In a message dated 5/11/2006 8:32:35 PM Mountain Standard Time, mpettyjohn@comcast.net writes: I know of the famous musician Schubert and actually did a report on him while in my music appreciation class in college. I would find it very exciting if I was related to him "Schubert was born in the Himmelpfortgrund, a small suburb of Vienna. His father, Franz, son of a Moravian peasant, was a parish schoolmaster; his mother, Elizabeth Vietz, had before her marriage been a cook in a Viennese family. " http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_Schubert Karen