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From: David & Loyola Wares <>
Subject: Fwd: Occupations
Date: Sat, 21 Aug 1999 07:39:39 +0800


I am forwarding a copy of the information I sent to the Australia list in
the hope it may help some people who find a strange occupation of an
ancestor on the census data.

>I saw a reference to some hard books (Remember those: you may still have
some as a talking point at a party <g>.)
>
>If you want to get direct access to some on line lists of old time
occupations, you could try each of the following (I have them as links from
the Alphabetical List of Links from my own web pages)
>
>
>
><http://cpcug.org/user/jlacombe/terms.html>; Tiled "A List of Occupations"
>
><http://www.rootsweb.com/~ote/occs.htm>; Titled "Obsolete Occupations"
>
><http://www.gendocs.demon.co.uk/trades.html>; Titled "Ranks, professions,
occupations and trades"
>
>Good hunting!
>
>David Wares
David and Loyola Wares
Perth
Western Australia


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