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In this siction you will find the followin information: | In this siction you will find the followin information: | ||
==== Case Study of Gisele Maeva Takanga Buchin Tehaavi, Historical background of French Polynesia from 1827 to 1957, Research instructions from Ives Perrin, Records on microfilm listed in the Family History Library Catalog, and links to more information about each island group. ==== | ==== Case Study of Gisele Maeva Takanga Buchin Tehaavi, Historical background of French Polynesia from 1827 to 1957, Research instructions from Ives Perrin, Records on microfilm listed in the Family History Library Catalog, and links to more information about each island group. ==== | ||
'''Case Study''' | '''Case Study''' | ||
My name is ''Gisele Maeva Takanga Buchin ''Tehaavi. My husband is ''Emile Auguste Tehaavi''. We are currently serving as missionaries in the Family History Department (May, 2004) in Salt Lake City, Utah. The following is a description of how I have been gathering and working on my family history. | My name is ''Gisele Maeva Takanga Buchin ''Tehaavi. My husband is ''Emile Auguste Tehaavi''. We are currently serving as missionaries in the Family History Department (May, 2004) in Salt Lake City, Utah. The following is a description of how I have been gathering and working on my family history. | ||
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There is also a picture of the Mission Schooner. It was in use from 1950 to 1956. I sailed to all of the islands with the mission president when I was a member of the Church Band. He organized it and I was in it for 3 years. I later became a teacher in the elementary schools of our Church. Our home is now in ''Moorea, Tahiti''. | There is also a picture of the Mission Schooner. It was in use from 1950 to 1956. I sailed to all of the islands with the mission president when I was a member of the Church Band. He organized it and I was in it for 3 years. I later became a teacher in the elementary schools of our Church. Our home is now in ''Moorea, Tahiti''. | ||
==== More Family History Work Ideas | ==== More Family History Work Ideas from Ives Perrin ==== | ||
Ives Perrin served as LDS Mission President in Tahiti, and as a Church educator in the islands of French Polynesia for several years. His suggestions for the steps a person from French Polynesia should take to get records after interviewing family members are as follows: | Ives Perrin served as LDS Mission President in Tahiti, and as a Church educator in the islands of French Polynesia for several years. His suggestions for the steps a person from French Polynesia should take to get records after interviewing family members are as follows: | ||
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An important collection of compiled genealogies for the Pacific Islands is found in the <u>''Cole-Jensen Collection: Oral Genealogies and Genealogical Information Collected from the Polynesian Peoples and from the Pacific Islands.'' </u>These records were collected over a 50 year period and microfilmed in 1984 by the Genealogical Society of Utah. The original collection consisted of 51 binders. The original materials no longer exist as an intact collection. However, there are nine microfilms of the binders available at various family history centers. They are numbers '''1358001-1358009'''. This collection contains family group records, pedigree charts, and oral genealogies collected from the islands of ''Hawaii,New Zealand, Samoa, Tonga, Niue, Cook Islands, ''and ''French Polynesia, ''including the ''Society, Marquesas, Austral Islands, and the Tuamoto Archipelago. ''Look for the Mciorfilm numbers for French Polynesia by isalnd group, listed below. | An important collection of compiled genealogies for the Pacific Islands is found in the <u>''Cole-Jensen Collection: Oral Genealogies and Genealogical Information Collected from the Polynesian Peoples and from the Pacific Islands.'' </u>These records were collected over a 50 year period and microfilmed in 1984 by the Genealogical Society of Utah. The original collection consisted of 51 binders. The original materials no longer exist as an intact collection. However, there are nine microfilms of the binders available at various family history centers. They are numbers '''1358001-1358009'''. This collection contains family group records, pedigree charts, and oral genealogies collected from the islands of ''Hawaii,New Zealand, Samoa, Tonga, Niue, Cook Islands, ''and ''French Polynesia, ''including the ''Society, Marquesas, Austral Islands, and the Tuamoto Archipelago. ''Look for the Mciorfilm numbers for French Polynesia by isalnd group, listed below. | ||
'''Links to each Island Group:''' | '''Links to each Island Group:''' | ||
[[Austral Islands|Austral Islands ]]<br>[[Gambier Islands|Gambier Islands ]]<br>[[Marquesas Islands|Marquesas Islands]] <br>[[Society Islands (includes Tahiti)|Society Islands (includes Tahiti)]]<br>[[Tuamotu Islands|Tuamotu Islands]] | [[Austral Islands|Austral Islands ]]<br>[[Gambier Islands|Gambier Islands ]]<br>[[Marquesas Islands|Marquesas Islands]] <br>[[Society Islands (includes Tahiti)|Society Islands (includes Tahiti)]]<br>[[Tuamotu Islands|Tuamotu Islands]] | ||