This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/zJB.2ACE/2025.1.2.1.1 Message Board Post: Thank you for answering. Yes there are still Dittemore's in or around Troy, Doniphan Co., Kansas. They are all mine so to speak. The Yeakley family and Dittemore family all have the same grandmother back in the late 1700's. They all liked each other very much. lol I am my own cousin! I know that the Yeakley family, even though they had been there for generations, most of them moved on about 50 years ago. You still can find a few in the phone directory in St. Joe. The Bethel cemetery is full of mostly relatives of these two families. As far as the Cotter's, I am a decendant there too and about 1850, one even married into my fathers family during the Calif. gold rush. I have about 24,000 people on my tree and believe it or not, out of 3 of my mothers direct lines, they crossed my fathers family somewhere. It is amazing how many do really. Anyway, thank you so very much. Linda Morris