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{{Family Associations Intro}}
{{See also|Genealogy Help on Facebook}} New surname or family organization [https://www.facebook.com/help/pages Pages] and [https://www.facebook.com/help/groups Groups] on Facebook are being created by the community of genealogists around the world. The main topic of either a Page or a Group of this type will typically be about doing research on a family, multi-generational family, or surname. If you find a page that's not on this list, be sure to share:
{{See also|Create and Maintain Family Associations or Organizations}}  
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Hundreds of family organizations and associations exist to assist you in your family history research. The alphabetical links above will take you to the websites or Facebook pages that are known to exist. If you know of one that is not listed, feel free to edit the list and add all the family organizations that you know of!


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| [[Guild of One-Name Studies]]
| [https://www.facebook.com/groups/curtisgenealogy/ Curtis Genealogy]  
| Currently 8,754 surnames are part of the Guild which is based in London, England and with members around the world.
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| [https://www.facebook.com/groups/TheIrishSurnameRegistry/ Irish Surname Registry]  
| [https://www.facebook.com/groups/122721975231/ Denn Genealogy]  
| A central location to look for others doing research on the same Irish surname.
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| [https://www.facebook.com/groups/29181815951/ United Kingdom Surname Groups on Facebook]  
| [https://www.facebook.com/groups/2210869845/ Dreimüller Genealogy]
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| [https://www.facebook.com/FinchFamilyGenealogy?fref=ts Finch Family Genealogy]
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| [https://www.facebook.com/groups/373956715968610/ Scott Family Genealogy]
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| [https://www.facebook.com/groups/hartleyfamily/ Hartley Family]
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| [https://www.facebook.com/groups/106698236063530/ Keller (Kjoller) Family Genealogy]
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| [https://www.facebook.com/GrooverMiddletonGenealogy Middleton Genealogy]
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| [https://www.facebook.com/groups/567435493328432/ Shishmaref Genealogy]
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| [https://www.facebook.com/groups/721037191250135 Sawyer Family Tree]
| Relatives of the Arkansas representative, Stephen Decatur Sawyer born around 1866 in Mississippi.
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| [https://www.facebook.com/groups/458870297461673 Page Family Tree]
| Starting with George and Virginia Page from Appomattox, Virginia
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| [https://www.facebook.com/groups/HANSLOfamilyresearch/ Hanslo Family History Group: South African Descendants]
| This group is researching the Hanslo surname, specifically the South African clans. The first Hanslo family was possibly of Flemish origins, coming from Belgium.
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| [https://www.facebook.com/groups/masonfamily.hinckley/ Mason Family History]
| This group is for anyone with the Mason surname in their ancestry.
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|[https://www.facebook.com/groups/173170500720/ Wilcox-Wilcockson Family]
| Descendants of Wilcox or Wilcockson (and variant spellings)
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| [https://www.facebook.com/groups/29181815951/ UK Surname Groups on Facebook]
| This group maintains a directory of family surname groups on Facebook that originate from the United Kingdom.  
| This group maintains a directory of family surname groups on Facebook that originate from the United Kingdom.  
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| Directory of Family Associations
| Bentley, Elizabeth Petty, and Deborah Ann Carl. 4d ed. Baltimore, MD: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 2001. This publication includes all known “U.S. associations, reunions, surname exchanges, significant databases on single surnames, or related groups, independent periodicals, and some publishers of family histories, including some groups that, while foreign-based, deal with U.S. families.”
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| Genealogy Sites on Facebook
| The [http://socialmediagenealogy.com/genealogy-on-facebook-list/ Social Media Genealogy] list by Katherine R. Willson is currently a 302-page PDF file that contains over 10,600 links to Facebook groups and pages related to genealogy. Visit Katherine's [https://socialmediagenealogy.com website] or her [https://www.facebook.com/SocialMediaGenealogy.org Facebook page] for more details and to view or download the list.
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|Facebook for Canadian Genealogy
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|Gail Dever has compiled a list of close to 800 English- and French-language Facebook groups and pages related to Canadian Genealogy on her blog [http://genealogyalacarte.ca/?page_id=10169 Genealogy á la Carte.] The list is being updated frequently and can be downloaded from her blog.
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| CyndisList
| [http://www.cyndislist.com/societies/ Societies and Groups]
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| CyndisList
| [http://www.cyndislist.com/surnames/ Surnames, Family Associations and Family Newsletters] group
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Revision as of 10:45, 4 April 2014

See also: Genealogy Help on Facebook

New surname or family organization Pages and Groups on Facebook are being created by the community of genealogists around the world. The main topic of either a Page or a Group of this type will typically be about doing research on a family, multi-generational family, or surname. If you find a page that's not on this list, be sure to share:

Page or Group Name Description
Curtis Genealogy
Denn Genealogy
Dreimüller Genealogy
Finch Family Genealogy
Scott Family Genealogy
Hartley Family
Keller (Kjoller) Family Genealogy
Middleton Genealogy
Shishmaref Genealogy
Sawyer Family Tree Relatives of the Arkansas representative, Stephen Decatur Sawyer born around 1866 in Mississippi.
Page Family Tree Starting with George and Virginia Page from Appomattox, Virginia
Hanslo Family History Group: South African Descendants This group is researching the Hanslo surname, specifically the South African clans. The first Hanslo family was possibly of Flemish origins, coming from Belgium.
Mason Family History This group is for anyone with the Mason surname in their ancestry.
Wilcox-Wilcockson Family Descendants of Wilcox or Wilcockson (and variant spellings)
UK Surname Groups on Facebook This group maintains a directory of family surname groups on Facebook that originate from the United Kingdom.
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