More about Uncle Robert "Bob" Norris

Here is Uncle Bob's obituary:


Robert Norris
July 12, 1926 - Jan. 20, 2010
ASHLAND - Robert Norris, 83, of New London, died Wednesday, January 20, 2010 at Hospice of North Central Ohio in Ashland. On July 12, 1926, Robert was born to the late Noble Richard and Nora Elva (nee Moore) Norris in Harrisville Twp. Robert served his country with honor in the Army while stationed in Germany during World Word II. Robert was a machinist and he worked for Leece Neville in Cleveland, the Permold in Medina and a machine shop in Greenwich. While living in Santee, SC, Robert and his wife, Wilma, managed a Best Western. Robert and Wilma were business oriented; together they owned White City Truck Stop in Sullivan, the Nova Corner Store and Bob’s Village Restaurant in New London. His patriotism continued after his military service, Robert worked at a Veterans Hospital in SC and was a proud member of the VFW. Survivors include his daughter, Treva (Jack) Novotny of New London; grandchildren, Tina Marie (Jim) DeLambo and Thomas R. (Becky) Reed, Jr. and 7 great grandchildren, Tony and Mandy DeLambo, Christopher, Robert "Cole", Trevor, Aaron and Austin Reed. He is also survived by his brother, Zeke Norris of Elyria and sisters, Sheila and Bobbie Norris. Robert was preceded in death by his wife, Wilma Jean Rice; brothers, Willard, George, Dave and Noby Norris and sister, Nancy Hiltebrenner. Friends and family will be received from 2 – 4 p.m. and 6 – 8 p.m. on Friday, January 22 at Eastman Funeral Home, 200 W. Main St., New London. Funeral services will be held on Saturday at 11 a.m. at the New London Alliance Church, 4625 St. Rte. 162 W, with Pastor Doug Lang officiating. Burial will follow at Greenlawn Cemetery, Greenwich.In memory of Robert, donations can be sent to Hospice of North Central Ohio, 1050 Dauch Dr., Ashland, OH 44805. Expressions of sympathy may be given at: www.eastmanfuneralhome.com.

This is from online at: http://www.norwalkreflector.com/articles/2010/01/21/news/obituaries/doc4b5875e29eb3e342742662.txt

Robert Norris passed away

My great uncle Robert Norris passed away a couple weeks ago in northeastern Ohio. He was the son of Noble Norris and Nora Moore. I will post more of the details later.

Beginning Genealogy Tips Lens on Squidoo

I have begun making lenses on Squidoo; please check it out and give me your honest opinion. This is the latest one and of course, it is a work in progress.

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Genealogy

Did a little on my stack of genealogy papers today. Still so many to go.

Entered the obituary of Marvin (Roy) Gift from Medina Co., Ohio.
He was the father of Marvin Gift that married my Aunt Juanita Brinker.
He was also the father of Pauline Gift that married my Uncle Clarence Tuneson Brinker (Grandma's brother) and then later married my Uncle Willard Norris (Grandpa's brother).

Organizing Family Photos

In another chapter of my ongoing organizational efforts, I am trying to get my family photos organized.

I am also an avid scrapbooker, so have some photos that are in scrapbooks. Most of the other photos have long since been removed from those destructive magnetic photo albums that were so popular in the 1970s. They absolutely will destroy your photos. These photos are stored in 3 photo boxes made specifically for photo storage. Originally I had divided the photos in the boxes, placing all of my dh's family pictures in one box, all my family's pictures in a second box; and then all of us and our children and grandchildren in the third box. This has gotten a little unorganized over time; since when the kids look through the boxes they see no need to return them to the proper box. I have also made an effort to label each photograph on its back. I include who is in the picture, where it was taken, when it was taken, any occasion that it may be of, etc. Again this is not 100% completed, as I occasionally find unlabeled photos in the boxes.

The biggest problem for organizing photos is trying to organize all the digital photos as they number into the 1000s. With digital cameras, no requiring any expensive developing, to see our images, we shoot infinitely more pictures. A birthday party now can have 200 photos; instead of the 24 that the roll of film limited us to.

