I didn't realize you guys were here yet. Hi, Megs. Oh! OK. Charles Dickens walked into a bar, and the bartender said, would you like an olive or a twist? Merry Christmas, everybody. That was gross. That was a grueling joke. A grueling joke. Oh. But you know, I like it so much. Can I have some more? Sure. Good morning, everybody. Going to run through how we got here first, Brian. Always here first in the morning. Sissy was up all night working on Winky Tree Act. Yeah. There ain't nothing wrong with that. Judy. Good morning, Judy. Judy, Judy, Judy. Howdy, y'all, from Christine Miller. The door is here from Missouri. Let's see. Misty, moisty morning air. Oh, OK. Does that mean you're crying? Yeah, really. And why is it we think that's going to take care of our tears? Chris Ferriero is here. Hey, Chris. John Tyner. Yoke is here. Hey, Yoke. I liked your answer to the question of the week. Pat Jackson. Patricia Jackson is here from Kentucky. Lisa Gervais. My neighbor. About 20 kilometers that way. Hillary is here, but not for long. Her son is going to be busy. But Hillary, stay long enough to hear the question of the week because your answer is the first one on the list. Not because I knew you were leaving, but because I'm doing yours first. Susie Carter is here. Foggy. Foggy morning in Minnesota. No snow. No snow in the ground, despite what Lisa says, there's snow in my yard and there's snow. Snow's coming to be here at three this afternoon. We will have a white Christmas. Will. Foggy snowing morning in Minnesota. I've already said that Hillary's still here. Let's see. My kids are coming tomorrow. It is not plus plus four in here. Oh, no, for Christmas Day. And it's supposed to snow Christmas. It's like minus seven here right now. Good morning from Chile from Vicki Blanco. Hey, Vicki. Lynette gestures here. Super. I have a super Wally that I don't shop in. Oh, Wally World. Okay. Let's see. Running down the list. Will it in Adams is here. Jeanette Isles. Hey, Jeanette. Always love to see you pop in. Let's see. Chris. Says SNL is not going to hire me. I'm heartbroken. Hey, Mary Maloney. Nice to see you. Robert Cowan is here. Okay. Margaret told just job jumped in and then. Whoever jumps in after this point, you're fine. We're going to switch things up again this morning because Betsy has a bun in the oven. Literally. Not literally. She's got to cook some stuff. To take to a Christmas party. Yeah, sweet. Cook. He's like, don't. I'm glad your mom's not watching. Oh, wait. Probably is. Um, Greg. Good morning. Merry Christmas. Merry Christmas to you. Happy Christmas to you. There you go. I'm going with. We're starting with. I'm going with. We're starting with. Photos and let me make this a little, this lovely photo, a little bigger. So this. Yes. John Thompson. With his wife, Kathy. Christmas 1981. At the Sunshine Coast of British Columbia. Um, Kathy and I with family bagging gift wrappings when the children pushed us into a chair and snapped us. Photo. It was special because my father, Grandpa Thompson had his blended family of seven grandchildren together. While I cooked a turkey with sage and sausage, sausage stuffing as he had taught me and Kathy prepared her specialties. Thank you for sharing that, John. Um, And then Brian Nash. Also known as.  Also known as. Most likely to arrive first to the Saturday roundup live cast. Um, Shared this really wonderful photo. Um, From his third great grandfather's profile. Are you going to switch the tab? Oh, yes. Thank you. No problem. Oh, that is amazing. I know. Yes. Oh, So look at that, John Nash and company. Um, City steam mineral water works. So, um, he writes, um, I know this is his soda factory in Halifax, Nova Scotia around 1880. I know very little of his life before he came from Ireland to Halifax in Halifax. He became a merchant and had the license of a recipe of ginger ale from Ireland. He was a prominent merchant and served as an alderman on the Halifax city council. And then his son also John Nash was the first Northwest mounted police. Police. Later RCMP, Constable reported as being killed in a line of duty. Oh, that's sad. Wow. Um, The skills of running a soda plant and the working with pipes were passed down as his son, grandson and great grandson, Brian's grandfather worked as pipe fitters at the Halifax shipyards. Um, And Brian goes on to say that the building, the John Nash and company building is no longer standing, But this is a very familiar landscape to him. And there are buildings. Um, In this photo that are still there that he wrecked. Is this in Halifax? This is in Halifax. Yeah. Was it destroyed in the explosion? Uh, he doesn't say that. He says it's been replaced by the city's hockey arena. How I know where that is. Yeah. Um, This picture is a link to a city that had an important part in shaping who I am today. And it shows my family's role in shaping the early history of the city. So, um, Yeah, I'm just, I'm just going to go over here. I went to John Nash's profile. Cause I thought it was so cool that he He had this, you know, proprietary ginger ale. And, um, Brian has an ad ad for the. That is very cool. Yeah. Oh, I love that. Belfast ginger ale. Well, Chris in the, in the chat was asking if this is where Canada dry came from. Uh-huh. Which is a ginger ale. Yeah. Well, And Lisa Gervais has posted that Canada dried and start until 1904. Oh. Oh. So this definitely predated that. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Very cool. Great. Um, So we have one more week of favorite photos. I kind of thought I, the two that we had were wonderful, but we won't. So, um, That's a high mark. Yeah. Look through those photos. Um, And then we have some, and we have two ancestors to celebrate. So, uh, the first of these is, um, I'll just get to the top here. Uh, John Eastcott. Um, so this was a Chris is Crystal James. Was she with us this morning? Hmm. No. See her name yet. Yeah. Cause I think she often comes. She does. Yeah. Um, so this is her third time great grandfather. Who was a Christmas day, baby? Oh. So born, born and died in December. Born on to us, Johnny Scott blues. Uh, 1824 was when he was born. Um, and he was the second of 10 children born in Devin, North Perth Perthawin Devin. Uh, and then as a young man, he emigrated 1850. He emigrated to Canada. Settled in Canada West, which is the part of the country that later became Ontario. Um, and then he married. Yeah. What? Married township. That's, that's where I live. That's my township. Wow. He died. Oh my goodness. Wow. Small. Going out to the cemetery today, aren't you? Oh my goodness. Looking for him out. Okay. I got it. I want to interject. Brian says that Canada dry Brian, we need to borrow some money. Try was his brother. Thomas. No way. Business partner and move to St. John. Okay. Some money, Brian. Wow. That's fascinating. Yeah. Because he does in, um, if you read John's biography, he mentions his brother Thomas as a business partner. So. Very cool. Um, Now back to John. Um, Crystal mentions John had suffered a great loss on May 3rd, 1855, when his parents, three siblings, a sister law, sister law and her four children were all lost when the bark John and emigrant ship was, it crashed on the south shore of Cornwall. Um, And the day it left, they were coming from, from England to Quebec. And it, it's a left, um, Plymouth at four in the afternoon and overnight it crashed into the manacles, which, um, so I actually, I looked into this a little bit. Um, so here we, here we have the map and here's Plymouth. And then the manacles are over here. Um, she was buried and many, many perished. Um, And what crystal has done, I think this is really wonderful. She has created a free space page, the wreck of the bark John and her goal is to, to put a wiki tree profile for every person who. Nice. Involved there. Nice. Beautiful picture. I love wiki trees, free space. Yeah. Absolutely. So this is a wonderful example of what you could do with a free space page and a project. Right. Yeah. And then our second ancestor to celebrate is Harris. Well, it's a couple. Harrison, also known as Harry Moore Smith, and Ruth Irene Dayton, who were married on December 21st, 1886 in Port Jefferson, Long Island, New York. So these are the great grandparents of Susan Ellen Smith. And so Harry was a drug pharmacist, and he graduated from pharmacy school in Brooklyn in right at the turn of the century. And there's I'm just going to share a photo of him that I thought was was really nice. This. That's nice. Yeah, but he looks quite young. I mean, it says after 