PRESS RELEASE FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – May 9, 2003 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- AUBURN GENEALOGY CLUB TO MEET The Placer County Genealogical Society will hold its regular monthly meeting at 7PM, Thursday, May 22nd, 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 will be Maryann Stanck. Her subject will be "Draper Manuscripts." Maryann was the Past President, Past 1st Vice President, and 2nd Vice President of Roseville Genealogical Society and Registrar of the Genealogical and Historical Council of Sacramento Valley. She has been doing genealogy research for about 9 years. The Draper Manuscripts are a collection of nearly 500 volumes from nearly 1,200 people of letters, interviews, archival records, original manuscripts, newspaper articles, and maps that were collected for over 45 years by Lyman Copeland Draper. They cover a period from 1740 to 1830 and include the history of the trans-Allegheny West. Maryann will talk will be about the man, Lyman Copeland Draper, the contents of the Draper Manuscripts, the location of the Manuscripts, and how to find the Manuscripts. The Placer County Genealogical Society has a membership of over 200 individuals and families that have 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 first Tuesday of the month, and the other, the Family Tree Maker User Group, reviews genealogy computer program subjects, on the second Thursday of the month. The Society maintains a web site at www.pcgenes.com/pcgs.html