[LDS] headstone cleaning

[richhart]

these were only suggestion.  One definately should contact the cemetery manager
prior to performing any type of ''headstone act--cleaning or otherwise."  I used
the mirror effect to shed additional light on the tombstones so that I could
digitally produce a photo.  I merely passing along the info!
glory bee

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> How about not "cleaning" monuments, headstones, statues, etc.,  that are not
> your property without the express permission of the cemetery and the
> descendants or owners of the plot?  Unless the process is proven to be
> harmless for a couple of hundred years, I would be suspicious that we might
> well be reducing the "lifetime" of a vital record for our own selfish
> purposes.  Let it go at the best photograph we can make.
>     I have collected daguerreotype photographs for some thirty years.  Early
> in my collecting career I ruined several of my best dagguerres by following
> the "cleaning" recommendations provided by the best archivists of the time.
> Unfortunately, the damage did not appear for several years and, so far, is
> irreversible.
>     What would you do if you visited an ancestors gravesite and found someone
> scrubbing away with ORVUS on your ggrandmothers headstone?
>     Roger W. [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
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