Who Do You Think You Are? Magazine August 2020

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Inside this month’s issue

• Missing birth records
  Can't find your ancestor's birth? Genealogist and former deputy registrar Antony Marr shares his top ticks for tracking them down
• VJ Day 75 years later
  Historian Kevin Telfer looks back on the turbulent months between the end of the Second World War in Europe and in Japan
• Slavery in Jamaica
  In light of the debate about the legacy of the slave trade, Richard Atkinson reveals how it felt to discover that his ancestors owned slave plantations
• Getting started
  More people than ever started their family tree in lockdown. Jonathan Scott picks the best websites for beginner family historians
• The lives of Boy Scouts
  Writer and Scout leader Nina Hoole reveals how the Scout movement made a difference to thousands of our ancestors
• Plus…
  Finding records of Japanese PoWs; discovering the lives of chimney sweeps; reader stories from the Battle of Britain, and much more…

Around Britain

• Lancashire
  Our complete guide to family history in this historic northern county

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