1900. But we have that. And then Ruth, let me come over her tab. So there is Ruth. And Susan writes, Ruth was a Bible scholar and a member of the Baptist Baptist Church. Now, this may be laugh out loud. She refused alcohol. However, at Christmas time, she loved Mary Hagin's fruitcake. Ruth didn't know that Mary's cake was preserved in room. That doesn't count if you don't drink it, right? Sure. Everyone knows that fruit cake you cook it and then you pour the rum over it. No, I think it marinates in it. Yeah, because so the the alcohol content cooks out in the cooking process. So yeah, it just keeps the flavor, not the alcohol. I see. Yeah, we'll go with that. Okay. Ruth loves sweets and she tended to eat dessert before the meal. Well, if there was rum involved, maybe that was why. Sorry. Sorry, that's not her son, Orrin, followed closely in her footsteps. So here we have a there's a picture of Ruth. And there's a picture of Ruth and her son, Orrin, senior. So that's Susan's great grandmother and grandfather. And he also was a Bible scholar scholar and love sweets. And we have one more week for celebrate your ancestors. Mags or Greg, would you be so kind as to put the link for celebrate your ancestor the G2G post? If you put celebrate December in the search bar, it should come right up. Okay. Thank you. We I love these. I hope everyone loves these as much as I do. I love looking at these profiles, and hearing the stories and seeing the photos. So keep them coming. And lastly, we have a tip this week, which is may seem sort of elementary, but it was a good Murray was helping Murray Maloney was who's in the chat was helping me out on one of the new member Q&As sessions that we do on zoom once a month. And I had this feature disabled. And I sort of had forgotten about it. And it's so, so handy. The feature is this. So if here I am on my profile. And if I go to my either my parents, and I hover over their name, it will give me a little pop up. So and and it's great. I mean, it's nice. If you don't want to actually physically leave the page you're on, and just see the profile ID or quickly refresh your memory of things same thing for my mom. So this is this is a basic wiki tree function. So if you are not getting this, go go under my wiki tree, and then go to settings. And it's right at the top. Okay, so profile previews. So make sure that that's enabled. So that you have that very handy. That is handy when you're working on something and you just want to see if the thing on the page is what you need, you can really quickly do it without actually leaving the page. And for some reason, I had disabled it. I don't know if I, you know, had a finger twitch and I clicked it when I was on settings and it got saved. But it's so nice to have it back. Thank you, Murray, for setting me straight. Set up.  No, because I don't want to drop my coffee finger twitch. Good morning, Rob from Maryland. Got some more people popping in here at the last minute. Um, is that all Betsy? You've got pictures. I had two photos, two ancestors in a tip and a tip. That's amazing. Oh my gosh, we're going to be done so fast. That's a full house.  So, okay, Merry Christmas. Merry Christmas. Next week. I'll watch the rest on replay. Yes. Bye. Bye. Merry Christmas. Merry Christmas. And that takes us to the question of the week, which is what are your genealogy goals for 2024? And we're going to start with Hillary Gadsby. Yes, the pushing leaves. Um, I would like to have, don't forget to up both these, get up both these. I would like to have my one name study website lives so others can find it and contribute. Nice. Hillary, have you, are you not using wiki tree for your one one name free space page, the free space page? Even if even if you've got your one name study at a different site, I'm going to give you a really big good hint here. If you use wiki tree, one name study projects to work on your stuff, you can get more traffic to your other site by having a link because wiki tree does a really good job of putting that search engine optimization so that our pages pop up as the first or second or third top choice in those search engines. So it's a really good idea and it makes it more available and more visible to other people, which is a great thing. So Hillary, I love that. Get your one name study live so others can find it and contribute. I think you should certainly think about using wiki tree to help you do that. Even if you just have a placeholder page on a base page with links off to it, that still gets the one name name out there and people will see it. Brian Nash, bringing in some information on ginger ale this morning. All right. Yeah, already. Spend more time updating my tree on wiki tree. I often spend much time helping others with their genealogy projects and I forget to work my own. But isn't that the wiki tree way? It is. That is what happens. That's like one of mine, too. Me, too. I want to work more on my own stuff. I have accumulated a lot more research preparing for some upcoming videos for 2024. And I need to get the info transferred to wiki tree. Do it. Do it. Thank you. Chris Jacques is to find the true parents of Richard Horton. Since DNA is established, he is not of Barnabas Horton lineage. Find my elusive secretive family line. Well, yeah, doesn't everybody is, is that the skeletons in the closet? That's took 26 years and a lucky break that located my great grandfather. I agree. I agree. And the collaborative aspect of wiki tree has blown up my family tree. Just my limbs in wiki tree are so big. It's wonderful. I love all the connections I have. Learn how to use wiki tree and research the lives of my Irish ancestors in Canada and Michigan in the 1800s. This is from S. Greskovich. We need to invite S to Saturday morning. Yeah, because we could probably find some Irish ancestors in Canada for her. I have a couple. Coulter tree connection, biography and cleaning. I like that. Yes. Biography and cleaning. So Vernon tree, Hampson tree. I'm going to jump over here. My goal is to learn the proper way to cite sources. Now I noticed in another post that people for a wish list, they wanted wiki tree. What do you, it's next week's question that I actually was preparing for for today. So Aon sent me straight. Thank you. Um, is that, um, citing sources, they want wiki tree to use the Chicago style only. And that's a great idea. And I think wiki tree does incorporate that into the sourcing. Do you know the specifics of that, Greg? No, I don't know. No, great. That's a great thing. Learn the proper way to cite sources. And I suggest that you use the wiki tree sourcer app to help you do that. And that app is in the upper right hand. You can click on apps to the drop down. I can scroll up if I don't make anybody sick here. Um, if you go up here, find apps, scroll all the way to the bottom and to wiki tree sourcer. And that will actually help you configure those. And, um, I don't like the way some of the formatting is on it because it adds some breaks in there that I would rather it look like the source without the breaks. So I hold it. There's ways to set it up so that you could take line breaks out so you can just have it all as just one lump instead of having it return and look pretty. So wiki tree sourcer and there's lots of ways that you can personalize it and still have it show the proper citations. So yeah, that's great. Now, have you used that to also get source citations from FamilySearch? Yes. So do you prefer that through the way the copy citation button works on FamilySearch? Yeah, well, no, I don't ever use that copy. So I just cut and paste it from FamilySearch normally. If I'm on a record that's not, that doesn't have a listing in FamilySearch because you know FamilySearch has lots of records that are like just there and they're not indexed or put up just there. That's one of those I try and figure out how to do from the record. So speaking of FamilySearch, Anne Sherwin says that FamilySearch has digitized three of her family histories published 30 to 40 years ago, but the content is not accessible online due to copyright restrictions. I hope to release them in 2024 as soon as I can recheck them, end up and update the erotic sheets. And once you republish them, you can give permission to FamilySearch to publish your versions. So that would make them available for other people. Wow. And Oliver is our wonderful people. I have a WikiTree goal and a general process goal. WikiTree have trees on the other three other major commercial sites. Although relatively small, they're fairly