Holy Name Cemetery in Jersey City 1898

For a bit on the history of Holy Name Cemetery in Jersey City, New Jersey I turned to the digitized newspaper archives at GenealogyBank.com.  This fee-based site offers the Jersey Journal from 1867-1922.  The first mention of Holy Name Cemetery is found in obituaries of 1897.  An article appeared in 1898 detailing that a new section of Hudson County Cemetery would be called Holy Name.  The article was about plans for a monument for a woman named Mrs. Davis.  Find A Grave does not have a listing for such a memorial, so I do not know at this time if it was ever built.  At some point in history, St. Peter's Cemetery and the generic names of Hudson County Catholic Cemetery and Roman Catholic Cemetery faded, leaving Holy Name Cemetery to describe this entire burial area.
If anyone has any further details on the history of this cemetery, we would welcome your input.

Local Repositories

Today I visited the Denville Historical Society and Museum in Denville, Morris County, New Jersey.  Someone told me (thank you MT) that some papers of a family of interest were housed at this location.  The Museum is a cute little house with artifacts from the area.  Books and papers are kept in a separate room.  I found great treasures in the binders:  notes from researchers, original photographs, and memorabilia.  Most of these items and the information contained in them are not digitized or online.  Although so much invaluable information has appeared online in recent years, there is so much more that is not online and will not appear online soon.  You still need to physically search for information.  This information could be anywhere, but start with the area in which the family lived and check all libraries, museums, historical societies- any possible repository.  And don't be surprised to find documents and pictures sitting unmarked in a box in a backroom.

Original family photographs

Death certificate from a researcher

Notebook

Copy of Vanderhoof family record book

One of several branches of the Peer family tree

Presentation: Military Records by Craig R Scott

On April 21st at Monmouth University I attended a presentation on military records by Craig R Scott, hosted by the Monmouth County Genealogy Society.  I was especially interested because I am focusing on such records to help me further trace several lines.  I have a few points to share.

--  Records are available in a variety of places:  Different branches of the National Archives, on microfilm, and online at Ancestry and Fold3.  Some are digitized; most are not.  Some are indexed; most are not.

--  Not everyone who served will be found in the pension files.  Several laws were passed over the years that qualified the soldier or the widow.  Your ancestors may not have lived long enough to qualify.

--  Research the captain, the colonel, and the other members of the unit.  This is especially useful if you cannot find a compiled military record or pension application for a particular person.  By discovering where the unit was at specific times you will compile your own idea of your ancestor's service.  Also, members of the unit were probably neighbors and maybe relatives.

These are points that apply to other records as well:
--  Spelling of names varies.  Do not be rigid.
--  View the original record whenever possible.  Use indexes to guide you to the actual record.

War of 1812 file card available at Ancestry.
Note that the full names of all three wives were included.  This is a great find.