Records of Richard Norris on Ancestry

Ancestry is a major source of information if you are filling out the detail of Richard Norris in your family tree. Many large databases are available to search covering from births, deaths and marriages, military records, census records and immigration records with many other smaller collections too. Free trials are normally available and are a good way to fill out a lot of your tree quickly.

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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for Richard Norris and the Norris Genealogy

Birth, Death and Marriage records are often the best method of making the links to the Norris 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 Norris family tree.

Investigate Parish Records for Richard Norris at Find My Past.

Explore for the UK registered births, marriages and deaths of Richard Norris using the FreeBMD database.

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Explore the LDS Database for records about Richard Norris.

Research the Norris surname using fold3 Military Archives and view images of original Norris Military records.

ukDid you know that there are currently 17754 people with the Norris surname in the UK? Norris is now ranked number 305 for popularity in the UK.

Norris Family Tree Databases

Another way to build your tree quickly is to use the research other people have already done. This can help to confirm or refute your own deductions - however, be wary of taking this data at face value as other researchers may not have been as meticulous as you. Always try to back up deductions with some definitive sources rather than relying too heavily on others.

Look at the WikiTree database for user contributed records for Richard Norris.

Study MyTrees for information on the Norris family and people looking to contact living Norris relations.

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Norris Forums

There are a number of forums which are dedicated to rearching particular surnames. These can be good places to share your findings and also to tap into the knowledge that others may already have. These can sometimes be a good way of finding living relations as these tend not to show up on the other sources of information for privacy reasons.

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ukDid you know that there are currently 106339 people with the Norris surname in the USA? Norris is ranked number 122 for popularity in the USA.

Miscellaneous Norris Databases

Study the Ellis Island Database for information on Richard Norris. This database contains over 25 million immigration records detailing passengers arriving in the United States of America.

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Some Famous People called Richard Norris

Richard Norris (musician)

Richard Norris was born 23 June 1965 and is a London-based record producer, song writer, sound engineer, musician, DJ and author. He is best known as a member of electronic dance band The Grid. Richard has also worked as a producer and engineer since the 80s with artists such as: Bryan Ferry, Genesis Breyer P-Orridge, Marc Almond, Joe Strummer and the Pet Shop Boys.

Norris began making music as a teenage member of St. Albans punk band Innocent Vicars. Vicars recorded two singles in 1980: "Antimatter" and "Funky Town" for the independent No Brain Records. Norris started working in the music industry as the label manager for the British psychedelic record label Bam Caruso before becoming a writer for NME in 1987.

Source: Richard Norris (musician), Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia

Other names that sound a bit like Norris

Family names can get corrupted over time, particularly where literacy was not as good. The following list contains some names that have similar sounds so you may want to also look at one or two of the more likely possibilites.

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