I hope that this helps answer some questions for some of us. Further to Pat Bridges email about old occupations, the following links are to further sites of interest. Each site has a slightly different set of occupations. http://www.gendocs.demon.co.uk/trades.html http://www.rootsweb.com/~ote/occs.htm Pat's references were http://cpcug.org/user/jlacombe/terms.html http://www.usgenweb.org/researchers/occupations.html The second of these I had not seen before, and I just added the link to that to my own web pages. (See link to my pages below my signature). David Wares Perth Western Australia http://users.bigpond.com/wares_dlrn/