an artillery officer Became a national hero He was nearly unstoppable He has this quote here About taking advantage of everything So it's Interesting, it's not It's not what I live by This model here, but all great events Hang by a hair, the man of ability Takes advantage of everything and neglects Nothing that can give him a chance of success Whilst the less able man sometimes loses everything But neglecting a single one of those chances Hmm, interesting Anyways, the profile goes on Talks about the different battles In the end He won There was a summary somewhere He won Almost all, he basically Of something like 70 battles He only lost 7 of them So I mean he had An amazing track record really So Very Very interesting Very interesting dude And so he's my closest connection And I think it goes through like 3 different marriages Or 3 different switches But he is also a distant cousin As are most people Who have any bit of French So Maria Leszinski is the next one And she is from Poland And she was one of those Mistresses of Napoleon Her father was Count Mathieu Leszinski And Eva Zawarowska Eva Zawarowska was her mother She married it Athanasius Leszki We divorced and then she married someone else Philippe Antoine d'Ornano And had one son And then she was a mistress With Napoleon and had one son And that's her connection Then we have Deseret Bernardin Eugenie From Queen of Sweden And Norway I'll skip the Swedish Biography and go down to the English portion Here This was the daughter François Clary And François Rose Sommi Her sister Married Joseph Bonaparte Who would later became Queen of Maples and Queens So Joseph Bonaparte Was Napoleon's brother So when Napoleon was emperor One of the things he did He made his brother the king of Spain So This profile Bernardin Her sister married his brother So they have in-laws in common Which is kind of interesting That means they have three-quarter children Three-quarter children? Yeah If brothers marry sisters Their children are three-quarter No, her sister married his brother It's not two brothers marrying two sisters Oh, gotcha Yeah So then She married General Jean Baptiste Berlandot And then he became King Charles Of Sweden And their son also became King of Sweden I'm not sure about this But Joan Prout says she's mine And it pisses off my Swedish husband Oh So when she became Queen of Sweden Because her husband was king She moved to Sweden But she never actually learned Swedish That would be hard not to It would be hard not to But I think she was mostly alone She lived mostly alone Pretty secluded and lonely as the profile says So Maybe that's part of the I don't know Anyways, she lived 15 years after her husband Passed away 17 years after her husband No How close? 1313 I think I'm 17 So Marie-Chal-Louis Alzandre Berthier de Vagra Born in Versailles In 1753 Passed away in 1815 First sovereign prince of Neuchâtel was a Marshal of France Vice-Consul of France beginning in 1808 And the chief of staff under Napoleon Hence his connection here He Married a Duchess from Bavaria And died at the castle in Bavaria In June We have, but Joan again Is giving us further information She said that Swedes all spoke French Whoa Oh, okay So not speaking Swedish wasn't A handicapped then Yeah, I know French is big in Belgium as well Yes I didn't realize it went up to Sweden That's interesting Well I mean at one point the English aristocracy Often spoke French too Because of William the Conqueror Coming over from Normandy From the Norman Hmm See it's not just a genealogy It's history people Oh it's definitely history Social studies George Gordon Byron Noel Also known as Lord Byron the Poet Our English poet leading figure in the Romantic movement And among his best known works of course Are Don Juan with the long poem And Child Harold's Pickle Pilgrimage Which is his first Work of art That was a work of literature that became famous In a short lyric she walks in beauty Also So he was born in 1788 The only child of Captain John Mad Jack Byron In his second wife Catherine Gordon Baptized in London And then When his great uncle Died in 1798 He was only 10 years old and that's when he became The sixth Baron Byron of Rockdale He heir to the Newstead Abbey So He married Anne Isabella Melbank And They had a daughter Augusta Ada And do you know who The importance of Augusta Ada Byron No She was the very first computer Programmer Wow we've ever cut this before Didn't we Yes we've done her We've done her profile before but I always think that's the coolest thing That Lord Byron the Poet His daughter Augusta Ada Lovelace Is her married name Was a programmer So she worked with Charles Babbage Who created the first computer Of sorts it was called the calculating machine Or the difference engine And she Wrote and transcribed some of the programs And wrote some programs that Made that work sort of thing So it was the very first Computer type machine Nice So the first computer program in the world Was a woman Anyway She changed his last name From Byron to Noel officially At the end because To inherit his wife's fortune They had to have the Noel last name And have the Noel coat of arms So I thought that was interesting But all through this And then at the end He was He was obsessed with the Greek independence And he helped them out And gave them 4,000 pounds of his own money Which would be huge back then And so He was a hero to Greece So where through all this is the connection To Napoleon And I found this little article By the International Napoleonic Society Between the emperor and the exile And Byron and Napoleon So Napoleon and Byron They dominated the Three conceptions of heroes So that's They're both sort of major figures There was nothing in the profile About them having met each other But Byron Obviously was Fascinated with Napoleon And there's a part here that Fascination with Napoleon pervades his writings And affected how he lived his life And isn't there the phrase A Byronic hero Like it's kind of like a Narcotic Interesting So They were certainly