In a message dated 8/28/99 8:55:14 AM Central Daylight Time, Wcase22@aol.com writes: << The Sink name was originally Zincke from Germany. Many members of this family immigrated in colonial days. Calvin Kephart had several articles in the "National Gen. Soc. Quarterly" in 1929 and 1935 dealing with the ancestry of Pres. Herbert Hoover. Check with a good gen. library and you should be able to get copies of these articles. According to Kephart this goes back to a royal lineage but I take it with a gain of salt. Mary Cassel Case >> Mary, thank you for that information. That is what I thought, it was from Germany. This helps me to say O.K. The original Sinks family was from Germandy. Maureen Sinks Lenzo