about that, guys. I started it and it wouldn't I'm I'm I'm not at home. I'm not at home. She's out in the woods. I'm out in the woods again. Yeah, in a in a recliner. There you go. But I tried to start it and didn't it wouldn't come up. So I had to restart it. So sorry. I don't think they saw that but you two saw that. Let's go back and see if we show up on the video. Good morning everybody. Welcome to the Saturday morning house party. Everybody wearing their house coats. Yeah. My orange everybody's here. Did you guys when you logged in this morning did you see the note that said be sure to talk to the people who are going to be watching the recorded vision of the live cast. A little hint in the stream yard thing that said talk to the people who are going to be watching the report. Hey you people who are watching the recorded version. Oh yeah it's cold everywhere. Everybody's talking about how cold it is. Brian was the first one here how we got here genealogy a Mary Sleppy. Hey Mary. D s. Let's see. Chris. He's talking about the profiles of the week. We're going to be talking about some of those. Hey Sandy. You're probably my cousin. We don't even know yet. John Tyner. Hey John Tyner John Tyner lives in Ireland and he's in the Appalachian project. Wow. Well if you think about the Appalachians that's where all the Irish immigrants went and settled. So it makes a lot of sense and has on John for being a part of a project that you wouldn't associate with somebody who lived in Ireland. So thank you John. That's very good. And sending the profile of member of the week wasn't she. Yes there was a video yesterday. It's an excellent interview. Yes congrats Sandy. That's so cool. Let's see. I'm missing people. Hey Lisa. I'm not in Ottawa. Run by my house and check my children's butt or something for me while I'm gone. As is here. As Hillary's here. Anna's here. Susan. Judy. GSL. I don't think I can go deeper. Anyway Tommy Buck is here from the Bayou State. Wow. Kathy Nava. Patricia Jackson. Karen Lent. Karen Lent. Lawrence. Kathy Nava. A01 Walker is here. Our forest elves. The little tiny forest elf. She's tiny. She can get it anywhere. Yeah. So hey good morning. Welcome to the livecast Saturday Roundup or the Saturday House Party as we recall recently. Yeah and thank you for for upvoting the video and thank you for talking to us about mistakes that we might be making like the one I made this morning. Which is the question of the week I got confused on that. Is it up. I need to do that. See when you work on a laptop after working on a. There we go. There we go. So here's our question of the week. Do you set genealogy goals. And that's an interesting question. Are you organized enough that you can actually say well I need to do this research and this research and this research and I'm going to be driving through such and such so I should stop at that courthouse on my way. I don't know. Do you plan trips for genealogy. That could be another good question. So let's upvote that. Don't forget to upvote these great questions. Do you set a genealogy goal for a week. No no weekly goals. This is from best. No weekly goals at least as I haven't set them yet only started in late January and have been somewhat overwhelmed by all there is to learn. Okay question. Did you just start genealogy in January or you just started on a wiki tree because this is a question that's just this bigger than wiki tree is genealogy goals so that's a good that's a good answer though. I'll make sure we vote those up. But I can see the necessity of setting weekly goals to keep from jumping from profile to profile. I need to go back and improve so sources for the first 10 or so ads I made in my tree that is tedious work since a lot of it's already there but it needs formatting. That's interesting. So yes I think I'm having with the goals. I was just going to watch that thought process. I think that's where David Randall's checklist was is really helpful. Yeah, yeah, do we have a link for that. Sure I can get I can put it up. Yes. Thank you. Alexis, Alexis, did you see the picture last week. Yeah, it was so cool to see that airplane. Yes, I answer the 52, 52 ancestors weekly question and the 52 photos each week she does she is almost as prolific as Betsy co at posting those great photos of the week. Although the photo question is monthly this year. I also try to answer the question of the week and have over 200 contributions each week. I feel that this helps me to stay focused on doing research. That's a good answer that doing other stuff on wiki tree helps you focus on your own work sometimes you need to get away from the research and you in wiki trees a good place to go when you need a break, believe it or not, you know, that works. Let's see Lisa Gervais what has Lisa said no, I don't really make any genealogy goals at all maybe I should make them more often and be specific but I have trouble staying focused on one person, or one family at times. Lisa, that's kind of like the squirrel. Yeah, we were Greg and I were talking about that yesterday about shiny things. Yeah, so many squirrels. So many squirrels. So many squirrels. Let's see I try to this is from Doug McCallum I try to work from a research plan he has a research plan and try to make some progress on it each week. I know where I should get on the plan don't always get as far as I would like to each week that is so true. Even if you set those goals and you don't make them it's okay. You can scrub off some of that stuff and sometimes even working on a family and you get frustrated that you're not finding what you need to find and sometimes it's better to put them on another list and move to the next item. I do that. Let's see. That would make it like work. And then I wouldn't want to do it at all. That's hilarious. I ain't making no goals. You can't make me make me make a goal. I do but I've never met them. And then this is a seger. But it's mainly due to how genealogy websites are made.  I don't know if that's a commentary on us because this is like home this isn't like a website right this is home. Let's see. He must be talking about those other places. Must be. Must be. Must has to be. Pip Shepard. Pip, where are you man? You used to be here every Saturday. Yeah. Goals. We don't need no stinking goals. That's great. A paraphrase of the line of dialogue from the 1948 film The Treasure of the Sierra Madre. He's writing his sources. The line was in turn derived from a dialogue in the 1927 novel of the same name, which was the basis of the film. Goals. I don't need no stinking goals, which is to say I'm not a goal setter, but I do keep the three families I'm supposed to be working on in the back of my head. So, I know where I'll start again. And if I never find time. Let's see. My goal is just to fly below the radar. Return to base safely and live another wiki tree day. That's good. Good comment, Kay. Let's see. El Greer says no, I go where the, see I'm going to speak in a Spanish accent now. No, I go, what are the, the sin leaves me. Wait, wait, that was Dracula, right? Well, working on whatever has my attention at the time, I guess I have a goal to look at old profiles as well as creating new ones. But that's as far as it goes. That's a great goal. That is a great goal. Set a goal for yourself to go back and look at the first few profiles you made or the first 20 or the first 30 and set a goal of doing that every day and see if it needs more work. I find that when I go back and look at stuff that I haven't done, haven't looked at in a while. I think Betsy mentioned this recently in one of her new members tips. Go back and check out the stuff that you haven't worked on a while. It's that's a good one. Remember, you can sort your watch list in, you know, by edit date. So just look at the ones you haven't touched in a while. Yeah, that's a great one. I mean, Marty Frank says setting goals has never worked well for me. The path to completion seems to be paved with rabbit holes. You know, we should just rename wiki tree wiki tree rabbit hole site. You know, you can you can you can get lost in those rabbit holes. We know that. Not weekly but monthly from Jelena extra. I want to date at least one undated profile per month. I want to connect at least one connect unconnected branch per month. I want to source at least 50 profiles per month. That's that's pretty doable I think. Yeah, except for that whole rabbit hole problem. Yeah, that's right. Oh, Francesca. No, thanks. Why set myself up for failure. I had to make that noise because it stuck your tongue out. That's very appropriate. We support you Francesca. We support you. You do you keep on doing you because at wiki tree you can do as little or as much as you want. No biggie. Let's see. Most of my current research is focused on the approximately 1450 people who are buried at a local cemetery in their family members who are buried there. Oh my gosh, that's so nice in Ross. I work on one family and their extended family until the research is