What trades and occupations have been in your family?

[paksaltopam]

Basically everyone on my dad's direct line have been blacksmiths as far back as I can trace. My mom's side were Winemakers/grape farmers?

[Shah-Jehan]

Zamindars (land lords)

A zamindar or zaminder or zemindar on the Indian subcontinent was an aristocrat, typically hereditary, who held enormous tracts of land and held control over his peasants, from whom the zamindars reserved the right to collect tax (often for military purposes). Over time, they took princely and royal titles such as Maharaja (Great King), Raja (King), Nawab (Lord), Mirza (Prince), Chowdhury (Lord), "Reddy", "Naidu," "Gounder," and many others. The word zamindar is derived ultimately from the Persian زمین Zamīn, "earth/land", and the common suffix دار -dār, "-holder" (also found in many of the terms above).[5] The term means, in Persian, 'land owner.'

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zamindar

[Sikeliot]

Drug dealer, bank teller, secretary, baker, accountant, and administrator.

[StonyArabia]

paternal side Farmers, Maternal side Sliversmiths, Horse breeders, and Camel herders

[Shah-Jehan]

Drug dealer, bank teller, secretary, baker, accountant, and administrator.

[paksaltopam]

Drug dealer, bank teller, secretary, baker, accountant, and administrator.

Mafia boss

[Sikeliot]

Mafia boss

My grandfather at least temporarily sold drugs as his main source of income, because he gambled the rest of his money away. I don't know what he did before that, but he did have a real job.

[Weedman]

had one great uncle who was a local pro-Wrestler like back in the 1950's/60's and shit.

my great-grandfather actually made moonshine, no bullshit.
He never did it as a big source of income however, and he just mainly sold it to his friends and stuff.

[paksaltopam]

My grandfather at least temporarily sold drugs as his main source of income, because he gambled the rest of his money away. I don't know what he did before that, but he did have a real job.

Where was he from?

[Sikeliot]

Where was he from?

Messina.