Gilbert von Studnitz last fall posted a message to sgg that I thought was a good summary of the German nobility. With his permission, I've worked it up into a web page, which can be found at <http://www.genealogy.com/gene/tmp/up/pages/nobility_faq.html> Gilbert mentioned that he had sent an updated copy of this article to someone on our team. If you have such, please send me a copy so I can finish this to his satisfaction. Thanks. -- =Jim Eggert EggertJ@LL.mit.edu