Work plays a major role in everyone's life. Occupational and work related records can contain a wealth of information about individuals and the nature of their work life. This is a under-utilised area for family history research that all researchers should endeavour to investigate. This book is designed to assist researchers to discover what resources are available for researching the working lives of our families.
This book offers a format where the categories and record descriptions can be easily browsed. It is arranged alphabetically by category, and it is fully referenced and includes a place index. There are over ninety occupational categories with reference to hundreds of books, microfilm, CD-ROMs, and internet sites.
Contents:
Finding Occupational Records
Directories and Occupations
Occupational Terminology
Locating Occupational Records
Pictures of Australians at Work
Accountants
Architects
Armed Services
Armed Services: Colonial
Armed Services: Personnel Records
Armed Services: The Conflicts
Armed Services: The Services
Artists
Aviators
Bakers
Bankers
Blacksmiths
Booksellers and Publishers
Brewers
Brickmakers
Business, Industry and Company Records
Business, Industry and Company Histories
Butchers and Meatworks
Cab Drivers
Camel Drivers
Circus Performers and Show Folk
Construction Workers, Builders and Public Works
Convicts
Customs Officers
Dairying
Dentists
Drovers and Stockmen
Engineers
Farmers and Graziers
Firefighters
Flour Millers
Foresters and Loggers
Fruit Growers
Funeral Directors
Furniture Industry
Gasworks
Gold and Silversmiths, Jewellers
Governesses
Gunsmiths and Firearms
Horse Racing Industry
Horticulturists and Nurseymen
Illustrators
Inventors
Ironworkers
Jam Makers
Journalists, Writers, Authors
Labourers
Lacemakers
Legal Profession
Librarians
Lighthouse Keepers
Media
Medical Practitioners
Miners
Miners - Gold
Music
Music - Rock and Roll
Music - Teachers
Nurses
Oceanographers
Optometrists
Pastoralists
Pearl Industry
Performing Arts
Performing Arts - Film
Performing Arts - Theatre
Pharmacists
Photographers
Police Officers
Politicians
Postal Service
Public Servants
Publicans
Quarantine
Radio and Television
Railway Employees
Real Estate Agents
Religious
Religious - Brothers
Religious - Nuns
Roadbuilders
Scientists
Seamen
Shearers
Stock and Station Agents
Stockbrokers
Surveyors
Tanners
Teachers
Telecommunications
Trade Catalogues
Tramway Employees
Utility Companies
Veterinary Surgeons
Vignerons
Whalers
Zoologists