finished. Sometimes it takes a day other times it can take as long as a week. So I'm going to talk about the connections to other families with members buried in the same cemetery usually provide clues to the next family group to be researched. I try not to down fall down those rabbit holes. We should have a sound that goes off whenever we say rabbit hole Saturday or that should be our Saturday drink your orange juice. Let's see rabbit hole of researching other connected families before finishing the original family. It's difficult to resist the temptation. Yeah, that's what rabbit holes are all about. There's carrots down there. And those rabbit holes. Let's see. Yes, my current goal is to generate as much family history from my living relatives as possible. I adopted my great great grandfather, George Lucas wait George Lucas. I hear Star Wars theme. Yes, and sent the link to the relatives is Chris saying stuff in the chat. Oh, he's saying my mom. I'm sure he is my mom came back a lovely reply based on one of the addresses. It's wonderful how little bits of information can trigger more information as she talked about other relatives. So I need to find out where they fit in our tree so one week I might be looking into my mother's relatives and another my father's relatives. They're 80 so it's very important how nice working on that for your parents. I put aside one evening to investigate if we were related to Neville shoot sadly no joy. Thanks for the question as I believe goals are very important. Thank you. That's from Robert Lee, who's great great grandfather was George Lucas. Chris very yellow. No, Robin lozier says no, no, no. I only add new info to profiles when I stumble across new and or interesting details, either when I'm reading a book or surfing on the Internet. That usually that's when I usually disappeared down a rabbit hole there and see everybody have smart juice. Yeah. I kind of do. This is a long one from Sarah Jenkins. I kind of do. I usually try to do at least three entries a day whether adding sources, or a new connection or image now go through and read this whole bit here she talks about New Zealand and the Peyton family. It's she does three entries a day so she can have at least the 100 batch right the 100 contribution badges so that's nice. Occasionally before I even start through an email I'll send me off on another tangent down a rabbit hole. Yeah, go back and read all of that that's very interesting. Let's see I didn't use to but every week for years. I didn't use to but every week for years. I've. Oh, for but for every week for years I've been going through my wiki tree anniversary list and determine my weekly goals on those people for those days that's a good idea. That's a co. Yes. Yes, going through. It was on my list. It's on your list see great minds think a lot. That's from Maggie and Maggie. Hey Maggie and Buffalo. I've always but inevitably I get caught in quick sand. In order to escape. I might, I must solve a problem that fulfills someone else's genealogical goal before I can complete one of my own quicksand and I know that one. This methodology has been great for my wiki tree learning curve but it's still like walking in sand and I'm not getting any younger still there's the satisfaction that I've inevitably helped somebody else that's great let me in dear. That's true. Do you ever run into helping other people when you're just trying to get something done. Yeah, I had. I connected a couple people in the connectathon in January and then I got an email a few weeks later saying, we just need one more connection or whatever and then that three days later I popped up again after I did all that extra work but it was it was a through a Quebec and didn't have experience reading the French records and stuff so it was easier for me to do and so yeah, sometimes I do. So, yeah, I'm at my, my, my sister in law and brother in law's house puppy sitting right now out the woods and then this is a place that I can't during the summers that got lots of acreage to and you know what he did speaking of doing stuff for others. He walked downstairs with a CD and a book and he says can you figure this out for me. Okay. Sure, I hope they're not watching. No, I'm looking forward to it I don't know much about his side of the family so that'll be fun to do a CD and a book. Alright, not actually weekly from Alan salt. I've set a goal of working through category Australia immigrant needs voyage category added, starting from the Z end for no particular reason adding immigrant voyages to as many profiles as possible that's a great one to going through some categories for projects that you're interested in, and working on adding those categories to those profiles. When I first started working on wiki tree I worked on the, there were no categories for any of the towns or villages or cities in South Carolina. So, I went through and I created categories for all of those towns and villages in South Carolina, all of them. And that was one of the ways I learned how to how to do wiki tree so I know how that works, adding those categories yeah. I do monthly goals. This was, did you have something to say Betsy. So I'm just saying what a great service to, yeah, yeah, yeah, created all those categories. Yeah. Yeah, and working on on something that you're interested in I'm interested in South Carolina he's interested in Australian immigrant needs a voyage category because those voyages are very important to tying the story back to England for those Australian immigrants. And that was from Alan salt from anonymous read I do monthly goals not weekly. I'm bouncing between my home and my frail elderly mothers tiny efficiency apartment. I have to be flexible in how I work that that is good to. Yeah, think about think about having time if you're like here I am doing something for my, my family. I've been working all week. I've had lots of meetings and lots of stuff going on, but I haven't stopped doing my wiki tree and so here I am. Yep. Let's see. I do not my main goal when I started was to figure out my maternal line mom was a stranger family many of those lines have scant information. So I've never been able to contact connect with any living family my original goal. Now my work is very specific some days weeks I do a lot others I don't even open the site. I understand that and it's good it's good if you can set things aside for a bet and come back to it. Absolutely. Paula Franklin my main goal is to get all the profiles in my little corner of the world categorize here we go. This is proper cemetery categories. And this is another one I in the Appalachian project I've been noticing that there's been a lot of work going on in some of the cemetery categories that people have been working on lots of chatter and the discord channel for that. Michael Schindler surprised I don't didn't see my answer here already guessing I have almost 6000 profiles under management wiki tree gives me a birthday list every Wednesday automatically. So here's your list there Betsy the birthday list. So I use this opportunity to review every profile on that list to see what I can do to make it better and mostly to find defined more sources to add. Yeah, and those those quirky little fun list that wiki tree gives you every week those are great to work on Michael Schindler. Let's see Marianne Saruti. I try to perform other tasks so I won't spend all of my time researching genealogy and working on wiki tree really. There's something outside of wiki tree. That's surprising. There are rumors. I'm not sure. There's rumors. Yes, she does have a weekly goal. That's cool. And then until recently this is from Aaron Robertson last six months or so I think it helps me keep a rounded approach, making sure I visit some of my anniversary lists but also visit each of my projects. Otherwise it's too easy to camp out and rabbit holds and accomplished not accomplished much. I accomplish stuff when I go down and rabbit holes it just doesn't want to plan on accomplishing. That's true. I don't find rabbit holes. Well, what is your take on it, Greg? No, it's true. Yeah, I think you can get things done in rabbit holes. Yeah, and you learn things.  