Wednesday, January 11, 2012 at 02:32PM Here is a link to the Digital Camera Policy from the Department of Rare Books and Special Collections at Princeton University Library in Princeton, NJ. It has been in use since 2008. It's fair, clear, and readily available. No surprises when you get there.
http://www.princeton.edu/~rbsc/research/RareBooksDigitalCamera-policy-2008.pdf
Sunday, December 11, 2011 at 10:15AM I recently rescued a photo of Charles A. Brandt and his wife S. Elizabeth Wilbur Brandt from ebay. It was given to his son Thomas. If anyone is related to them or knows of a living descendant who wants the photo (at cost which was under $5), please let me know.
1. Charles A. BRANDT (b.20 Oct 1850-NJ d.17 Nov 1928-Riverside Cemetery,Toms River,Ocean,NJ)
sp: Sarah Elizabeth "Lizzie" WILBUR (b.14 Jan 1852-NJ m.Abt 1870 d.19 Mar 1914-Riverside Cemetery,Toms River,Ocean,NJ)
|-2. Thomas Alvin "Allie" BRANDT (b.31 Mar 1873-NJ d.Aft 1930)
| sp: Lillian M. "Lillie" MASON (b.May 1873-PA m.8 Dec 1896 d.Aft 1930)
| |-3. Gladys Mabel BRANDT (b.12 Dec 1899-NJ d.Aft 1930)
| | sp: Leslie Wilson ORR (b.1 May 1900-PA d.Aft 1930)
| | |-4. Elizabeth B. ORR (b.1919-NJ)
| | +-4. Alden Brandt ORR (b.9 Mar 1921-NJ d.31 Mar 1951-Los Angeles Co,CA)
| +-3. Alda Lillian BRANDT (b.1906-NJ d.Aft 1930)
|-2. Harry Atwood BRANDT (b.21 Jul 1874-Ocean Co,NJ d.1925-Riverside Cemetery,Toms River,Ocean,NJ)
| sp: Florence ELLIS (b.1880-NJ d.1968-Riverside Cemetery,Toms River,Ocean,NJ)
| +-3. Foster Atwood BRANDT (b.8 Nov 1918-Ocean Co,NJ d.28 Jun 2003-Forked River,Ocean,New Jersey (Riverside Cem))
| sp: Edna RIDGEWAY (b.22 Dec 1911 d.17 Feb 2005-Forked River,Ocean,New Jersey (Riverside Cem))
| |-4. Sally BRANDT
| +-4. Susan F. BRANDT
|-2. Augusta BRANDT (b.24 Nov 1875-Ocean Co,NJ)
+-2. Mellie BRANDT (b.Aug 1880-NJ d.Aft 1900)
Thursday, October 13, 2011 at 11:35PM Dr. Peter Schulman is seen using a digital camera to copy records at the National Archives in DC. I'm very proud of the National Archives facilitating record study with their camera policy.
Thursday, October 13, 2011 at 08:25PM For anyone who's interested.
A List of Immigrants Who Applied For Naturalization Papers in The District Courts of Allegheny County Pennsylvania, 1841-1855
Ges, Conrad (by mark) (1844) Bn: Germ., Hesse; DI: 28 Sept 1844
Volume II, page 36
Friday, September 30, 2011 at 09:54PM Q: Does the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum have any airplanes from Cumberland County, NJ, in its collection?
A: Yes. They have the a Herring-Burgess Biplane that was sold to Joseph Clark Shoemaker of Bridgeton and Fairton. He modified the plane with Fred S. Chanonhouse. It was flown until it crashed on September 2, 1911. It was donated by Shoemaker's daughters after his decease. The Smithsonian's catalog shows it with inventory number A19610130000.
Q. How would I find that? The Collections Database of the National Air and Space Museum just lists the United States as the Country of Origin.
A. One would need to go to the Directory of Airplanes on the Smithsonian Thesauri website. Then one would type in New Jersey into the Geographic Location. Of the 42 results, only Bridgeton and Vineland are in Cumberland County.
Shoemaker (Shoemaker-Chanonhouse) Biplane from Bridgeton
Winslow (James E.) Center Wing from Vineland
Next, you would have to type those names into the National Air and Space Museum's Collections Database. Only Shoemaker's shows up.
family Saturday, September 24, 2011 at 02:25PM
http://mobile.nj.com/advnj/db_/contentdetail.htm?contentguid=L3sxzSx5&full=true#display
"She promised to let readers of The News know as soon as the Weber family is able to set a date for the shop’s bittersweet goodbye."
William Frederick "Fred" Weber III and Harriet (Parkell) Weber own the store. Fred is from the Erety, Shoemaker, Harris, Perry, and Crandall families.
Thursday, September 22, 2011 at 03:19PM
"Mustaches are really hot right now.
Not modern mustaches—though handlebars seem to be making an ironic comeback—but the facial hair of the past. Seeing through the facial hair to the faces, viewers move, perhaps, toward a more empathetic view of people of the past."
read more:
http://ncphoffthewall.blogspot.com/2011/09/explorations-in-historical-hotness.html
Tuesday, September 13, 2011 at 07:18PM http://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/Middle-Tonship-Cemetery-Sex-Assault-129749193.html
A woman who was visiting a cemetery plot in Cape May Court House, N.J., Sunday evening was allegedly sexually assaulted by a man lying in wait behind her car, police say.
....She struggled with the man and was able to break free, running to a house on Orbit Drive asking for the residents to call police. A resident of Orbit Drive called cops at about 8:54 p.m. Sunday, saying that a bleeding woman came to his home asking for help.
Sunday, July 24, 2011 at 03:52PM By Tracy R. Wiggins
tsnews@sjnewsco.com
WOODSTOWN — As America marks the 150th anniversary of the start of the Civil War, one local veteran of this war recently received his own marker.
Through the efforts of his descendants and particularly his great-granddaughter Susan Richardson-Sanabria, Edward Richardson, a former slave, Union soldier and longtime resident of Woodstown, at last has a proper headstone to mark his final resting place.
For more, including photos:
http://www.nj.com/salem/index.ssf/2011/07/escaped_slave_civil_war_soldie.html
Thursday, April 28, 2011 at 04:41PM I plan on being here for the 350th Anniversary.
http://www.nj.com/cumberland/voices/index.ssf/2011/04/ben_column_who_interviews_the.html
This is a message for all of you who are part of Bridgeton history.
If you have any old photos or memories or stories your dad and granddad passed down to you, or you found in the attic, and you think people would enjoy reading about them, please contact us.
This is the 325th anniversary of the founding of Bridgeton, and we want to do it up right with a keepsake edition that captures everything about the city and surrounding area.
That includes you, Shep.
It includes sports, rum-runners, the library, the courthouse, the Italian-American Civic Club, the Fifth Ward Club, Ferracute Co., Nail Company, Woodruff Indian Artifact collection, fire house, police department, oldest businesses, Gas Light Co., Elks Lodge, Cohansey River, Chief Cohanzick, country club, Owens-Illinois, schools.
Anything you want to personalize for everyone to read.
We had the meeting Wednesday with the powers that be.
They love the idea.
We have Bob Crowe’s thousand photos.
We’re trying to make the history of Bridgeton come alive through your ancestors.
Email us at jhummel@sjnewsco.com.
Jot down the memories that should be shared.
Write us at The News, 100 E. Commerce St., Bridgeton, NJ 08302.
We could do 325 pages with enough help and enough support.
And all of your names can be on those pages.
We’re not going to write it.
You’re going to write it.
Please make it happen because we won’t be here for the 350th.