Topic Talk – Changing Occupations and Occupations Changing

Sometimes it was push, sometimes pull. It was a step or a leap. Perhaps it was goat herder to farmer? Peasant to shoemaker? Housebuilder to inventor? Maybe someone had a lifelong occupation, but how did it evolve? What were the effects on that person? Family? Community? Society? Genealogists have a job to do–explaining the story; let’s get to work!