Who Do You Think You Are? Magazine: August 2020

Here's information on articles in the two main sections of the latest WDYTYA? magazine.

FEATURES

Missing Birth Records

Genealogist and former deputy registrar Antony Marr shares his top tips, 10 resources for tracking down missing births.

VJ Day 75 Years Later

Kevin Telfer explains that in Britain VJ was a bit of an anticlimax after VE Day as the country moved from the wartime Churchill government electing a new Clement Attlee-led  Labour administration promising "food, work and Homes", full employment and a National Health Service. 

Slavery In Jamaica

Richard Atkinson reveals how it feels to discover that your relations owned slave plantations in the West Indies

Scouting

The history of this hugely popular global movement from the first trial camp on Brownsea Island, Dorset in 1907.

RESEARCH ADVICE

Best Websites 

Unmissable online resources to help you get started. Heavily UK oriented.

Record Masterclass

Phil Tomaselli shares expert advice on index cards for prisoners of war held by Japan in the Second World War

Ancestors At Work

The hazards and hardships of life as a chimney sweep. Sad.

Tech Tips

Use Google Docs to extract text from scanned images. Clear instructions. You may know of other tools.

Focus On

How to find and understand 19th-century Navy records; officers from the beginning of the century, ratings from about mid-century.

When you go to the magazine, free at PressReader at many public library websites, don't overlook the news and other content including advice on searching Lancashire ancestry.