In a message dated 5/12/2006 4:20:58 PM Mountain Standard Time, lhakel@earthlink.net writes: Is there a way to access the Austrian Hungarian Empire military records for mid-1800's for a Moravia ancestor. My researcher found in the archives his marriage in 1862 and it indicated he was a "Imperial and Royal veteran soldier". Thanks Larry He may have fought in the war in Italy in 1859. It was a very bloody war (look up Battle of Solferino) and led to the formation of the International Red Cross and the Geneva Convention. Some regiments from Bohemia lost 50% of their men to wounds and battlefield deaths. Some of the wounded may have been discharged early. If your ancestor was much under 28 years old at marriage that may be the case for him. Do you know in which district of Moravia he was born? Typical soldiers were inducted between age 20 and 21. Those inducted before 1860 served 8 years active duty. In 1860 3 years of reserve duty was added to the service obligation. Active duty men could not marry but reservists could. in 1862 there were 80 regiments but if he was inducted before 1860 he may have been serving while there were on 63 regiments. In 1860 some new regiments were made up of battalions from old ones as well as from new recruits. That could mean that he has a record under the regiment into which he was first inducted and another if he was transferred to a new regiment in 1860. To find the numbers of Moravian regiments 1852-1860 you should look at von Wredes history of the k..k. Infanterie on film at the LDS. Use von Wrede in a Keyword or Author search to find it. Then you have to page through it and find the regiment that was recruited in the large city closest to his residence shown on the marriage record. That will be a place name at the END of a sentence about 4th paragraph down in the title information for each regiment. The sentence will alson contain the word Erganzung or Ergantst sich. The look down paragraph by paragraph to see if it says anything about 1860. If it does it may say that Battalions numbers XX and XX were sent for the formation of new regiment XX during that year. That tells you the 2nd regiment to search in case he was in one of those battalions. There is also a chance you will find his record in the film: Grundbuchblatter Diverse --- for a large number of records for many regiments from Bohemia and Moravia during his period of service. I think I would look there first and if I found nothing then I would get the von Wrede. Karen