High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Specific to the United States, the Social Register is a directory of names and addresses of prominent American families who form the social elite, (socialites). The "Directory" automatically includes the President of the United States and the First Family, and in the past always included the U.S. Senators and their families. Inclusion in the Social Register has historically been limited to members of "polite society" (or those with "old money") in the "Social Register cities" of Baltimore, Boston, Buffalo, Chicago, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Dayton, Detroit, Kansas City, Minneapolis, New Orleans, New York, Philadelphia,Pittsburgh, Portland, Providence, St. Louis, St. Paul, San Francisco, and Seattle, as well as ones for "Southern Cities".