"Welcome to the Weekend Chat" All Members are Invited!! April 27-29, 2018 [closed]

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"Welcome to the Weekend Chat" All Members are Invited!! April 27-29, 2018 [closed]

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New Members Saying Hello (our favorite!)

Puzzles and Tips by Laura Bozzay

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Members Checking in via "All About the Weekend Chat"

CHANGE TO BEST ANSWER PROCESS: After much discussion we have come to the conclusion that all answers in the Weekend Chat are of equal importance and weight. So we are going to discontinue the Best Answer portion as it adds points and then takes them away from posters and is causing some hurt feelings. So in the interest of everyone is equal and valued we will delete any best answers given which will deduct those points because it has been pointed out that to give everyone best answer is also not a viable option.

It's ok.... go for it!

Would you like to host the chat? See: https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Space:Weekend_Chat for information on how to host the chat.

Weekend Chat is for everyone. It's a place to catch up on what people are up to and to share what you've been doing. New members can say hello, introduce themselves, ask questions, and meet each other. Our seasoned members can share progress or successes from their projects, give tips and advice, or chime in on hot topics.

Post as many answers and comments as you wish. It doesn't hurt anyone to post a lot, and many will enjoy their multitude of reading options.

Enjoy yourself and spread goodwill :)

WikiTree profile: Laura Bozzay

closed with the note: Event is over

asked Apr 27, 2018 in The Tree House by Laura Bozzay G2G6 Pilot (838k points)
closed May 6, 2018 by Laura Bozzay

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Answer 1 · 2018-04-27T15:58:53+0000

Tips

1. A great way to learn about profiles, how to source, how to research and use WikiTree is to participate in challenges. Many of you took part in the Clean-A-Thon this weekend and so far feedback in G2G is that people had a lot of fun and felt like they were also doing a lot to help WikiTree. So, tip number one is look for challenges in the G2G threads and participate!

2. Tip number 2 is, Integrators has a new Integrators Challenge that will start on May 1. The thread to join will be posted on April 30th around 11 am Eastern Time. This Challenge is to find threads at least 60 days old in G2G that have enough data to make a profile or to complete a profile that was lacking birth dates, death dates, sources, bios so was incomplete. Once you find a thread the first thing to do is to see if a profile exists for that person. Do this by going to the Find Surnames Menu and searching for the person. If no profile exists create one from the info in the thread. If one exists, and it is not complete, complete it. When you hit save if the Challenge Tracker does not appear at the top of the page, make a small change and save again, now it should appear.

Select Integrators Challenge.

Select from one of these 3 reasons or create your own!

Reason 1: New profile from G2G (add URL)

Reason 2: Improved from info in G2G (add URL)

Reason 3: Answered in G2G about profile (add URL)

Press add action.

You are now counted in the challenge stats!

Information about the new Integrators Challenge can be found here: https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Project:Integrators_Challenge

To help everyone get started we will be adding some links to possible threads which can be found here: https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Space:Integrators_Project_Challenge_Outline We will be adding these throughout the month so check back often. As we see a profile is created we will delete the available links.

3. Have almost enough to make a profile just missing a few things? Great resources are:

a. Obituaries in newspapers these often have birth, parent, sibling, and children information

b. Military service records like Fold 3 has. Many libraries have online links to this site.

c. Census records

d. Church records

e. Find A Grave can be used for clues but should not be the only source because often the data is not correct

f. Family Search records are good but the user trees should be used only to find clues not as sources

g. Ancestry databases but not the user trees which once again can be used only to find clues not as sources

4. Most of all, have fun and help WikiTree at the same time!

Answer 2 · 2018-04-27T16:01:52+0000

Puzzle

Challenges

Participating in WikiTree Challenges are fun and fast becoming something more and more WikiTreers are taking part in. Last weekend’s Clean-A-Thon with it amazing results are a case in point. http://wikitree.sdms.si/Challenges/CleanAThon/UserDetailed.htm Not all challenges are about speed. All of them are about making changes to profiles that are intended to make the profiles more complete, more accurate, and therefore the tree as a whole, stronger. Our Word Search this week contains 26 terms or phrases that include names of challenges going on within WikiTree, source elements, and profile elements. Enjoy!

A docx and pdf version can be found at:

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/rqo8mt2eobujwgd/AAAzB3IGNHqNKXBfdE985NBZa?dl=0

Answer 3 · 2018-04-27T16:11:28+0000

Today is....

