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/CKB.2ACI/734.737.740.747 Message Board Post: Hi: Just read your e-mail and responses from others. I have a book called Matthew Stephens..his kith and Kin by Isom L. Stephens. He has researched the Stephens family which has many ties with the Loftins, and all of the names listed in your Query are included. My family is descenting from William M. Yates and Carherine J. Hunter Yates, I can find no information about them or their kin. I would appreciate any information that you have uncovered in your research of the Loftin family. My grandmother was Mary Ann Loftin and Hugh Robert Yates. Thanks Howard Hilton Yates Jr.