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• American Clan Gregor Society

  Holdings in the Archives of the University of Baltimore.

• Anglo Italian Family History Society New!

  Did your Italian-born ancestors live in or pass through England, Scotland, Wales or Ireland after moving from Italy? Our Society, run by volunteers, aims to guide you in their footsteps and in those of their descendants as they move between places of origin and settlement. Content, is regularly updated and it will also help you learn about your ancestors' place within the global Italian diaspora.

• Anglo Scots Family History Society

  Formed by members of the Manchester & Lancashire Family History Society.

• Association of Scottish Genealogists and Record Agents

  • ASGRA Professional Researchers

• BIGWILL - British Interest Group of Wisconsin and Illinois

  An organization of individuals (mostly from Wisconsin and Illinois) who are interested in British Isles ancestry and genealogical research in the British Isles.

• British Agricultural History Society

• British Association for Local History

• British Association of Paper Historians

• British Isles Family History Society - U.S.A.

  Los Angeles, California. Promotes an interest in family history particularly relating to British Isles ancestry including those from England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales, the Channel Islands, & the Isle of Man.

  • BIFHS-USA-NEWS Mailing List (Archived on RootsWeb)

    A read-only mailing list for announcements regarding the British Isles Family History Society - USA.

• Catholic Family History Society

  United Kingdom.

• Central Scotland Family History Society

• Council of Scottish Clans and Associations' (COSCA)

• Federation of Family History Societies

  Located in the United Kingdom. Supports, informs and advises membership, which consists of family history societies and similar bodies across the world.

  • First Steps in Family History

    From the Federation of Family History Societies. This online brochure provides answers to a new researcher's first questions about family history.

  • The Strays Clearing House and the National Strays Index

    Online brochure describes the FFHS' efforts to co-ordinate strays.

• Guild of One-Name Studies

  Located in London, England, U.K. The world's leading organisation for one-name studies. A one-name study is a project researching facts about a surname and all the people who have held it, as opposed to a particular pedigree (the ancestors of one person) or descendancy (the descendants of one person or couple).

• Jewish Genealogical Society of Great Britain

• Official Scottish Clans and Families

• Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland

  Includes CANMORE, which allows you on-line access to the database of the National Monuments Record of Scotland (NMRS). The database contains details of many thousands of archaeological sites, monuments, buildings and maritime sites in Scotland together with an index to the drawings, manuscripts and photographs in the Collections of the NMRS.

• Scots Ancestry Research Society

• Scottish American Military Society

  North Carolina. The purpose of the society is to preserve and promote Scottish and American Armed Forces customs, traditions, and heritage, which includes providing a forum for exchange of military history and genealogical information.

• Scottish District Families Association

  Stone Mountain, Georgia.