of the same time Interesting And then we have Alexander Pavlovich Romanov Emperor and autocrat of all the Russians I love that as a title All the Russians Not just some of the Russians But all of the Russians You have to put that in the title to be very specific Thirteenth cousin Nice Napoleon is a cousin too Nice Born in St. Petersburg 1777, nice date there Just a few days shy of Christmas And died on the first of December 1825 At only 47 So He was He reigned as Emperor of Russia From 1801 to 1825 So all throughout the Napoleonic wars Hence the connection here And in fact he did fight against He fought against Napoleon So he joined Britain In the war of the Third Coalition Against Napoleon But after the defeat he switched sides and became an ally But If you can't meet him, join him Maybe that's where that phrase came from But then Apparently they didn't get along And the alliance collapsed And then his greatest triumph came Napoleon's invasion of Russia Proved a total failure For the disaster For the French So he was part of the winning coalition against Napoleon So he was against him Then he was against him The Holy Alliance He formed the Holy Alliance To suppress the revolutionary movements Sounds like they were frenemies Yeah, frenemies Good one Betsy So that was his And the biography goes on some more If you want more details, read on Then we have For Maria Antonia Josepha Johanna Habsburg In Deltriche Marie Also known as Marie Antoinette King of France Of course she was born in Austria So hence that first name Eleventh cousin Wow Look at you Yeah, so she was born in Austria Eventually married She met Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart That's very cool I think I would like to meet Mozart What's that? I would like to have met Mozart Yeah, that'd be amazing But she wasn't much of an academic Even at 10, she couldn't correctly write German, French or Italian I'm not sure how many people can actually write German, French and Italian at the age of 10 I don't know if that's a fair A fair test At the age of 10 I guess the stands are pretty high if you're in the royal court And all these languages are flying by But she was a good musician Hence That's probably brought her into having met Mozart Played the harp and the harpsichord And the flute She was a floutist Yes And she studied under Christoph Blubald Gluck Yes, Dance of the Blessed Spirits Yes That That's great Anyways, she became Of course she married the Dauphin So that made her the Dauphin Until they were King and Queen And we know that she had a difficult end A rather quick end Due to the French And her The place that she passed away There we go And we knew that The Dauphin was part of that revolution So there's the connection there Thomas Alexandre David de la pailloterie He was born in Germany Saint Dominique No relative No relative at all But 27 degrees away So this is the father of Alexandre Dumas Who was the one who wrote The three musketeers And This person Thomas Alexandre Dumas David Was the first person of color Who was in the French military The first one to become a brigadier general Or a general in chief In the French army So that's interesting He was born into slavery Because his father was a French nobleman But his mother was a slave But his father took him away to be raised So that's interesting His father the novelist Became a soldier And he He fell out of favor with the Neapolitan government Napoleon's government And was held in captivity And sadly he died of Stomach cancer After his release from From prison 1806 But it's possible that The Count of Monte Cristo Which written by Amson Was part of that Was informed by his father's Time in prison Moving on We have Horatio Nelson 16th cousin First by Count Nelson The Nile and Burnham Thorpe Duke of Pronte Second son of that name Born to the Reverend Edmund Nelson Born in 1758 He was named For his mother's uncle Horace Walpole So even though his name was Horatio He actually preferred the name Horace Educated as a Border at the Royal Grammar School His mother died The day after Christmas He went to He was actually taken On his first ship By His uncle And they weren't quite sure whether he would survive The captain said The first time we go into action A cannonball might just take off his head Provide a permit once That's not a very nice thing to say About a young kid you're taking on board Not at all But obviously He toughed it out And he gained lots of experience on board In fact His first command He's a CMS badger Kind of a funny name for a ship I think Maybe not But that's when he Had his first command and he was 20 years old At the time So he obviously learned pretty quickly He made acquaintance of the Admiral Admiral Lord Hood And also Prince William This is my closest connection Easy Wow, neat Very cool Eighth cousin Eighth cousin So anyways He became Admiral of the fleet He was rear admiral of the blue In 1797 And then he became a red admiral of the red I'm not sure what this distinction is You know Why they divided their navy up Into red and blue But anyways Vice admiral of the blue there And anyways The profile gives lots of details About his military career And of course He was fought again In the Napoleonic Wars And the victory is there I will just leave that There Then we have Born in Madrid In 1773 She was known as Trisa Talien Who was a Spanish born noble one Salon holder and social figure In the French Revolution She used her influence to help as many Early targets of the reign of terror as she could Or in the nickname Notre Dame de Bon Secours What is that in English? So it's our lady of It's our lady of good health It's interesting Yeah Or sometimes I think it could also translate as Our lady of mercy Probably as a more As a better translation I like this Veg beauty has given us 20 degrees From Horatio via the Campbells Cherry Valley, New York That's pretty cool that you actually know how And can pose that So And she's also credited with Triggering the fall of Robespierre And ending the reign of terror So