Lineage and Hereditary Societies Archives - Genealogical.com https://genealogical.com/product-category/lineage-and-hereditary-societies/ The Best Source for Genealogy and Family History Books and eBooks Fri, 04 Apr 2025 15:16:04 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.2 https://genealogical.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/cropped-genappicon-300x300-1-125x125.png Lineage and Hereditary Societies Archives - Genealogical.com https://genealogical.com/product-category/lineage-and-hereditary-societies/ 32 32 The Complete Guide to Lineage Societies https://genealogical.com/store/the-complete-guide-to-lineage-societies/ Mon, 12 Aug 2024 20:01:54 +0000 https://genealogical.com/?post_type=product&p=81594 Since her retirement, trauma surgeon Dr. Kimberly Ormsby Nagy, MD, AG, has embraced genealogy and lineage societies as her “second career”.  She joined the Daughters of the American Revolution in 1980 and is today a member of 80 lineage organizations. She has served as an officer in a number of them, including in the role […]

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]]> Since her retirement, trauma surgeon Dr. Kimberly Ormsby Nagy, MD, AG, has embraced genealogy and lineage societies as her “second career”.  She joined the Daughters of the American Revolution in 1980 and is today a member of 80 lineage organizations. She has served as an officer in a number of them, including in the role as Registrar, where she helped people prepare applications and evaluated other applications submitted for membership. Dr. Nagy has lectured on lineage societies to local, regional, and national organizations.

This guidebook is an outgrowth of Dr. Nagy’s decades of participation in lineage organizations. In the process she clears up some common misconceptions about them, like the impression of lineage societies as groups of little old ladies, sitting around in their fancy hats and drinking tea.  In fact, there is so much more to societies and their activities.

In essence, Dr. Nagy has written an A to Z guide to lineage societies. She begins with a description of what they have in common, what they aim to do, how to find the right society for yourself, and the various eligibility requirements. The next part of the book explains what’s involved in becoming a member. This entails a detailed treatment of the application process, including how and where to go about assembling the genealogical evidence for membership. Rounding out the volume are examples of the social, cultural, and patriotic activities undertaken by lineage societies.

While this book cannot address every society, Dr. Nagy provides numerous examples of active lineage societies in Appendix A, with brief descriptions of their membership requirements and contact information. There is also a bibliography of sources.

It is her hope that this book will help the reader learn about the variety of societies in existence and their stated purposes, and that it can demystify them so that more people are encouraged to join the society of their choice.

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]]> Sixteen Hundred Lines to Pilgrims of the National Society of the Sons and Daughters of the Pilgrims https://genealogical.com/store/sixteen-hundred-lines-to-pilgrims-of-the-national-society-of-the-sons-and-daughters-of-the-pilgrims/ Fri, 03 May 2019 20:27:00 +0000 http://gpcprod.wpengine.com/product/sixteen-hundred-lines-to-pilgrims-of-the-national-society-of-the-sons-and-daughters-of-the-pilgrims/ This volume covers the lineage records of l,500 members new to the Society from 1953 to 1981. Generation by generation, descent is traced from the earliest immigrant ancestor to the l,500 members of the Society who joined between 1953 and 1981, the sole condition of membership in the Society being that the immigrant ancestor must […]

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]]> This volume covers the lineage records of l,500 members new to the Society from 1953 to 1981. Generation by generation, descent is traced from the earliest immigrant ancestor to the l,500 members of the Society who joined between 1953 and 1981, the sole condition of membership in the Society being that the immigrant ancestor must have arrived in the Colonies between 1620 and 1700.

Each of the lineage records contains the names of all ancestors in the direct line of descent from the original immigrant, each with dates of birth, marriage, and death. Readers should be advised that the term “Pilgrim” in the context of this book refers to travelers to all parts of the Colonies, not just New England. For the researcher’s edification, we should mention here that the index contains about 28,000 names!

