Hi all I have two relatives who are working with me on our mutual family of Harbords. Although Jean (NFK lister) has been extremely helpful in overcoming a "brick wall", more unresolved questions have come to light. As the UK representative of the family group, I feel it is down to me to make the trip to study what documents I can find in Norfolk that are not online. I have read that the Norwich Record Office contains a lot of material, but can anyone advise me who has been there - Is it available for public scrutiny? Do you have to book? Do you have to pay and if so, how much? Is the information detailed? I would be very grateful for any advice, and also if there are any other recommended places to visit when I am there. I gather Gunton Park is not open to visitors, but would not expect to find much historical information there anyway. Richard Harbord, Somerset

Hi, I am sure you will have had many encouraging emails in response . NRO is fine , a good place helpful staff and a fairly simple indexing system to both parishes and names . I have just googled NROCAT and in the quick search box put Harbord and there are some 29 pages of references to Harbord . It looks as if you could spend a month there on the Harbords !!! life is hard . soften it with a cat \\\=^..^=/// ----- Original Message ----- From: <Treetopsfarm@aol.com> To: <norfolk@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, January 04, 2012 8:47 AM Subject: [NFK] NRO > Hi all > > I have two relatives who are working with me on our mutual family of > Harbords. Although Jean (NFK lister) has been extremely helpful in > overcoming > a "brick wall", more unresolved questions have come to light. As the UK > representative of the family group, I feel it is down to me to make the > trip > to study what documents I can find in Norfolk that are not online. I > have > read that the Norwich Record Office contains a lot of material, but can > anyone advise me who has been there - Is it available for public > scrutiny? > Do you have to book? Do you have to pay and if so, how much? Is the > information detailed? > > I would be very grateful for any advice, and also if there are any other > recommended places to visit when I am there. I gather Gunton Park is not > open to visitors, but would not expect to find much historical information > there anyway. > > Richard Harbord, Somerset > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > NORFOLK-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >

Also get yourself on the mailing list for the new project indexing the Gunton Estate papers - see http://guntonarchive.wordpress.com/2012/01/05/lord-suffield/ -- Christopher Pipe BA DipLib MCLIP researching and indexing Norfolk history cp@wmk.demon.co.uk (and see www.cromerdictionary.co.uk) -----Original Message----- From: norfolk-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:norfolk-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Treetopsfarm@aol.com Sent: 04 January 2012 08:48 To: norfolk@rootsweb.com Subject: [NFK] NRO Hi all I have two relatives who are working with me on our mutual family of Harbords. Although Jean (NFK lister) has been extremely helpful in overcoming a "brick wall", more unresolved questions have come to light. As the UK representative of the family group, I feel it is down to me to make the trip to study what documents I can find in Norfolk that are not online. I have read that the Norwich Record Office contains a lot of material, but can anyone advise me who has been there - Is it available for public scrutiny? Do you have to book? Do you have to pay and if so, how much? Is the information detailed? I would be very grateful for any advice, and also if there are any other recommended places to visit when I am there. I gather Gunton Park is not open to visitors, but would not expect to find much historical information there anyway. Richard Harbord, Somerset ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to NORFOLK-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message