João V, the archivist, was in charge of scanning the CCA images when they began this project 10 or more years ago. He told us at one Salt Lake City conference that he had scanned all of Sao Jorge island in color and explained why color was better. I believe all the scans in the Angra archive are new scans and were directed by him. I believe Horta and Ponta Delgada were told the same instructions. Horta looks like they did new scans and in color. It appears that Sao Miguel scanned the microfilm and in black and white and some at very low resolution. I can't remember when Joao V, the archivist, told us this. 6 years ago?? It's been awhile. I know he met with some Family Search officials in Utah and he explained to them about color scans versus black and white scans (they are much easier to read).
The microfilm that can be ordered for viewing through your Family History Center (FHC) was originally scanned by the Genealogy Society of Utah (GSU - today, Family Search) in the early 80s. The master copy is in Granite Mountain in Utah. Copies were provided to the Azores and we can order copies through our FHCs. So that's the best of my memory. Maybe Joao the archivist can comment here on the scanning process at the time they did it. Cheri Cheri Mello Listowner, Azores-Gen Researching: São Miguel island: Vila Franca, Ponta Garca, Ribeira Quente, Ribeira das Tainhas, Achada On Tue, Jan 17, 2017 at 9:41 AM, Tish M <[email protected]> wrote: > Thank you. I find CCA a marvelous tool and I like it where it is. I also > use Familysearch and find their tools very good, too. I realize all of the > scanning came from Familysearch, I am not a fan of 'giving' data to others. > The Mormon Church's idea of giving Identity Nos. to everyone who somehow > ends up in their trees is disturbing to me. I just dealt with an incident > where a 'relative' had entered my husband and I as deceased. The person who > entered our name, is deceased so we could not very well ask him to change > the information. I was able to have our status changed to living, but I was > unable to remove our names. We will forever have identity nos. associated > with the Church. > Please do not take this as criticism, as it is not meant to be. I am just > saying when data is released in this age, it is sometimes misused and > abused. Imagine if Ancestry had the data. > I respect your reasoning, too. > Tish > > On Tue, Jan 17, 2017 at 8:16 AM, João Ventura <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi Tish. >> >> The CCA would not have to give away the data.. The data provided by the >> CCA was actually obtained from FamilySearch in the first place, which in >> turn scanned the originals in the Horta, Angra and Ponta Delgada archives >> (which are a separate entity than the CCA, all of them dependent of the >> DRaC - the Regional Cultural Agency). >> >> As to CCA as resource for tourism and revenue, I don't follow. The data >> could also stay where it is currently. You would just have two sources.. >> It's just that one of the sources has massive pockets for genealogy. And of >> course, they could serve you the high-resolution scan of the books, instead >> of the reduced-beyond-recognition images that some older books have in CCA. >> >> João Ventura >> http://tombo.pt/en >> >> * Well, not really always, but we're talking about genealogical >> timeframes, not geological ones. >> >> On Monday, 16 January 2017 18:26:05 UTC+1, sfig wrote: >>> >>> 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* >>>>>>> >>>>>>> -- >>>>>>> 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]. >>>> 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]. >> 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]. > 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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