0:00:00.000,0:00:03.003 For centuries, African people 0:00:03.003,0:00:06.506 they were accustomed to[br]or tied to the oral traditions. 0:00:06.840,0:00:10.176 When we talk about the oral tradition,[br]it means from the mouth to the ear. 0:00:10.301,0:00:12.762 I was born in a village, 0:00:12.762,0:00:15.098 and as we were growing 0:00:15.098,0:00:18.935 after the hard, the days work,[br]we sat around a fire 0:00:19.686,0:00:22.147 and our parents told us 0:00:22.147,0:00:26.109 the history of our village[br]and our ancestors. 0:00:26.901,0:00:28.820 But then, 0:00:28.820,0:00:32.782 as I grew up, I saw that thing[br]it was not there, 0:00:32.782,0:00:37.662 because now almost all the young ones[br]are migrating to the cities. 0:00:38.079,0:00:41.249 So in their minds system,[br]I mean, we said no, no, no, no, no. 0:00:41.750,0:00:45.045 Kind of just got to not watching. 0:00:45.879,0:00:48.590 I'm an I'm, I have five. 0:00:48.590,0:00:50.341 Yeah yeah yeah. 0:00:50.341,0:00:53.344 And then I. 0:00:54.220,0:00:57.223 The old men in the villages are dying. 0:00:57.849,0:01:00.852 And the young men are not there to listen. 0:01:01.061,0:01:02.437 We have another proverb. 0:01:02.437,0:01:07.525 As an old man dies, it's as if a library[br]burns down We don't want that happening. 0:01:07.650,0:01:10.904 So the more reason we need oral genealogy[br]now on tape 0:01:10.904,0:01:14.115 for us to get information from them[br]before the persons pass away. 0:01:14.157,0:01:17.535 As we hired these boys to go to the film, 0:01:17.535,0:01:21.956 they visited a 95 year[br]old man to interview him, 0:01:21.956,0:01:24.959 and they collected as much information[br]as they could. 0:01:25.085,0:01:29.422 And we gave them that[br]copy of the information that we collected. 0:01:30.048,0:01:32.884 And they have given copies to everybody 0:01:32.884,0:01:35.887 in the family that they thought that it 0:01:36.846,0:01:38.765 was a 0:01:38.765,0:01:39.974 son of a. Yeah. 0:01:39.974,0:01:43.144 Now, I think in the moment,[br]if there was any 0:01:43.978,0:01:47.982 you see,[br]I will soon send away a young woman. 0:01:47.982,0:01:50.985 I said, when you meet up with me 0:01:51.152,0:01:54.739 in the South, man who isn't there[br]and you didn't know me, 0:01:55.156,0:01:58.660 there are millions of people[br]that have lived in Africa 0:01:59.410,0:02:02.413 that have nothing to show 0:02:02.664,0:02:05.375 that the value of on this planet, 0:02:05.375,0:02:09.712 anything that we can do[br]to get those people 0:02:11.381,0:02:13.466 somehow, 0:02:13.466,0:02:16.219 some way in a particular record to show 0:02:16.219,0:02:20.807 that there existed must be done[br]and it must be done. 0:02:21.099,0:02:25.937 Now, there have been a lot[br]of chieftaincy disputes in the country. 0:02:26.104,0:02:29.774 If you go to the courts,[br]there are chieftaincy problems over there. 0:02:30.066,0:02:34.737 It's all because there is no properly[br]documented heritage system. 0:02:35.155,0:02:38.408 So to me,[br]familysearch, is in the right direction 0:02:39.117,0:02:42.162 to document or to assist the community[br]to reconstruct their past. 0:02:42.453,0:02:43.955 Then this problems wouldn't come. 0:02:43.955,0:02:44.956 So it's very important. 0:02:44.956,0:02:45.290 You are. 0:02:45.290,0:02:48.084 I am worried about that because, I mean, 0:02:49.043,0:02:49.502 when you put it, 0:02:49.502,0:02:52.547 but not who manufactured the first best. 0:02:52.547,0:02:54.966 Now let's get to DNA. 0:02:54.966,0:02:57.969 Let me have the. 0:02:58.178,0:02:59.262 Give up on my money. 0:02:59.262,0:03:03.099 Now, with that,[br]I mean, you can do something 0:03:03.600,0:03:06.519 and then you have something 0:03:06.519,0:03:09.522 on the first person out, right? 0:03:10.690,0:03:12.817 I am, I am, I'm not. 0:03:12.817,0:03:14.694 We now say goodnight. 0:03:14.694,0:03:17.655 I don't know[br]I anywhere from who to somebody. 0:03:17.822,0:03:20.158 I'm not an engineer. 0:03:20.158,0:03:21.534 And the numbers aren't here. 0:03:21.534,0:03:23.703 We do now. We did the math. 0:03:23.703,0:03:26.706 And now I'm really my 0:03:27.165,0:03:29.250 my favorite grandma then. 0:03:29.250,0:03:31.419 Yeah, I love him. 0:03:31.419,0:03:35.006 And of course what I say, the reality 0:03:35.757,0:03:40.094 is that not only would you know,[br]I know you not cry yet. Not. 0:03:40.428,0:03:41.846 Why not? Or I will say. 0:03:41.846,0:03:43.514 Then I will 0:03:43.514,0:03:45.725 tell you now that you need you. 0:03:45.725,0:03:46.643 Obviously. 0:03:46.643,0:03:50.230 Then that's why we are doing this work[br]as these people still alive, 0:03:50.438,0:03:52.065 so we can help to preserve 0:03:52.065,0:03:55.735 what they have in their mind[br]so we can print them for them. 0:03:56.027,0:03:58.696 And then future generations can use it. 0:03:58.696,0:04:03.368 I feel the connection, the love and[br]the joy because I'm related to the person. 0:04:03.368,0:04:06.579 Oral genealogy[br]is coming to really help that I. 0:04:06.579,0:04:07.413 That's what I see. 0:04:07.413,0:04:10.959 Do you have a idea that you have to say it[br]that way? 0:04:10.959,0:04:13.920 And you, my friend, have been, is it. 0:04:13.920,0:04:17.423 No, no, no, you come back for me[br]and they're going for the best now. 0:04:17.507,0:04:20.677 I mean, we go on time.[br]Is it changing among? 0:04:21.052,0:04:24.764 I think we has them in the game and we say[br]no, no, no, no, no. 0:04:24.764,0:04:27.517 I'm like the company[br]and you are yet to her. 0:04:27.517,0:04:28.643 And she will be. 0:04:28.643,0:04:32.146 I'll be happy[br]to know who you just will be. My.