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| == Ideas for informal questions to ask == | | == Ideas for informal questions to ask == |
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| -What are your names, what do they mean, and how did you get them? (The answer to this question is usually very interesting and can yield a lot of other useful information.)<br> -What are the names of your parents and your parents’ brothers and sisters? Who did they marry?<br> -Do you know where your parents’ family was living when they were born? <br> -How did they come to be at that place? <br> -What year were they born? <br> -What island do they come from? What district? What village?<br> -What is the ancestral village or island district of your father and mother? <br> -Where did your father and mother live, and when did they live there? <br> -What is your lineage, ha’a, canoe, tribe, or other ancestral group? <br> -Who was the first ancestor in that lineage? <br> -What is the story about them?<br> -What do you remember of the history of their village or island district ?
| | *What are your names, what do they mean, and how did you get them? (The answer to this question is usually very interesting and can yield a lot of other useful information.)<br> |
| | *What are the names of your parents and your parents’ brothers and sisters? Who did they marry?<br> |
| | *Do you know where your parents’ family was living when they were born? <br> |
| | *How did they come to be at that place?<br> |
| | *What year were they born? <br> |
| | *What island do they come from? What district? What village?<br> |
| | *What is the ancestral village or island district of your father and mother? <br> |
| | *Where did your father and mother live, and when did they live there? <br> |
| | *What is your lineage, ha’a, canoe, tribe, or other ancestral group? <br> |
| | *Who was the first ancestor in that lineage? <br> |
| | *What is the story about them?<br> |
| | *What do you remember of the history of their village or island district?<br> |
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| -Do you remember any of your ancestors who are no longer living? <br> -What do you remember about them? <br> -How many children do you have? What are their names? Who did they marry?<br> -Where do your descendants live now?<br> -What is your husband or wife’s name?<br> -What do you recollect about the time of your marriage?<br> -Where and when were you married? <br> -What was or is special about your husband or wife?<br> -What religion do you belong to? <br> -What religion did your parents belong to?<br> -How did they learn the gospel or become a Christian, and when were they baptized?<br> -If they are LDS, have they attended the temple, and when?<br> -What events in your life (birth, adolescence, new name, moving to another place, church ordinances such as baptism, christening, confirmation, marriage, employment, schooling, hospitalization, land ownership, military service, being made chief, etc.) were likely to have been recorded?
| | *Do you remember any of your ancestors who are no longer living? <br>*What do you remember about them? <br>*-How many children do you have? What are their names? Who did they marry?<br> -Where do your descendants live now?<br> -What is your husband or wife’s name?<br> -What do you recollect about the time of your marriage?<br> -Where and when were you married? <br> -What was or is special about your husband or wife?<br> -What religion do you belong to? <br> -What religion did your parents belong to?<br> -How did they learn the gospel or become a Christian, and when were they baptized?<br> -If they are LDS, have they attended the temple, and when?<br> -What events in your life (birth, adolescence, new name, moving to another place, church ordinances such as baptism, christening, confirmation, marriage, employment, schooling, hospitalization, land ownership, military service, being made chief, etc.) were likely to have been recorded? |
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| == Follow up == | | == Follow up == |