{"id":34026,"date":"2026-05-23T09:04:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-23T14:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=34026"},"modified":"2026-05-24T09:05:51","modified_gmt":"2026-05-24T14:05:51","slug":"occupational-cluese","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/23\/occupational-cluese\/","title":{"rendered":"Occupational Clues"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Are you looking in other records besides census records and death certificates for occupational clues on your ancestor?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><br>Obituaries may provide information about your ancestor&#8217;s occupation or at least mention memberships that&nbsp; may provide some indirect insight. Estate inventories are good places to get an idea of what occupation your ancestor might have had. Those with city-dwellers in their family tree should use city directories for clues of this type. Land records in some locations may provide occupations as a way to clearly distinguish the individuals involved in the transaction. Court records may also provide some insight into your ancestor&#8217;s&nbsp;occupation. And don\u2019t forget some European church records use occupations to distinguish men of the same names from each other.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Any record could provide information about your ancestor&#8217;s&nbsp;occupation. Just make certain you have located all extant records on your ancestor.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Are you looking in other records besides census records and death certificates for occupational clues on your ancestor? Obituaries may provide information about your ancestor&#8217;s occupation or at least mention memberships that&nbsp; may provide some indirect insight. Estate inventories are good places to get an idea of what occupation your ancestor might have had. Those [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":153979,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34026","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/153979"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34026"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34026\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}