Today's Follow Friday is a list of Old German Professions, Occupations and Illnesses
my own dear husband found for me in about six seconds of Google searching and it's been very helpful in my recent Prussian research.
(I think he got tired of me asking him to translate things. I guess what he learned when he was posted to Schweinfurt and Baumholder doesn’t necessarily translate to nineteenth century genealogy records. It's pretty obvious I don't have even ein klein wenig of German, isn't it?)
(I think he got tired of me asking him to translate things. I guess what he learned when he was posted to Schweinfurt and Baumholder doesn’t necessarily translate to nineteenth century genealogy records. It's pretty obvious I don't have even ein klein wenig of German, isn't it?)
Note: The original URL for Old German Professions, Occupations and Illnesses only loads as a Google cache these days. It’s also up at RootsWeb, but that artistic use of the German flag for a background makes it fairly unreadable.
Today's post also has a question. In the four following images,
what's the word ____bürger following the name Schumann? I know it's his
occupation and I have an idea, but I can always use more help. Feel free
to weigh in in the comments section and thanks in advance from me, my husband, and
Friedrich Schumann.
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Thanks so much for sharing this link! I'm even taking a German class - but this isn't what we learn in class :-)
ReplyDeleteI'm glad it's helpful, Diana. I was thinking about taking German, so I'm impressed that you're actually doing it.
ReplyDeleteIt looks like ACKER to me. Which would be those old farmer types again.
ReplyDeleteWhat I have done in working with old german script is to take it to staples and have it enlarged. Then I use the LDS guide on Germany or German Script and compare the letters in the guide to the ones on the enlarged copy. It makes it a lot easier to read.
ReplyDeleteHi
ReplyDeleteI am a familyresarcher from Germany and I think that I might know what you are looking for.
Your 'example 2' is really good and I can read
'Ackerbürger'. But you might ask now what that precisely might be. As far as I know he was a farmer with the citizenship of a particular town he was living. So he had a farm in the border of the city. It is not a typical city job like shoemaker, goldsmith just to name an example.
Regards Viktor
Hi Viktor:
ReplyDeleteThank you very much for the confirmation. Ackerbürger did turn out to be correct for my great-great grandfather. I appreciate your help.