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Use the '''Family History Library Catalog''' | Use the '''Family History Library Catalog''' | ||
*Use a '''Film/fiche number '''search and look at the descriptions of the following microfilms, all of which contain French Polynesian information:'''795887, 795888, 795889, 181746 Item 7, and 1515054.''' | *Use a '''Film/fiche number '''search and look at the descriptions of the following microfilms, all of which contain French Polynesian information:'''795887, 795888, 795889, 181746 Item 7, 1085600, 1085601, 1085602, 1085603,1085604, 1085605, 1085606, 1085607, 1085608, 1085609, 1-85610, 1085611, and 1515054.''' | ||
'''Oral genealogies ''' | '''Oral genealogies ''' | ||
During the 1970s, the Utah Genealogical Society recognized how important and how fragile these genealogies are. They commissioned qualfied people to contact the older peojple from the islands and have them speak into a tape recorder to redord their genealogies. Then, the people who gathered them would type the information from the tapes onto paper as a transcript of the genealogy. These transcripts were later microfilmed. The microfilms of the'''transcripts '''(see the transcript numbers on the table below)can be ordered from any family history center. | During the 1970s, the Utah Genealogical Society recognized how important and how fragile these genealogies are. They commissioned qualfied people to contact the older peojple from the islands and have them speak into a tape recorder to redord their genealogies. Then, the people who gathered them would type the information from the tapes onto paper as a transcript of the genealogy. These transcripts were later microfilmed. The microfilms of the'''transcripts '''(see the transcript numbers on the table below)can be ordered from any family history center. | ||