A new page has been added at the WW I orders of battle website. It is a Divisional Order of Battle for the summer of 1918. http://www.austro-hungarian-army.co.uk/div1918.html It shows which regiments had battlions from other regiments -- something that has been hard to determine before. When one or more battalions from one regiment was used to reinforce another one it was often because the former had had such serious losses that It was easier for them to just join with another understrength regiment. than to wait for reinforcements. The data is easy to read if you understand the method. For example, the first entry for the 1st Division shows: IR 5 (3) IR 61 (IV/43, II/61, III 61) IR 112 (V/71, II/72, III/71) FJB 17,25, 31 StB 1 The notations in parentheses are the ones that are important. IV/43 means fourth battalion of the 43rd Infantry regiment. V/71 is fifth Battalion of the 71st. III/71 is third Battalion of the 71st and so forth. I have not learned if any battalions that ended up in a regiment other than the one in which they originated affected where / how the records for that battalion are filed. If you contact a researcher to find WW I records in Vienna (the only place you can get them at present) you may be helping him/her to find them by providing the URL to the website above. At least that will indicate where records may be found if they are not with the regiment that should have recruited a given soldier. One of the reasons WW I records are not available at the LDS is because they are under privacy restrictions and can only be viewed in SLCity at present. It has to be 100 years after the dates on the records before they will circulate to FHCs. There are perhaps over 1000 Austrian military records films in SLC that are not yet catalogged. It is hard to say when they will ever show up in the on line catalog, especially since the LDS is starting to go all digital in their archiving. About restricted films: You can hire someone in SLC to view them for you if you sign a certain permit paper. Or you can travel there yourself. If you travel to SLC you have to order your films several days in advance or they will not be available for up to 48 hours after you get there if they are in the vault. (All Austrian military records are in the vault). In the long run, paying a pro $100 for a one item search may be a lot cheaper than staying in SLC for 4-5 days plus the cost of travel to get there. Karen