Hey Cheri There's a situation similar to that... The marriage book for Corvo 1655-1671, is listed and was scanned by the LDS Church ( https://familysearch.org/search/catalog/353744?availability=Family%20History%20Library). However their catalog (no longer online, but used to be at http://www.arquivos.azores.gov.pt/), indicates the book has gone missing from the archives. It's not like the case indicated by Doug in another thread where the books weren't rescanned because of their bad conservation status. It's gone missing from the archive between the time the LDS microfilmed them (I'd say late 1980s), and now. I do hope somebody will find it one of these days...
This is another of those moments that I thank the LDS Church for the work they're doing, even if I totally disagree with end purpose. But then again, it's a bit like modern rockets. They were created in the 1940s to blow up the enemy. And now they allow humanity to venture beyond Earth. Sometimes the invention outgrows the inventor. Regards, João C: Ventura On Tuesday, November 19, 2013 12:08:27 AM UTC+1, Cheri Mello wrote: > > Nivea, > > According to Joao Ventura, archivist, that one book is missing. I would > think that if there was a natural disaster, the other books would show some > damage. > > It's just that books go missing. It's sad. Maybe someone "borrowed" it > back in the day and it was meant to be returned but wasn't. I've had a > couple of interesting jobs in life and one was to clean out the houses > after the tenants moved out so the property could be listed for sale. I > would find library books in these houses! The Passaportes out of Ponta > Delgada existed for that 1883-92 (or so) time period in the 1980s, as Bob > De Mello had the Hawaiian emigrants extracted for his book. But if you go > to the archive today, the book is not there. It wasn't there in the > mid-1990s either. It just disappeared somewhere between the 1980s and > 1990s. It's frustrating. Hope some of the books show up in someone's home > and they return them one day. > > Cheri > > > On Mon, Nov 18, 2013 at 2:55 PM, Nivea <[email protected] <javascript:>>wrote: > >> Hi Cheri, >> >> I use the CCA website since my family is from Terceira (so far) & that's >> where I found that the books were missing. Being that Porto Judeu is a >> village by the sea, there might have been some natural disaster that >> destroyed the books... I was checking to make sure I wasn't missing some >> other website. >> >> Thank you for your reply. >> Nivea >> >> >> On Sunday, November 17, 2013 7:07:21 PM UTC-5, Cheri Mello wrote: >>> >>> Nivea, >>> >>> Missing from where? >>> >>> The Family Search Catalog shows that there are gaps in Porto Judeu's >>> marriages in 1828-1829 and in 1840-1859. http://goo.gl/Cj34F2 >>> >>> Sadly, historical documents go missing. Every country has missing >>> historical documents. Hopefully, when the confession rolls come out, some >>> missing blanks can be filled in. >>> Cheri Mello >>> Listowner, Azores-Gen >>> Researching: Vila Franca, Ponta Garca, Ribeira Quente, Ribeira das >>> Tainhas, Achada >>> >> -- >> For 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." >> --- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Azores Genealogy" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected] <javascript:>. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]<javascript:> >> . >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/azores. >> > > > > -- > Cheri Mello > Listowner, Azores-Gen > Researching: Vila Franca, Ponta Garca, Ribeira Quente, Ribeira das > Tainhas, Achada > -- For 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." --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Azores Genealogy" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/azores.
