Useful links

The order of the sites below in no way indicates any preference and are not selected through any criteria other than they contain information about Tharston nor does its inclusion endorse a site as being 'safe' or reliable. If anyone has any suggestions for additional good sources of information please make Contact.

For owners of local businesses, if you would like us to include a link to your web site, please Contact us and we will add you in - free of charge! Please note that any business link included is not endorsed by the Society. However, should you find that the link has been beneficial, a donation to the Society would be gratefully received.

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Tharston Information

• A Vision of Britain Through Time - A vision of Britain between 1801 and 2001, including maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions. Tharston is included.
• Norfolk Baptism Project - One man's ongoing project to document all Norfolk baptisms from 1813 to 1880, and the Tharston St Mary entry has been completed.
• British Listed Buildings - an online database of buildings and structures that are listed as being of special architectural and historic interest with individual pages for Tharston Hall, St. Mary's Church and Tharston Mill.
• Map Explorer and Map Image Viewer - historical maps of Norfolk
  

Friends of the THS

• Diss Family History Group - This group was once affiliated to the Norfolk Family History Society but is now going it alone as an independent group. There is a programme of excellent events/talks throughout the year and people are always welcome at their meetings. There is a reduced cost of entry for members. At present there is no website but details about this group and membership can be obtained from Betty Morley, email: bettymorley@btinternet.com or by post at E. Morley, Thwaites, Fersfield, Diss, Norfolk, IP22 2FF.

Heritage sites

• Museums Norfolk - detailed museum information and suggestions of other good things to do, and for local historians and enthusiasts, there are also details of how to access archives and reserve collections.

• Norfolk Industrial Archaeology Society - a friendly amateur Society, whose members have for over 40 years brought their individual skills, knowledge and interests to find out more of the history and archaeology of Norfolk
• Norfolk Heritage Explorer - This website offers a unique opportunity to access the Norfolk Historic Environment Record online database of the county's archaeological sites and historic buildings containing over 60,000 records describing the archaeology of Norfolk from the earliest evidence for human occupation from 750,000 BC up to the present day (including a section on Tharston)
• Museums Norfolk - detailed museum information and suggestions of other good things to do, and for local historians and enthusiasts, there are also details of how to access archives and reserve collections.

History & Genealogy Sites - Subscription sites

• Genealogist - is all about family history research and discovering your ancestors using a wide variety of data.
• Norfolk Family History Society - essential for people researching their Norfolk ancestors and family history, with currently around 4,000 members, including members from as far afield as Australia, U.S.A. and Canada. A very small annual subscription.

History & Genealogy Sites - Free sites

• Cindi's List of Genealogy Sites on the Internet - an extremely comprehensive list of information sources from all around the world - the THS is included in it.

• FreeREG - free Internet searches of baptism, marriage, and burial records, that have been transcribed from parish and non-conformist registers of the U.K.

• FreeBDM - free Internet access to the transcribed Civil Registration index of births, marriages and deaths for England and Wales.

• FreeCEN - a "free-to-view" online searchable database of the 19th century UK census returns

• British History Online - a digital library containing some of the core printed primary and secondary sources for the medieval and modern history of the British Isles. Created by the Institute of Historical Research and the History of Parliament Trust, it aims to support academic and personal users around the world in their learning, teaching and research.
• FamilySearch - For over 100 years, FamilySearch has been actively gathering, preserving, and sharing genealogical records worldwide and is free to search.

• Find A Grave - a free index of graves with much more information; mainly for the U.S. but ever expanding into the U.K.

• Plusnet - a simple guide to starting your own family tree online from the Plusnet Community blog
• World Burial Index - This website gives the opportunity to search through a unique survey of thousands of Memorial Inscriptions (MIs) taken from: graveyard headstones from memorials in churchyards and cemeteries; inscriptions recorded from within churches and cathedrals; details of church incumbents; war graves and war memorials.
• Commonwealth War Graves Commission - records details of Commonwealth war dead so that graves or names on memorials can be located
• Many make genealogy and/or family history a hobby. A guide, "Genealogy, the Ultimate Beginners Guide", a little biased towards U.S. information, written by Mark Orwig, contains some useful guidance.
  
• Thanks go to some friends from the U.S. who sent us the following link for a site which has some very useful pointers to U.S. genealogy and other family tree information. The link is for the HomeAdvisor - History at Home: A Guide to Genealogy page.

Wikipedia pages

• Tharston and Hapton - details about the civil parish of Tharston and Hapton
• Norfolk Windmills - list of all windmills in Norfolk
• South Norfolk - South Norfolk local government district
• Latin name - equivalent to English given ones
• History of Norfolk - a brief history
  

Other information

• Latin Genealogical Word List from FamilySearch

General sites

• Webnode - a tool for the fast and easy creation of web sites. Simple, on-line and free. (Used to create and host this site.)

• Serif - a software company which produces quality design programs at reasonable prices. (PhotoPlus used to create and manipulate the images in this site.)

• Canon - the photographic hardware used by the designers of this site.

Business in Tharston

Page last updated: 30 May 2019 by NP