1. Online Resources for Professions and Occupations
Peter Christian
Who Do You Think You Are? Live
NEC, April 2015

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3. General Links The Genealogist’s Internet UKGDL
The National Archives: Looking for a person?
State employees
People in state-regulated occupations, e.g.
merchant seamen
teachers

4. Occupational Terms OED Online lists (mostly unsourced!)
Census documentation

5. OED

6. Scots Family: Old Occupations in Scotland

7. Commercial Data Services
All have occupational & professional records, e.g.
Post Office Appointment Books (Ancestry)
Teacher Registrations (Findmypast)
Professional directories (TheGenealogist, Ancestry)
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8. Digitised general publications
London Gazette
Official posts
Newspapers
Directories
Trades
Older printed books at
The Internet Archive
Google Books

9. London Gazette 9/4/1899

10. Northampton 1852

11. Internet Archive: An alphabetical arrangement of all the Wesleyan Methodist ministers and preachers on trail in connexion with the British and Irish Conferences. also, a list of the presidents of the Conference from 1791 to 1892; and an alphabetical list of the ministers who have died in the work (1896)

12. “Learned” Professions
University educated
Clergy
Lawyers
Doctors
Academics
Well documented
Many published sources
Professional directories

13. Cambridge Alumni

14. CCEd

15. “Modern” Professions Recent records generally unavailable
Professional bodies
Royal Institute of British Architects (1834)
Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (1868)
Trade Unions
National Union of Teachers (1870)
Royal College of Nursing (1916)

16. Apprentices Apprentice Indenture Duty 1710-1811
Ancestry, TheGenealogist
Manchester Apprentices
Findmypast
Elec. Engineering Apprentices
County Record Offices

17. The Livery Companies London Apprenticeship Abstracts
Findmypast
Records of London's Livery Companies Online (ROLLCO)
Nine companies (of the 58) so far
Not just London ancestors!

19. Individual Occupations
Funded
British Book Trade Index
Scottish Textile Heritage Online
National Fairground Archive
Warwickshire Victuallers Database
Coalmining History Resource Centre
Volunteer
The Blacksmiths Index
Corkcutters in England
British Lighthouse Keepers Database
Funded: typically on CRO or university sites

21. Business Records Official company sites Volunteer sites
National Register of Archives
Scottish Business Archive
Newspapers
Advertisements
Bankruptcies in the London Gazette
Official: Guinness
Volunteer: J Lyons

24. Trade Unions Trade Union Ancestors Modern Records Centre
UA: trees, bio of officials, info on reseraching TU ancestors
MRC details of TU records held, including mem. records

25. Union Ancestors

27. Discussion Groups Mailing Lists Forums Genuki for UK lists
RootsWeb for wider coverage
Forums
British Genealogy (24 occupations)
Ancestry (50 occupations, US bias)
RootsChat: Occupation Interests forum

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