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Joseph Rusche
Honor Code SignatorySigned 9 Nov 2019 | 3,924 contributions | 81 thank-yous | 443 connections
Hi There! Welcome to my Biography Page.
Geneology research is a hobby I've recently gotten into and has become one of my favorites. I never realized before all this how much one could learn about their geneology just with sources that are publically available.
Until about my 2nd Great-Grandparrents, my family has hailed from two areas of the country: Yazoo County, Mississippi and Marshal County West Virginia/Greene County, Pennsylvania. Before that, my family can be traced all up and down the east coast. I love learning about all parts of my family tree but particularly enjoy doing research on my Yazoo Side of the family. For whatever reason, Yazoo County has kept such great records and are easily found on the internet. Additionally, the Yazoo Hearald is very well archived and indexed over at newspapers.com which I enjoy browsing through immensely.
As part of my geneological reseach I've accumulated several books. I'd be happy to do look ups in these books for anybody who might want information from them. Just send me a message!
This week's featured connections are Redheads: Joseph is 20 degrees from Catherine of Aragón, 19 degrees from Clara Bow, 31 degrees from Julia Gillard, 16 degrees from Nancy Hart, 16 degrees from Rutherford Hayes, 16 degrees from Rita Hayworth, 23 degrees from Leonard Kelly, 23 degrees from Rose Leslie, 23 degrees from Damian Lewis, 18 degrees from Maureen O'Hara, 26 degrees from Jopie Schaft and 36 degrees from Eirik Thorvaldsson on our single family tree. Login to see how you relate to 33 million family members.
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