Back in 2012 I initiated a series called Beyond the Internet, with clues to explore offline resources. Such is the explosion of online resources that some of these may have been overtaken by the internet but rest assured there will always be records only available offline.
I tried to keep to a sequenced theme with occasional lapses. This is a summary of the topics (clicking on each one will take you to that topic).
THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT
Week 1: Church Interiors
Week 2: Ancestral Homes and their History
Week 3: Houses and Red Tape
Week 4: Donations and Subscriptions
EDUCATION
Week 5: School Admission Records
Week 6: School Administration Records
Week 7: School Albums, Histories and Newsletters
VITAL RECORDS
Week 8: Certificates
Week 9: Baptisms, Banns and Burials
Week 10: Church Records and Registers
CHURCH
Week 11: Church Archives
Week 12: Church Histories
MILITARY
Week 13: War Memorials
Week 14: War Diaries, Shipping and Photographs
Week 15: Battalion, Battle and Military Histories
Week 16: War Service Records
HEALTH & WELFARE
Week 17: Hospital Records
Week 18: Benevolent Asylums
Week 19: Pauper Records
Week 20: Orphanages
Week 21: Pensions
Week 22: Wills and Intestacies
Week 23: Probate and Deceased Estate
Week 24: Court Documents
Week 25: Gaol Records
Week 26: Police and other Gazettes
ARCHIVES and LIBRARIES
Week 27: Archives
Week 28: Places and Petitions
Week 29: University Reference Libraries
Week 30: Books
Week 31: Maps and Gazetteers
Week 32: Journals
Week 33: Local History
Week 34: Family History Society Libraries
Week 35: Published Family Histories
Week 36: Photographic Archives
MORTALITY
Week 37: Monumental Inscriptions and Gravestones and some examples.
Week 38: Burial Registers
Week 39: Funeral Directors’ Registers
MIGRATION
Week 40: Immigration
Week 41: Emigration Records
Week 42: Naturalisation Records
LAND RECORDS
Week 43: Griffith’s Valuations (Ireland)
Week 44: Offline Newspapers ( a ring-in)
Week 45: Tithe Records and Maps
Week 46: Valuations and Council rates
OCCUPATIONS
Week 47: Police and railway staff records
Week 48: Teachers
Week 49: Merchant Seamen
Week 50: Licences including publicans, farming etc
FINALE
Week 51: Oral Family, Local & Personal History
Week 52: Colonial Secretary’s Correspondence and the Devon Commission (Ireland)
Family history across the seas 
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