PLACER COUNTY GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY PO BOX 7385 AUBURN, CA 95604 (530) 887-2646 www.pcgenes.com/pcgs.html PRESS RELEASE FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - August 9, 2005 GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY TO MEET IN AUBURN The Placer County Genealogical Society will hold its regular monthly meeting at 7PM, Thursday, August 25th, 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 Dr. Donald Calavan-MacRae, PhD, FSA Scot of the American Heraldic & Genealogical Institute, Sacramento, who will speak on the subject of "Heraldry". Dr. Calavan-MacRae was born in Scotland, and educated in Europe and the United States. He developed a strong interest at an early age in the familial sciences; i.e., heraldry, genealogy, and the science of names. He began his studies of the heritage sciences with the Scottish system of Heraldry. He became enthralled with languages and linguistics, which is the basis of the science of names. The study of surnames and heraldry became the foundation for genealogy. Among other studies of ethnology and ethnogenics, which pertains to the origins of race and language and ethnic groups; he also studied the history of the Clans of Scotland, encompassing both family and Clan tartans. He holds a PhD in etymology from the University of Edinburgh and Shelbourne University of Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland. The Placer County Genealogical Society has a membership of nearly 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. #