Genealogy Resources
Occupations and Trades
- Clunies, Sandra MacLean. "Keeping the Flame: The
Life of a Lighthouse Keeper." NGS NewsMagazine
(January/February/March) 16-19.
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Colonial Occupations.
This information from
"Old Farmer's Almanac," reprinted in Dec. 1986
by "Roots Digest," Ronald A. Bremer, Publisher
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Cyndi's List - Occupations and Trades.
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Occupations Mailing Lists. By John Fuller and
Christine Gaunt
- Old
Occupation Names. Hall genealogy website.
- Prechtel-Kluskens, Claire. "The Nineteenth-Century
Postmaster and His Duties." NGS NewsMagazine 33,
1 (January/February/March 2007): 35-39.
- Society of
Brushmakers' Descendants. The SBD is a Historical
Society/ Family History Society that specialises in the
brush/broom making trades and those who have worked
therein for the past few hundred years. The Society of
Brushmakers' Descendants aim is to help and inform its
members,
and to discover
and prove links between Brushmakers' families.
- Stamm, Patricia Walls. "Occupations in Our Family
Tub." NGS NewsMagazine (January/February/March
2006) 12-15.
.
- U.S.
Railroad Retirement Board and Genealogical Information
after 1936