The following is a guide to the many organizations and societies in New York State that offer resources and support to people researching their family history.
For more information on repositories (governmental, libraries, etc.), please see the New York Family History Research Guide and Gazetteer, or join the NYG&B for access to our online County Guides.
Contents
County Organizations
Allegany
Albany
- Berne Historical Society
- Capital District Genealogical Society
- Hist. Soc. for Presevation of the Underground Railroad
- Historic Albany Foundation
- Jewish Genealogical Society of Capital District
Bronx
Broome
- Binghamton Township Historical Society
- Broome County Historical Society
- Nanticoke Valley Historical Society
- The Southern Tier Genealogical Society
Cattaraugus
- Painted Hills Genealogical Society
- Seneca Indian Historical Society
Cayuga
Chautauqua
Chemung
- Horseheads Historical Society
- Lowman Historical Society
- Twin Tiers Genealogical Society
Chenango
Clinton
Columbia
- Austerlitz Historical Society
- Canaan Historical Society
- Columbia County Historical Society
- Red Rock Historical Society
Cortland
Delaware
- Colchester Historical Society
- Delaware County Historical Association
- Hobart Historical Society
- New York Covered Bridge Society
Dutchess
- Beacon Historical Society
- Clinton Historical Society
- Dutchess County Genealogical Society
- Dutchess County Historical Society
Erie
- Alden Historical Society
- Aurora Historical Society
- Boston Historical Society
- Buffalo & Western NY Italian Genealogy Society
- Buffalo and Erie County Historical Society
- Buffalo Genealogical Society of the African Diaspora
- Buffalo Irish Genealogical Society
- Cheektowaga Historical Association
- Clarence Historical Society
- Concord Historical Society
- Eden Historical Society
- Elma Historical Society
- Evans Historical Society
- Grand Island Historical Society
- Hamburg Historical Society
- Holland Historical Society
- Jewish Genealogical Society of Buffalo
- Lancaster Historical Society
- Lancaster New York Historical Society
- Polish Genealogical Society of NY State
- Western New York Genealogical Society
- Western New York Heritage Institute
Essex
Franklin
Genesee
Greene
Hamilton
Herkimer
Jefferson
- Jefferson County Historical Society
- Jefferson County New York Genealogical Society
- Sackets Harbor Historical Society
- Stone Mills Museum: No. NY Agricultural Historical Society
Kings
Lewiston
Livingston
- Livingston-Steuben County Genealogical Society
Monroe
- Gates Historical Society
- Henrietta Historical Society
- Honeoye Falls – Town of Mendon Historical Society
- Jewish Genealogical Society of Rochester
- Perinton Historical Society
- Rochester Genealogical Society Inc
- Rochester Historical Society
- The Photographic Historical Society
Nassau
- Baldwin Historical Society & Museum
- Farmingdale-Bethpage Historical Society
- Garden City Historical Society
- Historical Society of the Bellmores
- Historical Society of the Merricks
- Irish Family History Forum
- Italian Genealogical Group
- Levittown Historical Society
- Long Beach Historical and Preservation Society
- Malverne Historical Society
- Nassau County Historical Society
- Oyster Bay Historical Society
- Seaford Historical Society
- The Roslyn Landmark Society
Niagara
- Four River Valleys Historical Society
- Greater Ridgewood Historical Society
- Hist. Soc. of North German Settlements in Western NY
- Niagara County Genealogical Society
- Sanborn Historical Society
- The Historical Society of the Tonawandas
- Town of Newfane Historical Society
Oneida
Onondaga
- Central New York Genealogical Society
- Cicero Historical Society
- Manlius Historical Society
- Marcellus Historical Society
- National Railway Historical Society
- Onondaga Historical Society
- Town of Onondaga Historical Society
- Fort Brewerton Historical Society
Ontario
- Geneva Historical Society
- Town of Gorham Historical Society
- Ontario County Historical Society
- Ontario Genealogical Society
- Phelps Historical Society
- Victor Historical Society
Orange
- Cornwall Historical Society
- Goshen Public Library and Historical Society
- Historical Society of Newburgh Bay and the Highlands
- Warwick Historical Society
- Minisink Valley Historical Society
- Ontario & Western Railway Historical Society
- Orange County Genealogical Society
Orleans
Oswego
Otsego
- New York State Historical Association, now the Fenimore Art Museum
- Otsego County Historical Society
Queens
- Bayside Historical Society
- Bowne House HIstorical Society
- Greater Astoria Historical Society
- Newtown Historical Society (Queens)
- Queens Historical Society
Rensselaer
- Brunswick Historical Society
- Rensselaer City History Research Center
- Grafton Historical Society
- Hoosick Township Historical Society
- Hudson Mohawk Industrial Gateway
- Lansingburgh Historical Society
- Pittstown Historical Society
- Rensselaer County Historical Society
- Stephentown Historical Society
- Troy Irish Genealogical Society
Rockland
St. Lawrence
- Nyando Roots Genealogical Society
- Rensselaer Falls Historical Society
- St Lawrence Valley Genealogical Society
- St. Lawrence County Historical Association
Saratoga
- Ballston Spa Genealogy Club
- Brookside Museum: Saratoga Co. Historical Soc.
