Salem County, NJ goodies at the Winterthur

 Swatch Book Collection

Harris, Kate S. (Catherine Smith), 1857-1940.  Harris, Sarah Bradway (Sallie), 1832-1909.  Johnson, Sarah Marion Harris, 1859-1929.  Fabric scrapbooks, ca. 1880-1890.

http://findingaid.winterthur.org/html/HTML_Finding_Aids/COL0050new.htm

Margaret Janvier Hort Collection

http://findingaid.winterthur.org/html/HTML_Finding_Aids/COL0033.htm

Cumberland County, NJ, goodies at the Winterthur

Petition for Tavern Licenses 1799-1830
[The NJ State Archives at Trenton has a lot of these, I was surprised to find this listing here]

http://findingaid.winterthur.org/html/HTML_Finding_Aids/COL0175.htm

Folder 6: IB (.238-.246) (some sheets include a scene with a lion inside a fence, Britannica keeping watch, and the motto Pro Patria)
.239     Letter from Patrick Orr, Bridgeton, to Thos. Macdonald, Sept. 20, 1798. Concerns William Orr and the ownership of a ship with others.

http://findingaid.winterthur.org/html/HTML_Finding_Aids/COL0069.htm

Vineland Historical and Antiquarian Society is CLOSED!!!

Noooooo!!!

The one historical society that my cousin Charles Ewing Sheppard, Esq, trusted with his original manuscript.

http://www.thedailyjournal.com/article/20100928/NEWS01/9280329/Abrupt-closure-at-Vineland-Historical-and-Antiquarian-Society

The genealogy fair is still on for this Saturday (Oct 2).

The Princeton Preservation Group

I just found out about this neat organization.

The Princeton Preservation Group

http://princetonpreservation.org/

The Princeton Preservation Group has been meeting several times
per year since 1983 to hear lectures on a wide range of topic relating
to the preservation of cultural artifacts, including but not limited to books,
manuscripts, artwork, furniture, photographs, tombstones, Lucy the Elephant,
costumes, videotapes, and buildings. Recent meetings have been
held in Manalapan, Princeton, New Brunswick, Morristown, and Lawrenceville.

Among others, topics have included:
Disaster Recovery: Mold and Water Damage
Preserving Ethnic Materials
Binding Rare Books
Historic Building Conservation
Digitizing Photograph Collections

Group members include conservators, librarians, archivists, curators,
historic preservation specialists, and interested others. Anyone may join.

Dues are only $5 a year!

200,000 people

I just broke 200,000 people in my gedcom! They are all relatives or relatives of relatives.

Congratulations to Thomas B. Hires, born 17 Sep 1824, son of John Hires and Phebe Burch. His first wife had two marriages and divorces and was a major timesuck, but I figured it out.

-andrea

P.S. That means it took 1 year, 10 months, and 13 days to enter the last 100,000 people in my database.

Arlington National Cemetery

Click here to read about the disturbing handling of things at Arlington National Cemetery.

This is why I check on every single one of my relatives. Some are where they should be, some are unmarked in a giant pit outside Philadelphia where they were placed after Lafayette Cemetery and Union Burial Ground were exhumed to make way for "progress."

Arlington should hire me, I'll have it cataloged in no time.

Forensic Genealogy Photography

A friend of mine passed along this link:

http://www.dvafoto.com/2010/04/historical-analysis-of-photos-a-lesson-in-determining-time-and-date-of-vintage-photography/

Maybe your old photos were all taken during an equinox!

Laurel Hill Cemetery (Philadelphia, PA)

I just received my Laurel Hill Cemetery (Philadelphia, PA) newsletter in the mail today. Great news! The Friends of Laurel Hill Cemetery has contracted with webCemeteries.com to transcribe all of Laurel Hill's internments!

I cannot wait! I find more and more relatives buried there everyday thanks to pilot.familysearch.org

Gravediggers' Ball

I just got my invitation in the mail o the Gravediggers' Ball fundraiser held by Laurel Hill Cemetery in Philadelphia.
My dress is ready to go.

www.gravediggersball.org

They do a lot of clever and successful fundraising for the cemetery.

Mark Loper & Son milk bottle

I came across a reference to this auction taking place on ebay at some point. It wasn't in the completed auctions.

It was for this:

Old Milk Bottle Deerfield NJ Ayrshire Mark Loper & son

I'm very interested in seeing this item as I had no idea my uncle had anything involving bottles, his brother-in-law was the glass factory owner. Then again, I'm not sure as to the date on it, so it could be his grandson.

-andrea