Lineage Societies

This page is my arbitrary selection of lineage societies, that is, societies where membership eligibility depends on your ancestry. (One exception is the Grand Army of the Republic, which was an organization for actual Union Veterans. The G.A.R. was closed in 1949, but remains a subject of interest, and is included here.) I am not a member of any of these organizations. Most of these societies undertake worthwhile endeavors that benefit genealogists and the community at large. With some, however, it may be best to keep in mind the line from Steel Magnolias: "An ounce of pretension is worth a pound of manure."

COLONIAL AMERICA
General Society of Mayflower Descendants See also Caleb Johnson's Mayflower Web Pages.	Holland Society of New York	Jamestowne Society
Order of Descendants of Ancient Planters	Order of the Founders and Patriots of America	Continental Society Sons of Indian Wars
AMERICAN REVOLUTION
National Society of the Sons of the American Revolution	National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution	National Society of the Children of the American Revolution
General Society of the Sons of the Revolution		United Empire Loyalists' Association of Canada
WAR OF 1812
National Society United States Daughters of 1812		General Society of the War of 1812
MEXICAN WAR
Descendants of Mexican War Veterans		Aztec Club of 1847
WAR BETWEEN THE STATES: CONFEDERATE
Sons of Confederate Veterans (Founded 1896)	United Daughters of the Confederacy (Founded 1894)	Children of the Confederacy (An Auxiliary of the U.D.C.)
	Military Order of the Stars and Bars
WAR BETWEEN THE STATES: UNION
Grand Army of the Republic (1866-1949)	Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War (Founded 1881)	Daughters of Union Veterans of the Civil War
Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States	Dames of the Loyal Legion of the United States	Ladies of the Grand Army of the Republic
OTHERS
	First Families of Tennessee