Manila Public Document in Digital Format

Inumpisahan ng idigitized ang mga public records sa manila ng mga Mormons from the Latter-Day Saints. Mula 1886 to 1996 ang coverage ng record gathering task nila. Putris... eh dadahlin naman nila ang kopya doon sa kanilang headquarter sa Salt Lake, Utah. At least makakarating sa Amerika yung mga pilipino kahit sa papel man lang.

Mormons digitizing Manila’s records

Digitized records from the Church of the Latter-Day Saints will back-up documents in the civil registry of Manila archived during the period covering 1886 to 1996.

Manila Mayor Alfredo Lim received on Feb. 10 the first 500-gigabytes hard disk of a three-part storage of a century’s file involving up to 100 million individual entries.

“This will help a lot in servicing important documents to the people,” he told the group represented by Won Yong Ko of the Philippines Area Presidency, Robert Andrada president of the Manila Stake, Manolito Baul of the church family history and Alejandro Abalos, technical assistant of the sect’s family search department.

City Registrar Josefa Ocampo said the digitizing was based on records kept in city hall that survived destruction during World War II including typhoon Ondoy’s flooding in Sept. last year.

“Two other batches are due for delivery,” she said, adding that digitized records consisted of certificates of birth and death as well as marriage contracts.

Ocampo said the church group offered the service free of charge but the city government would have to provide the retrieval system.

She said the ideal would be an over-the-counter transaction that allowed tracing, recovery and printing of records in seconds, avoiding long cues waiting for results.

Ocampo said records would also be kept permanently in the church’s repository in Salt Lake, Utah.

She said documents were digitized in 8 to 11 megapixel format to guarantee clarity of copies.

Source: Manila Standard Today

Manila North Harbor

Stumbled across this blog about Philippine ports, ships, etc and saw a feature article about the Manila North Harbor sa tondo. Actually the North harbor extends along the eastern shores of Manila Bay kaya minsan nalilito ako kung saan nga ba talaga yung North Harbor pag nsa harap ako ng bahay namin. Sumisikat ang araw sa harap ng bahay namin sa tondo so bale East yun diba, tapos yung likod namin ang lubog ng araw bale West?, at doon mo naman makikita yung North Harbor. Take a look at my header graphics. You will see the loading docks or container lifters.
Anyways, lumayo na naman sa topic. Eto yung intro ng article nila sa
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The Manila North Harbor is located along the eastern shore of Manila Bay. It is the life-line connecting the Visayas and Mindanao regions to Metro Manila, and the main island of Luzon itself. Accessible via the Radial Road R-10 from Navotas, and Delpan Bridge connecting the South Harbor Port area, and Roxas Boulevard in the City of Manila.

North Harbor is intended to serve the domestic Inter-island shipping. It form part of Manila Port’s backbone, which also comprises the South Harbor, The Manila International Container Terminal (MICT), and the Port facilities located along the banks of Pasig River extending to Jones Bridge in Binondo Manila.

The operation and administration of the Manila North Harbor was transferred to the Philippine Ports Authority from the Bureau of Customs on December 23, 1975 by virtue of Presidential Decree No. 857 signed by the then former President Ferdinand Marcos.

Also Vitas Area in Tondo, Manila was declared part of the North Harbor Custom Zone by virtue of Executive Order 297 dated March 4, 1971.

On November 26,1981, the whole of Vitas area bounded by Pier 18 on the north, Radial Road R-10 on the east, the Marine Slipway Area in the southland, the Vitas rock bulkhead on the west, was transferred and placed under the administration of the Philippine Ports Authority by virtue of EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 749 signed by the then President Marcos.