Occupation of your ancestors: what was the most surprizing for you?

[Aila]

I come from a long line of folk healers, yet it was somewhat of a surprise to find a regionally famous Saami Shaman/Noide and a Karelian ‘Noita’ + some well-known Rune Singers in the family tree …
Other than that they were hunters, farmers, small industrialists, shopkeepers and ‘laukkuryssäs’= wandering traders of Karelian origin even though they were called “Russians” by Finns. laukku (bag) +‎ ryssä (Russian).

[Beowulf]

One of them was part of the Real Chancilleria de Granada.

[hazmatnik]

One my great great great grandpa was bagpiper, which is interesting, since bagpipes are not so popular in Serbia but they were popular in SE Serbia. I'm huge fan of bagpipes.
My paternal great great grandpa was loanshark, i still keep all documents from 1890s.

[Jingle Bell]

A singer, compositor, writer

[Kazimiera]

My great-grandparents were Polish migrant workers in Germany. Great-grandpa worked in the coal mines in Poland (Silesia) and got black lung disease. He and my great grandmother moved to Germany and worked in the fields harvesting I-don't-know-what. My grandfather was a butcher. He also made his own vodka from potatoes and slaughtered pigs on the quiet during the War, which he sold without the authorities finding out.

As for my father's side, I have no idea.

EDIT: I forgot to mention, my other great-grandfather was a carpenter and undertaker. Amongst other stuff, he made coffins.

[Anglo-Celtic]

My great-grandfather's occupations were listed as "labor" and "servant" when he was 14! I thought that slavery was illegal in the Twentieth Century.

[thatoneton]

My great-grandparents were Polish migrant workers in Germany. Great-grandpa worked in the coal mines in Poland (Silesia) and got black lung disease. He and my great grandmother moved to Germany and worked in the fields harvesting I-don't-know-what. My grandfather was a butcher. He also made his own vodka from potatoes and slaughtered pigs on the quiet during the War, which he sold without the authorities finding out.

As for my father's side, I have no idea.

Cool, I never asked, but thought that you may have some Polish ancestry (sorry if you already wrote it somewhere here and I didn't see it).
That's also why you're Catholic?

[Kazimiera]

Cool, I never asked, but thought that you may have some Polish ancestry (sorry if you already wrote it somewhere here and I didn't see it).
That's also why you're Catholic?

You are 100% correct.

[Scarface F]

This is what I know:

Maternal grandma: housewife, graduated to be a teacher in French and Italian language, never worked
Paternal grandma: housewife, studied economics (did not graduate)
Maternal grandpa: doctor of medicine
Paternal grandpa: dentist and painter

Maternal grandma parents: a housewife with business school education and a business owner (inclunding a shipping company and race horses)

Maternal grandpa parents: a peasant woman and a underage immigrant to USA, he started as physical laborer and dishwasher in Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New York, took part in building of Madison Square Garden, later moved west and had a fishing company with small fleet of boats

Paternal grandma parents: peasants from small village in Dalmatia who moved to the capital, he got job in a printing house, she was housewife

Paternal grandpa parents: an officer in Austro-Hungarian army and a housewife who played double bass in taverns and earned some extra money from it

[Oghuz]

Father: Professor of Physics (Retd.), Landlord (Feudalism abolished after Enghelabe Sefid White Revolution in 1960s by Pahlavi Regime)
Grandfather: Medical doctor, Feudal Landlord.
Great Grandfather: Military Commander (Emir Toman), Feudal Landlord.
Great-Great Grandfather: Military General (Sarlashkar Grand Emir), Governor "Farmanfarma"

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Earliest Known male ancestor in 12th century: Brutal A-hole.