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I've not only traced my own family tree, but all of the family trees for my chapter. I've been working on our chapter history for about four years now (I'm now an alumna and still doing it).
Most of it was fairly easy since we've only been around since 1988 and we have a tradition of family books (unfortunately, that tradition died out somewhere and I've been trying to revive it). Basically the family book gives the new sister family traditions, family tree, all of the big sisters for her pledge class, little extras that the big sister chose to include (when the first book was made, the rest are just duplicates with the necessary information changed).
There are still quite a few sisters that I haven't been able to place into families because I can't find them now and the older sisters seem to remember their own families, not everyone's (which is understandable). Plus we were charted as Gamma Phi Beta in 1988, prior to that we were a local sorority, so it's quite possible that some of these older sisters that I can't place into the known families are in families that died out shortly after we became Gamma Phi and don't connect in anyway (at least not without going back into Pi Kappa Sigma) to the known families.
But overall, it's been very interesting contacting sisters that I've never met and realizing just how willing they are and how excited they are that the chapter history is finally getting done.
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