Occupations

Occupational terms

• [129] Oxford English Dictionary
• [129] Ministry of Labour: Dictionary of Occupational Terms - now online
• [129] Dictionary of Occupational Titles,
• [130] GenDocs: Ranks, Professions, Occupations and Trades
• [130] Dictionary of Ancient Occupations and Trades, Ranks, Offices, and Titles
• [130] Olive Tree Genealogy: Medieval And Obsolete English Trade And Professional Terms
• [130] Old Occupation Names
• [131] Scots Family: Old Occupations in Scotland
• [131] Pottery Jobs Index
• [131] Histpop: Code for Occupations, 1911 Cemsus
• [131] British History Online: Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities, 1550-1820

General information

• [132] National Archives: Looking for a person?
• [132] Modern Records Centre: Are you looking for an ancestor?
• [133] British Library: India Office Records: Occupations
• [133] City livery companies
• [134] Records of London's Livery Companies Online: Apprentices and Freemen 1400-1900 (ROLLCO) - now launched
• [134] Cyndi's List: Occupations
• [134] Cyndi's List: Prisons

Individual industries and occupations

• [134] Peter Christian's public bookmarks: Occupations
• [134] Database of Sugar Bakers and Sugar Refiners
• [134] ? Biographical Database of British Chemists - currently unavailable
• [134] Coalmining History Resource Centre
• [134] Office Holders in Modern Britain
• [134] Corkcutters in England
• [134] British Book Trade Index
• [134] National Library of Scotland: Scottish Book Trade Index (SBTI)
• [135] Royal College of Nursing: Family history
• [135] Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors: Family history
• [135] Findmypast: Teachers’ Registrations
• [135] Findmypast: British Civil Service Evidence of Age
• [135] Ancestry: Railway Employment Records 1833-1963
• [136] Ancestry: British Postal Service Appointment Books, 1737-1969
• [136] The Genealogist
• [136] Lancashire Records Office: Police Records Search
• [136] Warwickshire County Record Office: Victuallers Database
• [137] Genealogy Resources on the Internet: Occupations Mailing Lists
• [137] RootsWeb: Occupations Mailing Lists
• [137] RootsWeb: England Mailing Lists
• [138] British-Genealogy: Occuaptions forum
• [138] Railway Ancestors Family History Society
• [138] London & North Western Railway Society: Staff History Group

The learned professions

• [140] Internet Archive
• [140] Wikipedia: Alumni Cantabrigienses
• [140] Ancestry: Alumni Cantabrigienses
• [140] ACAD - A Cambridge Alumni Database
• [140] Internet Archive: Foster’s Alumni Oxonienses
• [140] Ancestry: Foster’s Alumni Oxonienses
• [140] Oxford University Alumni with Cardiff & Vale Of Glamorgan Connections
• [140] Family Relatives
• [141] Balliol College Oxford: Tracing a Balliol Man

The legal profession

• [141] National Archives: Looking for records of a lawyer
• [141] National Archives: Lawyers: Records of Attorneys and Solicitors
• [141] The Law Society: How to trace past solicitors
• [141] Inner Temple: Admissions Database
• [141] Inner Temple

Medicine

• [141] Royal College of General Practitioners: Tracing Your Medical Ancestors
• [142] British Medical Association: Tracing a doctor for historical research
• [142] Guildhall Library: Sources For Tracing Apothecaries, Surgeons, Physicians And Other Medical Practitioners At Guildhall Library
• [142] Royal College of Physicians: Munk's Roll
• [142] Lambeth Palace Library: Medical Licences Issued by the Archbishop of Canterbury 1535-1775
• [142] Ancestry: UK Medical Registers
• [142] RootsWeb: DOCTORS-NURSES-MIDWIVES mailing list
• [142] Cyndi's List: Medical & Medicine: Doctors and Nurses
• [142] Wellcome Institute: Library

The Church

• [142] Guildhall Library: Sources For Tracing Clergy And Lay Persons
• [143] Lambeth Palace Library: Biographical sources for Anglican clergy
• [143] Clergy of the Church of England Database
• [143] Clergy of the Church of England Database: Current Content
• [143] British History Online: Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae
• [143] Institute of Historical Research: Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae: Indexes
• [140] Internet Archive: Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae
• [143] Scottish Minsters Index
• [144] RootsWeb: CHURCHMEN-UK
• [144] British-Genealogy: Clergymen forum
• [144] Mundus

Company records

• [144] National Archives: National Register of Archives
• [144] Business Archives Council of Scotland: Records of the 100 Oldest Scottish Companies
• [144] An electronic history of J.Lyons & Co. and some of its 700 subsidiaries
• [144] RBS Heritage Online
• [144] RBS Heritage Online: Family history
• [145] a Trace Your Guinness Roots

Trade unions

• [145] Trade Union Ancestors
• [146] Chartist Ancestors
• [146] Trades Union Congress Library Collections

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