Discover Your Ancestors' Occupations by Laura Berry Reviews

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This informative book shows how occupations can help give a more detailed picture of your ancestor's life and how trades affected their well being. As well as taking a look at digital records, it also covers some of the more unusual documents available in archives for ancestors who worked in agriculture, trade and industry, the professional classes and the entertainment sector. Going further, you can also look at living history museums where all the family can get a flavour of life as a Victorian workhouse master or blacksmith, as well as some of the courses out there for you to try your hand at your ancestor's trade.

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“An interesting overview of many professions but the most useful part are the web links interspersed in the chapters. They point at places to interest to visit or research centres or websites to help in your genealogy search. A terrific browsing book to give fresh ideas as well as understanding into jobs now obsolete.”

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Posted 3 years ago

“This concisely covers so many occupations that I have seen on census forms giving an insight into what life was like for my ancestors. There are many useful references and websites to visit to further research in these occupations. It is very readable.”

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Posted 4 years ago

Jacqueline G

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“I am pursuing information on publicans, as my ancestors were in this trade, but this book does not help me to move forward in my search, although it is well written and interesting.”