We produce a list of record searchers who will undertake paid research.
This list helps people who want to consult our records but cannot visit the Norfolk Record Office (NRO) in person and the record searchers by publicising their services.
If you are employing a record searcher for the first time, write to two or three of them.
Ask how much they charge and what degree of experience they have in the type of research you want to commission.
Please send a stamped addressed envelope: all the record searchers in this list have agreed to reply to inquirers who do this.
Inclusion in the record searchers’ list does not imply a guarantee of competence nor constitute a recommendation by the NRO.
However, we feel that clients are entitled to certain standards of service.
We strongly suggest that record searchers should follow best practice guidelines: these are listed at the end of this guide.
AGRA member, BA History/Sociology, MA History/Politics, Post Grad Cert Ed (PCE), Cert Architecture in Theory and Practice
Suite 14 Meadow View House 191 Queens Road Norwich NR1 3PPTel: 01603 610619
Mobile: 07881 594639
Email: gblanchard@pastsearch.co.uk
Website: www.pastsearch.co.uk
Services: Family, house and local history across East Anglia. Research, transcriptions, digital photography, family tree compilation and written histories. Family history courses locally and online.
Record offices, libraries and other institutions used (see below for list of abbreviations): NRO, NHC, NFHC, NFHS, COL, CRO, CUL, CWA, GLA, GYL, KLL, LMA, PPR, SOG, SRO, TNA, UEA, WFM.
AGRA member, BA English History
74 Park Lane Norwich NR2 3EFTel: 01603 664186
Email: dianaspelman@waitrose.com
Website: www.dianaspelman.co.uk
Services: Family, house and local history, including manorial searches, Latin translation and document transcription, digital photography.
Record offices, libraries and institutions used: NRO, NHC, NFHS, UEA, GYL*, SRO* (asterisk indicates occasional use)
BA (Hons), MCLIP
Historical Research Consultant (Established 1979)
54 Cardiff Road Norwich NR2 3HSMobile: 07747 150217
Email: g.kelly44@btinternet.com
See profile on LinkedIn
Services: Local studies work, especially history of houses and land, chalk workings and subsidence.
Record offices, libraries and institutions used: NRO, NHC, TNA, SRO, GYL, KLL, CRO, LMA, SOG, WFM, CWA, ERO, PPR, GLA London
58 Priory Close
Sheringham
Norfolk
NR26 8SL
Tel: 01263 649677
Email: ancestortreetrace@gmail.com
Services: Family history, local history, research, family trees and transcriptions, digital photography
Record offices, libraries and institutions used: NRO, NHC, NFHS, GYL, KLL, SRO, TNA*, CWA*, LMA*(asterisk indicates occasional use)
Following these guidelines is in the best interests of both clients and record searchers.
All complaints which we receive about record searchers are investigated. If such complaints are found to be justified, record searchers are removed from the list.