Hi: This is from this week's Dick Eastman's Online Newsletter. Feel free to pass it along - just make sure his credit line is included. Regards, Nan [email protected] ================================= Eastman's Online Genealogy Newsletter Vol. 5 No. 35 - August 26, 2000 Past issues of this Newsletter are available at: http://www.ancestry.com/library/view/news/articles/d_p_1_archive.asp ========================================================== The following article is from Eastman's Online Genealogy Newsletter and is copyright 2000 by Richard W. Eastman. It is re-published here with the permission of the author. If you do contact any of the companies or societies mentioned in this newsletter, please tell them that you read about their services in this newsletter. ============================================================== - Five Thousand Ways to Earn a Living So you found a record of your ancestor in the census? And it listed his occupation as a "barilla manufacturer?" Now you want to know what a barilla manufacturer is? A new Web site can help. Judith B Glad and an unnamed partner have teamed together to place a list of 5,000 trades and professions, as listed in old documents. I don't know if this includes all the occupations in the English language or not, but the list certainly must include most occupations! As a precaution from having the entire list "ripped off," only the occupation names are listed. To obtain a definition of a particular occupation, you need to contact Judith Glad directly. She will provide you with the definitions of up to five trades. The explanation and the entry to the occupations list can be found at: http://www.teleport.com/~heyjude/genealog.htm I looked through the long list and found many terms that I had never seen previously. OK Judith, so just what is a "geezer"? ==============================================================