Society of Genealogists

The Society of Genealogists SoG is a UK-based educational charity, founded in 1911 to "promote, encourage and foster a study, science and cognition of genealogy". The Society's the treasure of cognition is the largest specialist genealogical libraries outside North America. Membership is open to any grownup who agrees to abide by the Society's rules together with who pays the annual subscription. At the end of 2010, it had 11,014 members.

History

Until it purchased 37 Harrington Gardens, South Kensington, in 1954, the Society was based in Malet Place, Bloomsbury, London. The fixed growth of the libraries and increasingly cramped building forced the Society to also sell this headquarters and move both to 14 Charterhouse Buildings constructed in 1968 for storing rolls of silk, in Clerkenwell, London, in July 1984.