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> On Jan 16, 2017, at 5:07 PM, Cheri Mello <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Ahem, it would be nice that a dozen or so people email the CCA and let them 
> know that the server is down. The CCA is on Terceira island. The server is on 
> Sao Miguel island. They don't always know when it's down. It's miles and 
> miles apart.
> 
> One person emails them. They think "one person." They have a dozen people 
> email them and they realize that there are lots and lots of people using 
> their site and only a fraction of those people let them know.
> 
> Their email address: [email protected]
> 
> Always let them know that you are really thankful, really appreciate, yada 
> yada yada, the service that they provide. Then let them know that you are 
> getting that error screen.
> 
> Angela L, the LDS Church negotiated with the government and went to the 
> Azores in the early to mid-1980s and filmed all the records that were 
> available at that time (1870s or 1880s. Varies by freguesia). At that time, 
> they used the name "Genealogy Society of Utah." So the microfilm goes up to 
> about 1883 or 1884 or so, but not in all locations. You'd have to go to your 
> local FHC and see what film they may have for your freguesias and you'd have 
> to order what film(s) you plan on utilizing. You can do it for short term or 
> permanent load.
> 
> Cheri
> 
> Cheri Mello
> Listowner, Azores-Gen
> Researching: São Miguel island: Vila Franca, Ponta Garca, Ribeira Quente, 
> Ribeira das Tainhas, Achada
> 
>> On Mon, Jan 16, 2017 at 9:30 AM, Ângela Loura <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Are the CCA records available in microfilm in the Church of Jesus Christ of 
>> Latter-day saints?
>> 
>> 2017-01-16 17:25 GMT+00:00 Tish M <[email protected]>:
>>> João, thank you for your input. You are so right. The down time for CCA 
>>> should not make CCA so discredited. They are doing a great service. We are 
>>> living in a society where everyone is so impatient. Does it really matter 
>>> if you are unable to look something up for a day, or two? I also agree, 
>>> Familysearch has the resources, but for the Azores to give away the data 
>>> would not only mean nobody would go to CCA, but would reduce CCA as a 
>>> resource for tourism and revenue. Why do you think the Portuguese are 
>>> offering citizenships with so little commitment to the people who apply 
>>> (revenue)? I am not writing this in criticism of Portugal, it's just the 
>>> climate of small governments around the world at this time.
>>> 
>>> Tish 
>>> 
>>>> On Mon, Jan 16, 2017 at 8:38 AM, João Ventura <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>> Victor,
>>>> 
>>>> The "cloud" is not free... And while I do agree that on principle it would 
>>>> make sense, the truth is that the thing that's REALLY expensive on the 
>>>> cloud is storage. You can get Amazon Web Services to scale easily the 
>>>> number of servers, but telling that each of those servers would have to be 
>>>> able to store and replicate several Terabytes of data would probably 
>>>> consume the budget for the whole archipelago quite fast.
>>>> 
>>>> And it doesn't make sense to have several servers all going to the same 
>>>> storage server wherever they store all those images.
>>>> 
>>>> Things that would make sense:
>>>> 1. Allowing Familysearch to serve those images (pros: free, and no work 
>>>> necessary; cons: nobody would use the CCA servers ever again).
>>>> 2. See 1., to be honest.
>>>> 
>>>> João Ventura
>>>> https://tombo.pt/en
>>>> 
>>>>> On Saturday, 14 January 2017 19:10:58 UTC+1, Victor Soares wrote:
>>>>> They should load all that data up on the cloud to be fault tolerant. 
>>>>> Likely cheaper and less of a maintenance hassle for the CCA admins. 
>>>>>> On Sat, Jan 14, 2017 at 09:42 Ângela Loura <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>> Contacts:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> [email protected]
>>>>>> [email protected] 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 2017-01-14 17:35 GMT+00:00 Richard Francis Pimentel 
>>>>>> <[email protected]>:
>>>>>>> CCA seems to have gone down this morning around 10:00 am EST. As of now 
>>>>>>> it is still down.
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>  
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Rick
>>>>>>> 
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