FamilySearch Oral Gen

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.