Author needs help with legacy info

UGAalum94 · #1 07-25-2007, 10:37 PM

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 · #2 07-25-2007, 10:40 PM

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 · #3 07-25-2007, 10:44 PM

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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 · #4 07-25-2007, 10:48 PM

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 · #5 07-25-2007, 10:50 PM

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.

alrphimu · #6 07-25-2007, 10:53 PM

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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.

yeah...a founder's descendant. I don't really know who checks our legacies out (I'm assuming our membership director or advisor -- I know someone does...) but I just feel that if someone came through saying they were one of our founder's great(times a bajillion) grandaughter...who would question that? i mean, obviously our nationals would be on our ass every five seconds making sure we gave this girl sweet treatment...so it probably would be questioned...but still, it'd make a much better story

UGAalum94 · #7 07-25-2007, 11:00 PM

So maybe a founder's great-granddaughter has the same name as your main character but doesn't want to rush because she's too emo for Greek Life, but encourages your main character to rush knowing the misrepresentation will help her? It practically writes itself.

LPIDelta · #8 07-25-2007, 11:30 PM

I was thinking the same thing--make her the descendant of a legacy and people may be SO excited, they don't even think about whether its true.

My maiden name is Locke....I always wondered if I am related to Theta founder Betty Locke Hamilton, making me a Theta legacy. (I am pretty sure I am not!) But would anyone question?? (I hope so!)

Thetagirl218 · #9 07-26-2007, 12:10 AM

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Originally Posted by AlphaGamUGAAlum

So maybe a founder's great-granddaughter has the same name as your main character but doesn't want to rush because she's too emo for Greek Life, but encourages your main character to rush knowing the misrepresentation will help her? It practically writes itself.

I think that is a good story line idea, but just like the rest of the posts in this thread, in real life this girl would eventually get caught!

I was going to respond to this comment in general, but since it deals with my GLO....

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My maiden name is Locke....I always wondered if I am related to Theta founder Betty Locke Hamilton, making me a Theta legacy. (I am pretty sure I am not!) But would anyone question?? (I hope so!)

I think it would be cool if a girl would be related to a founder of a GLO in real life, but again, I would think and hope that this would be checked out. I don't think anybody with the last name of a founder of any of the NPC sororities could just walk in to recruitment and say, "Hey I am related to so and so, the founder of ABC". At least I hope not!

alfuzzxi · #10 08-01-2007, 11:57 AM

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Originally Posted by AlphaGamUGAAlum

So maybe a founder's great-granddaughter has the same name as your main character but doesn't want to rush because she's too emo for Greek Life, but encourages your main character to rush knowing the misrepresentation will help her? It practically writes itself.

I think that this is a cute idea. This way she is less likely to get caught and a little more realistic. Because I think that if someone had come in saying that they were a descendent of a founder I would have def. checked that out..not necessarily because we didn't trust that person b.c that would be so cool.

What's funny about this conversation, I know that when I was membership we had a legacy go through but I don't ever remember checking it out. She was one and her sister ended up coming by but I just don't remember ever officialy checking it out to even make sure the sister was a member. Who knows that was so long ago though.

VandalSquirrel · #11 07-26-2007, 11:58 AM

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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.