so go we're gonna talk about his hot button okay so back to that article there is a myth in
genealogy that has been pop propagated again and again and again and again and again and that is
genealogy is the second most popular hobby in the United States and the second most popular category
of websites on the internet so quick poll what do you guys think do you think it's the most popular
do you think it's the second most popular you're thinking yeah no that's not right what do you
guys think put it in the chat real quick well I scratch my see you is your no fiction today
no not today so that's me it's probably gonna start here yeah I've heard this thing sit for
20 years this is not something new I've heard it at least for 20 years if not longer than that it
seems awful highs yeah okay you guys way in let us know there's there's quite a few of you in there
so let's see yeah do you think that genealogy is the second most popular or even close to the
second most popular popular okay its popularity I think what do we think here popular okay but
is it the second most popular well they're seeing popular versus most popular okay that's why I'm
famous okay all right okay all right so you take it away all right so this is this is gonna be a
little rant because as you can see from the title this is this is a genealogy myth that must die
and that must die I put in capital letters for a reason and let me talk about that reason to begin
with so genealogists pride themselves on citing for finding sources deco card asked about in a
video that was released today making sure that you have information that shows that hey this person
really is related to this person all the way back whatever you need to have sources you did you need
to tell them that that is honestly one of the things that distinguishes genealogy from a lot
of other academic pursuits not saying that sources aren't important there but it seems like sources
are paramount in genealogy so for this body of knowledge where genealogy or sorry where sources
are paramount we have let me switch this up here so we have here is that article where I was saying
hey its second most popular mmm-hmm and we get magazine articles that are saying it this is
from Time magazine in 2014 in 2014 how genealogy became almost as popular as porn we all know porn
is popular right and back in 2012 in this article who's your daddy genealogy becomes a 1.6 billion
dollar hobby and where was it genealogy is hot the preferred path time it's become widely popular
it's no longer a niche hobby experts believe that general doing second only to gardening as
America's favorite pastime okay so not point not porn all of a sudden gardening not porn
is America's favorite pastime so get flagged oh yeah this is this video will see if if this gets
blocked but anyway so here's where the problem starts on these articles now again this is time
this is ABC they have these things but there's if you'll notice there's actually no source for
that statement there's no link that takes you to something else which is a little bit lazy because
as you can see right up here they got a link to the ancestry website so if they got a source for
this hobby experts believe then why don't you put that in there that's the great thing about the
Internet I studied journalism they don't always cite their sources they don't always say their
sources it's not like I said in genealogy citing your sources is far more important than most every
other every other thing I've closed a few of these while you're talking second stir ranchers okay let
me close that one let me close that one so then we get to this USA Today article and this was from 24
so you know in between that time well they're they're good because as they're talking about
it genealogy has become the second most popular hobby after gardening which is good and this
is probably where they get that quote or where they quote it or they figured something out and
the second most visited category of website after pornography so gardening's most hop popular hobby
according to this genealogy second but pornography is most popular websites tiny kind of websites and
genealogy second the nice thing is is they have links for both of these of where they're getting
that information so let's follow these links and see if this source really matches up so first off
second most popular hobby this source goes to a book and google books and this book is called
genealogy and indexing by Kathleen's fault row from 2003 okay I have not read this book I just
have where they're linking to this in here and in this it says and I can't highlight this for some
reason but basically it proves that genealogy is hugely popular as a matter of fact Damaris
pull service and then they give a website recently reported that genealogy is the second most popular
hobby in America right after gardening okay again that same verbage all the time so let's go over to
the Marist Poll website let's look for genealogy and we get nothing let's look for hobby okay we
get a couple things but guess what they don't have anything to do with the most popular hobbies in
fact ice looked all over this mayor's poll website and I could find nothing as far as this poll of
most popular hobbies in America that has genealogy number two now that does not mean current or
anything current now that does not mean it didn't happen because again this book was written in 2003
