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For centuries, African people

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they were accustomed to
or tied to the oral traditions.

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When we talk about the oral tradition,
it means from the mouth to the ear.

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I was born in a village,

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and as we were growing

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after the hard, the days work,
we sat around a fire

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and our parents told us

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the history of our village
and our ancestors.

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But then,

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as I grew up, I saw that thing
it was not there,

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because now almost all the young ones
are migrating to the cities.

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So in their minds system,
I mean, we said no, no, no, no, no.

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Kind of just got to not watching.

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I'm an I'm, I have five.

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Yeah yeah yeah.

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And then I.

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The old men in the villages are dying.

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And the young men are not there to listen.

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We have another proverb.

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As an old man dies, it's as if a library
burns down We don't want that happening.

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So the more reason we need oral genealogy
now on tape

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for us to get information from them
before the persons pass away.

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As we hired these boys to go to the film,

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they visited a 95 year
old man to interview him,

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and they collected as much information
as they could.

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And we gave them that
copy of the information that we collected.

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And they have given copies to everybody

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in the family that they thought that it

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was a

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son of a. Yeah.

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Now, I think in the moment,
if there was any

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you see,
I will soon send away a young woman.

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I said, when you meet up with me

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in the South, man who isn't there
and you didn't know me,

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there are millions of people
that have lived in Africa

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that have nothing to show

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that the value of on this planet,

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anything that we can do
to get those people

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somehow,

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some way in a particular record to show

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that there existed must be done
and it must be done.

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Now, there have been a lot
of chieftaincy disputes in the country.

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If you go to the courts,
there are chieftaincy problems over there.

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It's all because there is no properly
documented heritage system.

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So to me,
familysearch, is in the right direction

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to document or to assist the community
to reconstruct their past.

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Then this problems wouldn't come.

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So it's very important.

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You are.

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I am worried about that because, I mean,

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when you put it,

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but not who manufactured the first best.

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Now let's get to DNA.

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Let me have the.

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Give up on my money.

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Now, with that,
I mean, you can do something

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and then you have something

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on the first person out, right?

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I am, I am, I'm not.

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We now say goodnight.

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I don't know
I anywhere from who to somebody.

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I'm not an engineer.

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And the numbers aren't here.

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We do now. We did the math.

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And now I'm really my

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my favorite grandma then.

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Yeah, I love him.

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And of course what I say, the reality

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is that not only would you know,
I know you not cry yet. Not.

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Why not? Or I will say.

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Then I will

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tell you now that you need you.

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Obviously.

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Then that's why we are doing this work
as these people still alive,

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so we can help to preserve

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what they have in their mind
so we can print them for them.

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And then future generations can use it.

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I feel the connection, the love and
the joy because I'm related to the person.

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Oral genealogy
is coming to really help that I.

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That's what I see.

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Do you have a idea that you have to say it
that way?

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And you, my friend, have been, is it.

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No, no, no, you come back for me
and they're going for the best now.

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I mean, we go on time.
Is it changing among?

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I think we has them in the game and we say
no, no, no, no, no.

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I'm like the company
and you are yet to her.

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And she will be.

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I'll be happy
to know who you just will be. My.