Searching for your Clinkenbeard or related roots? E-Mail me and I can point you to a list of online cousins.
Here is the transcription of Across the Plains in '64, by Anna Dell Clinkinbeard. This book details how my family emigrated to Oregon during the mid 19th century.
We Clinkenbeard cousins have an email alias so that we can more easily exchange info. If you'd like to be on this list, send me some mail. The list does not receive much traffic.
Surnames currently known to be related to and descended from Willem Klinckenberg of the Netherlands:
Klinckenberg, Klinkenbird, Klingenberg, Klinkenburg, Klenkenbergh, Klinkingburgh, Clinkenberg, Clukenberry, Clinkenbeard, Clinkinbeard, Clinkingbeard, Clinkenbird, Clinkenbread, Clinkenburgh, Clinkenborough, Clinkenberger, Clinkenbird, Clinkingbean, Clinkingbeart, Clinkinbaird, Clinckenbeard, Clinkinburd, Clinenbird, Clinkenbeing, Clinkenhard, Clinkenbred, Clinkenbegel, Clinkenberd, Clinkbread, Clinkingbeards, Clinkingbrand, Clinkenbeoret, Clinkenbrout, Clinkington, Clinkinton, Clinkinghard, Clinkingbread, Clinkenboard, and so on.
Check out a Map of Strode's Station, Kentucky, home to a few related lines including Clinkenbeard, Constant, Darke and so on.
Here's a not-so-great-copy of the Clinkenbeard Coat of Arms
William Clinkenbeard's headstone, courtesy of Richard Martin.
Winfield Scott Vanderburgh marries Viola Clinkinbeard, 29 August 1875, Coos Bay, Oregon.
J.J. Clinkinbeard married Philura Vanderburgh, 29 August 1875, Coos Bay, Oregon.
Jack Stockman's Extensive Clink* genealogy
Nancy's Site, "Nancy Land"
Paula's Modest Genealogy Homepage
Kitty's Genealogy Pages
Jeri's home page