Alan Volbrecht

In part one of Alan Volbrecht’s story, he became intrigued by the story of the survey of India and decided, as any good surveyor might, to follow the footsteps of those surveyors. We resume the narrative with his efforts to locate and visit the former residence of Sir George Everest.

Most land surveyors at some point in their career wind up researching historic field notes, land records or plats from some earlier era.