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During the 1970s the Genealogical Department commisioned people to go to the Pacfic Islands and gather oral genealogies bedcause they realizd how fragile these imprtant sources of family information are. They made arragements for the interviews and the older people talked into the tape recorder microphone to get their genealogy on tape. Later, the gatherers typed transcripts of the interviews onto paper. The paper transcripts were microfilmed, You can use the table below to find the microfilm number of the '''transcript''' for the interview you are interested in. | During the 1970s the Genealogical Department commisioned people to go to the Pacfic Islands and gather oral genealogies bedcause they realizd how fragile these imprtant sources of family information are. They made arragements for the interviews and the older people talked into the tape recorder microphone to get their genealogy on tape. Later, the gatherers typed transcripts of the interviews onto paper. The paper transcripts were microfilmed, You can use the table below to find the microfilm number of the '''transcript''' for the interview you are interested in. | ||
The tape recordings were later digitized. In the future, the CDs of the tapes may be put on the Internet and linked to this table so you can access them according to the tape number.<br> | The tape recordings were later digitized. In the future, the CDs of the tapes may be put on the Internet and linked to this table so you can access them according to the tape number and listen to them.<br> | ||
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