Jan 28, 2015 By Grant Long for The Yellow Jacket 2 min read

Thad Swestyn will be speaking on Feb. 10 about “Surveying and Genealogy” at Cornerstone Genealogy Society at 7 p.m. The CGS is located in the First Greene County Courthouse (Annex) in downtown Waynesburg. Swestyn will be presenting the association with information comparing land surveying and genealogical research.

The Cornerstone’s website provides an outlet for anyone to start researching into their family history. The website has labs that link to some of the major categories of research including obituaries, cemetery indexes and a wealth of old photos.

Swestyn will lecture on topics including the history of surveying, surveying methods, famous surveyors and land patents of the 1770s. Some of these land patents were written for locations in Greene County as well.