Richard Arthur Norton (1958- ) biography

Ancestry
Richard Norton is 50% Irish; 25% German; 12.5% Swedish; and 12.5% Norwegian.

Birth
Richard was born in Paramus, New Jersey in 1958.

Movies
The first movie I saw that was not at a drive-in was maybe in Ridgewood, New Jersey. My dad took me to see Robbery by director Peter Yates in 1967. I was nine years old and was amazed that we were going to a movie and it was still light outside. We walked into a building, I thought we were just going there to get a snack. It was amazing to me, even though the movie was not that memorable. I only remember a train conductor getting hit in the head and the robbers throwing bags of cash off the train.

Education and career:
Richard went to Montclair University and later Rutgers University gaining a Masters Degree in Chemistry. He worked at most of the major pharmaceutical companies and spent seven years at Merck in Rahway, New Jersey.

Genealogy
He started work in genealogy in 1987 for the death of his maternal grandmother, when he made a list of cousins and later wrote it up in Microsoft Word on his Macintosh computer. He found living relatives in Sweden and in Norway. He is still searching for living relatives in Alsace, Germany, and Ireland.