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Welcome to Placer County, California Genealogy Trails!  Welcome to Genealogy Trails! We are a group of volunteers dedicated to free genealogy. Real data and not a bunch of links! Want to join us in our efforts? You can! Send in your data today. We would be happy to add it. Just use the links above. It's that easy! Please feel free to explore the data here for Placer County, California. Consider contributing and helping free genealogy grow. **** Our latest Updates **** * County Host for Placer: Brenda Wiesner * We regret we are unable to perform personal research but will place data on this site as we come across it or as it is submitted. If you would like to be kept informed of our state and county website updates, subscribe to our mailing lists or follow us on Facebook! Visit our new blogspot! Don't want to host a site but still want to help? Check out our Transcription Team!  Auburn Miners ca. 1860's *********** Placer County was created from parts of Sutter and Yuba Counties in 1851. "Placer" is probably a contraction of the words plaza de oro (the place of gold) and in Spanish means "a place near a river where gold is found." The county derived its name from the numerous places where the method of extracting gold from the earth, called placer mining, was practiced. County Seat: Auburn Year Organized: 1851 Square Miles: 1,404
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