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Going way, way back, mostly farmers, millers, and blacksmiths with a few pastors for good measure. Beginning in the the early twentieth century, farmers, machinists, and teachers raised engineers, doctors, and more teachers.
Paternal grandfather-Doctor
Paternal grandmother-Housewife/cookbook author/magazine & newspaper food article writer
Her father was a wholesale grocer. Founder of a grocery store chain.
I found a guy way back in the late middle ages who was an "Ale Sitter" and was fined for not sitting in the ale. I guess he didn't like it. Apparently, brewers had guys dressed in leather pants sit in a puddle of ale on a bench until they stuck to the bench because of the sugar content of the ale. They needed a certain amount for proper fermentation and had no other way to measure it. He turned out not to be directly related but some sort of a cousin to my line.
On my father's side they started out as whalers, career military, politicians, and most recently involved in finance and owning businesses.
My mother's side had a published minister to the crown, the adjutant general of the Mobile Ala confederate troops, a couple of female teachers, and my grandfather with his degree who managed the affairs of wealthy individuals during the robber baron period whose estates were essentially self contained upscale private towns.
My mom was a factory worker my dad was middle management...
One grandfather was a coal miner, one was a factory worker in the North.
One great grandfather was a Police officer for a time, one was a minister and also worked for the rail road.
Most of my 2nd GG Fathers and further back were sod busters (Farmers). I did have a 3rd GG Father who was a Cooper (Barrel Maker) and his dad, my 4th ggf owned and operated a MILL in Middle Tn just before the Civil War..
Father's side 1600-present. Germany to U.S......artist/sculpturers, doctors, castle masters, postmasters, burgemeesters, college teachers, judges, geophysicists (grandfather searched for oil all over South and then North America) and bankers. Father worked for Federal Reserve for 30+ years.
Mothers side 1800-present. Poland to U.S.......Farmers, blacksmiths, and banker. Mother was Administrative Director for the Houston Chapter of the American Institute of Banking (AIB) for many years.
I'm the black sheep. I'm a retired weldor.
I've got gardeners, landscapers, Vaudeville performers, parole officers, ditch diggers, air traffic controllers, real estate developers, wood choppers (seriously), farmers, fishermen, interior decorators, motormen, book binders, hucksters, waitresses and an administrative supervisor. Not too exciting really.
Most of mine were pretty "normal" jobs. But there was one ancestor who was pretty interesting.
He was a doctor with the Prussian Royal Medical college (I forget what they were called at the moment), exiled from Germany in 1848 due to the revolutions, had his property taken from him, and he started over in America as a doctor. While this was his profession, he also spearheaded building the education system in his new home region, was recognized as a remarkable man in various community records, and was a delegate to the Republican Conventions in 1860 and 1868 (voted for Lincoln and Grant).
My paternal grandmother's parents and grandparents were all turkey farmers. They were doing it back in Ukraine. My paternal grandfather's family were farmers too - they grew corn, rice, and soy, and herded pigs. Some of them were miners. My mother's family had a variety of jobs, mostly working-class ones. There were a lot of maids in her family, especially on the Italian side - my maternal grandmother was a maid herself.
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