For folks who were part of the MHS Class of '68, there is a collection of genealogies here:
wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?db=mishawaka68

For more than 220 people from the MHS Class of '68, there is information about their ancestors at that link. For some, there is little more than the name of a parent. For others, the information extends for several generations.

Names are visible only for the dead and for those born before 1925.

The database is the result of three projects:

1. Research to find valid addresses for all from the MHS Class of 1968.
2. Genealogy research done for Dawn Housand and for Judy Greenlee.
3. An ongoing collection of obituaries since 1998, found here: MHS '68 obits

After those three projects, there was enough information that it deserved to be saved and added to.

The database was created with information from these public sources:

• 1967-68 MHS student directory.
• Obituaries published in the South Bend Tribune.
• St. Joseph Co. marriage index, 1927-1954.
• Social Security Death Index
• St. Joseph Co. Public Library obit index.
• Obits at St. Joseph Co. genealogy web site, maintained by Sharon Gill (MHS '68).
• Indiana State Library's database for marriages through 1850.
• U.S. censuses, state censuses, draft registration cards, military records, immigration records, and other records and information found at ancestry.com.

The people who made up the Mishawaka High School Class of 1968 have many relationships and intermarriages. Among the group, there are seven siblings sets, an aunt and niece combo, ten sets of first cousins, one woman who is first-cousin once-removed to four people from the class, at least one set of 2nd cousins, and a gaggle of folks who are cousins beyond the 2nd-cousin level. There are twenty people from the MHS '68 group who are married to classmates; i.e., ten woman from MHS '68 are married to ten men from MHS '68. There is one widowed couple; they married young, and she died soon after they married. There are another six couples from MHS '68 who married, had children, and have since divorced, but there remains the connection through their children and grandchildren. There are at least eight sets of in-laws or former in-laws (sisters-in-law and brothers-inlaw). The children of at least two women from the class have married, and now those two old high-school classmates are grandmothers of the same children. One man's daughter is married to another man's nephew. No doubt there are other relationships also.

The information was evaluated based on what was available. However, there may be data entry errors, and there may be incorrect conclusions. If you find errors, please email AliceMarieBeard@gmualumni.com.