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]]> Lineages of Members of the National Society of Sons and Daughters of the Pilgrims https://genealogical.com/store/lineages-of-members-of-the-national-society-of-sons-and-daughters-of-the-pilgrims-3/ Fri, 03 May 2019 20:27:00 +0000 http://gpcprod.wpengine.com/product/lineages-of-members-of-the-national-society-of-sons-and-daughters-of-the-pilgrims-3/ In these two volumes are the lineage records of 6,800 members of the National Society of the Sons and Daughters of the Pilgrims, all going straight back to the immigrants of the 17th century. Generation by generation, descent is traced from the earliest immigrant ancestor to the present member of the Society, the sole condition […]

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]]> In these two volumes are the lineage records of 6,800 members of the National Society of the Sons and Daughters of the Pilgrims, all going straight back to the immigrants of the 17th century. Generation by generation, descent is traced from the earliest immigrant ancestor to the present member of the Society, the sole condition of membership being that the ancestor must have arrived in the colonies between 1620 and 1700. Each of the lineage records contains the names of all ancestors in the direct line of descent, each with dates of birth, marriage, and death. The two volumes include the lineages of all members of the Society from 1909, when it was founded, to 1952. Volume I had an imperfect index, but in 1958 a new index was published, and with the permission of the Society we have included this in our reprint. Since Volume II was published without an index, we have supplied a completely new name index. The two indexes contain tens of thousands of references.

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]]> Three Hundred Colonial Ancestors and War Service https://genealogical.com/store/three-hundred-colonial-ancestors-and-war-service/ Fri, 03 May 2019 20:23:00 +0000 http://gpcprod.wpengine.com/product/three-hundred-colonial-ancestors-and-war-service/ Three Hundred Colonial Ancestors and War Service is the product of esteemed genealogist Elizabeth Rixford’s efforts to trace her maternal and paternal lines and the main branches of her husband’s family, namely: Rixford, Hawkins, Wilson, Flint, Cutting, Hinds, Cook, and Cushman. But, as researchers will appreciate, this work is no ordinary family history because in […]

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]]> Three Hundred Colonial Ancestors and War Service is the product of esteemed genealogist Elizabeth Rixford’s efforts to trace her maternal and paternal lines and the main branches of her husband’s family, namely: Rixford, Hawkins, Wilson, Flint, Cutting, Hinds, Cook, and Cushman. But, as researchers will appreciate, this work is no ordinary family history because in it the Vermont matriarch discloses her four Mayflower lines, two lines to the National Society Founders and Patriots of America, three lines to the Huguenot Society, ten lines to the DAR, three lines to the United States Daughters of 1812, forty-seven lines to the Colonial Daughters of the 17th Century, and 140 supplemental lines to the National Society Daughters of the American Colonists in Vermont. In all, Mrs. Rixford treats nearly 150 different lines touching on more than 5,000 ancestors. Three Hundred Colonial Ancestors and War Service is a work that no student of New England or colonial ancestry should overlook.

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]]> The Colonial Society of Pennsylvania https://genealogical.com/store/the-colonial-society-of-pennsylvania/ Fri, 03 May 2019 20:22:00 +0000 http://gpcprod.wpengine.com/product/the-colonial-society-of-pennsylvania/ Membership in the Colonial Society of Pennsylvania (established in Philadelphia in 1874) is limited to males over the age of twenty-one descended from a male or female who settled in any colony of America (now the United States) prior to the year 1700. Membership in the organization is limited to 300 persons. This volume is […]

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]]> Membership in the Colonial Society of Pennsylvania (established in Philadelphia in 1874) is limited to males over the age of twenty-one descended from a male or female who settled in any colony of America (now the United States) prior to the year 1700. Membership in the organization is limited to 300 persons. This volume is essentially an alphabetically arranged list of members of the Society in the year 1950, showing the direct line of descent of each member to his colonial ancestor, the earliest known date of the ancestor’s presence in America, and the year each member was elected to the Society. Preceding the roster of members are various lists of Society by-laws, officers, and committee members, all of which serve to paint a picture of the history of this esteemed organization. At the back of the volume the reader will find an alphabetically arranged index of the pioneer ancestors of the Society.