they say recently so it might have been in 2001 or 2002 and if you go down to the archives their
archives only go back to 2002 December of 2002 so it might not be on there might not be searchable
or it might not be searchable but from a from a citation standpoint where am i there and this is
a book about genealogy and indexing so you would hope that their citations would be good I've lost
my place there but their web link didn't lead me to where that information was at all so it was it
was poorly cited as far as that information so we still just have this thing out here saying that it
is we haven't actually seen anything that really says it for sure so let's go to the next one let's
let's go after to the second most visited category of website and we'll click on that link and that
link takes us over to an article in family tree magazine from 2003 same time period so again
we're talking about something from 15 years ago now this is not saying that family tree magazine
is a bad thing family tree magazine puts out a lot of great stuff the very first paragraph on
here homegrown sites have helped make genealogy the second most popular topic on the web behind
only pornography and there are no sources of where this was so again we don't have a poll
we don't have a survey we don't have anything we just have a statement from somebody saying
hey this is the second-most popular thing next to porn now nobody's disputing that porn is popular
I think and so to be able to compare genealogy to porn it's like hey we're almost at the pinnacle of
popularity because yeah and gardening everybody loves gardening right everybody has to love
gardening but so far time ABC USA Today no sources no actual evidence of the statement and we're just
repeating it you know over and over and it's not just the news services what about gardening porn
well I'm sure if you google that there's got to be a niche for everything I think it's like rule
37 or something on the internet is is there is a yeah we weren't planning on talking about porn
today just so you know and we should only weren't playing I'm talking about gardening porn but let's
let's go on here that's awesome that would be the most popular obviously you know take two great
hobbies combined into one so it's not just these news services that are like you said journalism
is always not good at its citing their sources you don't tell you their sources I studied journalism
I know I went to Google and I just typed in is genealogy the second most popular hobby and i
went through the first few pages of websites and i picked out genealogists we have family
tree comm hey guess what they site USA today which we already showed doesn't cite anything
we have ancestry not some subsidiary ancestry their blog in 2017 2017 says time and USA Today
is their source but we've just shown you that those are not good sources cuz they don't have
any data to back it up they're just statements and a repeating statements from somebody else who
ancestral findings same thing they repeat this for Batum tick Eastman same thing repeats it
verbatim it's not just a few and it is not bad genealogists that keep repeating it it is pretty
much all genealogists that keep repeating it except there's a couple of places where it's not
repeated James Tanner is one who questions this and thank you he actually hasn't had a couple of
blog posts on his different blogs one from 2015 and one from 2016 in 2015 he says hey this hobby
claims about genealogy are completely unfounded um where he talks about the hobby experts believe
it's the second most and then he says you know I'm not finding anything there and ask the question so
who are the hobby experts and where is their list you know in 2015 James Tanner had already figured
out that guess what there's nothing to this so far in 2016 he revisited this in much more detail and
actually went through and did a Google search 50 most popular hobbies 10 most popular hobbies
guess what's not on those lists certainly not at number two or anywhere genealogy thank you
James Tanner you've got it route 66 sources are important and again I'm harping on this because
genealogists like to harp on sources me personally I'm terrible at sources I am the guy that okay I'm
gonna attach this source to you know family search BAM I'm done you know if you want to know how to
write a citation I'm the last person to ask but I can see that there's nothing here on this let me
take a breather now genealogy in Time magazine and this was back when was this I can't remember what
the date was anyway they have a nice long article here let me copy this cuz I highly recommend that
everybody read this article cuz they go through in a very logical approach to see how big is this
genealogy hobby the dates on the last page it might be on the last page here Oh 2013 so still
five years ago or so and they basically conclude yeah a growing hobby but even when you look at the
website numbers it's not second to porn that's for sure not gardening porn I'm gonna be talking about
that so many times we'll see how much YouTube Flags this and I'm sorry for those of you who are
searching for something and you've got genealogy when you really were wanting something else maybe
maybe you'll learn something here and for those of you who are searching for genealogy and didn't
think rule 34 thank you route 60 said I knew it was something there but anyway so genealogy in