NATIONAL TELL A STORY DAY

National Tell a Story Day is observed in the United States each year on April 27th. People of all ages are encouraged to share all kinds of stories on National Tell a Story Day. Whether it’s read from a book, one from your imagination or an actual story from a childhood memory, April 27th is the day to gather friends and family and share those stories.

Libraries around the country participate in National Tell A Story Day with special storytelling times for children.

Storytelling is an ancient practice used to hand down knowledge from one generation to the next. It’s a wonderful way to pass on family traditions, histories, and long told tales and can be entertaining as well as educational. Some of the very best stories come from real life experience.

Many people enjoy listening to their grandparents share their stories about when they were growing up (back in the day). Spending time telling stories with family, friends and loved ones is a time for all to learn from each other, to remember and to grow closer together.

HOW TO OBSERVE

On National Tell A Story Day, it does not matter if the story is a short story or a long story, fiction or nonfiction, a tall tale or folklore. This is a day for them all. We encourage you to tell your stories and even share them on social media.

Sources:

https://nationaldaycalendar.com/days-2/national-tell-a-story-day-april-27/

https://www.salesforce.com/blog/2018/04/trailblazer-tell-a-story-day.html

http://www.storytellingcenter.net/news/its-national-tell-a-story-day/

Answer 4 · 2018-04-27T16:32:37+0000

Important tip: Do not spoil Avengers Infinity War!!!

Will be seeing it either tonight or Monday. Starting off with this because I am so excited for the movie. And to celebrate we need to put a profile for Jack Kirby on Wikitree. Nane: Jacob Kurtzberg. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Kirby

He along with Stan Lee created much of the Marvel Universe. Several of their creations are on the silver screen at this very moment. Not sure how big a tree we'd be getting for the King but whatever. He deserves a profile! He's notable. He once got threats by Nazis after drawing the famous Captain America #1 cover. The NYPD offered him protection. Gotta give the King his due!

Okay. The public service announcement out of the way. My real tip is this.

Tip 1: Upload the DNA to as many places as possible but take it all in stride. I took advantage of the 23andme free day. I got a few mixed results. Whatever. It seems the gene pool wasn't big enough for those with Italian heritage. This is why I was told to go to Ancestry after all. Listen to friends when they say to go to X place for DNA testing. If they are experts, I mean. Don't listen to some guy on the street.

Tio 2: When the stickers fall, fix them as best you can. We had a bit of an issue over at the 1776 group. The stickers got messed up after an upgrade. Some work needs to be done. I did what I could to fix things up on my end. The ball is firmly in the tech guys' court.

Tip 3: Never tempt Chris with the option to make a new Weekend chat while the boss is away. Was tempted to do that. There would have been cake. (Lies!)

Not much else to report. I have seen some newbies running around. Perhaps they will join us here? Who knows? I did do some clean-ups of a few profiles under my watch. Busy week was busy so I didn't register for the clean-a-thon. It's okay. The people I cleaned up were in the first 30 on the tree. Did an okay job. What happened was my friend, E Martin added stuff to the profile for https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Legault-603

I need to ask my mom if she remembers anything about the Legault kids. Wanna spruce up their bios eventually.

And that's it from me. Do not spoil Avengers Infinity War!

Answer 5 · 2018-04-27T16:46:56+0000

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Answer 6 · 2018-04-27T17:25:57+0000

Hello from Texas! I am new here & trying to get my bearings.... I've added a few profiles for my Hooper family, and plan to do some Moak soon (Moaks from Southern US, not northern line). At some point I'd like to join the Cemeteries project and photograph some small cemeteries near my new home in Van Zandt County. (just moved from near DFW airport). Weather here is beautiful, sure wish I could be at my new place to set up the garden, but am living with parents & in-laws temporarily :)

Answer 7 · 2018-04-27T20:14:38+0000

In the past few weeks I've been exploring some DNA results and I think that I've finally been able to triangulate my great grandfather's grandparents. He was born to a family of German colonists (or settlers) in Russia and fled to Canada around the time of the Russian Revolution.

I honestly never thought that I would even get a glimpse of any ancestors on that side. To my knowledge, nearly all of the records for where he lived (North Caucasus) were likely destroyed. But now there's a way to side-step that! There's still much work to be done and I plan to test with another company soon. But it seems that I have a very reasonable chance of fully destroying each of the brick walls that lie past my great grandparents on that side.

