Search census by occupation
Hi to all,
I would like to know if there is a way to search inside a census by occupation. I´ve tried many ways but I could not get any result
Answers
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Not on FamilySearch. On Ancestry, depending on the census year, you can add the occupation in the keyword field.
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The first U.S. census to record anything about occupations was in 1820, but it just had three categories and numbers per household, no names. 1830 did not record occupations, while 1840 had seven categories, but still no names. 1850 and forward recorded occupations for at least some people (males over 15, for the first several such censuses), but the only one for which those occupations were indexed on FS is the 1880 census. It can be searched by that field by clicking "More Options" on the collection's landing page (https://www.familysearch.org/search/collection/1417683).
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