Others prepare applications for lineage societies; still others work to prove Native American genealogies.
Today the cemetery is owned and operated by the Monticello Association, a private lineage society of descendants of Jefferson.
Several American based lineage societies, provide a rosette for informal wear, as an insignia of membership.
She encouraged other African Americans to do the same, to enlarge the lineage societies' sense of history.
She encouraged other African Americans to do so as well, in the interests of exploring their heritage and promoting a more inclusive view of Southern history among lineage societies.
The lineage society is open to female descendants of Confederate veterans of the American Civil War.
Works has long been a member of the Monticello Association, a lineage society for Jefferson-Wayles descendants that preserves the private family cemetery at Monticello.
The list of names below is based on information displayed on the website of the Order of Descendants of Ancient Planters, a lineage society.
A segmentary lineage society is characterized by the organization of the society into segments; what is often referred to as a tribal society.
The largest segmentary lineage society today is believed to be the Pashtun people of Afghanistan and Pakistan, with some 50 million members organized into a vast tribal structure.