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'''1. We should interview our family members and write down their information.'''<br>I have been interested in genealogy and family history ever since I was a child. I have wanted to follow in my father’s footsteps in finding and preserving the records of our people. I have a strong spiritual connection with my father because of a special manifestation that occurred during my childhood and a promise I made to him. He has worked and prayed a lot to get the information of his family, and so has my mom. We have talked for hours with my father and mother, and I helped them record in writing the things they have memorized and the records they have obtained. Also, I talked with my Aunt Edna P. Wolfgramm Burningham, to get information on the German lines. | '''1. We should interview our family members and write down their information.'''<br>I have been interested in genealogy and family history ever since I was a child. I have wanted to follow in my father’s footsteps in finding and preserving the records of our people. I have a strong spiritual connection with my father because of a special manifestation that occurred during my childhood and a promise I made to him. He has worked and prayed a lot to get the information of his family, and so has my mom. We have talked for hours with my father and mother, and I helped them record in writing the things they have memorized and the records they have obtained. Also, I talked with my Aunt Edna P. Wolfgramm Burningham, to get information on the German lines. | ||
'''2. We should gather written records from our family members.<br>'''My mother wrote our family genealogy on a family map, or ''Hohoko''. Many Tongan families have charts like this. She wrote on sail cloth with a ball point pen so it could be folded up and carried and not be torn or destroyed by the elements. The map is about 4 feet wide and 20 feet long. (See the [[ | '''2. We should gather written records from our family members.<br>'''My mother wrote our family genealogy on a family map, or ''Hohoko''. Many Tongan families have charts like this. She wrote on sail cloth with a ball point pen so it could be folded up and carried and not be torn or destroyed by the elements. The map is about 4 feet wide and 20 feet long. (See the [[Step 5. Organize your information|picture in Step 5 of the Pacific Island Guide]].) | ||
'''3. We should enter information into Persona Ancestral File or another genealogical computer program.'''<br>Family members helped me copy the information from the ''Hohoko'' into the [[ | '''3. We should enter information into Persona Ancestral File or another genealogical computer program.'''<br>Family members helped me copy the information from the ''Hohoko'' into the [[PAF and Other Genealogy Organizers|Person Ancesral File computer program]]. From there, it can be printed out as [https://wiki.familysearch.org/en/Image:Pedigree_Chart_Blank.png pedigree charts] and [[Family group record: roadmap for researchers|family group records]] and entered into the TempleReady program to request [[Step 10. Submit names to the IGI|LDS temple ordinance work]]. | ||
'''4. We should write down what we have learned and share the information with others.<br>'''We also compiled the stories of our family and published them in a book, ''“Iohani Wolfgramm, Man of Faith and Courage''.” Testimonies, family stories and memories, as well as family history of our ancestors has been compiled in this book. A copy is in the Family History Library, call number 921.9612 G313i - JSMB INTL Book. | '''4. We should write down what we have learned and share the information with others.<br>'''We also compiled the stories of our family and published them in a book, ''“Iohani Wolfgramm, Man of Faith and Courage''.” Testimonies, family stories and memories, as well as family history of our ancestors has been compiled in this book. A copy is in the Family History Library, call number 921.9612 G313i - JSMB INTL Book. | ||