Vicki; Since the band uniforms tended to look like military unifomrs I suspect, unless you know differently, that your photo is a village band. Dave Dreyer ----- Original Message ----- From: "Vicki Albu" <VAlbu@comcast.net> To: "'Susan Clarkson'" <clark1se@sbcglobal.net>; "'Denise Sproed'" <denisesproed@onlinenw.com> Cc: "'Banat List'" <banat-l@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, January 03, 2010 7:13 PM Subject: Re: [BANAT-L] Motivation for emigration and playing in Kaiser's band I wonder if the ancestor who played in the Kaiser's band was in the Austro-Hungarian military? I have a photo of band members with instruments wearing military uniforms among my Hungarian ancestor's photos. That would have been circa 1900. Vicki Albu --- On Fri, 1/1/10, Denise Sproed <denisesproed@onlinenw.com> wrote: From: Denise Sproed <denisesproed@onlinenw.com> Subject: [BANAT-L] Motivation for emigration & The Kaiser's Band To: BANAT-L@rootsweb.com Date: Friday, January 1, 2010, 2:38 PM (first part of message snipped) I also have another question - my ancestor came to America in 1903 at the age of 24. I am told he started playing the cornet at age 9 and played in the Kaiser's band. How would a man living in the Banat come to play in the Kaiser's band? Does anyone know of a resource where I could find information on this fact? Thank you, Denise in Oregon ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to BANAT-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message