  Radial velocity searches for substellar mass companions have focused
primarily on stars older than 1 Gyr. Increased levels of stellar activity in
young stars hinders the detection of solar system analogs and therefore there
has been a prejudice against inclusion of young stars in radial velocity
surveys until recently. Adaptive optics surveys of young stars have given us
insight into the multiplicity of young stars but only for massive, distant
companions. Understanding the limit of the radial velocity technique,
restricted to high-mass, close-orbiting planets and brown dwarfs, we began a
survey of young stars of various ages. While the number of stars needed to
carry out full analysis of the problems of planetary and brown dwarf population
and evolution is large, the beginning of such a sample is included here. We
report on 61 young stars ranging in age from beta Pic association (~12 Myr) to
the Ursa Majoris association (~300 Myr). This initial search resulted in no
stars showing evidence for companions greater than ~1-2 M_Jup in short period
orbits at the 3 sigma-level. Additionally, we present derived stellar
parameters, as most have unpublished values. The chemical homogeneity of a
cluster, and presumably of an association, may help to constrain true
membership. As such, we present [Fe/H] abundances for the stars in our sample.
