This is a list of hereditary and lineage organizations. It includes societies that limit their membership to those who meet group inclusion criteria, such as descendants of a particular person or group of people of historical importance. It does not include general ethnic heritage societies.

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• Alamo Defenders' Descendants Association
• Alden Kindred of America
• Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company of Massachusetts
  Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company of Massachusetts
  The Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company of Massachusetts is the oldest chartered military organization in North America and the third oldest chartered military organization in the world...
  
  
• Ancient and Honourable Order of the Jersey Blues
• Associated Daughters of Early American Witches
• Auxiliary to Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War
• Aztec Club of 1847
  Aztec Club of 1847
  The Aztec Club of 1847 is an historic society founded in 1847 by United States Army officers of the Mexican–American War. It exists as a hereditary organization including members who can trace a direct lineal connection to those originally eligible....
  
  

C

• Children of the Confederacy
• Children of the Republic of Texas
• Civil War Plymouth Pilgrims Descendants Society
• Cleveland Grays
• The Colonial Dames of America
  The Colonial Dames of America
  The Colonial Dames of America is an American organization composed of women who are descended from an ancestor who lived in British-America from 1607–1775, and was of service to the colonies by either holding public office, being in the military, or serving the Colonies in some other "eligible"...
  
  
• Colonial Order of the Acorn
• Colonial Order of the Crown
• Colonial Society of Pennsylvania
• Continental Society Daughters of Indian Wars

D

• Dames of the Loyal Legion of the United States
• Daughters of Hawaii
  Daughters of Hawaii
  The Daughters of Hawaii was founded in 1903 by seven women who were daughters of American Protestant missionaries. They were born in Hawaii, were citizens of the Kingdom of Hawaii before annexation, and foresaw the inevitable loss of much of the Hawaiian culture...
  
  
• Daughters of the American Revolution
  Daughters of the American Revolution
  The Daughters of the American Revolution is a lineage-based membership organization for women who are descended from a person involved in United States' independence....
  
  
• Daughters of the Cincinnati
• Daughters of the Founders and Patriots of America
• Daughters of the Pioneers of Washington
• Daughters of the Republic of Texas
  Daughters of the Republic of Texas
  The Daughters of the Republic of Texas is a sororal association dedicated to perpetuating the memory of Texas pioneer families and soldiers of the Republic of Texas. The Daughters of the Republic of Texas is best known for its role as caretakers of The Alamo. They also operate a museum in Austin...
  
  
• Daughters of Union Veterans of the Civil War 1861-1865
• Descendants of Austin's Old Three Hundred
• Descendants of Founders of New Jersey
• Descendants of Mexican War Veterans
• Descendants of the Founders of Ancient Windsor
• Descendants of the Illegitimate Sons & Daughters of the Kings of Britain
• Descendants of the Jersey Settlers of Adams County Mississippi
• Descendants of the Knights of the Bath
• Descendants of the Signers of the Declaration of Independence
• Descendants of Whaling Masters
• Dutch Settlers of Albany
• Descendants of the Honored at Rest in Arlington National Cemetery

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• First Families of Georgia 1733-1797
• First Families of Ohio
• First Families of South Carolina
• First Families of the Twin Territories
• Flagon and Trencher
  Flagon and Trencher
  Flagon and Trencher is an hereditary society composed of men and women who can trace ancestry to one or more licensed operators of an ordinary, tavern, inn, public house, or hostel, prior to July 4, 1776, in the area that became the original thirteen states. The society has published a number of...
  
  
• Founders of Natchitoches
• Founders of the New Haven Colony
• Fuller Society

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• General Society of Colonial Wars
  General Society of Colonial Wars
  The Society of Colonial Wars is an hereditary society composed of men who can trace their ancestry to a forebear who, in a military, naval, or civil position of high trust and responsibility, by acts or counsel, assisted in the establishment, defense, and preservation of the American Colonies...
  
  
• General Society of the War of 1812
• General Society Sons of the Revolution
• Governor William Bradford Compact
• Guild of Colonial Artisans and Tradesmen 1607-1783

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• Hereditary Order Descendants Loyalists & Patriots American Revolution
• Hereditary Order of Descendants of Colonial Governors
  Hereditary Order of Descendants of Colonial Governors
  The Hereditary Order of Descendants of Colonial Governors is a hereditary society composed of men and women who can prove their descent from a colonial-era governor...
  
