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From: "Mary Lish" <>
Subject: 2005 Safe Day - Woodland Cemetery - Newark, NJ
Date: Sun, 15 May 2005 01:35:59 -0400

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
<mailto:>
<mailto:>

Bloomfield, NJ

Nutley, NJ
973-748-0985
973-667-0450



Mary Lish

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