that's pretty impressive It became one of the most famous women of Paris And eventually married the Prince of Chine Anyways, and I think well That's She's one of the leaders of Parisian social life And there we go She's going through this Some people are posting some more wish list stuff So I just On the screen Nice That's good Not to take away from your wonderful We need to find some more Italians For you to talk about We have the first Duke of Wellington Also known as the iron Duke That's the Wellesley That's the one you were talking about This is your closest mags Actually Horatio Nelson Horatio was But this guy is pretty close too Let me grab him Let's see who is this Arthur Wellesley Yeah, he's my closest at 16 degrees Oh no, he is my closest cousin Six cousin 12 degrees 16 degrees And my sixth cousin Cool, yeah So he's an Anglo-Irish soldier Of course he rose to prominence And became a national hero Because he, Duke of Wellington Defeated Napoleon at his final battle The Battle of Waterloo Which he's most famous But what I didn't, I mean That's what I associate him with But I didn't realize he actually became prime minister Of the United Kingdom afterwards So in fact he had two The 25th and 28th So from 1828 to 30 And then in the year 1834 As well, he was also prime minister So not only did he defeat Napoleon But he also fought politics Poor guy Then we have Carol Philippe Schwarzenburg Who was born in the High Lagos Romanus So in Germany What is now known as Germany I'm wiping off my screen From this spinning Spinning on my screen Saying that name Oh, sorry Oh, yeah Actually, Austerite would be Austria Right is the Holy Roman Empire So And it's Schwarzenburg Schwarzenburg Okay And then he died in Black Town Oh yeah, Schwartz is black Yes, I never thought of that before And then passed away at only 49 In Leipzig Let's skip down To the English here He was born in one of the most The oldest noble houses Again, his military career in the Austrian army And he fought in the war The first coalition against Napoleon And then he Got to the retreat And then Battle, battle, battle Napoleon He actually wanted him To be the commander-in-chief Of his men He wanted to arbitrate between France and Russia But he wasn't successful So he was named commander-in-chief of the troops against Napoleon He lost in the battle of Dresden And then he fought in the battle He says it's Black Mountain Sorry, Berg is mountain Not, I guess it would be different It would be Berger if it was a town Berger Berg is mountain I'm using my idiot German Language skill Is Statt Town Statt is state, I guess Statt is state, I guess Yeah Someone here will correct us Hey Kathy Alright Okay Then we have That's it? I'm done Oh my gosh, it's only 11 o'clock It's five minutes before 11 It's five minutes before 11 Hi Look at that Statt is city Thank you, Yoke Well that was a very interesting History lesson I hope it wasn't too boring There's a difference Berg is mountain Berg is town You gotta get your Bergstrait I gotta get my Bergstrait Right, Bergermeister Yes Alright Let's see, I've got a tip And we've got six photos And three ancestors to celebrate So I guess We'll just go down my tabs And So I don't know about you But every once in a while Well, I don't have a lot of time To work on my own genealogy So usually my CC7 I'm used to seeing the particular number That I know it to be But every once in a while I see like a spurt And I'm wondering Hey, where did that happen? How did it happen? So I was playing around With something on the watch List That's an easy way to see where Your connections are Where changes are Work is being done And this is not just related It's broader than 7 degrees So first thing You do Is you go I'm going to make this a little bigger So you get to your watch List however it is you do that And Then what you want to do Is go to Connections And why Am I not seeing that right now? Not watch list changes? I was on Connections this morning And I saw connections Unless it's under Ah, okay So you have to go to activity I have to say that it's so much fun Watching Betsy teaching us While learning it That's great That is great That is not a disc That's showing that how We all learn every day Thank you That's one of the reasons Why I love being a teacher I love learning And I find that Inevitably people ask questions That Propel me to learn something new I love that So your family Activity feed Which you can get to a variety of ways You go to connections And And then You will see some things Like your own activity You can hide Your own contributions if you like That makes it a little more streamlined And then you can see Things that I'm recognizing some of these surnames But it's certainly not Like look, M. Ross Did some work on John Georgetown McClellan So if I go to him I see he's An eight degree connection For me I found it very Interesting to just sort of Prowl through what He's a what? He was a Canadian too And then let's see Who else? This is on my English side I think that's a little closer Is And In some cases I was mapping the connection Other Times I was just interested To read the bio I think I'm going to make this Maybe a once a week habit To start looking at what's been Done on my personal connections So oftentimes You do tell us That you're going to be doing something Now that you've discovered it Have you been keeping up with those? Have you actually done this once a week? Well This resolution I'm making today So you should ask me If I've done it Maybe we should have a GDG post About New Year's resolutions Yes, there you go I bet you, yes We're all pointing at you Betsy And I know what you mean Max because I can remember Some of the things that I've said Do that And the answer is some of them I've done And some of them I have not Well I'm still impressed that you've been able To do them Yeah If only there were 26 hours In the day Well that's a wish list If somebody gets that wish We'll learn how to do that I think the key is To pair it With Like on Sunday nights I'm always doing