No new subscribers this week - as always, if you haven't already contributed, we hope to hear from you soon. ****** ****** ****** We often read of or find in our research, family firms that went on for generations, but are our occupations in our gene's ? How often do you find a present day occupation reappearing several generations back? What prompts the resolution of a mid life crisis to be resolved by a move back to quieter rural pursuits - all those dormant Ag Lab genes? In my own family, my eldest daughter's completion of her CPA qualifications caused me to look back more closely - while none of the intervening generations have had any interest in Accountancy, two of her great grandfather's were senior accounts 'clerks' - remembering that back then formal tertiary qualifications were rare. One of my nephews while later moving on to other things, originally trained as a cobbler [one who makes as well as repairs shoes] - his 2x great grandfather was a shoe manufacturer in Northampton - again no evidence of any interest in making shoes in the intervening generations. For those with more modern occupations, is there anything in their ancestors occupations that points to their choice, or, and this is possibly more thought provoking, can any of these modern day occupations help us to see how our ancestors may have approached their own labours? ****** ****** ****** Feel free to join in and present your own items. Peter Cook cookfmly@bigpond.com List maintainer and Co-host with Barbara < babrown12@optonline.net > of the ButeshireGenWeb mailing list.