Taking Simone's advice...I started looking in the archives. There is a message from Mar of 2000 that is a list of occupations. My question is this...are those the old names for occupations in just the Texas area, the entire US and does the list also include names of occupations from the British Isles? Thanks Adina Pasadena California

I would think that these are pretty general occupations. As a lot of the people emigrating to the USA came from the British Isles, then they would have brought the same names with them. Later on they would have been changed and adapted by the people in the different areas. An example of this in England is the name for a plimsoll - not sure what you call them in the USA ! Primary school children still wear them here for PE. They are a canvas shoe, usually black, with laces or an elastic section on the top of the foot - fast disappearing as trainers take over. These are known as 'plimsolls' in the South and East, 'pumps' up here in the North and 'daps' in the West. This is the archives address that Adina found the occupations list on in March 2000 http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/TXBEXAR/ This is another list, with some of the oldest occupations that appear on Census. They can also help one work out household or farm items found on Wills. http://www.amlwchdata.co.uk/occupations.htm Simone. Adina wrote 12 June 2005 20:02 > Taking Simone's advice...I started looking in the archives. There is a message from Mar of 2000 that is a list of occupations. My question is this...are those the old names for occupations in just the Texas area, the entire US and does the list also include names of occupations from the British Isles? Thanks Adina Pasadena California ============================== Census images 1901, 1891, 1881 and 1871, plus so much more. Ancestry.com's United Kingdom & Ireland Collection. Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13968/rd.ashx