time does a great job of going laying out and basically showing yeah okay so it's growing it
but it's not necessarily anywhere close to the most popular and I like there's different levels
of interest in genealogy when discussing the popularity of genealogy it's important to specify
what interest level is being considered and that goes back to my marketing research days where it's
all the paints on the questions being asked which map we don't know with this magical list that put
it second we don't know what question was asked to begin with on that so so yeah so so let me go
through so I I decided well let me see it's 2018 let's see if I can find some more information on
popular hobbies because while we haven't found any source from 20 or back then that actually shows it
maybe there's something recent that actually does so again I used Google a lot hey what's the most
popular hobbies well we got the 10 most popular hobbies in 2014 sewing tinkering social media arts
and crafts yep Photography shopping playing video games sports making travel yep no genealogy and
no porn instant incidentally 50 most popular hobbies and did this have a date on it 2011
so this is still about 8 years old or so top 10 reading watching TV family time going to movies
fishing computer gardening there's gardening it's not even number one it's number seven now we've
gotten away from walking exercise listen your music entertaining hunting teams I mean again you
don't see genealogy on here video games is number 10 gardening is number 9 music television crafts
fishing traveling reading I'm not sure what year this was all right now for the wealthy this is
one that I found for the wealthy because you know doing genealogy doesn't mean you're wealthy but it
usually does take some time and money and skiing watches I didn't realize watches what a hottie
fishing jewelry it's like jewelry is a separate hobby then watches can't we just combine those
two hunting dining golf cultural events reading football soccer collectibles automobiles boating
wine and spirits which is different than eating politics politics is a hobby you know for some
maybe I guess art yeah fashion art travel and philanthropy okay no genealogy um and again
I don't want to go through all these six most popular hobbies you can do for free exercising
learning reading writing a vegetable garden volunteering consuming media no genealogy
even though nowadays you can do genealogy for free reading travel musical instruments watching birds
creating crafts online shopping video games no genealogy no genealogy no genealogy what is the
most popular hobby in the u.s. no genealogy and that is from the Bureau of Labor Statistics that's
our government actually ask people that and yes we don't we don't come in anywhere closed so then
I wanted to look at well let's look at Google Trends and this is what genealogy and time did
back in 2013 as well as some other things and so the takes a look in from google search when you
put in a term where it falls in the popularity spectrum so we can see here I'm gonna just move
the comments over here so that Devin can be laughing at them as we go through kiss this
has been fun you're glad we're having this mode yeah who thought on YouTube we'd be talking about
what did you call gardening porn when gardening I just like saying that genetic genealogy is for
the wealthy genetic genealogy so let's since we talked about gardening first we're gonna keep
this clean and don't worry for those of you are watching and you keep on hearing porn mentioned
there are gonna be no images no not searching for porn on Google I'm just using that term
because that's what they say and she's uh she's sewing right now if she's wedding singing to your
aunt's okay so you're doing multiple hobbies at the same time multitasking here is red is
gardening and green is genealogy all sorry blue is genealogy you can see back in 2004 genealogy from
a search term much more popular than gardening gardening goes in cycles which makes sense when
you think about the weather my guess is is that hey gardening Peaks in about April May and in
December is at its low because nobody's gardening unless you're in Southern California where the
weather's beautiful all year round but at the same time that's also where genealogy discs so anyway
generosity started out genealogy so we got all sorts of rule 34 things please do not use these
search terms you never know what's going to show up but anyway so genealogy back in 2004 based on
these google trends looks like it was more popular than gardening but it looks like around 2010 years
ago eight years ago gardening which has stayed Tivoli stable as far as popularity started to
be more popular during the peaks and now as you can see in the last couple of years gardening is
as popular or more popular than genealogy all throughout the year all right go do sewing all
right so let's do sewing you guys can throw in some of your some of your hobbies and let's see
what they are so sewing Ohno Devon's going to do like a snorting pterodactyl here she hasn't
done that in probably 15 years you might be able to capture it live on YouTube [Laughter]
alright so sewing in genealogy again sewing is red genealogy is blue back in 2004 they
actually were about equal in popularity and stayed roughly equal in popularity for the
