For centuries, African people
they were accustomed to or tied to the oral traditions.
When we talk about the oral tradition, it means from the mouth to the ear.
I was born in a village,
and as we were growing
after the hard, the days work, we sat around a fire
and our parents told us
the history of our village and our ancestors.
But then,
as I grew up, I saw that thing it was not there,
because now almost all the young ones are migrating to the cities.
So in their minds system, I mean, we said no, no, no, no, no.
Kind of just got to not watching.
I'm an I'm, I have five.
Yeah yeah yeah.
And then I.
The old men in the villages are dying.
And the young men are not there to listen.
We have another proverb.
As an old man dies, it's as if a library burns down We don't want that happening.
So the more reason we need oral genealogy now on tape
for us to get information from them before the persons pass away.
As we hired these boys to go to the film,
they visited a 95 year old man to interview him,
and they collected as much information as they could.
And we gave them that copy of the information that we collected.
And they have given copies to everybody
in the family that they thought that it
was a
son of a. Yeah.
Now, I think in the moment, if there was any
you see, I will soon send away a young woman.
I said, when you meet up with me
in the South, man who isn't there and you didn't know me,
there are millions of people that have lived in Africa
that have nothing to show
that the value of on this planet,
anything that we can do to get those people
somehow,
some way in a particular record to show
that there existed must be done and it must be done.
Now, there have been a lot of chieftaincy disputes in the country.
If you go to the courts, there are chieftaincy problems over there.
It's all because there is no properly documented heritage system.
So to me, familysearch, is in the right direction
to document or to assist the community to reconstruct their past.
Then this problems wouldn't come.
So it's very important.
You are.
I am worried about that because, I mean,
when you put it,
but not who manufactured the first best.
Now let's get to DNA.
Let me have the.
Give up on my money.
Now, with that, I mean, you can do something
and then you have something
on the first person out, right?
I am, I am, I'm not.
We now say goodnight.
I don't know I anywhere from who to somebody.
I'm not an engineer.
And the numbers aren't here.
We do now. We did the math.
And now I'm really my
my favorite grandma then.
Yeah, I love him.
And of course what I say, the reality
is that not only would you know, I know you not cry yet. Not.
Why not? Or I will say.
Then I will
tell you now that you need you.
Obviously.
Then that's why we are doing this work as these people still alive,
so we can help to preserve
what they have in their mind so we can print them for them.
And then future generations can use it.
I feel the connection, the love and the joy because I'm related to the person.
Oral genealogy is coming to really help that I.
That's what I see.
Do you have a idea that you have to say it that way?
And you, my friend, have been, is it.
No, no, no, you come back for me and they're going for the best now.
I mean, we go on time. Is it changing among?
I think we has them in the game and we say no, no, no, no, no.
I'm like the company and you are yet to her.
And she will be.
I'll be happy to know who you just will be. My.