Answer 8 · 2018-04-27T21:41:43+0000

I do not think we have answers yet as to what exactly to do but we need to at least start identifying our profiles that will be affected. As the data doctors work through ways of handling this, and we settle on a best practice I will share on the chat. My post right now is to raise awareness.

I did a test on my husband's profile:

which is currently a red privacy setting.

I had him set as Still Living

I also tried to project a death date of 2025 we are in our 60s so that is likely wishful thinking but

it errors out and there is no override:

Error: Invalid data. The following must be corrected:

Death Dates should not be in the future.
This person has data indicating they are both living (Death Date 'still living') and not living (Death Date 2052-00-00).

So I unchecked the still living and used death after radio button with 2025

Error: Invalid data. The following must be corrected:

Death Dates should not be in the future.

no override available

So I used death before radio button

Same result as death after.

So we can't put a projected death date in unless they reprogram the page to allow for projected death dates.

commented Apr 27, 2018 by Laura Bozzay G2G6 Pilot (838k points)

Answer 9 · 2018-04-27T23:32:41+0000

CHANGE TO BEST ANSWER PROCESS: After much discussion we have come to the conclusion that all answers in the Weekend Chat are of equal importance and weight. So we are going to discontinue the Best Answer portion as it adds points and then takes them away from posters and is causing some hurt feelings. So in the interest of everyone is equal and valued we will delete any best answers given which will deduct those points because it has been pointed out that to give everyone best answer is also not a viable option.

I just changed that portion of the heading verbiage.

Thanks for your understanding about this change.

Answer 10 · 2018-04-28T00:48:30+0000

SCAT profile story that amused me. One person who lived in Blooming Grove, New York, already had its ZIP code in 1741. And it was still in existence when he died about forty years later. Talk about being able to
read the future! I hope he can't give me any "bad mojo" for removing
them. Maybe Eddie's Munky can protect me from him. I have access to corn cobs if the deer haven't gleaned all of them but I need to look up chicken feet.

Answer 11 · 2018-04-28T01:44:34+0000

My biopsy that I had on my right side of my thyroid came back beign but the specialist wants me to have a thyroid ultrasound every 16 to 18 months. But since February for 45 days my dad has had diahra and he has been diagnosed with pseudo membrane colitis which started by taking antibiotics for his pneumonia that he has had 4 times this year. My mother has an UTI infection plus she has picked up a slight case of pseudo membrane colitis now. What my dad has is very contigious. It is a miracle I haven't gotten it. So since my mother was sick when my appointment on 23rd my sister came down and took me especially so when I move into her house I have to the doctor like that I will be use to her going with me when I need her to go with me. So when we got back she went with my mother to a walk in clinic so she could get some antibotics for her UTI. So I had my dad and mother to look after except for cleaning my dad. My mom did that and it about killed her plus if my mom eats the wrong thing it make her hurt and sick to her stomach and she thinks it is her hernia or gall bladder. My sister and my brother-in-law came down and went with my mother to put my dad in the hospital today for his pseudo membrane colitis because my mom just can't do it and since he has vascular demetia that he isn't like my mom says he not her husband and a father now is a different person now. He doesn't know what is being said and he fights what my mom says. So it seems too hard for my mom to clean him up since she got sick and she is very weak. She has arthiritis diease. Well I just find out that tomorrow Monday at noon e.s.t. the going to do a scope and biopsy to see about what is causing his diaharra that he has had for 2 months. He still not doing good and he is mad at mother for putting him in the hospital he thinks it is for forever and is itsn't just till he gets better. It is because of his vascular demetia. It is really hard on me and my mom since we have been dealing with this for two months and it was killing my mother cleaning him up about 5 to 6 times a day But my brother came down last night and stayed with my dad so my mom could come home and get some rest. Then his wife my sister-in-law is off tomorrow so she came down to stay with my dad tonight and stay at the hospital tomorrow some. Also my sister went to the hospital today after going with them to the hospital on Friday with my brother-in-law. We don't know when he will go home it seems that the medicine that you can't get in a drugstore is what they are using but it is the same thing we were giving him in pill form but theirs is liquid and it seems to not doing any good so they are going up with a scope and do a biopsy on him. So it is pretty bad. They think it is not caused by what we thought or was told.

