how is a genealogy society created?

Answer 1

Like any other group - you post a notice and see if there is interest. If you were forming a photography club, you'd post notices in camera shops. For a Genealogy society, the speccial collections room of your library and the FHC's in your county's LDS churches are good places to post a note. Your paper may put a notice about it too.

If there is interest, cobble up some bylaws, elect officers, collect dues and start.

The one in our county:
1) Has monthly meetings with a speaker
2) Offers group rates on the annual trip to Salt Lake
3) Charters a bus to go to the state Genealogy library once in a while
4) Buys genealogy books and CD's for the library's special collections room
5) Puts a volunteer in the SCR twice a week, to giude newcomers.

They work closely with the library.

Answer 2

We met, decided on our society's name and mission statement's wording, and it all took about a year. We self-organized! Some other components were what our officer structure would be, that there would be annual membership dues, what was a quorum for which purposes, what it would take to dissolve.

Before, during, and after the monthly meetings getting our organization 'up' we were also working on ongoing genealogy projects. One of the surprisingly tough areas was negotiating being included in the community library, both as space on shelves for our own collection and our microfilm reader in this day of computers, our computer, and for the topic genealogy to be any portion of the library budget.