well sourced. Maybe that's why they're small. Yet I have only created 40 profiles on WikiTree so far. I don't like to create one without a decent biography so far. So for 2024, I'd like to get the number higher and a minimum of 100 or more. And the process is three commercial sites getting to be expensive. I'd like to drop at least one of them for 2024. It's not obvious which one. For example, Find My Past has fewer people in it, but has some sources. Yeah, you got to figure that out, Charlie. You got to work on on what your needs are. If you have a lot of work in England and the UK and Ireland and Scotland, then you got to really think about keeping that Find My Past because you're gonna need to be over there. I know that Ancestry has documents, but they don't have everything that Find My Past does because Find My Past is a UK based thing. Lots of work. It's just like genealogy. You got to figure out where you need to look for your stuff. So yeah. And this is a good question. I hope some people can give you some ideas on that as well. Family search is still free. You can get stuff, but family search and ancestry sometimes don't have the same information as well as Find My Past. So good luck with that. And I'd actually like to hear what you decide, Charlie. I've heard some people are sort of using the sort of the same model that they use for streaming. You know, they'll subscribe to one site to stream for a month or, you know, like so with genealogy, you can subscribe to, you know, a limited subscription to Ancestry for a bit, then maybe a limited subscription to MyHeritage and work around that. The other thing works for you. Yeah. The other thing I see people doing is they wait for the ancestry to go on their big sale at Christmastime. So they shut down their account and then start up a new account so that they can take advantage of the half off fee. I did that the first year I signed up for Ancestry in 1900. Yeah. So and that's the other thing is look for when those sites are having deals and you might be able to pare down based on those deals. So that's a good idea. Got a question here from Lisa Gervais or an answer. Her genealogy goal, I think I just heard a grandchild, my grandchildren just arrived. Oh no. Yay. My genealogy goals for 2024 are take over the Macklin, Macklin DNA project at FTDNA. Are you going to do that with a trebuchet? Yeah. Is this something we can watch? She wants to be the admin of that project. And she's actually talked to me about it, about the process of doing that. And that's a process of there's actually an adopt button on projects that are that are fallow or lying just not being worked on. And you can actually click on the joint adopt. You have to go through the process after you do that and sign up to be administrator and go through the process of becoming a project administrator. But yeah, I'm excited that Lisa's going to be doing that. That'll be fun. Make significant improvements to the Macklin one name study Macklin. I've got to pronounce that correctly. Continuing adding missing family members to wiki tree where I find them concentrating on my own ancestors families. There's that thing again about working on your own family. Write more about my ancestors scan and label more physical photos that I have and share them with family members. And a great way to do that is to put them on wiki tree and send them the link and they can see a whole album. You could set up face pages space for those and continue to connect Canada Canadian Nobles. I love following the talk in the Canadian project. They went off on the blueberries. Thank you, Judy Stuch yesterday made me drool all day long watching the talk, but they it's fun watching the discourse in the Canadian project about the stuff they're doing.  My genealogy goal for 2024 is to complete the personal mini project that I started in the beginning of this year and add all victims of the Putin put in a sorry, I'm not pronouncing it correctly to wiki tree and connect them. So if you want to know what that is, he left us a link. So we go over to the Wikipedia page and it doesn't give you a pronunciation. Sorry. But it was a raid in in it was a Dutch raid, not see occupied Germany in the Netherlands. And it was because they a group of people had attacked a vehicle carrying personnel for the Wehrmacht. And they so they took 602 men from this village. And after the war, only 48 of them returned. So that's a very noble thing you're talking about doing there, Yoke. I love that. I love that.  I commend you for this project. Great work. Carol Baldwin says to stay alive yet another year that had my family and help and support others with their genealogical quests. There you go. And that's that's like the other side of me, Greg and Brian talking about we want to work on our own stuff. Yeah, but you can't work on your own stuff on wiki tree without helping other people. I can't. I can't. I can't. There's there's rabbit holes to go. Let's see. I was laughing at the first line to stay alive. I hadn't even thought I'm putting that isn't a wish that's sort of implied. Stay sane. How about that? Yes, stay sane. Harder. Yeah, especially for me. Check out all the profiles in my wish list in my tree that have location categories. Liz Schifflett, who is a distant, distant, distant galling cousin. So Liz Schifflett is going to be working on categories, which is a great idea. When I first joined wiki tree, that's one of the things that I did first was work on categories for South Carolina. Yeah, let's go. That was it. That was absolutely all of the question of the week questions that I was going to go over. Wow. Look at us. Yes, look at what we've done. I know. Ever the sorcerer could build a citation from Google box. Yeah, I like the sorcerer. You can configure it so it makes I like the sources that I used in high school. Sorry. Like a minute of little block form. OK, Greg. Hello. Yes. Well, let me share my screen. I should have had this up earlier, but there we go. OK.  Are you going to show us? I am. I am. So for all the elves and there's a bunch of elves who are in our chat right now. And hello, elves. Good to see you this morning. We have our open our kickoff event and one hour and a half at 12 noon Eastern time. So an hour and a half from now, whatever time that is in your time zone, it's an hour and a half from right now, 12 noon, 5 PM, UTC, whatever. There's a Zoom meeting. Now, unfortunately, I greeted every single elf personally and gave them all the wrong URL for the Zoom meeting. That sounds like something I would do, Greg. Yeah, except for the very last elf number one 25. She has the correct link, but everyone else has the wrong link. OK. Yeah. So in the discord, for those of you. So the hundred, a hundred out of the 125 elves have discord, so I put the correct link in discord and I need you to tell me that you got that link so I don't have to re-email you. But I've emailed all those who don't have discord and I'm very excited. I'm excited to marry about this. So anyways, please go into discord, check to find the link and then put them up. Just say got it so that I don't have to email because once this is done, I'm going to have to go through everyone who hasn't already received the right link and email the correct one. Do you see what your friend said? Oh, I've had Santa. I was a bad Santa. I was I was so excited about getting this project all organized. I put the link in the right place, but not. There is two places I needed to put it in anyways. But let me show you. There's something exciting we're doing this year that we have cookies and milk for you this this year. No, no, no, fruit cake out for you. That's right. Yes. So we have over 300 wishes. It's it's wild. This is really exploded. And now we have elves who are expert in a number of different things. We have a couple elves who actually are expert in Norwegian genealogy and we have one wish or two wishes about Norway, but not a lot. We have some some Dutch researchers and I don't know if we have any Dutch wishes. So, you know, we could do with a few more of those to challenge our elves in that regard. Brian has a really neat, unique wish that he's made. And so I'm hoping that some people will will follow up with that. But one thing that we're doing this time is where I'm stealing a page from Azure and you know how what she did for the wiki tree day. Well, we're doing something similar. So just watch this. On the 12 days of Belf, miss, what is it that I'll see? Some secret sight of fun from wiki tree. Yes, join us for