Occupations and Professions in your Family

Christopher · Post by **Christopher** » Wed Oct 15, 2008 4:13 pm

A large amount of information about our ancestors can be found by using Google or other search engines. This is probably the best method as the links on some sites are broken. If you are stuck and can't find a way to find out moe about their occupations open a thread giving a few details about the ancestors you're attempting to trace and I'm sure members of this sitre will do their best to assist. A good starting point is the Rootsweb Guide to Tracing your Family Tree. Search for an article by Tony Robinson, of the BBC programme "The Time Team", as it contains some thoughts on genealogy which make interesting reading.

There are several useful sites which contain details of occupations ... these include ...
1. The Hall Genealogy website .
2. GenDoc's Glossary of Ranks, Occupations, Professions and Trades.
3. DOT Dictionary of Occupational Titles

There's also a large amount of online information relating to the following occupations ... .

Armed Forces
1. Army Museums Ogilby Trust
2. Finding British Army Ancestors
3. British Military Records
4. Military (Pay Site)
5. Royal Air Force - google for RAF National Archives
6. Royal Navy - google for Royal Navy National Archives
7. Royal Navy 20th Century

British Transport Police
Clergymen
Coal miners
Coastguard Service in Ireland
Convicts to Australia
Customs & Excise
Customs & Excise, Revenue Police & Coastguards
Customs and Excise - Article from Your Family Tree.
Divers
Doctors
Females - It's not exactly an occupation but they can be hard to find.
General Practitioners
Gold miner
Merchant Navy ... The Merseyside Maritime Museum site is one of the best places to look
Nurses
Photographer - there are a number of sites relating to nineteenth century photographers
Postmen There a site for Postal Heritage
Racehorse Breeder
Railway worker can be found on Railway Ancestors (Pay Site)
Showman, Circus and Fairground Travellers
Teachers in England and Wales

The Links pages on The Genealogist's Internet website contains a lot of useful links.