Colonial

Society of Americans of Colonial Descent
PO Box 231
Mill Neck, NY 11765

Colonial Dames of America
421 East 61st Street
New York, NY 10021

(212) 838-5489

Membership is open to women who are legitimately descended from a person who served one or more of the thirteen colonies by providing service to the colony between May 13, 1607 and April 19, 1775.

National Society of The Colonial Dames of America
Dumbarton House
2715 Q Street, N.W.
Washington, DC 20007

(202) 337-2288

Membership is open to women who are lineal descendants of an ancestor resident in an American Colony prior to 1750 who rendered service to the Colony prior to July 5, 1776.

National Society of the Colonial Dames, Georgia
329 Abercorn Street
Savannah, GA 31405

National Society Colonial Dames XVII Century
1300 New Hampshire Avenue, N.W.
Washington, DC 20036

(202) 293-1700

Publishes Review.

Membership is open to any female citizen of the United States aged eighteen or over who is lineally descended from an ancestor who lived in an American Colony prior to 1701 as an immigrant colonist or descendant of one.

General Society of Colonial Wars
840 Woodbine Avenue
Glendale, OH 45246

Membership is open to any male aged eighteen or over who is lineally descended from an ancestor who performed military service for one of the thirteen colonies.

Military

National Society of the Dames of the Court of Honor
2165 Leafmore Drive
Decatur, GA 30033

Membership is open to any female aged sixteen or over who is lineally descended from a Colonial Governor or from a commissioned officer who served during the Colonial Wars, the American Revolution, the War of 1812, the Mexican War, or the Civil War.

Colonial

National Society, Daughters of American Colonists
National Society, Children of the American Colonists
2205 Massachusetts Avenue, N.W.
Washington, DC 20008

(202) 667-3076

Publishes The Colonial Courier.

Membership is open to any female citizen of the United States aged eighteen or over who is lineally descended from an ancestor who rendered civil or military service to any Colony prior to July 4, 1776.

National Society, Daughters of Founders and Patriots of America
National Headquarters
Park Lane Building, Suites 300-05
2025 Eye Street, NW
Washington, DC 20006

Publishes Newsletter—The Gazette.

Membership is open to women with an unbroken paternal line of either her father or her mother going back to a founder who arrived in one of the colonies between May 13, 1607 and May 13, 1687, and further that in this unbroken line there is a patriotic ancestor who performed military or civil service toward establishing American independence, 1775–1784.

Descendants of 1774
2418 K Street
Bedford, IN 47421

Society of Descendants of Colonial Hispanics
Brooks Enterprises
1718 West Robinson Street, #A
Norman, OK 73069

Order of Descendants of Colonial Physicians and Chirurgeons
8317 Bent Tree Circle
Wichita, KS 67226

(306) 634-1930

Membership is open to any person descended from a physician, chirurgeon, or licensed midwife who practiced on the North American continent prior to 1784.

National Society of Descendants of Lords of the Maryland Manors
3721 Alton Place, NW
Washington, DC 20016

Membership is by invitation only.

The Society of Descendants of the Colonial Clergy
12 Westchester Drive
Auburn, MA 01501

(508) 832-9412

Membership is open to any person aged twenty-one or over who is lineally descended from a clergyman regularly ordained, installed, or settled over any Christian Church in one of the thirteen colonies prior to July 4, 1776.

Order of the Founders and Patriots of America
15 Pine Street
New York, NY 10005

Publishes Bulletin.

Membership is open to any male citizen of the United States aged eighteen or over who is lineally descended in the paternal line of either parent from an ancestor who settled in any of the Colonies now included in the United States and one of whose ancestors in the same line adhered as patriots to the cause of the American Revolution, 1775–1783.

General Society of Mayflower Descendants
National Headquarters
PO Box 3297
Plymouth, MA 02361

(508) 746-3188

Publishes The Mayflower Quarterly.

