I will cease and desist. (I had not started yet anyway.) Cheri is right. Most of all I would not want to jeopardize access to the records for personal use. It's so wonderfull to have them.
Mary On Thu, Mar 30, 2017 at 5:44 PM Cheri Mello <[email protected]> wrote: > You guys need to STOP. It's not that I'm trying to rain your parade, but > there's problems. > > First, whenever the CCA was approached about helping to index, we were > always turned down. ALWAYS. They don't say why. Just a no thank you. I've > thought about it. And I made up the following reasons why we are rebuffed: > 1) They aren't in control of the project. 2) They have a bunch of > non-native speakers doing this. 3) There's really no cross-checking. > > I could solve #2 & #3 for them. Do it like FamilySearch does. Two people > independently index the same set of records. Someone compares the records > to make sure they are extracted the same. If they are not the same, it goes > to a 3rd person (who should be a native speaker in my opinion). > > 2nd Problem. There's NO standard. You MUST set a standard and the CCA has > to agree to it. You don't even have freguesia spelled right! The dates most > likely need to be in European format and most likely need to be with > Portuguese abbreviations for the months. The names must be in modern > Portuguese (Ana, not Anna). And there needs to be a rule for d', de, da, > do. You are doing this from a completely egocentric, American point of > view. This is exactly why they don't want our help. > > 3rd Problem: You DO NOT have permission from the CCA to do this. "It's on > the Internet and it's free" may not apply in a European court. Would they > go after you? I don't know. Could they take down the whole site so no one > has access to it? Sure they could. Do you want that on your shoulders? > > So, do not do this. Like I said, I'm not raining on your parade. Things > are done differently over there. > > If you can figure out a way to make a proposal to them, they can read it. > Maybe they will respond back. > > Please do not jeopardize the records for all of us. Do NOT do with without > the OK from the CCA. > > Cheri > > Cheri Mello > Listowner, Azores-Gen > Researching: São Miguel island: Vila Franca, Ponta Garca, Ribeira Quente, > Ribeira das Tainhas, Achada > > On Thu, Mar 30, 2017 at 5:16 PM, Louie Avila <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Jeremy, > > Any guidelines? > > Leave out the de, da, do, etc? > Use the most current spelling of the name (i.e. Joaquim vs Joachim)? > Place spaces between the date (12 Sep 1899 vs. 12Sep1899). > > You rock! > > Louie > > -- > 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.
