I saw your card - that's what got me started. But yes, thanks for including me as well, otherwise I wouldn't have known about it!

Between sessions of our general conference yesterday (huge spiritual FEAST that happens twice a year in our church), they were talking about how the Mormons have been very busy recording the ORAL histories in several African nations. People have been taught to remember their own family histories going back until the 14th century in some cases - people who remember losing people to slavery. One individual had over 2 thousand people listed in that oral history!!! So far, they've recorded 15 million people from 12 different African countries. HUGE project! Of course, it will be even longer before these new records are digitized and put online.

US genealogical records (probably Canada too) are much more heavily digitized than records in other countries. But the other countries are gradually caught up. The problem is, they have to find suitable people for indexing the records onto Family Search and Ancestry - and that often requires native speakers.