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From: Anne Thompson <>
Subject: [CA-SACRAMENTO-EVENTS] PLACER COUNTY GENEALOGY SOCIETY MEETINGAPRIL 23, 2009 at 7 PM
Date: Sun, 12 Apr 2009 21:52:32 -0700 (PDT)
PLACER COUNTY GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY
PO BOX 7385
AUBURN, CA
95604
Voice Mail 1-866-894-2076
www.pcgs.pcgenes.com
PRESS RELEASE
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
The Placer County Genealogical Society will hold its regular monthly meeting at 7PM, Thursday, April 23, 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 "The Science of Names." 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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