the 12 days of Elf, miss, where each day we will reveal one wish by a secret Santa elf starting on December 26th, right here on the wiki tree YouTube channel. See you then. There we go. All I can imagine is Mr. Rogers helped you put your clothes on. Yes. So we're going to have a live cast every day during the 12 days of Elf, miss, starting on December 26th, leading. And the 12th day of Elf, miss, is two weeks from today, January 6th, when the whole live cast will be about revealing all of the goodness for the the secret Santa and the wishes and stuff. So we're all very excited about that. And so join me in now one hour and 25 minutes for that. All of you elves and because we have over 300, you know, we will take a few extra elves. If anyone who hasn't signed up to be an elf and wants to be, the cutoff is 12 noon, so go to that post and sign up to be an elf. If you leave us, go, go. And I promise if you sign up, I will give you the right URL to join the Zoom meeting. And if you can't join the Zoom meeting, we'll put the link to it. So it will be recorded so you can watch it after the fact. But let's go back to the profiles of the week. That was that was an odd segue. I know it was I know it was odd from from all. We're all we all we wanted you to wear that outfit for the whole thing today. I know, I know I should have put this. I should have put my hat on while I was talking about this. You know, I thought about running out and getting a hat. I don't have an elf hat. Yeah. Well, anyway, I have one here. So go for it. I guess I'll wear them for during this because we're talking about Mrs. Claus. So, you know, an elf hat is appropriate for that topic as well. So all of the all of the profiles of the week are actresses who have played Mrs. Claus in various incarnations. So let's see if we go back to I think I need to. I was on the wrong. Come on, go back to I love that we aren't we don't we're not worried about gender in our list. We're not. No. Why is that? What do you mean? Collect connections to Mrs. Claus, like Barry Humphries. Oh, Dame Edna. Yes, one of my favorite comedians. Oh, yes, he's half on he she. Anyways, so we are the first one in the list was Angela, Angela Lansbury. Now, we've talked about Angela Lansbury before, so we've gone through her profile a lot. But just to give you the cold notes, basically, or Cliff notes, if you're more familiar with that term. She was born in 1925 in Middle Six, England, UK and passed away just a year and a year and a bit ago, 11th of October, 2022, at the age of 96, grand old age, Los Angeles, she was one of those I thought was going to live forever. I know, I know. And she did. She I mean, she she her career was was long and long and well-established and, you know, she she kept on working for ages, you know, and she did a great job. I just loved loved her. She was married twice, Honorary Academy Award, Lifetime Achievement Award, Primetime Emmy, 18 Primetime Emmy Awards. I first got to know her work because, of course, murder, she wrote. But she had done lots of stuff well before that. And she was all the Agatha Christie stuff she did. Yeah, yeah. And the what was the the movie? Like, she's a wonderful singer. One of her first movies was she was a singer and a dancer, too. And a dancer, too. And which is so amazing, because, of course, the after murder, she wrote then the other big thing that the younger generation will know her younger, I say, relatively younger, I guess, is in Beauty and the Beast when she was Mrs. Potts, of course, right? And and she she sang the that huge song from Beauty and the Beast, which is still one of I think one of the best versions of that. You know, that song's been sung lots. Taylor Taylor's all this time. But here she is picture of young actress and whatnot. And she played Mrs. Claus in the movie called Mrs. Santa Claus. There you go. So what I've done is I found I found a screenshot for each of the actresses. Yeah, that's cool. So which is kind of neat. Yeah. But I didn't want to mention one other thing. And that is that there is a new tree app. And I'm just going to show it to you quickly. Every week with this stuff, Greg, this is not my work. This is someone else's. This is Ian's work in the call. So he has created a family group app. So because I was that was I've just been using it, it automatically popped up. But if you saw that and I just skimmed over it, I was like, what is this new thing? Go ahead. It is really nice. So anyways, if you if it opens up to the fan chart or somewhere else, just you just click on the drop down and you find family group app. So there's a there's a family group view, which is a different sort of similar idea of a different app. But we're going to get the family group app. And when you hit go, it'll pop up here. So the primary person, it shows a whole family, a family group, you know, hence the name and the person that you chose is the person up top. And then it'll choose there if there's multiple marriages, which in this case there is, it'll chose the first one. But if you want to choose, if you want to look at her other marriage, then you would just click on you find the other marriage line. And I had to ask Ian where this was. I was like, blind, you know how when there's so much text and your eyes just sort of glaze over and you skip things that is right there, but you just don't see it or you don't register? That was me. It was right there all this time. But the neat thing is each of the people's names is a live link. So if I click on Peter Pullinshaw, which is her second husband, it'll open it up and make him the primary along with Dame Angela Lansbury and show their family unit. Now, so it's all the details about him and her. And so Ian's app, if there is a baptism record in there, he'll actually pull that in and add that to the sheet. And the same with the burial and whatnot. And but also if there's research notes, it'll show them there. It'll list all the sources. And if you don't want them, you can always close up the triangle and minimize that. But if you want to open them up, you can show all that. And of course, there's a print button there, so you could print that out. It's really nice. And so all of and all of the links for names, if you want to go, you want to if you want to sort of navigate the tree and go up through. So there's the father and you want to go up to see his stuff and whatnot. So it's a really impressive app. So I would recommend you spend a little time and investigate that. So thanks again for that. Moving on to our next. We have a we have a comment. I noticed this this morning that some of the week tree elves are trying to get things done so they have Alph Day on Christmas Day. Yes, yes, they changed over some of the stuff. Oh, because of week already, which is why Mary Humphries is showing up in the list. Oh, OK, well, let me put the link for. The week, though, what I'm looking at. OK, I just put the link there. Yes, Sandra O'Connor. I was like, did Sandra O'Connor play? No, no. Yeah, so they they people are having trouble doing the link. OK, so Lee up is this this you? That's me. I just put it there. Yeah, that's that's the link from this current week or the one that I'm looking at right now. Yes. So all of the closest matches that I have listed for us are not going to work. Oh, well, that's sad. Interesting. Well, when did they switch it over? Because they switched over the question of the week last night or yesterday, which threw me off, if you remember my comment. Yes, that's right. But I thought I clicked on this this morning. I mean, maybe they may be working away. They may be just trying to mess with us because it's the new year. It could be. Maybe they're messing with us because you're wearing the hat. Maybe it's the hat. I don't know. OK, you're having fun. They are.  