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!

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.

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.

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!

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

• Birth certificates from May 1, 1848, to December 31, 1923
• Death certificates from May 1, 1848, to December 31, 1940
• Marriage certificates from May 1, 1848, to December 31, 1940
• Wills up to 1952
• assorted county records as per their collections (www.njarchives.org)

Just email me.

-andrea

www.gravediggersball.org

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

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

It's a small hand-held book entitled The Christian Minister's Affectionate Advice to a Married Couple.

Chapter 1: Important nature of the Marriage Union- Danger of reminissness in Duties formerly paid-Treatment of Relations

Should be an interesting read.

-andrea

*his younger brother Edwin married a closer cousin of mine

Decoration of Soldiers’ Graves

On Saturday of this week this beautiful and touching memorial service over the graves of our departed soldiers, is to be performed all over the Union. We are confident that the people of Bridgeton will not be behind other communities in their appreciation of this solemn festival, and that large numbers will testify their appreciation of the soldiers’ memory by floral contributions as well as personal attendance. We repeat the notice of last week that persons having flowers to donate can leave their names at the stores of Garrison & Bright, T. Fletcher Jacobs, G. W. R. DeYoung and Mr. Moore, while those who may prefer bringing them themselves, can leave them at the hall in Carll’s building, on the morning of that day. The ladies are invited to come to the hall, both on Friday evening and Saturday morning, to assist in the preparation of the flowers. We hope that the participation in this ceremony will be so general as to make it one ofthe most interesting occasions which our citizens have known.

We understand that the citizens of Shiloh and vicinity will decorate the graves in their burial ground, on Sunday afternoon next, at 4 o’clock. A public meeting will be held in the church of that place, at which time addresses will be made by Rev. W. B. Gillette, Prof. O. U. Whitford, Hon. C. H. Sheppard, and others. These exercises will no doubt be highly interesting.