{"id":2407,"date":"2016-03-30T20:20:33","date_gmt":"2016-03-30T20:20:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=2407"},"modified":"2016-03-30T20:20:33","modified_gmt":"2016-03-30T20:20:33","slug":"occupations-chart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=2407","title":{"rendered":"Occupations Chart"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"occupations\"<\/a>Ancestor Archaeology<\/em> <\/a>posted an occupations chart to complement the other colorful charts that have been floating around cyber genealogy land.<\/p>\n

I knew what mine was going to look like before I even started. With the exception of a third-great-grandmother who ran a tavern for a time in the 1850s, my mother was the first person to have a “non-farm” job. Similarly my male ancestors are all farmers until my ggg-grandparent generation where I have a tavern keeper, windmill mechanic, and part time cooper thrown in the mix. I don’t have any “town dwellers” in my ancestry until my ggg-grandparents’ generation. Even then, it’s the distinct minority and my background is decidedly rural.<\/p>\n

I decided not to go back one more generation because I have some occupations that I have not tracked. In my maternal families I have known occupations, many of which translate loosely to “farmer,” but there are different words for farmer in their low-German dialect that translate loosely to:<\/p>\n