PLACER COUNTY GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY PO BOX 7385, AUBURN, CA 95604 (530) 887-2646 www.pcgenes.com/pcgs.html -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- PRESS RELEASE FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - May 13, 2004 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY TO MEET IN AUBURN The Placer County Genealogical Society will hold its regular monthly meeting at 7PM, Thursday, May 27, 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 this month will be Carmel Barry-Schweyer, Curator of Archives at the Placer County Archives and Research Center located at the DeWitt Center. Her topic will be "How to Conduct Oral Histories" and "What is New at the Archives." In completing her Bachelor's Degree in History, she specialized in California history and American Indian history with a minor in cultural anthropology. She became Historian for the Tahoe National Forest in 1988, one of only five in the entire U.S. Forest Service, where she worked until 1999. In 1992 she received her Master's Degree in Public History with a focus on cultural resources, oral history and archives management. The Placer County Genealogical Society has a membership 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. 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. #