I've retrieved the other George STRAUB records and compiled them into family group sheets: Clinton Co., IL: http://dgmweb.net/genealogy/6/Straub/FGS/GeorgeStroup-Mary_.htm Washington Co., WI: http://dgmweb.net/genealogy/6/Straub/FGS/GeorgeStraub-ReginaMuehl.htm Del Norte Co., CA: http://dgmweb.net/genealogy/6/Straub/FGS/GeorgeAStraub.htm None of these is your George. Your George was born in PA and his children were born in PA at least as late as October, 1869, so I would expect to find him in PA in 1850 and 1860, for certain, and very likely in 1870 as well. He may have been missed in any or all of these years, but I don't think he was somewhere else. Diana