This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Duerkop and Loomis Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/oEC.2ACE/111.154.222.2 Message Board Post: Would your Loomis family be related to the Loomis family that lived in Gilmanton, WI in 1888 near the Duerkop family? I have a Loomis family that took in an infant girl whose mother died giving her birth, and they raised her to adult, from what I have been told. The baby girl was born February 8, 1888 in Gilmanton, WI. Is this familiar? Gloria