Membership is open to descendants, aged eighteen or over, of a passenger on the Mayflower (John Alden, Isaac Allerton, John Billington, William Bradford, William Brewster, Peter Brown, James Chilton, Francis Cooke, Edward Doty, Francis Eaton, Edward Fuller, Samuel Fuller, Stephen Hopkins, John Howland, Richard More, Degory Priest, Thomas Rogers, Henry Samson, George Soule, Myles Standish, Richard Warren, William White, and Edward Winslow).

National Society of New England Women
5148 29th Avenue, South
Minneapolis, MN 55417

Publishes The Clipper.

Membership is open to any female, aged eighteen or over, who is descended from one or more ancestors born in New England prior to the signing of the Constitution of the United States in 1789.

National Society Sons and Daughters of the Pilgrims
3917 Heritage Hills Drive, #104
Bloomington, MN 55437

(612) 893-9747

Membership is open to lineal descendants, aged twenty-one or over, of anyone who settled in any American Colony prior to 1700.

National Society Sons of American Colonists
9033 Lyndale Avenue, South, Suite 108
Bloomington, MN 55420

(612) 893-9747

National Society Southern Dames of America
414 North Walnut Street
PO Box 43
Florence, AL 35631

Membership is by invitation.

Revolutionary War

Continental Ladies
57 Pierce Street
PO Box 14
East Greenwich, RI 02818

(401) 884-4110

National Society, Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR)
National Society, Children of the American Revolution
1776 D Street, NW
Washington, DC 20006

(202) 879-3229

Publishes Daughters of the American Revolution Magazine and Continental Columns.

Membership is open to invited women, aged eighteen or over, who are lineally descended from an ancestor who, with unfailing loyalty to the cause of American Independence, served as a sailor, soldier, or civil officer in any of the several Colonies or States or the United Colonies or States, or as a recognized patriot, or rendered material aid thereto.

Daughters of the Cincinnati
122 East 58th Street
New York, NY 10022

Membership is by invitation.

Descendants of the Signers of the Declaration of Independence
Registrar-General, DSDI
3137 Periwinkle Court
Adamstown, MD 21710-9649

(301) 644-1776

Membership is open to lineal descendants, aged twenty-one or over, of a Signer of the Declaration of Independence.

Society of the Descendants of Washington's Army at Valley Forge
PO Box 915
Valley Forge, PA 19481

(215) 935-1746

Publishes Encampment Newsletter.

Membership is open to descendants, aged eighteen or over, of a soldier serving in the Continental Army under the command of his Excellency George Washington at or near the encampment at Valley Forge, 1777–1778.

Society of the Cincinnati
Anderson House Library
2118 Massachusetts Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20008

(202) 785-2040

National Society of the Sons of the American Revolution (SAR)
National Headquarters
1000 South Fourth Street
Louisville, KY 40203

(502) 589-1776

Publishes SAR Magazine.

Varnum Continentals
6 Main Street
PO Box 14
East Greenwich, RI 02818

(401) 884-4110

War of 1812

National Society, United States Daughters of 1812
1461 Rhode Island Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20005

(202) 745-1812

Publishes National Society United States Daughters of 1812 Newsletter.

Membership is open to females aged eighteen or over who are lineally descended from an ancestor who rendered civil, military, or naval service to the United States, 1784–1815.

General Society of the War of 1812
PO Box 106
Mendenhall, PA 19357

(215) 388-6015

Membership is open to male lineal descendants of a participant during the War of 1812 in the Army, Navy, Revenue-Marine, or Privateer Service of the United States.

Mexican War

Aztec Club of 1847
PO Box 8454
Universal City, CA 91618-8454

http://www.aztecclub.com/
Membership is open to direct descendants of commissioned officers of the Army, Navy, or Marine Corps who served in Mexico or Mexican Waters during the War with Mexico.

Descendants of Mexican War Veterans, DMWV
National Office
1114 Pacific
PO Box 830482
Richardson, TX 75083

Publishes Mexican War Journal and The American Eagle, A Newsletter of the Descendants of Mexican War Veterans.

