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From: "Ruth Sprowls" <>
Subject: hint on gravestones
Date: Tue, 6 Sep 2005 09:10:26 -0400

Found this today in an article from Ancestry.com; hope it helps.
Ruth


ALUMINUM FOIL AND UNREADABLE HEADSTONES
If you have a headstone that is old and nearly impossible to
read, try
this.

If you have a partner, have your partner hold a sheet of aluminum
foil
on the face of the stone. Take a four-inch paint-roller (the kind
used
to cut in corners) and gently roll across the foil sheet. It is
sometimes possible to retrieve the information as the roller
fills in
the engraved impressions on the stone.

Jim and Flo Hartley

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