Please refer to this article: the microfilms are being discontinued. https://familysearch.org/blog/en/microfilm-distribution-discontinued-august-31-2017/
>From my last post a few months ago, I think Rosemarie said that the microfilms >are on disc. I think they need to be index so they can be put online and >searchable (that is the key word). I would ask Cheri or Rosemarie to call the SLC Family History Library and ask the Portuguese Librarian to set up a time at the conference where we could meet together (maybe right after dinner) where questions can be asked/answered. My understanding is very basic - but I am really pushing for these records to be indexed. What that mean - and please verify this with the librarian - we wouldn't necessarily need to learn to read the old Portuguese script. We could type in a name, and the image will come up along with the "transcribe" information. I just looked up a name in FamilySearch - the name was Helen Evans, residence in California, and the top result was a census record, on the right side is the original document, and on the left side is the transcribe infor. On Ancestry you get the transcribed information, or it may look for a name in a document (like a newspaper). The documents would have to be indexed (transcribed) by a person, I have seen it done. There is an army of people who are indexing records - my neighbor was working on the WWII veterans records. We just need to know IF the Azorean records have been indexed, if not where are they in the queue and if they are in the queue how many petitions would it take to move it forward. Let's talk more at the conference. Pat Frade Manuscript Cataloger 6741 Harold B. Lee Library Brigham Young University Provo, UT 84602 801-422-6730 [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> -- 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.