Civil War

Children of the Confederacy
Memorial Building
328 North Boulevard
Richmond, VA 23220-4057

(804) 355-1636

Membership is open to minor descendants of members of the United Daughters of the Confederacy or the Sons of Confederate Veterans, or who are lineal descendants of an ancestor who served honorably in the Confederate Army, Navy, or Civil Service, or whose ancestor's brother or sister served honorably.

Civil War Descendants Society
Confederate Descendants Society
PO Box 233
Athens, AL 356

Daughters of the Union, 1861–1865, Inc.
11396 Grand Oak Drive
Grand Blanc, MI 4843

(313) 694-6879

Daughters of Union Veterans of the Civil War, 1861–1865 (DUV)
National Headquarters, D.U.V. Registrar's Office
503 South Walnut Street
Springfield, IL 62704

(217) 544-0616

Membership is open to women lineally descended from a soldier or sailor of the United States Army, Navy, Marine Corps, or Revenue Cutter Service, who served honorably between April 12, 1861 and April 9, 1865, or who served in a state regiment called into active service and subject to the orders of the United States General Officers.

Daughters of Union Veterans of the Civil War, 1861–1865 (DUV)
2025 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W., Suite 525
Washington, DC 2000

(202) 785-2316

Publishes General Orders.

Membership is open to women lineally descended from a soldier or sailor of the United States Army, Navy, Marine Corps, or Revenue Cutter Service, who served honorably between April 12, 1861 and April 9, 1865, or who served in a state regiment called into active service and subject to the orders of the United States General Officers.

Grand Army of the Republic
Grand Army of the Republic Memorial Museum
78 East Washington Street
Chicago, IL 60602

(312) 269-2926

Ladies of the Grand Army of the Republic
204 East Sellers Avnue
Ridley Park, PA 19078

Publishes Bugle Call.

Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States
Dames of the Loyal Legion of the United States
1805 Pine Street
Philadelphia, PA 19103

(215) 546-2425

Publishes Historical Journal Quarterly.

Membership is open to male lineal descendants of commissioned officers who served in the Union Forces, 1861–1865, and to male descendants, aged eighteen or over, of a brother or sister of such officers.

Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War
411 Bartlett Street
Lansing, MI 48915

Membership is open to male descendants, aged sixteen or over, of soldiers, sailors, or marines, who were regularly mustered and served honorably in the Army or Navy during the Civil War, and who did not bear arms against the Government of the United States.

United Daughters of the Confederacy (UDC)
Memorial Building
328 North Boulevard
Richmond, VA 23220-4057

(804) 355-1636

Publishes United Daughters of the Confederacy.

Membership is open to women aged sixteen or over who are lineal or collateral descendants of an ancestor who served honorably in the Army, Navy, or Civil Service of the Confederate States of America, or gave material aid to the cause.

Indian Wars

Continental Society Sons of Indian Wars
3917 Heritage Hills Drive, #104
Bloomington, MN 55437-2633

(612) 893-9747

Spanish-American War

Sons of the Spanish-American War Veterans
1560 Sonoma Avenue
Santa Rosa, CA 95405-6644

(707) 528-9271

Membership is open to men who are descendants of veterans and siblings of veterans of the Spanish-American War.

National Auxiliary United Spanish War Veterans
414.5 East Avenue, North
Augusta, SC 29841-3837

(803) 442-9321

Publishes General Orders.

National Fort Daughters of '98
Junior Organization of United Spanish War Veterans
7101 Hope Avenue
Cleveland, OH 44102

Publishes Daughters of '98 Bulletin.

Miscellaneous Military

Military Order of Foreign Wars of the United States 1894-1994
Pennsylvania Commandery
PO Box 926
Bryn Mawr, PA 19010

(215) 642-7601
Fax: (215) 254-9884

Membership is by invitation only.

The Military Order of the Crusades
104 Bladdyn Road
Ardmore, PA 19003

Membership is by invitation only.

Military Order of the Purple Heart in the United States
5313 Backlich Road
Springfield, VA 22151

Military Order of the Purple Heart in the United States
Ladies Auxiliary
419 Franklin Street
Reading, MA 01867

(617) 944-1844

Publishes Purple Heart Magazine.