Also being a genealogist, I have scanned 100s of family photographs from near and far family members.

The problem comes in labeling, organizing, and ultimately being able to easily and quickly locate a picture when I want it. And I admit that I am probably only doing a C- job of digital photo organization.

I have made many stabs at getting them organized. Some of my efforts have been:

1. I created a folder on my desktop that I named Pictures; and I drag all pictures on my computer into it. So that they are at least all in one place.
2. I have created subfolders in the Pictures folders in the following categories:

• Crafts - pictures of crafts I have done, or pictures of crafts I have seen that I would like to do or use for inspiration. There are sub-folders within this sub-folder for the various types of crafts I do; such as: Quilting, Crocheting, etc.
• I have a subfolder for each family surname that I research, and place all photos of that family in each folder. Within the Talbert folder I have a subfolder for each of my children, one for pets, one for places we go (trips, vacations, etc), one for reunions, etc.
• Scrapbooking - I am hugely obsessed with scrapbooking and have a massive folder with numerous subfolders about scrapbooking, such as: Sizzix, Cricut, Titles, Tags, Page Layouts, Pages I Have Done, Alphabets, Fonts, Borders, etc.

Now this may seem very organized but not really so much so. As there are 1000s of photos in there and there are many, many folders which are only labeled by the date that the computer imported them from the digital camera. Also when one of the kids stops by they pull their memory card out of their cameras and download a copy of all their photos onto my computer. Which is good because I have all the pictures and also good because they have a backup else where of their pictures. However, if they don't delete the photos from their camera after downloading to my computer; the next time they download it will download not only the new pictures they have taken since then, but they will redownload additional copies of the photos that were downloaded last time. This makes for tedious matching up to find the duplicates and delete them.

I guess, to put it into perspective. Yes, organizing is a necessary but tedious part of this; but that is only because we are blessed with the technology to save our littlest memories so easily. Our ancestors, would have priced as a priceless heirloom even one photo of that dear baby or of mother and father. So we are blessed, just overwhelmed. Like anything else, working on it bit by bit and having an organizational plan can help us get organized and remain organized.

Good luck with preserving those visual memories.

Ongoing Genealogy Organization

Since the dial-up internet at my house is as fast as an arthritic turtle on crutches; I am at my oldest son's and he has dsl; so I can actually post.
On the other hand, not being able to get online has helped with real life. My house is clean all the time.
I have been doing some major genealogy organizing lately. I have discovered that some of my old files haven't been touched since 1996-1999. Doesn't seem possible that it has been that long.
What I Have Accomplished
1. Have located all genealogy papers and notebooks.
2. Cleaned off 2 rows on the bookshelf and have all the genealogy research notebooks arranged on there.
3. Gathered all genealogy files on my computer and moved them all to a folder named "Genealogy".
4. Gathered all loose genealogy papers and sorted them by family name.
5. Took all sorted genealogy papers and placed them in plastic page protectors and stuck them in proper surname binder. At this point I simply want them in the right binder; I am not trying to deal with them another further than that. So I stick multiple papers in each page protector.
6. On the computer I opened the Genealogy folder and made a subfolder for each surname that I am researching plus a subfolder titled "Organization". Then I moved each file into the appropriate subfolder. On a side note, some of these files have not been accessed since 1996-1999.
7. Now that the files are organized and the notebooks in place; when I have a few minutes to work on the genealogy; I either open a file and work on entering the information from the file into my genealogy database program or pick a paper and enter that information.
Ongoing Plans for my Genealogy
1. Eventually, all the random papers in the page protectors in the genealogy research binders need to be entered into the genealogy database program.
2. All the information in the random genealogy files in the Genealogy folder and subfolders needs to be entered into the genealogy database program.
3. Once all this hard, boring, and tedious paperwork and files are organized and entered into the genealogy database program then I can get back to the fun part which is the research and actually finding the missing pieces.
Inspiration and Guidance
Dear Myrt genealogy column has a monthly genealogical organizational advice post that is most helpful to getting your genealogical life / business in order. Just google Dear Myrt + genealogy; and I am sure that you will find her most helpful.