first year or so until about 2005 when sewing again has stayed relatively stable which sewing
is a hobby that's been around for since we had you know skins that we needed to sew together
to cover up our naughty bits take you prevent porn from happening all over this is time to
take up sewing so genealogy though has become less popular than sewing to the point that now
if just by the numbers and this is just a rough estimate sewing is about six times as popular as
genealogy so any list that says dora gardening any list that says gardening and selling are the
most popular gardening and so he's marking genealogy oh he's not on there no all right
there was arts and crafts but that might be new I just came home [Laughter] okay we'll try to keep
it g-rated now that the kids are getting home from school don't we're not gonna stay this way all
right video games now video games on the Internet really we're not popular or didn't start to get
popular until recently because there wasn't that many video games that you could play online there
so back in 2004 8 genealogy is more popular it's about you know 30% more popular than video games
now video games go in this little cycle which is interesting and it looks like it's centered
around November December timeframe so when the kids get off of school and they're playing but
apparently they don't play in the summer because it's just November in December that video games
get really popular buying them for Christmas I can understand that meanwhile again by about the end
of 2005 video games were more popular as a search term than genealogy now what is it the terms are
using what do you mean the terms are using well one of the questions was it could it be the terms
are using too sir it could be and I just I'm just using genealogy as a baseline because when we
compare let's compare family history and genealogy ok yeah you can see family history it's even
a worse term so genealogy is one of the better terms to be using for this let's look at some some
things that I don't do fishing fishing how popular says holy cow I mean this its psychical because
there's obviously a good time in the summer to go fishing and a bad time in the winter to go fishing
but fishing is like immensely popular compared to genealogy and it always has been even back when
these other articles that were citing the fact that it's the second most popular fishing was
still more popular than genealogy and it wasn't on the list gardening was mmm-hmm they went to
to try family tree cuz we did we just did family history of leaf right yes we did family history
family tree okay that's a stable one mm-hmm but it's not like increasing earnings yeah and what
do you do with that make sure you just put it up on the wall I mean it's kind of kind of hard
thank you get it back to finish even you didn't get back to she hears I I liked coin collecting
oh he wants you to misspell genealogy in a minute okay misspelled genealogy I think Google corrects
for that you know nobody likes coin collecting obviously because genealogy is more popular than
coin collecting and I'm okay with that I don't know any other people that collect coins besides
myself I'm perfectly okay with that I don't have to brag that coin collecting is the second most
popular hobby in America next to genealogy well that's for Maya you said about things that you
don't so the complex of the second and most popular is that somebody has an inferiority
complex so we buy a piano in Iowa and the company has part of their marketing strategy what they
call us they are the 17th largest music instrument distributor in America and I'm thinking 17th
that's not that impressive I mean and honestly if I had a bought it from the 16th most popular I'm
not sure I would have cared any more or less all right so we'll do one more term they want to see
genealogy misspelled genealogy common misspelling and misspellings are less than than what it is Oh
playing D&D my kids love D&D that's a good one let's do D and D one it also to cross play oh
yes we were gonna do cosplay okay so D&D is on the rise is on the rise in fact it is about five
times as popular as genealogy right now it used to be you know back in 2004 1/5 is popular but
it's on the rise so D and E is more popular it's a it's a more popular Frank side seventeenth better
than eighteenth I guess so I guess so cosplay cosplay so my daughter likes cosplay that is when
you dress up as like superheroes and other things you go to the comic-con conventions and it's like
really intricate costumes it's not you go and buy a thing in the store here you go here you go look
at cosplay back in 2004 I don't think anybody knew about it there wasn't that many people that knew
about it but over the last what eight years it's risen in popularity gotten to a stable amount that
is still much more popular than what genealogy is right now so again we've talked about gardening
we showed you gardening already everybody wants to know well where does porn really fit on this well
the ears over the kid but the ears of the kids were not showing pictures though we're showing
graphs so to a scientist this might be scientists porn statistics porn oh my goodness oh my goodness
yeah this is like genealogy yeah we got to say one because we have to we can't say zero but
yeah it's not the same as porn and and honestly this is this rise here is really when probably
internet porn took off as far as video streaming and different things like that mm-hmm so yeah
