African family knowledge centre

Start with yourself, your parents and your grandparents, then ask the oldest people in your family what they remember. For every person, try to record: - All their names, including family and praise names - Where they were born, and where the family came from (ko hae) - Their date of birth and, if they have passed on, the date of passing - Wedding dates, and who their brothers and sisters were, in birth order - A close relative the next generation can ask A remembered date is still worth writing down: "about 1880" is better than nothing. Note who told you, so the family can check it later. Keep old photos, letters, funeral programmes and church records: they often hold names and dates nobody else remembers.