Servus Phillis, According to my information a "Workbook (Arbeitsbuch)" every worker within the late last 50 years of the Austrian Imperium had to carry as a certification of his employment and as a passport. I have also some workbooks of my great grand fathers and grandfathers of that time. Also the area of Triest was part of Austria ( with German as the main official language) the Bauunternehmung ( Builder Society ) most probably was there. Till today there are Slovanian minorities in this area -vice verca Italian minorities in Slovenia. Can you discribe this St.Gotard ( writing correctly? St.Gothard?)- where it should be ( Land?)? If possible send my a jpg and I try. That's for the moment Walter -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: Phyllis Bitner [mailto:[email protected]] Gesendet: Mittwoch, 17. Oktober 2001 03:14 An: [email protected] Betreff: Army records & Workbook Can someone give me some direction? I have a "militar Pafs" and a "Workbook" of sorts. My grandfather was born in Veli Rakitovec. I have written to the Austrian Army office and they say no military record exists for him. The military bok is dated 1901. It says the station is "Ljubljana". There is lots of information in the book and I'd like to be able to find out more about this. Is there a website that would tell about this period of time and what military he may have been in. The workbook is dated 1898. Did adults have to have a workbook or is this something just from a certain company. It says "county where lived" "Cesnjice". The book has lots of stamps. Some have "Stein and Kamnik". Some of the pages give permission to travel to a certian place. There is a stamp that says "Bauunternehmung, Galimberti-Faccanoni-Sard". Could that be a company name? Another name is "H. Rella & Co., F. Harinelli & L. Faccanoni". Since he had permission to travel on some pages could he have worked in a company in Germany or Italy? Where would I start to find out about this? I also have another unrelated question. Does anyone know where I could obtain information about my grandmother who attended school at St. Gotard. I have her school records from the late 1800s from that school. Does it still exist and is there an address I could write? Thanks for any help. Phyllis __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Make a great connection at Yahoo! Personals. http://personals.yahoo.com