The following are the 50 or more count of surnames in the Norwood family lines. We have accumulated close to 13,500 descendents of Capt. John Norwood of Maryland and each year we add thousands. And we also don’t have all the branches input yet. Kinzie (50), Davis (53), Green (55), Gibbons (57), Gartrell (59), Hyatt (59), Darby (61), Miller (61), Purdum (61), VanSant (62), Mullinix (64), Falconer (65), Brown (66), Fahner (66), DeVilbiss (72), Thompson (86), Browning (87), King (87), Burdette (89), Hood (96), Mitchell (97), Beall (110), Ford (111), Baker (133), Conaway (134), Smith (134), Brandenburg (150), Hobbs (157), Ridgely (159), Bosley (167), Day (212), Wivell (221), Watkins (267), Moxley (295), Norwood (952) The 9th Annual Norwood Reunion is scheduled for the last Sunday of April, April 29th 2007. Check out the details at the website below—Frederick County Genealogical Society under Special Events. www.frecogs.com/SpecialEvents.htm Because so few of Capt. Norwood’s descendents carry his surname (only 952), this reunion has evolved into an “old families” of Maryland reunion especially the families of Frederick, Montgomery, Carroll, Howard--(the four corners area) and Anne Arundel. But we touch just about every other county in Maryland and Washington DC too! Do you have a relative who happens to have the first name or middle name of Norwood? Wonder where it came from? Maybe they are descendent from a female branch of Norwood. Do you have a great with no surname? My 6th great-grandmother was Elizabeth Norwood who married Nehemia Moxley. At past reunions I have met Beall and Watkins who are closer in relationships to me and we come from different Norwoods. PLEASE COME AND JOIN US—EVEN IF YOU ARE JUST A GENEALOGY FANATIC IN THE AREA. The rest of us are certifiably. The treatment is meeting others that are of like spirit. Jane Thursby All Maryland Thursby, Stinchecum, Seward, Claggett, McNamara, Cullison, Barnes, Watkins, Muckelroy, Jillard, Norwood, Benson, Snyder, Beall, Keith, Griffin, Oldner, Kennard, Davis Wheatley, Fell, White, Fallin, Kirkley, Musgrove, Hitchcock, Mullineaux, Merrick, Whelerig, Shipley