Researching Gerald North
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The name Gerald means "Spear Warrior" and is of Teutonic origin.
Records of Gerald North on Ancestry
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DNA
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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for Gerald North and the North Genealogy
Birth, Death and Marriage records are often the best method of making the links to the North Genealogy that will form part of your family tree. Although records vary from country to country, they are normally the most formal record of a person's relations. From the sources below you will be able to find a birth record and, from that, a birth certificate can be ordered which lists the names of the mother and father, taking you back another generation in your tree. A marriage certificate may also list the names of the respective fathers of the bride and groom which may then help you to find them earlier in life on a census record enabling you to fill out more detail in the North family tree.
Check out Parish Records for Gerald North at Find My Past.
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North Family History Databases
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North Forums
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Search the Ellis Island Database for information on Gerald North. This database contains over 25 million immigration records detailing passengers arriving in the United States of America.
Some Famous People called Gerald North
Gerald North
Gerald R. North (June 28, 1938 – ) is Distinguished Professor and Holder of the Harold J. Haynes Endowed Chair in Geosciences at Texas A&M University, and previous Head of the Department of Atmospheric Sciences. His interests include climate change using simplified climate models.
North was born in Sweetwater, Tennessee to Sanford and Marjorie Hill North. He grew up in nearby Knoxville and received his Bachelor's Degree in physics from the University of Tennessee. In 1966, he earned a Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Wisconsin–Madison. After a two year post-doc at the University of Pennsylvania, he obtained a tenure track position at the University of Missouri-St. Louis leading to full professor. He spent 1974–75 as a Senior Visiting Scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research. He moved to NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in 1978 where he was the initial proposer and first Study Scientist for the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission. He joined Texas A&M University in 1986.
In 2005 to 2006 he chaired a United States National Research Council committee investigating surface temperature reconstructions for the last 2,000 years, set up at the request of Representative Sherwood Boehlert, chairman of the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Science. Their report, published in July 2006, is known as the North Report. He is the 2008 recipient of the Jule Charney Award of the American Meteorological Society.
His sons, Joel North and Paul North, play in the Denton, Texas based indie band Sleep Whale on Western Vinyl records.
He lives in College Station, Texas with his wife Laura.
His Memoir The Rise of Climate Science was released in Spring 2021
Source: Gerald North, Wikipedia, The Free EncyclopediaOther names that sound a bit like North
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