Trades and
Professions
The Family Historians Guide
By Stuart A. Raymond. 2011. 64 pages.
ISBN 978-1-906280-25-3.
Family history is not just about tracing our ancestors' births, marriages, and
deaths. It is also about understanding our ancestors' lives. In order
to do that, we need to consult a variety of
different sources. Occupational
sources are particularly important, since work took up most of their
time.
A huge amount of information about our ancestors can be discovered by consulting
the records of their occupations. Employers kept records of their employees.
Trade unions, professional associations, and trade guilds kept records of their
members. And bureaucratic attempts to regulate particular trades and
professions created mountains of paper. A wide range of archives survive, and
can be consulted by researchers.
This is the first book to provide a general overview of occupational sources for
family historians. Its aim is to tell you where to find information
about your ancestors' occupations. Its author, Stuart Raymond,
is a well known author of handbooks and
guides for genealogists. Some of his other books are shown below.
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