You just look for those carrots. Yeah. I think eventually I will go to a daily model Mondays for Disasters Tuesdays for Anniversary Wednesdays for Italy there you go Betsy. It keeps me engaged and gives me some structure that's interesting having a theme day. Yeah, I like that. I don't know if I could do that because when I go into to work on a family or something I don't. I like I get lost in the family. It's not a rabbit hole. I just I work for days and days and days on one family or weeks. Interesting. Oh, I set them right down. Okay here Pamela Belange or Ballinger. Oh, I set them right them down. Thumbs up and start on the on the on them with focus and gusto. Yeah, I completely enjoy following down a time to drink again folks rabbit hole we should give her orange juice emoji for that, which has an unexpected lead. She loves that which has to go on the go for next week. My goals this week always growing smiley. I think my goal for next week will be to remove more than I add. That's a good one. We just got a couple of more here going down. Anybody in the looking for people that might be in the in the chat. Let's see Pennsylvania County that's. That's one of my counties for my dealers. Genealogy for a few days, not work on it for a few weeks, and then go back to it again for a few days there you go David Rice Ross can't set a weekly goal if I'm not doing it all the time. What what people don't do genealogy all the time. What. Yes, I do in order to achieve monthly goals of earning the thousand contributions so here we are. We have two people in here who have mentioned that that getting a badge whether it's the hundred or the thousand getting a badge. So he has to pace his weekly effort to around 200 to 250 a week. These may be creating new growth. If you're interested in garnering a lots of contribution badges. I can tell you how to do that. I can tell you how to be a leader. Yes, readers get those contribution badges like that. Yeah. Yeah. That's why I have so many contributions because I was a reader for and I was the leader of the Greeter project for a couple of years. One of the best things I've ever done was was being a part of the greeters. I love that. She go back and do it and nothing else just greet. No, I said met said small daily goals. This is from Deanna grows of to make sure that I'm coming back every day to check in and do some edits and additions. That's a good one. Small checklist building small routines is more helpful. Sally Kimball says in the sense that many people think of goals and have to say no, but I always have something in progress. So her goals are to work on what she's got going. So that's that's pretty good. I don't set a weekly goal. I live on a farm and never know when I'll have time to do research. I do set project goals. For instance, I'm adding the great grandchildren by 30 times great grandparents. Yeah, I imagine working on a farm, you're working from sunup sundown. So you've got all those dark hours to work on wiki tree. Right. What else to do. What else to do in those. Like, you could be a vampire wiki tree or about two or three years ago around mid December one time I saw anyone's post here asking if anyone has any genealogical goals for the new year. Shout out to the elf. I thought that was an interesting idea taking the end of the year to reflect on what I had done and what questions I still had that was trying to answer. Mysteries that I was trying to solve and things I wanted to do. I set out to mark down some goals for me. I found out that it certainly helps to have them down somewhere and refer back to them after pursuing inevitable rabbit holes. There we go again people drink some orange juice and that we fall fall down since then I review them at the end of the year of course, but I still find myself reviewing them throughout the year and I add new ones categorize my goals. Some goals have it. Here's another one Betsy co you were talking about. Get yourself a list of to do things that you want to get. Technically, I don't break down these goals by month or week for the freedom of being fluid. So Eric Weddington that's a good answer to so that's the question of the week. Well, what about you two. Do you do you set weekly goals. I don't have time to set weekly goal. I feel like I'm a firefighter. I'm running from one burning building to the next burning building trying to put out fires. Basically, whether it's working on merges on wiki tree or answering questions I get lots and lots and lots and lots and lots and lots of questions. So I spent a lot of time talking to people about genealogy and how to do things and where to go and that kind of stuff so it's kind of hard for me to set goals I kind of fluid. I like the fluid fluid thing what about you Greg. I, I sometimes write down sort of at the beginning of the week things that I want to get accomplished and my genealogy goals vary from programming goals like things I want to add to an app or a new app I want to develop or and to and research one so I'm working on a family tree for some family friends and so that's going to be a long term project done probably finished by the late spring I'm hoping so that's exciting to make them a tree tree are you going to like give them a big print out of their tree. I'm planning on doing a big, a big print out you know like pdf that I can send to staples and make like a wall chart or something pdf that you can and and and I was just thinking about somebody asked the question recently of you about doing printing the fan charts. Yes, yes, the newest version of the fan chart that's in the tree apps doesn't have the print to pdf button anymore. Because of all the different options that I had ported over from the original fan chart app that does have the pdf button. That was one of the ones that was lower on my list because there's still a way to print from the fan chart like you. If you have a windows or a Mac you can usually just do a print screen or you can go file print and then print to pdf is often an option that's not not always on some computers but many computers you can add a pdf printer. And then you can sort of do it that way. And when they when they set up the tree apps that they're very clever because there's a way in the code which they've done that it doesn't print that header at the top you know the place where you put in your wiki tree name and the you choose the app in the drop down list. That stuff at the top doesn't actually appear when you go file print. It disappears. I haven't tried to print from the tree apps yet. Yeah, cool. So. What about you Betsy? Well, I, I recently just about two weeks ago I joined the Wales project. And so that brings my project commitment up to four projects. Wales, England, Scotland and Canada. Canada. So I've been thinking that I want to make sure that I'm helping each of the projects that I've made a commitment to. And so I'm thinking that I'm going to work on each project on a weekly basis. So, Scotland has a little mini cleanathon going on right now so I'm making sure that I'm doing some a little bit of that every day. And, and then next week I'll do something for one of the other projects. Lisa says save the Wales. You may have to explain this one. Sure, I can explain that. So the one to explain is I don't see the fan chart option. Did it right? Well, it's actually connected because the fan chart, the fan chart is now part of the tree apps. So if you click on the tree apps tab, the fan chart is one of those options in the in the drop down list. When I switch to the profiles leak I can show you that actually. So maybe that's a segue. Oh, but we do that. That was yours. So let's just go here. Is she very heavy on Wales, you know to have her. Thank you, Stuart. There we go. Okay. Thank me for that comment. So the profiles of the week are black comedians. This is black history month and yeah. So we have black comedians which ones are you most closely connected to and as always I have forgotten to check which ones I'm most closely closely connected to. I'm sure Mags will tell us shortly. Yeah, as soon as I get there. Okay, you don't have to. So the lead one is Eddie Murphy. So let me pop over to his and then I can show you how to get to the fan chart from from here so in Eddie Murphy's if you click on the tree apps tab right here. It will load up this this interface which is the list of all the tree apps and right at the top the first thing here is a drop down list and you choose you can choose which type of app you want to load and the default is the last app that you used. And this week if you've never used tree apps before they change the default from being the dynamic tree which looks like let me just open that up. This was this was the original. This is basically the original dynamic tree that's been in a wiki tree for forever. And the way it works is you just click on the plus sign and you just keep adding a set of parents all the way. But real Schmidt, who was one of our hackathon contributors develop a couples dynamic tree, which is looks a little, a little fancier. And so that now become has become the default if you haven't already selected it if this is your first time through. And it works very similar, but it shows couples at a time. Yeah, yeah, it's good. Yeah, which is neat because that's what you think of that and the other thing that's that's cool about it is you he has built in this drop down list so you can actually see the children, the siblings of the people below. There is multiple marriages now. And I don't see any of them here. Oh wait a second, Charles here right here to that little drop down there means that he had more than one spouse so you can see the list of spouses or something's married more than one time, but the couple here in the tree will be the father and mother of person below them right. You're 28 from Eddie Murphy and