the G2G post For this Saturday roundup So if I pair it with a habit Like I do the G2G post And then I check my connection activity Nice Alright You know We don't ever keep to a time clot Sorry Let's see Photos We have six very lovely photos And Hang on One second Let's see I'm going to go To the Free space page Okay So this photo This is a really fun one This was Posted by Karen Carter And Her father took the picture Of his friend Peter When they took a trip To Beth I don't think that we're on the right picture We see Ann Carrasco Okay Which I guess I could have started there And gone backwards Now this is a little too big It looks like a man holding A A big root or vine Or something So this was a photo snap Of his father Of his friend Peter And they were taking A trip to a national park In Canada And found this quite unusual tree And They were goofing around See how strong I am Yeah Greg let me ask you Your Canadian history Could this be an Aboriginal Marker Path Because what they did was The indigenous would take trees When they were young and they would Bind them so that they came out And certain Things And it would be a way to show a pathway It would be a path marker Interesting I'm wondering if that's what we're looking at Is one of those And I could also make The funny remark that It's It's a double entendre It's a double entendre Fantastic So thanks Karen And then Now this one Alexis Nelsson posted this And so This is the Sister Of her grandmother Alexa Alexis has great pictures Always I know she really really does And I was so charmed by The story So this is Nora The photo is 1928 Her great aunt Nora Long When she was a dancer In the Marcus Vaudeville shows And she had written at the bottom Of the photo to my little sister Grace would love Nora And I went to the And I found the photo In the upstairs Of her great grandparents Delapidated homestead home In western Oklahoma So did she take all of the stuff She found home with her I hope I hope There we can see that To my little sister And so I actually went To Nora's profile It's beautiful Here it is Can you see it? And you can see That there were There were So there were six girls And Nora and Grace Grace was the littlest one And they were six years apart No Ten years apart And we have this Lovely photo of the Six sisters Nice And so Alexis's ancestor Was Nellie Alexis you Always come through I did not know that you crawled through Delapidated buildings She was hard for Those pictures of the week She does So Let's see We've looked at Nora And Let's see Okay Now this is Pat Miller Pat Miller is the little girl Standing on the left Side of the frame With a dinosaur And she writes My father said That this beloved photo of me With the head of a Tyrannosaurus In New York City's natural history museum Was possible because I was transfixed And didn't move The other kid is Yeah right I didn't notice that She said I was taken in 1958 And I'm dressed like the girlish girl I was I was not a tomboy And she comments on the Fascination that so many children have With dinosaurs which is true I have noted that myself She said in my time it was most unusual For girls to like dinosaurs Even the boys were too interested As one of my classmates said I'm dead, who cares? Do you see where this is leading? Child I was researching dinosaurs who are dead Grows into seniors who research People who are dead So That's a fun one Now this is Yoke I know she's in the chat Oh my gosh Are you right? I love that She wrote I usually don't like having my photo taken But this photo was from when I was about Two and a half I still have the teddy bear in the picture Where's the teddy bear?  I do I don't have my little lamby A lamby A lamby A lamby That's great Yoke That is Very sweet Now this is from Eric Barbara No, Barbara Who I know is with us And said that This is a photo Of his grandfathers And uncles and cousins And he was trying to determine The date and location Based on the group he's guessing 1935 In either Chicago or Wisconsin By pure chance I turned on a PBS show Just as a very similar photo Appeared a babyface nelson And a group of gangsters That photo In the early 30s between Chicago And Wisconsin So some genealogical serendipity There I'm going to make that a little bigger It's quite cool Huh That's a cool picture I wish we had the babyface Nelson picture Yeah It wasn't a good man Look at the gentleman on the far left It looks like he's like Singing? I don't know what he's doing He's drinking out of a jug Oh, is he? Oh, the giant jug over his head Oh, I didn't know I got him holding a microphone in his hand I didn't notice the jug It does look like he is People are talking about their snugglies now A long king And then Of course Brian had curious George That's so cute Do you still have those? Well, Brian, do you still have yours? We know what happened to the other one Okay, go ahead Okay And then our last one is Vicki I'm almost so happy when the people who post the photos are in the chat Vicki's with us And this is her maternal grandmother She loves classical music Cleaning, smoking, having coffee And playing card games She passed away in 2007 And she's beautiful Yeah Thank you for sharing her with us Vicki That's good Lisa Duray said that her brother Gave her money to hold His money to hold Nice What? Like, when? We're talking about the snugglies Yeah Oh And I have a bunny I should get my bunny out We should all bring our snugglies For next week Yeah, we actually During one of the live casts Years ago For One of the Athens I think it was Katie Sarah and me and I've forgotten who the other person was But we all got our bears Like our little mascot My little Murph moose And we actually set them up Up in front of the cameras And they did the live cast for that Thing And the cutest thing was Katie Her son came in While we were getting ready to go on live And he leans down like this And he goes, bears Okay, sorry Well So we have two Let's see, we have five Saturdays In the month of December And we got a little bit of a late start