Here's a partial list of the various Hereditary Societies in America. Each have their own insignia and over the years have produced a variety of pins, buttons, badges etc... Where do ya start? <img src="/metal/html/shrug.gif" border=0 width=37 height=15 alt=":shrug">
Below Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War insignia
American Order of Pioneers
America's First Families
Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company of Massachusetts (1637)
Ancient and Honourable Order of the Jersey Blues (1673)
Arizona Pioneers
Aryan Order of St. George of the Holy Roman Empire in the Colonies of America
Associated Daughters of Early American Witches (1987)
Auxiliary to Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War (1883)
Aztec Club of 1847 (1847)
Baronial Order of the Magna Charta (189

Children of the Confederacy (1896)
Children of the Republic of Texas (1934)
Civil War Descendants Society
Civil War Plymouth Pilgrims Descendants Society
Cleveland Grays (1837)
Colonial Dames of America (1890)
Colonial Order of the Acorn (1894)
Colonial Order of the Crown (1890)
Colonial Society of Massachusetts
Colonial Society of Pennsylvania (1895)
Continental Ladies
Continental Society Daughters of Indian Wars
Continental Society Sons of Indian Wars (1987)
Dames of the Loyal Legion of the United States (1899)
Daughters of American Colonists (1921)
Daughters of Hawaii (1903)
Daughters of the American Revolution (1890)
Daughters of the Cincinnati (1894)
Daughters of the Pioneers of Washington (1920)
Daughters of the Republic of Texas (1891)
Daughters of the Revolution
Descendants of 1774
Descendants of Austin's Old Three Hundred (1987)
Descendants of Early Quakers (1980)
Descendants of Edward I
Descendants of Founders of New Jersey (1982)
Descendants of Mexican War Veterans (1989)
Descendants of the Founders of Ancient Windsor (1983)
Descendants of the Illegitimate Sons and Daughters of the Kings of Britain (Royal Bastards)
Descendants of the Knights of Bath (1991)
Descendants of the Signers of the Declaration of Independence (1907)
Descendants of Whaling Masters (1974)
Dutch Colonial Society of Delaware
Dutch Settlers Society of Albany (1924)
Ermine Society, The
First Families of the Twin Territories (198

First Families of Alabama
First Families of Georgia 1733-1797 (1986)
First Families of Nebraska
First Families of New Mexico
First Families of Ohio (1964)
First Families of Ohio
First Families of Pacific States
First Families of South Carolina (1976)
First Families of Tennessee
First Families of the Tennessee Valley
Flagon and Trencher (1962)
Founders of Natchitoches (1980)
General Society of Colonial Wars (1893)
General Society of Mayflower Descendants (1897)
General Society of the War of 1812 (1894)
General Society Sons of the Revolution (1876)
Grand Army of the Republic
Guild of Saint Margaret of Scotland, The (1975)
Hereditary Order of Descendants of Colonial Governors (1896)
Hereditary Order of the Descendants of the Loyalists & Patriots of the American Revolution (1973)
Hereditary Order of the First Families of Massachusetts (1985)
Holland Society of New York
Hood's Texas Brigade Association (1966)
Huguenot Society of South Carolina (1885)
Huguenot Society of the Founders of Manakin In the Colony of Virginia (1922)
International Military Order of the Southern Cross (1992)
International Society Daughters of Utah Pioneers (1901)
International Society of the Descendants of Charlemagne
Iowa Pioneers and Century Certificates
Jamestowne Society (1936)
Kansas Territorial Certificate
Ladies Auxiliary Veterans of Foreign Wars (1914)
Ladies of the Grand Army of the Republic (1885)
Legion of Valor of the United States of America (1890)
Los Californianos (1969)
Los Pobladores 200 (1981)
Louisiana Colonials, The (1917)
Massachusetts Society of Colonial Wars
Military Order of Foreign Wars of the United States (1894)
Military Order of the Carabao (1900)
Military Order of the Crusades (1934)
Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States (1865)
Military Order of the Purple Heart (1932)
Military Order of the Stars and Bars, The (193

