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Join PNJ and Richard Grubb & Associates, Inc. for a discussion on where to search online and in archives (through in-person visits) for information on cemeteries and the descendants interred there. Presenters will share various methods for accurately recording information about cemeteries and descendants, including data discovered during the research phase of the project. They will also emphasize often overlooked or unrecognized details such as funerary art and stonecutters’ marks on grave markers and monuments. Additionally, the session will cover geophysical survey techniques and online databases to document and present cemetery data to a wide audience.

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About RGA: Richard Grubb & Associates, Inc. (RGA) is a woman-owned, full-service cultural resources management firm that is headquartered in Cranbury, New Jersey and maintains offices in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Wake Forest, North Carolina, and Nashville, Tennessee. RGA offers a broad range of cemetery preservation services to individuals, families, churches, and municipalities for cemeteries of all sizes. Our qualified staff takes a “hands-on” approach to all our cemetery projects and helps clients determine their priorities. RGA understands the needs of cemeteries that have been abandoned, vandalized, and undocumented, as well as the negative effects of inappropriate conservation techniques and materials. Our professionally trained cemetery preservation staff writes local landmark, National Register of Historic Places, and National Historic Landmark nominations; conducts archaeological surveys, conditions assessments, and preventative maintenance plans; develops cemetery preservation plans, outdoor interpretive signage for heritage tourism; and documents cemeteries with mapping, photographic inventories and databases. RGA offers remote sensing or geophysical survey techniques that complement our expertise in cemetery preservation and documentation services.

About Speaker: Jason Harpe, MA, is the Director of Cemetery Conservation at Richard Grubb & Associates, Inc. Mr. Harpe has over 20 years of experience in the field of historic preservation. He leads workshops on cemetery preservation for historical societies, student groups, museums, churches, and historic preservation organizations, in addition to conserving gravemarkers and monuments of diverse types in family, church, and municipal cemeteries. Harpe follows the American Institute for Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works Code of Ethics and Guidelines for Practice as tools to educate clients (families, churches, and municipalities) about the best practices of gravemarkers and monument conservation. He is a Professional Associate of the AIC and has worked on over 50 projects involving the conservation and restoration of gravestones and monuments. He is a Certified JAHN Mortar Installer authorized by Cathedral Stone Products of Hanover, Maryland, and has attended mortar training workshops at Limeworks.us in Telford, Pennsylvania. 

This program was made possible by a grant from the New Jersey Council for the Humanities, a state partner of the National Endowment for the Humanities.

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