This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: SANDYC Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/surnames.cronk/523.1.1.1.2.1.2.1.1.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Debbie, I ran across your post about your Cronk family and it does not appear that we connected. I tried to email you the following early in 2009. I currently have a MyFamily.com website for my husband's Cronk/Krank family. Our line of Cronk's ties back to Johann Adam Krank who emigrated to America in 1752. Most of the family changed their names to "Cronk" as they moved from Pennsylvania into Virginia, and elsewhere; but one family retained the spelling of "Kronk" and stayed in Pennsylvania and New Jersey. We have documentation that takes us back to the 1500's in Hasselberg and Hasloch and Wertheim, Germany. We also have documentation showing when Johann Adam and others from that area left for America, they sailed up the Rhine River to Amsterdam and left from there. We recently started a DNA project to test 4 of our USA cousins and 3 who are living in Germany. The 12-marker tests for the 4 from the USA are positive matches on all 12 markers. Two in Germany (tested for 37 markers initially) are one marker off which indicates they are "possibly related." A third in Germany is not relationship to either of the others. We upgraded two of our USA cousins to 37 markers and there is a 99% probability that the two German participants are related. Is any of this of interest to you and do you think there is a possibility that you might connect to this line of Cronk's? Sandy Coulter sandyc@cebridge.net Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.