Author needs help with legacy info

[UGAalum94]

There are forms that the member sends in that are (or certainly can be) checked in the member database.

For fiction, I'm sure you can come up with something, but in real life there's a good chance she'd get caught.

(Heck, some people encourage you to prove you are a member to post on GreekChat. We're pretty vigilant about making sure that the people we treat as legacies actually are.)

[1908Revelations]

Originally Posted by AlphaGamUGAAlum

For fiction, I'm sure you can come up with something, but in real life there's a good chance she'd get caught.

(Heck, some people encourage you to prove you are a member to post on GreekChat. We're pretty vigilant about making sure that the people we treat as legacies actually are.)

And probably won't get in.....who would want a liar? Especially a poor liar.

[Drolefille]

Originally Posted by 1908Revelations

And probably won't get in.....who would want a liar? Especially a poor liar.

If caught, yes. And though it's not impossible for an unverified legacy to get through recruitment... try getting caught while you're a NM... you'll be dropped and fast.

[UGAalum94]

In real life, I think she'd get caught and get dropped from recruitment and or the group.

For fiction, you might try some silliness about another PNM who was an actual legacy with the same name (which wouldn't work in real life because other information would make it clear) or maybe her claiming a relationship to a great "grandmother" who was deceased and wouldn't be expected to verify the relationship herself who she knew to be a member of the group but who she wasn't really related to. (in real life, this could be checked out too, but it seems less likely to be as obvious to bust as saying her mom or sister was a member.)

[SWTXBelle]

I have to admit that I have wondered about my daughters, who are Chi Omega and Pi Beta Phi legacies from their deceased grandmothers. I can easily provide the names and chapter information, but do I have to send a birth certificate and marriage licenses? Is it like joining the DAR???

[UGAalum94]

Originally Posted by SWTXBelle

I have to admit that I have wondered about my daughters, who are Chi Omega and Pi Beta Phi legacies from their deceased grandmothers. I can easily provide the names and chapter information, but do I have to send a birth certificate and marriage licenses? Is it like joining the DAR???

But you could if the chapter needed it, so no worries. My guess is that if a chapter had any doubt, they'd find someone else from the grandmother's hometown, even if he or she wasn't a group member, who could verify the relationship.

[SWTXBelle]

The Chi Omega, if she were alive today, would be 97! That is pretty amazing - it's what you get when you marry an older man who was a "whoopsie!" when his mother was 43! She was at Rhodes College back when it was Southwest(ern? I can't remember).
Actually, the Chi Omega daughter of my mother-in-law's (younger) Chi Omega buddy from the 70s onward is still in touch with us . . .so now that I think about it, that one is covered!

[jwright25]

I know you said it was fiction, so it doesn't HAVE to be true to life. But in reality, chapters cut legacies all the time. Simply being a legacy isn't going to be feasible enough. I like the idea of someone else with the same name, but if you really want to go the legacy route, make it something more compelling - like a descendant of a founder or something.

[VandalSquirrel]

Originally Posted by SWTXBelle

I have to admit that I have wondered about my daughters, who are Chi Omega and Pi Beta Phi legacies from their deceased grandmothers. I can easily provide the names and chapter information, but do I have to send a birth certificate and marriage licenses? Is it like joining the DAR???

My legacy relative was deceased and a member wrote the form on my behalf and explained the situation. For some reason she wasn't listed as Chapter Grand (deceased), so had anyone checked it would have appeared she was alive. I ran into the same situation writing a rec for a PNM and I included a note explaining why the information was coming from me and not the member.

I would think name, maiden and married, chapter/university and year of initiation would suffice.

[1908Revelations]

Originally Posted by Drolefille

If caught, yes. And though it's not impossible for an unverified legacy to get through recruitment... try getting caught while you're a NM... you'll be dropped and fast.

I figured such.