Order of Daedalians
Building 1635, Kelly Air Force Base
San Antonio, TX 78241

Society of the Whiskey Rebellion of 1794
3311 Columbia Pike
Lancaster, PA 17603

Membership is open to male lineal descendants of persons who served in the Militia who put down the rebellion of 1794 in Western Pennsylvania against the excise tax on whiskey.

Regional

First Families of Pacific States
Genealogical Society of Siskiyou County
Siskiyou County Public Library
719 Fourth Street
PO Box 225
Yreka, CA 96097

(916) 842-8175

Publishes Bulletin.

National Society, Sons of Utah Pioneers
3301 East 2820 South
Salt Lake City, UT 84109

(801) 484-4441

Publishes The Pioneer Magazine.

Royal and Noble

Order of Americans of Armorial Ancestry
3223 N.W. 18th Street
Oklahoma City, OK 73107

Membership is open to any person, aged eighteen or over, whose immigrant American ancestor was armigeral and a settler in one of the thirteen colonies.

Colonial Order of the Crown
PO Box 27023
Philadelphia, PA 19118

International Society of the Descendants of Charlemagne
Office of the Governor General
2950 Casper Place
PO Box 5259
Titusville, FL 32783

(407) 267-0351
Fax: (407) 267-0263

Publishes News Letter.

Descendants of Edward I

(916) 344-7579

The Noble Order, Descendants of the Conqueror and His Companions
PO Box 2043 AM
Lynwood, WA 98036

Publishes Ancestral Antiquities.

Society of Descendants of Knights of the Most Noble Order of the Garter
PO Box 4944
Philadelphia, PA 19119

Descendants of the Illegitimate Sons and Daughters of the Kings of Britain
3502 North Oakley Avenue
Chicago, IL 60618

Publishes Annual Roster.

Membership is open to descendants of an illegitimate son, daughter, grandson, or granddaughter of a King or Queen of England, Scotland, or Wales.

National Society Magna Carta Dames
PO Box 4222
Philadelphia, PA 19144

Membership is by invitation only.

Order of the Crown of Charlemagne in the United States of America
7177 Williams Creek Drive
Indianapolis, IN 46240

Membership is by invitation only.

Plantagenet Society
PO Box 27165
Philadelphia, PA 19118

Membership is open to lineal descendants of one of the Plantagenet Kings of England.

Sovereign Colonial Society, Americans of Royal Descent
PO Box 27112
Philadelphia, PA 19118

Membership is by invitation only.

Huguenot

Huguenot Historical Society
PO Box 339
New Paltz, NY 12561

(914) 255-1660

Publishes Huguenot Historical Society Yearbook.

National Huguenot Society
9033 Lyndale Avenue, South, Suite 18
Bloomington, MN 55420

(612) 893-9747

National Huguenot Society of America
Library
122 East 58th Street
New York, NY 10022

(212) 755-0592

The Huguenot Society of the Founders of Manakin in the Colony Virginia
5602 Lake Shore Drive
Knoxville, TN 37920

Publishes The Huguenot.

The Thomas Paine National Historical Association
The Huguenot and Historical Association
The New Rochelle Historical Society
983 North Avenue
New Rochelle, NY 10804

(914) 632-5346

Publsihes The Pamphlet.

Miscellaneous

Descendants of Whaling Masters, Inc.
28 Fort Street
Fairhaven, MA 02719

Sons and Daughters of Pioneer Rivermen
410 North Sixth Street, #1
Marietta, OH 45750

Publishes S & D Reflector.

Friends

National Society, Descendants of Early Quakers
3917 Heritage Hills Drive, #104
Bloomington, MN 55437-2633

Publishes Plain Language.

Civil War

Ladies of the Grand Army of the Republic, Inc.
46 Chassin Avenue
Eggertsville, NY 14226

(716) 833-6308

Publishes Bugle Call.

Miscellaneous

Presidential Families of America
Presidential Families of America
c/o President, PFA
10939 West 59th Place
Arvada, Colorado, 80004-4732

http://presidentialfamilies.org/

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