Why Governments Are Starting To Help With Family History Across the World

Grant Nielsen, host of Family Gathering interviews Mike Sandberg and Gregg Richardson of Family Search who have done genealogy work in West Africa. Villages in Africa don't have many paper records, and much of the family history is oral. Since many families have to travel great distances to get whatever paper records there may be, making sure oral histories are available is a goal Mike and Gregg think they can accomplish. The concept of family is universal, and governments are coming to organizations like Family Search to help them preserve and restore many of the destroyed records. KSL NewsRadio's Family Gathering connects people and families across many generations. If you are new to family histories, let Family Gathering's host Grant Nielsen guide your search for the family you never knew you had. Family Gathering is sponsored by Family Search. Discover your family history. Explore the world's largest collection of free family trees, genealogy records, and resources at Familysearch.org .

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Why Governments Are Starting To Help With Family History Across the World is an episode from Family Gathering by Bonneville International.

This episode is 11:37 long.

This episode was published on Dec 13, 2017.

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