FamilySearch is the family history division of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (LDS or Mormons). They did the microfilming of the original Azorean records in the 1980s.
CCA is the Center for Knowledge of the Azores. It's the Azorean Government division of records. Like the American NARA. The CCA holds the original records and the originals are housed in their archives. They digitized their records, ending a few years ago. Tombo.pt is a portal or table of contents to the CCA site. It makes accessing the CCA (and ABM and records in Portugal itself) much, much easier. Cheri Cheri Mello Listowner, Azores-Gen Researching: São Miguel island: Vila Franca, Ponta Garca, Ribeira Quente, Ribeira das Tainhas, Achada On Mon, Aug 21, 2017 at 10:02 AM, Maria Lima <maria.lima...@gmail.com> wrote: > Rosemarie, > > So, does this mean that shortly will we not have access to tombo and the > CCA anymore online? > > Maria Elena > > On Aug 21, 2017, at 11:15 AM, Rosemarie Capodicci <rcap...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > Marie Elena, > Once you are at a FHC you can ask one of the LDS people use their password > to let you into the digitized Azorean records. I'm sure that they will let > you use them at the FHC, you just won't be able to access them at home. > > > Rosemarie > rcap...@gmail.com > Researching Sao Jorge, Terceira, Graciosa, Faial and Pico, Azores, > Isola delle Femmine, Sant' Elia, Sicily > > On Mon, Aug 21, 2017 at 8:38 AM, Maria Lima <maria.lima...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> Sorry Joao. Now I understand. I wasn't thinking about accessing the >> records through familysearch because I mostly use Tombo.pt to see the >> records. I didn't even know I could currently access the CCA records from >> familysearch. Ill have to find out how to do that. Thanks for all you do. >> >> >> Maria Elena >> >> On Aug 20, 2017, at 11:42 AM, Cheri Mello <gfsche...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> FamilySearch has to negotiate with each government about their records. >> Since the Azores are an autonomous region, I would think that would mean a >> different agreement. I tried to view Madeira (since they too have a >> different government). After 5 minutes of the spinning wheel, I gave up. I >> know the Cape Verde records can be viewed from home. However, the last >> information I had (from over 2 years ago) was that negotiations broke down >> with the Azorean government. I can try to find out when I'm in SLC. I don't >> know who the guy is who is in charge of negotiating with Western Europe, >> but hopefully, I can find out. >> >> Cheri Mello >> Listowner, Azores-Gen >> Researching: São Miguel island: Vila Franca, Ponta Garca, Ribeira Quente, >> Ribeira das Tainhas, Achada >> >> On Sun, Aug 20, 2017 at 1:21 AM, João Ventura <j...@venturas.org> wrote: >> >>> Hi Rcik, >>> >>> Yes, we're talking about the Church records, that you see on CCA ( >>> tombo.pt is just a faster gateway to the same content). The quality of >>> the CCA records is the problem. In the later years, they uploaded higher >>> quality images, but the initial online books have really low quality >>> versions. >>> >>> If FamilySearch allowed you to see them (if covered under the same >>> agreement as mainland Portugal, only LDS church members are allowed to see >>> them in FamilySearch), you'd see that they provide a much higher quality >>> image than CCA ever has. And yes, I do know that they all come from the >>> same source. It's just that FamilySearch gives you the scan in it's >>> original max scan resolution, and CCA reduced it in size and quality to >>> save on the network bandwidth. >>> >>> João Ventura >>> http://tombo.pt/en >>> >>> On Friday, 18 August 2017 21:41:26 UTC+2, Richard Francis Pimentel wrote: >>>> >>>> *Ok we are talking about the Church records (baptism, marriage, and >>>> obits) that we currently view on Tombo and CCA. Then If I try to view >>>> these records through Family Search the quality will be poor but if we view >>>> them through Tombo and CCA they will be the same as we see today?* >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> *Rick* >>>> >>>> *Richard Francis Pimentel* >>>> >>>> *Epping, NH* >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> *Researching, Riberia Grande, Riberinha, Achada Grande, Bretanha, and >>>> Ponta Delgada, Sao Miguel, Acores* >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> *From:* azo...@googlegroups.com [mailto:azo...@googlegroups.com] *On >>>> Behalf Of *João Ventura >>>> *Sent:* Friday, August 18, 2017 1:44 PM >>>> *To:* Azores Genealogy >>>> *Subject:* Re: [AZORES-Genealogy] Microfilms discontinued >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> No, I'm talking about the church records (baptism, marriage and obits). >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> João >>>> >>>> On Friday, 18 August 2017 19:10:30 UTC+2, Richard Francis Pimentel >>>> wrote: >>>> >>>> *Joao, Could you clarify this. When you say the books you are not >>>> talking about the church records. Do I understand this correctly?* >>>> >>>> *Rick* >>>> >>>> *Richard Francis Pimentel* >>>> >>>> *Epping, NH* >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> *Researching, Riberia Grande, Riberinha, Achada Grande, Bretanha, and >>>> Ponta Delgada, Sao Miguel, Acores* >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> *From:* azo...@googlegroups.com [mailto:azo...@googlegroups.com] *On >>>> Behalf Of *João Ventura >>>> *Sent:* Friday, August 18, 2017 12:53 PM >>>> *To:* Azores Genealogy >>>> *Subject:* Re: [AZORES-Genealogy] Microfilms discontinued >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> This is terrible news. >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> The Portuguese archives are not available from FamilySearch, except for >>>> those with LDS accounts or some rare cases like Braga or Coimbra. >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> There are books available in CCA where the image is so low resolution >>>> that I might as well be looking at it in Minecraft, and the only >>>> possibility to read them is to go to a FHC and ask for the microfilm. >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> João Ventura >>>> >>>> http://tombo.pt/en >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> 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. >>>> 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 azores+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>> 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 azores+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> 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 azores+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> 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 azores+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > 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 azores+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > 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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