The October 2024 issue has four feature articles.
In I0 Easy Steps to Grow Your Own Family Tree, Laura Berry from Who Do You Think You Are? shares the elementary steps genealogy newbies need to follow to uncover ancestors’ stories,
Mike Esbester writes in Blood on the Tracks about the Railway Work, Life & Death project and explains how to find out if, like Rose Ayling-Ellis, you have a forebear who was injured on the railways.
Else Churchill previews the 27 September – 6 October online event All About That Place, and reveals why focusing on location can give family historians a different perspective. It’s a free event of short presentations. Find out more at subscribepage.com/allaboutthatplace
In Politics for the People Caroline Roope celebrates the Chartists’ hard-fought campaign to extend the vote in the 19th century. I’ve wondered if my 2xgreat-grandfather’s move from Cumberland to London around 1848, when the movement was at its height, was a coincidence.
Those are just the feature articles — a bit more than the tip of the iceberg.
While I usually read the magazine on PressReader through free Ottawa Public Library access, it misbehaved this month. OPL delivered a perfectly readable copy on Libby.
Would love to get a hard copy of this issue as the Chartist article will be of especial interest, given my 2nd great-grandfather’s involvement with the Chartist movement in London. Alas, almost impossible to find copies of this magazine for sale anymore, even at the dedicated magazine store in North Vancouver. Might have to order a one-off from WDYTYA…