Researchers hoping to connect to a proven line of colonial ancestry may find what they are looking for in one or more of the following lineages of Society members as of 1950: Acton, Adams, Alexander, Aller, Ambler, Anderson, Argo, Ashbridge, Bainbridge, Barnes, Barnsley, Bartow, Bayne, Beck, Belcher, Bell, Belsterling, Bevan, Bigelow, Black, Bland, Blinn, Boger, Bosler, Bradley, Bridger, Brinton, Brown, Brownback, Buckenham, Bunting, Burpee, Cadwalader, Campbell, Canby, Capp, Carr, Carrigan, Castle, Castner, Chaffe, Clafin, Claghorn, Clark, Clarkson, Clement, Closson, Clothier, Coates, Coleman, Colket, Connell, Cooper, Cope, Corson, Crispin, Coskey, Davis, Day, Dilks, Dobbins, Donaldson, Duff, Dyer, Eisenbrey, Elredge, Elmer, Esler, Eslack, Evans, Ewing, Fell, Fergusson, Fitler, Flagg, Forbes, Fornance, Frazier, Fuller, Funk, Garrett, Gates, Gillingham, Green, Grundy, Guernsey, Haines, Hanna, Hart, Hay, Henderson, Henry, Herkness, Herndon, Hinkson, Hires, Hoffman, Hogeland, Holloway, Hood, Hoopes, Hopkinson, Hopper, Howard, Howard-Smith, Howell, Huey, Hurlburt, Jenkins, Jenks, Johnson, Jones, Jump, Keast, Keffer, Kennard, Kennedy, Klapp, Knight, Knowles, Laing, Landreth, Lay, Leach, Lee, Lengert, Lewis, Ligget, Lloyd, Lott, Lueders, Lutz, McBee, McKean, Mansfield, Maris, Massey, Matthews, Melvin, Middleton, Miller, Mills, Milne, Mirkil, Montgomery, Moore, Morgan, Morris, Morrison, Mustin, Newhall, Newnam, Norris, North, Ogden, Palmer, Parker, Patterson, Pearson, Penrose, Perry, Plowman, Putnam, Rambo, Randolph, Rankin, Reckefus, Reeves, Reifsnyder, Rich, Rue, Rulon-Miller, Runk, Rutter, Sargent, Sayen, Seal, Seeley, Selden, Shelley, Sheppard, Sherron, Shewbrooks, Shoemaker, Shryock, Sickel, Smith, Snow, South, Steere, Stewart, Stockwell, Strassburger, Sturgis, Summers, Sutter, Sutton, Swing, Taylor, Thomas, Van Dyke, Walker, Walton, Warnock, Warriner, Watkins, Weightman, West, Wetherill, White, Wiederseim, Wiener, Williams, Wood, Wurts, Wynn, and Wynne.

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]]> [Lineage Book of] Hereditary Order of Descendants of Colonial Governors https://genealogical.com/store/lineage-book-of-hereditary-order-of-descendants-of-colonial-governors/ Fri, 03 May 2019 20:22:00 +0000 http://gpcprod.wpengine.com/product/lineage-book-of-hereditary-order-of-descendants-of-colonial-governors/ This work lays out the 323 proven lines of descent from the eighty-seven men who served as Governor of one of the colonies of British North America. Each lineage furnishes a brief sketch on the member, the name of the Colonial Governor ancestor, the details of the line of descent, and, in a number of […]

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]]> This work lays out the 323 proven lines of descent from the eighty-seven men who served as Governor of one of the colonies of British North America. Each lineage furnishes a brief sketch on the member, the name of the Colonial Governor ancestor, the details of the line of descent, and, in a number of instances, supplemental lineages approved by the Genealogist General of the Order.

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]]> Pedigrees of Some of the Emperor Charlemagne’s Descendants https://genealogical.com/store/pedigrees-of-some-of-the-emperor-charlemagnes-descendants-3/ Fri, 03 May 2019 20:20:00 +0000 http://gpcprod.wpengine.com/product/pedigrees-of-some-of-the-emperor-charlemagnes-descendants-3/ A distinguished work, it provides pedigrees of descent from Charlemagne that can be proved without a doubt. The progeny of Royal Houses of Europe that trace back to Charlemagne are listed in chronological order under their respective Houses. Then, individual chapters list American families that link up with one or more royal lines, and pertinent […]

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]]> A distinguished work, it provides pedigrees of descent from Charlemagne that can be proved without a doubt. The progeny of Royal Houses of Europe that trace back to Charlemagne are listed in chronological order under their respective Houses. Then, individual chapters list American families that link up with one or more royal lines, and pertinent facts are given for each member of the family–birth, marriage, children, connecting lines, station, distinctions, and honors.

