Calling all Genea-Musings Fans:
It's Saturday Night again -
time for some more Genealogy Fun!!
Here is your assignment if you choose to play along (cue the Mission Impossible music, please!):
1) Which of your ancestors had an unusual occupation?
2) Tell us about it in a blog post of your own, in a comment on this blog, or in a Facebook post.
Here's mine:
I think my ancestor with the most unusual occupation is my 2nd great-grandfather, Devier James Lamphier Smith (1839-1894).
In the scrapbook of his daughter, Della (Smith) Carringer, I found this advertisement:
Devier J. Smith, of McCook, Nebraska, was a SNAKE OIL SALESMAN!! Er, hair tonic salesman. Only $2 a bottle in about 1889. It will give life to the roots, and make the hair very soft and glossy.
Only 130 years before my time, eh? I could have used it 40 years ago.
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6 comments:
$2 in 1889 would about $54 today!
There are several generations of nail-makers in my family.
(The kind you hammer.)
Here's mine, Randy!
https://gatapleytree.blogspot.com/2019/08/saturday-night-genealogy-fun-ancestor.html
I really enjoyed this! I found some other interesting occupations, but this was my favorite!
Here's mine:
https://loiswillis.blog/2019/08/25/sunday-afternoon-genealogy-fun-ancestor-with-most-unusual-occupation/
This was the most unusual occupation I could find - most of my ancestors had common occupations
Here's mine! Not very exciting, though.
http://www.ancestraldiscoveries.com/2019/08/saturday-night-genealogy-fun-ancestor.html
Mine is a policeman at a prison in Copenhagen in the 1870s - https://emptybranchesonthefamilytree.com/2019/08/saturday-night-genealogy-fun-52/
I had to do some major research to get this one written. My great-grandaunt may have been the first woman elected to Tax Collector. I'd have to do more research to be sure.
https://mytrailsintothepast.blogspot.com/2019/08/saturday-night-genealogy-fun-ancestor.html
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