This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/0IQBAEB/45.62.63.64.1.1 Message Board Post: Thank's for clearing that up Diana. My source of information was, of all places, a CD of Johann Strauss, and as you wrote, they did not use an English B at the end of Straub, but rather a German B. (Don't have that symbol on my computer) Talked with an old Mennonite gentleman in the Juniata valley back in the 80s while searching cemetaries. He was the one that told me the names Stroup and Straub were interchangabel. I just mis-understood what he ment. I apologize if I mis-led anyone.