International Academy of Genealogy
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International Academy of Genealogy is an international organization dedicated to genealogy, headquartered in Paris. It was created on 22 September 1998 during a constitutive meeting held in Turin, Italy. Founder of the Academy and initiator of the constitutive meeting is the French genealogist and heraldrist Jean-Marie Thiébaud.[1]
The Academy was created to encourage, coordinate, promote and support the genealogic studies from all over the world. It also organizes international meetings in order to promote the genealogy as one of the important branches of the social studies in human history.