that's a cow is 30. Oh, okay. So to answer the question but where the fan chart went the fan chart is right here in that list. And so if I click on that, then it builds out Eddie's tree and there it is. And so the settings is where you can change various things. And one of the things I just added actually in the color section. I've now got an option so that you can color it by family stats and right now the only stat I have is age. So I choose that then you can actually see here let me just scroll up a little bit and zoom in a bit. You can see it color codes the people in the chart based on their the age how old they were when they passed away. I'm lucky to have you at wiki tree. Just saying. Thank you. Thank you. Absolutely. And then I've also added color coding by location. So if I do that. Oh, so I was going to do that. So is is red. This is just has read and flag and again now in the original fan chart app I would I had the ability to color to customize the colors. I haven't added that feature yet because well just there's just so much so many so many apps so little time. So I always customize the colors. I know and I'm going to add that but I haven't done that yet. I thought well first let's get it working and then we'll get it working better. But I what I have done is I've added the ability to change the color in the cell should have never shown me that. No, I can't make it stop. So one of the other things is I've had so I option there's a bunch of different choices so you can go by country. You can go by town town even region of death so that would be like the state or province. There we go. So there's North Carolina for you. And so on and there was one I added the birth and death country and the way that works is. Okay, so it looks like. Oh, maybe because they they all they're the same for each. What if it if I did someone else's if they're born one country and died in another country you'd have two tones you'd have the outer shell would be the birth. Color and the inner shell would be the the death color. So in a in a person's square or cell or wedge, there'd be two different colors to represent the two different. So for migrations and stuff. But for Eddie's, which is I guess a boring one to choose to show off this this feature. It's all about the state. So you either get USA. Lisa also pointed out that the wiki tree plus program would show those as suggestions for changing from USA to United States or however we list it so yeah. That's right. Well that's when I first added this feature to the original fan chart. Lots of people were were loving it because you do this and I mean it jumps right out at you. Especially like if you go by. If you show countries and then one of the countries is just the name of a village, then you know that they just haven't entered the full name and so that's a red flag that just jumps in your face to say well this needs to be fixed you know. And the cool thing is it's easy to fix is just click on a person's name, and then you link and it opens up their profile. Yeah, straight from the fan chart. So nice. And see it says 30 degrees. 30 degrees right there. Okay. So that's the little detour. Our rabbit hole of the morning. Oh my guilty. So many carrots there. Lots of carrots there. Okay. But we didn't even talk about Eddie. Let's get back to Eddie. Let's if we go back to his basic tree. We can hide his ancestors. And there we are back to his profile. So here we are born in the 60s. Of course, he like a number of these people are are still alive so their profiles on wiki tree are relatively short but there are links to either their IMDB page, or a Wikipedia article. The Eddie was son of Charles Edward Murphy and the Lillian Laney American comedian actor, excuse me, sorry, writer, singer, producer. Very notable. Born in Brooklyn, April 3 1961. I love it how, you know, wiki tree, you know, sorted makes it generic because they're living, but then the profile goes ahead and gives away the full details. But since it's on Wikipedia anyways, I guess it's, and they're notable, I guess it's not so much a secret so, but it's kind of funny that dichotomy there. His parents separated when he was three, and his father was killed when he was just eight. His mother married a second time, and the new husband helped raised Eddie and his brother. So Eddie, this is not unusual. A number of these profiles have tragedies in that parents one or both parents passed away early, and which is kind of kind of sad but it's a theme that we see. They began doing stand up in 76, Saturday Night Live, and then movies Beverly Hills Cop, that was the first one I remember seeing him in. Coming to America with a professor Shrek, of course, the voice of the donkey Shrek. Lots of awards and stuff. Oh, he has five children. Just right. He's got five children together with Nicole Mitchell, and then five other children with other people. Big family. Big family. A big family. Yeah, they were making a joke about that in the last awards show, wherever that was. Oh, yeah. Well, speaking of making jokes about people with large families, the next notable is Nick Cannon. Somebody already said what their relationship was to him and that they had a lot of birthday cards to send, so I guess we're applying to that. Yeah, so I'm 26 degrees apparently from Nick. And he is your closest. Is he my closest? Okay.   Oh, the Marcu side, yeah. There we go. And through Mariah Carey. Interesting. Through her mama as well. That's fun, McMurray. Yep. That's my Canadian grandfather. Excellent. So he's the American television host, actor, rapper and comedian. And I must confess, I did not know who Nick Cannon was because I don't watch, I know, I know it's crazy, but I don't watch either my wife or I actually watch some live, what's the live called, you know, reality TV, that's what you call it. So America's Got Talent and the masks here, even though they're singing involved and I'm a musician, those aren't shows that we watch. So I didn't know about Nick. So that was interesting. So I've learned something new. I feel, I know I live under a rock with regard to pop culture. I didn't know he was married to Mariah Carey. Yeah, we also knew I learned and then twins. Here's a comment from Terry Burks. Got it. Yeah, so he had, he had twins with Mariah, but all together there was a there's a link here. Where is it about 12 kids and counting a full list of all his children. And on that it will show the list of all his children and all the people he's had children with and and he's posted, you know, adorable sweet Instagram things with each of them and whatnot. There was, there was one sad one there. There was one of his children died at like five months or five months or five weeks. It was young, like they were under a year. It was very sad. But anyways, that's Nick. He was born cruthers also knows the Scatman cruthers born on. There you go. Meg's doing some scat for us. Yeah. I love him. Yeah, he was great. May 23, 1910 and tarot. Yeah, Vigo Indiana United States. Married in Las Vegas 1971. Relatively old age for, you know, first marriage, 61 and 52. His wife and passed away the 22nd of November on 1986 at the age of 76 and van noise. He was an American actor a singer a dancer a voice actor and a musician. And he was best known for this work. He was Louis the garbage man on the show Chico and the man. I didn't even realize that until I read that. But then I looked at his face. Okay, I can see that. He was also in the shining and went through over the cuckoo's nest. And what Chris very holo is all excited about is that he also was the voice actor who played the transformer known as jazz. In the 1980s Transformers cartoon. So this is a transformer who loved music and so would often sing during that and apparently. He also played in between takes on on set. He would all he'd bring his guitar and he would serenade the actors. Well, people did the management or the other crew did other stuff in between filming stuff. But so he was living with his parents to the age of 19 went to started performing in a speakeasy. So that's kind of cool. And then he when he went on to a radio show, they want the radio announcer wanted a snappier name than his, you know, Benjamin Sherman for others. And so that's why he's always called me scat man, because I do a lot of scat. So that's kind of cool. He just sort of made it up on the time and then that stuff became his own in the 30s did some touring then 50s made his first film and so on. Good guy. Samuel George Davis, Jr. or Sammy Davis, Jr. Yes, he's your closest. He and he's at 25 right because the other guy was 26 right. Is that right? Yeah, Nick. Nick, the other guy. Davis is my closest. Yeah. Yeah. Born. Meadowlark lemon is mine. Oh, nice. He's doing some globetrotting there. I've met him. I've seen him. Yeah. Really? That's the University of North Carolina. We hung out. We were hangers on for the UNC basketball team. And when the globetrotters came, we were actually at their practice section by accident, but we got to