Public Family Trees/Jackson/Michael Joseph Jackson
Michael Joseph Jackson
1958 - 2009 Β· Male Β· Gary, Indiana, United States
Son of Joseph Jackson and Katherine Jackson
3
Generation
6
Ancestors
3
Descendants
3
Children
2
Marriages
Family Snapshot
Expand full treeMichael Joseph Jackson
1958 - 2009
Spouse
2 children
Spouse
No children recorded
Other children
1 child
Biography
Michael Joseph Jackson (August 29, 1958 β June 25, 2009) was an American singer, songwriter, dancer, and philanthropist, celebrated worldwide as the "King of Pop." He began his career as the lead singer of The Jackson 5 before becoming one of the most successful solo artists in music history. His landmark albums, including Off the Wall, Thriller, Bad, Dangerous, and HIStory, transformed pop music and broke global salβ¦
Photos of Michael Joseph Jackson
1 photo from the Jackson family album
Have old family photos? Give every relative a profile and a photo gallery in your own family tree.
Start your tree, freeLife Timeline
Family
Married Lisa Marie Presley
A partnership that connects two branches of the Jackson family.
Next Generation
Family line continues
3 children recorded in this branch.
Legacy
Singer, Songwriter and Dancer
A defining role in the story of the Jackson family.
Died2009
Died
The close of a life whose connections continue through the family record.
Your turn
Map your own family the way Michael's is mapped
Free, with no sign-up to start. Add yourself, then your parents and grandparents, and watch the tree grow.
More people in the Jackson family tree
View all 106 peopleTariano Adaryll Jackson
Gen 4 Β· b. 1973
Known as Taj Jackson, he is the eldest son of Tito Jackson and a member of the musical group 3T.
Autumn Joi Jackson
Gen 4 Β· b. 1978
Autumn Joi Jackson (born July 10, 1978) is a member of the famous Jackson family, best known as the only daughter of Jermaine Jackson of The Jackson 5 and Hazel Gordy, daughter of Motown founder Berry Gordy. As the niece of Michael Jackson, Janet Jackson, and other members of the Jackson musical dynasty, Autumn grew up surrounded by one of entertainment's most influential families. Unlike many of her relatives, she has chosen a private life away from the spotlight and entertainment industry. She is married to businessman Narinder Singh and has largely remained out of public view, focusing on family and personal life.
Jaafar Jeremiah Jackson
Gen 4 Β· b. 1996
Son of Jermaine Jackson and Alejandra Oaziaza. He portrays his uncle Michael Jackson in the 2026 biographical film Michael.
Tariana Katherine Jackson
Gen 4 Β· b. 2020
Tariana Katherine Jackson, also known as Tiki Jackson, is the daughter of Tito Jackson and Mizuki Matsui. Born in 2020, she is a member of the renowned Jackson family and granddaughter of Katherine Jackson. As one of the youngest members of the musical dynasty, she has largely remained away from the public spotlight.
Luther Jackson
Gen 2 Β· 1935 - 2021
Son of Samuel and Crystal Jackson and brother of Joe Jackson. He performed with Joe in the Falcons.
Stacee Brown
Gen 4 Β· b. 1971
Daughter of Rebbie Jackson and Nathaniel Brown.
Taryll Adren Jackson
Gen 4 Β· b. 1975
Son of Tito Jackson and Delores Martes and a member of 3T.
Verna Jackson
Gen 2 Β· 1930 - 1937
Daughter of Samuel and Crystal Jackson and sister of Joseph Walter Jackson.
Hattie Scruse
Gen 2 Β· 1931 - 1979
Younger sister of Katherine Jackson and daughter of Prince Albert Scruse and Martha Upshaw.
Lula Jackson-Hawkins
Gen 2 Β· 1932 - 2018
Daughter of Samuel and Crystal Jackson and sister of Joseph Walter Jackson. She married Billy R. Hawkins.
Lawrence Jackson
Gen 2 Β· 1933 - 2017
Son of Samuel and Crystal Jackson and brother of Joseph Walter Jackson.
