GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY TO MEET IN AUBURN The Placer County Genealogical Society will hold its regular monthly meeting at 7PM, Thursday, April 28th, in the Beecher Room of the Placer County Library located at 350 Nevada Street in Auburn. The meeting is free and open to the public. The program speaker this month will be Elinor Barnes - her topic: "Germans from Russia: Researching in the Ukraine and Poland." Barnes, a sixth generation Californian, has previously lectured for the Miners Foundry, Nevada County Land Trust, Empire Mine, genealogy and civic groups. Holding two Masters Degrees, MHA in Hospital Administration from the University of Minnesota, and an MA in Medical Anthropology, from UC Davis, she is a retired Hospital Administrator and currently teaches part time at Sierra College. The Placer County Genealogical Society has a membership of about 200 that is made up of individuals and families that have historical and genealogical interests. The group holds a general meeting at the Auburn library site on the fourth Thursday of each month from 7-9PM, and features a program speaker on various genealogical subjects. The group also offers two specialty day groups that meet from 10AM to noon. One, the Day Study Group, studies various topics of member interest and meets at the library the second Monday of each month except July, August and December. The other, the Family Tree Maker User Group, reviews genealogy computer program subjects on the second Thursday of the month, and meets at the Latter Day Saints Church, 1255 Bell Road, in Auburn. The Society maintains a web site at "www.pcgs.pcgenes.com" where details of these meetings can be found as well as other research references and announcements.