Yeah, that's true. Yeah, even two. Let's take two days off for Christmas. Yeah, yeah. Delta Burke, formerly Burton, born and married to Gerald McCrany. So last name currently, I guess, is McCrany. American actress and author. Most remarkable role was that of Suzanne Sugar Baker on the TV sitcom Designing Women. I never watched that one myself, but I never. Oh, sorry. No, I'm sorry. No, I love that show. Yeah, fun. Yeah, I probably would have liked it, but I don't know. Guess it just wasn't on at the right time for me. But other roles, including Mrs. Claus in the live action Christmas movie the year without a Santa Claus, born in Florida and married to Gerald McCrany and still living. So here's here's her with Santa Claus. Moving on, someone from Canada. Doris Irving Rimshaw Carradine. Yeah, she was born in 1919, 3rd of May, 1919 in Peace River, the Grand Prairie Census Division in Alberta, Canada. When Alberta was just a young province, she died 18th of May, 1971 at the age of 52, which is much too young, much too young to be passing on in California. She was a script typist for Hollywood Studios and an actress. She married her fifth husband, was John Carradine, fifth and final husband, I think, in 57. She played Mrs. Claus in the 1964 cult classic, holiday movie called Santa Claus Conquers the Martians. Chris. Oh, my goodness, if that is anywhere, I mean, if that's on YouTube, someone has to give us the link. Chris Beriello, have you watched that movie? Oh, my goodness. Yes, he says. Santa Claus Conquers the Martians, that is hilarious. Anyway, she was born in Canada, but she did move in 45 and became a US citizen, 49. So this is why she died young. She died tragically in a house fire. Oh, that's horrible. Oh, wow. That is dark. And she was buried back in Grand Prairie where she grew up. But here's a, this is a picture of her from the Martians. Let me see that. There we go. Mrs. Claus, ready to clobber some Martians. So was she the mother of all the Carradines?  Kung fu. Like, as in... Yeah. Oh, I don't see any children list. Oh, you have them all forward to the right. No, okay. I do have them to the right. Gotcha. She must have been their stepmother. No, Keith. Keith Carradine, who was the... Is there more than one where's an actor? Yeah, there's bunches of them. Keith is one that I know of. Anyways, he was born in 1940 and they didn't get married until 57. So she was, yeah, she's a stepmom. Stepmom. Judy got that faster than you did. What's that? She's even lagging. Okay. Phyllis Diller. She played Mrs. Claus? I know. Did you have her pegged as Mrs. Claus? No, no, I did not either. Did she have her cigarette and her holder? That's right. So interesting. And we've talked about Phyllis Diller before and her, so only two marriages there. So she was born in 1917 in Lima, Allen County, Ohio, passed away in 2012 at age of 95, another one who lived to a grand old age. There's some interesting similarities between the profiles of the week. One of them is that many of them have lived a nice long age. So playing Mrs. Claus leads to longevity in many of them, but not all. So that's nice. The other thing is, before I found, when I was practicing the app, remember I made a deal, I said I couldn't find the other marriages.  Right. Because when I first went on Angela Linesbury's in the Tree app, I couldn't figure out how to switch to the second husband. I knew she had a second husband, but I couldn't figure out how to switch to that page. So I thought, well, I'll find another profile that only has a single husband. So of all these profiles, everyone who's played Mrs. Claus, they've either had multiple husbands or no husbands, or at least no husbands listed on WikiTree. It's kind of hard to compete with Santa. Yeah, I know. Yeah, I'm really good. But yeah. So anyways, that was a weird thing. But the app wasn't broken, I was broken. And I figured out, thanks. Anyways, so Phyllis Diller lives in 95, so that's another similarity. And the other similarity that a lot of them have is that her Mrs. Claus was actually from an animated show. So she played Mrs. Claus in, and there she is. In, and to get the name, she was playing Mrs. Claus and the robot chicken. Chris? Let me just see if I've got the right exact, the robot chicken Christmas special is actually the official name of the robot chicken Christmas special. All right. Isn't that? I haven't seen that come up on my viewing screen. No, there she is. She must be given the robot chicken, what for? Or she's being Wonder Woman. That's also the Wonder Woman pose. Oh, well, I don't know. That's pretty creepy. Isn't that wild? Okay. Moving on to June Lucille Forêt. I pronounced it with a French accent because our connection is through a French person. Seventh cousin too. Yeah, I know. That's pretty close. That's pretty darn close. Pretty darn close. But she was born in Massachusetts, in Springfield, Massachusetts. Eric Hanlon is making sure that we understand it's an adult animated series. Oh, is it? Okay. We'll take that under advisement. So this is not something I put Sophia down in front of then. Probably not. No. No, okay. So she was born in Springfield, Massachusetts, 1917. Daughter of Morris Forêt and Ida Robinson. She had Russian Jewish ancestry from her father and her maternal grandfather as well as Kibikwa, and just ancestry from her maternal grandmother. So there we go. Wanted to be a dancer, sent her to classes, but she had to drop out. Her first broadcast in 1930, the H-12, did regular radio acting from there. And so this is very cool. So she's another one who did voice acting like many of the others, and like Angela Lansbury voice acting for Mrs. Potts and Phyllis Dillard just there. She was Rocky, the Flying Squirrel, and Natasha. Oh, Natasha! And she was Cindy Luhu from the Grinch. From the Grinch! Yes! I can't reconcile Natasha and Cindy Luhu. No! Those are polar opposites. That's the epitome of innocence and the epitome of evil. I know, I know! But she even went on Jokey Smurf and Magica De Spell from DuckTale anyway. And anyways, but she also played Mrs. Claus. So there we go. So she's another one. And this is from the Looney Tunes Christmas Tales. Now I don't know if Mrs. Claus was Tweety Bird, you know, because you know how they, like they take their characters and then the characters sort of portray someone else, right? So I'm not sure which one of the characters was Mrs. Claus if it was Tweety Bird or, because the rest of them are fairly male, right? Looking, I'm guessing, I don't know. But anyways, that's where she loaned her voice expertise to. Then it was on to... He never thought he would see a robot chicken reference here. Who knew? Virginia Lee Gregg also played Mrs. Claus. She was born in 1916. A lot of these actresses born in the 1910s. So that's another similarity here. This one from Virginia from Harrisburg in Illinois and passed away at the age of 70. Not bad. In 1986, in Encino, Los Angeles, American actor, actress, character actress who appeared in radio dramas, televisions and films began her career as a bass violinist. So if Betsy was here, we could appreciate the musician here. And then she switched to radio. We can't appreciate you. Well, I appreciate it too. But Betsy would have also appreciated it. She did voiceover work and as the mother of Norma Bates in the psycho movies and cartoons. That's kind of creepy. But she also did play Mrs. Claus in... And what was the name of the... Let me just go back to here. She played in a Flintstones Christmas. So here's Mrs. Claus from a Flintstones Christmas. Did she go from fa, fa, fa, fa, fa, fa, fa, fa, fa? Oh, that's a really brown Christmas. Oh, yes, yes, yes, you were... Fred Flintstone, yes. Yep, I'm confused again. That's okay, okay. Now, Goldie Hawn, I didn't remember that she played Mrs. Claus. But she played Mrs. Claus and her partner, Kurt Russell, was Mr. Claus, Santa Claus. And I'm pretty sure we've talked about Goldie before. My distant cousin, born in the 40s, living person. So we don't have her exact date here, though they may have put it down here. No, they didn't. It's funny, you know, it's funny in the notables when the wiki tree, you know, privatizes their date and just gives the decade. And then the first line of the biography gives the exact full date and location. I love that. But of course she's an American actress, well known, done lots of stuff. And also a dancer and whatnot. And so her claim to fame in this category was the Christmas Chronicles. And there's actually a sequel to it as well, which is I have the image here. Kurt makes a really good... He does. ...enage computer and Santa Claus. Yeah. So there we go. Moving on to June Lockhart, who is known for many roles. She was the mom in Lassie. She was also lost in space, the doctor, Maureen Robinson. And she was also in pediclete junction. And so here's some pictures of her from... Oh, she was in pediclete junction. You're right. Yeah, so here she is as the mom in Lassie. There she is, the scientist from lost in space. And I guess this is her in pediclete junction, right? Well, it says June Lockhart is Janet Craig and Higgins dog from the television program, pediclete junction. At least that's what the caption says. Yeah. That's another show I hadn't seen, so... Here's Uncle Joe, he's a moving