Related Family Stories
Stuart Family Tree - The House of Stuart from Mary, Queen of Scots to Bonnie Prince Charlie
The House of Stuart was the royal dynasty that ruled Scotland from 1371 and both Scotland and England from 1603 until 1714, giving Britain fourteen monarchs from Robert II to Queen Anne as well as the Jacobite claimants who carried its cause into exile. Spelled Stewart in Scotland and Stuart after Mary, Queen of Scots adopted the French form, the family holds the unusual distinction of having united two crowns by inheritance rather than conquest, and of ending in a disputed succession that reshaped the British constitution. ## Origins The family took its name from its office. The Stewarts were hereditary High Stewards of Scotland, a post granted in the twelfth century to a Breton house settled in Renfrewshire. In 1315 Walter Stewart, 6th High Steward, married Marjorie Bruce, daughter of King Robert the Bruce. Their son became Robert II in 1371 when the direct Bruce line failed, and the stewardship turned into a crown. For more than two centuries afterwards the Stewarts ruled Scotland alone, through a run of reigns cut short by battle, captivity and long royal minorities that left the nobility unusually powerful. ## Notable members James IV, the most cultivated of the Scottish kings, married Margaret Tudor in 1503 and so planted the claim that would carry his descendants to the English throne. His granddaughter Mary, Queen of Scots became queen at six days old, reigned briefly and turbulently, and was deposed in 1567 and executed in England twenty years later. Her son, James VI of Scotland, inherited the English crown in 1603 as James I and became the first monarch to rule both kingdoms. His son Charles I lost the Civil Wars and his throne; Charles II returned at the Restoration in 1660; James II and VII was deposed in the Revolution of 1688, after which his daughters Mary II and Anne reigned in his place. In exile his son James Francis Edward Stuart and grandson Charles Edward Stuart, remembered as Bonnie Prince Charlie, led the Jacobite attempts to recover the throne, ending with the rising of 1745. ## Significance No other British dynasty changed the shape of the state so much. The Stuarts brought Scotland and England under one sovereign, presided over the King James Bible and the theatre of Shakespeare's late career, lost a king to Parliament, and provoked the settlements of 1689 and 1701 that made the monarchy answerable to Parliament and Protestant by statute. When Queen Anne died childless in 1714, the crown passed under the Act of Settlement to the descendants of her cousin Sophia of Hanover, granddaughter of James VI and I, so every British monarch since is still a Stuart descendant. | Fact | Details | | --- | --- | | Founder | Robert II, King of Scots from 1371 | | Ruled | Scotland 1371 to 1714; England and Ireland 1603 to 1714 | | Origin | Renfrewshire, Scotland | | Union of the Crowns | 1603, under James VI of Scotland and I of England | | Last reigning monarch | Anne, Queen of Great Britain, died 1714 | | Jacobite claimants | James Francis Edward, Charles Edward and Henry Benedict Stuart | | Succeeded by | The House of Hanover, through Sophia of Hanover |
Hohenzollern Family Tree - Prussia's Royal House from Frederick the Great to Kaiser Wilhelm II
The House of Hohenzollern is the German dynasty that ruled Brandenburg from 1415, held the Prussian crown from 1701, and gave Germany its three emperors between 1871 and the fall of the monarchy in 1918. This tree follows the senior Prussian line in one unbroken descent, from Frederick William the Great Elector, through the kings of Prussia and the German Emperors, down to Georg Friedrich, Prince of Prussia, the present head of the house. ## Origins The family takes its name from Hohenzollern Castle on a hill in the Swabian Alb, where a line of counts is recorded from the eleventh century. A Swabian Zollern married into the burgraviate of Nuremberg in 1192, and the Franconian branch that grew from it spent two centuries accumulating lands and credit with the Holy Roman Emperors. The decisive moment came in 1415, when Emperor Sigismund invested Frederick VI of Nuremberg as Elector of Brandenburg in return for his political and financial support. The Duchy of Prussia, a separate inheritance lying outside the Empire, passed to the Brandenburg electors in 1618, and Frederick William, the Great Elector, welded the two into a single functioning state after the devastation of the Thirty Years' War. ## Notable members Frederick I turned the electorate into a kingdom in 1701. His son Frederick William I, the Soldier King, built the army and the treasury that his own son, **Frederick the Great**, used to seize Silesia and to make Prussia a European power, while also composing music, building Sanssouci and corresponding with Voltaire. **Queen Louise** became the emotional centre of Prussian resistance to Napoleon. **Wilhelm I**, with Otto von Bismarck as his minister president, was proclaimed German Emperor at Versailles in 