Welcome to Norfolk Ancestors
Oral history
This is a new feature for us and we start by introducing a new book called 'Memories from the Essex Rooms'. The book contains years of research and provides the opportunity to read oral history provided by the residents and ex-workers of the Essex Rooms. The book is available to purchase for GBP 6.00. Full details are provided here.
Ancestral Research
On your behalf, we can conduct a search of original parish records for your ancestor/s at the local Norfolk Archives. These archives hold an enormous amount of material going back many centuries. Most of these records are not available on the Internet. This type of research has become increasingly important as more spurious and unverified information finds its way on to the Internet. With the exception of digitized images of original documents, information found on the Internet should always be verified by reference to the original records. If you are passing genealogical information on to your children or other family members it is likely that this will be handed down to future generations. You will therefore wish to feel confident that the information is correct. Learn more.
Family Ancestry
- 'Family Pages' - provide an opportunity for your family to have its own page and Web address with a view to discovering it's roots. We also offer the opportunity to write about your family and even to upload four photos. The page shows your e-mail address (if supplied) and therefore gives opportunity for those who may have information on your family name, to share it with you. Click here to take you to the main page.
- 'Family Names Pool'. - We are building a database of family history which is searchable.
History in Norfolk
- Visit our extensive feature on Gorleston lifeboat service.
- Follow this link to over 2,000 scanned documents - historical information on the activities of lifeboats in the Gorleston area.
- Enjoy the gallery of historical photos of the Gorleston lifeboat.
- Visit our Norfolk War Years Gallery.
- Related is the material in Norwich under Attack. This is a book written by local researchers giving very interesting detail regarding Air raids experienced in the Second World War.
- NCFC - we have a gallery of photos made available for our use by Paul Standley.
- Read accounts of rescues and visit our lifeboat stories page - many made available with the courtesy of the Great Yarmouth Mercury.
- Please view our modern lifeboat (Gorleston) gallery.
- Read a life story - Fred Duffield. There are many others in our life stories section - click here.
- Noticeboards - we have three Noticeboards: LSE (Laurence Scott and Electromotors - ex and current employees) Noticeboard, Boulton and Paul and the General Noticeboard - for anyone who wishes to contact someone or advertise for information. See links at the top of this page.
- Visit our searchable incident log - these provide a brief activity list of the Gorleston lifeboat and their crew through the years - very interesting!
- Need some guidance on how to write your Family tree - visit our write a family tree page.
- Visit the Laurence Scott Pensioners Club. Meet some of the members and hear their stories.
- Visit the Boulton and Paul section.
- Visit the Boulton and Paul photo Gallery.
- Visit Ivan Whur's (retired after many years in the maintenance department of Laurence Scott) mini-museum.
- Visit Reminiscence. This feature is provided to enable those older persons (not necessarily from Norfolk) who would like to contribute their life's recollections for the benefit of others.
- Visit the 'Active for Life' page. Through Active for Life Sarah Housden aims to work for improvements in the quality of life experienced by older people in residential and nursing homes
- We are undertaking to provide information on the many towns and villages in Norfolk.
- Norfolk Schools. We would like to hear about childhood experiences, memories and about teachers from your schooldays.
- Norwich photos. View various photos around Norwich.
- Contribute your own material to add to the historical material already compiled. View what has already been submitted.
This site is also dedicated to helping the people of Norfolk to have easy access to as much of their heritage as we can manage to provide.
We hope you enjoy your visit. We would welcome your input and help to compile this history from anyone who feels they would like to. It would be appreciated. Just use the Contact links.