It is very important to build a glossary when you research old documents. Not too long ago Karen Hobbs provided us with a list of professions and their meanings. Here is one more you may want to add to it. Emphiteuten: this means that this family had a legal land lease of land belonging either to the nobility, abbey or city. You will find this only before 1800. Often they needed additional pasture, especially when they were herding and raising sheep where a large grazing area was required in areas of poor soil. In modern terms we can compare it to a land lease from the Land Management or Forest Service. They also leased meadows for hay making in addition to their own deeded acreage. The term "emphiteuten" given as "profession" on a church register would mean that they farmed on a land lease. Aida