there's no comparison and I could do this with probably every other hobby there is and you're
also gonna see no comparison right it's it's that's amazing so is genealogy second to porn
well no and even if it was it doesn't mean it's that popular because as you can see porn just is
it says less than one verses 46 well okay so let's take a look then so the other claim on
this it said it's the second most visited category of website and again I'm trying to get some solid
information we can say whether this is true or not so I go to my good friend Wikipedia I know some of
you are gonna say Wikipedia is not a source but but wait let's go down here to the bottom oh my
goodness Wikipedia is got more sources and I've actually checked some of these links with valid
links then what USA Today had so I'm gonna trust Wikipedian their more recent 2014-2018 so we're
gonna go with this these are the top 50 websites based off of Alexa and similar web and now you can
see Google now that's not a hobby that's just a search engine but we have YouTube watching
videos this is a family-friendly channel normally you're gonna have a discussion with your son and
those crazy people online that's just something my gosh yes gardening porn genealogy poorness
she's not happening on other life streams so he went back to back to the types of websites so we
have you know video sharing watching videos social network that's number three with Facebook Baidu is
a search engine Wikipedia is not a hobby although some people read Wikipedia for hobbies social news
again social media portal and media okay number nine online shopping that's a hobby that's a
hobby people like to go shopping and people say that it's a hobby in polls of hobby you can see
online shopping ecommerce online shopping we're up to number 12 and we have not seen genealogy
or that other P word yet social networking photo sharing social media ecommerce some more shopping
shopping shopping social network shopping online shopping streaming TV's and movies we get down to
number 31 and if the chess pawn the chess pawn Frank said just Tom it's the chess piece okay
it's a chess piece final where we get to number 31 and it is the chess piece so already we've easily
seen that social media is much more popular hobby that people are using a tacorian website category
of websites people are using online shopping is much more popular mm-hmm streaming movies
and TV service is more popular video game was our video game up here number two video sharing video
sharing YouTube hi guys so anyway we haven't seen genealogy yet nope but we have our chess piece
at number 31 we keep going down we see some more movies we see some more search engines some more
fun recipe for some more chess pieces here music streaming music streaming so we got music now I
mean the top 50 weather forecasting there you go I'm sorry but all right let me let me say what I
want to conclude from my research I'm surprised that we haven't gone over time yet I know but I
want you to switch switch to where switz your background suggests your background there yeah
okay so a little chatty chatty well that's this one right here yeah hi that was a very technical
term chatty chatty thing so I I have not I I looked all over for the USA Today The Times
and they DC to try to find solid you know pole or something that says this is the second one
found nothing nothing it is something that has been repeated over and over and over and over
again by people who say cite your source all who say cycle once you pull my hair out and who are
right in saying cite your sources and they may cite their source but they never have actually
validated that source because you find that source doesn't have anything other than stating it was
somebody else said it's somebody else said it right so I went and tried to show how gardening is
not number one mm-hmm nope but it's more popular than genealogy which I think everybody agrees I
mean but there's also a ton of other hobbies that are more popular than genealogy and when
it comes to the category of websites not only is genealogy not the number two category of website
but chess pieces are also this is pretty cool using euphemisms chess pieces are also not the
most popular category of website certainly in this day and age maybe in 2003 they were maybe
but I don't see any information that says they were right but in 2018 social media video sharing
and online shopping are your top three categories of websites right now for those of you who never
watched us before do we always go like this no we'd like to give you tips and strategies it's
about to be Q&A time we have a little bit of time left you know we can go over a little bit
so start typing in your questions do you want to have that same answer not necessarily about this
we've got so much fun it's gonna blast you guys I love your sense of humor we just have to meet
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ahead and put those in the Q&A if not we'll save it for next week next time we will talk
about Santa which will be family friendly because kids will start becoming out of school but one of
the things that I had hoped to do with our Friday live streams is have topics like this and kind of
debunk some myths especially with my favorite myth is that can you build a tree back to Adam