  
• Hereditary Order of the Families of Presidents and First Ladies of America
• Hereditary Order of the First Families of Massachusetts
• Hereditary Order of the Signers of the Bush Declaration
• Holland Society of New York
• Hood's Texas Brigade Association
• The Huguenot Society of America
  The Huguenot Society of America
  Huguenot Society of America is a hereditary patriotic society, organized in New York City on April 12, 1883, and incorporated on June 12, 1885.-About:...
  
  
• Huguenot Society of South Carolina
• Huguenot Society of the Founders of Manakin in the Colony of Virginia

I

• International Military Order of the Southern Cross
• International Society Daughters of Utah Pioneers
• International Society of the Descendants of Charlemagne

L

• Ladies of the Grand Army of the Republic
• Legion of Valor of the United States of America
  Legion of Valor of the United States of America, Incorporated
  The Legion of Valor is a federally chartered corporation created to promote patriotic allegiance to the United States, fidelity to the U.S. Constitution, and popular support for civil liberties and the permanence of free institutions...
  
  
• Los Californianos
• Los Floridanos Society
• Los Pobladores 200
• Louisiana Colonials

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• The Mayflower Society
  The Mayflower Society
  The General Society of Mayflower Descendants is a hereditary organization of individuals who have documented their descent from one or more of the 102 passengers who arrived on the Mayflower in 1620 at what is now Plymouth, Massachusetts...
  
  
• Menorcan Cultural Society
• Military Order of Foreign Wars of the United States
  Military Order of Foreign Wars
  The Military Order of Foreign Wars of the United States is one of the oldest veterans' and hereditary associations in the nation with a membership that includes officers and their hereditary descendants from all of the Armed Services...
  
  
• Military Order of the Carabao
  Military Order of the Carabao
  The Military Order of the Carabao is a social club consisting of members of the U.S. military. Criteria for membership are shown on the organization's web site at http://www.carabao.org.-Background:...
  
  
• Military Order of the Crusades
• Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States
  Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States
  The Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States, also known by its acronym MOLLUS or simply as the Loyal Legion, is a United States patriotic order, organized April 15, 1865, by officers of the Army, Navy, or Marine Corps of the United States who "had aided in maintaining the honor,...
  
  
• Military Order of the Stars and Bars
  Military Order of the Stars and Bars
  The Military Order of the Stars and Bars is a fraternal organization for documented descendants of men who served as commissioned officers in the armed forces of the Confederate States of America or who are descended from members of the Confederate Congress, or any elected or appointed member of...
  
  
• Military Society of the War of 1812
• Minnesota Territorial Pioneers
• Monticello Association
  Monticello Association
  Founded in 1913, the Monticello Association is a non-profit organization of the lineal descendants of Thomas Jefferson, 3rd president of the United States. Jefferson was the designer, builder, owner and principal resident of Monticello in Charlottesville, Virginia. Historically the Association has...
  
  
• Morgan's Men Association

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• National Guild of Saint Margaret of Scotland
• National Huguenot Society
• National Order of the Blue and Gray
• National Society Americans of Royal Descent
• National Society Children of the American Colonists
• National Society Children of the American Revolution
• National Society Colonial Dames XVII Century
• National Society Colonial Daughters of the Seventeenth Century
• National Society Daughters of Colonial Wars
• National Society Daughters of Founders and Patriots of America
• National Society of New England Women
• National Society Daughters of the American Colonists
  National Society Daughters of the American Colonists
  The National Society Daughters of the American Colonists strives to educate others about colonial history in the United States.-Membership:Any woman who is a citizen of the United States of America, is of good moral character, and has attained her eighteenth year, shall be eligible to membership,...
  
  
• National Society Daughters of the Barons of Runnemede
• National Society Daughters of the British Empire in the USA
• National Society Daughters of the Union 1861-1865
• National Society Descendants of Early Quakers
• National Society First Families of Minnesota
• National Society Ladies of the Thistle
• National Society Magna Charta Dames
• National Society of First Families of Delmarva
• National Society of New England Women
• National Society of Old Plymouth Colony Descendants
• National Society of the Colonial Dames of America
  The National Society of the Colonial Dames of America
  The National Society of the Colonial Dames of America is an American organization composed of women who are descended from an ancestor "who came to reside in an American Colony before 1750, and whose services were rendered during the Colonial Period." The national headquarters of the society is at...
  