see them and meet them. That's amazing. Isn't that fun? That's amazing. He was so tall. Yeah. Sammy Davis, Jr. however, was not tall. No. I don't think so. Segway. We talked about rabbit holes. We're getting into rabbit holes. We haven't even got to yet. Yeah. We're in advance getting into rabbit holes. Wow. December, 2025 in Harlem. There's a couple that are connected with Harlem in this. Oh, speaking of connections, there's your map of the week. Rabbit hole, squirrel. There's the map. The red dots are birth places. The blue dots are death places, places where people died. And you can see there's only a few blue dots on the screen because a number of our profiles are living. And that's where the cool is now. So if you zoom in, it's going to redraw it at a closer resolution. And if I do it closer, it's going to actually put people's names. So there's Samuel, Sammy Davis, Jr. passed away in Beverly Hills. But if you look closely, like, look at this. Okay, so he was born, he was born in Harlem, right? So this, there's the arrow. So this is coming from Harlem where he was born. This is where he died in Beverly Hills. But look at, there's another arrow going there. He went to heaven. And heaven is where? Where is it? In Glendale. No. Glendale. Glendale is the cemetery. So because the cemetery is added to his profile, unless you're able to customize the map.  Isn't that cool? That's a wonderful feature. That's great. I think that's so cool. That's so cool. That is cool. And my guess is that Isabelle Sanford and, and Scatman are buried in the same cemetery right here. Yeah. I see that. Cool. I think he's doobie doobie shooing her. Could be. But anyways, back to Sammy, American singer, tap dancer, actor, pianist, drummer, comedian, part of the rat pack. Did lots of films with Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin. Love this picture here of him in his prime. And was that on Ed Sullivan? I don't know. Brooklyn Studios. It was taken at Brooklyn Studios. He is credited with breaking down a lot of barriers for the African-American community in show business. Yeah. Perry Como show. This is where it was from. Yeah. He's won lots of awards for that. Mr. Wonderful on Broadway. And then starting in the movies. The rat pack didn't. So where they, if the first to do an oceans 11, is it the same sort of. One is the more recent oceans. Same sort of storyline. Yeah. Yeah. I'm only familiar with the one with George Clooney. Yeah, I know. I was thinking that. Of course you are. We'll have to go back and watch the original. Yeah. Yeah. That's our homework for this week. Okay. Dr. in the Martin Luther King Jr. National Historic Site Park. Civil Rights Walk of Fame. Rhythm and Blues Hall of Fame. And we have a lot of. Lots of honors for him. Well deserved. Sadly. As a, as a singer, he died of throat cancer. Oh, not because he was a singer, but it's sad. A singer. Yeah. You know, That's my sad. Anyways, Sammy. Then can you guess from the sources who this one is going to be? Oh, yeah, you can because it says right there. Ted Lang. Take Lang the third or is it Lange? I would guess Lang, but I don't think it's Lang. Lang. Ted Lang. Was he the love boat person? He is. He's Isaac the bartender bartender. Yeah. The bartender from. Love. Manager. And then Beth. Way to go, Emma. He's also been as well as being an actor. He's also a director and a screenwriter. Globally recognized for his role as Isaac the bartender in the TV series, the love boat. Yeah, the love boat is one of those shows that it's been syndicated. We went like it plays in Italy when we went over to for a trip in Italy. It's on one of their TV stations, you know, dubbed in Italian or whatever, but. That was a fun show. Yeah. Guarded many awards, including the Renaissance man theater award from NA NAACP. And the heroes and legends lifetime achievement award. Born in Alameda County, California. Son of Geraldine Jerry Wilson and Theodore W. Lang. His mother became one of the first black women in San Francisco news and talk TV. So his mother was also a trailblazer. And his father was an actor in the showcase theater. Sadly, they divorced when he was young. It was living with maternal grandparents. That's another. Commonality between some of these profiles is being raised by grandparents. Majored in drama. And then, of course, the love boat is the was his big breakup. There we go. Yeah, there's your guy. George Meadow Lemon, the third. Son of George Meadow Lemon, the second. Presumably. Grandson of George Meadow Lemon. The original. The OG. Born in Wilmington. North Carolina. And passed away in Scottsdale, Arizona. At age 83. And. Okay. This is a really nice fulsome profile. Partly, I guess, because he has passed away. And so there's there's more stuff to add into. I love that picture of him. That's great. That's neat. Action shot.  You are noticing car commercials, the roads always wet. Because it reflects the car, yeah. Mm-hmm. So basketball player, of course. Most famous for being part of the Harlem Globetrotters, but also actor. He was in a number of shows. And near the end of his career, he became Christian minister. A pastor. He was a really good basketball player, you mean it was it was it was pure comedy when you're watching it and a lot of physical stunts, but you have to be really good to make it look that simple and natural. Yeah, so very impressive. His parents got divorced before he attended school. He remained with his father. This is something that seems to, like, I read this and I thought well that's like, you know, a TV movie. He built his first basketball hoop with a wire coat hanger and an onion sack and used a carnation milk container for his first basketball. I mean, maybe it's true. I mean, it must be true. It's written here, right? But that seems wild. He seems really devoted. Yes. But anyways, the profile is great. It goes through all about the great stuff he's done with the growth globetrotters and then he did other stuff afterwards. I mean, he kept on playing basketball well beyond when many others were given up and then talks about his turning to ministry in the end. So very interesting. Well done profile. Oh, and there's a well, the foundation. He and his second wife set up a foundation. I opened up. Loretta Mackie Mary Aiken, also known as Mums Mably, was born in 1897 in Transylvania. I didn't know you had a Transylvania in North Carolina. Yeah, Transylvania County. No, it's very, it's very high mountain area. Is it? Yeah, because when we lived when I lived in South Carolina, we would hear there is a weather alert for Transylvania County all the time. Wow. That's amazing. She passed away at the age of 78 in 1975 in White Plains, Westchester, New York. So Mums Mably, a famous stand up comedian known for her stage persona as a bedraggled old woman. She became well known in the 60s appearing on TV and in Carnegie Hall. She recorded over 20 albums of her routines and appeared in several films. But she had a difficult life starting out though. She was the youngest of 10 or she was one of at least 10 children of James Aiken and Mary Smith. At age three, she was the youngest in the household. Her father was a merchant and he also volunteered for the fire department, but sadly died when a fire engine exploded in 1909 and she would have only been 12 at the time, I think. Yes, 19, yeah, 11 at the time. She lived with her widowed mother in a store. She was raped twice and had two different children from that. She began a professional career at 15 and she caught her first bridge break when she was in Dallas, making $14 a week with a comedy team. And then when they hooked up with an agent and when she went moved to Baltimore, she made $90 a week. So that's good. Yeah, 1923, that's really good. Yeah, she played in the Cotton Club. That's big time. She appeared with Ligard and Strong. And that's where Scatman and Crothers did lots of scat and I can tell you that. Yeah, so I wonder if they probably crossed paths at some point, Scatman and Mabe's. What I really like here is- Another good Scat or Cab Calloway. That's right. Sorry, I like Scatman. She's after the name Jackie Mably in honor of a Canadian man named Jack Mably to whom she had been engaged. But they never married because he would not move to the U.S. and she would not move to Canada. So that's sad. That is very sad. Aw, come on. But then the marriage may not have worked out so well because she came out as a lesbian at the age of 27. Might not have worked out well. Might not have. But that made her one of the first openly gay comedians. And considering she was born in 1897, so that's 1925, she came out? Yeah. That was early. In that era, it was okay. It's when things started going way right-winging after that. Oh, that makes a lot of sense. Yeah, so in the roaring 20s, that was not as weird as what it became. Well, things were very, very free. Billie Holiday. There are other actresses that were popular in that era that were also LGBTQ plus. Oh, okay. I did not know that. Actors, too. Well, you