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