With the photos So everybody's got a favorite photo And what is the theme This month? The favorite photo Oh, your favorite photo Your favorite photo, yeah Wow I could show you that right now And we also Have two more weeks To celebrate ancestors There's the link Is that your dad? No, that's my grandfather Oh, nice Clea Hunt Wow Like late 20s Maybe mid 20s Yeah, he was probably Just out of high school Here's my other favorite picture This is me And my brother Being Appalachian What are we doing? Are you shooting critters? We're shooting our guns That's my brother And me That's sweet Okay, so to celebrate Celebrate ancestors We have three of them today Let me go to our first Who was Samuel Turner And This is the Christine Miller, I think, is in the chat This is her third great grandfather He would have been 211 years old On December 12th Which was just this past Tuesday He served in the 80th Regiment of the Illinois Infantry For the Union during the Civil War On January 19th, 1864 He was imprisoned And held as a prisoner In three different places Big Springs, Tennessee Big Springs in Tennessee Macon, Georgia And Columbia, South Carolina And before and after the war He worked as a merchant And a U.S. postmaster So the war Interrupted his service As a postmaster But upon his return He was again postmaster In Illinois And after his death His wife Selima would also be Appointed postmaster In 1879 And she held the position until her death So Yeah, it's a Where's the photo here? There we go Well, that's quite the What do you mean? The beard Oh, that he doesn't have a mustache Yeah There must be a name There must be I've never seen that kind of a beard before Well, the way it comes out, almost like two tusks Yeah, it's like It's like a mustache on his chin Yeah So, thanks, Christine Then Next, Vicki contributed our next I'm coming There we go We should be on Vicki's contribution Yep And this is, she said yesterday I visited a cemetery And accidentally found the grave for Luis I'm sorry, I'm going to try Rick And he died In December 1924 As politician, he was the driving force Behind the workers movement And the founder of the Communist Party of Chile And he was also Married to Guadalupe del Canto Who is the closest cousin To Vicki's second great grandmother And Guadalupe was born In December 1868 So I did look at Guadalupe Her profile as well There's only this one photo Wow For both of them Yeah, it's very striking, isn't it?  Oh, gosh It looks so washed out Maybe Vicki Has the original She could Well, I bet we couldn't read it His arms blocking it all Yoke says He has the mustache the other guy was missing Yeah, that's right The mystery is solved He's wearing He's wearing spectacles Do you agree? I can't tell if they're spectacles Oh Maybe I'd have to see it Closer up Well, so this was taken in 1906 When he would have been Vicki says They were about to travel to Argentina Oh 32 He was Late 30s What a gorgeous couple Yeah Really nice And finally Finally We have Joseph Ross And this is Em Ross's ancestor Em Ross says This is Her third great grandfather And Her third great grandmother Mary Ann Wooten Were married on Christmas day 1845 All Saints Church Blockswick Staffordshire England This picture Was taken much later Probably at the marriage Of their grandson Leonard Ross in June 1896 So let's take a closer look at the photo Here Aren't they adorable I really love her scarf And she's got Some sort of necklace Like a brooch She did have One other photo on the profile Which I thought was Fun to look at Which is this one Four generations So we've got I like the way that's unveiling I know right So we've got We may have seen this one before I remember Talking about are there ghosts in the window That sort of Oh and the little one who was getting away Who's that yeah He's got the same kind of Shirts As the other boy Look at all those buttons Okay is there a ghost in the window You've got to scroll up a hair See one But we always look for those I didn't say we found one I have one that's Really eerie looking But fortunately The person in the window looks like all the rest of the People that are outside That's cool So yes Two more weeks to celebrate Your December ancestors Please Keep them coming I love them You have a note Yes Look at his profile He had a stamp Made in Russia That was from Wow let me go back What a Lupe's husband Yeah Luis So it's the run Oh it's yeah If anyone wants to look along with me Your Share my screen Sure screen Um As I don't know if it's A1 or as in the background Who's helping us out today It's usually as but it could be A1 But thank you so much for Popping up these great links As we're talking Yup well uh okay Okay can we see The profile No Really? I tried the other way The entire screen Alright I'm just going to do a tab Um Guadalupe Share There we go I'm at the bottom of Guadalupe's Now I'll go to Okay yes So he has a stamp Made in Russia Is it under images Well we have two Oh yeah there's a second image that we did not Look at Wow So I'm so glad you said something Vicky Wow Yeah because he was the Founder of the Communist Party in Chile Ah Can we make that any bigger There we go Wow Alright Do you have a copy of the stamp Vicky That would be something to hang on the wall Very cool How many people have stamps of their ancestors You know what I don't have stamps of my ancestors But Giorgio O'Keeffe had When they did her run of stamps I went and I'm a huge Giorgio O'Keeffe fan and I went And I bought the stamp The Packaged stamp page for those It has a picture of Giorgio O'Keeffe and a quote from Giorgio O'Keeffe and then A whole bunch of stamps And I had it framed in my bedroom I love that And when I was a kid I collected Stamps I just outed myself Very neat You have something else to tell us Gregory Oh Because of Betsy's Hint about going on your Watchlist and seeing connections I was doing that at one point And then someone had made a comment about me And I thought I didn't see a comment And when I clicked on it This popped up I didn't realize I