So during the clean-a-thon I was busy doctoring my mom and dad, also getting the quest bedroom and bathroom ready for my sister to come down on Sunday and I did try to be a leader and participate in the clean-a-thon and I did manage to do 14 corrections.

Welcome everyone to the WikiTree Weekend Chat.

Answer 12 · 2018-04-28T01:47:14+0000

For all you dog lovers and war history buffs:

Stubby, the pit bull, served during World War 1 and won numerous medals for his bravery, and the heroics of this stray pit-bull have become so famous that his life-story has now been made into an animated Hollywood movie, "Sgt. Stubby: An American Hero". See Trailer here:

http://www.france24.com/en/20180424-sergeant-stubby-dog-liberate-france-wwi-usa-germany

And detailed story here:

http://www.ct.gov/mil/cwp/view.asp?a=1351&q=257958

French newspaper La Presse reported in an article from August 1921, "He's probably the most decorated dog in the world, wearing an embroidered overcoat with allied colors, which is pinned with its many decorations, Stubby … must be very proud because dogs have their self-esteem."

Answer 13 · 2018-04-28T02:00:33+0000

Where to start?

Moved to a different city in the region I have called home for the last 23 years at the start of the month. With not having constant internet access, time spent is few and far between. (Going for 1k + down to 100+ contributions a month for the foreseeable future). Couple more profiles connected - sorting out the merger for our current Governor-General. Additionally a slight categorization tidy up in our national department (our country).

Had a health upset over the last couple of days - true to form regenerating and rebounding rapidly... (wasn't due for illness for another 5 months yet!) Made the comment somewhere about missing the clean-a-thon due to commitments and youngest brother's birthday - well as any little child would - he couldn't wait till the Monday so we wound up phasing him into it.

Answer 14 · 2018-04-28T15:38:00+0000

Today is......

NATIONAL BLUEBERRY PIE DAY!!!

National Blueberry Pie Day is observed each year on April 28. It honors one of America’s favorite desserts.

Blueberry Pie:

Has been enjoyed since the early American settlers
Is the official state dessert of Maine
Was documented in the Appledore Cook Book in 1872

Blueberries:

One of the healthiest fruits on the market
Inhibit cancer development
Can help prevent urinary tract disease
Assist in maintaining normal blood pressure
Helps reduce blood sugar and symptoms of depression
Enhance memory

HOW TO OBSERVE

Give this sweet recipe a try: Blueberry Pie recipe.

https://nationaldaycalendar.com/days-2/national-blueberry-pie-day-april-28/

Also: On this day …

1789 The most famous mutiny in history took place on the English ship, ‘Bounty’, against Captain William Bligh. The ship was sailing to Tahiti to bring back breadfruit trees.

1796 ‘American Cookery’ by Amelia Simmons is published in Hartford. It is the first cookbook written by an American. This is one of the classic cookbooks that can be found on the Food Reference Website.

1899 The comedy short ‘Stealing a Dinner’ was filmed by cameraman G.W. ‘Billy’ Bitzer for the American Mutoscope and Biograph Company. (Mutoscope were ‘peephole’ motion pictures on cards mounted on a rotating drum turned by hand.)

1940 Italian operatic soprano, Louisia Tetrazzini, died. Chicken Tetrazzini, created by an American chef (San Francisco?), was named in her honor.

1944 Alice Waters was born. Executive Chef and Owner of Chez Panisse Restaurant, opened in 1971 in Berkeley, California

1953 Howard C. Rossin was issued a patent for an overcoat built for two (or Siamese Twins).

2005 Loaded Burrito Scare: Clovis, New Mexicao police were called to a middle school when someone saw what appeared to be a weapon being carried in by a student. Police did not find any weapon, but finally an 8th grader realized that what someone had seen was his extra credit commercial advertising project – a 30 inch long steak burrito wrapped in tin foil and a T-Shirt.

https://foodimentary.com/2018/04/28/april-28th-is-national-blueberry-pie-day-2/

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For all you dog lovers and war history buffs:

Stubby, the pit bull, served during World War 1 and won numerous medals for his bravery, and the heroics of this stray pit-bull have become so famous that his life-story has now been made into an animated Hollywood movie, "Sgt. Stubby: An American Hero". See Trailer here:

French newspaper La Presse reported in an article from August 1921, "He's probably the most decorated dog in the world, wearing an embroidered overcoat with allied colors, which is pinned with its many decorations, Stubby … must be very proud because dogs have their self-esteem."

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