think of the, yeah, you think of some of the movies that are set in that era, like The Great Gatsby and, you know. You think of The Left Bank. Yeah. You think of Josephine Baker running to Paris to perform. Once again, live cast becomes Canadians learn stuff about the world. About, about. So anyways, very good. And, you know, I love a good quote on a profile. Yeah. She's got two really good ones. A woman is a woman until the day she dies, but a man's a man only as long as he can. We're sure about that. She's referring to, I think I might, well, I don't know. Anyways. Maybe she means gentlemen. Yeah, maybe. Life is like a game of poker. If you don't put any in the pot, there won't be any to take out. Is that where they got life is like a box of chocolates? I don't know. You never know what you're going to get. If you don't, if nothing ventured, nothing games, same sort of idea. If you don't put something into it, you're not going to get anything out of it. It's like, yeah, having some skin in the game. Yeah. Yeah. I've got to take a risk. Moving on. I'm leaning over to check on the niece pup. Oh, the niece. In case you're wondering if I was just falling asleep. Oh, no, no. Because I'm taking too long here. Oh, well. No, no, no, no, no, you're not taking too long. I just checking. No, it's all these rabbit holes, but they're, well, we still have people. Wait, everybody drink to have some more. Richard Franklin, Lennox, Thomas prior. That's a nice long moniker for Richard prior. Born on the 1st of December, 1940 in Peoria, Illinois. Married a number of times to anonymous people apparently here. Or just, just don't have profiles with us or no, they, they must be living, right? Because they wouldn't show what they weren't writing. There you go. Um, uh, passed away at the age of 65, which is way too young. Yes. Way too young. Uh, in Los Angeles, California. Standup comedian, actor, writer, um, Riley regarded as one of the greatest standup comedians of all time. Um, one of primetime Emmy, five Grammy awards, Rolling Stone magazine ranked him first on its list of 50 best standup comics of all time. He was amazing. He was a freemason and a member of the Oriental Lodge, number 68, Chicago. His parents were Leroy prior and Gertrude L. Brown. Um, they became, they got married a couple of years after he was born, uh, but then divorced and he was raised by his paternal grandmother. Who also ran a brothel and was known for her toughness. So, um, No wonder he has a good sense of humor. Exactly. He had a difficult and traumatic childhood, dropped out of school. Yeah, I guess. Um, he dropped out of school at 14, uh, joined the army and, uh, became a, um, and he performed during the army. Uh, he performed along with Bob Dylan, went on to the Ed Sullivan show, were Griffin, Johnny Carson. Um, he wrote, he wrote material for Sanford and Son and the Flip Wilson show. I was going to say, I was wondering if Flip Wilson, I was just checking to see if Flip Wilson was one of the people in the list. He's not, but he should. He'd be fun to have. He also, um, he also, uh, did some screenwriting with Mel Brooks for Blazing Saddles. I didn't realize that. Yes, I knew that. Um, and of course, host of Saturday Night Live. And, uh, there we go. Married seven times to five different women because two, he married, uh, a second time each. So there we go. Enjoy your new desk. Dee is going to fly. She's getting wings. Oh, nice. She got a new desk. Yay. See ya. Um, he was in Superman 3. By the way, and my Rudolph, uh, born in the 70s. Um, American comedian, actor, singer, um, Jewish father, daughter of a woman who had one of the biggest ranges of singing vocals as a woman any ever. What's that? Her mother. Oh, her mother. Oh, her mother. I didn't hear her. Who's her mother? Minnie Ripperton. Yes. Okay. Remember, she had that song back in the 70s that went way up there and then back down. Oh, I'm not sure. She had a big range. Yeah. Her father was a Lithuanian Jewish composer, Dick Rudolph. And her mother, yeah, legendary singer, songwriter, Minnie Ripperton.  Oh. So she lost, again, someone who lost a parent young. Graduated from University of California, with a photography degree, interesting. But she was part of a comedy troupe and then went on to Saturday Night Live. Um, she did, uh, impressions of Beyonce, Oprah, and Charo. Speaking of the love-hook connection, I remember Charo. Yeah. One of the regulars on the love-hook. Yeah. Chiquita Badana. Chiquita Badana. Yeah. She was also famous for her role in Bridesmaids. Maya, not Charo. My real. Um, and has done a number of other ones. Russian Doll, Poker Face. Um, there's a show that she's on in Apple TV as well. Um, anyways. And there you go. Um. Appeared on Finding Your Roots twice, apparently. I'm wondering if. I think I've seen one of those. Yeah. I didn't know you could be on one. Yeah, I was going to say twice. What did they do? Well, my guess is that there was a list. They probably focused on her father and one of them. Oh. And then her mother on the other because they'd be in different branches. Right. Yeah. It's my guess. I haven't seen either of them, so I don't know. Um, that's one type of reality TV I probably would enjoy watching. So I should check it in. Oh, come on. Lisa Gervais, you're shooting me down. She says that Minnie Ripperton only had a four octave vocal range. Oh. Mariah Carey has a five octave. How can you have a five octave range?  Jeff Buckley had a five octave range. That's easy. Okay, go ahead. Wow. Down the rabbit hole. Everybody has. Jump in. Let's jump in for a dive. Uh, it's we, uh, Louise Gwendolyn, uh, Sanford. This is interesting.  She wanted her to be my grandmother. Yeah. Yeah, that's right. So she's most famous. Yeah. So the first role was wheezy Jefferson. Louise Jefferson, uh, the, the wife of George Jefferson, um, originally started, um, started all in the family as, as the neighbor next door, but they became so popular that they got their own show. Now, interesting. She appeared on the show, the all in the family. Um, as this accessory character way before her husband showed up. He was only mentioned because he was doing something on Broadway. He wasn't available, but the producer really wanted him for that role. So they just wrote it so that eventually when he was able, then they were able to get him onto the set and, uh, and star with, uh, of course. He, uh, he butted heads with, um, Archie. Um, a couple of times all the time. Yeah. There we go. And then the Jefferson's, um, went on for 10 years. Which is pretty wild. Um, she was, I watched it. I love that show. Sorry. I know. Yeah. We watched it too. Um, when we could. Her father worked as a chauffeur. Um, uh, she went, she started the Apollo theater, another very famous theater. Um, she married a house painter and, uh, she would start in guess who's coming to dinner. Interesting. Um, and then it goes on to talk about her, her role also in, uh, all the family and the Jefferson's. So passed away in 2004. Um, this was by daughter, two sons, grand and great children, great grandchildren. So nice. Yeah. That's a nice profile. And Wanda Sykes is the final profile of the week. Um, born in the 60s, woman. Very funny. Love her. Love her voice. She's got such a unique voice. You know, just the, the texture of her voice is just so neat. Uh, born March 7th, 1964. Um, just a couple of months after me. Uh, she's the daughter of Harry Ellsworth Sykes and Marion Louise Peoples grew up in Gambles, Maryland. Graduated from Hampton University, had several non-comedy jobs, including working for the NSA. Wow. Can you imagine her spying on people and then making sarcastic comments about what you found? What an unusual career path. I know. You should see these schmucks here. Yeah. Look what they're doing. Um, anyway, she'd never seen a stand-up comedy show, but loved watching comedians like Wippie Goldberg on TV. So decided to give it a try. Imagine that. Uh, went over well and then she was hooked. So she got hooked on doing the, the comp. Like she must have got, she must get adrenaline from doing it. Um, she had several televised specials, did some voiceover work, won a primetime Emmy as a writer for the Chris Rock show. I thought that was cleverly written that show. I like, I like that one. Um, and so she was married to record producer Dave Hall. And in from 91 to 98. And then she married a French woman in 2008. She came out about a month later at a protest against Proposition 8. And they have two children who are twins. Nice. Here we go. Here we go. That's all I have to say about that. All right. Tip of the week. Tip of the week. Tip of the week. Tip of the week. All right. Well, I'm going to start by actually, it all, it all connects. It all connects. Oh, look at the connecting. Yes. Yes. So we have an event coming up in March.  And that's an acronym for random acts of wiki tree. Yes. And we have a solicited nominations.  