Old German Professions Occupations and Illnesses is a RootsWeb resource that comes in handy as when translating parish records.

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?)

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?)

schumann1I’m new to this, so it took me a while (and some helpful reader comments) to see that my great-great-grandfather, Friedrich Schumann, had the status of an Ackerbürger, or citizen farmer. It’s consistent across records and now I know what the word means.