Norfolk Record Office

Information Leaflets

These brief notes designed to help you plan your visit to our searchroom rather than provide a step-by-step how-to guide.

  1. Price List (pdf)
  2. Research and Copying Service (pdf)
  3. Record Searchers using Norfolk Records (pdf)
  4. How to cite NRO references (pdf)
  5. Advice on books and documents at home (pdf)
  6. Records available on Microform (pdf)
  7. Parish Registers available on Microfiche (pdf)
  8. Tracing your Family Tree (pdf)
  9. Tracing the History of Your House (pdf)
  10. Tracing the History of a Parsonage (pdf)
  11. Researching a Clergyman (pdf)
  12. Researching a Norfolk Parish Church (pdf)
  13. Researching Ancestors from Abroad (pdf)
  14. Researching Ancestors transported to Australia (pdf)
  15. St Andrew's Hospital Patient Records (pdf)
  16. Nurse Edith Cavell (1865-1915) (pdf)
  17. Summary of pre-1835 City of Norwich Records (pdf)
  18. Was your ancestor from Great Yarmouth? (pdf)
  19. Summary of the Great Yarmouth Borough Archives (pdf)
  20. Key dates in the history of Great Yarmouth (pdf)
  21. Great Yarmouth Borough Charters (pdf)
  22. The Freedom of the Borough of Great Yarmouth (pdf)
  23. Great Yarmouth Market (pdf)
  24. Historians of Great Yarmouth (pdf)
  25. Old Yarmouth in Maps and Plans (pdf)
  26. Great Yarmouth Town Wall (pdf)
  27. Yarmouth Cinemas, Theatres and other entertainment (pdf)
  28. Great Yarmouth Maritime Sources (pdf)
  29. Crimes and Trials in Great Yarmouth (pdf)
  30. Some Famous Great Yarmouth Inhabitants (pdf)
  31. Great Yarmouth Hospitals and related Institutions (pdf)
  32. Schools in Great Yarmouth (pdf)
  33. Gorleston, Southtown and Runham Vauxhall (pdf)
  34. Consulting King's Lynn Archives (pdf)
  35. Summary of King's Lynn Archives (pdf)
  36. King's Lynn History of House (pdf)
  37. King's Lynn Family History (pdf)
  38. Norwich Children's Homes (pdf)
  39. The Orphans' Home, Norwich (pdf)
  40. Adoption Records (pdf)
  41. Prisons and Prisoners in Norfolk (pdf)
  42. Parish Council Records (pdf)
  43. Parish Records and the Norfolk Record Office (pdf)
  44. Parish Records less than 100 years old: their preservation and care (pdf)
  45. Parish Registers (pdf)
  46. Archdeacons' and Bishop's Transcripts (pdf)
  47. Cemetery records and monumental inscriptions (pdf)
  48. Marriage Licence Bonds (pdf)
  49. Reading Dates and Numbers in Latin and English Documents (pdf)
  50. Adding to Norfolk's Archives (pdf)
  51. Norfolk Children’s Homes and Children in Care from 1834 (pdf)
  52. Great Yarmouth Children’s Homes and Children in Care from 1834 (pdf)
  53. Records of the Registrar General of Seamen and Shipping (pdf)
  54. General conditions for digitization projects by community groups and societies using NRO sources (pdf)
  55. Guidance on the Preservation and Care of School Records (pdf)
  56. Exhibiting Archives in Norfolk Parish Churches (pdf)

Updated: May 2004