>>Did villages keep two sets of Kirchenbücher (church books) one for military and another for the permanent residents of the village?<< There was a time when pastors were asked to compile a list of men eligible for conscription from the parish records but that ended pretty much after 1870 or so. Around 1870 a conscription commission went around and numbered houses and listed all the eligible men living in them in their own conscription rolls. After that the churches didn't make any special rolls for conscription as far as I know. The Conscription teams after about 1820 were all military -- men already in the local regiment. Each team represented a single company of the regiment. They would visit each village assigned to them and recruit in each one once or twice a year. They would gather anyone the village would let them have or who they decided was a likely recruit. In 1860 a new county conscription commission was set up in each county and they took over recruiting duties -- the army no longer sent company teams out to gather "live bodies." Some of the county archives may have the old conscription rolls maintained by the county commissioners. However I understand that the county archives have now been sent to district archives so all those old civil records of men eligible for the draft may be in each regional archive. Some of them were called "Stellungslisten" but I suspect the Czechs do not have them catloged under that name unless it is a "secondary" title for a Czech name. They are not kept as military records. They are consider an civil documejnt. Karen