Genealogy Chat

i have found rellies on freecen, were it gives the occupation, it says what there occupation was and below it, it says : Em'ee, what does it mean?? chris.

Do you mean it says Em'cee or do you mean it says MC? What is the occupation? Which census? nell

I would have though 'employee' - what is the head of household - whatever he is sounds like he employed them. If they are in their own dwelling then it is probably the transcriber 'back at the office' categorising jobs and status.

I think Heather is right........it's an abbreviation of employee When we are transcribing for FreeCen, we are given a maximum of 30 characters to squeeze the occupation into. That's fine if they're an Ag Lab. But if it says something like Farmer of 560 acres of land employing 5 men and 4 boys, then you can see that we have to abbreviate it as best we can. Hope that helps Jeanette x

of course---employee!!!!!!!! i knew it would be something simple!!!!!!! husband and son were general labourers, wife was field labourer. thanks for your help. when you think about it, we don't know we are born these days! when even the wife worked in the fields, and children as young as 10 were working in the fields, it really does make you think that WE have got it easy, at least we don't have to go and work in the fields!!

or down a mine/ata brick works/in a match factory! nell

And my GGFx4 was 76 and still an ag lab, poor old devil. Can you imagine, going out in the freezing cold, no thermals and trying to work in a blizzard? Probably with arthritis, flu, whatever? Makes you shudder doesnt it. Mind you he died aged 85.

Talking of iffy occupations, Someone was asking yesterday for another pair of eyes to interpret an occupation. It turned out to be a ''tambour worker''. If you google for that, there are all sorts of hits and many of them refer to horrendous working conditions. Christine

My gt-something-Grandad was an Ag Lab in his early 90s.