Membership societies exist for ethnic groups large and small. This sampling of ethnic heritage and genealogical societies represents many common immigrant groups. We’ve included those with national or international scopes. Don’t forget to look for a state, regional, or local ethnic heritage society — there are hundreds of them.
Africa
Americas
- American-French Genealogical Society
- Caribbean Genealogy Library
- Genealogical Society of Hispanic America
- Society of Hispanic Historical and Ancestral Research
Asia
- Chinese Historical Society of America
- Korean American Historical Society
- National Japanese American Historical Society
- Vietnamese American Heritage Foundation
Europe, Eastern
- Armenian Library & Museum of America
- Czech Heritage Museum & Genealogy Center
- Czechoslovak Genealogical Society International
- American Historical Society of Germans from Russia
- Gottscheer Heritage and Genealogy Association
- Moravian Heritage Society
- Polonica Americana Research Institute
- Polish Genealogical Society of America
- Slovak Heritage and Folklore Society International
- Society for German Genealogy in Eastern Europe
- United Romanian Society
Europe, Western
- British Isles Family History Society USA
- Cornish American Heritage Society
- Danish Immigrant Museum: An International Cultural Center
- Genealogical Society of Flemish Americans
- German-Bohemian Heritage Society
- German Genealogy Group, Inc.
- Germanic Genealogy Society
- Hellenic Heritage Institute
- Hellenic Historical and Genealogical Association
- International Society for British Genealogy and Family History
- The Irish Ancestral Research Association
- Irish Genealogical Society International
- Italian Genealogical Society of America
- National Huguenot Society
- Norwegian American Genealogical Association
- Norwegian-American Genealogical Center & Naeseth Library
- Order Sons of Italy in America
- Palatines to America: German Genealogy Society
- Sons of Norway
- Swedish Ancestry Research Association
- Welsh-American Genealogical Society
Jewish
From the November 2011 issue of Family Tree Magazine
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