Georeferenced 1937 highway survey sheets laid over live satellite terrain. Fade between eras to recover the wagon roads, church yards and burial plots that fell off the modern map.
Figures reflect the network's georeferenced holdings as compiled by volunteer surveyors and county archive partners.
The canvas loads live terrain tiles. Launch the tracking screen, then blend the survey sheet with the radar slider below.
Every sheet in the canvas has been georeferenced against control points that still exist on the ground — bridge abutments, quarry cuts, cistern rings and fence corners. When the survey linework snaps into place over satellite terrain, a roadbed that vanished under seventy years of timber becomes visible again, and with it the cemeteries, tenant houses and church yards that sat along it.
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Our volunteers and staff analysts work the same three-step chain on every request: georeference the historical sheet, verify it against land records, then confirm the location on the ground.
We plot family burial grounds that dropped off county maps after consolidation, timber sales and reservoir flooding, then supply coordinates, access notes and a marker inventory where stones survive.
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Deed chains, old land office grants and plat books are read against the survey overlay so a family tradition about "the home place" can be tied to a defensible parcel description.
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Ground crews walk the traced route with GPS rovers, photograph surviving culverts, cut banks and foundation stones, and return a report your family or county can archive.
Request this workEnjoying the field survey? Apply to the History & Genealogy Academy to access specialized training in advanced historical GIS mapping and spatial land records validation — the same workflow our analysts use on live county requests.
Cohorts run three times a year — remote coursework with two field weekends in central Kentucky.
Research requests, Academy applications and volunteer sign-ups all reach the same coordinator desk. Include a county and any surname or landmark you already have — it shortens the search considerably.
324 Ann Street, Frankfort, Kentucky 40601
Reading room Tuesday–Friday, 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Field crews dispatch weekends.
