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From: "Anne Thompson" <>
Subject: [CA-SACRAMENTO-EVENTS] Placer County Genealogical Society MeetingThursday Aug 28 2008
Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2008 00:58:31 -0700


PLACER COUNTY GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY
PO BOX 7385
AUBURN, CA 95604

1-866-894-2076
www.pcgs.pcgenes.com

PRESS RELEASE

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE –August 25, 2008

The Placer County Genealogical Society will hold its regular monthly meeting
at 7PM, Thursday, August 28th, 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 MacRae who will speak on
“Scottish Genealogy”. Born in Scotland, Dr. MacRae was educated in Europe
and the U.S. He developed a strong interest at an early age in the familial
sciences – heraldry, genealogy and the science of names. He also studied the
history of the Clans of Scotland. He holds a PhD in etymology from the
University of Edinburgh and Shelbourne University of Trinity College,
Dublin. He is a member of the Royal Heraldry Society, Scotland; the Name
Society, Chicago; Scottish Tartans Society, Scotland; and the International
Congress of Heraldic Sciences, Geneva. A Fellow of the Society of
Antiquaries of Scotland, he has been the Director of the American Heraldic &
Genealogical Institute in Sacramento since 1968.

The Placer County Genealogical Society has a membership of about 125 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 from
7-9PM on the fourth Thursday of each month, except December, 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.

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