- Heritage Hunters of Saratoga County, NY
Schenectady
Schuyler
Seneca
- Finger Lakes Genealogical Society
- Lodi Historical Society
- Seneca Falls Historical Society
Staten Island
Steuben
Suffolk
- Amityville Historical Society
- Bay Shore Historical Society
- Bellport-Brookhaven Historical Society
- Bohemia Historical Society
- Bridgehampton Historical Society
- Cutchogue-New Suffolk Historic Coucil
- East Hampton Historical Society
- East Islip Historical Society
- Gene. Support Gp of Longwood Soc. of Hist. Preservation
- Genealogy Federation of Long Island
- Genealogy Workshop Huntington Historical Society
- German Genealogy Group Inc
- Greenlawn – Centerport Historical Association
- Jewish Genealogical Society of Long Island
- Lake Ronkonkoma Historical Society
- Lloyd Harbor Historical Society
- Mattituck Laurel Historical Society
- Miller Place – Mount Sinai Historical Society
- Montauk Historical Society
- Northport Historical Society and Museum
- Oyster Ponds Historical Society
- Sag Harbor Historical Society
- Sayville Historical Society
- Shelter Island Historical Society
- Smithtown Historical Society
- Southold Historical Society
- Straus Historical Society
- Suffolk County Historical Society
- The Historical Society of Port Jefferson
- The Huntington Historical Society
- The Ward Melville Heritage Organization
- Three Village Historical Society
- Westhampton Beach Historical Society
- Yaphank Historical Society
Sullivan
Tioga
Tompkins
Ulster
- Century House Historical Society
- D&H Canal Historical Society
- Huguenot Historical Society
- Klyne Esopus Historical Society Museum
- Ulster County Genealogical Society
- Ulster County Historical Society
Warren
- Northeastern New York Genealogical Society
- Historical Society of the Town of Bolton
- Horicon Historical Society
- Warrensburg Historical Society
Washington
- Seeley Genealogical Society
- Washington County Historical Society
Wayne
- Galen Historical Society
- Walworth Historical Society and Musuem
- Williamson-Pultneyville Historical Society
- Wolcott Historical Society
Westchester
- National Maritime Historical Society
- Rockefeller Archive Center
- Westchester County Genealogical Society
- Westchester County Historical Society
- White Plains Historical Society
- Ardsley Historical Society
- Bedford Historical Society
- Briarcliff Manor Scarborough Historical Society
- Bronxville Historical Conservancy
- Charles Dawson History Center of Harrison
- City Island Historical Society
- Cortlandt Historical Society and Museum
- Croton Historical Society
- Dobbs Ferry Historical Society
- Eastchester Historical Society
- Hastings on the Hudson Historical Society
- Historic Hudson Valley
- Historical Society of the Courts of the State of NY
- Huguenot New Rochelle Historical Association
- Irvington Historical Society
- Landmark and Historical Society of Mount Vernon
- Larchmont Historical Society
- Mount Pleasant Historical Society
- New Castle Historical Society
- North Castle Historical Society
- North Salem Historical Society
- Ossining Historical Society
- Pelham Historical Society
- Pelham Preservation and Garden Society
- Port Chester Historical Society
- Pound Ridge Historical Society and Museum
- Rye Historical Society
- Scarsdale Historical Society
- Somers Historical Society
- The Mamaroneck Historical Society
- Thomas Paine National Historic Association
- Van Cortlandtville Historical Society
- Yonkers Historical Society
- Yorktown Historical Society
Wyoming
Yates
Ethnic Organizations
- Afro-American Historical and Genealogical Society
- Buffalo Genealogical Society of the African Diaspora
- American Jewish Historical Society
- Jewish Genealogical Society of Capital District
- Jewish Genealogical Society of Rochester
- Jewish Genealogical Society of Long Island
- Jewish Genealogical Society
- Center for Jewish History, Genealogy Institute
- Leo Baeck Institute
- German Genealogy Group Inc
- Italian Genealogical Group
- Italian Historical Society of America
- New York Irish History Roundtable
- American Irish Historical Society
- Buffalo Irish Genealogical Society
- Hispanic Society of America
- Hispanic Genealogy Society of NY
- The Holland Society of New York
- The Huguenot Society of America
- Huguenot Historical Society (New Paltz)
- Seneca Indian Historical Society (Cattaraugus Co.)
- Polish Genealogical Society of NY State
- Troy Irish Genealogical Society
New York City Organizations
- New York Genealogical and Biographical Society
- New-York Historical Society
- Brooklyn Historical Society
- Jewish Genealogical Society
- Center for Jewish History, Genealogy Institute
- American Jewish Historical Society
- Leo Baeck Institute
- Afro-American Historical and Genealogical Society, Jean Sampson Scott Greater New York Chapter
- Italian Historical Society of America
- New York Irish History Roundtable
- American Irish Historical Society
- Hispanic Society of America
- Hispanic Genealogy Society of NY
- The Holland Society of New York
- The Huguenot Society of America
- Irish Family History Forum
- Italian Genealogical Group
- German Genealogy Group Inc
- Bronx County Historical Society
- Bartow-Pell Mansion Museum and Gardens
- New York Correction Historical Society
- Queens Historical Society
- Bayside Historical Society
- Bowne House Historical Society
- Greater Astoria Historical Society
- Newtown Historical Society (Queens)
- Richmond Hill Historical Society (Staten Island)
- Tottenville Historical Society (Staten Island)
Regional Organizations
- New York Genealogical and Biographical Society
- Buffalo & Western NY Italian Genealogy Society
- Capital District Genealogical Society
- Central New York Genealogical Society
- Genealogy Federation of Long Island
- Historic Hudson Valley
- Irish Family History Forum
- National Maritime Historical Society
- National Railway Historical Society
- New England Historic Genealogical Society
- New York State Historical Association
- Polish Genealogical Society of NY State
- Rockefeller Archive Center
- Western New York Genealogical Society
- Western New York Heritage Institute
Please note: This list is meant to include active organizations which have websites that are regularly maintained and updated. If you think an organization is missing, or if there are errors or broken links in a listing, please contact webmaster@nygbs.org.
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