PLACER COUNTY GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY PO BOX 7385, AUBURN, CA 95604 (530) 887-2646 www.pcgenes.com/pcgs.html -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- PRESS RELEASE FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - March 15, 2004 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY TO MEET IN AUBURN The Placer County Genealogical Society will hold its regular monthly meeting at 7PM, Thursday, March 25th, in the Beecher Room of the Auburn-Placer County Library, 350 Nevada Street in Auburn. The meeting is free and open to the public. The program speaker for this month meeting is Dave Perkins. This presentation will be the first of two, the next being the April 22nd meeting. Mr. Perkins subject will be "SHIP PASSENGER LISTS." He will cover some migration patterns from Europe and what ports would have been used. Ship records will span four periods - before we were a country, the early period from 1820 to 1856, 1856 to 1892 (the Castle Garden era) and 1892 to 1950 (the Ellis Island era). He will show what information is on such lists and will have a number of books from his extensive personal library for show-and-tell. During the second session, he will spend quite a bit of time discussing the Internet. The Placer County Genealogical Society has a membership of nearly 200 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. One that studies various topics of member interest, which meets at the library on the 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, at the Latter Day Saints Church, 1255 Bell Road, in Auburn. The Society maintains a web site at "www.pcgenes.com/pcgs.html " where details of these meetings can be found as well as other research references and announcements.