This page contains a number of links and addresses which we think users of our collections may find of interest. They are not in any particular order and the links are generally only to the organisation home page.
If any links are out of date or otherwise inaccurate, please e-mail us. (Please note the Norfolk Record Office is not responsible for the accuracy of the information contained on the pages and sites listed below.)
- The National
Archives holds the records of central government departments
and other semi-public bodies.
There are many resources for the family and local historian available from this site such as:
- leaflets.
- Prerogative Court of Canterbury wills, 14th century-1858.
- the Manorial Documents Register (including Norfolk) which records the owners and whereabouts of manorial records.
- the National Register of Archives, where many of the Norfolk Record Office's catalogues can be consulted. The indexes are searchable online.
- ARCHON provides information on all repositories in the United Kingdom and all those repositories throughout the world which have collections of manuscripts which are noted in the indexes to the UK National Register of Archives. Use ARCHON, for example, to find the current contact details of the Suffolk or Cambridgeshire Record Offices.
- The Family Records Centre established jointly by the Office of National Population and Statistics and the National Archives. Sources available include Indexes to Births, Marriages and Deaths in England and Wales since 1837 (known as 'St Catherine's House indexes'); Indexes of legal adoptions in England and Wales since 1927; and Census Returns. There are others.
- Norfolk Studies libraries are situated around the county. The Norwich branch is in the Norfolk Heritage Centre.
- The Norfolk Family History Society has a number of branches and publishes the Norfolk Genealogy series and the Norfolk Ancestor journal.
- Cambridgeshire Record Office holds the Ely Diocesan probate records. For contact details use ARCHON: see above.
- Cambridge University Library holds the Ely Diocesan records excluding the probate records. For contact details use ARCHON: see above. Probate records are held by the Cambridgeshire Record Office: see above.
- The Norfolk Library and Information Service's ICON database includes contact details of local historical and archaeological organisations in Norfolk.
- The Centre for East Anglian Studies at the University of East Anglia organises lectures, seminars and day schools throughout East Anglia and publishes historical monographs relating to Norfolk and East Anglia.
- The East Anglian Film Archive aims to collect and preserve moving images relating to East Anglia and to provide a service of access and presentation where copyright allows. Established in 1976, it was the first regional film archive in the UK. EAFA is a non-profit making organisation.
- The University of East Anglia library holds many journals, printed books and theses of interest to the local historian plus the Parliamentary Command papers and Blue Books. Provides access, via telnet and www, to the Norfolk Bibliographic database and the UEA Archives department catalogues.
- Norfolk Landscape Archaeology holds tens of thousands of aerial photographs as well as Norfolk's Sites and Monuments Record. Available by prior appointment.
- BUBL LINK is the name of a catalogue of selected Internet resources covering all academic subject areas and catalogued according to DDC (Dewey Decimal Classification). All items are selected, evaluated, catalogued and described. Links are checked and fixed each month. LINK stands for Libraries of Networked Knowledge. Plenty of links to history or history related web sites around the world.
- The Family History Centre in Norwich holds microform copies of many Norfolk parish registers and other material of interest to family historians.
- Familia: Family History Resources in Public Libraries in Britain and Ireland.
- The British Association for Local History is a charity which promotes local history and serves local historians. It publishes a quarterly journal, The Local Historian, and a newsletter, Local History News.
- Landmark Information Group's free historical maps service contains around 85,000 images available for viewing using a standard Internet browser. No additional plug-in software is required to view the maps and although the site will work at any screen resolution, a minimum of 1024x768 is recommended. By using this site, you acknowledge and agree to Landmark Information Group's Terms and Conditions. The maps are dated between 1846 and 1899, and are of 1:10,560 scale. To ease navigation, a County Name Gazetteer is supplied, containing over 40,000 place names as they exist today. Selecting a county will present a gazetteer of towns and villages in that county.
- The Local History Magazine web site includes the contact details of a large number of local and national historical societies.
- Virtual Norfolk is a three year project to create an innovative teaching and learning web site. Virtual Norfolk will grow to include an unprecedented collection of original documentary sources, combining the latest interpretations of the county's history with recent advances in internet and multimedia technology. Eventually, it will be fully searchable, with a variety of both formal and informal navigation routes and styles.
- BOPCRIS, the British Official Publications Collaborative Reader Information Service, for searching and browsing information from British Official Publications during the period 1688-1995. You can also read abstracts, and view detailed consistent subject indexing, of key documents. You can then read the digitised full-text version of a limited number of these documents.
- The Norfolk Record Society was founded to encourage the study and preservation of Norfolk records and to publish editions of documents relating to the history of the County.
- See the changing face of the Norfolk landscape with the Norfolk E-Map Explorer.
- Historic Census population figures parish by parish back to 1891 are available for download as an MS Excel spreadsheet from the Norfolk County Council website. No names.
- Digital library of eighteenth, nineteenth and early twentieth century local and trade directories from England and Wales.
- RootsWeb - a genealogical resource with searchable databases, free Web space, mailing lists, message boards, and more.
- GENUKI is the genealogical information service for the UK and Ireland, containing a large structured tree of information.
- Ancestry.com can be accessed via the Norfolk Library and Information Service. Some of its pages default to US sources, but it also provides facilities for searching various UK censuses and the civil registration indexes of births, marriages and deaths for England and Wales. Please note that these sources are incomplete at the moment.
- The Norwich Historic Churches Trust includes details of the medieval churches of Norwich.
- Through NOAH, Norfolk On-line Access to Heritage, search the online catalogues of the Norfolk Library and Information Service, the Norfolk Museums Service and the Norfolk Record Office as well as Norfolk E-map Explorer and Norfolk Sources.
- Norfolk Sources - images of probate records, 1800-1857, Broadsides, Trade Directories and more.
- Norfolk Heritage Explorer, the online version of the Norfolk Historic Environment Record, is a database of archaeological sites, finds and buildings in Norfolk. You can search archaeological records for Norfolk using a keyword, time period or location, find out about the archaeology of Norfolk's parishes, or browse the Exploring More section and discover Archaeology and Art, Biographies, Period Overviews, Places to Visit, Articles, Craft Ideas, Teaching Resources, an Archaeological Glossary and more.
- Catalogues of the holdings of Lambeth Palace Library and the Church of England Record Centre are now available online.
Updated: 10 July 2007