Looking for other Hootses! My rare surname is exclusive to a particular German bloodline in the United States, beginning in North Carolina and radiating outward. We share a direct ancestor if you were born with this surname in the United States! I believe his name was Jacob Andrae Huts or Huth (Hoots being a more modern and 'Anglicized' spelling). Also looking into William Oscar Hoots and the 28th Illinois Infantry in the American Civil War.