Happy Labor Day

Dennis J Yancey

How many of you have analyzed the occupations of your ancestors?

One interesting thing is to analyze them on a given year for the US census

here is an example:

https://yanceyfamilygenealogy.org/cn1850b.htm

See this interesting quiz of old occupational terms

https://www.familysearch.org/en/blog/they-did-what-odd-obsolete-jobs-quiz

Exploring Ancestors Occupations

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uGUXtkaUHiA

The changing Face of Rural America

https://yanceyfamilygenealogy.org/rural_america.htm

rothesian

very interesting, thank you for sharing