So, so fun. That's cool. That's a great idea. And at the same time that we were soliciting nominations, we were also recruiting rockers as we're calling them. Nice. Rockers are the volunteer wiki trees who are going to work on the lines for a whole month of these five people who have been randomly selected. I know who they are. And I can't tell you until I can't tell you. Yeah. So that is the motivation to five people have been selected. Yes. Yes. Do they know they've been they don't even know yet. I am. Is it too late to sign up to be a rocker to help out? No. Sign up. Yeah. There's a G to G post. So we can still take more rockers. That would be great. So what I'm going to the tip of the week is actually now that I'm done with that little public service announcement. I'm glad you did. Is how to post wiki tree things on your social media. We all we all do you know these cool challenges whether it's a fun or a week long challenge. One boy max. And we want to share that out with our friends and family. And it's really easy to do. So can everybody see everybody. Okay great. You can see my screen. I'm on I'm on the free space page for we will rock you. What I'm going to do is I'm going to go to the images. And there is the graphic that I want to use. Now I noticed the last time I did this you didn't see everything I saw. Describe what I'm doing. If you have a PC you could right click. If you have a Mac you can do that see do you go back and watch these after we do that. Yeah I watched last week because remember I left early. That's right. So I wanted to We told you to come back and watch the. So and in the process of that I saw. Okay, so I'm going to because I'm on a Mac I'm going to control click. And I'm going to save the image as. I'm going to save it into a folder on my desktop. Now I'm going to go to. Facebook. Yeah, because all those extra pop-ups don't show when you're sharing a screen.  They don't they don't get caught by the screen capturing the screen. So I'm going to. Give it off all my secrets when we're seeing your face. Sorry, I'm sorry. I mean. I did I did close it and it popped up again. Oh, I hate when it doesn't Facebook does do that sometimes. I thought of that mags and I did shut I did close it down. Well, we didn't say anything bad there did we. I don't know. I don't know. I'm Betsy. Okay, so I have my. My what I'm saying I'm describing to everybody what this is all about. And then I'm going to go to photo or video. And. Then I'm going to select it. And post it. What I did is. Is just a the tip of the iceberg compared to what. Azure did does in an 18 minute video. Yes, she she really is. I actually messaged her question on discord this morning last night. And I said as an aside by the way I just looked at your profile and when I grew up on wiki tree I want to be. There's a great answer. Yes. So I have a link to that. There is. There is the link for Azure's video in which she describes not just how to link to Facebook, but to Instagram, Snapchat, Twitter, Mastodon. I think those are the five. She also talks about how to add in accessibility features for visually impaired members of your social media following. So really, really great stuff on her video. And I Yes. And so just to close this up. That don't forget that on the 15 for 15. Where is it the fifth so I have to go back two steps. Max is about to be talking about the social media team. So you can take any of these images and post them to your social media. So there is a mission on the 15 for 15 list where it challenges us to share 15 question of the weeks on social media. So now you know how to do that. And that is showing us the graphic for next week's question. Which is do you have New Zealand ancestors or New Zealand connections. That is so cool. So that's fun and it's a good thing to share WikiTree. We'll go straight on. Let me get my screen share up on the laptop than it is on the computer. It's asking me for a specific thing. Let's see if it will let me scroll through. So we showed Betsy showed that we could have the social media but for the week of Sunday, February 19 from the social media page Freedmen Bureau Friday is coming up. Question of the week is do you have any New Zealand family in your tree? One name study Tuesday one place study Wednesday project showcase. Don't know what project that is yet but that's on Thursday. Let's see connection finder coming up Friday, Friday night date night and meet our members will be up on Saturday and of course the live cast be sure to like us vote up the live cast let me get over to G to G very quickly so yeah do you see that we've got the Campbell DNA group project has come over to WikiTree that's huge big project that was that just showed up at my feed. Do you know a genealogical or historical society we should partner with WikiTree will we see you at Roots Tech I'm going to pop this up and the picture he put up I'm only half there okay you look over to the far right there oh you are I'm only half there so this is the crowd from 2020 the last time we all got together and oftentimes it's not just us in the pictures but people from the conference who show up we do like a team picture and sometimes we post the big picture of all the other people so if you show up in orange at the booth we will take a picture of you so most of the team will be there Ayo and Jamie Allish Brian, Julie, Mindy and Chris so if you've never met Chris Whitton he's kind of a fun guy to meet you know he really is a really nice guy and number of the project leaders Mags, me, Peter Roberts, Greg Clark Betsy Coe, Karen Lowe and Jamie Evans and he mentions in here that we'll be doing some fun stuff from the booth so we'll be doing some virtual stuff from the booth at a drop of a hat probably some of it bingo is going to be going on constantly and we're going to try and do this will be interesting we're going to try and do a play by play call as commentators on a bingo yes okay so Ayo and Whips out that card now people let's see if you can let's see how it goes we'll see how it goes we're doing livecast Saturday from Roots Tax on March the 4th and we will be doing it at 10 a.m. Mountain Standard Time so you're going to have to wrap your heads around how to figure out how to get in there at 10 a.m. Mountain Standard Time and we're going to try and do it from the booth if the audio is okay it's going to be crazy in the convention hall because there's so many people so that's the other thing we wanted to talk about because we will be seeing you from Roots Tax but if you're at Roots Tax come by the booth and say hi and let's check out the great list that Ayo and has put together for us so you can see what's happening the week coming up it's the week of the 17th and the 19th of course the weekend chat we're here right now as you're Julie navigating recent changes to her profile so as your Ayo and Julie will be doing that and then of course the round up is coming up and you can also check out the list on the social media page as well do you have something going on this week Betsy? No not this week when is your next one? My next one well it's getting a little shifted because of Roots Tax so it will be Sunday March 5th and then Thursday March 9th will be the next week in the zooms March 5th Greg and I will still be in the air We're hoping to be in the air for a part of it That's right So that is your weeky tree week in review the weeky tree round up the livecast for this Saturday we appreciate you being here and we really like the people who are watching us after the fact like Betsy occasionally apparently watches us afterwards I don't I would at least make sure to go back and upvote the video so we get those upvotes I have done that We'll see you guys next week same place Bye Have a great week everyone I'm working on it folks Just keep on waving There we go Hit the button


