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Well here it is, February already! Soon it will be Spring and if you are like the staff here at Shared Ancestors you are more than ready for it!

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• Accomptant — Accountant
• Almoner — Giver of charity to the needy
• Amanuensis — Secretary or stenographer
• Artificer — A soldier mechanic who does repairs
• Bailie — Bailiff
• Baxter — Baker
• Bluestocking — Female writer
• Boniface — Keeper of an inn
• Brazier — One who works with brass
• Brewster — Beer manufacturer
• Brightsmith — Metal Worker
• Burgonmaster — Mayor
• Caulker — One who filled up cracks (in ships or windows or seems to them watertight by using tar or oakum-hemp fiber produced by taking old ropes apart
• Chaisemaker — Carriage maker
• Chandler — Dealer or trader; one who makes or sells candles; retailer of groceries
• Chiffonnier — Wig maker
• Clark — Clerk
• Clerk — Clergyman, cleric
• Clicker — The servant of a salesman who stood at the door to invite customers; one who received the matter in the galley from the compositors and arranged it in due form ready for printing; one who makes eyelet holes in boots using a machine which clicked.
• Cohen — Priest (descendant of Levi)
• Collier — Coal miner
• Colporteur — Peddler of books
• Cooper — One who makes or repairs vessels made of staves and hoops, such as casks, barrels, tubs, etc.
• Cordwainer — Shoemaker, originally any leather worker using leather from Cordova/Cordoba in Spain
• Costermonger — Peddler of fruits and vegetables
• Crocker — Potter
• Crowner — Coroner
• Currier — One who dresses the coat of a horse with a currycomb; one who tanned leather by incorporating oil or grease
• Docker Stevedore, dock worker who loads and unloads cargo
• Dowser — One who finds water using a rod or witching stick
• Draper — A dealer in dry goods
• Drayman — One who drives a long strong cart without fixed sides for carrying heavy loads
• Dresser — A surgeon’s assistant in a hospital
• Drover — One who drives cattle, sheep, etc. to market; a dealer in cattle
• Duffer — Peddler
• Factor — Agent, commission merchant; one who acts or transacts business for another; Scottish steward or bailiff of an estate Farrier A blacksmith, one who shoes horses
• Faulkner — Falconer
• Fell monger — One who removes hair or wool from hides in preparation for leather making
• Fletcher — One who made bows and arrows
• Fuller — One who fulls cloth;one who shrinks and thickens woolen cloth by moistening, heating, and pressing; one who cleans and finishes cloth
• Gaoler — A keeper of the goal, a jailer
• Glazier — Window glassman
• Hacker — Maker of hoes
• Hatcheler — One who combed out or carded flax
• Haymonger — Dealer in hay
• Hayward — Keeper of fences
• Higgler — Itinerant peddler
• Hillier — Roof tiler
• Hind — A farm laborer
• Hostler — A groom who took care of horses, often at an inn
• Hooker — Reaper
• Hooper — One who made hoops for casks and barrels
• Huckster — Sells small wares
• Husbandman — A farmer who cultivated the land
• Jagger — Fish peddler
• Journeyman — One who had served his apprenticeship and mastered his craft, not bound to serve a master, but hired by the day
• Joyner / Joiner A skilled carpenter
• Keeler — Bargeman
• Kempster — Wool comber
• Lardner — Keeper of the cupboard
• Lavender — Washer woman
• Lederer — Leather maker
• Leech — Physician
• Longshoreman — Stevedore
• Lormer — Maker of horse gear
• Malender — Farmer
• Maltster — Brewer
• Manciple — A steward
• Mason — Bricklayer
• Mintmaster — One who issued local currency
• Monger — Seller of goods (ale, fish)
• Muleskinner — Teamster
• Neatherder — Herds cows
• Ordinary Keeper — Innkeeper with fixed prices
• Pattern Maker — A maker of a clog shod with an iron ring. A clog was a wooden pole with a pattern cut into the end
• Peregrinator Itinerant wanderer
• Peruker — A wig maker
• Pettifogger — A shyster lawyer
• Pigman — Crockery dealer
• Plumber — One who applied sheet lead for roofing and set lead frames for plain or stained glass windows.
• Porter — Door keeper
• Puddler — Wrought iron worker
• Quarrier — Quarry worker
• Rigger — Hoist tackle worker
• Ripper — Seller of fish
• Roper — Maker of rope or nets
• Saddler — One who makes, repairs or sells saddles or other furnishings for horses
• Sawbones — Physician
• Sawyer — One who saws; carpenter
• Schumacker — Shoemaker
• Scribler — A minor or worthless author
• Scrivener — Professional or public copyist or writer; notary public
• Scrutiner — Election judge
• Shrieve — Sheriff
• Slater — Roofer
• Slopseller — Seller of ready-made clothes in a slop shop
• Snobscat/Snob — One who repaired shoes
• Sorter — Tailor
• Spinster — A woman who spins or an unmarried woman
• Spurrer — Maker of spurs
• Squire — Country gentleman; farm owner; justice of peace
• Stuff gown — Junior barrister
• Stuff gownsman — Junior barrister
• Supercargo — Officer on merchant ship who is in charge of cargo and the commercial concerns of the ship
• Tanner — One who tans (cures) animal hides into leather
• Tapley — One who puts the tap in an ale cask
• Tasker — Reaper
• Teamster — One who drives a team for hauling
• Thatcher — Roofer
• Tide waiter — Customs inspector
• Tinker — An itinerant tin pot and pan seller and repairman
• Tipstaff — Policeman
• Travers — Toll bridge collection
• Tucker — Cleaner of cloth goods
• Turner — A person who turns wood on a lathe into spindles
• Victualer — A tavern keeper, or one who provides an army, navy, or ship with food
• Vulcan — Blacksmith
• Wagoner — Teamster not for hire
• Wainwright — Wagon maker
• Waiter — Customs officer or tide waiter; one who waited on the tide to collect duty on goods brought in
• Waterman — Boatman who plies for hire
• Webster — Operator of looms
• Wharfinger — Owner of a wharf
• Wheelwright — One who made or repaired wheels; wheeled carriages, etc.
• Whitesmith — Tinsmith; worker of iron who finishes or polishes the work
• Whitewing — Street sweeper
• Whitster — Bleach of cloth
• Wright — Workman, especially a construction worker
• Yeoman — Farmer who owns his own land

