Occupations Tie Ancestors Together in Genealogy Research

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It might be the occupations of your ancestors that tie them together when doing your genealogical research. Occupations should not be overlooked and I’ll tell you why in this episode. Also, I’ll show you a trick to get around a bug in Ancestry’s newspaper search.

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0:00 Intro
1:25 U.S. Census Records
3:01 Example - The Deworth Family
4:41 Using an Excel Spreadsheet to track occupations
5:51 Using Ancestry Search
7:16 Separating people by occupation
8:14 Using Address Information to find the family
8:34 Newspaper Articles
9:15 Finding Names in Newspaper Articles
10:03 How to Add Occupational Facts on Ancestry
11:51 Attach Source on Ancestry
13:12 Summary
13:29 Outro

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Did you like this week's video? Check out some other great research tips from Connie. Learn about U.S. Census Maps and other Unindexed Records on Family Search and continue climbing your family tree!


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dianapocalypse
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The tip on getting the name on a newspaper page highlighted is GOLDEN - thanks Connie.

checle
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Great tips Connie! Very informative! Thanks

ramonaklassen
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My ancestor owned a fireworks factory in the early 1800s. During the Civil War, he retooled to make fuses for weapons for the Union. Fun, eh?

yoyosmum
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My 2x Great Grandfather started out in Birmingham as a brassworker like most of his family, but later Census data has him living in and managing a pub together with my 2x Great grandmother. I respect that he managed to get out of the factory and hope this was his passion.

jeremydasneves
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My 3rd great-grandfather, Thomas Cox, was a hair dresser and it was this that really helped me pick out his children in the baptismal register and, later, their marriages. It also helped me discern him from the other Thomas Cox in the same town who owned an eating house.

My great-grandfather, Frederick Ferdinando, was an auctioneer and had many adventures as such, one of which included people chasing him and threatening his life!

ladytessca
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I learned that I am at least the fourth consecutive generation of my mother’s family to become a public school teacher. This took me back to about 1860. One f the most fascinating things that I learned was that my uncle, my mother’s elder brother who was estranged from the family, had along with his wife worked on writing and publishing the Shorthand text that I had in my classroom.

kevinallen
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Excellent in terms of how to add the date range and attribute sources!! Thanks!
I didn't know how to do that!

Sidenote re occupations, not as distinctive dividers but in terms of complexities, more for people reading comments
than for you.
One of my ancestors was always, everywhere, "farmer, farmer, farmer." But he was also a lumbermill owner, and lumber dealer, he owned oil wells, and held shares in a bridge company. Didn't have a clue until I found his will.
Just one of those 'you can never assume' things ;)

LindaSchreiber
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Thanks for tip on adding occupation as a fact. Some of my ancestors occupations were draftsman, shoemaker, pattern maker, bookkeeper and of course machinist! That tip on newspaper will definitely come in handy.

kathleenkelley
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I found a great-great-grandfather in Delaware listed as a molder. At first I thought it had to do with making molding for interior design but then I learned that there were iron works in northern Delaware and that’s where he worked. This information is so interesting in terms of history and context.

tonipeters
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I like to add the occupation and industry facts (when found) to each entry in the person's timeline, particularly from Censuses and City Directories. The occupation titles can often change some over time, and it's a nice way to add some genealogical "flavor" to what can be a routine timeline of events. It gives you some notion of what the person's life was like, when often all you might have are places and dates.

annieg
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My grandfather delivered ice and coal by horse cart in Brooklyn NY as did his brother. I found that several men that were listed as witnesses on various documents were icemen also. That led me to a documentary called Barese Icemen of New York. Interesting to learn how many people of the same region got into the same business.

jveebklyn
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Loved the newspaper tip! I've spent a lot of time scanning pages to find my person. Many thanks!!

tamouchy
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Thank you for making me a better genealogist by learning from your videos! 🌱

ddennewitz
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Thanks for the advice about how to add a fact. I'm new at this and didn't know. You've helped my documentation efforts.

joannclement
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Thanks for another great video, Connie. This is a great idea for sorting all those same-name people. Also, thanks for the work around for the highlighting issue on the newspaper articles. That has been a frustration of mine, too.

My ancestors were primarily farmers, but there were also reverends, potters, textile workers, builders, and one 2nd great-grandmother was a postmaster (appointed in 1883).

Have a blessed day. :)

suzannemcclendon
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Hi Connie. I always add occupation to the census or directory residence, also add in street address if given.

olivevista
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Hi my Irish ancestors were mostly puddlers and Dock labourers, my English side stretch from miners and mill workers to hotel management or farmers .

Fruitcake
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Very useful. Thanks. I have an ancestor in England identified as an "iron dresser" - one who bashes a cast iron piece when it comes out of the mold. The building he worked in is still there after 120 years and is now a car repair shop.

telquad
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I work mostly on FamilySearch and came across an ancestor's profile that was a conglomeration of two men with same name. I separated them by their occupations. One was a surgeon, the other a sewing machine agent. I go through the census records and add streets, occupations, family worth sometimes (this can be important around the Depression era i.e. a change in profession).
I used it again when a man was a miller in New York and then records moved across the country to Nebraska and the stock business. Looking through the Census, I found his wife's brother and family had also moved and the two men were both in the stock business and living at the same address. That showed me that the man from New York and the man from Nebraska were one and the same.

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