Using the etombo.com site, tonite I found Passportes records from Lisboa for a couple of my family members. Yippee!!
"E" On Sun, Aug 11, 2013 at 7:28 PM, Eileen Leite <eileenle...@seleite.com>wrote: > That’s funny, Cheri! As you have no doubt figured out, I am a Mormon, and > I can appreciate a good vinho joke! And you may be right: a couple of > bottles of good vinho can ease sticky negotiations! **** > > ** ** > > My friend the FHC director reminded me what Joao Ventura (‘the other one’ > J) referred to: that when the LDS church makes copies of records, part of > the agreement is to give a copy to the records’ owner. So the government > of Portugal has copies of the digitalized records provided by the LDS > church. I have no clue what schedule each entity is on, in terms of > posting records online, and whether they have coordinated their efforts or > not. It would be great if they were posting different items, which would > get the records out there much faster – but only if all were freely > available to everyone!! Joao, I am curious how you know that “The > agreement does say that all data will be made publicly available by the > Portuguese government.” That is more than my friend found out. **** > > ** ** > > Eileen Leite **** > > ** ** > > ** ** > > *From:* Cheri Mello [mailto:gfsche...@gmail.com] > *Sent:* Sunday, August 11, 2013 1:47 PM > > *To:* Azores Genealogy > *Subject:* Re: [AZORES-Genealogy] Portugal records and > Familysearch/Family History Centers**** > > ** ** > > Here's the problem (this is all tongue-in-cheek so no one needs to get > upset...I'm just trying to find some humor in all this frustration)....*** > * > > **** > > The Portuguese people like a good glass of vinho. The LDS members do not > drink wine (or any other type of alcohol). Otherwise, the whole problem > would have been solved over a nice glass of vinho from the Algarve (or > wherever they grow the grapes for that good wine)! :) :) :) LOL**** > > -- > 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.**** > > -- > 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. > > > -- 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.
