{"id":256,"date":"2016-10-10T19:28:03","date_gmt":"2016-10-10T19:28:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.genealogyatheart.com\/?p=256"},"modified":"2016-10-10T19:28:03","modified_gmt":"2016-10-10T19:28:03","slug":"careers-of-yesteryear-and-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.genealogyatheart.com\/?p=256","title":{"rendered":"Careers of Yesteryear&#8230;And Today!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Originally published on genealogyatheart.blogspot.com on 28 Jan 2016.<\/p>\n<p>Last week I took an interesting webinar called <em>Your Ancestor Was\u2026Occupations of our Ancestors<\/em> by Nancy Waters\u00a0Lauer through the Florida State Genealogical Society.\u00a0 I had never heard of many of the occupations the presenter mentioned.\u00a0Have you ever heard of a brightsmith? \u00a0It&#8217;s a metal worker. How about a bluestocking? \u00a0That was a female writer.<\/p>\n<p>I guess this topic was in the back of my mind as I continue to work on my Kinship Determination Project for my Certified Genealogist portfolio this week.<\/p>\n<p>Guess what century I\u2019m working on based on the \u201chot\u201d jobs of the individuals I\u2019m writing about:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u00a0\u00a0Blacksmith<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0 Wagon Maker<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0 Farmer<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If you speculated it was the 19<sup>th<\/sup> Century you are correct!<\/p>\n<p>Funny, but I did an Interest Inventory with my students recently and I found many scored high in the areas of Transportation and Agriculture, Food &amp; Natural Resources.\u00a0 I doubt any of my students will turn out to be blacksmiths or wagon makers but the allure of travel and the interest in food production definitely continues in this century.\u00a0 The more the world changes the more it stays the same!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Originally published on genealogyatheart.blogspot.com on 28 Jan 2016. Last week I took an interesting webinar called Your Ancestor Was\u2026Occupations of our Ancestors by Nancy Waters\u00a0Lauer through the Florida State Genealogical Society.\u00a0 I had never heard of many of the occupations the presenter mentioned.\u00a0Have you ever heard of a brightsmith? \u00a0It&#8217;s a metal worker. How about &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.genealogyatheart.com\/?p=256\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Careers of Yesteryear&#8230;And Today!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[242,241],"class_list":["post-256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","tag-careers","tag-jobs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyatheart.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyatheart.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyatheart.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyatheart.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyatheart.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=256"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyatheart.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":257,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyatheart.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256\/revisions\/257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyatheart.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyatheart.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyatheart.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}