List of occupations. There are a good many lists of occupations on the internet. Do a google.com search *list of occupations* For genealogists, CyndisList may be the place to start. (About the third one down the list of hits) Ah, yes, I have English cousins and I love to visit that country (when the dollar is in better shape than at present). We in the United States kind of speak the same language as our cousins in Great Britain!!! But not really!!! When my English cousin who is very tiny suggested I put on her *wellies*, I had no idea what she was referring to. She brought her rubber boots, very useful particularly in a rural area where she lives. (Do you know what a *fry breakfast* is?) My long-ago British ancestor was a gamekeeper, but if this occupation is known in the United States, I don't know about it. His ancestor before him was a ratcatcher [old parish record--useful occupation where grain was stored, as it is almost everywhere in England]. And *servant*--some old US censuses use that term for unemployed older adolescents, particularly female, it seems, but except for very wealthy households, servant is not used a good deal in US censuses. Dairymaid? Have you seen that in a US census? Tell me about it. A couple of years ago I was on a ferry boat from Isle of Man to the Lancaster area. I hardly understood one word among the other passengers--different dialects all over England!!! (And in parts of the US--my husband who is hard of hearing, asked me to translate the language of a waitperson in a restaurant on the Outer Banks of North Carolina. The poor girl was sorely embarassed--she could not help the way she had been brought up!) Cherish the differences!!! And use google.com a LOT. E.W.Wallace