Hi Folks If you won't be joining GSNJ (and Gloucester County Historical Society) on Saturday, June 11 for our annual Spring Program, you might want to take a look at the following event, taking place the same day... This appeared on the various Rootsweb county lists on Sunday. (If you want or need info on our June 11 Spring Program, please check our website: www.gsnj.org) Regards, Joan Joan M. Lowry Genealogical Society of New Jersey mailto:jml-gsnj@earthlink.net website: www.gsnj.org > -----Original Message----- > From: > Sent: Sunday, May 15, 2005 1:36 AM > To: NJWarren-d@rootsweb.com > Subject: 2005 Safe Day - Woodland Cemetery - Newark, NJ > > > OPEN INVITATION TO OUR > > “SAFE DAY” > WOODLAND CEMETERY – NEWARK, NJ > FAMILY GRAVESITE VISITATION & TOMBSTONE RECORDING DAY > > Saturday, June 11, 2005 – 9:30 a.m. > (rain date Sunday, June 12) > > For old friends who help each year, it's that time again. For new people who have never had the opportunity, this is your chance to go to Woodland Cemetery in Newark, NJ to visit your family gravesites in the security of a group. For those out of state, our volunteers will help with pictures and tombstone inscriptions of your family gravesite. Each year the Newark Police Dept. has provided us with on-site protection, for which we are very grateful. Woodland Cemetery in Newark has over 82,000 burials from 1856 to the present. We are not affiliated with Woodland Cemetery in any way, but work only as a volunteer group trying to preserve the tombstone inscriptions and helping family researchers find their ancestors through our computer database. > > For those who are able to attend, we ask that you allow some time to help record tombstone inscriptions. Please invite your friends (adults only) – it is always an enjoyable day outdoors and you will be giving something back to the research community! We'll pair you up with someone, so please come even if you are by yourself. Anyone who will be searching for family gravesites and needs help in locating them, please e-mail us in advance to let us know what gravesite you will want to visit. We will not have all of the cemetery data with us – so you must request a map as much ahead of time as possible. There is no office at the cemetery. This way we can check for your family names in the computer database and prepare a map in order to guide you. Anyone who cannot attend, but would like inscriptions and pictures of their family tombstones, please make arrangements with John or me ahead of time and we will do our best to record inscriptions and take pictures of your site, time permitting. To everyone: please let us know if you will be attending so we will have an approximate headcount. > > The day is Saturday, June 11, at 9:30 a.m. at the front gate (on South 10th St.), with a rain date of Sunday, June 12th, again at 9:30 a.m. If both days are raining, a new date will be set at a later time. If there is a question on the weather, anyone may call in the morning between 8:00-8:30 at 973-667-0450 to find out if we're still "on". The gate entrance for Woodland Cemetery is located at 670 South 10th Street between Springfield and Avon Avenues, Newark, NJ. Directions - take the Garden State Parkway to the Springfield Ave. Irvington Exit #143. Take Springfield Ave East to South 10th Street. Make a right onto South 10th Street. The cemetery is located a quarter mile down on the left side. > > As a reminder, here are a few suggestions if you are planning on joining us to record tombstone inscriptions: Wear long pants, a short-sleeved shirt, with a long sleeved shirt/sweatshirt over it. Wear socks and either sturdy sneakers or hiking shoes of some sort. If you will be spending a few hours with us, bring some cold bottled water or soda - you will get thirsty. > Please bring: > * pencils/pens - we'll supply the paper > * clip board (if you have one, If not, we will have a few available) > * camera (it helps to look through a camera lens to decipher a tombstone inscription), or a > * digital camera – if you have one – we are collecting as many digital pictures of tombstones as we can – but we still need the handwritten inscription also since the digital picture doesn’t always show the exact inscription. > * sunglasses (sometimes easier to see the inscription) > * small garden tool(s) to pull back weeds from tombstone; > * wide sidewalk chalk, (to rub difficult inscriptions ... don’t buy it – I have enough to go around) > * a plastic bucket to put all your "stuff" in - the tools, camera, chalk, etc. - it makes it easier for you to carry everything from stone to stone. > * an old towel or a kneeling cushion (they’re about $1.00 - you’ll thank me!) -- some tombstones only show a couple of inches above ground... > > Any questions, e-mail or call either of us: > > John Sass > Mary Lish > jajs918@aol.com <mailto:jajs918@aol.com> > mary.lish@verizon.net <mailto:mary.lish@verizon.net> > > Bloomfield, NJ > > Nutley, NJ > 973-748-0985 > 973-667-0450 > > Mary Lish > mary.lish@verizon.net >