Organization or Lack Thereof - Argh!!

I seem to be on an unending quest for organization.

I need to organize:

• my scrapbook supplies - I literally have more than many small stores - I am blessed to have all this but it needs to be organized to be utilized.
• 20+ years of genealogy research - I have almost stopped researching because I need to get a handle on the boxes and computer files I have already made. I still have genealogy in old word-processing files from before I bought my first genealogy management software.
• growing rubber stamp collection - so I won't buy duplicates and so I can find and use what I have bought
• large personal library which includes reading for fun books, craft books, cook books, reference books, etc
• photos - boxes and boxes of photos and according to my computer I have over 19,000!?!? digital photos.
• fabric - I am a quilter - therefore I have lots of fabric.
• paper - oh my! scrapbook paper, cardstock, vellum, chipboard, and not to mention that I adore stationary. I love paper and can't stand to waste it.

These are just the first things that come to mind. I have made many attempts at organizing each of these areas; but seemingly before I can blink they are out of control again.

Of course, life, and having 7 children and 7 grandchildren and 1 on the way complicates things, lol. But they are happy interruptions.

Dreary January Days Can Be Inspiring

The weather is blah. And everyone is kind of in recovery mode from the holidays. It is easy to fall into what I call the winter blahs -- no nice weather, not much sun [at least where I live], short days, and cold, wet, ice, rain, snow, sleet. YUCK!

So what do I do to combat that? I have my projects, such as:

organizing and / or decluttering closets, drawers, filing cabinets, etc.

filing papers

updating my genealogy - adding all those little treasures that are fun to find, but tedious to enter into the genealogy database program

In other words, it the task is too boring, tedious, or mundane for funner [is that a word, really?] days, it helps to pass the time now. And by the time you got everything in order and tidy, it will be close to spring, glorious spring!

Familysearch.org Has Added New Records

http://www.familysearch.org/ (Click Search Records, then Record Search pilot).

Arizona Death Certificates
265,726 Indexed Records
264,534 Digital Images
New

West Virginia Births
242,781 Indexed Records
Ten new counties added

West Virginia Deaths
402,154 Indexed Records
Ten new counties added

West Virginia Marriages
393,867 Indexed Records
Ten new counties added

1900 United States Census
826,030 Indexed Records
Added Indian Territory

Genealogy Organization

I have been following the Dear Myrt column online since the mid 90s. Now Ol' Myrt has revised and updated her famous get organized checklist. It is now in .pdf format.

Regardless of whether you have just started genealogy today or have been doing it for decades you are some to find her advice helpful.

http://blog.dearmyrtle.com/2009/01/finally-get-organized-jan-2009.html

Norris Genealogy

Been working on my Norris genealogy lately; thanks to being contacted by a cousin.

Uncle Chester Norris and his brother, John Quincy Norris married sisters, Connie Rachel Ball and Ida Rebecca Ball.

Grandpa Noble Norris and brother William Norris also married sisters, Nora Elva Moore and Margaine Moore.

All these Norris boys were the sons of George Norris and Nancy Wilson.

Connie and Ida were the daughters of Hugh Ball and Amanda Jackson.

Nora and Margaine (aka Gaine) were the daughters of John B. Moore, Jr. and Emma Viola Judd.

Addressing Christmas Cards and Family History

It is time we start working on finishing up the Christmas newsletter and getting the Christmas cards ready to send messages of love to our family friends, both near and far.

As you are doing that, if you remember new facts about your family; quickly open up your genealogy management program; and add them. New marriage add it. New baby, add them. Don't worry that you don't have complete details now. Add what you know and then when you find more, you can go back in and edit it. Don't forget that after Christmas presents are open and dinner is served, is a good time to reminisce and you can do some updating then, if you remember to take along some information. A little planning now; will reap rewards later.