Military Order of the World Wars (1919)
Military Society of the War of 1812 (1826)
Minnesota Territorial Pioneers (1897)
Morgan's Men Association (186

National Auxiliary to Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War (1883)
National Auxiliary United Spanish War Veterans
National Fort Daughters of '98
National Huguenot Society (1951)
National Huguenot Society of America
National Order of the Blue and Gray (1990)
National Organization Ladies of the Grand Army of the Republic
National Society Children of American Colonists (1939)
National Society Children of the American Revolution (1895)
National Society Colonial Daughters of the Seventeenth Century (1896)
National Society Daughters of Colonial Wars (1932)
National Society Daughters of Founders and Patriots of America (189

National Society Daughters of the American Colonists (1921)
National Society Daughters of the American Revolution (1890)
National Society Daughters of the Barons of Runnemede (1921)
National Society Daughters of the British Empire in the USA (1920)
National Society Daughters of the Revolution of 1777
National Society Daughters of the Union 1861-1865 (1912)
National Society Daughters of Union Veterans of the Civil War 1861-1865
National Society Descendants of Early Quakers (1980)
National Society Descendants of Early Quakers (1980)
National Society First Families of Minnesota (1990)
National Society Founders of the New Haven Colony (1995)
National Society Ladies of the Thistle (198

National Society Magna Charta Dames and Barons (1909)
National Society of Americans of Royal Descent (190

National Society of Andersonville
National Society of Colonial Dames of America (1891)
National Society of Colonial Dames of Georgia
National Society of Colonial Dames of the Seventeenth Century
National Society of Colonial Dames XVII Century (1915)
National Society of First Families of Delmarva (1995)
National Society of Magna Charta Dames (1909)
National Society of New England Women (1895)
National Society of Old Plymouth Colony Descendants (1910)
National Society of the Dames of the Court of Honor (1921)
National Society of the Daughters of Utah Pioneers
National Society of the Descendants of Lords of the Maryland Manors
National Society of the Sons of the American Revolution (1889)
National Society of the Washington Family Descendants (1954)
National Society Sons and Daughters of the Pilgrims (190

National Society Sons of American Colonists
National Society Sons of Colonial New England (1985)
National Society Sons of Utah Pioneers (1933)
National Society Southern Dames of America (1962)
National Society United States Daughters of 1812
National Society Women Descendants Ancient & Honorable Artillery Co. (1927)
Naval Order of the United States (1890)
Netherlands Society of Philadelphia (1892)
Nevada and Las Vegas Pioneers
New England Society in the City of New York (1805)
Noble Order Descendants of the Conqueror and His Companions
North American Manx Association (192

Old Planters
Order of Americans of Armorial Ancestry (1903)
Order of Colonial Lords of Manors in America (1911)
Order of Daedalians (1934)
Order of Descendants of Ancient Planters (1991)
Order of Descendants of Colonial Physicians and Chirurgiens (1974)
Order of Descendants of the Ancient & Honorable Artillery Company (198

Order of First Families of North Carolina
Order of First Families of Virginia (1912)
Order of First Families of Virginia 1607-1624/5
Order of Indian Wars of the United States (1896)
Order of Lafayette (195

