Index and filter on occupation
To Craig Miller, RootsTech,
I like the idea of being able to filter sources by race that you introduced today at RootTech. This triggered a long standing secret wish I have, namely filtering by occupation.
Occupations are found in census records and often in birth records (for the father) and in marriage records. That piece of the data can distinguish between people with the same name.
For example, John Jones married a woman named Elizabeth in Carmarthen, Carmarthenshire, Wales. Do you know how many John Jones's there are? and how many of them married Elizabeth's? I found one hundred before I stopped looking.
The FamilySearch tree once had a marriage of John Jones and women name Elizabeth whose first child was born before the marriage. I found another combination that corrected that. But for me was the proof that Elizabeth Treharn was the correct wife was John's occupation. This John Jones was a mason (brick layer) as recorded in the marriage record, and as the father in the birth records of each of the children.
John Jones and Elizabeth Treharn, my ancestors, where married 10 November 1808. See M828-ZCR.