no and we have a video about that let's check that out um YouTube channel but but now for all of you
who have watched this so far the next time you hear somebody say that genealogy is the second
most popular anything you know watch a flag and throw it and call a foul and call a foul because
football is more popular and gardening's more popular and fishing in soccer and oh we didn't
even show lacrosse yes lacrosse lacrosse is more popular I hadn't even heard of La Crosse until I
was in high school but but yeah so that's why I say this is a myth it needs to die because it is
completely unsupported at least no source that I have found yet and certainly no source that keeps
on saying it has actually shown any information for it and there is tons of information out there
to the contrary right so if you hear somebody saying this myth it's not true right ask for a
source yeah and make sure that source is a quality source mm-hmm make sure it's not a complete fraud
yeah because you might as well just be saying yeah I'm gonna believe that when I'm related to
Thor and Loki yeah so yeah so that's that's the genealogy myth it needs to die there's nothing
wrong with being a niche hobby there's nothing wrong with only a few people liking it relative
to the seven billion people in the world it's perfect it's like coin collecting I think route
66 said genealogies a niche as coin collecting the coin collecting and nobody around collecting
oh root six figures yes nobody around me is into coin collecting but I'm okay with that because
I do it for my own enjoyment I don't do it to get praise from other people or anything like
that and that's what our hobby should be they should be things that we enjoy we shouldn't
do our hobbies because they're popular if they're popular like fishing great you got a popular hobby
there's lots of people you can do it with don't ask me I'm not gonna go fishing with you know
you you're back and I'm like no you will not go but if you have hobbies that you enjoy that
should be good enough because that part of life is finding things that you enjoy and bring you
happiness and for us that are into genealogy genealogy is enjoyable it brings us happiness
that's one of the main reasons why we do it right so I think I saw some questions coming
up your wife um right here okay Nia I don't know if it's right to this topic probably not based on
the topic that we have here but that's why we're having Q&A open Q&A anything you want fair game
free-for-all but no so important no sewing tech uses but have you guys used the Watteau tool on
DNA painter I'm not sure I've used DNA painter yes I'm not sure what the - Liz I might have used it
without realizing it so let me get back to you on that one and that might be something that's a good
video as far as how to use this tool oh here's route 66 wondering if the decline of popularity
genealogy is due to the refusal of people not wanting to learn about their ancestors owned
slaves that's a good point because in in recent years you know there's been different episodes
or incidences where you know on TV shows whatever when they're researching their genealogy and they
find out that hey you're your great-great-great grandfather was a slave owner and they don't want
that they don't like that they they can't deal with that that may be where nowadays
with the we talked to the beginning as far as transformation the amount of information the
breadth of information that's available is just astonishing where it's easier than ever before to
particularly just back into the 1800s that yeah you can easily find out and honestly if you are
if you are white and you had ancestors that lived in the south mm-hmm you probably have ancestors
that owned slaves yeah but you know what though see I hope not because I have a friend who takes
me to therapy we will clarify what you hope not us okay um I hope that the decline is not due to
discovering that you your family owned slaves so the gentleman that takes me to therapy um a couple
times of week his family did own slaves hmm now he is hoping to help the descendants of those slaves
that were formerly owned by his family learn more about the family because he has done a lot of
research about his family he wants to be able to give something and he doesn't have everything but
he has something so that they can have a little bit of connection to the past and he's hoping
to provide information yeah it's actually quite more than he thinks it's one woman she said hey I
noticed your last name is the same as family that was a plantation owner that had a lot of slave and
he's like do you want a drink from the fire hose or not I can give you a ton of information or I
can just give it to you piecemeal so I really hope again going back to my family owned slaves
in the past is that gonna preclude me from doing genealogy I hope that's not the case because if
you do find the information you can gift it to people who are stuck and and not everybody owned
slaves in the past my ancestors didn't so far as I know they were German and they came over without
slaves they're kind of beaten up when they got here yeah so that might be I think also part of
it is it's an older person's hobby it is an older person's hobby it's starting to be a stay at home
but it I think just the breadth of hobbies that are available I mean everybody just has 24 hours
in the day right we all just have that and we all have 75 or so ish years of life so what we all
