About us
This Y-DNA project group is for anyone with the Haupt name worldwide (or any name that is a spelling derivation of Haupt).
The Haupt surname began 900 years ago in Pappenheim, Middle Franconia (now in Bavaria). The Haupt family there was a hereditary line of Imperial Generals of the Holy Roman Empire. There are ten's of thousands of living descendants of this Haupt family line.
The Haupt surname has undergone much spelling derivation in Germany and in the United States.