kind of slow. Oh, yes. That's from the opening song. Oh, okay, yeah. I don't think it... Our local station didn't run pediclete junction on reruns. It did other ones. Yeah, it was more Appalachian. Oh, was it? Anyways, there's a picture of her as Mrs. Claus. And do you recognize the person talking to Mr. and Mrs. Claus? No. Okay, well, if I had to... There were a number of different pictures. This is the... I like this one because of... She's got a nice sort of motherly Mrs. Santa look on her face, so I chose that one of the ones. But there are other ones where she's looking straight onto the camera, and you recognize her as one of Charlie's Angels. Oh, there you go. Lisa says it's available on Canada on reruns. Oh, okay. Very cool. Teddy Moore was in a Christmas story. She played Mrs. Claus in a Christmas story and also in Mistletoe Over Manhattan. A Christmas story. That's the one with the lead lamp. Oh, okay. Yep. Isn't that right? In the Red Rider BB Gun? The Red Rider BB Gun, yeah. So I'm not sure if she was Santa... I think it was the Christmas over... Mistletoe Over Manhattan is when she was Mrs. Claus. I'm not sure if she was Mrs. Claus in the BB Gun one. Yeah. But anyways, born around 1946 in Toronto, Canada. There's our Canadian content. And her father was a Scottish-born economist and her grandmother was... Theat was an actor, father also an actor. And anyways, so her claim to... There she is in Mistletoe Over Manhattan with Mr. Claus. Mr. and Mrs. Claus. Nice screen grabs. I know. Yeah. They worked out well. Mary Frances Reynolds, better known as Debbie Reynolds. Debbie Reynolds. We love Debbie Reynolds. We mentioned her last week too, didn't we? We did. Yeah, okay. We mentioned her. Those cards from the... Yeah. So anyways, distant cousin. And it's coming up to the anniversary of her and her daughter's passing, right after Christmas. Remember, Carrie died one day and then her mother died the very next day. They were such close friends. Yeah. As well as mother and daughter. Yeah, that's nice. Nice to remain friends. She became friends again. I'm not sure if there was a rocky patch in the middle. Everybody has it. Everybody's a teenager, right? Yeah, that's right. That's right. Anyways, we have talked about Demi Reynolds and we all adore her. So I won't go into huge details, but 84, not bad, but it would have been nicer. She and her daughter had lived longer because we enjoyed them. But her claim was, she was again, another animated Mrs. Claus. And the movie that she was in was Rudolph the Red-Nosed Ranger, The Movie. The Movie. The Movie, yes. So there she is. And then we have two more. Miranda Richardson, who's done lots of stuff. She was born in the 50s, so she's still alive. Played Queenie in the Black Adder series. And she was, if you, that's from, and that's on BBC. But also she was Rita Skeeter in the Harry Potter films. So she's, that's the reporter, the nosy reporter. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. And you'll recognize her face because she's done lots of other stuff as well. Right. And, but there she is as Mrs. Claus in the movie Fred Claus. Fred Claus. Yes, so that's- That is one of the ones in my Christmas viewing ability. Is it? Yeah. Okay. So I think Vince Vaughn plays the brother of Santa Claus, right? Ms. Paul Giamatti here is- Yeah, it is. Yeah. So, but she looks lovely there. It does. I like how you're trying to make the Mrs. Claus's that we are looking at have a maternal kind of glow about them. Well, of course. Of course. And then- Also an acting family legacy. I'm assuming she's talking about the last one. Yes. Yeah. It's Lynette, okay? Yeah. Yeah. So she comes from- Yeah. Comes from good acting. And the last one we're gonna end with is Betty White. Everyone loves Betty White. Aw. I know. Castaway, New Year's Eve, December and 2021, age of 99. God bless her. So, and we could go on and on, but we won't because we have already gushed about Betty White many times. We have gushed about Betty White. And we love her and she's got a wonderful control power. That was real, right? What's that? Was it a real one or an anime? She was live. Aw. Isn't that sweet? Yeah. Let's hope she's telling a clean joke to the kid. Well, the name of the movie is called Naughty, N-O-D-D-Y. I think that's the name of an elf. I don't think it's supposed to be Naughty, but I don't know. Maybe she would. I haven't seen that movie so I don't know, but Betty White's in it so it's got to be good, right? Yeah, it's got to be good. It has to be good. Or at least it would be funny. I like her outfit with the little, what do you call that? What do my mom call those? It's not a sash, cape? Yeah, what would you say a sash or a cape? Yeah, something like that, yeah. I don't know. All right. She's the last of the Mrs. Clauses that we're going to talk about for this week and I finished right at 11. He did, he did. And we were trying to do that because I have little grandchildren's feet over my head right now running around. And I can't wait to go up and hug them and wish them a Merry Christmas, which is what we're having with this part of the family today. But we do have some things to show you. Let's see, I turned off my screen share. So let me get that back up, go to the window, yep. So, present, there we go. So we've got some things coming up. Have you registered for the 2024 Connect-a-thon? Yes, have you? I have. They've already signed up all of us hostees. Yeah, Team Italy this time. What did you say? It's Team Italy this time around for me. Oh, Team Italy, Team Italy. Yeah, I'm probably going to keep with my roots of the Appalachian team. So, yeah, they're fun. Blueberry, no, biscuit. I didn't say, I did say Appalachian earlier. Yes. We've got site maintenance last week. We were talking about that last week. So if you have any questions, you want to look at what's going on. If you've noticed anything quirky happening, you shouldn't have, but if you did, you can go and answer on that post. What is this? Uh-huh. Secret Santa, okay. Yeah, yeah. And that's by Greg Clark. Yeah, that's great. That's great. Then we've got what's happening around WikiTree in December 2023. This is the final? No, we have another one. Next week is the final of the year. Next one is, yeah. It's the final roundup of the year. So you need to be here next week for the 30th. So we've got some things coming up this week. We've got data doctor challenge is going to continue. The German Stammtisch is still running on 1.30 on the 28th. The weekend chat, you notice there's a lot less stuff really, really running fast this week because it's a big holiday week. And everybody needs a day off. The Appalachia, Make Appalachia Shine, the BioBuilders Canada's special year-end challenge, Connect US Black Heritage Project, Notables is running, the Connectors, Jetty, German Connectors, Iceland Project Mini Challenge, the Integrators, Notables for TV US reruns, which we were talking about today. Notables Sports Sledders, Scotland Holiday Challenge Sorcerers, US Black Heritage Connecting, always, that is always on the go. The US Civil War is not on the go, but we're working on it on WikiTree. We will rock you. It's hard to say, raw queue. Yeah, raw queue, raw queue. BNL for you, Santa, you've got what, one hour? You got one hour to sign up to BNL if you're not already an elf. Yeah, get signed up so you can grab it there. Make your secret Santa wish. You can need to do that as well. When is the call for that? It's also supposed to be noon. We've got lots of wishes, but we do, I mean, there was those few. Don't delay, forget about doing another wish, okay? Well, unless it's like Dutch or Norway or Black Heritage, we don't have many of those anyways. Chris just brought up 52 answers. Ancestors will be back next year. I noticed that Amy Johnson Crowe did have her official posting for the 52 ancestors. I shared that on social media, but we have Amy Johnson Crowe to thank for that wonderful thing. And we certainly follow her guidance on that. We don't have social media to share with you today, but you can still share on social media any of these events in your social media feed and let the world know about what we're doing on WikiTree. Greg and I and Betty, Betsy, Betsy, what is up with my speech today? That I have not had any eggnog or anything yet. So we wish you a very safe, a very merry, and a very happy Christmas and New Year and hub your family. We love seeing you every Saturday and we look forward to seeing you next year. Have a great holiday. Have a great holiday. See you. Bye.


