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'''Tubuai''' is very fertile. Oranges, coffee, arrowroot, tobacco, and copra are grown. The climate is healthy and temperate. Population is about 2,400 and mainly consists of Polynesian people. | '''Tubuai''' is very fertile. Oranges, coffee, arrowroot, tobacco, and copra are grown. The climate is healthy and temperate. Population is about 2,400 and mainly consists of Polynesian people. | ||
There are three branches of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in the Austral Islands, and they are some of | There are three branches of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in the Austral Islands, and they are some of the earliest in the Pacific, dating back to 1844-1852. | ||
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*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.''' | *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. | 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. | 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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