I found the website of the Núcleo de Estudos de Populaçáo e Sociedade, Instituto de Ciéncias Sociais, which is run by the Universidade do Minho, in Braga, Portugal. There are several databases with information not available on the CCA site. It is just data, no original documents or images. I was particularly interested in data for Pico and Faial. I emailed the database administrator and asked where the data came from and he said it came from the original records kept in Horta.
The url for their new website is: http://www.ghp.ics.uminho.pt I did find some of the information to be useful and consistent with what I found in the Library, but one record in the database was obviously wrong (too many years between the birth of parent and child. After I posted about the LDS Library, I spoke to the Library Volunteer Coordinator and she is working to resolve the equipment problems. Yes, there are different lenses for different films, but not all the Library volunteers know this or how to change them. She also offered to let me take the films to a nearby public library which has similar equipment for reading the microfilm and printing the images. She has been very helpful. -- To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. Follow the confirmation directions when they arrive. For more options, such as changing to List, Digest, Abridged, or No Mail (vacation) mode, log into your Google account and visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Azores. Click in the blue area on the right that says "Join this group" and it will take you to "Edit my membership."
