NROCAT contains all new catalogues created since March 2000 plus electronic versions of most of the older paper catalogues available in the searchroom.
Collections included in NROCAT are:
Local Authorities
- Records of Norfolk County Council
- Records of District Councils
- Records of Norwich City Council
- Great Yarmouth Borough Archives
- King's Lynn Borough Archives
- Records of Thetford Borough Council
- Records of Parish Councils
- Records of various schools
- Records of Poor Law Unions
Ecclesiastical
- Diocese of Ely Tithe Maps
- Records of the Diocese of Norwich
- Records of the Dean and Chapter of Norwich
- Records of the Archdeaconry of Norfolk
- Records of the Archdeaconry of Norwich
- Records of the Archdeaconry of King's Lynn
- Records of the Peculiar of Great Cressingham
- Records of the Rural Deans
- Records of Ecclesiastical Parishes
- Records from the Church Commissioners
- Norwich Roman Catholic Cathedral of St John the Baptist Architectural Drawings
- Free Church records
- Society of Friends (Quakers)
Probate
- Pre-1857: wills and administrations for the Norwich Consistory Court, the Archdeaconry of Norwich and the Archdeaconry of Norfolk and the Peculiars, indexed
- Post-1857: will registers only, unindexed
- Probate inventories for the Norwich Consistory Court, the Archdeaconry of Norwich, the Archdeaconry of Norfolk and the Peculiars
Public and Statutory
- Records of Petty Sessions
- Records of Parochial Trusts
- Coroners' records
- Records of the Anglian Water Authority
- Records of the East Anglian Water Authority
- East Suffolk and Norfolk River Board: Annual Reports and Abstracts of Accounts
- Shipping Registers: King's Lynn, Wells, Cley and Great Yarmouth
- Records of Eastern Gas
- Records of Eastern Electricity
- Records of the Norfolk Estuary Company
- Records of the Advisory Committees on Justices of the Peace
- Drainage Boards
- Norfolk Building Grant Plans
- Census of Distribution
- Charity Commission Accounts
- Registers of Duties on Land Values
- Ordnance Survey Minor Control Point Albums
- Registrars' Records
- Records of the Regional Valuation Officer
- Records of Norfolk Turnpike Trusts
- Records of the Norfolk and Norwich Hospital
- Records of the Bethel Hospital
- Records of St Andrew's Hospital
- Records of Hellesdon Hospital (formerly Norwich City Asylum)
- Records of the Norfolk Area Health Authority
Private
- Business Records
- Records of Society and non-profit making organisations
- Women's Institutes Churchyard Recording Project
- Facsimiles of documents held elsewhere
- Some major family and estate collections: Aylsham Collection; Bacon of Gillingham; Barton; Bayning; Beauchamp Proctor; Berney of Hockering; Birkbeck of Westacre; Boileau (Minor collections); Bolingbroke; parts of the Bradfer-Lawrence Collection; Bulwer of Heydon; Colman Collection (not business); Denny-Cooke; Duke of Norfolk's Manors of Bressingham, Boylands in Bressingham, Shelfanger Hall, Vise De Lou Frier's, Fersfield and for the Manor of Seymer's (in Mendham); Duleep Singh; Evans Lombe; Fellowes of Shotesham; Flitcham Estate Manuscripts; Gressenhall (Hastings); Gressenhall (Ingleby); Gurney of Bawdeswell; Gurney Collection (NRS); Hamond of Westacre; Hare of Stow Bardolph; Harvey of Tasburgh; Heacham (Ingleby); Hethel; Howard of Castle Rising; Jerningham; Kempston; Ketton-Cremer; Knyvett-Wilson; Le Strange of Hunstanton; Lee-Warner; Long of Dunston; Lucas and Wyllys; Meade of Earsham; Mills of Hilborough; Richard Mann's estate at Bungay; Neville of Sloley; Petre of Westwick; North Walsham documents (Minor collections); Pratt of Ryston; Rolfe family; Durrant of Scottow Collection (NRS); Records relating to the Manor of Swaffham; Walter Rye; Shelton, Bates & Wolverton; South Creake Deeds; Spelman; Trafford; Trappes-Lomax (Great Hockham); Upcher of Sheringham; Walpole of Wolterton; Walsingham of Merton; White of Salle; Wighton; Wodehouse of Kimberley.
- Various solicitors records: Bantoft, Broadley and Ward of King's Lynn; Fosters of Norwich; Standley and Co. Norwich and Wymondham; and Hansell Stevenson.
- Thousands of various minor collections listed under the prefix MC
- USAAF 2nd Air Division Memorial Library collection
Norfolk Sound Archive
- Recorded interview of Tom Eaton by John Alban and related papers
- Reclaiming the Past Project on Local Mencap Societies in East Anglia
- Archaeology Oral History Interviews
- Interim lists
Not included in NROCAT are:
- Very recent accessions
- Uncatalogued material
- Private: parts of the Bradfer-Lawrence Collection; Mottram papers; MS collections listed on searchroom card indexes; NRS collections listed on searchroom card indexes
