Hi
Just thought it was worth a little more mention on maori Whakapapa
Please step in anyone reading wwith more info, I'm no expert just going from my experiences
When you wanted Te Whakaawa ancestors..
Maori tribes and their respective marae's usually have very detailed lineages and all will be able to trace back to the time the arrived in New Zealand as a member of a respective Canoe. These details handed down by each generation, recited orally with the history attached..only late years did anything get written down..it was an oral language.
So the descents that you see, names going down each generation are often only male lines..or they follow the male line..showing wife. You don't always get a "family" surname, the name alters with generations and then from the time of European settlement the names are anglicised.
This doesn't go well for trying to put it into genealogy programmes like Legacy.
Marriages are a different concept..so there is no date as such, the religoius element is a very late inclusion
I've cheated, and bought a book that details the genealogy of my sons' maori ancestors!!!
so once you assign tribal affiliation, which from memory was mentioned in one of those obituaries..if you google the tribal name..there will be an iwi (tribe) website which will usually give you the genealogy for that group
Hope that makes a bit of sense
Bye
althea