Social Register

Specific to the United States, the Social Register is a directory of names and addresses of prominent American families who are claimed to be from the social elite. Inclusion in the Social Register has historically been limited to members of polite society, members of the American upper class and The Establishment, and/or those of "old money" or White Anglo-Saxon Protestant (WASP) families, within the Social Register cities. They are Baltimore, Boston, Chicago, Cleveland, New York, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Portland, Providence, San Francisco, Seattle, and Washington, D.C., as well as ones for "Southern Cities". In European countries, similar directories for the perceived upper-class, such as Burke's Peerage and Landed Gentry in the United Kingdom, have been published for hundreds of years.