1871. His son **Frederick III** and the liberal English princess he married, Victoria, daughter of Queen Victoria, reigned for only ninety nine days. **Wilhelm II**, the last Kaiser, abdicated in 1918 and died in Dutch exile in 1941. ## Significance No other German family shaped the modern state so directly. Hohenzollern rulers created the Prussian civil service, compulsory schooling and the general staff, sponsored the Berlin academies and the Humboldt university model, and then used Prussian power to unify Germany around themselves. The monarchy ended with the revolution of November 1918, but the house continues as a private family: the headship passed from Wilhelm II to his eldest son, then to Louis Ferdinand, and in 1994 to Georg Friedrich, whose own father and uncles are part of the succession story told in this tree. ## Quick facts | Fact | Details | |---|---| | Family name | Hohenzollern | | Place of origin | Hohenzollern Castle, Swabia, southern Germany | | Ruled | Brandenburg from 1415, Prussia from 1618, Germany from 1871 | | Royal title | King in Prussia from 1701, King of Prussia from 1772 | | Imperial title | German Emperor, 1871 to 1918 | | German Emperors | Wilhelm I, Frederick III, Wilhelm II | | Monarchy ended | 9 November 1918 | | Present head of the house | Georg Friedrich, Prince of Prussia, since 1994 | | Principal residences | Berlin City Palace, Sanssouci and Cecilienhof at Potsdam, Charlottenburg | | Branch shown here | The senior Prussian line only, not Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen |
Kennedy Family Tree - America's Political Dynasty
The Kennedy family is an Irish American political dynasty from Boston, Massachusetts, whose members have included the 35th President of the United States, three United States senators, four congressmen, several ambassadors, and the founders of the Peace Corps and the Special Olympics. Across four documented generations the family moved from a County Wexford farm to the White House, and its name became shorthand in American public life for both political ambition and public service. ## Origins The American line begins with Patrick Kennedy, a farmer's son from Dunganstown, near New Ross in County Wexford, who emigrated to East Boston during the Great Famine. His son, Patrick Joseph "P. J." Kennedy (1858 to 1929), built a livelihood in the liquor and banking trades and served in both houses of the Massachusetts legislature, becoming one of the Democratic ward leaders who ran the city's Irish Catholic politics. On the other side stood John Francis "Honey Fitz" Fitzgerald (1863 to 1950), congressman and twice Mayor of Boston. The two families joined in 1914 when P. J.'s son Joseph P. Kennedy Sr. married Honey Fitz's daughter Rose Fitzgerald. Their nine children, raised between Brookline, Bronxville and the compound at Hyannis Port on Cape Cod, form the generation the world knows. ## Notable members John F. Kennedy served as President from 1961 until his death in 1963, having previously represented Massachusetts in the House and Senate. His brother Robert F. Kennedy was Attorney General, then Senator from New York, and a candidate for the presidency in 1968. Their youngest brother Edward "Ted" Kennedy sat in the United States Senate for almost 47 years and was one of the most productive legislators of his era. The eldest son, Joseph P. Kennedy Jr., was a naval aviator killed on a volunteer mission in 1944. Away from elected office, Eunice Kennedy Shriver founded the Special Olympics, her husband Sargent Shriver created the Peace Corps and Head Start, and Jean Kennedy Smith founded the arts and disability organisation VSA before serving as United States Ambassador to Ireland. The following generations have produced congressmen, a lieutenant governor, ambassadors, documentary filmmakers, human rights advocates and journalists. ## Significance No other American family has combined electoral success, philanthropy and public visibility on this scale for so long. The Kennedys shaped the civil rights era, the space programme, immigration reform, health care legislation and the modern understanding of disability rights, and their private losses were mourned publicly in a way usually reserved for royalty. The Kennedy Library in Boston, the Kennedy Center in Washington and dozens of schools and institutions carry the name. | Fact | Details | | --- | --- | | Family name | Kennedy | | Irish origin | Dunganstown, County Wexford, Ireland | | American home | Boston and Hyannis Port, Massachusetts | | Founding couple | Patrick Joseph Kennedy and Mary Augusta Hickey | | Best known member | John F. Kennedy, 35th President of the United States | | Generations covered | Four | | Offices held | Presidency, US Senate, US House, ambassadorships, state office | | Institutions founded | Peace Corps, Special Olympics, Best Buddies, Citizens Energy |
Plantagenet Family Tree - The House of Plantagenet from Henry II to Richard III
