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Dialogue: 0,0:00:00.00,0:00:03.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,For centuries, African people
Dialogue: 0,0:00:03.00,0:00:06.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they were accustomed to\Nor tied to the oral traditions.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:06.84,0:00:10.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When we talk about the oral tradition,\Nit means from the mouth to the ear.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:10.30,0:00:12.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I was born in a village,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:12.76,0:00:15.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and as we were growing
Dialogue: 0,0:00:15.10,0:00:18.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,after the hard, the days work,\Nwe sat around a fire
Dialogue: 0,0:00:19.69,0:00:22.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and our parents told us
Dialogue: 0,0:00:22.15,0:00:26.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the history of our village\Nand our ancestors.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:26.90,0:00:28.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But then,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:28.82,0:00:32.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as I grew up, I saw that thing\Nit was not there,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:32.78,0:00:37.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because now almost all the young ones\Nare migrating to the cities.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:38.08,0:00:41.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So in their minds system,\NI mean, we said no, no, no, no, no.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:41.75,0:00:45.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Kind of just got to not watching.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:45.88,0:00:48.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm an I'm, I have five.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:48.59,0:00:50.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Yeah yeah yeah.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:50.34,0:00:53.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And then I.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:54.22,0:00:57.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The old men in the villages are dying.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:57.85,0:01:00.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And the young men are not there to listen.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:01.06,0:01:02.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We have another proverb.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:02.44,0:01:07.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,As an old man dies, it's as if a library\Nburns down We don't want that happening.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:07.65,0:01:10.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So the more reason we need oral genealogy\Nnow on tape
Dialogue: 0,0:01:10.90,0:01:14.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for us to get information from them\Nbefore the persons pass away.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:14.16,0:01:17.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,As we hired these boys to go to the film,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:17.54,0:01:21.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they visited a 95 year\Nold man to interview him,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:21.96,0:01:24.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and they collected as much information\Nas they could.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:25.08,0:01:29.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And we gave them that\Ncopy of the information that we collected.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:30.05,0:01:32.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And they have given copies to everybody
Dialogue: 0,0:01:32.88,0:01:35.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the family that they thought that it
Dialogue: 0,0:01:36.85,0:01:38.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,was a
Dialogue: 0,0:01:38.76,0:01:39.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,son of a. Yeah.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:39.97,0:01:43.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now, I think in the moment,\Nif there was any
Dialogue: 0,0:01:43.98,0:01:47.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you see,\NI will soon send away a young woman.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:47.98,0:01:50.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I said, when you meet up with me
Dialogue: 0,0:01:51.15,0:01:54.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the South, man who isn't there\Nand you didn't know me,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:55.16,0:01:58.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,there are millions of people\Nthat have lived in Africa
Dialogue: 0,0:01:59.41,0:02:02.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that have nothing to show
Dialogue: 0,0:02:02.66,0:02:05.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that the value of on this planet,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:05.38,0:02:09.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,anything that we can do\Nto get those people
Dialogue: 0,0:02:11.38,0:02:13.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,somehow,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:13.47,0:02:16.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,some way in a particular record to show
Dialogue: 0,0:02:16.22,0:02:20.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that there existed must be done\Nand it must be done.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:21.10,0:02:25.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now, there have been a lot\Nof chieftaincy disputes in the country.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:26.10,0:02:29.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If you go to the courts,\Nthere are chieftaincy problems over there.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:30.07,0:02:34.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's all because there is no properly\Ndocumented heritage system.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:35.16,0:02:38.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So to me,\Nfamilysearch, is in the right direction
Dialogue: 0,0:02:39.12,0:02:42.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to document or to assist the community\Nto reconstruct their past.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:42.45,0:02:43.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Then this problems wouldn't come.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:43.96,0:02:44.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So it's very important.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:44.96,0:02:45.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You are.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:45.29,0:02:48.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I am worried about that because, I mean,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:49.04,0:02:49.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when you put it,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:49.50,0:02:52.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but not who manufactured the first best.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:52.55,0:02:54.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now let's get to DNA.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:54.97,0:02:57.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Let me have the.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:58.18,0:02:59.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Give up on my money.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:59.26,0:03:03.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now, with that,\NI mean, you can do something
Dialogue: 0,0:03:03.60,0:03:06.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and then you have something
Dialogue: 0,0:03:06.52,0:03:09.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,on the first person out, right?
Dialogue: 0,0:03:10.69,0:03:12.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I am, I am, I'm not.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:12.82,0:03:14.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We now say goodnight.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:14.69,0:03:17.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I don't know\NI anywhere from who to somebody.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:17.82,0:03:20.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm not an engineer.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:20.16,0:03:21.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And the numbers aren't here.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:21.53,0:03:23.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We do now. We did the math.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:23.70,0:03:26.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And now I'm really my
Dialogue: 0,0:03:27.16,0:03:29.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,my favorite grandma then.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:29.25,0:03:31.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Yeah, I love him.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:31.42,0:03:35.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And of course what I say, the reality
Dialogue: 0,0:03:35.76,0:03:40.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is that not only would you know,\NI know you not cry yet. Not.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:40.43,0:03:41.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Why not? Or I will say.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:41.85,0:03:43.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Then I will
Dialogue: 0,0:03:43.51,0:03:45.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,tell you now that you need you.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:45.72,0:03:46.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Obviously.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:46.64,0:03:50.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Then that's why we are doing this work\Nas these people still alive,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:50.44,0:03:52.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so we can help to preserve
Dialogue: 0,0:03:52.06,0:03:55.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,what they have in their mind\Nso we can print them for them.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:56.03,0:03:58.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And then future generations can use it.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:58.70,0:04:03.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I feel the connection, the love and\Nthe joy because I'm related to the person.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:03.37,0:04:06.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Oral genealogy\Nis coming to really help that I.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:06.58,0:04:07.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's what I see.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:07.41,0:04:10.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Do you have a idea that you have to say it\Nthat way?
Dialogue: 0,0:04:10.96,0:04:13.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And you, my friend, have been, is it.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:13.92,0:04:17.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,No, no, no, you come back for me\Nand they're going for the best now.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:17.51,0:04:20.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I mean, we go on time.\NIs it changing among?
Dialogue: 0,0:04:21.05,0:04:24.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I think we has them in the game and we say\Nno, no, no, no, no.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:24.76,0:04:27.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm like the company\Nand you are yet to her.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:27.52,0:04:28.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And she will be.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:28.64,0:04:32.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'll be happy\Nto know who you just will be. My.