A free, open-source platform built specifically for genealogical and historical societies. Membership management, event calendars, a research library, genealogical record collections, a store, newsletters, and more — all in one place.
15 toggleable feature modules plus Members always-on. One platform. No piecing together a dozen WordPress plugins and hoping they work together.
Individual and organizational members, membership tiers, automated renewal reminders, a self-service member portal, and a searchable member directory with privacy controls.
Learn more →Meetings, workshops, seminars, and cemetery walks. Online registration with capacity limits, waitlists, Stripe payments, iCal export, and a browsable calendar grid.
Learn more →Publish your society's transcribed records — cemetery indexes, census extractions, marriage registers — with full-text search. Import and export using the open GENRECORD standard.
Learn more →A full OPAC-style catalog for your society's book collection. Call numbers, shelf locations, cover images via Open Library, and a public search interface for visitors.
Learn more →Upload your society's newsletters as PDFs. Automatic cover thumbnails, inline preview with zoom, and download restricted to members only. Years of back issues, always available.
Learn more →Track officer positions and committee assignments. Post volunteer opportunities with signup and waitlists. Log volunteer hours. Run board elections with secure online ballots.
Learn more →The best way to understand SocietyPress is to use it. The demo site is a fully functional installation with sample members, events, a library catalog, genealogical record collections, and more. Log in, click around, break things.
Visit the DemoIf your society is using EasyNetSites, a static HTML site, or a patchwork of tools that barely work together, SocietyPress was built for exactly this moment.
CSV import for members, events, library items, and resource links. GENRECORD import for genealogical record collections. Bring your data with you — nothing gets left behind.
Already have a website design you like? SocietyPress includes a color extractor that matches your current site's palette, and a theme builder so you can start familiar, not from scratch.
SocietyPress is free. Not "free trial." Not "free tier." Free. Host it on any standard web hosting account. Your only cost is hosting — typically $5–15/month.
Every piece of data your society puts into SocietyPress can come back out — in a standard format, with one click, at any time, no questions asked.
Members. Events. Donations. Library catalogs. Genealogical records. Newsletters. Documents. Photos. Settings. Everything.
No export fees. No “contact us to request your data.” No degraded export that’s missing half the fields. Your data is yours. It always was.
SocietyPress is GPL-licensed, open-source software. If you ever want to leave, you take everything with you. We’d rather build something so good you never want to — but we’ll never make that choice for you.
The most recent SocietyPress releases — all releases on GitHub →
First public release. SocietyPress is a free, GPL-licensed WordPress platform that gives a volunteer-run genealogical or historical society everything it needs to operate online —…
News, releases, and project updates.
Genealogical and historical societies preserve something irreplaceable. Cemetery transcriptions nobody else will ever do. Newsletter archives going back forty years.…