Could someone put up Walter Cronkite's ancestry on the message board. I know he's one of our own. Nancy Meikle

Go to Rootsweb.com and type in Walter Cronkite.........you will then see the listing of a few posting of Walter Leland Cronkite line. I wrote Mr. Cronkite many years ago and ask him if he was from the line of Herck. He wrote back and said that his father had done the family history and he was not sure were it was at the moment. At that time I don't believe his line was on Rootsweb.com. It appears that some of the posting are being removed. I tried to open one and it was gone. A couple of years ago I saw a interest article in a Parade magazine. A reporter was on his yacht and ask him why he named it the Wyntje. He told the reporter it was named after a very special person in his life. That was all that was said. Wyntje Quick Theunis was the wife of Herck Syboutsen who came to Long Island, NY or New Amsterdam as it was know then. That was the first clue I had that he was from our line Herck. Then the newspaper yesterday also talked a little about his line settling in New Amsterdam...............so it appears he was very proud of his line and being Dutch. In my last posting, I said that I knew a researcher who has seen 44 spelling of our name..............my spelling is the last on the line of changed that I am aware of.............I have seen a list of maybe 33 changes. my present spelled Conkwright 4 generations it was Conkright 6 generations it was Cronkright 7 generations it was Cronckheit 9 generations it was Krankyhte 10 generations it was Syboutsen So you can see the changed in just my name. It took me sometime to figure this out back in 1980 before the computer and the Internet to find out all the changes. It was all leg work and writing letters. I found the Mackenzie Papers and the Ruth Grant history and both were of great help to me, but I still had to figure out how I connected to this line. It was because of the continued changing of name and the movement of my family from NY to VT to NY to OH to IN to ILL then some to KS. Then others went from OH to MI. In the end it all worked out, but Walter was from the line of Herck that I believed him to be from........he was family to many folks tracing a spelling that was close to all this mess of changes..................! Happy Hunting! Court Conkwright STL At 09:04 AM 7/19/2009, you wrote: >Could someone put up Walter Cronkite's ancestry on the >message board. I know he's one of our own. >Nancy Meikle >PLEASE NOTE: >To contact the List Admin privately, or to find other useful >information to help you use the list more effectively please click >on the following link: >http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/surname/c/cronk.html >------------------------------- >To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >CRONK-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >quotes in the subject and the body of the message

I do have Cronk ancesters and my line does go back to Wyntje Quick Theunis and Herck Syboutsen, the same as Walter Cronkite's. Thank you Court for your information. I will look further on Rootsweb to see if I can find W.C.'s direct line. Nancy Meikle On Jul 19, 2009, at 12:26 PM, Court Conkwright wrote: > Go to Rootsweb.com and type in Walter Cronkite.........you will then > see the listing of a few posting of Walter Leland Cronkite line. I > wrote Mr. Cronkite many years ago and ask him if he was from the line > of Herck. He wrote back and said that his father had done the > family history and he was not sure were it was at the moment. At > that time I don't believe his line was on Rootsweb.com. It appears > that some of the posting are being removed. I tried to open one and > it was gone. > > A couple of years ago I saw a interest article in a Parade > magazine. A reporter was on his yacht and ask him why he named > it the Wyntje. He told the reporter it was named after a very > special person in his life. That was all that was said. Wyntje > Quick Theunis was the wife of Herck Syboutsen who came to Long > Island, NY or New Amsterdam as it was know then. That was the first > clue I had that he was from our line Herck. Then the newspaper > yesterday also talked a little about his line settling in New > Amsterdam...............so it appears he was very proud of his line > and being Dutch. > > In my last posting, I said that I knew a researcher who has seen 44 > spelling of our name..............my spelling is the last on the line > of changed that I am aware of.............I have seen a list of maybe > 33 changes. > > my present spelled Conkwright > 4 generations it was Conkright > 6 generations it was Cronkright > 7 generations it was Cronckheit > 9 generations it was Krankyhte > 10 generations it was Syboutsen > > So you can see the changed in just my name. It took me sometime to > figure this out back in 1980 before the computer and the Internet to > find out all the changes. It was all leg work and writing > letters. I found the Mackenzie Papers and the Ruth Grant history and > both were of great help to me, but I still had to figure out how I > connected to this line. It was because of the continued changing of > name and the movement of my family from NY to VT to NY to OH to IN to > ILL then some to KS. Then others went from OH to MI. In the end it > all worked out, but Walter was from the line of Herck that I believed > him to be from........he was family to many folks tracing a spelling > that was close to all this mess of changes..................! > > Happy Hunting! > > Court Conkwright > STL > > At 09:04 AM 7/19/2009, you wrote: >> Could someone put up Walter Cronkite's ancestry on the >> message board. I know he's one of our own. >> Nancy Meikle >> PLEASE NOTE: >> To contact the List Admin privately, or to find other useful >> information to help you use the list more effectively please click >> on the following link: >> http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/surname/c/cronk.html >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> CRONK-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >> quotes in the subject and the body of the message > PLEASE NOTE: > To contact the List Admin privately, or to find other useful > information to help you use the list more effectively please click > on the following link: > http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/surname/c/cronk.html > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to CRONK- > request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes > in the subject and the body of the message

Please use the "CRONKITE" board, it's off topic for this one unless there are at least a few Cronks mentioned in it. :-( David E. Cann cronk-admin@rootsweb.com Admin of the Cronk surname mailing list on RootsWeb List information: http://lists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/index/surname/c/cronk.html -----Original Message----- From: cronk-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:cronk-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Nancy Meikle Sent: Sunday, July 19, 2009 10:04 AM To: cronk@rootsweb.com Subject: [Cronk] Walter Cronkite's Genealogy Could someone put up Walter Cronkite's ancestry on the message board. I know he's one of our own. Nancy Meikle PLEASE NOTE: To contact the List Admin privately, or to find other useful information to help you use the list more effectively please click on the following link: http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/surname/c/cronk.html ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to CRONK-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message