The Austin Families Genealogical Society (AFGS) has been serving its members since 1979, and has grown steadily to become the largest group of Austin family researchers anywhere, with its newsletters reaching over 600 members and libraries world-wide.

AFGS membership gives Austin family researchers full access to hundreds of Austin historical & genealogical documents available at the AFGS Austin-Austen Research Center (AARC), where AFGS Members enjoy unrestricted print, copy and save-to-file privileges.

AFGS membership also provides you with the AFGS newsletter, the Austin Families Register, which is published each January, May and September. Each newsletter is filled with Austin line genealogies and histories, Austin census data, Austin obituaries, Austin vital records, etc. The newsletters also keep members up-to-date concerning National Austin Convention plans, the latest Austin line discoveries using Y-chromosome DNA testing, etc.

AFGS members may obtain free help from experienced AFGS genealogists, and enjoy priority in publishing queries in the AFGS newsletter. The newsletter is read by hundreds of Austin family researchers and is in most state libraries, making it more likely that your queries will be answered.  AFGS genealogists can often put you in contact with others researching the same Austin line.

AFGS members who have completed researching their line (or are stuck and cannot trace it back any further) may submit it for publication as an Austin Families Register article. There is no cost in having your article published, and it is perhaps the best way to preserve your Austin research and photographs for posterity, since Austin Families Register newsletters are bound into books and placed in all state libraries that collect genealogies.

AFGS projects such as our "Austins in the Federal Census of 1860" project give members the opportunity to help other Austin family researchers.