Course enrollment: AM-305 - American: Occupational Records

Purchase for the enrollment into the course 'American: Occupational Records' at https://genealogicalstudies.com.

Genealogy and the study of family history are more than just the gathering of names and dates. To understand our ancestors, we must look at all aspects of their life, including what they did for a living. This course will focus on occupational records and what they can reveal about our ancestors’ lives.

To learn more about an individual’s occupation the researcher must utilize more than one record. Once the researcher has searched familiar records like the census, city directories, and newspapers, they must continue on with archival records that may document the ancestor’s specific occupation and activities surrounding that occupation. This requires the researcher to access data from many different sources and then analyzes the data to gain the most complete picture of an individual and their occupation or life’s work.

Approximate contact hours to complete this course: 18