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]]> American Ancestry https://genealogical.com/store/american-ancestry-5/ Fri, 03 May 2019 20:20:00 +0000 http://gpcprod.wpengine.com/product/american-ancestry-5/ This is a richly informative, multi-volume encyclopedia of genealogical reference, the first of its kind produced in America, and it contains the pedigrees of 7,500 persons resident in the United States in the nineteenth century who trace their lineage to a colonial ancestor. Indeed, the Munsells’ stated purpose in compiling the work was to “record […]

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]]> This is a richly informative, multi-volume encyclopedia of genealogical reference, the first of its kind produced in America, and it contains the pedigrees of 7,500 persons resident in the United States in the nineteenth century who trace their lineage to a colonial ancestor. Indeed, the Munsells’ stated purpose in compiling the work was to “record for all time many important facts in the history of families which would otherwise be lost.”

Covering the entire United States, and in many cases establishing the pedigree in the male line for six or seven generations, this monumental work is a virtual Who’s Who of the colonial families of America. Data furnished, commencing with the nineteenth-century descendant and working backward to the ancestor of furthest remove, includes name; residence; birthplace; dates of birth, marriage, and death; remarks about occupation, religion, and civic, social, and military achievements; as well as a staggering variety of other genealogical and biographical matter. While much of this information derives from the subject themselves, care was taken by the compilers to confine the sketches to ascertainable facts.

Munsell’s American Ancestry is one of the great foundation stones of genealogy in the United States. Clearfield Company is pleased to make it available to researchers far and wide.

“The undertaking would appear to be a formidable one, and one which requires great pains and diligence to secure the necessary accuracy.” The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record, Vol. XIX, No. 4, p. 181.

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]]> Pedigrees of Some of the Emperor Charlemagne’s Descendants https://genealogical.com/store/pedigrees-of-some-of-the-emperor-charlemagnes-descendants-2/ Fri, 03 May 2019 20:19:00 +0000 http://gpcprod.wpengine.com/product/pedigrees-of-some-of-the-emperor-charlemagnes-descendants-2/ This work, originally published in 1974, more than thirty years after the appearance of Volume I, is composed of more than seventy accepted lines of descent of living people from the Emperor Charlemagne. Each line is carefully documented, generation by generation, and has been verified and approved by Timothy F. Beard, Genealogist General of the […]

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]]> This work, originally published in 1974, more than thirty years after the appearance of Volume I, is composed of more than seventy accepted lines of descent of living people from the Emperor Charlemagne. Each line is carefully documented, generation by generation, and has been verified and approved by Timothy F. Beard, Genealogist General of the Order of the Crown of Charlemagne. Each chapter is headed with the name of the immigrant ancestor through whom the descent is traced, followed by each family name in the line of descent in America. This work also contains a chapter on “Charlemagne and His Children,” by Prof. J. A. Cabannis, and a lengthy survey of contemporary genealogical scholarship by Timothy Beard.

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]]> Seventeenth Century Colonial Ancestors https://genealogical.com/store/seventeenth-century-colonial-ancestors/ Fri, 03 May 2019 20:19:00 +0000 http://gpcprod.wpengine.com/product/seventeenth-century-colonial-ancestors/ This publication is a key to the lineage records of members of the National Society Colonial Dames. The base work is a complete list of the 8,000 seventeenth-century ancestors from whom descent has been positively proved by members of this prestigious hereditary society. As a rule, each entry gives the name of the colonial ancestor, […]

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]]> This publication is a key to the lineage records of members of the National Society Colonial Dames. The base work is a complete list of the 8,000 seventeenth-century ancestors from whom descent has been positively proved by members of this prestigious hereditary society. As a rule, each entry gives the name of the colonial ancestor, his dates of birth and death, the name of his wife, his colony of residence, and his occupation or service. To the original list of 8,000 seventeenth-century ancestors from whom descent has been positively proved, Supplement 1 adds the names of 2,500 additional ancestors from whom descent was proved by members of the Society between 1975 and 1979. Supplement 2 contains the names of an additional 2,500 ancestors from whom descent was proved by members of the Society between 1979 and 1988.

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