want to do with that we have this finite amount of time and yet the number of possible hobbies
are increasing for instance we just told you that online shopping social media and streaming videos
were the three most popular websites mm-hmm well the fact that their websites 20 years ago none
of those existed true there was no social media 20 years ago there was no streaming videos 20
years ago no really no yeah there was you could you could do a little bit of online shopping cuz
eBay came out by then but maybe but there wasn't much mm-hmm Amazon I think he'd come out by then
but but yeah it wasn't it was certainly wasn't the most popular hobby back then but you know
even just things that that before weren't hobbies or things that couldn't have been hobbies before
because of things like streaming video they can become hobbies for instance if you like to do
home repairs or car repairs well 20 years ago 30 years ago you had to either have a anok friend
or you had to buy a book and learn on your own nowadays what you want to repair your car will
you go to youtube and you pull up a dozen videos on the specific make and model of your car for
the specific problem that you have and you get ten guys or girls that'll tell you a little bit
different way how to do the exact same thing and then you go and do it yeah and you can you can
build your own hobby that way runs like hey I never worked on cars before but after watching
this found out was final kind of fun you know one thing that I like I like tiling you know laying
tile he didn't know that before I didn't know that before what but when we were remodeling I decided
to tackle it from the back for our bathrooms and I talked to a friend who had done some tiling
he he walked me through some things and then I just watched a bunch of videos on the internet
on tiling and I didn't I still didn't think I was gonna like it I thought it was okay I just got to
do this but then as I was doing it it was like you know this is actually a little bit fun and
it's very rewarding afterwards when you see this tiling job and my wife comes in and she's like oh
my gosh that is so amazing and I'm thinking yeah I did that yeah and it was funny and you guys have
to stop dropping these hilarious comments in the feed because people are gonna think oh she keeps
laughing at random things when you were saying I'm sorry but here's the other one I'm I'm going
off-topic and then there was an explanation of the new whe oh it's what are the odds oh yes I
have used that okay so yeah I'll tell you about that in a second okay so um some of you are adding
comments this is a part I love about you guys you just start talking and chatting and sharing
great stories and it's just wonderful but the most important thing is genealogy is going to open up
dark secrets they're gonna open up the skeletons in the closet and invite them out to dance and
there I've shared in an Instagram and Twitter one of my favorite little means and that is
you know in genealogy we and we invite the black sheep into the pasture and we feed them because
we really like these stories of the people who have not always been open up um genealogy a lot
of people won't get into it because they're afraid of what they're gonna find in the past be it slave
owners being many of the ones that you guys have shared here being you know hung outside of Panama
City courthouse and Andy's Greg grandpa Simpson was sucking on his blood in a jail and there's
there's a lot I mean our ancestors weren't perfect neither are we so um I think sometimes that scares
people off but also research skills do people have the ability to evaluate records to read
old handwriting it's not always an interest for a lot of people but as people to get curious they do
want to open their eyes and and look into the past so I think it's always gonna be small genealogy
but it's sure that sure is fun okay yeah so the the what are the odds I was actually thinking of
one of their other tools no I haven't I haven't used I haven't used what are the odds on DNA
painter yet I just went over to the website and read about it and I actually have been doing that
in a different way by hand and through some hand calculations so that's pretty neat that there's
a tool now that does what I was doing before probably faster better and with more accuracy
so I'll definitely have to put some numbers put some people into there to see it was there another
question up here I don't think so I think there's just swapping stories about some of the bad things
that their ancestors have done yeah yeah well you can oh wait guys our kids are probably gonna
start pounding on the doors and a little bit because they need to have their internet back
and thanks for that entertaining discussion it's a ballad chess pieces about chess pieces
and it's two weeks we're gonna talk about um gift that you would like from genealogy Santa it could
be practical gifts it could also be completely outlandish like and you want to know the story
of why the ancestor was fun from the steps of Panama City courthouse maybe you know and maybe
of some other outlandish story but join us next time two weeks December 14th same time same place
and we've both been talk about our Qwest from Santa yeah actually I don't make any promises bye
guys have a good week all right we'll see you all later now I got to remember how to turn off stuff