Included in the society’s discriminatory history is the exclusion of Black members and the perpetuation of a racist anti-race-mixing ideology known as eugenics.
The National Genealogical Society (NGS), an organization founded in 1903 as an ancestry tracking service for families, has issued a public apology for its past racism and exclusion.
The NGS, which is now one of the largest genealogical organizations nationwide, began receiving complaints in 2017 about lacking diversity among its panelists, and came under increased scrutiny later following the 2020 murder of George Floyd, per the today!
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