SAN DIEGO, CA
2026
RYSE­DORPH
FAMILY

Greetings from everywhere, Rysedorph family.

We're building rysedorph.com — one home for every branch of the family, wherever you've landed. It only works if it's actually built by all of us. Tell us what belongs on it.

To: Every Rysedorph, Everywhere, USA
From: Darren, San Diego, CA
Where we've landed

Same last name, eight different zip codes.

Clifton Park to San Diego, Knoxville to Ault — the Rysedorphs cover more ground than most family reunions can fit in one room. The website's job is to close that gap.

Clifton Park, NY Rensselaer, NY Knoxville, TN Birmingham, AL Atlanta, GA San Diego, CA Richmond, VA Ault, CO
What we're missing

Some starting prompts — steal one, or bring your own.

None of this is locked in. If you've got a better idea for a section, that's exactly the email we want.

family tree

Where we all come from

Who's related to who, how the branches split across states, and the family history nobody's written down yet.

recipes

The dishes worth keeping

Whatever gets made every Thanksgiving, whatever somebody's grandmother wouldn't write down — get it on paper before it's gone.

photo archive

Decades of photos, in one place

Instead of scattered across a dozen phones and photo boxes — a shared album, sorted however makes sense to you.

oral history

Ask an elder

Short interviews or written stories from Marion, Tom, Jim, and anyone else with the stories the rest of us haven't heard.

traditions

How each branch does the holidays

San Diego Christmas looks different from a Richmond one. Worth comparing notes.

wide open

Something we haven't thought of

A running in-joke archive, a map of who's visited who, a "where are they now" for the cousins — your call.

already-real content, just needs a home
  • The RFFL trophy room — champions on record: Ben ('23), Jimmy/Kelly ('24), Sam ('25)
  • The league bylaws, in full, for anyone who still hasn't read them
  • A proper hall of fame for team names like Ryse Against and Turd Sandwich 4 U
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