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1. Illinois Census Returns 1820 – book – digital copy. In the Downloads section under Genealogy>Records

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• ID: I649291648
• Name: Emma Frances POST
• Given Name: Emma Frances
• Surname: Post
• Sex: F
• Birth: 4 Jul 1848 in Kane, Green Co, IL
• Death: 1926 in Larned, Pawnee Co, KS

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Three new recipes have been added to Shared Ancestors Family Recipe section. These 3 recipes are from my grandmother, Alexa Sevilla “Lexie” Garrett. They are old family recipes and I hope you enjoy them!

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   Ralph C. Vest, 82 of Aldrich, Mo., passed away at Cox Medical Center South, on Sunday December 27, 2009 at 8:55 p.m. Ralph was born near Walnut Grove and was a lifelong resident of the Walnut Grove and Aldrich areas. He was a farmer and retired rural mailcarrier retiring in 1987 after 30 years of service. Ralph was active in the Rural Letter Carriers Association. He was a 60 year member of the Eudora Baptist Church and was a World War II Navy veteran. He was a graduate of Marion C. Early High School in 1944. Ralph and Betty Dobbins were united in marriage on July 3, 1949. To this union two children were born. Together they were privileged to share over 60 years. He was preceded in death by his parents, James E. and Nannie Lowery Vest; four brothers, Arley, Victor, Floyd and Coy Vest; and two infant sisters. He is survived by his loving wife, Betty; one son, John and wife Donna Vest of Lebanon, Mo.; daughter Judy and husband Gary Parkison of Walnut Grove, Mo.; two sisters-in-law, Hannah Vest and Martha Coble; five grandchildren, Becky Vest, Joni and husband Gavin Floyd, Jamie Vest, Jeff and wife Kim Parkison and Kevin and wife Shylena Parkison; and two great-grandchildren, Zianna Parkison and Grayden Floyd; and anxiously awaiting the arrival of the third great-grandchild. Services will be held on Thursday, December 31, 2009 at 1:30 p.m. in the Eudora Baptist Church with Revs. Jim White and Lon Killingsworth officiating. Interment will follow in Greene Lawn Cemetery, Walnut Grove under the care and direction of Wilson-Brim-Daniel Funeral Home, Walnut Grove. Friends may call after 4 p.m., Wednesday, in the funeral home chapel where the family will receive friends from 6 to 8 p.m. Memorials may be given in his memory to the Eudora Baptist Church Activity Building Fund.

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   We have emailed our January 2010 newsletter to members and it is now posted online. It is full of great recipes, genealogy info, family news, etc. We hope you enjoy this month’s issue and when you are done we ask that you pass or email it to all of your family friends!

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