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by My Daughter. Chatting to find her Roots !
(Old) German Occupations, Trades, and Professions
« on: Thursday 23 August 07 16:36 BST (UK) »
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.

Quote from: IGS on Monday 20 August 07 01:58 BST (UK)
While we're on the topic, this page comes in handy for figuring out old German occupations:

http://www.tr62.de/occupations/groups.htm
so far only up to B, but still growing


Quote from: rjknott on Monday 20 August 07 08:32 BST (UK)
Some more old German occupations [...]

http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~george/oldgermanprofessions.html#Tabagist


Quote from: SwissGill on Monday 20 August 07 08:40 BST (UK)
Some more:

http://www.andreas-karstens.de/Berufe/berufe.htm

It'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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