didn't actually mean for you to share On the whole live cast and everything Because I was just going to mention Afterward to thank Betsy For sharing that tip because I wouldn't have found this I don't know why but anyways Apparently I had 100,000 this week Yay! Congratulations Congratulations to Weekie Tree That you have been so Prolific in your G2G That you've helped so many people There you go Thank you, Greg You're welcome You're welcome You're welcome So we have some stuff coming up The January 2024 Connect-a-Thons Coming up so you can get yourself Over to G2G and sign up for that There is some site maintenance Going on this week shouldn't affect Anybody specifically On If you do see something funny Go to this post And post do you see something funny It's mostly backend stuff that they're working on Right now so it shouldn't Be obvious that something is going on In the background If you do see something funny Post it to that post Elves wanted Go and sign up to be an elf And of course we have The Rhode Island Genealogical Society is our 18th Challenge of 2023 So we've got one more to go After this or is that it This is the final That would be the final one That's the final one And Genealogical Society And what's happening around WikiTree in December 2023 What's today the 16th So there we are The Saturday round up is going on right now We have a data doctors Challenge we've got the weekend chat Coming up on Christmas Eve Eve Then Again you'll see us on Christmas Wait No next Saturday is Christmas Eve Eve Yes Okay and we'll be here For Christmas Eve Eve I don't know why I thought Saturday was Christmas Eve What's last year No Christmas is Monday this year Oh it's Monday gosh And the reason why I'm thinking this Is that over across the river Here in Quebec The Quebecers always Have Christmas on Christmas Eve That's the big get-together And my son's girlfriend Is a Quebecer So he's talking to me last night Of having to make travel plans To go over to her place Anyway so that's what's going on There and the social media stuff Which you can find out A little bit more information about What's going on the one named study Tuesday is Willis Next week's Question of the week is What are your genealogy Goals for 2023 Resolutions Well Betsy's got resolutions Strafton Aberdeenshire Is the one place study And then we've got The Connect-a-thon coming up So that's the event showcase If you want to help out By sharing this stuff We've got the links for all of the different Things They took X off So we don't do X anymore So yeah I noticed that And Debbie Reynolds Is the connection finder For Thursday And she's a pretty colorful character The mother of Carrie Fisher Yes Did Carrie Fisher write postcards The book about her mother And they still Remain friends And then The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Spotlight is on Friday Are you related Are you connected to Shane Who is Shane Shane McGowan Oh He was the lead singer that just passed away Last week Did he just go by Gowan Or no McGowan I don't know Yeah And then Savard is our Members person this week Want to help get the word out about Here we go Lisa is getting me up to date on the French Canadians Starts at midnight That's just Cheating so you can open your That's you know The Pogues He's the lead singer of the Pogues John Tyner is boasting that Shane McGowan so Boy People are really going off on Gowan over here We'll save all that for next week This week We'll say bye And have a great End of your week I hope you have all your Christmas shopping done Next Saturday At 10 Same place Have a good week


Next, we have Member's Statements. Member for University, Rosedale. Thank you. Monday was an emotional rollercoaster for democratically-minded people across Toronto. First, Ontario Superior Court Justice Edward Bella Barba ruled that the Conservative government's move to slash Toronto City Council, while the election is already underway, has substantially interfered with both the candidates and the voters' rights for freedom of expression as guaranteed under the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. People rejoice that their election would no longer be thrown into chaos. Then, to the shock of nearly everybody, Premier Ford announced that he would be invoking the non-withstanding clause to overrule the Court's decision. Doug Ford also intends to continue to use this power and this clause should any Charter ruling be used to stop his vindictive whims. This is the first time in Ontario's history any Premier has ever- Member again, we have to call the Premier by the name Premier, not by his personal name. Same thing with the cabinet ministers, same for everybody. And their rights. It's the first time in Ontario's history any Premier has ever tried to use this clause. It is shocking that other members of his caucus, such as the Attorney General, are not only failing to stop him, but are actually enabling this power grab. Doug Ford, the Premier, has violated the rights of Torontonians. The size of Toronto City Council is a decision for the people of Toronto. This election belongs to the people of Toronto. We do not support the use of Section 33, nor do we support any plan by the Premier to use public money to fund an appeal of the Court's ruling. Thank you. Thank you. Member's statements. Member for Thorne Hill. Thank you very much, Mr Speaker. And we're in the high holiday period for the Jewish community. And it's high, holy, H-O-L-Y, in separate days, not holidays, which is what most people say, and it sounds like holidays, because it's actually a serious time. It's a time to really reflect on the past year, think about the next year. In the Jewish community, we understand that people are imperfect and that we can always do better. So it's a serious time of year, but yet a celebration. We dip apples and honey, or bread and honey, if there's no apples around wherever you are, and we want to wish each other a sweet new year. And I want to wish everybody here in the legislature a meaningful year, a