Hi Eileen Portugal is also putting their records online.. There's links to the parish-level book indexes here:
http://www.quinta-do-mosteiro.com/linksparq.htm Funny thing is that looking at the list, it seems that Portugal has lots of stuff available that is not on the FamilySearch website and vice-versa.. I do know that all Braga records, and the Elvas, Portalegre records are only available in FamilySearch (and for everyone, as these were not covered by the agreement). The agreement does say that all data will be made publicly available by the Portuguese government. What's frustrating a lot of us is that there's more then 420.000 books total, and only about 141.000 are currently available.. That's only 33% of the total. While I'm happy that I can use those 33% already, I know that part of the 66% I can't access are available to LDS church members. Granted the LDS church took the financial burden to microfilm and now digitize those records, but it feels stupid to have to wait on Government burocracy to process the images provided by the LDS church. João Ventura (the other one) On Sunday, August 11, 2013 7:39:54 PM UTC+2, Eileen Leite wrote: > > Wouldn’t that be great! I don’t know which entity negotiated permission > to film the records, but I do know that when the LDS church goes in to > film records they seek the broadest permission possible. Since the Azores > and Madeira are putting records online, perhaps Portugal will loosen their > conditions at some point. > > > > Eileen Leite > > > > > > > > *From:* Cheri Mello [mailto:gfsc...@gmail.com <javascript:>] > *Sent:* Sunday, August 11, 2013 12:14 PM > *To:* Azores Genealogy > *Subject:* Re: [AZORES-Genealogy] Portugal records and > Familysearch/Family History Centers > > > > BUT, it's not set in stone. Someone can go back and renegotiate the > agreement and see if they can get approval at some future date. And is > this agreement with the mainland government, the Azorean government, or the > Madeiran government? At least we have the CCA (for the Azores) and the ARM > (for Madeira) putting them online (albeit a bit slowly) for the public to > view. Don't know if they will ever be searchable, like on FamilySearch > though. > > > Cheri Mello > Listowner, Azores-Gen > Researching: Vila Franca, Ponta Garca, Ribeira Quente, Ribeira das > Tainhas, Achada > > -- > For options, such as changing to List, Digest, Abridged, or No Mail > (vacation) mode, log into your Google account and visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/Azores. Click in the blue area on the > right that says "Join this group" and it will take you to "Edit my > membership." > --- > 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 azores+un...@googlegroups.com <javascript:>. > To post to this group, send email to azo...@googlegroups.com <javascript:> > . > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/azores. > -- For options, such as changing to List, Digest, Abridged, or No Mail (vacation) mode, log into your Google account and visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Azores. Click in the blue area on the right that says "Join this group" and it will take you to "Edit my membership." --- 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 azores+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to azores@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/azores.
