A distant cousin doing research on the YOUNGBECK/JUNGBECK line once told me he had information that my ggggrandfather, Sebastian JUNGBECK(old spelling) had been a mercenary before settling down to farming! I'm not sure if he'd been a mercenary in Bavaria (where he was born), or in some other German province. Is there a database for Mercenaries From Germany? -- Join the most exciting community of women on the web! iVillage.com's FREE membership gets you private email, your own home page, special discounts and sweepstakes, and dozens of problem-solving tools. http://www.ivillage.com/frame/join_email.html