prosperous year, and a year where you accomplish we set some goals, we all have our own personal goals, perhaps in our writing, perhaps something that we cared about, a reason why we wanted to be elected. And then we have goals that we're working on with the rest of our teams. This is the year, now we just had Rosh Hashanah, who is the head of the year, and it's not commonly called the Jewish New Year, and this is the year of 5,779 in the Hebrew calendar. It's a big number, and if we reflect on it, we realize how long the Jewish community has been around and has been at the forefront of a lot of our laws and a lot of our legal systems are based on ancient, ancient Jewish efforts. So, Shanatava, everybody, and Shanatava Umituka. Thank you. Thank you very much. Member Statements, Member for Parkdale High Park. Thank you, Speaker. I rise in the House today to talk about a phenomenal woman. Her name is Sarah Dusset, and she is my local city councillor for Ward 13 in Parkdale High Park. Sarah has represented our community at Toronto City Council for the last eight years. So much of what we love about our community is thanks to Sarah's hard work. She saved our beloved High Park Zoo from closing. She brought our community together and rebuilt Jamie Bell Park when it was destroyed by Arson. She defended our public libraries from cuts. She protected our trees in their neighbourhoods. She has worked to preserve our city's heritage. She did all this and so much more. We all know how important it is to have a strong local councillor. From my experience, I can tell you Sarah knows how to do her job very well, and more importantly she always puts the concerns and the needs of our community at the heart of all of her work. It is a real loss to Parkdale High Park and to our city that a strong hardworking councillor like Sarah who has delivered results for our community is not seeking re-election in a 25-ward race. As another Parkdale High Park councillor said, quote, it is a crime that we are losing her end quote. Sarah, we love you. Thank you for everything that you have done for us. We are so proud that you represented us so well at City Hall for the last eight years. Thank you. Member Statements, Member for Mississauga East Cooksville. Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Today I'm really excited about the amazing Mississauga my city that I love for the last 15, 16 years. Summer has come to an end students have gone back to school and we, or I am wondering how long I will have in retiring my barbecue for the summer. Looking back Mr. Speaker the residents of Mississauga hosted many events from small to largest in Ontario in celebrating cultural diversity. Just in August I took part in Pakistan, India and Ukraine's Independence Day celebration. Sri Lankan Friendship Cricket Cup matches, Ontario 55 plus games ceremony, a multitude of multicultural festivals ranging from a few hundred to a few thousands. Art festivals, the Italian Filipino, Latin and Polish festivals and Muslim Fest where our premier made an appearance in front of thousands of guests celebrating various cultures from many parts of the world and Islamic art. Mr. Speaker Mississauga is known for its diversity and we know how to celebrate it. Thank you. Thank you. Member Stevens Member for Kitchener Center. Thank you Mr. Speaker. Today I rise to speak as the anti-racism critic for the official position. In this role I am tasked with keeping an eye on the ways that the system is used to embed inequity into law and practice. Over the course of the last two days since the premier invoked the notwithstanding clause which suspends our charter rights, I've received over 200 emails from Kitchener Center residents asking me to speak out against this abuse of power. His vow to invoke this clause whenever he disagrees with the judiciary and I quote from Kitchener Center resident would establish a very dangerous precedent and I'm concerned about the effects on our province's democracy. The reason that the official opposition keeps emphasizing the gravity of this decision is that the suspension of our constitutionally protected charter rights has historically led to the attempt to embed injustice into law and normalize it in practice. Historically governments have invoked this clause to attack the most marginalized among us. For example under a conservative government in Alberta this clause was invoked in bill 26 to limit financial damages a person could receive from the government after a woman successfully sued for being part of a eugenics project. It was later invoked by the PC government in Alberta as an attempt to block same sex marriage. So I asked the government this if slavery was legal in Ontario today would it be just to engage in the slave trade or would it be right to make a change? Thank you. Order. Member statements. Member for Scarborough Gilderwood. Thank you speaker. I want to first begin by thanking the many brave and vocal citizens who joined here today and yesterday speaker those who joined in this chamber out front on the lawn of the legislator at City Hall in the square to ensure that their voices were heard in opposition to bill 31 and the immoral use of the notwithstanding clause. It's clear to me that people understand that the charter of rights and freedoms represents deep meaning in Ontario. Ontarians are waking up to the harsh realities of this premier and his government. Why should Torontonians have less? Why should Toronton be singled out? The premier is doubling down on his decision despite the ruling and despite five years of consultations that led to the 47 seat council decision. The premier and his conservatives are attempting to divide our great city a move that I and my constituents in Scarborough Gilderwood feel is deeply damaging for the city of Toronto. I've received hundreds of emails to this effect. What I'm hearing from the people of Scarborough is that their trust has been broken. People like Jane who wrote to say these are the tactics and the words of a bully a bully who