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From: Andrew Johnson <>
Subject: [NJHUNTER] Graveyards
Date: Sat, 16 Sep 2000 05:25:02 -0800

Dear Beverly Kirby-McDonough:
I am not versed in the local situation in New Jersey nor of its
laws but I do know what can happen. Where residential development
begins to encroach and where a cemetery is uncared for, the gravestones
will disappear and all information concerning the dead interred there
will be forever lost. The only real solution to the problem is to
photograph each and every headstone and preserve the information
thereon. If you have the means to do that in this case or know of
someone who could do that and then turn in the work to one of the active
genealogical societies for permanent preservation, by all means do it.
If laws can be passed which would make such graveyards
historical sites, they need to be passed if they are not already on the
books. Our heritage stands in jeopardy if these graveyards are not
preserved and recorded. I hope you can do something to do this.
Sincerely

Andrew Johnson

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