National Genealogical Society

Welcome to the National Genealogical Society, where our mission is to inspire, connect, and lead the family history community. We foster collaboration and best practices in advocacy, education, preservation, and research. We enable people, cultures, and organizations to discover the past and create a lasting legacy. Family connections are essential and with families more spread out across the U.S. than ever before, knowledge of personal family history can be lost in one generation. NGS offers many types of personalized learning that will help teach you how to reconnect with cousins, find your great-grandparents, or discover if your ancestors arrived on American soil hundreds of years ago. We give our members the options necessary to build a comprehensive foundation for beginning your family research or how to advance your skills to the level of scholarship. Genealogy is changing every day, and we can help you cope and learn the best skills in an ever-expanding environment of emerging technology, databases to search, and new resources for research in libraries and archives. Only NGS offers the depth of choices to build your skills and for all levels: beginner, intermediate, and advanced. We give clear, straightforward, step-by-step guidance in genealogical research. You choose the best way for you to learn: reading, audio recordings, video recordings, in-person lectures, conferences, online courses with or without grading, case studies, and more.