Formalizing Your Family Organization
If you decide that you do want to incorporate, you may want to do so as a non-profit organization. By meeting the proper rules, you can even become a tax exempt group that will prevent you from incurring tax liabilities, and can even serve as a place to give tax deductible donations. This is a bit more complicated and requires registration with the Federal Government.
And along with forming a legal entity comes the requirement that records and minutes must be kept, officers elected and tax forms filed. It can be additional work to formalize the group, but these challenges need to be weighed against the need to have the organization. These benefits need to be determined by the group and a consensus reached.
Good Luck in finding and preserving the knowledge available about your ancestors.
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