  
• National Society of the Dames of the Court of Honor
• National Society of the Lords of the Maryland Manors
• National Society of the Washington Family Descendants
• National Society Sons and Daughters of Antebellum Planters 1607-1781
• National Society Sons and Daughters of the Pilgrims
• National Society Sons of Colonial New England
• National Society Sons of the American Colonists
• National Society of Sons of Utah Pioneers
  Sons of Utah Pioneers
  The Sons of Utah Pioneers is an organization dedicated to preserving the memory of and studying the history of the Mormon Pioneers of Utah. The organizations is open to "All good men of every age and circumstance who have an interest in the early Utah Pioneers. It is not necessary to have...
  
  
• National Society Southern Dames of America
• National Society United States Daughters of 1812
  United States Daughters of 1812
  The United States Daughters of 1812 is an American "volunteer women's service organization dedicated to promoting patriotism, preserving and increasing knowledge of the history of the American people." In its early years the group served "fraternal interests [of] women whose lineal ancestors...
  
  
• Naval Order of the United States
• Netherlands Society of Philadelphia
• New England Society in the City of New York
  New England Society of New York
  The New England Society of New York is one of several prestigious lineage organizations in the United States and one of the oldest charitable societies in the country. It was organized on May 6, 1805 to commemorate the landing of the Pilgrim Fathers on Plymouth Rock...
  
  
• Noble Society of Celts
  Noble Society of Celts
  The Noble Society of Celts, founded in 1993, is an hereditary society of persons with Celtic roots and interests, who are of noble title and "gentle birth", and who have come together in a search for, and celebration of, things Celtic....
  
  
• North American Manx Association

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• Oklahoma 1889er Society
• One Hundred Living Descendants of Blood Royal
• Order of Americans of Armorial Ancestry
• Order of Colonial Lords of Manors in America
• Order of Daedalians
  Order of Daedalians
  The Order of Daedalians is a fraternal and professional order of American military pilots. The namesake of the order is Daedalus who according to Greek mythology was the first person to achieve heavier-than-air flight.-History:...
  
  
• Order of Descendants of Ancient Planters
• Order of Descendants of Colonial Cavaliers
• Order of Descendants of Colonial Physicians and Chirurgiens
• Order of Descendants of Pirates and Privateers
• Order of Descendants of the Ancient & Honorable Artillery Company
• Order of First Families of Connecticut
• Order of First Families of North Carolina
• Order of First Families of Virginia
• Order of Lafayette
  Order of Lafayette
  The Order of Lafayette is a patriotic, hereditary, nonpartisan, and fraternal organization established in New York City in 1958 by Colonel Hamilton Fish III , a former Congressman from New York and decorated veteran of the First World War...
  
  
• Order of the Crown in America
• Order of the Crown of Charlemagne
• Order of the First Families of Maine
• Order of the First Families of Maryland
• Order of the First Families of Mississippi 1699-1817
• Order of the First Families of New Hampshire 1622-1680
• Order of the First Families of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations
• Order of the First World War
• Order of the Founders and Patriots of America
• Order of the Honorable Artillery Company
• Order of the Indian Wars of the United States
• Order of the Merovingian Dynasty
• Order of the Second World War
• Order of Three Crusades 1096-1192
• Order of Washington

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• Pilgrim Edward Doty Society
• Pilgrim Francis Cooke Society
• Pilgrim John Howland Society
• Pioneer Association of the State of Washington
• Piscataqua Pioneers
• Plantagenet Society
• Plymouth Hereditary Society
• Point Lookout Prisoner of War Organization
• Presidential Families of America

R

• Registry of Infamous and Famous Relatives in American Families
• Royal Society of Saint George
• Russian Nobility Association in America

S

• Saint Andrew's Society of Philadelphia
• Saint Andrew's Society of the State of New York
• Saint Andrew's Society of Washington, D.C.
• Saint David's Society Welsh Organizations
• Saint George's Society of New York
• Saint Nicholas Society of the City of New York
• San Jacinto Descendants
• Scotch-Irish Society of the United States of America
• La Société des Filles du roi et soldats du Carignan
• La Société Française de Bienfaisance
• Society of Boonesborough
• Society of California Pioneers
  Society of California Pioneers
  The Society of California Pioneers and its members are listed in the Annals of San Francisco of 1855. The key stipulation seems to be that they arrived in California prior to December 31, 1849. Since this was a membership organization, it lists only a portion of the pioneers that came to...
  