Hello there my beautiful lovely internet friends. Welcome to my car sitting in a parking lot where I just purchased fries for lunch because I make healthy life choices. I wanted to talk to you about something that's been going on over the last couple weeks and that is the fact that I think I am approaching being burnt out on what I'm doing with YouTube. I'm not quitting YouTube, I have no desire or inclination to do that. I love what I do but the particular process that creators have to abide by to make YouTube work after doing this for three years straight, after never taking, I don't think ever taking a week off, like ever, has begun to really wear down on me especially with other things going on in my life right now. I want to talk about that because I think a lot of viewers might not know what goes on behind the scenes with creators and maybe this has happened with other YouTubers you know where you see someone like on the rise and they're doing really good and they're like gaining a big audience and they're going and they're going and they're going and they just stop, they just ghost or they like come back two months later and they're like hey guys sorry I got super burnt out I guess I'm back now but you know I had to stop because YouTube rewards consistency and if you don't post not only are you not getting new views or new viewers you're also kind of penalized on a whole. If you are not posting for you know a couple weeks at a time you are jeopardizing literally everything that you have gained the way the algorithm works you need to be consistently posting videos like a couple times a week once a week you know if not more unless you're like a really large channel that is a very established base but for the most part for the average creator you have to be cranking out content constantly for the first three years of YouTube I did a video every other day and I really enjoyed that and it was amazing and it was a lot but it got to be a little bit too much so I went to like a video every three days and I was like we can make sure I'm doing at least two videos a week and I've stuck with that you know for for a while now even going through surgeries because I'm like you can't really stop if you want to keep the audience that you have and it's not so much that like people like you my dear lovely viewers are going to be like you didn't give me a video for two weeks well screw you I'm done with this it's that YouTube won't show you my videos like it won't recommend content out and that becomes problematic and so there's always this ongoing anxiety in the back of your mind that you cannot stop otherwise you will lose everything you've been working for and everything that you've been doing this for and there's been a lot happening in our lives in the last three months some things that I've mentioned some things that are private and I am worn down I'm doing okay my mental health is being taken care of but I am worn down and I just got back from two weeks of traveling which was good but a lot and some of it was very intense and it wasn't just like a vacation and I got back I'm like okay you took two weeks off you have to like dive back into this you have to get stuff done and I have just been paralyzed and so anxious and feeling like panic over this and as I was sitting in the drive-through line waiting for my fries and if we're totally honest I also did get a milkshake um I just had the kind of realization of maybe maybe just be honest with you my audience and let you guys know that it's really hard to take a break from YouTube I've taken two weeks off and I think I'm gonna take at least another week where I'm actually removing the pressure to have to come up with something um and maybe longer I'm not sure but I'm not disappearing from social media um I've been doing a lot with TikTok and Instagram which I really enjoy I feel like there's a lot less burnout with that because it is the algorithms just work differently and yes you have to be posting but there's a lot less effort depending on the video on that goes until like making a TikTok or an Instagram real or an Instagram post then then happens with YouTube but what you're gonna see uh in the next couple weeks you're gonna see a lot of shorts and if you aren't familiar if you look to your I picked this up like it had my phone I'm actually talking to my phone and if you go to the YouTube mobile app it's like the second button in at the bottom shorts it's like short form videos which is not how I originally used YouTube which might not be how you've originally used YouTube but I won't let you know that I'm gonna be releasing a lot of shorts um pretty much daily for the next couple weeks I have them scheduled out so I am going to be taking a break as these little videos are going up I don't believe they go out in your notifications feed so there's something you can you know look up or maybe they're pop up in in recommended videos or if you want to check out you know other people's shorts then YouTube starts recommending more shorts to you in general so if you want to see those short videos I'd love for you to check them out and then as I feel ready I'm gonna be coming back and posting my kind of bread and butter long form content which I love doing I love long form videos but I felt so much pressure that I have to do it and I have to do it good and I felt that pressure for like three years now that I need a breather where I allow myself the space to not think about it and just relax into the idea that yeah maybe my channel will take a little bit of a hit and that's going to be a bummer um but but additionally that pressure has also led to me not attending to other things like I need to like my patreon community which is the reason why I can do this I have not been consistent with you know content and communication and I genuinely feel not great about that and so I need to take some time to focus on that because it's what I want to be doing it's what I who like you all are who I want to be engaging with but um you know over on patreon that's a very special community that you guys have given me and I feel like I've been failing over there and I need some time to kind of reassess now I have been told that it's like silly to do these kind of videos um like don't just make announcements do things but I did want to clue you in on what is going on behind the scenes um I think that uh losing monkey um month and a half ago combined with having surgery a lot of personal interpersonal things that have been going on um the ending of the lawsuit which was super stressful just a lot of a lot of little things that are not the end of the world um like the kidney infection and the multiple ER trips and like medical trauma and all of that over the last couple months has just piled up and I'm going to allow myself the space to breathe and I hope um that I will see you as soon as I'm back here in you know a week or two um but yeah I feel like I'm rambling at this point but I wanted to invite you in to the process and what is going on and yeah if you want to see more of what I'm doing feel free to hit up Instagram or TikTok I might slow down on those two I'm supposed to see my best friend who I haven't seen for a very long time here in the next couple days and so I'm going to take some time off completely to hang out with her um some scheduled stuff will be going up but anyways dealing with some burnout YouTube makes it difficult and maybe this video was just my way of giving myself permission to uh you know actually take a break so thanks for listening if you made it this far I feel like I've said a lot of the same things over and over again and been repetitive but here we are all right now it's time for me to eat these french fries and return on to my normal daily programming of going to a few meetings and getting some stuff done before I head out to see my friend so I genuinely am so grateful for this platform and it's never something that I want to kill for myself because I tried to do too much with it or I didn't pay attention on my brain or my body when it was telling me hey you need to you know take a breather for a second so that's what I'm gonna do and I hope that's all right I love you guys I'm thinking about you and I will see you in the next videos and remember to watch out for those shorts um they're they're they're different okay I'm I'm still rambling but they're different you know YouTube is all about long form videos it's why I love YouTube but I think that there's a lot of value to the short form content it's like you know just 60 seconds or like a 10 second dumb amputee joke or whatever it might be um so I'm interested if you guys like those and if you do you know give them a thumbs up give them a comment and uh let me know what you think all right I feel like I'm losing my mind now I'm not even sure what I'm saying I love you guys I'll talk to you in the next video


Hello, this is Buona from Buona.TV, and today I want to talk about Warframe. Warframe is celebrating their sixth anniversary, wow, six years, congratulations, DE. Each year Warframe celebrates their anniversary by giving us a bunch of goodies naturally, right? We've gotten skins for weapons such as the Sibiris, the Furis, and the Dakra, and they're entitled Dex Sibiris, Dex Furis, and Dex Dakra in the past. We also got a Dex skin for the Excalibur frame, and it looks really good, arguably one of the best-looking skins in the game. For the sixth anniversary, we're getting some cool things for your ship. The Lassette. Am I pronouncing that right? Is it Lassette? Lassette? Lassette. We're also getting a Dex Excalibur Noggle. A Noggle is a bobblehead, essentially, that you can place as a decoration inside your ship. This event will run through April 10th, 2pm Eastern, so you can get all the old items as well as the new items for this event. In order to get the old items, you need to complete some tasks in-game to get those, but they're not that challenging. This is Buona from Buona.TV, a really quick update talking about the Warframe Sixth Anniversary items, log in today and get those right now. And if you enjoyed the video, please click that subscribe button and ring the bell for updates. Also, join our Patreon at patreon.com slash buona. You guys have a great day.