Norfolk Family
History Society

Diary of Events

Date Time Meeting Venue
Wednesday, April 30, 2025 13:00 NRO event -Once visited never forgotten: St Andrew's Asylum & Hospital NRO HYBRID Event - see NRO website for more information
Wednesday, April 30, 2025 19:00 Searching for ancestors when you’re adopted by Penny Walters. - Have you ever found your ‘real’ family? This talk discusses the excitement, pain and problems for an adoptee looking for relatives and researching ancestors. Collaborating with D.N.A matches can be a key solution NFHS ZOOM TALK - Free for members. Zoom will open to members 5 mins prior to talk commencement time of 19.00hrs This talk will be recorded.
Friday, May 9, 2025 10:00 NRO event - Norwich: Culture, community and church 1500-1750 NRO HYBRID Event - see NRO website for more information.
Monday, May 12, 2025 10:00 NRO Event - Stepping into Norwich's shoe manufacturing heritage NRO IN PERSON Event - see NRO website for more information.
Wednesday, May 21, 2025 19:00 The Trinity Pilots of Aldeburgh and Orford Haven’ by Chris Broom - The fascinating story of a cadre of courageous mariners who provided merchant ships with safe passage from dangerous offshore waters to coastal and inland ports. NFHS ZOOM TALK - Free for members. Zoom will open to members 5 mins prior to talk – commencement time of 19.00hrs This talk will not be recorded.
Wednesday, June 4, 2025 19:00 NFHS ZOOM TALK - A Plague upon all your Houses: epidemic disease and our ancestors. By Janet Few In the light of the COVID-19 pandemic, we are acutely aware of our own responses to a virulent epidemic disease. What epidemics impacted on the lives of our ancestors? How did they attempt to prevent or cure these diseases and how effective were these measures? How did governments and local authorities respond to these threats? This presentation examines the symptoms, prognoses and treatments for several well-known and less well-known epidemic diseases from the Black Death to the influenza of 1918. It mentions some of the relevant records and considers how our ancestors might have reacted. NFHS ZOOM TALK - Free for members. Zoom will open to members 5 mins prior to talk – commencement time of 19.00hrs This talk will be recorded.
Friday, June 13, 2025 11:00 NRO Event - History in focus- Lifting the lid on the parish chest NRO IN PERSON Event - see NRO website for more information.

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