Thank you so much for helping identify the town of Chotebor. And also for instructing me where to look for military records for Joseph Schenk. Susan In a message dated 4/12/2006 1:23:28 PM Central Daylight Time, KarenHob@aol.com writes: I have heard of Chotebor, never Chatebor. In a message dated 4/12/2006 12:00:01 PM Mountain Standard Time, SocksMyCat@aol.com writes: Schenk was in the Austrian Army for 11 years and was in the campaign against Napoleon Given that Schenk served for 11 years we might assume that he served until the war was over in 1815 or that he became unfit to serve any longer at an earlier date. If the former he would have been inducted at age 17 and was discharged at age 28 in 1815. Use that to estimate birth year for starters. See Standestabellen and / or Musterlisten for the regiment recruited in the ancestral place district in the LDS film library. Find the regiment in von Wrede's history of the Austrian Infantry (seach the LDS library catalog with KEYWORD von Wrede). Von Wrede will list the Inhabers of each regiment. If you can't find records for the regiment by number then look for it under the surnames of the Inhabers for the time period of interest. Use the Inhaber name in a KEYWORD search of the catalog. Some records after about 1809 are for Bohemian Landwehr (reserve) units and they are identified by the name of the disctrict center or recruiting depot. Pilsen = Pilsener or Pilsner....i.e., look for Landwehr records 1809-1820 with a city name in them as the only Identification. The city name will not be a noun. It will be the German adjective form ending in er. The city is all of the word minus the "er". Karen