seeks to divide rather than bring people together. Thank you. Member statements. Member for King Bond. Thank you Mr Speaker. Rich history in our cultural heritage lives in the village of Kleinberg in the city of On at the annual Biner Twine Festival. The roots of this festival began in the 1800s when farmers came into the village to buy twine to bind their weed together. In 1967, the year of our centennial a small committee revived the concept after a hiatus as Kleinberg centennial project and that included the late Pierre Burton who proudly hailed from the village of Kleinberg. Today continues on as a festival that brings thousands of people together, showcasing the incredible talent of our artisans, our small business people and our entrepreneurs. I want to thank the hundreds of volunteers from the riding of King Bond across the GTA who contributed to this festival and the strength and value it represents to contributing to our community and to our heritage. I'm encouraging all residents of the GTA to join me this Saturday in Kleinberg for this wonderful opportunity to come together in support of many local charities including the development of the Vaughan Hospital. And I'm reminded by a quote by Mr. Burton who said we still seek the countryside with nostalgia, affection and longing hope to see you this Saturday. Thank you Mr. Speaker. Thank you very much Member Statements, the Member for Davenport. Thank you very much Mr. Speaker. I rise in the house today because Ontario is facing urgent challenges, the impacts of which I see every day in my riding of Davenport. I see it with seniors who simply can't afford or find adequate housing in young people who can't find steady work and with children studying in schools so badly in need of repairs that they are literally crumbling around them. I see the impacts in the overcrowded street cars, buses and subways where riders wedge themselves in just to make it to work on time. And I see it in the rising death toll from the ongoing opioid emergency ravaging our communities. Instead of taking on these challenges this government is taking things from bad to worse with cuts to school repair funding, mental health funding and the outright cancellation of programs that would prevent opioid overdoses. But most egregious is the fact that the government has allowed the Premier's obsession with Toronto's municipal elections to consume the business of this house to the point that we are now debating the very suspension of Ontarians charter rights in order to protect our fundamental rights. I am deeply proud that our official opposition caucus has said no to this clear abuse of power and on behalf of the people of Davenport and all Ontarians we will continue to do whatever we can to safeguard our democratic institutions uphold the rule of law and protect our fundamental rights. Thank you. Thank you very much. Thank you Mr. Speaker. Earlier this week at the invite of the institutions for Delta elevators I visited the Whitby campus of Durham College to learn about their skilled trades programs. I was hosted by Don LaVisa President of Durham College Kevin Baker, Dean of School of Skilled Trades Apprenticeship and Renewable Technology and their teams. I learned the following the colleges post-secondary enrollment in skilled trades has grown 359% in the last 10 years. Apprenticeship enrollment at Durham College is unfortunately unchanged from 2011 to today. The college is performing over capacity with 1,445 students enrolled in skilled trades 1,300 apprentices and 150 youth apprentices. The elevating devices mechanic program has a wait list of 200 apprentices. This is a five-year backlog. A fully licensed elevator mechanic can start by earning $115,000 per year. One of Durham College's industry partners has recently forecast a shortage of approximately 3,000 skilled labour people. This visit was very informative. It was exciting to experience the attitudes, activity and engagement of the students especially in the first week back to school. As we execute our plan to make Ontario open for business it is important that we ensure the availability of skilled labour in this growth. Thank you. Member statements? The Member for Cambridge. Speaker. Yesterday, Cambridge based ATS Automation Tooling Systems Incorporated and Industry Leading Automation Solutions Provider and Bruce Power celebrated the grand opening of the major component replacement or MCR integration testing facility on the ATS Cambridge campus. Bruce Power is helping to spur innovation and economic growth benefiting all of Ontario. This year ATS is celebrating 40 years of being a meaningful part of many local families' lives providing highly skilled employment opportunities while benefiting from the depth and breadth of the talent in the Cambridge Waterloo region. Meanwhile, Bruce Power is Canada's only private sector nuclear generator and the largest operating nuclear facility in the world. They produce 6,400 megawatts providing 30% of Ontario's electricity at 30% less than the average cost to produce residential power. Bruce Power's ongoing operations and MCR project will support 22,000 direct and indirect jobs annually and provide $4 billion in annual domestic economic benefit through direct and indirect spending on equipment supplies, materials and labour income in Ontario. At the same time, Bruce Power's supply chain acquires 90% of its goods and services in Ontario creating good jobs right here at home. Partnerships such as these between ATS and Bruce Power are innovating and creating jobs throughout the province and creating made in Ontario solutions for major infrastructure projects. This joint facility attests to Ontario's future-looking innovation which has always been a hallmark of the Cambridge community. I'm proud to bring this announcement into the house and demonstrate the strong work of Ontario businesses. Thank you. That concludes the time we have this afternoon for member statements. Reports by committees.


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