Filipino Family

At first glance, you might think Filipinos don’t really care about genealogy. In reviewing data from my YouTube channel <www.youtube.com/c/TheFILIPINOGENEALOGYChannel>, I noticed watch time from viewers in the United States was consistently longer than that of viewers in the Philippines. How could this be? Family is such an important part of Philippine culture! I couldn’t believe there wasn’t more interest.

Curious, I did some further research. I conducted an informal survey among 110 Philippines-based respondents, asking if they were “familiar with the term genealogy.” The results were eye-opening: Not only were four out of five unfamiliar with the term, but three out of five thought genealogy referred to the branch of medicine that deals with the female reproductive system!

Digging into some Google search data told a slightly different story. People who were interested in Filipino genealogy seemed to search Google so or even . It’s not that Filipinos are disinterested in family history research—it’s that many aren’t familiar with the word .