Source: Random Acts of Kindness – Family Tree Encyclopedia
The following list describes the various old occupations of which many are archaic. These are useful to genealogists since surnames usually originated from someone’s occupation.

Families Unearthed is a private website dedicated to family history with an excellent compilation of identified naming conventions by nationality/culture, some name abbreviations that are used in genealogy and the more common nicknames that are used.

Find here a relationship chart of family members and how to determine degrees of consanguinity which refers to the property of being from the same kinship and to what degree they relate to one another. In such a table, each level of consanguinity or generation appears as a row and individuals with the same degree of relationship share the same row. Consanguinity is of relevance to matters of incestuous relationships, marriage, and issues of inheritance.