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