Order of the Colonies of America
Order of the Crown in America (189

Order of The Crown of Charlemagne in the United States of America
Order of the First Families of Mississippi 1699-1817 (1967)
Order of the First Families of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations (1991)
Order of the First World War (1993)
Order of the Founders and Patriots of America (1896)
Order of the Second World War (1995)
Order of Three Crusades 1096-1192 (1936)
Order of Washington (1895)
Oregon Pioneer Certificates
Oregon Trail Pioneers
Piscataqua Pioneers (1905)
Plantagenet Society (1902)
Plymouth Hereditary Society (1990)
Point Lookout Prisoner of War Organization (1990)
Presidential Families of America (1995)
Provincial Families of Maryland
Rev. Christopher Yonges Descendants Society
Royal Society of Saint George (1894)
Saint Andrew's Society
Saint Andrew's Society of Philadelphia (1747)
Saint Andrew's Society of the State of New York (1756)
Saint David's Society of the State of New York (1835)
Saint George's Society of Los Angeles (1992)
Saint Nicholas Society of the City of New York (1835)
San Jacinto Descendants (1965)
Scotch-Irish Foundation
Scotch-Irish Society of the United States of America (1889)
Society of Americans of Colonial Descent
Society of Boonesborough (1975)
Society of California Pioneers (1850)
Society of Colonial Wars in the State of Connecticut
Society of Colonial Wars in the State of Illinois
Society of Colonial Wars in the State of Maine
Society of Colonial Wars in the State of North Carolina
Society of Daughters of Holland Dames (1895)
Society of Descendants of Colonial Hispanics
Society of Descendants of Knights of the Garter (1931)
Society of Descendants of Knights of the Most Noble Order of the Garter (1929)
Society of Descendants of the Alamo (1996)
Society of Indiana Pioneers (1916)
Society of Kentucky Pioneers (1982)
Society of Loyalists Descendants
Society of Middleton First Settlers Descendants
Society of Montana Pioneers
Society of New England Women (1895)
Society of Sons and Daughters of the Pilgrims
Society of the Alden Kindred of America
Society of the Ark and the Dove (1910)
Society of the Cinncinnati (1783)
Society of the Descendants of the Colonial Clergy (1933)
Society of the Descendants of the Founders of Hartford (1931)
Society of the Descendants of the Schwenkfeldian Exiles (1920)
Society of the Descendants of the Signers of the Constitution (1987)
Society of the Descendants of Washington's Army at Valley Forge (1976)
Society of the Founders of Norwich Connecticut (1901)
Society of the Founders of the City of New Orleans (1963)
Society of the Friendly Sons of Saint Patrick of Philadelphia (1771)
Society of the Lees of Virginia
Society of the Sons of Saint George of Philadelphia (1772)
Society of the United States Daughters 1776-1812
Society of the War of 1812
Society of the War of 1812 in Maryland (1814)
Society of the Whiskey Rebellion of 1794
Somerset Chapter Magna Charta Barons (1932)
Sons and Daughters of Nantucket (1894)
Sons and Daughters of Oregon Pioneers (1901)
Sons and Daughters of Pioneer Rivermen
Sons and Daughters of the Colonial and Antebellum Bench and Bar (1994)
Sons and Daughters of the First Settlers of Newbury Massachusetts (1927)
Sons and Daughters of the Province and Republic of West Florida (1991)
Sons of Confederate Veterans (1896)
Sons of Delaware
Sons of Spanish American War Veterans (1927)
Sons of the American Legion (1932)
Sons of the Republic of Texas (1893)
Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War
Sovereign Colonial Society Americans of Royal Descent (1867)
St. George's Society of New York (1770)
Swedish Colonial Society (1909)
Texas First Families
The 1889ER Society
The Holland Society of New York (1885)
Thomas Paine National Historical Association
United Confederate Veterans
United Daughters of the Confederacy
United Empire Loyalists' Association of Canada (1914)
United States Cavalry Association (1976)
United States Daughters of 1812
Varnum Continentals
Vermont Society of Colonial Dames
Veteran Corps of Artillery State of New York
Veterans of the Battle of the Bulge ( 1981)
Virginia Society Military Order of the Stars and Bars
Welcome Society of Pennsylvania (1906)
Welsh Society of Philadelphia (1729)
Wisconsin Pioneer and Century Families (1939)
Woman Descendants of the Ancient & Honorable Artillery Company (1927)