I traced my family all the way back as far as I could find and my branch is the only one still "alive"! That's okay though because we expanded BIG time
My Big has twins, my twin has twins, and I have twins; one of my littles has a little and one of my twin's littles has a little LOL talk about confusing... but we're still pretty close and like hanging out and stuff--so much FUN!!
Each family here has different traditions--shirts they give at Big Sis Revealing, places they go to celebrate. It was more intense when we had a full blown clue hunt that was huge and went all over the house--pledges had to dress up in weird costumes as they went along (ex: one girl dressed like Barbie as she went along in her search, another like a fireman)... those were big traditions that got stamped out with the rise of hardcore anti-hazing. In a way, I think it's sad b/c those were fun things and I never got to do them because we couldn't be "hazed."
~april