The Eugenics Record Office was founded

In 1910, the Eugenics Record Office (ERO) was founded in Cold Spring Harbor, New York, as a center for the study of human heredity and a repository for genetic data on human traits, allegedly begining from Rockefeller seed money.  In 1920 it merged and become the Department of Genetics at the Carnegie Institution and was known as an important center for eugenic research in the US. [1]

The Carnegie Institution stopped funding the office in 1939. It remained active until 1944, when its records were transferred to the Charles Fremont Dight Institute for the Promotion of Human Genetics at the University of Minnesota until it closed in 1991.  The genealogical material was filmed by the Genealogical Society of Utah and given to the Center for Human Genetics; the non-genealogical material was not filmed and was given to the American Philosophical Society Library.

The theory and movement of eugenics is seated in pseudoscience.  “After World War II, nobody was a eugenicist, and nobody had ever been a eugenicist” states Dr Simon.