new to greek life. don't fully understand the concept of families.

[MrKSig]

We also use the "families" in our chapter. As others have said, it is just a family tree. I have my Big, and Grand Big, we also have "cousins" and "siblings" (if Grand Big had 2 littles, the other little is a 'cousin' and if my big had more than one little they were my 'sibling'). Since we are fairly new, I just started a tradition of giving my family line an animal mascot. Since everyone in my direct line has been an EC member and eventually GM/President, we are the "Royal Lineage" and have the mascot of a lion and symbol of the crown.

I'm trying to get the other families to do something similar. I think it would be fun and create an interesting inter-chapter competition to see which family stays on top (through participation, GPA, and philanthropy).