On Mon, 28 Feb 2000, LTBoehmke@aol.com wrote: > The record pages of my ggrandfathers Bavarian military service from > 1845 to 1848 gives his physical description as 5 Sesusn, 8 Zolln, 3 > Linian. I can guess that it means 5 feet, 8 inches, 3?. But neither of my > dictionaries has a word like Sesusn, or Sasusr, or Sisuse. Is that an > old word? Does it mean "feet"? And what are 3 lines? The word is 'F"usse[n]' = foot[feet]. The Bavarian foot of the 1840's comprised 10 Zoll, each Zoll consisting of 12 Linien. The Bavarian foot was equivalent to 0.291859 meters. Your ancestor was therefore 1.7 meters, or 5 feet 7 inches tall. Michael Palmer --- Michael Palmer Claremont, California mpalmer@netcom.com