The tiniest bit of concage. Whoever gets the first tray on this gets this old passport board. We've been here for a minute, the second that we hear one of us are filming, a thousand people showed up, also a weed wacker. That was like the whole rail. That was sick. That was like the longest people I've ever seen you do. Second try. Sounds like you should try it at the first bar. You reckon? Yeah. You guys are brand new pair of shoes. It doesn't affect Shawn at all. I feel like Shawn skates better with new stuff. Yeah, you got that. Just pop over next time if you start slowing down. You were perfect. That was so sick. You haven't even been skating that much lately. It looks like you're better. How about you do another few more, but you pop out early to the other side? Shit, I can try. Okay. There you go. Rocker. You make your tail touch. It's like the easiest thing. Yeah. Once you make your tail touch, you're automatically out of it. It seems like that's all you need to do is just put your foot on the rail or the tail on the rail in your house. Yeah. Maybe I could do a front smith. You can absolutely do a front smith. Don't get him, Tiger. That was a good one. First go. That was like the whole rail almost. Yeah, it looks like whenever you start leaning the wrong way or like slightly losing balance, you just give up on the trick. You just gotta fully commit to the end no matter how you lock in. I just want to be able to hop out and my body be ready for the landing. I don't want to loop out. You won't loop out. I feel like sometimes like you'll screw up in the middle of the rail and lose your balance and then by the end of the rail, you can regain it. Yeah. So just like I always commit to the end of the obstacle, never where I'm falling at the moment.  Yeah, I can really get in and pinch this one. Yeah, exactly. All right. Hopefully this guy. It's a scary trick, back tail on the rail. Absolutely. He's got to redo it because he looks like a poser with that knee thing. I had to, that's the only way I could adjust my weight. My shoulders are like... I was too zoomed in on your legs to see what your upper body was doing. Do it again. Again? Yeah, that was fine. Ow, dude, don't hit me. What else? You think you can 50-50 the whole thing? Try no back. Whatever. Jesus, I don't know. You want to 50-50 the whole leg? I would rather do that. Okay, I see that. We had a little long 50-50 conversation earlier about how to hold 50-50s on ledges. We did. Yeah. You got to hold it down like a front foot.  So a lot of people, if you're 50-50ing ledges and you keep rolling one to the ledge, it's because you're not putting enough weight on your front foot. You got to like hold that truck against it. It's like probably 80% front foot, 20% back here. Absolutely, yeah. Or like yeah, like 75, 30 or whatever it would be. Yeah, okay. You kept doing that earlier. He would pop out early out of habit. My front foot, that's what happened. Yep. Whenever I'm trying to do a long 50 or a long grind, I think of Pedro Del Fino and how sometimes he'll lock in completely wrong. But by sheer willpower, he'll make it to the end because he just fully commits no matter what. You reckon that's the way? That's the way. You need to have that John Cartiel, Pedro Del Fino mindset. I don't want to be like, I just want to like... I think it's cool though. I think it looks better. Yeah. And plus you get to land it in less tries if you land that one. You don't have to wait for the sturdy one. If you can come back and get it out. I like the sturdy one from my jumper. That's my favorite style. Sturdy.  Yeah. I'm that age now.   He just wants to kick flip up and then cook down the hub up. But he's nervous about the kick flip up. I know he's got that. There you go. He's jumped. He's having a little bit of problems with those last resorts. He said it's squishing his tootsies. I was going to do a review video, but I didn't want to because there's already a ton. But I'm a size nine and a half, 10 or nine in converse. These, the toe box is really short. So if you have short stubby feet, it might be okay. But my toes keep jamming the front of the toe box and it's not fun. So yeah, I don't know if I'll get another pair, but it was worth the try. They look pretty. They look cool. I look like I'm a mature skater. You know, that's stuff. This light is just tall enough to be like an actual street ledge. Like it's a slightly uncomfortably tall. Damn, that is like kind of a tall back pale. I was looking good until it wasn't. The front tail was sick. Did you put some wax on it? Is that what I smell? Hmm. Yeah. But he literally just wax it. Look at it already melted. You can see it. Oh, that's gross. Said it was going to be like 25 degrees today. 25 degrees is not. Oh my God. It's already melted. 80 Fahrenheit I think. Yeah. You're going fast. It was okay. You're going really fast. You're gonna have to push. I can't switch push. What do you mean you can't switch push? I can't switch push push. I'm watching. Like spend the day fixing that. You need to learn how to switch push. I put an entire day aside to learn how to switch push one day and how to switch turn kick turn on quarter pies to switch carve. And it was a very important day for me. You need to have that day soon. The switch push is mandatory. Maybe he's first push.  You're gonna have to push. You reckon? Yeah, you're gonna have to be able to carry a half cap lift down this. It'll get really fast in 180 up. Okay. I love that he's trying to work his run around switch pushing instead of just learning how to switch push. Spend the day. They literally keep figured out in an hour. When I pull it feels like my weight's gonna go this way. Yeah, fix that. Repetition, baby. You're gonna go faster than that. You gotta push, huh? You could go faster or not push. You still almost did it though. Next try.  That was awesome. That was better. That was a really good half cap lift when you start roasting those. Back in Australia, I could do them. I never did them until now. Oh no, I did a half cap lift one day at El Serrino. Down the little banquet has the three stairs with the rail. But you just hit it into the bank? Yeah. Yeah, I'm saying you're doing it like down stuff. That was a good flick. Thank you. The catch is a bit shitty, but I'll take it for my stomach hurts. You reckon you could get an Ollie on the road? You get a skateboard. You somehow change it up and then you spend three hours trying to kick flip it. Is that what they do? That's every video they've ever done. Kick flip everything. In half the time, they don't even get to the kick flip. Oh, okay. There's one side that had it close to the other. It looks terrifying. No, it feels great. Where can you go? It looks like a fence pailing. Oh yeah, you got it. Yeah, cause it's like. Diagonally. There's no leverage here. No leverage. Make it stick to my front foot and properly on this side. Yep. How many goes is that? First try. Oh my God, it was first try. Oh, did you, did you?  Do you just ask which is the nose? There is no nose. What do you mean? He was like, what's just the nose? There's no nose. Like four or five. Right on grind that side. What do you mean? Um, you know where you're going. I mean, maybe you're just going to go as fast as you can and float it. Did you get hurt? How do you mean cheating? You did that. There was no Ollie. It's just you. There's no way to Ollie that. What are you talking about? That was sick. What else can we do on this? It's probably it. That's probably it, huh? Whoever gets the first try on this gets this old passport book. So I already got it. You're sponsored. Oh, he almost did it. You know, I just got it. He just almost got it. Oh, do you see what I mean? There's like no tail. Here you go, sir. Oh yeah, dude. The ace, you know, right? Ace, dude. What's that? Ace. Oh, is that what they are? Yeah, it just needs new bushings. Yeah, I think the back truck needs new bushings because it like turns real funky. So there you go, dude.


In the immediate aftermath of the campfire last November, there was an obvious need to make large amounts of bottled water, such as this, available to thousands of displaced residents scattered in shelters throughout the area. After discovering the presence of contaminants in our water system, we decided that a continuing supply of bottled water is crucial while we work to restore our water distribution system and eliminate the contaminants in any dangers they might present. Needless to say, we at PID are grateful to Nestle Waters for their generous donations of bottled water to the Hope Center for volunteering to distribute it, and last but not least, to the convoy of Hope for hundreds of thousands of bottles they have transported so far. One of the key ingredients anytime people go through a disaster, there's two things they need right away, food and water, and you can live several days if not weeks without food, but you can only live a few days without water. So water is a key ingredient to everything that we do in disaster response. Today we've been able to provide convoy of Hope with 420,000 bottles of water for the Paradise victims during their recovery. We're going to provide another 300,000 bottles, some that we're loading up today, all in all it's about 22 truckloads of water heading up the Paradise for the recovery efforts, and it's almost a million bottles of water. There's a huge amount of pride from everybody in the factory, from the people that are physically bottling the water, that palletize it, put it in the trucks, people in the office staff, there's a lot of pride everybody in this factory to make a positive impact on the community. So in Paradise we were working with Paradise Nazarene Church, they became our distribution site, so when we would get the water from Nestle we would take it up there to Paradise and drop it off in that church parking lot, and then church volunteers would take in turn distribute that water. For about the last two months we've been distributing five cases to each household, and like today they come today on Thursday, they can come back next Tuesday and get another five cases. Any time you're in a disaster setting like this, partnerships are so important. Convoy of Hope can't do it by ourselves, the churches can't do it by themselves, Nestle can't do it by themselves, and Cal OES can't do it by themselves, but when you get all those organizations working together for one common good, it's amazing what you can get accomplished. City of Hope logo overlaid with text, bottled water, Hope Center, re-entry center, 311 Circle Wood, corner of Skyway and Neal Road behind the Paradise sign, one case of water per day per household, hours 9am to 4pm Monday through Saturday. City of Hope logo overlaid with text, self-serve potable water fill station, up to 5 gallon containers, PID treatment plant, 13888 Pine Needle Drive, Magalia near the intersection of Skyway and Countalink Road. Bring your own containers, hours 7am to 4pm Monday through Friday, Hope Center re-entry center, 311 Circle Wood, corner of Skyway and Neal Road behind the Paradise sign, hours 9am to 4pm Monday through Saturday.


