Paul Laube, born about 1750 at Bauschewitz, was a Judge. This was village beside Fort Leismertz in the Kingdom of Bohemia. His probably eldest son, Joseph Nickolaus, born December 6, 1780, was a brewmaster and a trumpeter in t he Austrian Cavalry. He lived in Gayness on the Turkish border. And relocated to Oesnitz, Saxony and to Zwickav in 1821. One of Josef's sons, Francis Laube was born February 1819 in Oesnitz, Saxony. He arrived in the United States, August 10, 1837 and traveled widely before settling in Pittsburgh. He married Fredericka Hoffman and they were the progenitors of a tribe that are still be found in the Pittsburgh area and throughout this country. We have not been able to connect this Bohemian tribe of Laubes with my line which lived from 1600 in the village of Baldingen, Kanton Aargau, Switzerland. Except for a strange document found amongst Francis Laube's papers which refers to a Wappen which says the Swiss Laube family were an old family well known in the Ninth Century. We have no idea why this carefully copied Wappen ( no doubt copied before the ubiquitous electrostatic copying machine was invented) which refers to a Swiss family of Laubes should have been in the papers of a Laube descended from a family of the Kingdom of Bohemia. From records in Switzerland it seems very likely that possibly all of the Laubes of early Switzerland, before 1800, originated from this Baldingen tribe. Many scholars have snickered at the above account, but it wears well and with improving communications I may yet find someone who would like to discuss this family or the Wappen or both. I am indebted to contemporary descendants of this Bohemian line who kindly gave me more than 100 pages of interesting information about this family. Frankly I am not interested in hearing from those who will attempt to say that such references to a surname like Laube in the Ninth Century must be spurious - I already have a file of those - is there anyone who would like to pursue the matter further? That is, a possible connection between Paul Laube of Bauschewitz and the line of Laube's descended from Hans Jogli Laube of Baldingen, born 1630 and his wife, Barbara Schweri. (I do not believe we are closely related to Laubi or Laubly, although they apparently originated not far from Baldingen and there may be a connection in Switzerland before 1600 that we do not know about.) I am sending a copy of this to my grandson, Paul Laube, who seems to be the last male of the Swiss line defined above who is of an age that he is likely to continue the line. We do have several daughters and a granddaughter who have kept the name Laube for professional reasons, and I will copy them as well. As Francis Laube said, in 1888, "If you are a Laube do not mutilate the name. I gave it a good sound wherever I went and if you do that, you will be respected by the good and the honest." He went on to say that many German families, First Families in Pittsburgh, were taking an English pronunciation. He said, "Don't imitate that, don't do that." Regards Hal