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The goal of our project is to determine the geographical origin of the surname Stauber and to evaluate the genetic relationship between anyone who bears this surname or one of its variants. The earliest record of the surname Stauber (with that spelling) is in what is now known as the Alsace Lorraine region in the 1400's. There are also individuals with the surname Stauber recorded in the Vienna church records as early as the mid 1500's. 

The earliest ancestor in the DNA project is currently Andreas Stauber of Maxberg, Taus District, Pilsen Region of Bohemia born ca. 1630. It is presumed he was born in a nearby village or perhaps in Bavaria or the Austrian Empire. His direct-line descendants are still alive today are known to have lived in Austria, Western Bavaria, the Czech Republic, Midwest and Western United States and Canada.

Maxberg was one of the "10 Privileged Villages" of the Chodenschloss along with Schneiderhof (and Klein Schneiderhof), Fuchsberg, Friedrichsthal, Ploß (Ploss), Chudiwa, Hadruwa, Flecken, Neuprennet and Altprennet. The residents of these villages and about 40 others were expelled after the end of World War II because their inhabitants were mainly ethnic Germans, even though it's not clear whether any of them had been Nazi sympathizers. The villages themselves were razed by Communist forces in the 1950's and its inhabitants were scattered across West Germany, Austria and America. 

Current members can access the project group page here: https://www.familytreedna.com/groups/stauber