I sent them an e-mail on the 14th....including the thank you for providing such a great service on which so many of us have come to rely. Thanks, Cheri, for the information here.
On Monday, January 16, 2017 at 6:07:52 PM UTC-7, Cheri Mello 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] <javascript:> > > 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] > <javascript:>> 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] <javascript:>>: >> >>> 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] >>> <javascript:>> 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* >>>>>>> >>>>>>> -- >>>>>>> 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]. >>>>>>> Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/azores. >>>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> -- >>>>>> 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]. >>>>>> Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/azores. >>>>>> >>>>> -- >>>> 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:>. >>>> Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/azores. >>>> >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> sfig >>> Researching >>> Island: Santa Maria >>> Freguesia: Santa Barbara >>> >>> -- >>> 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:>. >>> Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/azores. >>> >> >> -- >> 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:>. >> Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/azores. >> > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Azores Genealogy" group. 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