PLACER COUNTY GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY PO BOX 7385, AUBURN, CA 95604 (530) 887-2646 www.pcgenes.com/pcgs.html PRESS RELEASE FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - April 17, 2004 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY TO MEET IN AUBURN The Placer County Genealogical Society will hold its regular monthly meeting at 7PM, Thursday, April 22, 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 again be Dave Perkins. This will be the second in a two part presentation on the subject: "SHIP PASSENGER LISTS." Last month he covered some of the migration patterns from Europe and what ports would have been used. He explained how ship records would 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). In this second and final session he will spend quite a bit of time discussing how to use the Internet as a tool in this research. 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. #