Hi- will contact a cousin in Clio( Barbour Co) as his surname is Jackson. Will get abck to you. Harold Stephens ---- Original Message ---- From: [email protected] To: [email protected] Subject: [Rootsweb ALBARBOU] SCRUSE and SCREWS in Barbour County, Alabama Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2008 19:21:46 EDT >Does anyone have any information on the family tree of Katherine >JACKSON, >the mother of the singer Michael JACKSON? According to Katherine's >Wikipedia >article she was born in Barbour County, Alabama. Her maiden name was >SCRUSE or >SCREWS. > >As part of my one-name study into the surname CRUSE I have been >tracing an >English Cruse line which originated in Urchfont, Wiltshire in the >1600s. In >one branch of the family the spelling changed to SCRUSE, and this >line seems to >account for virtually all the SCRUSES who appear in the English >civil >registration indexes. I wondered if there might perhaps be any >connection with the >SCRUSES in the JACKSON family. I live in England and am not very >familiar >with American research. An English Scruse has recently joined my DNA >project and >I'd love to be able to locate a Scruse in America to take the DNA >test as >well. > >Debbie Kennett >http://www.one-name.org/profiles/cruwys.html >http://cruwys.blogspot.com >http://www.familytreedna.com/public/CruwysDNA > > > > > Have information about Barbour County and want to share with others? >Send it to Margie Daniels to be added to the Barbour County site. > >For questions about this list, contact the list administrator at >[email protected] >------------------------------- >To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >[email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >quotes in the subject and the body of the message