Why would you want to join a lineage society? To have a monthly lunch date with like-minded friends? Or to honor and help perpetuate the memory of a patriotic ancestor?
Lineage societies are organizations created to honor a specific heritage or event and to document an ancestor's participation in that event.
Those joining such societies must prove with documentation their descent from an ancestor involved or participating in historical events. That creates paperwork!! Such paperwork can be so valuable to future descendants seeking to know more about that ancestor.
Click to www.lineagesocietyofamerica.com for a long list of such societies. Pick one to join that appeals to you and click to their website for details on how to join.
I chuckled as I read through the list of societies: Bloodlines of Salem? Descendants of the Illegitimate Sons & Daughters of the Kings of Great Britain? Descendants of Whaling Masters? Military Order of the Carabao? Noble Society of Celts? Order of the Daedalians?
There were lineage societies for Mayflower passengers, early New England towns, ethnic heritage and most military wars.
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