  
• Society of Colonial Wars
• Society of Daughters of Holland Dames
• Society of Descendants of Knights of the Garter
• Society of Descendants of Knights of the Most Noble Order of the Garter
• Society of Descendants of the Alamo
• Society of Indiana Pioneers
• Society of Kentucky Pioneers
• Society of Middletown First Settlers Descendants 1650-1700
• Society of the Ark and Dove
• Society of the Cincinnati
  Society of the Cincinnati
  The Society of the Cincinnati is a historical organization with branches in the United States and France founded in 1783 to preserve the ideals and fellowship of the American Revolutionary War officers and to pressure the government to honor pledges it had made to officers who fought for American...
  
  
• Society of the Descendants of Charlemagne
• Society of the Descendants of the Colonial Clergy
• Society of the Descendants of the Founders of Hartford
  Founders of Hartford, Connecticut
  Here are the 163 men and women listed in the Book of Distribution of Land as being those who settled in Hartford, Connecticut before February 1640. Their names are on a monument in Hartford's Ancient Burying Ground....
  
  
• Society of the Descendants of the Founding Fathers of New England
• Society of the Descendants of the Schwenkfeldian Exiles
• Society of the Descendants of Washington's Army at Valley Forge
• Society of the Founders of the City of New Orleans
• Society of the Friendly Sons of Saint Patrick of Philadelphia
• Society of the Friendly Sons of Saint Patrick of the City of New York
• Society of the Order of the Southern Cross
• Society of the Sons of Saint George of Philadelphia
• Society of the War of 1812
• Society of the War of 1812 in Maryland
• Somerset Chapter Magna Charta Barons
• Sons and Daughters of Montana Pioneers
• Sons and Daughters of Oregon Pioneers
  Sons and Daughters of Oregon Pioneers
  The Sons and Daughters of Oregon Pioneers is a nonprofit pioneer heritage association that meets and is located in Portland, Oregon. The SDOP was organized and incorporated on June 13, 1901 by the children of the elderly members of the Oregon Pioneer Association to memorialize the pioneers who...
  
  
• Sons and Daughters of the Colonial and Antebellum Bench and Bar 1585-1861
• Sons and Daughters of the First Settlers of Newbury Massachusetts
• Sons and Daughters of the Province and Republic of West Florida 1763 - 1810
• Sons of the American Revolution
  Sons of the American Revolution
  The National Society of the Sons of the American Revolution is a Louisville, Kentucky-based fraternal organization in the United States...
  
  
• Sons of Confederate Veterans
  Sons of Confederate Veterans
  Sons of Confederate Veterans is an American national heritage organization with members in all fifty states and in almost a dozen countries in Europe, Australia and South America...
  
  
• Sons of Sherman's March to the Sea
• Sons of Spanish-American War Veterans
• Sons of the American Legion
• Sons of the Republic of Texas
• Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War
  Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War
  Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War is an American fraternal organization, the legal successor to the Grand Army of the Republic . Founded in late 1881, it was originally one of several competing organizations of descendants of Union veterans...
  
  
• Soule Kindred of America
• Sovereign Colonial Society Americans of Royal Descent
• Swedish Colonial Society
  Swedish Colonial Society
  Founded in 1909 at Philadelphia, Pa., by a group of 24 prominent academics The Swedish Colonial Society is America’s oldest Swedish historical organization...
  
  

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• Union des Descendants des Commandeurs Hereditaires et Chevaliers du Grand Prieure Russe de l'Ordre de St Jean de Jerusalem
  Hereditary Commanders
  A Hereditary Commander is a Commander whose family holds that title by hereditary right.-Hereditary Commanders of the Russian tradition:Russian tradition of the Knights Hospitaller was officially launched by Paul I of Russia in January 1797...
  
  
• United Daughters of the Confederacy
  United Daughters of the Confederacy
  The United Daughters of the Confederacy is a women's heritage association dedicated to honoring the memory of those who served in the military and died in service to the Confederate States of America . UDC began as the National Association of the Daughters of the Confederacy, organized in 1894 by...
  
  
• United Empire Loyalists' Association of Canada
• United States Daughters of the War of 1812
• United States Cavalry Association

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• Veteran Corps of Artillery State of New York
  Veteran Corps of Artillery of the State of New York
  The Veteran Corps of Artillery of the State of New York is an American historic militia organization founded at the end of the American Revolutionary War for the purpose of preventing another British invasion of New York City....
  
  
• Veterans Corps of Artillery
• Veterans of the Battle of the Bulge

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• Welcome Society of Pennsylvania
• Welsh Society of Philadelphia
• Winthrop Society
  Winthrop Society
  The Winthrop Society is a hereditary organization made up of the descendants of those who arrived on the Winthrop Fleet into the Massachusetts colony or other Great Migration ships before 1634....
  
  
• Women Descendants of the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company