It's Saturday Night,
time for more Genealogy Fun!!
For this week's mission (should you decide to accept it), I challenge you to:
1) Geneablogger Diane Gould Hall posted WORKDAY WEDNESDAY – What kind of work did your ancestors do? on her Michigan Family Trails blog last year, and I thought the topic could be used as an SNGF post.
2) Please go back several generations (say parents or grandparents or great-grandparents) and list the occupations that they had in the records you've found for them. You could do this, say, by ancestor table number.
3) Tell us about it in your own blog post, in a comment on this blog post, or in a post on Facebook or Google+.
Here's mine:
I'm going to use Ancestor Table number, starting with my parents and going back to my great-grandparents:
2) Frederick W. Seaver (1911-1983), my father, had these occupations:
* 1940: Sales manager in a finance company (1940 US Census)
* 1940: Investigator for a loan bank corporation (1940 US Census)
* 1942-1944: Clerk for an aircraft manufacturing company in Chula Vista
* 1944-1946: Mailman 3rd class in United States Navy aboard USS Halford
* 1947-1971: Prudential Life Insurance agent in San Diego
3) Betty V. (Carringer) Seaver (1919-2002), my mother:
* 1941-1942: Art and English teacher at Wilson Junior High School in San Diego
* 1942-1943: Clerk at an aircraft manufacturing company in Chula Vista
* 1944-1946: Art teacher at Memorial Junior High School in San Diego
4) Frederick W. Seaver (1876-1942), my grandfather:
* 1900: Painter of combs at plastics factory in Leominster, Mass.
* 1910: Superintendent of a comb shop in Leominster, Mass.
* 1918: Superintendent at Paton Manufacturing Company in Leominster, Mass.
* 1920: Superintendent of a comb shop in Leominster, Mass.
* 1930: Superintendent of a celluloid company in Leominster, Mass.
* 1940: Foreman at Viscoloid company in Leominster, Mass.
5) Alma Bessie (Richmond) Seaver (1882-1962), my grandmother:
* 1900: housework in Leominster, Mass.
6) Lyle L. Carringer (1891-1976), my grandfather:
* 1920: Auditor, works in dry goods store in San Diego
* 1930: Office worker, works in dry goods store in San Diego
* 1940: Office clerk - Marston's Department Store in San Diego
* 1960: retired as Accountant at Marston's Department Store in San Diego
7) Emily K. (Auble) Carringer (1899-1977), my grandmother:
* 1940: Clerical and saleslady at Marston's Department Store in San Diego
8) Frank Walton Seaver (1852-1922), my great-grandfather:
* 1874: Ironworker in Leominster, Mass. (marriage record)
* 1880: works in a comb shop in Leominster, Mass.
* 1900: Teamster in Leominster, Mass.
* 1910: Assistant superintendent at horn shop in Leominster, Mass.
* 1920: Assistant superintendent at horn shop in Leominster, Mass.
9) Hattie L. (Hildreth) Seaver (1857-1920), my great-grandmother:
* 1880: Keeping house in Leominster, Mass.
10) Thomas Richmond (1848-1917), my great-grandfather:
* 1870: Works in a woolen mill in Stonington, Conn.
* 1880: Overseer in a woolen mill in Killingly, Conn.
* 1900: Overseer of a woolen mill in Leominster, Mass.
* 1910: Carder in a woolen mill in Killingly, Conn.
11) Julia (White) Richmond (1848-1913):
* 1870: Keeping house in Stonington, Conn.
* 1880: Keeping house in Killingly, Conn.
12) Henry Austin Carringer (1853-1946), my great-grandfather:
* 1880: Millwright and carpenter in Boulder, Colorado
* 1889-1897: Carpenter at Russ Planing Mill in San Diego (City Directories)
* 1900: Carpenter in San Diego.
* 1910: Carpenter in San Diego.
* 1920: Cabinet maker, works in a furniture store in San Diego
* 1930: Aviation technician at Rockwell Field, San Diego
* 1940: Retired millwright and mechanic in San Diego
13) Della (Smith) Carringer, (1862-1944), my great-grandmother:
* 1880: Keeping house in Blue Rapids, Kansas
* 1940: Housework in own home in San Diego
14) Charles Auble (1849-1916), my great-grandfather:
* 1870: A painter in Terre Haute, Indiana
* 1880: A painter in Terre Haute, Indiana
* 1900: A house decorator in Chicago, Illinois
* 1910: A house decorator in Chicago, Illinois
* 1913-1915: A painter in San Diego (City directories)
15) Georgianna (Kemp) Auble (1868-1952):
* 1940: Housework in own home in San Diego.
That's enough for now! I know that I have more City Directory records for all of these folks, but they are not listed in my database. I should add them!
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