Family Trees

trisigmaAtl · #1 03-28-2003, 12:52 AM

I was just wondering how differente GLO chapters differentiate their big/lil family trees. For example my chapter uses animals. one family of Grand bigs, bigs, and littles are the monkey family, while another group are pandas etc. I know one of the other chapters at my school uses flowers. I thought this was a fun question to ask because I'm going to find out who my big is in a week and I was thinking about what family I'll be in.

so what do you guys use?

nyrdrms · #2 03-28-2003, 01:16 AM

We have four main families....clowns, teddy bears, pigs and cows. And then sisters are allowed to add branches if they want. I'm a pig butterfly and I added monkies for my little sisters, so they are pig butterfly monkies. It can end up being quite a line though...my roommate is a clown, frog, penguin, lady bug, lion...and one of my other sisters is a cow, parrot, killer whale, monkey, sunflower, panda bear.

IheartAST129 · #3 03-28-2003, 03:23 AM

In my chapter, our founding sisters started off as twins or triplets, thus creating our original families. Then, when a founder took their first lil sis, they chose a fabric pattern for their growing family, and when a new member is added to the family at initiation, they recieve their first set of letters in their family pattern. The idea behind this was when our founders came back to visit the chapter, they could pick out who was in there family by the color or pattern of the letters they were wearing.

Each of the fabrics represents a little bit of the original founding sister. One of our founders is really Irish, so her pattern in green with clovers on it. Another one of our founder is really crazy and loves leopard print, so she chose a furry leopard pattern. My family is a blue with silver sparkles on it, which might sound generic, but is absolutely perfect for my family.

MSSTCY1 · #4 03-28-2003, 03:46 AM

We call them houses. Such as the house of cuties, or the house of the bold and the beautiful. We started the chapter with 5 houses, but two have since died out. We were thinking about starting them back up again but aren't sure about it. ..... any idea? We haven't had anyone in those families since the early '90's.

AngelPhiSig · #5 03-28-2003, 07:35 AM

We dont have anything fun like that... my Phi Sig family has leopard print letters on a black shirt as our family pattern, but that was started by me. We also have pink butt letters on grey sweats... theyre cute... again started by me and my little...

erica812 · #6 03-28-2003, 09:25 AM

My chapter's families were formed like IheartAST129 described. We started with 10 founders which were divided into five pairs of twins: The Flower Family, The Angel Family (that's me!), The Leopard Family, The Butterfly Family, and The Star Family. Unfortunately, my Angel twin transferred to another school, so I am currently the only Angel. I'm hopefully going to get a Little next week, so I won't be alone anymore!

Erica

aephi alum · #7 03-28-2003, 10:14 AM

All the flowers, animals, etc. sound so cute

My chapter doesn't do anything like that... we're boring

Each family is named for the founder at the "top" of the tree, e.g. "Susie's family". Some families have distinctive patterns for their letters, others don't.

Unfortunately, my little deaffiliated before getting her own little, and I'm a founder, and we didn't do the twin thing - so I have no family

Zephyr · #8 03-28-2003, 12:49 PM

My Chapter used mostly animals, but I was a member of the Smiley Face/Teddy Bear family, we also had a Clown Family. I don't know we did it this way; our founding sisters picked the Family mascots when we were Chartered back in 1989...

AngelPhiSig · #9 03-28-2003, 02:14 PM

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Originally posted by aephi alum
All the flowers, animals, etc. sound so cute

My chapter doesn't do anything like that... we're boring Each family is named for the founder at the "top" of the tree, e.g. "Susie's family". Some families have distinctive patterns for their letters, others don't.

Unfortunately, my little deaffiliated before getting her own little, and I'm a founder, and we didn't do the twin thing - so I have no family

GO US AEPHIALUM!!!

I am a proud member of TINA's family! Woo big 80's hair! (we were refounded in 1986)

shadokat · #10 03-28-2003, 02:20 PM

aephialum,

We have the same thing. I'm Kerry's family

We're not all as creative I guess

Of course, I've never MET Kerry!!

chideltjen · #11 03-28-2003, 02:24 PM

We are separated by flowers and alcoholic beverages. Yes yes I know... it's kinda strange and possibly inappropriate when your family starts screaming the names of alcohol at mixers and formals. But most of them are classy drinks

My fam is the Pink Champagne/Lilly family. We were at one point the Cuervo/Orchid Family. I don't know who changed the alcohol (I'm glad cuz I hate tequilla) and Orchids were just too expensive. We also have a family symbol and animal. (Shooting star and monkey.)

Other fams are:
Midori Sour/Sunflower fam. They are probably the biggest. They also have the ladybug as their symbol and a motto and other things.

Champagne/Bird of Paradise fam: They try not to dwell on the family flower much cuz it's so hard to find.

SoCo/Daffidil fam: was once the biggest fam. One of the main founders of the fam took 5 lils!

Malibu Rum/Daisy Fam: One of the smaller ones but quickly growing.

We had a goldshlager/tulip fam but one of the later members DAed and the last active member of the fam never took a twin.

breathesgelatin · #12 03-28-2003, 04:13 PM

We have families. Some have names, some don't. All families have traditions (some have their own history books, for example). My family is the turtles, and there is also a pig family. We name family members like My big-big-big, or my little-little. We also have cousins or aunts. For example, I have twins (two littles), so their littles will be cousins and they will be aunts to each other's littles. I have a great-aunt who had to go early alum 'cause dues went up went we got the house... She rules too, though! Also almost all families do at least a monthly dinner together. My family rawks!

Here we are at our school's Fancy Dress Ball (like a huge prom, only with an $80,000 budget):

http://www.partypics.com/wc.dllparty...641~00008~0048

L-R: my little, me, my other little, and my big!

LeslieAGD · #13 03-28-2003, 04:48 PM

My chapter doesn't use animals, colors, symbols, etc. We just go by different branches of the family tree.

BlondeGurl · #14 03-28-2003, 05:28 PM

My sorority has 'Family Shirts'. You design a shirt so that years down the line youknow who is in your family by what shirt they are wearing. We also have family animals. Mine is the duck. We also give our family a name. Most of the founding sisters use their greek letter initials, but my family name is DIK . Most families have other distinctive traditions that set them apart, for example some have family jewels and memory boxes etc. We really get into it!

Tom Earp · #15 03-28-2003, 05:53 PM

Is this just a Soro thing? I dont know

There have been posts on LXA about Century Brothers( The corresponding # to your #!) OOPs, if that is the case, I have 5 Centuary Brothers. Damn am getting old?

I also saw a thread that because of Family Trees there were divisions amongst that particular chaper. Infighting etc. I never could figure out why? Are they all members of the same Group!?

I worried about this and still do! Just like I was at the House and something was said you can call Zeta(Chapter #) and I asked what that was.

Well, as I had a lower Chapter # I got first dibs.

All well and good, but embaressing as no one has a lower # than me!

I feel and just hope I am equal to all of the Brothers of my Chapter and International!

Just a long thought as I sit here being a lump of knowledge HAHA!