Antenna radio in radio, and antenna is the interface between radio waves propagating through space and electric currents moving in metal conductors, used with a transmitter or receiver. In transmission, the radio transmitter supplies an electric current to the antenna's terminals, and the antenna radiates the energy from the current as electromagnetic waves radio waves. In reception, an antenna intercepts some of the power of an electromagnetic waves in order to produce an electric current at its terminals, that is applied to a receiver to be amplified. Antennas are essential components of all radio equipment, and are used in radio broadcast broadcasting, broadcast television, to-weight radio, communications receivers, radar, cell phones, satellite communications and other devices. An antenna is an array of conductors elements electrically connected to the receiver or transmitter. During transmission, the oscillating current applied to the antenna by a transmitter creates an oscillating electric field and magnetic field around the antenna elements. These time-carrying fields radiate energy away from the antenna into space as a moving transverse electromagnetic field waves. Conversely, during reception, the oscillating electric and magnetic fields of an incoming radio wave exert force on the electrons in the antenna elements, causing them to move back and forth, creating oscillating currents in the antenna. Antennas can be designed to transmit and receive radio waves in all horizontal directions equally on the directional antennas or preferentially in the particular direction directional or high gain antennas. An antenna may include parasitic elements, parabolic reflectors or horns, which serve to direct the radio waves into a beam or other desired radiation pattern.


Hi everybody, my name is Amy Combs and I've been a Stampin' Up Demonstrator for 25 years. I live in Simi Valley, California and I thank Jill for inviting me to present some things in the Holiday Catalog that I absolutely love. So I'm here today to share with you about the Night Before Christmas Suite and it's on page 24, 25 and 26 in the Holiday Catalog. So first I want to share with you some products from the suite. I have the Holly Jolly Christmas with this awesome Santa Claus. I have the Jolly Season's dyes that have some words that can be cut out that are really nice and I'm missing my tag dye on there. It's in my stamp form somewhere and then we have, we'll add the six by six paper which is double-sided and you get 48 sheets in the pack so those are beautiful. If you like the vintage look, you'll love this paper, that's my favorite. And then we have the memories and more cards and Stampin' Up changed the way they did the cards this year and you get six of each card.  And we even have six sticker sheets and they are all double-sided so you can get different looks there with the cards as you flip them, cut them down and punch them out. So I want to share with you today some things that I made with all of the different items and then the other thing that is in the suite that I skipped over are these great cards that are kind of vintage and I mean envelopes and then cards and then we have some ribbon to add to that which is double-sided cherry cobbler which is super sweet and then a gem I found in the back of the holiday catalog was the Holiday Rhinestones, the basic ones. They go really, really well with this whole suite so you can add a little bit of bling if you like that. Okay so I created a lot of different things and I wanted to kind of break them down for you. This was using two sets of the memories and more so in the pack you're going to get six sets so with this stuff I created it with two of the sets. So I did one card and then very simple I did some tags where I just cut the corners off and put a ribbon through and I used the stickers on the back and then my favorite thing to create ever are banners. So on here what I did is this piece on all three panels are the cards and then I added some card stock here and then I cut cards down like this was a bigger 4x6 one I cut down small. This was a 4x3 card and I cut this here and then I cut the hat to put over here and then I used the punch on one of the cards there. This blue is designer series paper okay and then I just strung it all together so that makes a cute one or you could do it vertical too if you would like to do it that way. So that's my banner and then the fourth thing that I made with the two sets of cards is this envelope book where I think I've shown you this before. You take three envelopes that are these ones okay and you're going to stick the three together you can see how they're going to go and then I cut the back piece here is actually are the cards that fit into the envelope and then I layered and cut stickers the project cards cut them down and then on the back here what I did my string moves freely so I just adhered here and then this is designer series paper and then on the front it has a little secret in here. You can pull these out these are the card fronts to the cards and then you can add some pictures there so I was going to make my daughter got married last year so I was going to make one with her and her husband and then my other daughter has a significant other so I was going to make her and then my son he has us so I was just going to do us. So I was going to do that for them for Christmas and so that's my project with two sets of cards and then I have a couple bigger projects where I did a set of 15 cards and I'll put these up for you guys to see I'm going to just run up through them really quick super simple stickers stickers here some of the rhinestones and some twine here I cut one of the cards down and layered and added here we just have the cards with a little bit of banner with the triple banner punch some ribbon and this I cut out of the designer series paper here's the Santa hat I think that might be my favorite card I don't know they're on my favorite I like them all and I like this one and I just popped up a sticker there this one shows the spotlight technique that we used to do a long time ago and it kind of got forgotten about I think I cut another card with a circle and then just layered it there fussy cut some presents here I cut the cards apart and then this is the designer series paper I just cut the Santa hats out so just play with it and have fun this one this is the spotlight technique to which is really nice and here we have it again and then here I cut some of the presents out and a few more layers back here I like a lot of layers and a lot of texture on everything so I kind of go over one over here's the reindeer which is nice on the sticker pack here's Santa with the spotlight and I made him as the oh for the ho ho ho and then here's the Santa and I just fussy cut him but I did like a little bit of bubble cutting where you don't go in so fat so far so you can cut quite a few at the same time so that would be a pack Christmas cards then I have a scrapbook because I love to scrap so on here what I did is first I stamped with craft ink on the book and let it dry overnight and then this is just a full six by six piece of paper a full card and then I cut a few cards down and added this and then I'll just go through a couple pages with you this is a die from the die set that coordinates and just here's some pages and you might say where do you put the photos well this is just a full book and then I insert another pack of the pages and that's where the photos would go so you can go ahead I'll put these on display you can look through but you can see here where I added them the holiday rhinestones to the ornaments they pop a little bit and then some pages are quite full and others okay so hopefully that brings you some inspiration and then I made a holiday sampler that's a decor piece for your house and I did this as a class and if you have people who say oh it's really pretty but I don't use a holiday I wouldn't use a holiday sampler if they make cards they could still come to the class and put everything then they could just put them on cards instead of on the 12 by 12 piece of card stock this used I used one set of the cards in the multiple pack where you get six sets so that's the sampler and then I had one more thing that I wanted to show you and I'll do a little bit of a demonstration but I don't want to put it all together because it's my measurements for you guys to copy so I went to salt lake city for the onstage in April I guess it was April yeah and Ashley van camp who is an artisan designer she did this project and so I contacted her if I could copy it and then my friend genie kooker came up with this idea so I kind of got it from her and it is a book that you open okay and it has um it uses the acetate boxes and it uses the cards the only thing is is the cards for them to fit in the acetate boxes you have to use regular size cards so I didn't use the cards that are part of the suite these are just um regular card stock eight and a half um by five and a half cut down and so I just wanted to explain to you really quick how to do the box and I have the pieces here and then I'll put them going to put them all back in the back so I have two pieces of crumb cake card stock you're going to cut two pieces five inches across by seven and three quarter inches down and you're going to score both pieces at one and a half inches okay so those will be back there then you're going to have the one piece for the front if I can flip it okay he his piece is layered on this crumb cake so you're going to four and three quarters by six you're going to cut one of those and then this is the little binding up at the top that's going to fold over so how you assemble is you want to use tear and tape and you want to put it like this and then fold these up okay so you can start to see my box then you you can sponge and decorate and do your front the inside pieces that are here are actually an acetate box and you want to cut that in half so now you have two pieces and put it together they're a little bit hard to bend put it together and then I have two pieces of designer series paper I believe they're three inches by five and three quarters and all you do is take that and then fold it over and adhere it with your tear and tape that then is going to become the front there's no paper on the back there doesn't need to be and then you take your tear and tape and you just adhere that here and that's your box and then decorate your cards so I'll show you the cards real quick that are inside but they'll all be on display over there for you this is a fold one this one's a nice fold one too and this one that's it for my demonstration I hope I shared something with you that can give you a little bit of inspiration