Hubert's side of the family is much more difficult to trace. Unlike Maureen's family, not too much information has been gathered about previous generations.

We begin with Hubert's grandmother, Martha Kuppe (nee Neubauer). We can go back to her father's side of the family to his parents. Ludwig Neubauer, birthdate unknown, was married to Wilhelmine Gottschalk (also of unknown birthdate). They had a son, Rudolph but it is unknown whether he had any siblings. He married Helena Bart (birth unknown) and they had three children. Robert Neubauer, the only son, was killed in the 1960's when he was struck by a train in Germany. Elza, born in 1912, married a man by the name of Feljauer and was in Russia for many years. She is still alive today and living in Germany. The third child of Rudolph and Helena is Martha Neubauer, Hubert's grandmother. She was born on November 22, 1909 in Wiesenthal, the Ukraine (Russia) where she met Reinhart Kuppe, her future husband.

The Kuppe family can be traced back to Reinhart's parents. His father, Matthaus Kuppe was born in 1868. His mother, Ernestine Gatzke was born on March 3, 1876. They first lived in Pommern, Germany but moved to reap the opportunities of undeveloped land in pre-Communist Russia (the Ukraine). They had 14 children and were considered to be well off, owning land in the German community of Weisenthal, Russia. Matthaus Kuppe passed away on December 6, 1932. His wife, Ernestine passed away in January, 1945.

Reinhart Kuppe was born on April 10, 1905. His family lived near the Neubauer's, and Martha and he were married on June 24, 1928. Reinhart's trade was in building furniture and wagons. He and Martha had four children:
 

• Emma Kuppe, born April 23, 1930
• Edgart Kuppe, born in 1932
• Lydia Kuppe, born in 1939
• Luzia Kuppe, born in 1941

Emma and Edgart were born in Wiesenthal, but in 1934 the family moved to Knjasgrihorowka near the Black Sea, where Lydia was born in 1939. When communism overtook Russia, the German citizens lost their land and were sent to Siberia. After about a year, they were allowed to leave, and the family moved to Voleen, near the Polish border. Reinhart left the family in the middle of the night, in fear that he was to be taken away again. Martha was scared he had in fact been taken again, but instead he had travelled to another town about 600 km away, where he had found a job and sent for his family. Emma recalled that this was the happiest time in her childhood. They couldn't own land in Russia due to communism, but they did very well nevertheless. When war broke out, Reinhart refused to change his citizenship from German to Russian. He was taken from the family by the Russian authorities when Emma was about 11 years old. The family never saw or heard from him again. He also never saw his last child, Luzia, a girl who was born in 1941. Unfortunately, when the family was once again on the move from the Ukraine during the war, Luzia contracted pneumonia on the train and passed away at the age of two.

After the war, Marta, Lydia and Edgart moved to Canada and settled in Winnipeg.

Hubert's father was Rudolf Dause, born in 1926. He, too, was a German citizen who was born in Russia. Because he could speak both German and Russian, he served as an interpretor for the German army during the war. He married Emma Kuppe in 1949. His father was Emil Dause and his mother was Marta Maurer, both with unknown birthdates. Just like his other side of the family, Emil too, was sent to Siberia at the outbreak of war. Emil and Marta had two other sons, one also named Emil, William and anther son whose name is unknown and who died in the war. They also had a girl by the name of Wanda.

Emil Dause (Rudolf's brother) and his wife Gertrude had two daughters, Monica and Helga. Nothing more is known of this side of the family, as Emma left Rudolph in early 1958 and moved west to join the rest of her family in Winnipeg, bringing with her Rosewitha her daughter and Hubert, who would be born in December of 1958.

It is interesting to note that the name "Kuppe" is German for "rounded hill". More specifically, it is a geologic characteristic of a hill on top of an eroded volcanic pipe, an example of which is the "Sababurg Kuppe" in Germany. The Sababurg Kuppe, located near Hamburg, has a small castle on the top, which is frequently used for weddings. In Russia, the word "kuppe" describes a four-berth compartment on a train.