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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. | ||
Recently, the tapes were recorded onto compact discs. In the future, the recordings from the CDs will be made available on the Internet and you will be able to | Recently, the tapes were recorded onto compact discs. In the future, the recordings from the CDs will be made available on the Internet and you will be able to listen to them by clicking on the tape number on the chart below..'''<br>''' | ||
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