One Thin Thread is a grand read covering 120,000 years of ancestral history and migration of the Crone direct father line, research on the origins and meanings of the surname, as well as modern ancestry described in their historical context. It also includes genealogical research on the associated Krone, Munger, Bell, Stickel, Morrison, Kline, Watson, McMillan, Brown, Lovell, Murdick, Yates, Spangler, Surratt, Rohler, Frankeberger, Watts, Burns and Muckey families, to name a few. Inside, you will find yourself traveling across four continents with our early ancestors as they migrate first from Africa to parts of Asia, then across the Middle East and into Europe. You will learn about how the Homo genus family of humans from 2.3 million years evolved into our present day ancestors, plus why we have Neanderthal DNA in our genes today. You will meet Germanic tribesmen, French Huguenots, Palatine immigrants, and generations of Pennsylvania Dutch. Read about the hardships these ancestors endured when they immigrated to America during the most disastrous year in American immigration history and the role they later played in the American Revolution. There are stories of a tragic shipwreck, the wounding of relatives at Little Round Top during the Battle of Gettysburg, cowboys, and Rhodes Scholars. Starting with Hungry Hook, the original Crone plantation in Pennsylvania, discover where our pioneer ancestors built some of the earliest churches and homes in western Pennsylvania on the edges of colonial America before heading out west. Discover how General George Armstrong Custer's Calvary rescued one ancestor from captivity during the Civil war, while another served in the army in Wyoming during the Great Sioux War of 1876 when Custer's Calvary was massacred. Another served Abraham Lincoln dinner and kept a boarding house where Lincoln often stayed before he was President, while other shirt-tale relatives apparently were associated with those who assassinated him after he was President. In short, be prepared for a lot more than names, dates, births and deaths.