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Topic: (Old) German Occupations, Trades, and Professions (Read 98 times)
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Berlin-Bob
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by My Daughter. Chatting to find her Roots !
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In every country there are trades, jobs and professions that die out in the course of time.
Here are some links which might be useful, if you are trying to decipher (old) german occupations.
so far only up to B, but still growing
Some more: http://www.andreas-karstens.de/Berufe/berufe.htmIt's only in German but if you click on the left on "Alte Berufe" and then Weitere Berufe is a pull down menu, you can click on "T" or whatever. Translating it afterwards is probably not a problem on this forum.
And here's one I found on a german FH Forum
http://www.muehle-com.de/HP-Tools/html/berufe.html
You can find all sorts of occupations here.
The most important thing about this site is that each occupation is listed
- in normal, current type,
- in Kurrent - an old handwriting style
- in Sütterlin - another handwriting style.
- with a short description (in german)
Also useful if you have official documents with names, as it gives you an idea
of the style, and also, as in every language, many trades and professions later became surnames
("the butcher, the baker, the candlestick maker, the farmer, the smith, ....)
On the left of the screen, you will see two links
- Berufe (deutsch) = Occup. (german)
- Berufe (latein) = Occup. (latin)
Click on either one and you will get a row of letters, A-Z, at the bottom of the screen.
Click on a letter to to view a PDF file with the occupations.
Good hunting, Viel Spaß, viel Glück !!
Bob
ps
See also
Topic: Deciphering german handwriting
http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,251912.0.html
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