You are welcome Nancy.............the thing we miss the most when dealing with the Dutch spellings is the changes from Cronk or Conk to you name it. You just can't look at one spelling when dealing with this line. I don't care what site you check you may find one of our lines on 2 or 3 difference sites. You just need the one big clue. It took me 19 years to finally figure out how I connected and I had the key to the puzzle in the McKenzie Papers and just couldn't figure how to play the pieces because of the change from the 9th to the 7th generation and the 6th generation I knew about. The main thing is to remember, DON'T TRUST THE SPELLING! Check them all and look at all spellings. That is why I posted the difference spelling in my name to show you what I had to go thru to figure it out.............good luck on your search..............! Court At 11:49 AM 7/19/2009, you wrote: >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 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