The House of Plantagenet was the royal dynasty that ruled England for 331 years, from the accession of Henry II in 1154 to the death of Richard III at the Battle of Bosworth in 1485, making it the longest-reigning royal house in English history. Fourteen Plantagenet kings held the throne in unbroken succession, and in the fifteenth century the family's two junior branches, the houses of Lancaster and York, fought each other for the crown in the civil wars later known as the Wars of the Roses. ## Origins The dynasty came from Anjou in western France. Geoffrey V, Count of Anjou, is said to have worn a sprig of broom, *planta genista*, in his cap, and from that nickname the family eventually took its name, although it was not used as an actual surname until Richard, 3rd Duke of York, adopted it in the 1440s. Geoffrey's marriage in 1128 to Empress Matilda, daughter and designated heir of Henry I of England, gave their son a claim to the English throne that he made good in 1154. With Normandy and Anjou behind him, and Aquitaine gained through his marriage to Eleanor of Aquitaine, Henry II ruled lands reaching from the Scottish border to the Pyrenees, the assemblage historians call the Angevin Empire. ## Notable members The early, or Angevin, kings are among the most familiar names in English history: Henry II, whose itinerant justices and sworn juries laid the foundations of the common law; Richard the Lionheart, a leading commander of the Third Crusade; and King John, who sealed Magna Carta at Runnymede in 1215. Henry III rebuilt Westminster Abbey, Edward I conquered Wales and summoned the Model Parliament, and Edward III opened the Hundred Years' War and founded the Order of the Garter. Later generations produced Edward the Black Prince, the victor of Poitiers, Henry V of Agincourt, and Richard III, whose lost grave was rediscovered in Leicester in 2012. ## Lancaster and York Edward III's many sons divided the dynasty. From his third surviving son, John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster, came Henry IV, Henry V and Henry VI, and, through Gaunt's Beaufort children, Margaret Beaufort and her son Henry VII. From his fourth son, Edmund of Langley, Duke of York, combined with the senior Mortimer descent from his second son, Lionel of Antwerp, came Richard, 3rd Duke of York, and his sons Edward IV and Richard III. The rivalry of those branches produced thirty years of intermittent civil war, ending when Henry Tudor defeated Richard III at Bosworth and married Elizabeth of York, uniting the red and white roses. ## Significance No other family has shaped English institutions so deeply. Under the Plantagenets, Magna Carta became a settled principle, parliament grew from an occasional royal council into a body whose consent was needed for taxation, the common law took its enduring form, and English displaced French as the language of the court. Their castles, abbeys and cathedrals still define the medieval landscape of England and Wales. | Fact | Details | | --- | --- | | Ruled | England, 1154 to 1485 | | Founder | Henry II, son of Geoffrey V of Anjou and Empress Matilda | | Place of origin | Anjou, France | | Kings | Fourteen, from Henry II to Richard III | | Branches | Angevin, Lancaster, York | | Emblems | The broom flower, the red rose of Lancaster, the white rose of York | | Last king | Richard III, killed at Bosworth in 1485 | | Legacy | Magna Carta, English common law, the growth of parliament |
Frequently Asked Questions
Who were Michael Joseph Jackson's parents?+β
Michael Joseph Jackson's recorded parents are Joseph Jackson, Katherine Jackson.
Who were Michael Joseph Jackson's children?+β
Michael Joseph Jackson has 3 recorded children: Michael Joseph Jackson Jr., Paris-Michael Katherine Jackson, Prince Michael II Jackson.
Who did Michael Joseph Jackson marry?+β
Michael Joseph Jackson was married to Lisa Marie Presley, Debbie Rowe.
Who were Michael Joseph Jackson's siblings?+β
Michael Joseph Jackson has 11 recorded siblings: Maureen Reillette Brown, Sigmund Esco Jackson, Jermaine La Juane Jackson, DontΓ© William Jackson, La Toya Yvonne Jackson, Brandon Jackson, Marlon David Jackson, Steven Randall Jackson, Joh'Vonnie Nakia Jackson, Janet Damita Jo Jackson, Toriano Adaryll Jackson.
What did Michael Joseph Jackson do?+β
Michael Joseph Jackson is recorded as Singer, Songwriter and Dancer in the Jackson family tree.
Where was Michael Joseph Jackson from?+β
Michael Joseph Jackson's recorded native place is Gary, Indiana, United States.
How many relatives of Michael Joseph Jackson are recorded?+β
6 ancestors and 3 descendants of Michael Joseph Jackson are recorded so far, within a tree of 106 people.
How is Michael Joseph Jackson related to Samuel Jackson?+β
Michael Joseph Jackson is recorded as Samuel Jackson's Grandson.
What family tree does Michael Joseph Jackson belong to?+β
Michael Joseph Jackson is recorded in the Jackson family tree on My rOoOts, alongside 105 other people.
Every family has a story. Start telling yours.
Trace Michael Joseph Jackson's connections across the Jacksontree, or begin preserving your own family's history today.
Free. Private by default. GEDCOM export any time.