The baby on the cover of the July WDYTYA magazine, is a sure attention grabber. It highlights Chris Paton’s lead article, 10 Baptism Problems and How to Solve Them. He looks at problems often encountered from across the UK and Ireland. In the Resources sidebar he mentions Mark Herber’s 2004 book Ancestral Trails, which “has yet to be bettered as the most useful general reference book for English and Welsh research.” It can be borrowed for free for one hour from the Internet Archive at https://archive.org/details/inassociationwit0000unse
Also featured are articles based on Ruth Goodman’s podcast The Curious History of Your Home, and from Caroline Roope on Britain’s Beach Huts. That made me reminisce that as a kid I enjoyed many summer days in and outside a shared family beach hut. Unlike a Canadian cottage, it occupied a spot rented from the council and had to be removed in the Autumn.
Gemma Noon writes about records for exploring settlement on the Canadian Prairies. There’s much more.
Does your public library offer free online access to the new issue, available on Press Reader?