MDDORCHE-L Archives

Archiver > MDDORCHE > 2004-05 > 1084628171


From: "Jane Thursby" <>
Subject: Norwood Reunion A Big Success
Date: Sat, 15 May 2004 09:36:11 -0400


I just thought I would tell everyone how the reunion went.

We had 70 people attend and most were new people. Some of the regular
couldn’t come this year but this still made for a record.

Many new Norwood connections were made and many of these Norwood’s came with
pictures and detailed information.

The chart we had was 30 feet long and took 4 tables to lay it out. This
only represented 1 child of Belt Norwood’s 13 children, Thomas M. Norwood.
We determined that it would take 12 of these charts (each thirty feet long)
to list everyone from Capt John Norwood on. Now that we have added so many
new branches it may take more.

Next year we will have more charts. Kitty needs to get all the data entered
and sent to me and I will start getting them created and printed.

What made this reunion very special to me was that Norman Lilly came. As it
turned out, he is a Watkins researcher primarily and we are second cousins.
He accidentally left one of his books of information and it was my pleasure
to take it to him on the next Saturday. He has done a wonder job of
untangling the many errors and problems in the currently published Watkins
books. I am so glad he gave up a Sunday and came. We will be in contact
very often now.

I always tell people to attend reunions of families that have married
heavily into your family. I have done this to three different reunions and
have found many cousins closer in relations than the individual for whom the
reunion is. My 6th great-grandmother is a Norwood but Norman and I are much
closer.

We decided that from now on the Norwood reunion would be on the LAST SUNDAY
OF APRIL. Next year that makes it April 24, 2005. Put it on your calendar
NOW. Many people told us they could have come if they had had more notice.
NOW THIS IS NOTICE.

Please come next year. Who knows we may get to meet a second cousin you
were not expecting. Thanks Norman.

Jane Thursby
From England to Maryland by the early 1700's and still Maryland.

Researching

Thursby, Stinchecum, Seward, Clag(g)ett, McNamara, Barnes, Muckelroy,
Watkins, Kennard, Snyder, Griffin, Benson, Cullison, Shipley, Beall, White,
Wheatly, Mullineaux, Lee, Norris, Waugh, Oldner, Davis, Sasscer, Fell,
Purdum, Benton, Moxley, Norwood, Lewis, Tydings, Lamb, Gassaway, Holland

Also through George Schaffer (Chip):

Schaffer, Appel, Dinsmore, Fischer, Yeagle, Suman, Soellner, Franz, Baker,
Albert, Miller, Buzzard, Kitzmiller, Loeb, Stougel, Rohr, Turner, Wilson,
Schichadanz


This thread: