In a message dated 02/2/20 10:15:25 PM, ddmmjm@netins.net writes: << Where in Iowa? That's where I am..............>> Right now, the current living cousin is in Cedar Rapids. Much of that line it seems ended up disbursed from Grant Co. WI via Dubuque, as many have. I think this particular person is responsible for many of us distant cousins having primary sources of information on our connected lines. He's made trips to Grant County for research and has generously shared online and off (a myfamily site where I was astounded to find some 70+ distant cousins from a line I'd thought I'd never find good info on--ha! just goes to show you...hang in there & ya never know). I confess to being waaaay behind on adding paper data to my digital files, so I may have more specifics on their lines which I just don't have readily at hand, but I can certainly give you these folks' email addy. One of them in the mix is a genealogist based in Utah. (I know...lucked out on that one too...go figure) (btw: I've kin in Ames, an x sister-in-law who's staff at ISU--her kids sent that now infamous popcorn <G>. Clayton Co. IA roots on the other side.) A side note on that difficult to research surname stuff: The two kinds of names I find the most challenging: Those obscure surnames which no one seems to ever hear of, and those very common ones. Well, that cousin was related to a line which had both....obscure and extremely common. Never give UP on those brick walls and wall flower surnames! Di