Samoa (Western and American): Difference between revisions

In the year 2000, the population of ''Western Samoa ''was about 174,000 and in ''American Samoa ''it was about 65,000.<br>

There are Migrations of other ethnic groups found among ''Samoan ''people. ''English'' and ''Germans'' were traders and plantation owners. The ''Germans ''were frustrated with the ''Samoan ''work habits because ''Samoans'' didn’t like to work in the rain. They preferred to stay indoors and celebrate or sleep during the rainy season, so the ''Germans ''hired ''Chinese'' laborers to come, so you find ''Chinese ''blood mixed in with the ''Samoan.'' Also, a lot of ''Tongan ''people intermarried with ''Samoans'' over the years.  

Next, we should type in the name of the village where our ancestors came from to see if any records were made on that level, click on the record types that interest us, and print out the lists we get. <br><br>To get the '''oral genealogies, select Samoa – Genealogy and Western Samoa.''' The title is '''''Samoa oral genealogy project'''''. On the list are Oral genealogy interviews which were done in ''Samoa ''by Mulivai Purcell and Tagomoa Matua. A few were done in ''Independence, Missouri'', and in ''Salt Lake City, Utah. ''More than 100 interviews were recorded. Some of the tapes were not transcribed. If we look this up in the catalog and get the film notes, we can see the surnames of the families represented on each tape and film.