ROCHESTER — The topic of the Rochester Historical Society Museum’s upcoming meeting event will be “Cemeteries, Genealogy and the Revolutionary War” in the context of beginning a project to find the graves and histories of Rochester’s veterans of the Revolutionary War.

The Rochester Historical Society hopes to include the information gathered in the 250th anniversary celebrations with the hope of officially recognizing cemeteries with those veterans’ graves.

The meeting will take place on Aug. 20 at 7 p.m. at the Historical Society Museum at 355 County Road, Rochester. The event is open to everyone who is interested.