Some of our ancestors seem to go through all the census returns with the same occupation yet others seem to change from census to census – but did they really change job? Did they have two jobs? What is that obscure occupation listed?
We will explore the changes in occupation recording over all the censuses and the 1939 Register and look at how to find out more about what people really did and maybe who they worked for or where they worked.
Have you got a really obscure occupation amongst your collection of ancestors that you want to know more about?
Whilst this talk will concentrate on census returns, the resources can still be used for other records, for example, baptisms, marriages etc.
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About the Speaker
John Hanson FSG
John Hanson worked for many years for one of the country’s major banks, ending up as a Systems Specialist in mainframe databases. John has written extensively on family history subjects and has been a lecturer and teacher in family history for over twenty-five years, particularly on computers in genealogy and the census. He served on the executive committee of the Guild of One-Name Studies for several years and also as a trustee and served on many committees at the Society of Genealogists. He is currently the research director of the Halsted Trust and is a Fellow of SoG.
