Hi Jim, Thank you for your information about the Susquehanna STRAUBS. I have not heard the name of your patriarch Andrew STRAUB before. All your comments will be helpful information on what I can see, will continue to be an arduous journey for ancestors of John P. Straub. His dau. Emmaline Straub married John (Jacob) Peter Stecker b 1822 Hemlock Twp, PA. I am not sure where that is (or was) in PA, but somehow he met Emmaline Straub, b Bloomsburg, Columbia, PA. Last week I was grateful to make a connection back to several generations of Stecker ancestors and then thru LDS, the lineage was further well documented way back, in Northampton (Co.) PA and then also into Germany. This info must have been acquired thru church records, as every christening place/date and burial place/date was incredibly well documented. Wish it was the same for the STRAUBS ! :) I recently met another Chapman thru email because our GGGrfathers migrated to No Stockholm NY, but we had to go back ten generations to tie our families to the same Chapman GGrfather, but we were each descended from a different wife. Amazing! Eventually, you may find something similar about the two different Mifflin County STRAUB lines. I have seen the name Straub so seldom in my life. Other than genealogy, I have only seen "Straub" once attached to a microbrewery at an antique mall near Lancaster PA. But that may be because I have only lived up and down the west coast. Thank you so much for taking the time and filling me in on what has transpired on the Straub-List in the past few years. I will try not to reinvent the Straub-wheel :) Good luck to all of us Straubs in our gen. research, Diana jeem@uswest.net wrote: > Diana, I think one of the issues is that there were a relatively large number of > Straubs. One of the reasons the STRAUB-L group was so active is that about a > dozen of us had ancestors from the upper Susquehanna region - Juniata/Snyder/Perry > Counties, all of whom may have sprung from the same patriarch - Andrew Straub, > founder of the town of Freeburg (formerly Straubstown) in Snyder County. We just > ran out of steam when we exercised all our common data and hadn't found anything > new for quite a while. > > I decided a while back to try to gather as much information as I can on the > Straubs (and Stroups) from that particular area to see if we could sort them all > out. It's a long and winding road, and I've gotten some progress, but not a > whopping amount from which I could really tell anything. > > One of the reasons it's interesting to me is that there is another group of > Stroups in Mifflin County who do not intertwine at all, at least from about the > 1790 census on. Since I'm originally from Mifflin County myself, I found that > very interesting and hoped to differentiate the origins of the two branches and > determine if they were ever connected. Some of the Mifflin County researchers > think their branch is from Lancaster County and I believe most of us feel that the > Snyder/Juniata County group (whether springing from Andrew alone or from him and > maybe a brother or two) originally came through the Northampton County route. We > all just ran into dead ends about a year and ahalf ago and haven't been > corresponding much. > > It is nice to hear from another fellow traveler along the road. > > Jim > > Diana Owen wrote: > > > Thank you so much for your correction of Bloomsburg. I think I got the "y" from > > LDS/IGI. Since no messages have come across in the month since I subscribed, I > > assumed it was a new list :) > > I would appreciate any comments or suggestions you could make. > > I recently got past my Stecker/dead-end and then found that ancestry so well > > documented in LDS thru PA German church records, I am surprised Straub is not > > better documented as well. > > I appreciate your email. I will hang in there. > > Diana > > > > jeem@uswest.net wrote: > > > > > It's interesting to hear your comment about the Straub-L list. Several > > > years ago it was an incredibly active group. Things have just quieted down > > > it seems, although many of us from that active group have stayed in touch. > > > > > > I can't help with your immediate question. Incidentally, the town is > > > Bloomsburg, with a "G." I will keep my eyes open, however, and check my > > > records for those particular Straubs. > > > > > > Jim Burnell > > > > > > Diana Owen wrote: > > > > > > > I was so excited to receive an email from the STRAUB-List (subject-- > > > > George STRAUB)! I hope this helps. Matthew, are we the only ones on this > > > > STRAUB-List? Help, please from anyone else on the list. It appears we > > > > are both at a dead end... > > > > Please note Emmaline Straub Stecker had a son named GEORGE Stecker and > > > > family names were often continued in future generations. > > > > My STRAUBS were also from Pennsylvania: > > > > John P. Straub b 1798, Bloomsbury, Columbia Co., PA, m Harriot B 1802, > > > > Bloomsbury, Columbia Co., PA. > > > > Daughter Emmaline Savilla Straub b 11/16/1824, Bloomsburg, Columbia Co., > > > > PA, m 1842 John (Jacob) Peter STECKER(who was murdered in MN) b 1/1/1822 > > > > Hemlock Twp, PA. Their children were: > > > > Jacob Henry Stecker (my GGrfather) b 1848, Minnie Elizabeth Stecker b > > > > 1869 MN, GEORGE Dallas Stecker b 1849 PA, John Franklin Stecker b 1855 > > > > MN, Edwin Calvin Stecker b 1860 MN, Claraissa Louise Stecker b 1847-1850 > > > > PA, Mary Alverna Stecker b 1852 PA, Blanche Arabell Stecker 1865 MN, > > > > Cora Mae Stecker b 1868 MN, Emma Matilda Stecker b 1863 MN, William > > > > Clarence Stecker b 1857 MN and Elijah Stecker b 1873 MN. > > > > Looking forward to hearing from you, > > > > Diana Chapman Owen > > > > > > > > ==== STRAUB Mailing List ==== > > > > This STRAUB list is currently available for adoption! > > > > Interested in becoming the list manager? Go here: > > > > http://resources.rootsweb.com/surnames/adoptrequest.html > > > > > > > > ============================== > > > > Join the RootsWeb WorldConnect Project: > > > > Linking the world, one GEDCOM at a time. > > > > http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com